jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You can create a custom protocol and protocol handler to process file links including UNCs.

This recently allowed me to deploy a web application into an enterprise space with extensive dependencies on creating and editing word and excel documents (as well as pdfs).

The web application generates highly customized rtf from user submitted forms and provides links for users which, when clicked, will open word with the rtf loaded and its working directory properly set within their network file system. Therefore, the user can modify the rtf, simply press save and exit.

This is vastly superior to download / edit / upload schemes or replicating the functionality of word through this web application.

The users can access the files through UNC based methods they already understand and through the new web application. Its glue to wean the enterprise from windows binaries and UNC paths everywhere towards a unified web application.

It also very simple:

1. Name the protocol and generate links using it:
myproto:/path_to_file

2. Modify the windows registry to handle the protocol
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol

3. Write a tiny handler as a binary, or even batch file, to be called by chrome when it parses the custom protocol

In the situation referenced above, the handler application just truncates out the protocol from the link and calls the shell with the resultant string. That means it properly handles all windows file associations. So, .rtf -> Word, .xls -> excel, .pdf -> acrobat, / -> file explorer.

To the user its actually quite seamless.

You do have to touch client machines once to setup the handler, but in this context its fine. This is not over the internet, but inside the enterprise.
You might also consider www.opencyclegmap.org. It takes the same OpenStreetMap data but renders things of interest to cyclists.
Hey, great links. Thanks!!
My SO bought the economist groupon for me yesterday, so I have a new print subscription, but the details are still on their way.
Duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2009346 - 4 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010046 - no comments

Also, from Google's blog:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2009300 - no comments
Yeah, that's twice as many steps as "email the author a patch." But you're right, there's still nothing keeping you from emailing the author a patch (I've contributed to github-hosted projects that way).
Playing around with motorbikes is actually one of my hobbies, and I have some very nice and quite expensive Snapon tools which work wonders in the garage.

However I'm certainly not going to suggest that changing your breakpads was done incorrectly because my tools cost more than what I'm assuming yours did, or that I could complete the same job a bit quicker and therefore better.

Sure, if you're going to change break pads all day long for the next year I can suggest some very nice tools which might help you.

But instead I'd like to say well done on changing the break pads, I'd wish more people would use the tools that they have at there disposal, show some initiative, and do the same.
Complementing it, when there is no Host HTTP header, apache displays the default virtual server for the port used. Unless you've set it, it's the first entry on your config file.
> The various statements about this person's partner having horrible life balance are unfounded at best.

You know how you can tell when you have a problem with work-life balance in a relationship? When your partner writes a blog post noting:

1. The lack of time you spend together.

2. The work-related things you constantly talk about that he/she gets tired of.

3. Your inability to remember things.

4. That he/she plays second fiddle to your work.

5. Your inability to maintain a sane schedule.

6. His/her feelings of loneliness, annoyance and frustration.

No relationship is perfect, but the author has been with her boyfriend for only a year and all of these things are already clearly weighing on her. Right now, she's trying to justify them. But most people can only do that for so long before attempted accommodation turns to anger and resentment. When that happens, relationships end, partners cheat, etc.
I've been slugging it out at work with my 5 year old Macbook at work with an external display and I will continue to until it dies.

When it does go though, I intend to make a choice between a Macbook Air and a Macbook Pro. I already have an iPad 2, but the lightness and mobility of the MBA might make it the better machine for me.
Amen! I use either an Apple aluminum keyboard (these days it's just 'command' and doesn't have an apple on it) or something completely blank.
For people lost in the thread, I've read the whole thing. The actual problem here as posted by the guy who found it (Fjanth in this thread) is that setting a local notification with a repeat value of era breaks iOS and requires a factory reset in order to recover.
Can I upgrade a Ubuntu 10.10 machine in-place? Don't worry its a VM.
Be careful. This was the exact comment I would see on reddit a year or two ago. (replacing HN with reddit and reddit with Digg)
Normally, I would link to the direct source, but the link in question[1] did a terrible job of explaining the findings.

You can go to the source by clicking the title in the HBS article.

[1]: http://www.marketingpower.com/AboutAMA/Pages/AMA%20Publicati...
This conversation seems (in general) to be taking polar opposite approaches to this "lifestyle choice".

If I draw a parallel between this conversation and managing an IT project, it appears most of you would be in favor of a "complete rewrite" as opposed to spotting the problem areas and focusing attention on those and fixing the existing code base.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the way Amish people decide to live. Many on this thread seem to think that's not the case.

Are there edge cases? Sure. But in general I think the basic premise that they wish to avoid too much technology in their lives is not necessarily flawed. It's simply a more extreme version of "don't bring your cell phone to the dinner table".

Also I should mention that even though they represent a tiny fraction of the overall world population, there is a huge amount of diversity even among Amish communities. So the idea that someone can generalize about how "all amish" live their lives is patently false.
It is sad that with recent updates, my Android has become slower and slower. With great products comes great responsibility, and I hope that they can set some higher standards for the future.
> I'd argue that points to a massive monoculture problem at Facebook, but I'm massively anti-Facebook so I'm biased.

I'm pretty sure that's the point. Massive enterprises like Facebook have no need for creative "outside the box" thinking anymore. They need dependable, solid developers with a standardized skillset that they can plug into a position like lego blocks, easily replaced whenever they burnout or stop toeing the corporate line.
That’s a neat trick, but “Works for me” is not a solution for mass surveillance.
Makes sense because temperatures don't have a linear conversion.

From the man page:
Nonlinear units are represented using functional notation. They make possible nonlinear unit conversions such as temperature.

You have: tempK(1)
You want: tempC
-272.15

Edit: seems i am not alone :D
Thanks for showing. I like the rich feature set for vertices. Not so much for the edges. Unlike this lib, OrgPad edges cannot have any annotation properties it seems.
They did charge iOS users a one-time fee, iirc.

But yes as an early Android adopter, I was a bit surprised I never had to pay the yearly $1.
>Ambar, an influencer, say she has seen inappropriate content on TikTok

Hahahaha what is this??
Interesting to see what others use. I'm a bit curious about using CloudFlare's DNS though.

If you take a stand against Google's societal impact, why switch to CloudFlare? CloudFlare's 'content neutral' stance enables a lot of hate speech and other, more disgusting material.

It seems odd to have ethical concerns about Google, but not CloudFlare.
I use Matomo for years now and it works quite reliably. (A few updates failed the automatic update, but nothing serious)

Only thing that bothered me is that most Ad Blockers are blocking Matomo as well. I did build a little Script to circumvent that, you might find it handy as well:
https://gumroad.com/l/matomo_circumvent_adblock

I use it on my website. Check if your ad blocker is capable of blocking it: https://simon-frey.com
Isn't 80+% of Intel's revenue from CPUs with another some percent from mobile chips? So while they may produce memory it's almost irrelevant as far as current revenue goes.
Thanks for a great library, can't wait to use it.
well Google's using all three in different ways...

and another trend on prog. langs: they're becoming more and more similar feature-wise (eg. pattern matching)
1) Get an email with a custom domain that you own, so you can switch providers without losing your address. Use Google takeout (https://takeout.google.com) to download your old messages.

2) Use a third-party password manager, or if you're paranoid (like me) use one that is open source and can be self-hosted like pass (https://passwordstore.org)

3) Use Linux on desktop for the best experience if you're a tech/software person. If not, you're stuck with Microsoft Windows, which nowadays is a window into your personal life and data. FWIW, the new M1 Macbooks offer the best value than any other laptop on the market today.

4) Use iPhone. Whatever you might think about their desktop hardware, the iPhone at least is price competitive with high-end Android devices. The biggest hurdle is transitioning to a different OS, but that difficulty is usually overestimated.

If you're really attached to Android though, the best you can do is use a custom ROM like LineageOS (aka Cyanogenmod), or maybe get a Purism phone (https://puri.sm/) which doesn't use Android at all.

5) Switch to Firefox if you're not already using it. Mozilla's hands aren't exactly clean, but they're a massive step up from Google in terms of privacy.

For all other Google services, you can easily find hundreds of alternatives, including self-hosted ones. Here's one list I found with a quick search (on DuckDuckGo!): https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/

The only Google service I find myself using nowadays is Youtube, and AFAIK there's not much you can do to avoid that one.
According to the post website, the Google Search app updated 27 times this year... is that really this insecure?

And honestly, I don't get the idea of making an app for every service where a simple web app suffices. Why making a native app that requires installation when you can do it through the browser?
I agree with this take, having dropped out from my PhD.

I have reluctantly come to accept over the years that my intellectual interests need to be catered to separately from whatever I need to do to economically sustain myself as an adult.

Some lucky people find a good fit (irrespective of institution, academia or industry) but most of us flail around most of the time.
For anyone reading not familiar with powershell, even better than native json support it supports actual objects.

Not everything needs to be text. Complex data structures deserve first class support in a modern shell.
> Only reason to get the pro if you want to keep complaining about the Touch Ba

Also active cooling if you want to run CPU at full capacity for extended periods of time.
Big Tech has shown itself to be no better standard bearer of truth and good journalism. Shifting to the current biggest power center only magnifies this kind of problem. You need independence from power, not subjection to it.
> … Will keyboard shortcuts be primarily using Control or Super? …

Vaguely related:

Setting a keyboard layout as soon, as simply as possible when booting live e.g. from the .iso · Issue #68 · helloSystem/ISO — https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/issues/68

The issue is probably somewhat outdated but essentially: it's not yet as simple as I'd like it to be. I'm not complaining; it's an 0.4 system …
Note that -C is in each direction, not total; -C20 is equivalent to -A20 -B20.
... and how well does a society function if everyone gets to decide for themselves what rules they follow?
I want a hard cap, as in "when cap is reached save current state to disk and don't allow any more CPU time".
Are consumers expected to tip?
Uber’s refusal to share data with governmental authorities is about evading public scrutiny.

Replace 'Uber' with 'Google' and see if that still makes sense.

I support requiring Uber to share exactly as much data as the existing taxi companies share with the city. I don't think they should share more just because they have more data.
Have heard the exact same sentiment from numerous Bookfaces in the months leading up to this move.
I like Spotify's discovery. I subscribe to a lot of playlists that are constantly updated where I can get a lot of new artists from. Never used the radio, I just go to their playlists and find Americana or Alternative or whatever I'm looking for.
Check out Oracle's Application Express (APEX). I was an MS Access developer way, way back, an Apex is a very close replacement. And, you can use it with the free version of Oracle (XE), which gives you 11GB. Plenty for small projects.
He is correct. He is saying that a gram of fuel doesn't have enough energy to get itself into orbit. That is a true statement. But he ignores the fact that rockets spend many many grams of fuel to get a gram of non-fuel into orbit.
> Do all star/ninja/rock-star software developers have rotten attitudes?

I work at IFTTT, and honestly can't say enough good things about the women and men I work with. Thoughtful, smart, great programmers and designers. Although all are world-class, I don't think anyone on the team would describe themselves in "all-star/ninja/rockstar" terms.

If you do look for a new position, I'd encourage you to look at companies' "about us" pages to get a sense of their culture, environment, attitude, and so on. (Ironically, the IFTTT "jobs" page is in serious need of an overhaul. Working on it.) Companies that do it well: Etsy, Kickstarter, Dropbox, Airbnb. Also, this great video from &yet: https://vimeo.com/97239546
In terms of anonymity though, there'd have to be a lot of people buying your paper to avoid uniqueness any individual document.
Maybe you could buy, rebrand and resell the most commonly sold yellow paper as 'Super Secret Document Paper'!
The WebJob that sends these out has a tendency to fall asleep, but there don't appear to be any pending so hopefully you've had it through ok now.
First off, a suggestion: leave. It's not worth staying in a toxic environment full stop. On to your questions:

1. Self-confidence is fine, as is the expectation that you will receive mentoring, especially if it has been made known that you are lacking in experience. In your immediate situation, ask open questions after trying to figure it out yourself, and be firm in the knowledge that there is NOT an expectation upon you to know all this stuff already. Some of the best engineers I know ask dumb questions all the time. It is expected, outside your area of expertise, and healthy. As a junior your area of expertise is... minimal.

2. Not in a good company, with strong leadership. Junior personnel are there to be molded and guided. You can expect to be set problems outside your comfort zone, but someone should be stepping in at some point to lend a hand.

3. Absolutely not. In my experience, supposed rock-stars with shitty attitudes are not as good as they think they are. Poor attitude is often a cover for ineptitude and/or severe self-esteem problems. People who are genuinely good are usually willing to help someone who can show that they are motivated, and not wasting their time.
Obviously, she's crazy: telling the truth in this world? Crazy!
Yeah it's weird. In the city, you can meet all these people, but actual neighbors treat each other like strangers.

In the suburbs, neighbors are often (not always!) super friendly. My neighbors and I have watched each others' pets and helped each other in a lot of ways.

I think it's just the "buying" versus "renting" thing. In the city most people are renting. There's less incentive to make friends with your neighbors when in the medium-term future one or both of you will probably be somewhere else. Your rented property is truly often just a place to keep your stuff. I think rental neighbors should still try to be friends for a variety of reasons (why wouldn't you want to get along with and help your neighbors?) but this is a minority opinion.

On the other hand, when you and your neighbors are all in the midst of 30-year mortgages, people often put more effort into getting along and forging bonds. More of a "we're all in this together, let's try to get along" thing. One of our next-door neighbors is actually kind of unfriendly.
The promo code UA3XJH should work until at least the end of Thursday PST
I don't see how intel is even a target. PowerPC owns gaming. There are still tons of MIPS chips in networking applications as well as some other verticals. ARM owns phones, largely because every phone has a custom chip in it. It's not clear if it will grow beyond that.

Why not suggest ARM will defeat PowerPC or MIPS? That sort of seems plausible, Intel is so insanely good at what they do and they backed out of ARM a few years ago. I can't imagine they did that without understanding how they'd compete.
> You might be tempted to think this is some sort of metaphor, and in that light, perhaps it makes some amount of sense. But no, he means actual lizard people.

It is often claimed that "lizard people" is code for antisemitism. Icke denies this interpretation, but many critics do not accept his denials – see e.g. [1], [2], [3]

[1] https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/20/18146628/alice-walker...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/01/conspiracy-theo...

[3] https://www.dw.com/en/lizard-conspiracist-david-icke-not-wan...
You don't necessarily need to kill tanks, just make them hide. The NATO air mission against the Serbs [0] in 1999 only destroyed 93 out of 600 Serbian tanks but had the effect of preventing the Serbs from using them effectively. This helped level the playing field between the well-trained Serbian army and the Kosovo Liberation Army.

After the surrender, when the Serbs drove their undamaged tanks home, the "look how many you missed" attitude missed the point. They were undamaged because they had effectively suppressed, and hidden in underground car parks, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
Please don't do this here. I realize you meant it in good fun, but this sort of thing is kudzu* and there's a power law in how worse it gets as the thread proceeds.

Threads are particularly sensitive to initial conditions, so it's especially important not to do this when there aren't any comments yet.

(Submitted title was "4,000 year old woman may have been powerful European leader, treasure suggests". Perhaps the submitter rewrote it to fit HN's 80 char limit, or perhaps NatGeo rewrote their own headline once they realized all the lame jokes it was generating.)

* though I do need to find a different metaphor- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668829
It is possible, though, that this firmware was written specifically for HPE by the OEM.
How reliable is Revise.jl compared to ipython autoreload? My experience with ipython autoreload is... very poor, even though some people swear by it, so I have trust issues with this type of thing.
I agree that there can be more equitable distribution. I struggle with why seizing wealth through taxes is the current war drum being beat. I think the most productive means to making wealth would be stressing the importance of investing and compound growth as part of the high school curriculum. Note: That's where my idea ends right now, I don't have a viable implementation path
Backslash escaping the number (or possibly the period) should work in most (and therein lies Markdown's biggest problem, the lack of a proper spec (fingers crossed for CommonMark)) parsers.
The color out of Space[1] is pretty good! However the Dunwich Horror[2], The Shadow over Innsmouth[3], At the Mountains of Madness[4], and of course, the Call of Cthulhu[5] are all good.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXyda5iiGEo

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKkya1pMhMQ

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gviofDcypzE

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2iSmE129uQ

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM9Z39D1yyI
Seems legit to me - a bunch of robots on the elevator that are each responsible for perhaps ten kilometres of travel, and they pass the parcel to the next one in line then move back down. You could launch way more things in pseudo-parallel that way.

Or just an up line and a down line like most cable cars.
FWIW (very little): I think weightlifting is one of the keys to looking youthful, especially for women. A strong upper body accentuates the hourglass figure, and the cues that go with muscle tone (in the arms, usually) also contribute immensely to an overall impression of beauty and vitality.

I think women tend to be afraid of really weightlifting (ie heavy weights that make you struggle), either because it is so weirdly testerone-ish or because they are afraid of "bulking up". However, if you don't lift heavy weights nothing happens (women and five pound barbells are a pet-peeve of mine), and bulking up is really, really hard, for both men and women -- if you work out 3 days a week and stay away from the protein drinks (and steroids), you won't see any bulk at all, just tone and reshaping.

I think Pilates and Yoga are cool, too, but there is a little bit of the Oprah's book club thing going on ...
This article mentions nothing about how they measure alertness. How objectively can this possibly be measured?

It seems to me that the measure of alertness may only be indirectly measured in by task specific performance. So there may be driving alertness, data-entry alertness etc...

On the other hand, even if all the chemical effects are quantifiable, so the measure is "objective", does that really mean anything for different individuals?

Also, for a given task, it may turn out that I need the anxiety producing effects of caffeine just to care enough to perform the drudgery.

Whew! Time for a second cup.
http://grasshopper.com/blog/founders/2010/04/06/take-a-ride-...
Most of the lecture notes are at bottom of the page.
Not from my iPhone...
What sort of quirks? I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts.
If a mod could fix the title? Typo + unclear ATM.
"The $600 Billion Challenge: Will billionaires pledge 50%+ of their fortunes to charity?"
I don't think this applies in this case, those activities take time at constant intervals. This saves some time once in implementation for a constant additional cost.
In regards to us vs. them:

I've always struggled to comprehend the 2 party system. Every human has differing beliefs and people follow along and let their political party decide how they feel about different things. You can't take over 200 million differing objects, lump them into two groups of classification and say "done!".

I'm not a Republican or a Democrat because my ideas are not so easily defined. That's what I'd like to see more of.
Correct. And i don't think they want to change how things work. The mechanisms how to operate android are fine. Or do you have an example what fundamental functionality should change?
I find it reassuring that Google tried to do something similar before, when Google Groups attempted to take over Usenet, and people using real newsgroups had little time for either Google's "replacement" or for people who were accessing Usenet via Google Groups and thought everyone else should/must be as well.
Oh, sure, but it's as if someone told me "what you're doing now isn't going to work, so we don't want to work with you on it". It makes me think that maybe I need to be doing something else, but all the thousands of users who use and love the service count more than six people who talked to me about it for ten minutes.