jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Marksies' own brand is good quality, never subpar compared to mainstream brands.

In Northern Ireland it's still mocked gently as being a bit pretentious, where the 'ladies who lunch' from Malone do their shopping. But at the same time there is a great affection for the brand as it was the only mainland supermarket company to have a presence in NI throughout the Troubles.
I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing.
1 in 5 seems like a high proportion to me. I will admit that I find it mildly aggravating that people wave away a genuine complaint with 'it only happens in 1 out of 5 cases'. Is it an acceptable ratio? Would we accept a plane that lands for non-routine issue 1 out of 5 times?

>> That makes it 1 out of 5 wires. It is extremely unlikely to be the case.

I don't think I could honestly qualify 1 out of 5 with adverb extremely. Even unlikely feels like a stretch. Let me give you an example, if you submitted your taxes online and before you submitted it, it gave you a chance percentage of an audit, would you roll the dice at 20%?

>> It absolutely is a feature to the user - it allows for an easy rollback of journaling mistakes.

Having dealt with those mistakes, I still maintain that it is there cover the bank.
Well now they have 8% of the browser market. I think you need $500 million a year to barely keep at those 8%.

If they drop those millions of revenue I believe their market share will sharply drop. Opera is operating on around $100 million of revenue and they are in 1% range of market share.

I bet Microsoft can spend $100 million or less just to be around 7% with Edge since they have Windows. I also don't think Google is spending much more to keep Chrome at around 70% when they own search and YouTube and Android.

They need $500 million just to keep head above the water and remember they are swimming with sharks.
I'm probably going to buy the PDF. I think the paperback is too expensive for a book that is only 114 pages.
Came here to comment on the great article, great to see I'm not alone.
Maybe, but this article hits the super deluxe jackpot for most buzzwords in a headline.
It's a small word but makes a big difference: "my". In MY universe. The people I know directly. I don't know directly any misogynistic persons nor do I know terrorists and psychopaths. So the subject is not relevant to me and I don't feel guilty nor responsible about what other people do.
> Mike Burns has pointed out that you can accomplish more or less the same thing by using ENV.fetch to pull in your environment variables

Not trying to criticize, but from my experience this shows the difference between good, enthusiastic, but probably less experienced developers - who would be happy to build something cool, write some tests, and make it work, and old-timers lacking such energy - who can recall a one-liner (or a sed/grep/awk combo) that does the same thing...
The trend has been just the opposite: Computers display far more "intelligence" than ever before, if you accept the (admittedly somewhat glib) definition of AI as anything computers still can't do. Logistics, navigation, trading... Yet globally, despite a few shocks, poverty has been falling for decades. Essentially everywhere capitalism is practiced and computers with their existing labor-replacing-intelligence are increasingly integral, the standard of living has been rising steadily. What about more capable computers will reverse this trend?
Go, today, is a niche language by usage but is not niche by features.

In their latest blog post, they've noted that it's not quite as niche by usage as they thought it would be.

http://blog.golang.org/2010/11/go-one-year-ago-today.html
At 64 I'm finally learning Lisp. Ah the wasted years.
would love one please :) alan [at] themagentoman.com
Well, since it worked, perhaps not?
Whatever may or may not be wrong with Schneier's article, it's certainly a hell of a lot better than (say) conflating a vulnerability that was in released, stable versions of iOS and OS X for over a year with one that never made it into an actual release of Firefox in order to make it look like the media were making a big deal about nothing[1], as you did previously on this topic. I'd suggest you take a good, hard look at your own tactics before accusing others of misinformation, and that anyone else doesn't take your word on these matters. (Sadly that comment got upvoted all the way to the top of the discussion, just like this one no doubt will.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7284290

(Edit: also, while it was 4 years ago and my memory's a bit fuzzy, I seem to recall the earlier, actually exploitable in the wild, PKCSv15 vulnerability was discussed a lot in the tech media and community. It just didn't get the mainstream media attention, most likely because it wasn't as badly mishandled and "obscure security issue fixed already" is much less of a story than "you're at risk now and there's nothing you can do, because someone fucked up".)
The initial response was very quick, but honestly: Fixing such a simple XSS hole on a web application shouldn't take 7 days. In the age of automated testing and continuos deployment, escaping that parameter is trivial.

Granted. If you have a systemic issue and you need to fix your framework to always escape unless told otherwise, that will take longer, but it won't prevent you from quick-fixing just the reported issue.
I am clearly not a lawyer: if you tell passport control that you lost your drugs on the plane, there will be no evidence to prosecute you, but they probably won't let you in.

More seriously, just don't get on the plane, then after a period of time contact your family and tell them you got refused entry. Spend a day or two at the airport or a nearby hotel.
Pretty sure you can remove people who have signed a contractual agreement that they can be denied service at any time.

We may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services or any features within the Services to you or to users generally. We also retain the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time. We may also remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services, limit distribution or visibility of any Content on the service, suspend or terminate users, and reclaim usernames without liability to you.

Section 4 of

https://twitter.com/en/tos
This is called pharma hacking and it's big business. If you can exploit a website's SEO ranking to get yourself a boost, you can profit.
Hired in at a New York company. Quickly realized they absolutely hated straight white men.

All day long was bashing, talking about how evil/ stupid they are.

Most bigoted hateful people I’ve ever seen.
All convinced they shit gold.
Yes, but the average person is smart. For instance, if I average 95, 95, and 95, then the average is 95. If I average 94, 94, 94, 95, 95, and 95 and the average is 94.5, does that mean the other half is stupid? Of course not, which is why people who keep saying this over and over are below average. You can tell because they aren't saying anything important.
Yes, that is what I am talking about. That is actual violence.
I like it. Care to elaborate on how you made it? I like how the colormap acts as an indicator of where each little square ends up, but I wonder why you chose a constant color along the left and right sides of the initial big square? I likely would have gone with a black/red/blue/magenta square instead.
Yes. The US electorial system is compromised. By Republican gerrymandering and voter suppression. Both proven by facts.

Whereas Trump just pulled his 'electoral fraud' claims from a hat and his lawyer got laughed out of court.
I'm not reducing anyone to anything. Addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25695775
> People were calling Pence a traitor

More than that:

> Others called for Vice President Mike Pence — who enraged Trump when he acknowledged that he did not have the power to unilaterally throw out electoral college votes — to be tried for treason. One Facebook post, quickly deleted, said Pence, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should be hanged.

* https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-conspiracy-theories-...

See also:

* https://www.businessinsider.com/nooses-spotted-as-pro-trump-...
I was 33 years in the industry, as a developer. Some times I considered going into management, and was asked about it, but fairly early on I realized I would hate it and it would hate me.
What does that have to do with whether a video conferencing app is experimental though? All that says is that whoever made it has some leeway to take risks.
Also the big tech companies only need "world class" developers in under 10% of their positions. Reducing latency on Oculus Rift? OK you need a Carmack. Building a compliance portal for some new law passed in Kerblachistan? A lot of people can do that, and a company like Facebook has a lot more of the second type of problem than the first.
Or just people who come to HN for Hacker News instead of generic US politics (though that seems increasingly unlikely these days).
In my experience, this mostly happens with people who only know one technology. Many juniors are like this. On the other hand, when this happens with a senior, they fight extra hard.

I suppose it also depends on company culture. What happens if a technology you have never seen before is selected for your project? Are you given some time to learn and is it expected that your initial contributions will be smaller, or are you supposed to be just as fast as people who used it for last ten years and get negative reviews otherwise?
Not exactly. It may be that Poulsen can corroborate the published material sufficiently well to feel confident in its truthfulness, but not the unpublished portions.
Check out the new features for making feature full scripting files (.fsx)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-f-5/#packag...

I am starting to use this to port some of python data munging scripts. Especially those that have to call external apis because Fsharp data providers are voodoo magic.

https://fsprojects.github.io/FSharp.Data/library/JsonProvide...
> But learning that consumption of processed meat causes an additional 34,000 worldwide cancer deaths a year is much more chilling.

I'm sorry but 34,000 worldwide deaths a year is literally nothing. The US has over 30,000 auto deaths per year. Around the world, there are over 1 million auto deaths per year.

If 34,000 deaths a year from processed foods is important, then there are many, many things that are a much easier way to save lives than getting rid of hot dogs and bacon.
> It's really your own fault for choosing to depend on google.

There you go. Signing up to their services means that you are aware of the terms and conditions and it includes termination of service for any reason. Tough.

> If you don't like google's behaviour, then you should either be self-hosting or at least diversify with other providers.

They didn't listen to us when GitHub kept going down nor did they listen when Google took Element and Mastodon's apps off the Play Store (The outrage was visible). Oh well, its their platform and they are private companies, blah blah blah.

I guess when rvz was screaming for self-hosting and having control over your own infrastructure as possible, others said AWS, GCP and Azure made it a point and click setup and 'It's just easier because someone else is the sys-admin and its not my server'.

We learn the hard way I guess.
You can do pretty much any bank operation online these days, at least the most common operation like opening an account (life insurance, PEL, CEL, livret A, etc), getting your RIB (bank ID pdf), making transfers (one offs and recurring ones), declare a lost credit card, etc.

And it has been like that for a while (I remember opening a PEL online and configuring a monthly transfer to fill it when I started working 10 years ago). Maybe all the banks are/were not at the same level, but with mine, BNP, it was possible.

Also, now, I also have bank accounts in a more "international" bank (HSBC), and to be honest, even if the website as the same functionalities, HSBC website is a lot more clunkier, mixing the old and the new than BNP's one which is reasonably good looking and easy to use.
The idea isn't to go to sleep but to avert a full-blown cold or other respiratory infection if possible. Usually takes 15-45 minutes. But you have to catch it right at the start and you have to be at home, obviously.

If you're concerned about carbon dioxide you can either refresh the air periodically or you can create a small gap in the duvet to allow some exchange of air with the surrounding room (whilst keeping the humidity relatively high).
The "luxury goods" strategy is viable in a direct to consumer play. But does it still apply at the component level? If anything, I'd think there's an aversion to lower volume, single-source boutique parts just because of the fear of supply chain kinks. Maybe there's some marketing case to be made of "you can elevate your product's market position with expensive premium components" but that argument has a lot of moving parts when you're not the only displauy tech on the market.

I wonder if there's a non-margin factor in play. Maybe something like:

* They don't want to be in the "support" business, so by keeping the product line away from hobbyists/small players, they keep their overhead low.

* Their main concern is product secrecy and therefore will only deal with firms large enough to take NDAs and licenses seriously

* Their manufacturing capacity is finite and not easily scaled, so they couldn't actually deliver on a hypothetical millions-of-screens-per-year order.

* Some sort of brand protectionism. I see a lot of "we could probably hack and rig an E-ink display to do something outside its normal sales case" discussion. I could imagine a situation where they ended up-- in the eyes of end consumers-- responsible for the failings of such products. They never said to use their panel as a desktop monitor for playing 60fps video, but they can't stop someone from trying and then bellyaching about it to the world.

Of course, a mandatory-licensing mechanism could help escape whatever tarpit they're in.
This is relatively trivial, but only for whole-program compilation. The good thing about declaring exceptions on functions is that you can partially compile programs without a module system - otherwise, at a minimum you have to declare them at module boundaries.
Thanks a lot for the distraction! Assuming that the wire has a diameter of 2.5mm, there are two strands, and shortening by 1/3 accounts for the loss due to the twist and accounts for the mass of the barbs.

Probably something like 9,000 miles[1]

Of many metrics, the length might not be that interesting. For instance how much land did that represent making safe for crops, and conversely how much territory was ruined for grazing?

While there isn't demand for barbed wire for as a counterweight, it does add some context on the supply side. The 173 m^3 of steel is about 0.3% of the steel used to construct the Three Gorges Dam, and 20% of the steel used to construct the Eiffel Tower[2]

[1] Wolfram|Alpha seems to change the syntax handling from month to month, but for now using weight/density of steel treats it like a physical object unlike "volume of steel" which returns market trading volumes.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%283e6+lbs+%2F+density+...

[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=173+m^3
> 1. Most of the time, having a useful stack trace is really handy for debugging. For better or worse, stack traces are a standard tool for most users to understand when their code does something wrong.

> Eliminating all tail calls hurts this with little benefit in the majority of cases where you aren't doing any recursion (mutual or otherwise) and will never blow the stack.

In "Finding the Needle"[0], SPJ et al came up with a nice stack trace representation for GHC that handles recursion. Not sure if you've seen the paper, but it might be worthwhile if you haven't (section 4, specifically).

[0]: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
This is essentially what I've been doing for about a year and a half.

I've found that the best way to do it is to focus 100% on client projects for a month or two, and then take a month or two for yourself. IMHO "single-tasking" results in much better quality work.

While you're working on your own thing, you should be meeting with potential clients and setting up your next paying gig, since the sales cycle on a couple month project large enough is about a few weeks to a month anyways.
While I'm willing to be convinced that things like HFT have some value to society ( https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html ) and while there are certainly some lame things that come out of Silicon Valley, on the average, I think I'd rather see more resources flow to the latter than the former.
The other countries with higher intake (as a percentage of national population) of migrants or of foreign-born persons, as you can see from the Wikipedia links you have kindly shared, are mostly special cases of countries with a very high percentage of refugees or guest workers. For countries accepting permanent residents with a path to citizenship, the United States still ranks plenty high on a percentage basis, and the absolute numbers are much of what generates population growth in the United States these days. I'll have to take a look at your article and ponder it awhile. We need perspective like yours (American living abroad) a lot more on Hacker News. Thanks for your reply.
Currently selecting any state will populate the site with Hawaii and South Carolina and Cleveland operators. It seems that country works as a filter but not state/province.

I like the idea.
heart surgery is very complex and success depends on a lot of things. How a human body will react to a highly invasive procedure is unknown hence if it reacts in a way that your average surgeon has no idea on how to deal with the patient would die. Have you heard of specialists? Do you know why people go to specialists? Why is there a need of specialists if every average heart surgeon can do heart surgery?

So you see there is something like a 10X heart surgeon, he/she is called a specialist.
> Not the kind of 'mistake' that just gets your company fined either - it's the kind that can land you in prison

It will be interesting to see if there is any enforcement against US companies operating in Europe.
> To be honest, at the moment such problems are too rare to justify learning Prolog. But I don’t believe that this has to remain so.

And then the whole following section on unfulfilled potential.. Is there any reason to believe the paradigm will somehow come into its own in the future? The way this question was addressed by the article was way too wishy-washy for my taste.
No, Apple actually supporting it (in the same way that Intel, AMD, ARM/Linaro et. al. staff resources to support their hardware on Linux) is the best way. But paying productive engineers via crowdfunding isn't an awful workaround.
But they would if they could.
This youtuber has been documenting his rides for quite a while

https://www.youtube.com/user/j3rsdm5
NM. It was a joke.

Yeah, it is whacky, but most HR departments are run by lawyers, these days, and lawyers have a strange set of rules.
Some tuition reimbursement is often baked into the salary.
I have a feeling that you're oversimplifying it. You will have events/dates on the table which are even for a single timezone have multiple offset like before/after DST. Essentially you will have to store the whole timezone rule data in some table and dynamically query based on the time value of the date, location and corresponding tz rule. I believe it would be nightmare of a query. But even that maybe possible if you have to basically do this for one single event table and few queries. Try to do this kind of query for 100s of tables and thousands of date type of column and see how quickly it spirals out of control.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9243163
I don't really get the constant focus of the energy conversation on transportation (< 1/3 of total energy use). If, as you say, we can get solar energy to the grid for less than coal then we're getting close to the time when no one will ever build a coal plant again. Then accelerating economies of scale will cause the price to fall to the point where we're shutting down fossil fuel plants, then to the point where we can make biofuels with solar rather than fossil fuels. Now GHG emissions are down 75-90% with a set of mostly evolutionary technical advancements.

Some environmentalists might not like that process because it's market-driven and doesn't involve any economy-shrinking monastic self-sacrifice (e.g. Kyoto protocol), but it is the reason I'm reasonably optimistic about climate change.
Play it out in your head. An elected official declares he wants to try and starve a powerful and relatively popular union. What happens next?
> I don't understand how increasing pricing from a flat fee to a percentage encourages marketplaces to pay out less frequently. The cost is so nominal that it far outweighs any percentage fee.

Our goal, as Patrick said, is to allow people to pay out more frequently. A flat fee ties your costs to number of transfers, which seems unnecessary in a lot of cases. If a seller just earned $10, they should get their $10 (at a cost of a nickel).

> Better for whom?

For customers and platforms. If we do our job right, standalone accounts should be so easy to use and user-friendly, even for non-tech-savvy customers, that it's clearly the better option for everyone.

That being said, it's not like we'll kill off managed accounts: there'll always be a good reason to have a fully customized experience. Making standalone accounts good enough to be the better option more often is a goal we strive for, but that's for our customers to decide.
The article doesn't mention the impact of loss of oxygen to the brain. I would have to assume, that if this is moving to human trials, that there is evidence that this reduces or eliminates the effect of oxygen deprivation on the brain?
It's pretty cool. The entire meteor animation is done on canvas using javascript.
Maybe. It depends on if we're talking about individual applications or just the desktop experience in general.

The thing about people using applications like Photoshop and Word is that they have established workflows that its users have come to expect. From a design perspective, they're pidgeonholed because any significant UI change means that they would have to retrain the vast majority of its users. So Adobe and MS make minor tweaks to its UI instead. Admittedly, MS made a big change with the ribbons ui element, but you get the picture.

Open source stuff has the advantage (I guess you could call it that) of having a much larger volume of new users and a much smaller volume of old users, so there's more room to experiment with different UIs to solve the problem of getting people to interact meaningfully with the programs. I'd say for the vast majority of the projects, the UI is an afterthought so it ends up being poorly designed. Even so, the opportunity is there.

The desktop is a little different though, there's already a load of user expectations that you have to live up to. The space for proposing solutions is a lot smaller. Riding on the coat tails of OSX may not be a bad idea so long as the developers understand the reasons why Mac made the design decisions that they did and adjust accordingly.

At least that's how I feel. Trying to innovate isn't a bad thing, it has to lead to failure first before you get it right.
Given that, why would you even enter the IT side?
For the record, jseeba emailed me and let me know that he's just a lurker and not part of this.
focus on what you do best, if possible. aka manage/organize etc... aka find a coder and collaborate with him.

No matter your age, to learn code is not done over night. focus on getting things done.

my 2cts... im older than you but i started to code in early 80's :)
You didn't think that perhaps it was tongue in cheek?