jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A slightly less drastic option than quitting is to go into a passive, readonly mode and keep a safe distance.

I use https://fraidyc.at/ Seriously, it's a thing. You can still follow public social media streams that you're interested in. It does RSS, Twitter, as well as the usual social media suspects. It's fast and perfect for avoiding getting suckered into a fight over nothing important.

If you really have to, you can fire up the real thing but this is a good way to get some of your time back.
facepalm

Can you imagine sitting in the hospital waiting room ready for surgery, when you decide to whip out the smartphone and look up your surgeon on Yelp? It's like something out of Monty Python
There's no such thing as a perfect model. The acknowledgement is welcome.

Per the Baywatch example - there's clearly a grey area here, and in my opinion the model is working as intended. False positives for NSFW are better than false negatives.
Who gives a crap about some dumb website for nerds. /s
> While implicit operator overload was probably a C++ mistake

are you talking about the implicit conversion operator or operator overloading in C++?

For the former, it has been vastly improved in C++11 with the addition of explicit conversion operator. For the later, some very important capabilities of C++ rely on operator overloading namely the assignment operator (copy/move assignment) and the function operator (allows what C++ calls functors). Another useful thing with operator overloading is allowing the creation of generic functions that work on existing types (int, float, ..) and user defined types, for example std::accumulate.
I wish we could have "documentation day" on github, where all project maintainers would spend one whole working day on documenting as much as they possibly can.
On income/happiness:

"It’s a little easier to see why people would pass along the wrong story here, since it’s easy to misinterpret the data when it’s plotted against a linear scale, but it’s still pretty easy to see what’s going on by taking a peek at the actual studies."

Googling

http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/news/item/two-wws-p...

"People’s life evaluations rise steadily with income, but the reported quality of emotional daily experience levels off at a certain income level, according to a new study by two Princeton University professors [...]"

So seemingly that has nothing to do with the scale used, but with the definition of happiness. Guess someone didn't look "at the actual study"?
pfSense is a re-packaged FreeBSD. you'll find pfSense doesn't support as wide a variety of platforms (anything MIPS) or wireless cards.
Fuck, now I'm angry. Is the story continued somewhere?
A counterpoint...You can quit using Google, MSFT, Yahoo, and etc.

But you can't quit your friends. Social networking is a winner take all. That is why i agree with the author that Facebook would have to shoot itself in the foot first.
Details of this is coming in a future post. The early parts of the series are focussed on the development environment set up :)
Skill? Really? I learned in about two hours how to use plain old picks well enough to open my Kwikset front door lock in 15 minutes. From everything I read, the gun is much simpler to use.
You might have heard it from the movie Lock, Stock, and two Smoking Barrels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjj8eMNxivM

(warning: strong language)

I'd love to know if someone's actually run a scam like that at some point. Seems like a clever hack, at least it would be before the days of ubiquitous credit cards and online banking.
I call shenanigans. The alien robots of John McCain and Keith Richards have had little to no impact whatsoever.
Sounds like what I've heard called a "speedup loop". In iteration 1 add sleep calls, and remove then in iteration 2 after the customer complains.
Does anyone know if all of Feedbooks is DRM free? It looks like they're carrying commercial publications now and I don't know of any store aside from programming ones (and Cory Doctrow) that sell DRM free commercial books.
I've been thinking of leaving a minimal set of picks in the flowerpot by the door for that very reason. I can justify using them to a policeman or passer-by, but a less authorized entrant to my abode would have more trouble.
Awesome! We took a slightly different route and tried to build something similiar over a Startup Weekend.
Yes. Tiny bit of objective C and enough time in IB to draw my inputs.

Much of the mobile development I did was for little things like that. I wrote a utility for palmos to clean up my SMSes in batch because the UI on my phone and the palm both sucked. The most complex I wrote was a call log app that would helped me with a particular problem I was having.

Most things were just using it as a fancy calculator or playing around with algorithms or something. I'm not very good at consumer devices, but I think everyone should at least have access to such toys (iLuaBox is a good start).
This looks neat and all but I'm still waiting for Github Issues 2.0 API.
It's better to have buy-in even if you don't need the cash.
Jacques Mattheij's ideas list -

http://jacquesmattheij.com/My+list+of+ideas+for+when+you+are...
> Why are you so bothered by it? Seems like threadcrapping all over an inspirational article.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well. So there's that. And myopia bothers me — this article smacks a bit of the Valley/tech circlejerking that ignores the larger world, which is exhausting after awhile. And I'm gratified to not be alone in that; this thing was flagged so hard it dropped like a stone. So there's hope.

> Either you've risked your life jumping into a burning building to save lives or you haven't.

And an essay with that angle would be similarly lame, I assure you. It's just an awful thrust because it's not interesting. It's an obvious statement that leads to hagiography through false contrast. Ultimately, that's a disservice to the exalted subject because you could make the point much more effectively by simply sharing authentic enthusiasm.
This provides evidence that Intel and Apple have split for good. I'm happy with my new M1 Apple systems, but I wondered if the Mac Pro was possibly going to stay Intel based because of number of PCI lanes, ECC memory, etc. This campaign by Intel seems to indicate that contracts between Intel and Apple have Intel believing that no more Apple products are being planed at all for Intel chips.
Thank you for this comment.

Articles like this always have a kind of ‘huh, I wonder what really DID happen to all those Neanderthals?’ vibe to them.

We’ve all seen what human societies do to each other, especially if one considers the other inferior.
- Booting to recover your data when the system has trashed itself, typically due to a failed software update, to the point that it won't boot off the internal drive but the drive is still working. This sort of thing has been seen with older MBs.

- Continuing to be able to use your laptop when the internal drive has failed. Very helpful if you can't afford a replacement, or if you need to carry on without waiting for a replacement and you have a recent backup.

- Booting older versions of MacOS (that don't know about APFS, or if you have reason not to trust APFS partitioning) for testing, compiling for an older target, running software that doesn't run on the current version of MacOS, or other reasons.

(But old MacOS won't work with the M1 so that doesn't matter at the moment.)
> No idea how, maybe I accidentally clicked it?

Happened to me too. I definitely clicked "next" one too many times and one next became a "yes" or smth.
It only interoperates with Java in a trivial sense. Using Hibernate for example is a real pain in the ass in Scala, because of its insistence on using its own collections.
what kind of ML-systems are you using daily? (non-embedded ones) Probably stuff around search qualifies today, but this does actually not work for me more often than it does. Sometimes I'd just like the index...
Whatever else it does, the site makes me immediately start thinking of prolog projects (not that I'll actually pursue them).
I understand articles like this are meant to introduce ideas to a very wide swath of people, but I really dislike them. There are too many disparate points. It started with unemployment; wadded into Keynesian economics; took a shot at Wall Street; invoked FDR; and hinted that governments are required for scientific progress. That's way too much for one article.

If you want to say trains and windmills are not the best form of investment with regards to the environment and economic costs, talk about that. All the added political weight just makes the article divisive. Part of his policy prescriptions are predicated upon infrastructure spending, so you could say the "added weight" was required. I think it just makes the article weaker.
Exactly. To quote "Nearly 50% of outsourced projects fail outright, or fail to meet expectations". Compare that to "68% of companies are more likely to have a marginal project or outright failure" http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/study-68-percent-o...

In that light, outsourcing actually looks pretty good.
(Meta comment, only because you asked for it at length) To my mind, you're being needlessly pedantic and argumentative. It is Apple's choice of term. Why the comment, "Why Apple's?"? Isn't it obvious that the comment was responding to a question about Apple? It seems like a needless attack on the author, who was providing useful information.

If you'd left the comment with just the interesting part, "I've heard that used with respect to PC games too," you would probably have stayed at 1, possibly gone up to 2.
Maybe I'm missing something (very possible!), but I don't understand donations for the oil cleanup. Every single donated penny that goes to fixing the spill or its effects should come from BP's wallet instead.

I don't mean BP should be crucified, but they have the responsibility and they certainly have the means.
Brilliant marketing on their part. I'm wondering though, why he avoided saying Microsoft?
Then I have an infinitely valuable compiler and empty file to sell you.
Google and Apple have very different business models. Even if Apple black balls Google, Google can still gather information about Apple and Apple users.
I'm sympathetic to the argument in this article, but like virtually all such articles it misses the underlying problem. Copyright law isn't the way it is because of misguided lawmakers or greedy corporations, or, rather, those are only the proximate causes. The ultimate cause is that representative government is unstable against the formation of special interest groups. Explaining very clearly to people why they're a bad idea, and even convincing them that you're right, won't solve the fundamental problem. The Mickey Mouse Protection Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act passed for the same basic reasons that ethanol and mohair subsidies persist: those who benefit have a concentrated interest to game the system; those who suffer have a greatly diluted interest to resist.

By the way, you may be aware that the infamous mohair subsidies ended in 1995. Alas, this was not the equilibrium, and you can see the grinding of the implacable gears in this sad story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohair#US_subsidies_for_mohair_...
Erm.. Well, seeing as you can't really have anything to base this on other than the US Government's say-so, I'm not sure what kind of discussion there is to have on the matter as of yet.

You trust these governments far more than I do, I will say that.
Cable free for the last year or so. I just could not keep paying 100$/mo+ on principal. Now it's just internet and netflix, obviously.
How about the WikiLeaks attack helicopter video? It was a reminder for many Americans of the true horrors of war.

The American press has been embedded and self-censored out of relevancy when it comes to war reporting.
I thought this, at the end of the article, was telling:

"The customer is always right - not here, you understand?" he says, raising his voice. "I hate that phrase - the customer is always right. Why is the merchant always wrong? Can the customer ever be wrong? Is that not possible?"

I suspect (hope) that such a lack of imagination will ultimately curb his success. You don't treat your customers well purely for your customers' benefit...
Reports about brutal repression of Tibetan protesters would be a threat to Chinese national security. Should those be stopped? Or do you only support freeing damaging information about countries you don't like?
It depends where you live. In San Francisco, 60K is just scarping by. In Topeka, you're doing pretty well.
> "dude with a Bachelor's Degree and access to wikipedia"

Yeah, but that's actually pretty smart. There are a lot of people who haven't yet figured out that you can look up almost anything online....
I would agree. It begins to make one think of the "how" behind it.
I'd rather prefer that we pay full price for the reader hardware, but be able to buy it anywhere in the world.
As if democracy is the property which reveals whether the government employees are good or corrupt.
Perhaps we should focus on military bases. Analyzing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_..., there seem to be US military bases in 29 countries/territories:
Afghanistan,
Australia,
Bahrain,
Brazil,
Bulgaria,
Cuba,
Diego Garcia,
Germany,
Greece,
Greenland,
Guam,
Iraq,
Israel,
Italy,
Japan,
Kosovo/Serbia,
Kuwait,
Kyrgyzstan,
Phillipines,
Portugal,
Qatar,
Saudi Arabia,
Singapore,
South Korea,
Spain,
Taiwan,
The Netherlands,
Turkey,
United Kingdom

Air force:
Afghanistan,
Australia,
Bulgaria,
Germany,
Greenland,
Guam,
Italy,
Japan,
Qatar,
Saudi Arabia,
Singapore,
South Korea,
Kyrgyzstan,
Taiwan,
The Netherlands,
Philippines,
Portugal,
Spain,
Turkey,
United Kingdom,

Army:
Bulgaria,
Germany,
Iraq,
Italy,
Japan,
Kuwait,
Kosovo/Serbia,
South Korea,
Israel

Marines:
Afghanistan,
Germany,
Japan,
Kuwait

Navy:
Diego Garcia,
Brazil,
Cuba,
Spain,
Japan,
Guam,
Bahrain,
Italy,
Greece,
South Korea
At Sauce Labs, we use a combination of the Selenium API for taking screenshots and Castro for recording movies of browser pages. Things get fun when you can click button, type text into fields, or execute arbitrary JavaScript between screenshots.
What right are you talking about here? There is no right to use a privately owned service in a way that scares off paying customers, much like you don't have the right to spray paint a swastika on your neighbor's house.

The right to free speech means that the government can't punish you for your speech. It doesn't make it illegal for someone to do otherwise legal things (such as banning an xbox live account) in retaliation for your speech.

I don't understand why so many people view the first amendment as a guarantee that one's self expression will never have negative consequences.
I was hoping this was about the Clipper Card SF Bay area transit card + big data.
But are workers better off?
The same planet where Uber is referred to as a "ride-sharing platform", but literally operates as a centrally administered taxi service.
A coworker of mine refused to use Microsoft Office. One day, he had to give a presentation in an environment where he could not bring in his own laptop; he had to bring in his non -MS “PowerPoint” on a DVD. For whatever reason, MS PowerPoint could not open his non-MS presentation. He had to do his presentation without benefit of his slides; his project lost funding.
That is an incomplete summary. Their conclusion is that despite this larger than normal selection bias, the minimum wage appears to have no impact on unemployment. The paper's abstract, discussion, and summary all mention this as part of the central thesis - why leave it out?
You don't own the house until it's paid off.
The government should (and does) regulate the margins of natural monopolies like utilities where a free market can't operate effectively.
I did see someone suggest that maybe R-T v7 should ship with a component that implements the v6 API on top of the v7 implementation, but that would add a noticeable amount of overhead to the API and I'm not sure how much benefit there would be.
I believe this would be the one - https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/saas_pric...
As I said in reply to swombat, if you can't switch to cash, gold and Bitcoin completely, then at least keep your savings in either gold or Bitcoin. That alone might make a significant difference both to you and to society at large.
France is definitely a counter example in my opinion: one of the strongest welfare in the world is producing more unemployment than anything, and certainly not entrepreneurs.
Yeah, Yglesias is a super smart guy, but he's just way off on this one.
Huh? A one-man business is a business in my book. In any case if you start one you're no longer working for "wages".
I assume you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoare_logic ?

Basically, the (relevant) state of the computation is represented as a set of logical propositions which are true before a statement, and a set of logical propositions which are true after the statement. For each kind of statement the language supports (`if` statements, `while` statements, etc.) there are natural ways to reason about those triples.

Do you understand the "While rule" on the link above? I can explain it in natural language, but I'd rather not expend the effort if it's not something you've already seen.
the post is not linking to the real article of the guy, which is on

http://www.jvuletich.org/Morphic3/Morphic3-201006.html

but to fully unneeded and uninformative second-hand writing on squeak.org, and that's just wrong!
Give me an example of some searches you would do?
Not everyone can start a business though. A business has to have employees.
As would I. Kind of like a crossfit.com or dailyburn for education. Social, community based learning.
He wasn't using the swimming pool to show what the facility was, he was using it to show what it wasn't. It was just an example to show, that unlike at sweatshops, they had made investments in employee comfort and health. This appealed to me, as there is more at stake when manufacturing expensive electronics than manufacturing cheap clothes or soccer balls.
I can sort of see this; if I've already had caffeine, any warm beverage seems to continue the resulting productivity flow. It's nice at night because I can be awake as long as I want to be, but then be able to sleep when I come down from the flow state.

Incidentally, yesterday I decided to take a 200mg caffeine pill. After that, I saw several new colors that I have never seen before. And I solved some problems that had been bugging me for a few weeks, and implemented them, and watched TV, and read a book. And slept well.

Caffeine may be bad for spiders building webs, but I'm not convinced that it's useless (or bad) for humans.
I think we can assume that agents attached to embassies are probably well known to the local intelligence agencies in whatever country they're in. This is absolutely fine from the agency's point of view, since the CIA needs a big operation in Beijing (and conversely the Chinese need a big operation in Washington) and it makes much more sense to run it semi-openly within the embassy, since the alternative is to attempt to run a big covert operation outside the embassy.

I think we can also assume that in countries where it matters there are probably spies who are not employed by the embassies and who may or may not be known to the local intelligence agencies.

I guess in conclusion, you shouldn't go around feeling all clever just because you've figured out some secret that you think some intelligence agency didn't want you to know. They have layers upon layers of secrets, and some of them are designed to be discovered.
I think of icon fonts as being the SVG equivalent to image sprites. One download instead of dozens of tiny ones. This can improve performance.

Of course, if you only use a few icons from a huge font, thats bad. SVG is probably better for a few icons and fonts better for when you use many. Subsetting for fonts and lazy loading for images help too.

Both are valid solutions. Optimize and test for your use case.
The dependency caching is orthogonal to bottling; it's just that there's little incentive for me or anyone else to set up or document the bottling process (for ROS on OS X) until the created bottles are usable, which is not presently the case.
Couldn't agree more. I can't open my coworkers KeyNote presentations because my copy is a year newer. My two year old Macbook Retina Pro black screens half the time it tries to wake up from sleep and yes, I've wiped every startup program and kernel extension. I'm just glad it isn't my work Macbook Pro which black screens on login half the time and insists I forgot my password and won't let me time my password in another quarter. I suspect it has something to do with disk encryption since it started after they turned File Vault or whatever it is on.
The article is completely devoid of content.

Any particular gripes he had with latest OS X version?

And most importantly, anything for which similar things couldn't be said for OS X version's from 10.1 to 10.9?

FWIW, I find Yosemite a fine and stable release.
While I don't disagree with any of your points, I do think that a great many people enjoy not just accuracy / objectively more-accurate sound, but certain distortions. The classic example here is a tube amp; while measurably less accurate than many solid-state amps, many people like the slight distortion / compression / "tube sound".
Oh! I've always thought about those things as "impulse buys", but I never quite realized that they were also functional distractions! I look at magazines when I'm waiting in line at my local supermarket. Sneaky sneaky.
That's a serious problem with Twitter and other tech giants: there is no platform without a developer community.

Doesn't matter how much you invest, it's not the same drive.
My wired Comcast connection sometimes did this too, back when I had it. Might not be any worse!
You should let a current student know about that. I think he still gives extra credit for mistakes.
Rampant abuse from Mailinator users is one reason we started requiring credit cards for trials at my last startup.
> Israel and China aren't invading foreign nations and using the online peanut gallery to try and sway public opinion on the matter.

China still wants to annex Taiwan, and the 50 Cent Party reliably speaks out in support of "reunification" when Western media bring up the topic. Still not quite the same, but at least the PRC has lots of missiles pointing to Taiwan (more than to the Senkakus).
It helps to know why it is currently not used:
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sci-tech...
(The grains are too smooth and too small)
I wonder what the magnitude of the resulting loss of strength is and if it can be compensated for by making concrete structures built with desert sand much thicker (though this might not be economical)

This study addresses the issue but is behind a paywall: http://www.scientific.net/AMM.174-177.604
Why are you not a fan of Flippa? I have made over 90k on that site.. you have to weed out the idiots ;)
One current example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Operations_Roadmap

"The operations described [include] a major disinformation project to plant false stories in any available news media."
Your operating system hits memory pressure and pages your RAM page to disk. Some time later it restores it. Hey, look, you've suddenly had an arbitrarily long delay. So you can't always finish early.

Also, even assuming you can always finish early, that plan won't prevent, for example, measuring the delay of other responses. (As your process sleeping will have an impact on how fast other responses are sent. Due to cache pressure, in particular. But also due to CPU throttling, scheduling, etc, etc.