jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A la carte is generally not described as running around searching 2-3 totally independent services, dealing with 2-3 different UI's, business models, etc, but having the ability to get discrete packages from a single provider which expressing on the programs you are interested in, and paying a fractional sum that is roughly proportional to the amount of content you selected versus the amount of content available in "the big package". Thus not being forced to subsidize groups such as sports fans, if you are not a sport fan.

I don't really think your statement connects well with this discussion. My understanding of the current discussion in this thread is a general dislike of how the major players are carving out exclusive deals ensuring the content distribution is fragmented and the only strategy to get a decent mix of content requires using multiple services each with different UI's, pricing models, ad policies, etc.
dig @server domain.name.example.net ANY
As someone already noted, Google's latest large-scale web app, Inbox, was built with GWT. How is it then "outdated"? When something new and shiny comes along, old technologies don't magically stop working. A maintenance path and new leadership has been established for ng1.x : https://plus.google.com/u/0/+IgorMinar/posts/2Uo6yh4AV7L
Does someone else find the interception argument pretty thin? If we are at some point in the future where we have commercial sub orbital flights, then you can bet your pants that military technology is a decade ahead at least. Why would it be intercepted by "today's military aircraft" when we are talking about a point in time that is clearly a few decades from now at least?
Your saying Pinball, combined with the topic of this post - i.e. older computers and operating systems - reminded me of the book The Soul of a New Machine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

which I read some years ago. A fantastic story. Pinball is mentioned in it. Anyone interested, don't go by the description in the Wikipedia article; it may be only partially accurate, and anyway cannot do justice to the book. Try to get hold of an online or offline copy and read it. I'm not endorsing (or otherwise) any of the practices or principles described in the book - just found it a fascinating story. According to Wikipedia:

"The book won the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction[1] and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction."

Current and former startupistas may be reminded by the book, of some aspects of their life/work-styles, whether good or bad.
You lost me at 'Alat shurecomiyourco', eh, not sure where to go from there.
Here's a fun report of making something (very!) like this from scratch:

http://transistor-man.com/flying_nimbus.html

I don't think they're related, but they're so similar it's hard not to believe there's not some inspiration in some direction. Dunno which direction it is, though.
You can take advantage of the JVM (JIT compilation, etc) by deploying under JRuby, the Ruby runtime implemented in Java.
Amazon here in the US does that. You can even get a single package of gum sent to you once a week, and you'll get a discount on it.

There are other services like ManPacks, Dollar Shave Club, etc that offer subscriptions to everyday essentials.
Well, one of the most early ethical battles of Manhattan project nuclear physicists was questioning if the H-bomb should be built, and how did that turn out? The US ended up building a massive nuclear arsenal, well beyond any limit of absurd necessity or reason.

The NSA only has a hiring crisis because they are attempting to scale in similar ways. Hopefully there is a turn in ethics, but that isn't a solution.
Any idea how Netlify would work with an Angular single page app? I had a site hosted on S3 and ran into SEO problems because I could only configure S3 to do a redirect instead of a rewrite. The redirect caused the googlebot to drop the part of the URL and end up at the default route.
> After playing with Haskell for the last two years, I figured that it would be pretty damn hard to write conventional LAMP/JS webpages in Haskell, but I still wanted to try to solve some of my real world problems with it.

Really?

You should check out:

http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-15-making-a-website-with-haskel...
I am also really interested in this. I am not based in US so kindly let me know about programs (am interested in pursuing MS in CS) that are cheap and are considered good? I know about Georgia Tech and UIUC. Any other good programs?
"Coinbase is insured against hacking, internal theft, and accidental loss in an amount that covers maximum value of bitcoin we hold in online storage at any given time."

"Coinbase is insured against employee theft and hacking in an amount that exceeds the average value of online bitcoin it holds at any given time."

Those statements seem mostly consistent to me. The only question is whether the insurance is always more than is in their hot wallet, or exceeds the value on "average" (whatever that means).

I suspect it would be difficult to guarantee the insurance would always exceed the value of online bitcoins, perhaps because the insurance is issued on the USD value and prices can fluctuate wildly, or perhaps because they can't predict when large deposits will be made (though I'm unsure if deposits go directly to hot or cold wallets)
This is a lot of debate for something that's intended to be funny.

If all the lines were accurate, would it have been funny at all?
I'm in. Send me an email at no.no.I.am.Spartacus[[at]]gmail[[dot]]com.
I already use something that isn't iTunes to sync data. I'm using MobileMe but you can also use other cloud services for this.
Ah, no. The planners were fully aware of the economic calculation problem and tried to make an end run around it by building a networked real-time system for matching supply and demand (from their perspective, markets are "lossy" information transfer mechanisms that permit local inefficiencies, such as failing companies). However, they failed because of systematic falsehoods being injected into the system by managers -- who were afraid to tell the truth (in the wake of Stalin's terror). This is covered by Francis Spufford's book, "Red Plenty". Review here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/08/red-plenty-franc...
Processing is a graphics language that gives you a great abstraction for writing time-based animations with useful primitives. Neither Canvas nor SVG provide the same high-level starting point, meaning it takes more effort to achieve the same effects.
That's true... but generally what it comes down to is how much the button stands out from the background rather than the colour itself.

On a green site, green buttons will get lost, but red buttons will stand out from their surroundings. It's all about contrast.
> “I can’t trust any of these devices now,” says Marlinspike, who asked that Threat Level not report his real name. “They could have modified the hardware or installed new keyboard firmware.”

I thought when you get searched they have to keep your possessions within your view at all times.
C++, Java and JavaScript each have their own different kinds of complexities.

The complexities of C++ almost always arise out of the extremely high degree of power and flexibility it offers programmers.

The complexities of Java end up having to do with hyper-"architected" class libraries, rife with excessively-used design patterns to the point of being incomprehensible.

JavaScript's complexity arises due to core functionality that's missing (such as proper class-based OO, namespaces, and proper support for modularity), or core functionality that's limited in practice (like it's prototype-based OO), or core functionality that's unjustifiably broken (its comparison operators, semicolon insertion, its scoping, its type system, its awful standard library, among others).

Out of those three, JavaScript's complexities are by far the worse. The flaws are outright stupid to being with, and there's nothing that can really be done to avoid them in many cases. At least Java programmers can choose not to create and use bloated class hierarchies, for instance. And at least C++'s complexity offers superbly powerful features and excellent performance, and at least it's understandable how and why this complexity thus arises.
q: How to tell when politician is lying?

a: His lips are moving.

Btw, "Financier" is a fascinating read and should be just used a main textbook for "Civics" class in schools on how the system works. I like this double-whammy :

"...
Grund had been about, years before, purchasing through one or two brokers large amounts of the various kinds of Texas debt certificates and bonds. The Republic of Texas, in its struggle for independence from Mexico, had issued bonds and certificates in great variety, amounting in value to ten or fifteen million dollars. Later, in connection with the scheme to make Texas a State of the Union, a bill was passed providing a contribution on the part of the United States of five million dollars, to be applied to the extinguishment of this old debt. Grund knew of this, and also of the fact that some of this debt, owing to the peculiar conditions of issue, was to be paid in full, while other portions were to be scaled down, and there was to be a false or pre-arranged failure to pass the bill at one session in order to frighten off the outsiders who might have heard and begun to buy the old certificates for profit.
..."
In addition to the "Apple business model," the Model S is an extraordinarily expensive car which is also quite a bit different from basically every other car on the market. As a hypothetical consumer, if I were to make such a monumental purchase for just a car, a car which is moreover out of the mainstream in terms of its basic method of operation, I'd want the absolute best service and support humanly possible for it, and I wouldn't expect to get that from a third-party dealer generally.
Yes, of course you can. Why couldn't you?
Claims made by OP that had been backed up:

- "My name is ___" (ID)

- "Until two days ago I lived at NYU" (NYU ID)

- "Previously, I lived at $address" (ID)

Thousands of people in the U.S. fly without business cards or ID listing their current addresses. University students are just one obvious example. This simply isn't uncommon. If you want to target that, you might as well target retirees or snowbirds. Of course, you wouldn't, since you profile based on demographics, ethnicity, etc, in addition to merely not having a current piece of ID or a work phone number.

Explosive detector results, sure. So determine it was a false positive and let them go. It doesn't take 3.5 hours to verify a person and their bag don't have any actual explosives on them. The amount of questioning was not warranted.
I have always found the fact that Windows app installers routinely do this to be one of the irritating things about that platform. Apps should know their place: it's my machine, not theirs, and they should not presume to tell me how I should organize it.
What's the mileage like on those? I had done some reading up and was considering one of those instead of a bus.
It's possible it doesn't use any of those permissions. Noobies don't know that/how they can configure the requested permissions.
It isn't magic numbers as such, rather the smattering of sometimes zeroes and sometimes ones. If it was always zero or one it would be a lot less likely to have off by one errors.

Python solves this by always starting from zero, and crucially not including the final number - ie range(0,3) gives 0, 1, 2 (no 3). You can also do negative indexing to count from the end - eg range(0, 3)[-1] gives the last element (2). The right thing happens when you mix the length of things into the arithmetic too - eg range(0, len(item)).
The answer is TV and, increasingly, the Internet.
I don't know about iPhones, but You should be able to buy an unlock code for around $12. Just pay for the code, unlock and you're free.
Who's sweeping problems under the rug? I'm simply saying it's not something you need to fear, unless you plan to enter the drug trade instead of coding.
Even still, Tesla's plan isn't to become a luxury car company- they've been clear from the beginning that they've started with luxury as a way to bootstrap development. I'm guessing that the 500k cars a year that they're looking for is also going to include those new "standard" models.
For ruminants, yes.

But I think "just" might be understating it. Corn-fed cattle do not have the proper stomach ph to naturally protect against bacteria overgrowth in their stomachs (whereas if they consumed solely grass, this is naturally not a problem). As a workaround to the bacteria problem they are force fed antibiotics for their entire lives. Additionally: corn fed cattle yield 30-50% more meat because they are insanely obese. Beef producers have a perverse incentive to keep these animals in confined conditions (read: knee deep in their own shit) so that they don't get too much exercise. When you eat conventionally raised cattle, you're consuming the meat of a crippling infirm animal that lived its life in appalling conditions. It's a bad scene.
Having used it for the past couple hours, it looks great! It is pretty intuitive, snappy, and looks great. I'm definitely looking forward to using it more.
I liken the brain to a mega-powerful but poorly put together computer. Why did I say this and what does it have to do with meditation?

The brain is a product of an Evolutionary process. Dawkins described Evolution best as "The Blind Watchmaker". Evolution leaves a lot of room for improvement. It is like a terrible engineer who only ever gets things right by sheer luck. Evolution is probably a pretty sloppy process. This is why I believe the brain, although amazingly-awesome, is poorly put together.

So what does any of this have to do with meditation? If you had a poorly constructed computer with lots of bugs in the software that crashed all the time, what would you do? You would probably frequently save your work and then reboot your computer. By rebooting your computer you prevent errors from propagating through the software and the operating system. I am going to extend this analogy to the human mind. Without periodically resetting our minds, more and more errors may begin to accumulate. Perhaps neural circuits begin to feedback endlessly on themselves in an escalating positive loop . Perhaps mediation is a way to dampen down mental activity, allowing the mind to reset.

It is just a crazy, bat-sh*t crazy idea. So don't take it too seriously.
What’s the point? Are you asking a question? It’s not obvious why you posted this.
I’ve noticed even I unconsciously look for more opportunities to give Apple leeway. Maybe developers do the same after being so entrenched in the ecosystem.
Well, we all know that one-in-a-million chances crop up nine times out of ten.
I mean, forgive me for being obtuse, but...why do we even pay taxes at all? Like, I understand the "prole logic" of a balance between income and expenditures, but if the government doesn't seem to care, why should I?
Fantastic article, I’m bookmarking this.

Recently I learned that an older video game console, the Nintendo 64, would generate 480i interlaced video signals from a 240-row framebuffer by following exactly these recommendations—the alternating 0.25, 0.75 weights applied to each row. The way interlacing works, you’d end up with [0.25, 0.75] for one field and then [0.75, 0.25] for the other field.

Some other consoles did not address this issue and fine lines would vibrate up and down.

(You could also put the N64 in “interlaced mode” and generate a proper 480i signal instead of asking the hardware to upsample a 240p buffer, but the performance requirements were very strict and the hardware was not very powerful.)
Is this a distinction without a difference? LinkedIn's tech is wholly owned and funded by Microsoft. If you are competing with LinkedIn, you are competing with Microsoft regardless of the name on the website. Since more diverse competition is the goal, I don't believe these situations are actually different.
I feel like a lot of the languages meant to be written with an IDE end up being longer in terms of total LOC, but a pretty big chunk of that is all auto-generated noise.
" ... it is common/best practice to implement dependent web services and back end functionality before writing a web UI, right?"

Well, there's UI-first development.

http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition8/ui_first.asp

"{Developers] usually create the user interface only after the underlying technical entities are available. Since the user interface sits on top of functions in the program logic and a database, why not create them early in the process and see what kind of interface will evolve?

This approach inevitably leads to a user interface that mirrors database structures and to a user interaction that is determined by the flow of the program logic. It should be influenced; instead, by the way users act and think."
I don't think it's at odds with the article. Microsoft irritated developers by pushing wave after wave of new desktop APIs on them for no good reason, and now that they have a compelling justification (new form factors) to release a redesigned API they can't afford to risk it because they've worn out the patience of developers.
Here's a good article by Christopher Hitchens on freedom of religion: http://www.slate.com/id/2266154. Some examples of where he thinks religion oversteps its bounds:

- Mormon polygamy

- Christian sects that disapprove of medicine

- Ritual circumcision (especially when the mohel sucks off the debris from the penis with his mouth)

I would also add to that list the ritual slaughter of animals. Kosher and Halal both mandate that an animal cannot be stunned with a captive-bolt stunner before having their throats cut, and must be fully conscious. Needless to say, this cruelty only persists because of "freedom of religion".

If you ever want to get away with things you otherwise couldn't get away with, freedom of religion is probably the most potent argument you could unleash.
The fact that we still need a military, is indeed a testimony that we haven't learned anything in thousands of years.
I always wanted to write a book called, "Overcoming inertia or How I got off my lazy ass"
Philosophers are great at philosophy, and finding out certain truths about the World.

But there are very few philosophers I would want to take advice from. I'd like a debate with Nietzsche, Schopenhaeur, Kant, ... and many others.

But would I take their advice about how to live my life in a pragmatic way? Hell, no.

Secondly, advice is about what you should do, not what is true. A subtle, but important, distinction.
I've seen this one used in an Introduction to Psychology exam: http://xkcd.com/32/
And the velociraptor problem was a class exercise for calculus: http://www.xkcd.com/135/
When you are logged, only the upvotes and downvotes in HN use JS.
this is so lame!
IMHO email is unavoidable for business communications. It's one of the first cloud hosted apps, the tools are mature and it has a probative value.
It most certainly is a zero-sum game to a considerable degree because the time available to spend on social media by any one person is limited. How many people really use both digg and reddit intensively?
Inertia. Taking too much time to make a decision or passiveness can sometimes derail the whole thing.
Static link to files in standard places and bring the bugs upstream.
Immortality isn’t achievable. It’s a statistical certainty something will kill you eventually. And on the extremely rare chance that anyone lives long enough, the heat death of the universe will ensure it. As such, basing morality on immortality is foolishness.
Why would SpaceX bother doing science, though? If you imagine a project like Voyager, you might think they just dump the data and "go home" (not quite, obviously) but to analyse the data and to know what to look for they had to hire geologists and meteorologists (for example) along with the planetary scientists and co.

NASA should be about long term and expensive projects, SpaceX is just a tool to achieve that goal which is to do new science regardless of whether it is in the air or in space.
This is such an awesome article, and I love it. Thanks to the author for the great digging and explanation.
https://www.facebook.com/Proud-Boys-Canada-102480378379388/
My comment was a fragment of something I thought I didn't post, it's there in error. It was in reference to some RF security work I did almost 10 years ago. Ettus seems super cool, and they were more cost effective than that, and this was just before people popularly discovered that TV tuners could be used as SDRs.
That is an interesting idea, but I assume you'd see things like scalpers using the credits and selling the "useless" extra hardware or games to recover much of the cost. Maybe the extra friction and losses for the scalpers would be enough to push things in the right direction?
If you’re getting 2% or more cash back, it’s other people’s money who aren’t getting that cash back. Also, merchants are free to not pay the processing fees and just choose to accept debit cards and/or cash, and/or charge 2% more for credit card purchases.

In fact, many merchants do do that. Typically, I see surcharges at governments, utilities, large commercial supplies merchants, etc.

But general retail/restaurant merchants have calculated they make more money from people spending with credit cards, so they want to incentivize it even though the processing costs are higher. Otherwise, there’s no reason HomeDepot or Dollar General or the grocery store doesn’t charge an extra 2% for credit card purchases. But they know people paying with credit cards will spend more, canceling out the card processing fees.

I was actually surprised to see Aldi, the famous low cost grocer who used to only accept debit cards and cash start taking credit cards. The only reason they would have done that is if they figured that they will earn more money accepting credit cards even after paying the processing fees.
Its incredible to me that the TX-2 was designed by Wesley Clark who was born in the 20's. Imagine all the advances he not only saw but helped make happen. It must also have been frustrating to be at the forefront of this technology and understand how it could be used by everyday people and knowing that if that day ever comes it will be decades away.

Imagine, say, starting a 3d printing company today and only having it become a ubiquitous household item in 2050, knowing the potential and practical use they have today.

The TX-2 was a Navy purchase. I also wonder how much of modernity is tied directly to the US's rise as a super-power post WWII. You don't build things like these unless you have worries about another world war breaking out.
An IPO takes a really long time to initiate, draft, and conclude -- from legal due diligences, to investment banking drafts or market scouting, and securing early buyers. Investment banks kind of bid on the right to do the IPO for instance, each offering their own kind of package for ARM to go with.

M&A departments in New York or London must have been (or still be) pulling all-nighters.
Warning, anecdotal data ahead: I would not want to work under remote conditions again. In my career I have worked mainly under "startup conditions". At Apple on iPhone, everyone lived in the same place and worked non stop on the product, same as when I left to start a company. On my second company, I had many remote workers. The reality I experienced is that there was at least a 2-3x slowdown. When people are on different time zones, what used to take 5 minutes can become a 1 day turnaround through email and waiting for the other person to be up. Perhaps it works under certain scales, but when you're trying to be nimble it's just one more needlessly complex factor. What ended up happening is everyone got on a in between sleep schedule which was pretty bad for everyone's outside of work life.
It was never a thing to begin with.

Anyone that believed it was only deluding themselves.