jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The Red Hook Initiative has a few interesting projects in their neighborhood in Brooklyn. I have casually followed them since Sandy and am very impressed.

One project was to setup a mesh wifi network and they made a 'digital stewards' program so the kids and young adults in the neighborhood could learn how to maintain and troubleshoot the hardware and software.

The program seems to have legs

http://rhidigitalstewards.wordpress.com/who-we-are/
you make that sound like ie6 is the only browser that ever had compatibility issues.
d) Make the restriction on the word 'donation' more explicit and obvious.
In the last Washington State Governor's race, we had a similar condition, where the margin of victory was well within the margin of error. It seems that in such case, the only way to determine the actual will of the people is to do a re-vote.

Unfortunately, whatever candidate was ahead a any point in time would say "it's time to just move on".

I'm afraid that too many people don't get the concept of "margin of error" and will insist on getting a count that 100% accurate (instead of merely 99% or something).
Delivering a quality product within time and budget constraints, consistently. Oh, but that's a team effort, you say? Well, that's the working environment, isn't it? Projects are an awfully coarse measurement, you say? Well, that's the only deliverable that matters.

I recall reading years ago (in Peopleware or one of its contemporaries) about a company's evaluation of one of its coders. She was definitely mediocre by every measure they had. But someone noticed that every project she was on succeeded, over many projects and many years. Though she wasn't a monster at the keyboard, something she brought to the team engendered success. How productive was she? Would you want to hire her and have her on your team?

You must measure what you actually care about. Measuring things that you think are factors is fine and noble, but if you're not measuring the actual "product" of "productivity" then you'll never know how well your factors correlate with the real goal.
Sounds like Launch wants FB to end the party at 11.
Hulu also shows how hard it is for content creators to capture customers with a new business designed primarily to protect their existing business.
That's funny because it's kind of the purpose of the orange like button below. We played around with a lot of different words for that... would "I'm interested" be a lot better.

As far as turning that into a qualified lead... we plan to do this soon especially when we enable sponsored listings.
There is a certain unrealistic arrogance to the US approach to ITAR and software that seems to assume only US Persons could create technology on the list.

GPS receiver systems are the classic there: Russia, China and Europe all have their own GNSS. China runs the semiconductor industry and is quite capable of producing whatever unrestricted GNSS devices they choose. Therefore why restrict US companies?

Same with satellite tech, there may be some US specific tricks but there is a reason ITAR free satellite designs already exist and are multiplying. ITAR tries to protect too much and is killing US market share by being stupidly annoying.
Why would you want a naked routable TV sitting on the global network, instead of your firewalled LAN?
You're also just about forced to use RHEL if you're a customer of Rackspace's managed hosting. My life would have been quite a bit simpler on Ubuntu with Postrgres - RHEL and MySQL have led to at least one problem each - but Rackspace only supports MySQL on RHEL. Or at least, that was the case 15 months ago when I signed up with them.
The two are often intrinsically linked.

Tbh I'm not really giving an opinion on the actual issue, my orginal reply was supposed to "show up" the fallacy of the gp.

The relationships between guns, crime and their banning is way too complex for me to have an opinion on :p
Is it more involved than setting up filemaker server and publishing the link; plus adding a few ports in the firewall?

I am also curious about the benefits of filemaker over a standard sql database(mysql, postgresql, and sql server or oracle if you want to pay for it)?
Now make with the revenue.

Release some filter packs for 99 cents each and hopefully benefit from the 10-30% of your user base that will purchases some.

After the initial rush AOL will buy you for 40 million.
Yeah, I'll generally fuel up a few miles from the airport, but not fifty miles from the airport. As long as everyone has a similar idea of what's acceptable it works out fine.
You hate comic sans do you? You know what I hate? Obnoxious jerks trying to make people feel stupid because they didn't use the right typeface when they made a sign to put on the staff refrigerator.

Do you know what the purpose of that sign is? It's not to evoke en emotion, not to convey some abstract message about the corporate structure of the refrigerator, not to let everybody know that the fridge is successful enough to afford some designer who can spend time obsessing over font choices, it's to abstract the thought of "please stop eating my yogurt" into a universally-understandable form.

This type of thing is important if you're Charles Schwab and you're trying to make me feel warm and cuddly about trusting you with my money. The message I'm getting from your ads goes beyond just the words. This is the same as keeping the grass in front of your building trimmed, making sure your staff irons their clothes, that your building isn't in disrepair, that your board members aren't caught doing embarrassing thigns, etc. etc. It's all image. It's 3 forks at dinner. Do you need 3 forks? No, you don't.

Likewise, do you need to worry yourself with things like the typeface that you're using to write a birthday invitation for your 9 year old?

No.
It's open source, you could always donate some of your own time to do it properly...
The point is to prevent your actual password from being sent in the clear. Yes your session could still be hijacked, but most websites will at least require you to re-enter your password (over SSL) to change your key profile attributes or password, meaning the most someone can do with a hijacked session is vandalize the site from your account. If they have your password via sniffing, they can instantly do a whole lot more, especially if you use the same password everywhere, regardless of the merits of doing that.
Interesting that you dislike the type inference. I think you may be the first person to say that.

I have found it invaluable for refactoring.
It's not really a shell script though, it just looks like one enough to the point that a bourne shell can modify it to be directly executable.

I'd probably be most worried about the bourne shell part. It seems like it'll be easy for this to break on any "non-standard" shell that Linux might execute.
I assume you can still build a social graph with number 1 with enough people using the service if you just check for 2 way connections between contacts (i.e. if Jane submits a contact list including Simon, Pete and Paul, and Paul submits a contact list including Sarah, Francis and Jane, I can imply that Jane & Paul are real contacts).

2 & 3 seem to match the 'bloom filter' concept described here: https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/
I just created an account with fake data and it looks quite promising. Are there plans to recreate the function of the Evernote Webclipper?

I love Evernote. Since they are very slow and expensive, a real competitor would be great for them.
Punishing the evildoers is how the atrocities happen. What people need to realize is that they are not in a position to identify what is and is not evil, because odds are that you are just as evil as whatever it is you are condemning.
has anyone tried web2py on GAE ? it seems easy to use.
please, share your experience
> It is not "claiming ownership".

facebook are asserting a right to prevent other people using the word "face" in particular ways.

In comparison, copyright is a right to prevent other people using particular words, pictures, sounds, etc, in particular ways. If copyright is "ownership" then so are trademarks too. Furthermore, trademarks can be bought and sold, another indication that they are a form of property.

So, yes, it isn't too much of a stretch to say that facebook are claiming a (limited) form of ownership over the word "face".
Something more interesting is the company hosting the competition: http://kaggle.com/

"a platform for data prediction competitions that allows organizations to post their data and have it scrutinized by the world's best data scientists"

They have several up it looks like
Yeah, only problem is that is very inefficient from a storage perspective. It depends on the situation of course. If it's only a few thousand per day for example, not a big deal, but otherwise that could end up biting you in the ass hard after a while.
Or you can keep a backup linode in a different datacenter. Or better yet, have redundancy with a completely separate provider, so you can deal with a complete failure of either one provider.
The threat profile of "prevent a hijacking" and "prevent a bomb with no metallic content from bringing down a plane" are very different.

I don't see how the TSA (as constituted, see below) can do the latter without the scanners ... it's how they're approaching this, most especially the deliberately punitive enhanced groping if you opt out or if the scanner can't image you properly that's one facet of the problem.

At its base, by looking for weapons instead of terrorists ... well, we've decided that profiling is an ultimate evil and cannot be continenced. Unless we reverse that....
todo.sh + Dropbox is working well for me. On every computer I want, easy editing via mobile devices, plaintext.
I am one of the co-author of ClojureDart. ClojureDart has been in the making for a year when we met the RoamResearch folks. They provided a definite boost and were bold enough to bet their mobile strategy on it. Its development was not commissioned by Roam though. It’s a project we wanted to work on for a long time and free time during Covid lockdowns helped.
Don't worry, there are a lot of jobs that don't do this kind of high pressure interviews. Especially outside of web development there are huge markets of people who are really happy to get their issues solved, and don't really care if it takes one or two days.
The FSF is at it's largest membership than it has ever had in it's life. It's healthy and people think it is very relevant.
> So first you say Azov no longer exists

no, I said that "the Azov Battalion" hasn't existed since 2015, when it ceased to be either independent of the military or a Battalion. This doesn't stop you using the misleading phrase.

> and then when you get called out

Cherry-picking quotes from a CNN article, without attribution, does not constitute a "call out".

> you write a text wall

I'm sorry if you didn't take the time to read it, but that is not a counter-argument in any way. First you say "you can't back up your claims with sources" then you change to "oh no, too many claims and sources, and thanks for locating my source for me, but let me fail to talk about any of them at all, but let's repeat a slur word and finish up with a 'zinger'!".

Not interesting.
When Stallman says "free as in free speech, not free beer", he means freedom to use software in any way you want including changing it. Not zero price.
40 years later, trying to get something running on a modern Mac is painful

Right click on app, select ‘open’. If you get a prompt warning about an unknown developer, pick the option to run the app anyway.

Getting angry about a prompt that you only ever see once (it won’t prompt you again) seems extreme.
Ooh, thanks for the mention, these games look lovely:

https://dinopoloclub.com/games/mini-metro/

https://dinopoloclub.com/games/mini-motorways/
as a professional Unity developer, I think Unity would be a much, MUCH better engine, if Unity Technologies would make commercial games with it, in-house. Just like Epic games do. Then they wouldn't tolerate all the crap unity devs have to deal with
I have to mention GitLab here. Their runners are extremely easy to self-host.
Your comment reminded me of this bit from Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZOLq82m2Ks
There are a few decentralized social networks around. I was considering the use of status.net as a base since it's got a load of the right features in there already (tagging, groups, federation, etc); though it may be best to just start from scratch using new and exciting technologies.
unfortunately for that user, face unlock doesn’t disable passcode unlock
As someone who very often criticize US's international decisions, I tend to disagree.

I think that the US-USSR opposition radicalized USA, fed its nationalism and its paranoia and led it to develop an empire, something that is simply not in its culture (when you compare to typical colonial empires)
Have a bunch of memcached servers so that losing one isn't a big deal.
Depends where you are from, and where in Europe you want to move to.

If you are from India/Middle East/Africa... Be prepared for a 10x effort if you are male.
If you are a female, young, good looking, will make things much much easier thou, and can be an advantage.

I guess you want to relocate to western Europe and not eastern.

You need to find a country and then find the biggest it consultancy there. That is your best option. Big multinational it firms hire alot. The only hurdle I see is the lack of degree. That is a piece of paper that would expedite things.
I was looking through the comments to see if someone mentioned Jean Bartik already! Just to add to this comment, she also wrote an autobiographical book, which is worth reading: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pioneer-Programmer-Jennings-Compute...

It is clearly a very personal and biased account, but I think there are good reasons to believe many of the things she is saying, even when they go against the commonly accepted history "written by the winners".
AFAIK, macros are only applicable to a subset of problems. Anyways, I found that variadic generics is a draft RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/376
I already wrote it somewhere else but can you really compare Bezos and Gates? Microsoft wasn't really popular back then (many people here will have hated it) but Gates was never really unpopular as a person. His treatment of workers was also not a reason for his public image.
I've noticed this too in China and the B&R rail projects, and while it would be nice to have double stack containers, consider Chinese engineers are making a reasonable set of tradeoffs. China is moving more containers than anyone else in the world, and this may actually more efficient in other ways:

1) Loading/unloading. Double stack requires cranes of some sort and is inherently dangerous when lifting large heavy mass into the air. Single stack could be more loaded/unloaded cheaper, faster, safer with less equipment, and keep trains moving and making money rather than sitting around being loaded/unloaded.

2) Maintenance cost and wear/tear on rail infrastructure. Wear and tear on rails (and roads) is proportional to the axle load to the power of 4 based on AASHTO testing [0]. Double stacking containers will roughly double axle loads, so damage and maintenance cost increases by ~16x. Keeping axle loads down keeps costs down. As an aside for roads, that means a fully loaded semi trailer (80000 lbs) is about 9600 passenger cars (4000 lbs) worth of road wear [1].

Re Longer trains: they are generally better, but there are practical limits. Trains have to be assembled and disassembled in rail yards. If the train is extra long it makes things more complicated and time consuming. If there are grade crossings on the route (there usually are), extra long trains result in long gate down time (5-10 mins) which can constitute a public safety risk (emergency vehicles not being able to cross tracks), and generally frustrates all other road users including pedestrians and cyclists.

Older railway axle counters used for train control and signalling systems in Europe and elsewhere had 8 bit integer logic controllers. That's 256 axles per train, or 64 rail vehicles assuming 4 axles per vehicle. Any longer and it will overflow, and the train might not be detected. So that is a hard limit without upgrading those systems or risking a catastrophic failure on a safety-critical system, that prevents 2 trains from occupying the same section of track at the same time [2].

[0] https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/IPWEA/c7e19de0-...

[1] https://www.vabike.org/vehicle-weight-and-road-damage/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axle_counter
I'm not the one you asked, but using google trends as an indicator, both unity and unreal lose mindshare: https://trends.google.de/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo...
It's quite controversial to study the IQ of different racial groups, mostly because of history (the racists of the 19th and 20th century were fascinated with racial differences) and because it can be used as a weapon by racist groups and right or wrong it feels a bit like a politically incorrect or even a racist thing to do (I'm not passing a judgment on race/IQ studies, just saying why scientists may steer away).
As a jew I'm not totally comfortable with these studies btw; other than a general curiousity I don't see what they accomplish. I can even see how they give more reason to hate jews in certain circumstances, so no thanks we're quite fine already.
It was also free when they announced it earlier last week...
I don't have any issue with the fact that it is special purpose, I have a hard time calling it a success before it can be shown to be better than any known classical approaches at something.

I love the fact that they are trying and are spreading awareness of quantum computing but I take issue with some of their claims. They have a long history of making unsubstantiated and sensationalized claims. They also have a portfolio of patents many of which were arguably discovered by someone else or are overly broad.
Has the fork author discussed with Mikio the implications of forking and the need for a commercial license for proprietary applications?
It's a shame that development stopped on Kyoto Cabinet and Tycoon. I personally learned a lot about efficiently using on disk storage from the source code.
They make so much money off office. We buy licenses for almost every person at the company just because there's no equivalent to excel. Only windows boxes in our office are the finance guys who can't adapt to excel on the Mac.
Certainly at ng-europe AtScript was being touted as the way you should be writing Angular 2.0

As a massive fan of Typescript I'm not convinced it is actually that much of a problem. But when you see the JS you have to write to achieve what AtScript produces it's going to be pretty painful for someone who wants to stick with JS.
On the flip-side, businesses that rely on ad revenue would disappear. That means most of the commonly used websites. No more Google, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitch, almost all news sites etc. This also means that everything goes back to essentially subscription only and this without a credit card don't get much access to stuff (like it used to be).
I would disagree that it's impossible to tell what the rear's doing in a sim. I've never driven a real vehicle outside of a few times in a low-powered kart, so I don't know what it's like in that scenario. I assume there's some physical feedback through the seat about what the car's doing.

But when I'm driving in VR in iRacing or Assetto Corsa I can tell when the rear is about to step out. It can't be track-based memory because I can tell on tracks I've never driven on before. I don't think it's through the wheel, but rather some sort of visual cue about how the car is moving.

I would assume that visual cue is there in a real car as well, but isn't needed because you have the physical feeling.
Short:

There are money runs on funds causing liquidity issues. Funds sell assets to market makers for cash to give rich people their money. This causes a downwards spiral and asset prices plunge.

Now, the fed will continue to buy assets (eg. but not limited to corporate bonds which have tanked and taken out a couple firms and MMs) so that rich people can liquidate their assets.

We will be bag holders as the fed will own corporate bonds that – frankly – the existing financial system players expect to default. We take the hit and own junk so that wealthy people can extract money now.

This is the high level to my knowledge. Please add more colour and correct me if there are things that I'm missing :)
I've heard that Toast has let go 100 something new hires that were about to start there before their first day.
I like that this is nice and simple and intuitive: if I want a bazillion menus and options there are many other tools. I also like the hand-drawn font.
No, but that’s what Amazon wants everyone to think.

Even if still the lowest price, Prime badge/buy box will be removed if price increases higher than some hidden algorithm allows.
YMMV. I don't recall seeing anything remotely relevant, so maybe it's not a working solution.
Absolutely terrible comparison.

The Zimbabwean dollar is not the world's reserve currency. Zimbabwe cannot park a naval fleet off the coast of any country that tries to move away from the Zimbabwean dollar, or direct the worlds largest banks to freeze assets, or apply crushing economic sanctions.

The US is probably the only country in the world that can print money without runaway inflation, and I don't doubt that we will maintain dollar hegemony with force if needed.
Congratulations on the funding. But the "the 2nd-most deployed database in the world in less than a year" is a little... I don't know. If a popular app decides to use your database, shouldn't you count that as 1 installation instead of taking the number of people that will download the popular app? The comparison doesn't seem fair for non-mobile databases. I would rewrite it as "the 2nd-most deployed mobile database in the world in less than a year".
Notebooks use motherboards, just like desktops do. And they run the same firmware. Apple's Macbooks have shipped with EFI since 2006.
This article is struggling and stretching to connect historical dots and speculate about potential causes, while ignoring the most likely causes, which are recent societal/political trends. As long as we’re exchanging opinions, to me it seems pretty clear that the increase in murders is coming off the revolving door of restorative justice over the last decade, which removes accountability for criminals, therefore inducing crime instead of deterring it. And of course we just spent an entire year demonizing all police officers and the entire practice for very rare unjust police/involved deaths, and in the process enacted arbitrary budget cuts to police departments. Look at what Mayor London Breed of SF just announced yesterday - redistributing $120m in taxpayers’ hard-earned money away from law enforcement and towards a slush fund for “black communities”, in one of the most crime-ridden and unsafe cities in the US (https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-pl...).

In other news, Minneapolis is re-funding their police department and no one’s talking about it: https://www.allsides.com/blog/minneapolis-voted-fund-police-...
@malux85, except their point is pretty solid. At the very least martamorena943 made a coherent argument to support a point of view they are sharing politely. None of which you have bothered to do at all, in spite of (or I guess because of) the condescending high ground you feel entitled to.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/peace-p...

Almost six years later, Mr Obama has approved military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and now Syria.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) estimates the Obama administration has launched more than 390 drone strikes in five years across Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia – eight times as many approved during the entire Bush Presidency.