jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
... and mainstream news will never publish anything negative about Facebook ever again. In fact, they will encourage readers to catch their news "on Facebook posts."

So much for free press and the final check on power [1]. Let's have an eulogy, the Fourth Estate is now officially dead.

[1] https://law.yale.edu/mfia/case-disclosed/fourth-estate-final...
fwiw I dont think anyone you encounter on the street even notices skull shape, don't sweat it..
This was possible before COVID and it didn't happen.
Exactly. I was reflecting on this topic as well and for lack of a better word I started calling it "code fluency" [1].

These kind of programs select developers with much higher code fluency, which is usually the result of a deeper dedication to coding, either in a previous work experience, in their free time or taking part in additional training.

[1] https://thomasvilhena.com/2021/01/code-fluency
What an interesting article. I've been to many airports with carpet, but for some reason, PDX is stuck in my mind -- and the carpet is specifically stuck in my mind. I have no sentimental ties to the city (I've been there, it's nice, but that's true of a lot of places).
I've not tested it, but it should expand just like anything else. The effect would broadly be that running "rm *" in the directory would recurse into subfolders without warning.
I like Lem's more serious books way more. "The Astronauts", his first SciFi is one of my favorites, because it starts out with a completely naive description of a happy communist world and gradually turns darker. It's an old book (and was probably written for adolescents), so the narrative style is pretty conventional, but I like how it causes chills in the second half.

Also "Solaris", although the descriptions of the various phenomenons on Solaris get a bit tedious over time.

And finally "The Invincible" if you like dystopian tales of artificial intelligence swarms going bad.
Algorithms, being a sub-branch of mathematics, are logical constructs, which means they can be proved or disproved on a logical basis. Physics is a scientific model of reality which is based on experimental observations (mathematics is used as a descriptive language, but the underlying reality itself is not (as far as we know) based on logic), therefore any physical theory is not provable, only verifiable through experiment to some statistical probability of correctness. The current physics theory is backed by a huge amount of observations, so admittedly we can be pretty sure about much of the theory. But to say that we "know" is not correct.
It was a reference to Ray Comfort: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A

I forgot to use sarcasm tags
This censorship is unacceptable. Either sell the book/comic/whatever or don't, but don't insult us by selling us versions with a bunch of black censor blocks covering up half the page. I'd want my money back after realizing the book I bought was gutted by the distributor. Imagine how offensive it would be if you bought a shrink-wrapped book from a bookstore with controversial passages cut out from the pages.
>For starters, the idea that some people are just inherently exceptional programmers and others can only be competent is elitist.

It may be elitist, but that doesn't make it incorrect. There is a floor level of intellect and memory that is required to program effectively, and those that are born with more of those gifts have more potential to be a good programmer. It still requires work to hone those skills, but that work is more effective if you're starting from a higher floor.

I could practice playing basketball as many hours as Lebron James or Kevin Durant, but they are always going to have inherent advantages over me.
> P.S. I cannot wait to hear about what actually happened to the employee stock options.

No kidding. This might get really nasty.
Incredible. I think I'll start with this one
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
The notes were typed up by students of the class, as part of some obligation/requirement, apparently. Not sure if that applies to the other courses. So much stuff on there to learn, it'd make you weep.
As a founder, I have no interest in exit or liquidity. I am in business to run a business, not to run away from it

Great line.
"All the resolution in the world doesn't matter if you can't actually see it."

A 100,000:1 contrast ratio doesn't do you any good when you can't even see anything in sunlight. OLED may give a great contrast ratio, but any direct light (ex: being outside during the day, a common usage senario) means that you can't see anything anyways.
That depends on what you mean by detecting. If you mean recording the fact in a log file then it's definitely possible. You could just log everyone as a bot by default and then remove them from the log if the ajax request comes in.
Same in Chrome.

Edit: Seems fixed now. Also in Safari 5.
Not quite.

The initial idea, as presented, would likely fail to succeed once people were aware of the risk. The amended version could succeed, but there are high odds of some abuse.

The pertinent question then is whether the abused version is worse than the current reality. My gut says that most employers won't abuse it, and it would prove to be at least a somewhat useful filter. So despite my negative tone, it at least has a chance.
Other folks act as if the world is a fair place because they have decided that acting in such a way is the kind of person they want to be. They are happy, optimistic, and always looking for the good in life.

In my experience, they're generally confused and miserable, because they have an incorrect mental model of the world, so they mispredict the behaviors of others, and the outcomes of situations.

If you want to believe that the world should be fair, and would be better if it were fair, that's fine. You can believe that, and simultaneously recognize that the world is not, as it currently exists, fair. Only then can you attempt to change things. (Whether or not success is possible is a completely different question.)
I don't think there is one yet. Just this slide showing that they're using a bunch of VOIP protocols to implement it:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/06/apple-...
Yes, I had the entire GNU documentation in single html and it's horrible.
No, the end user doesn't need anything extra installed. Ruby 1.9 (and WebKit if needed) is bundled.
Well, I can't get the initial installation to work right, because access is denied to a zip file it tries to download off of AWS (I don't know why it's necessary or denied).

I do think, however, that this is a step in the right direction. In my opinion, GUI apps on Linux are for the most part extremely uninspired, and in spite of popular opinions to the contrary, I still prefer to use a native application in lieu of a web-based one. I think that webkit could be an awesome platform for desktop apps, both in ease of development and quality of finished product.

I don't think that this is quite a big enough step towards that though. For one, it makes the developer write html, css, and javascript. This means that ultimately the applications produced aren't going to really feel native on any platform. Rather, they'll feel like quick web app running in its own window. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I think it could be better.

In my ideal world, this would be somewhat closer to a traditional widget toolkit, but built on top of webkit. It would still be html and js at its core, but from a developers perspective it would be closer to using something like SproutCore.

As I said though, I can't get it to run properly, so I may be way off base from just looking at the code for the sample applications. I think it may also be possible to get what I'm describing on top of Bowline. There's definitely some potential in this area though, and I'm going to mess with it some more and keep and eye on it.
Forged steel is much harder than anodized aluminum. My 1st gen aluminum phone got beat up and deformed, this should be much better. Also interesting is the incredible strength and toughness of the glass they showed getting deformed in the bend tester. Apple has replaced many of my iPhones, but I bet this one will be hard to break and they will lose a lot less money.
I have owned both.

In my last 2 residences, I had no problem with Verizon, and big problems with AT&T. In both locations, missed and dropped calls on the AT&T network were common. Additionally, I never see the 3G icon displaying on my iPhone in my home, and this morning I could not email 4 pics from my iPhone to my wife. They are still sitting in my out box.

I had a dropped call with a client earlier today. With Verizon, I rarely had any issues. I would pay 2x to have this phone be usable to me.
it would be sweet if Telsa uses this as leverage to roll back the dealership law.
Don't submit the reddit thread. Link to the original article.
Neat, I hadn't come across DynJS yet. It would be nice if the landing page mentioned how the project is different from Nashorn and Rhino.
Considering that SEC officials sat on their ass likely watching porn on the job while receiving multiple substantial complaints about Madoff indicates your naive asymmetric idealization involved in hypothetical market failure scenarios while excusing very real actual regulatory failures.
There is no utopia. Deal with it.
I had a telephone interview this week where the interviewer asked why I hadn't committed anything recently on GitHub. This wasn't true, I had pushed something to GitHub that day. But it turns out GitHub uses your git config email to determine your streak - which was different to my GitHub email - and so my commits don't show up. I didn't really care, but since potential employers may consider it I have now fixed the issue. According to [1]:

If your previous commits used the correct email, they will start to link after you add the email to your account. However, it may take some time for the old data to fall out of the server's cache before this happens.

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/why-are-my-commits-linked-t...
Checkout lighttable.el

https://github.com/Fuco1/litable
So how much is written in Javascript? Won't that performance pale in comparison to, say, Sublime which is written in C++?

Or are just the plugins/extensions written in Javascript while the core editor is in C or C++?

Obligatory: People who got a beta invite, anyone feeling generous and want to give me one? (As I understand it, when you're invited you get a few to hand out, too.)
I have recently released a paid app - which has turned up in the top 10 sports section in the UK for both iPad and iPhone. I have designed this for the very latest version of the iOS - i'm guessing i'm losing sales doing this - have you or anyone else for that matter found any statistics around the numbers of users who download the app from previous versions of the iOS ?
That story sounds apocryphal. Why did it come up now?
Customs deals with counterfeit goods, iirc. That's what filesharing is being classified as.
Isn't Lisp awesome? It's flexible enough that you can write an alternate syntax, develop your own semantics and grammar, and build the language you work best in on top of it.

I don't think I've come across another language that can actually do these sorts of things so well (or at all for that matter).

Viva Lisp!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-1_visa:

It is a non-immigrant visa, and is valid for a short amount of time, generally three years. L-1 visas are available to employees of an international company with offices in both a home country and the United States, or which intend to open a new office in the United States while maintaining their home country interests. The visa allows such foreign workers to relocate to the corporation's US office after having worked abroad for the company for at least one year prior to being granted L-1 status. The US office must be a parent company, child company, or sister company to the foreign company.
If history had gone differently, we could have had this instead of Java. Inferno was a futuristic jet to Java's stone-age wheel, but it was not to be.

A perfect example that superior design and implementation doesn't win out. Other factors are more significant.
>Most solo bootstrapped projects are not popular enough initially for someone to spend money / effort to hack them.

Strong contender for Most Horrifying Thing I've Read This Morning.
>Your language, that was made in c/c++, can hardly be faster than the language it was written in.

You're making the mistake of associating the performance of a program to be purely be a product of the language. It is not difficult to write inefficient code in any language.
My issue with this approach is that you have to commit/push changes to "test". If you have to run your code on the grid to validate what you wrote, that will likely force you to commit not-working code.
this looks interesting, but I just want to say there are a couple dozen variations of fish soup in Italy, I'm not sure why they don't show up :)
I don't think my mother has ever paid full price at Macy's.
Hmm, I should actually make it even better and add an RSS feed to your own images, or you can use the API to list the latest ones and download the ones you're missing (no need to keep redownloading everything every time).
Me, too! I'd love to help.
I think the main issue is why American costs are so low. It still amazes me how you can buy a big beautiful house in the sun belt for a few hundred thousand. If Canada is more expensive its probably sensible.

I realize I'm being downvoted but you have to realize that most of the developed world has a great standard of living but a new build 4 bedroom house on a 1/4 acre of land is completely unaffordable for most people.
Can't wait for a scrollbar in htop...

[EDIT: 256 threads in htop on ARM] https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Cavi...
By the way, Justine: great work. Besides the obvious HN recognition, I wanted to tell you explicitly as well.

What are you going to work on in the near future? Curious to hear about it. If you don't want to post in public, $my_hn_username at gmail
What happens when you actually enter it? Sounds like your iCloud password was changed.
I think there is also another part to it. The smart phone market has so many options for users, and there is a limit to camera improvements they can make. For many people (including me) privacy can be another reason to chose IPhone over Pixel. With so many options differences like this matter.
As far as I understood, some of the reasons M1 is fast are in fact specific to ARM. For Instance, the advantages given by the width of the decode depend partly on the uniformity of AMR instruction size, and M1 also benefits from looser ordering of memory operations
I have quite the adblocking setup for my network and browser. Every now and then I get a glimpse of what the bulk of humanity has to endure on websites. I can't believe the difference. Those of us who enjoy an ad free Internet experience a completely different Internet lifestyle.
> I'm not aware of anyone with the position that Mars is currently as nice as Earth.

Ann Clayborne?
Shannon's original article "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is available online, for example at [1]; I find it very readable. The MIT article talks about information theory as applied to our digital world, but does not mention that it's now applied widely in theoretical physics; watch [2] for an intro. For example, the Hawking radiation from a black hole can function as an error correcting (erasure) code, allowing recovery of the information that fell into the black hole.

[1] http://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5UbN0xx4X0
This isn’t true. Very few vehicles have engine block heaters and it’s really more of a diesel thing because the fuel gels.

My car happily starts at -40, if a tad reluctantly at times.

If your car isn’t old or diesel, it will probably start at any outside temperature.

About the only difference is the engine coolant needs to be rated to expected low temperatures.
H4H was virtually packed when I volunteered. They had a waiting list for every college and university in the area. Apparently all those frats and sororities need a certain number of volunteer hours. Summertime, when building projects are usually in full swing, they didn't have nearly enough volunteers as the students typically were home or interning.
Oh man. The shot of nostalgia brought on by this brought me almost to tears. I had them all, Geocities, Tripod... Saturday mornings hooked in to ftp.idsoftware.com at 33.6k and hand-crafting updates to my sites in notepad.exe (using uppercase tags, naturally).

It's ridiculous... the web is a much better place, technologically, nowadays, but something for me has been lost. As the author alluded to at the end of the article, it's all frameworks and abstractions. It's high gloss and low content. Bah.

And with this post, I have become my parents.
Because when you learn elisp, it runs circles around vim.
That already exists, it is called "Historical European Martial Arts" short HEMA.
An, but it wasn’t the same piece of bread. :)

I’ve always wondered what happened to mortgages and loans during those periods. Did borrowers effectively get free houses? Did borrowers not exist?
Year 12 everywhere, as far as I know.
"slavery" is a relationship with gravitational pull for the ages; less a literal, particular configuration IMHO
Not willing to use something others suggest doesn't make it your enemy.
> URH allows easy demodulation of signals combined with an automatic detection of modulation parameters making it a breeze to identify the bits and bytes that fly over the air

Something I’ve been wanting to do for a long while is to figure out how to decode the time code audio signal of Serato Control Vinyl.

I briefly looked at the audio signal of Serato Control Vinyl in Audacity and you can tell that it should be possible to reverse engineer what’s going on. The signal if I remember correctly looks like a blend between a sine wave and a triangle wave, with a sort of “bend” that it looks like half of a banana kind of. Furthermore from memory the frequency of the signal changes over time, the shape changes, and there is a (possibly changing) phase difference between the left and right channels.

Somehow, this encodes a time code. And I can tell that it makes sense that you’d be able to tell the time from looking at the changes in the signal. But I don’t know how to actually decode it in order to determine the time code.

Serato Control Vinyl is used for Digital Vinyl Systems (DVS) in DJing. It allows you to use the control vinyl on a vinyl player and hook it up to your computer in order to control the playback of audio on the computer.

This way you can use physical control vinyl to do scratching and other DJing, and the software on the computer is able to very accurately manipulate the playback of digital audio based on the analog time code signal, so that speed and direction and time position is accurately tracked with high fidelity.

For anyone else who also thinks this sounds interesting, download the control CD from https://serato.com/controlcd/downloads and look at the audio signal, it is similar (possibly even the same?) as the one on the control vinyl.

In fact there is already some third-party software that supports using the Serato control vinyl. For example, the open source Mixxx. https://manual.mixxx.org/2.3/en/chapters/vinyl_control.html

However, Mixxx is GPL v2 licensed, and I am hoping to implement interoperability with Serato control vinyl in software that is either ISC licensed or proprietary, so I don’t want to even look at GPL licensed source code.

If anyone is able to figure out how the time code signal of Serato control vinyl works, or knows of an existing description of it that can be used for implementing software for it, please let me know.
>(My dad and Morton mainly worked on new testament, easier to get the texts maybe. He said if you go back to the earliest Aramaic, its plain the Pauline epistles is the work of a committee which pisses off a lot of people.)

Paul wrote in koine Greek. The 'earliest Aramaic' versions of the Pauline epistles might be 5th century Syriac copies or maybe the 11th century Khabouris Manuscript which was a copy of a 160AD NT but the originals were koine.

>The amount of bullshit in biblical scholarship is crazy.

Indeed.
Hi, I'm the author of this post. Any way we can change the link to here: https://dynomight.net/in-defense-of-myers-briggs.html ?

This is a slightly updated version of the post (new links, slightly less unhinged language, and a link to this MBTI quiz that I made to promote non-binary axes: https://dynomight.net/mbti )
> predictive qualities do not extend beyond the binning process

I agree that these tests should not be used for the purpose of evaluating/predicting the "fit" of any individual in an organization from an HR or leadership perspective. They are helpful, imho, for understanding some characteristics of one's own personality and how it relates to others.

Personality is a real thing. It's also very complex so having some "bins" to structure how you (as an individual) think about it can be super useful. But yeah, in the hands of HR and other amateur psychologists it's not a useful tool.
I've used a few cheap Chinese "mini PC" as found on Amazon. The model with an Atom quad core is fine for light uses (and with the built in dGPU can hardware encode with Plex, albeit not h265 10bit).

The current one I have is an Ace PC with a Pentium Quad Core - it does have a fan, but it hardly ever comes on, and it has 2.5" sata drive support in addition to the 120GB eMMC flash on board. I've got a 1TB 860 Evo in there and it's a fine lightweight server for file storage, plex, nextcloud and InfluxDB which is monitoring the various routers and computers on the network.
Maybe you can order something in ten seconds if you really try, but it's not really about the time, it's about the experience. If I go to the Amazon web site, I'm bombarded with a LOT of irrelevant, distracting information. Having a button next to my washing machine means reordering barely even interrupts the flow of what I'm doing.

Clearly Amazon understands that human aspect, and credit to them for not getting stuck on the idea that if I have to go to the web site, they can up-sell while I'm there.

I don't get household supplies from Amazon now, but this is making me consider it just as soon as I've compared prices.
I just added Firefox 37 to Browserling. If you don't want to install it, you can try it live in your browser at this address:

https://www.browserling.com/browse/firefox/37/news.ycombinator.com

We've 3 servers handling demo sessions so you may have to wait in the queue to try it.
I switched to buying things of this nature in bulk. You're more prone to ordering more of something if you realize you're down to the last 3 out of 10. That gives you 3 more tries to make sure you order it.
There is a media.mediasource.youtubeonly which is default True for me.
> To date, this process includes a wage increase in the form of a "raise". In an era of full employment, periodic raises push costs up

Not inherently, I don't think. If every employee started on $10 and got a $1 raise every year until they retired, and there was a 1:1 ratio of joiners to retirers, there's no overall inflation. Individuals' wages might rise over time, but the average wage doesn't have to.

> Most central bankers will use all their tools (in the form of monetary fiscal policy) to prevent long-term deflation.

Empirically, central bankers respond to a bursting asset bubble by blowing a bigger asset bubble. Dotcom bubble crashes, blow a housing bubble. Housing bubble crashes, blow an everything bubble.
Yes, this is a chocking fact I realized when I moved from Sweden to New York. In the former I payed ~30% in tax, whereas here in NY I pay the same. Because you have several levels of taxes in the U.S.: federal tax, income tax, state tax, and city tax, and in addition taxes like FICA, etc.