jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> English is universal language (taking into account its ability to define new words), so we're not missing out on anything fundamentally important (and nor are, e.g., the French missing out on anything fundamental by not speaking English: French is universal too).

They're universal languages for people; for brains that specifically evolved to swing through trees, pick bugs out of our friends' fur, and to chase down antelopes. It's software that's pretty specific to the hardware.

What if we just don't have enough in common with a critter that evolved in a fully 3D environment with no hands?
Anyone who was choosing between the two companies before September 1990 would come out ahead (now, 20 years later) by choosing Microsoft stock. Anyone choosing in 1991 or after would come out ahead by choosing Apple stock. Or more simply: anyone who caught Microsoft stock in the mid-80s and rode it through the end of the 90s won big, and likewise for anyone who caught Apple stock circa 2001–2003 and is holding it now.

To be honest though, I don’t think the linear comparison over that whole time period is an especially informative chart though. The logarithmic one is better (replace "linear" with "logarithmic" in that link), with a much more meaningful slope.

Basically what we see is Microsoft stock went absolutely crazy between 1986 and 2000, doubling 9 times over that period (an utterly ridiculous sustained average doubling time of about a year and a half). Since 2000, Microsoft stock has dropped by half, mostly a drop during the year 2000 and stagnation since.

By contrast, Apple stock roughly stagnated between 1988 and 1993, and then, worse, dropped to between a quarter and a third of that value by its rock bottom point in 1997. After Jobs returned, between 1997 and 2001 Apple caught a big upswing and then a big downswing, the up presumably aligned with the colorful iMacs/iBooks and so forth, and the drop presumably due to some combination of broader economic forces and slowdown/uncertainty to do with the OS X transition, etc. Apple stock has been going nuts since the beginning of 2003, doubling 5 times (!) in the last 7 years.
Excuse me? IE6 was a standard of what exactly? Sure it was the best browser back in 2001, it was the most popular browser for a while, so what?
The point of my comment was that standard is not something that works on the browser you have, it is something that parties agree upon.
How many of those bashing Apple here know that the editor of HTML5 spec (Ian Hickson) is from Google, not Apple? How many do know, that all that nifty stuff this demo shows is already submitted to W3C? How many do know, that a lot of it is already supported by Mozilla and Opera with (oh horror!) their own vendor prefixes? Alas, judging from comments a few do understand what vendor prefixes are.

I am a member of WHATWG mailing list so I can see how standards are born, and this level of misunderstanding about web standards in general and HTML5 in particular really saddens me.
This looks to be a summary of a summary of the study linked at the end. For a more instructive look at the survey, check out http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/next-tech-five-steps... .
> therefore have to be GPL.

Nope, they just have to be compatible with the GPL. You could, for example, release a kernel module under the BSD or ISC license and be in the clear. The problem is that the CDDL is intentionally incompatible with the GPL.
As of 2:30 Eastern the count resumed and is at 14 minutes.
Hey, yeah I think it doesn't support fully on the input end, but it does support on the output (if you change the $format variable in the convert script).

Input looks a bit weird, for example,

https://secureview.cloudbrowser.xyz/uploads/file1tda.4paa65d...

Which is from:

https://dev.w3.org/SVG/tools/svgweb/samples/svg-files/AJ_Dig...
Yes, RISC-V's instruction compression is easier to use than Thumb. But there's a reason no arm server uses compressed instructions and ARM dropped it from A64.
They should be better regulated, but companies have been big for centuries, few come close to the power held by companies in various colonies.
One motivation could be to have a competitor to the Apple watch for people that really want a good smartwatch to go with their phone. Right now there is nothing Android compatible that even comes close to the Apple watch. Having something comparable and Android exclusive could help with locking people into the Android ecosystem.
Hey, this is actually atop FreeBSD so it is not as simple as just making a Dockerfile.

It should be too much tho, perhaps just making an install_deps.sh script alternative to use apt, and writing a Dockerfile.

You're welcome to submit a PR but I might get to it first.

Edit: I just made some changes relating to this, including a Dockerfile. I have not tested in Docker, but it now works on Nix (Debian)
In developing countries, cars are status symbols. Once everybody can afford one, that stops being the case.
>I'd bet on the success of a Gates-sponsored healthcare solution over a government-sponsored one any day of the week.

This doesn't sound like you are talking about dollar-for-dollar effectiveness.

Nor does it make sense to suggest that people move to Communist countries, if that's what you meant.
> PS: In the US the collagen that gets injected into lips to puff them up all comes from a single cell line harvested from a discarded foreskin sliced off about 20 odd years ago. No residual "rights" there -- Allergan gets to keep all the money.

Wtf? Is there more info on this?
I don’t know if I understand your point about generics syntax and a scrappy underdog. Are you trying to imply that a group of experts is better than the group of experts and laypeople at judging things? If so, I’m not sure that’s true.
one consequence of the US system is that treatment ends up on the bills.

How can children have confidential access to a doctor when that doctor visit will appear onthe bill?

This prevents young people from seeking help for a range of problems including sexual health and self harm.
What does it mean that he wants to code? Are you a programmer and he looks up to you, and wants to be able to accomplish as much as you? Or does he want to be able to produce some particular type of end product like games?
Huge +1 for #3. Saves my ass all the time. I usually stage the changes I think I want to commit and use `git diff --staged` to confirm before I commit.
Control of the chip company that produces the silicon (design) for just about all mobile devices?

And symbolically ARM would be folded into one of the 3 companies that created it originally.
The very last line from the article:

Well I cannot describe Judy in 10 minutes -- what possessed me? I hope you understand some of what I have said and question me on the rest -- particularly those doubts. I will try to elaborate on parts where I get questions.

An interesting read, nonetheless. But a warning for those expecting a full description in 10 minutes. :)
White space in passwords might be confusing if the system offers to email a user his own password. (Whether this should be done or not is another argument and is heavily dependent on the nature of the application.)

How much entropy does white space add to a password? Where are most people putting spaces in passwords? Are they using passphrases (in which case the position of spaces can be guessed and thus have low entropy)?

Given that I can think of a potential downside and possibly no gain in security, I can understand why some may default to not allowing it.
Or Firefox...
I wonder if this would inspire them to release Google Voice internationally. If it turns (even half way) into a VOIP service then it seems strange to limit it.
This might have been true 20 years ago, but advances in car technology during the recent decade were really fast. Newer cars accross the board have better handling, fuel economy, more creature comforts as standard. Luxuries that existed only on premium models became mainstream.

In terms of safety, the standards have gone up significantly from where they were 10-12 years go.

And even when an old premium car matches new run-of-the-mill vehicle in terms of safety technology, both passive and active safety features detiorate over time: body looses it's rigidy, original air bags unless replaced which is costly are much less likely to work properly after 8 years or so.

Cars heavily rely on electronic and software and becoming as transient as any other gadgets.

My advice:

- don't buy new, 3-6 year old car is a much better value

- exclude makes and models that are not routinely sold with 160K miles on a clock.

- go for a used car with high freeway, motorway, autobahn mileage (ca 20K miles a year), i.e. 60K-100K overall depending on a year. They are cheap and still very reliable.

- Regardless of car age, don't buy a car made during first 3 years of model production, i.e. before the first major facelift / upgrade. Cars are just like any other product and it takes about 3 years for a "service pack" to be delivered to a market.

- Another benefit apart from reliability of getting a car towards the end of the model lifecycle is the number of extras you'll be getting for free as standard.

- Have a clear exit strategy: sell before a major maintenance is due.
Also worth investiation: a comparison of 20000 lines-of-code Judy versus a 200 lines-of-code hash table: http://www.nothings.org/computer/judy/
I have all of my book shelves arranged by color. Some were read, others bought/kept to keep the interior decoration up to snuff. Art School training at its best!

http://josephflaherty.tumblr.com/post/30953971/one-of-my-col...
Only for now https://github.com/atom/welcome/blob/master/lib/welcome.md

Atom is free during the beta period.
You’re embarrassing yourself with these posts...
Large corporations like Google, Amazon etc. pays zero tax. I hope you enjoy your percentage of those non-existing “trickling down” $.
It's a useful line to trot out if you subscribe to the narrative that there's plentiful resources to go around, if we just make the rich assholes share.

In ideological terms, it's a very convenient position to work from. It means you never have to evaluate if housing policy has played a role, which is handy when you support all the individual policies concerned.
What did Snapchat pivot to? The only pivot I know they did was changing from disappearing messages to stories (not sure if the disappearing messages are still there?). But this wasn't exactly a pivot as far as I know because of FB copying the stories feature afterwards.
If he does the same in the EU I will believe it has a chance and I'll support it. In Apple's homeland? Not a chance.
It is this one - one of my favourite short stories:

HARRISON BERGERON

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
You got me there. I should rephrase and write, 'Can Factory Accidents Happen Deliberately?' I would imagine there would be a Wikipedia example on this but I can't find one.
The 11,500 lines is the API interface, so just the function/class signatures.

They _did_ do a cleanroom implementation, that's the whole issue that makes it an interesting case: are APIs fair use?
There are various good-faith reasons that properties can be empty for periods of time. Frequently, landlords may perform maintenance or renovations in between tenants, which can keep the property vacant for months at a time.

Also, finding tenants, performing background checks, and filling properties can take considerable time. Doubly true for smaller landlords doing this on the side while they juggle jobs and families.

In a few cities, some real estate is held as purely speculative investments or as a place to park cash. If you're an investor buying a $3mm property in Vancouver, BC with a goal of flipping it in 6 months, sticking a tenant in there will only get in the way of your plans for minimal gain. This situation is more rare than it's made to sound by some articles, though.

Generally speaking, you're right: Tenants strive to keep their investment properties occupied as much as possible. Unoccupied properties are costly.
The tv isn't getting iOS 4.1, even though it technically runs iOS. It's simply getting version 4.1 of its own firmware.
I don't get the criticism "each piece of information does not have a URI". Has TBL not seen http://graph.facebook.com ?
My client had mentions on major networks in Canada. It's a local business and mentions on CTV, GlobalTV and CityTV each produced a spike in site views.

Without posting any screen caps, the initial waves began within hours after TV posts and sustained above than average number for 7-14 days after.

After the three mentions, one on each network, the average about doubled and I know that it affected the business substantially. Walk in customer numbers have increased and almost doubled over 6 months.

Initially, the TV spots didn't produce paying/inside the door customers. Before doing any publicity work to initiate the spots, we made sure to traceback any new customer on how they heard about the business. Word of mouth from those that seen the spots was the biggest marker. I presume that once someone sees something on TV, it adds validation to their suggestions and we were recommended more often.
I'm an American who has lived in Holland for 8 years so maybe I can offer some perspective.

1) The NL and the USA are different places with many many differences. As I often find myself telling my American friends "Stop comparing apples and oranges". Or the Dutch version "Stop comparing apples and pears".

2) There is less incentive in NL to work and it's easier to work part-time. I moved here partly because I wanted to take it easy after working my ass off in the USA. I now work part-time and love it. I know if I go back to the USA that would be really difficult.

3) The economic situation here is much easier than the USA. It's simply not as cutthroat and the government takes care of poor who need help. Whether that rubs you the wrong way ideologically is beside the point. It's easier to be poor here and not end up dead.

4) Dutch people definitely get depressed. That bit of the article is complete nonsense and I don't where that idea comes from. There are serious problems with depression in this country that show in suicide rates and alcohol abuse rates. Where are her numbers for this assertion?
I can’t wait to get rid of Bluetooth for its issues with range and badly implemented devices and software where pairing doesn’t “stick” for long. The only good thing is the energy consumption with BLE. Like USB 3.whatever and USB-C, Bluetooth is generally a pile of garbage standards in a pile of garbage standards with poor implementations. Some Apple devices seem to be doing better with Bluetooth. Elsewhere it’s a bag of hurt. But that’s purely anecdotal from my end.
maybe they bring out the huge car sized faraday cage
D using LDC alongside betterC compilation mode is also an option.

The runtime will eventually be available as well, it is being ported with help of WASI.

Much better option than emscripten and all the machinery it brings along, with three languages (Python, JS, Java).
It's hard to know which comes first. It's a bit like Keynes' Beauty Contest:

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

The verifiability aspect seems to create a Schelling point where they attain and maintain value.
That seems kind of contradictory. Your biases are tuned towards what works for big codebases but you're taking a first principles approach. A simplified threads implementation is called Java. Plus it gives you cool classes like Phaser. Threads will always be a horror show with C/C++. There's a reason why Linux is the only kernel that implements clone(). It's controversial.
> “I see an inclination in the more respectable part of the Royal Society to guard against the Ballomania until some experiment like to prove beneficial either to society or to science is proposed.”

In the end a few non-amusement uses have come around: weather balloons, the vega balloons on venus.
Not that rare for me or the people next door.. key fobs dont work frequently at my home.. have to use the physical key and operate the fob from within the car to disable the immobiliser
Lots of moles to whack. You can try using a non-chromium browser, decked out with privacy addons like uBo, Decentraleyes, Temporary Containers, Privacy Settings. If you'd like a chromium browser, Iridium Browser could work.

Also if you have an Android phone, you could try to install LineageOS without gapps, or go with /e/.

If you use Drive, Sheets etc, you could try ONLYOFFICE. They use GA, but your decked out Firefox should already block that.

For more alternatives, there are different resources that try to be helpful, like this one:
https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
> Adding ?w=1 to any diff URL will remove any changes only in whitespace, enabling you to see only that code that has changed.

Annoyingly, this doesn't work for pull requests.
Confirmed to have happened to employees of Belgacom and Stellar PCS, and the fact that the technique itself is documented with a codename suggests it happens to others who weren't leaked.
One I always enjoyed that's not on the list (because it's UK specific, I guess) is:

Buildings don't have multiple postcodes in different outcodes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdo... ).

Counter example:

* Merchant Venturers building, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB

* Merchant Venturers building, Park Row, Bristol BS1 5UB
Lol. This topic is just about the most sensitive things I can imagine. The concept that America "won" both the pacific and European wars is an integral part of American identity. Shortly after the war, with the rise of the cold war, US students were brought up on the one narrative. Any suggestion that the Soviets were a driving force in ending the war forces them to confront deeply held beliefs regarding the use of force and violence generally.

Another aspect not covered in the OP is the efficiency of US nukes. Much/most of the damage done was not from the bombs. If you measure damage through the heat energy released, most came from the burning of the cities rather from the fission in the bomb itself. The firebombing of a city releases as much energy as a nuclear explosion, doing a comparable amount of damage. At the time, a firebombing raid required fewer resources than a nuke. So, from an energy standpoint, the nukes were not an economical means of destroying Japanese cities.

Why then were they used? Why were they used in the pacific and not in europe? (Insert massive screaming rants here.)
Except if you can't use bcrypt. Eg. on Google App Engine.
These aren't cookies in the traditional sense, they encode tracking data and store it in a non-volatile storage accessible from the browser this can be anything from a simple cache to a WebSQL database.

Then they use Javascript to either read the tracking data directly and embed it into each request manually, or issue you a new cookie immediately if their tracking cookie is missing but the data is still accessible.

The main problem with these types of tracking is that for the most part browser manufacturers have no reason to restrict the use of such tracking techniques because it will affect their business models.

Other techniques abuse unforeseen uses of new standards such as HTML5 and WebSQL however as the W3C is your usual comity it takes years for any meaningful stance to be taken, and even then they still have quite a bit of conflicting interests.

The problem is that people want a free web, both as in free speech, and as in free beer and these world views tend to collide when pretty much everything out there is commercial.
With how little revenue actually comes from web ads these days due to the constant devaluation of "ad clicks" companies go out of there way to squeeze every penny from each visitor. What you end up is with tracking, tailored advertisement and your habits being sold for data mining.

But hey the cat videos are still free!
Search your university website for "data protection". You migt need to include "policy". They should have a page with instructions.

EG: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/finance/sec/dp/

They have to check your ID. They're allowed to make a small charge. They'll want to know what information you want. You can try saying "everything you hold about me" and they will give you as much as they can, but that will miss some information. For example, that wouldn't include all the occurances of your face on CCTV. You can request that but I think you need to be specific abot the date / time and there might be a higher charge.
Pro audio uses high bit depth throughout the signal chain to simplify gain staging. 16 bit is just barely adequate for normalised signals, but it is inadequate for signals of unpredictable level as it leaves no room for error. Set your gain too high and you get clipping; Set it too low and you raise the noise floor. You never need 120+dB of dynamic range, but it is incredibly useful to have 30dB of headroom to cope with sudden increases in level and an inaudible noise floor.

This extra headroom is critical for digital systems, as they have no headroom above 0dBFS - most analogue devices distort progressively (and often rather pleasantly) when pushed too hard, but digital clipping sounds horrible. Once you've run out of bits, all hell breaks loose.

16 bit is absolutely fine for domestic audio, but it is totally inadequate in a production environment. Without the extra dynamic range provided by 24 bit, you're stuck with some kind of compromise - either you risk overs, you raise your noise floor, or you have to stick limiters in front of all your ADCs and put up with your peaks getting squashed.
There was a similar situation in a project I worked on, at the time FAISS/Annoy/SPTAG were considered but we were really looking for something more managed, think ElasticSearch rather than Lucene. As luck would have it we stumbled upon https://www.milvus.io/ and it certainly checks a lot of boxes. But I'm rather excited to see some competition in this space, it's a broadly applicable trick so I'll definitely take a look at Vald next time it comes up as well!
This is an important point, but it does seem like computers could be providing more information to blind (or deaf) users - there are still other senses we don't use in UX (touch, heat, smell) and it seems like the real life concept could still be applicable somehow.
Would tab completion be a startingpoint for this?
It's time to move on I think. There are still plenty around but the world is going toward bigger and more.
This is mitigated by the fact that iPhones have power reserve for 5 hours for even after the phones main battery is depleted. This is how Express Transit works — you can tap your iPhone to pay for your subway ride even when your phone is dead.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209495

One might argue that even the reserve power might run out on a really long flight, say like a SIN-JFK. But most travelers these days carry battery packs so it’s not a big deal. Even if they don’t, a neighboring passenger would probably have one, and a few minutes of charging should suffice.

But in reality I imagine this would be more useful for shorter/frequent cross border trips like say at the US Canada border. For longer trips, most people would probably still want to carry a paper passport as a backup. Phones can fail for many reasons.

Boarding passes are already largely electronic in the US. It’s been a few years since I’ve had a printed boarding pass. Plus all you need to reprint your boarding pass at a kiosk is your record locator. This is largely a solved problem.
Macbooks make one of the good linux laptops (the ones that have support like older retina macbooks). And the truth is Macbook Air is one of the handful ARM consumer laptops you can easily buy right now even though ARM is the superior everyday computing platform to x86. What a weird time in personal computers.