jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I'm common sense.

Common sense is a great place to start from! Then you do science. You predict what will happen under various policies; you try some options and observe what happens; you revise your understanding of the problem; and repeat.

From the few places where people are thinking that way, it seems like the best approach is neither criminal law nor pure legalization, but regulation, treatment and harm reduction. There are some examples in this report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy:

http://www.undrugcontrol.info/images/stories/documents/Globa...

But we still have a huge amount to learn, because for the most part we're not even trying -- just sticking with the "common sense" approach of looking for a larger hammer, when hitting the problem with a smaller hammer failed to work.
When she says "does stuff", she means, when you have an idea that you want to see realized, and then you follow through and take it to its logical conclusion to have an impact on others. Then repeat.

Many, many smart people have ideas, but can never finish anything. Or for that matter, never start anything.

You hear "does stuff", and take it out of context into its broad definition, which includes your garbage man. Then of course it doesn't make sense.
"Linux: HP Z600 running Lucid Lynx. 2x Quad-core Xeon @ 2.27 GHz, 12 Gb RAM.

Windows: HP Z600 running Vista. 2x Quad-core Xeon @ 2.27 GHz, 12 Gb RAM.

OS X: Mac Pro running Snow Leopard. 2x Quad-core Xeon @2.26 GHz, 12 Gb RAM."

Anybody know what Google standard issue? It's hard to imagine that they equip all there people THIS well. Then again, they are Google.
I've got a http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-UL80JT-A1-14-Inch-Laptop-Black/dp..., which looks like equivalent specs but on a 14 inch screen.

It's been great so far (had it for almost a year), and IMO what an ultralight really should be. The battery life really is phenomenal: 10 hrs vs. 7 hrs sounds like a moot difference, but after you look at "usable" numbers (8 and 5, in my experience), it boils down to pretty much a full day vs. not quite. As a student, I never have to worry about grabbing my power cord on the way out, compared to everyone else I know always having one on hand.

On the other hand, OS X really is a big selling point. Windows simply isn't natively compatible with what I need, and Ubuntu is a pain with consumer apps (Office, Adobe CS5, Mathematica, etc.) My cheap solution? Virtualize Ubuntu under Windows with VMWare Player and VMWare Unity (which is free). I do all my coding and dev work in Ubuntu, and everything else in Windows.
You missed my point, or at least part of my point. The point is that the numbers people write down in this survey will not accurately represent their own impression of how poor poor people are.
I was shocked by the news.

I misread it as "Kidney Sales Estimates Increase 60%"
she is talking about executing your idea.
your garbage man is not executing his idea, he is performing a task anyone else can do and does not require any knowledge, risk or strategy.
sticking to your idea, doing it is actually taking risk for high payoff.
The comparison of technical specifications leaves out one very large detail: weight. At 3.97 pounds, the Dell is more than a third heavier than the MacBook Air at 2.9 pounds.

The form factor and weight of the MacBook Air is its killer feature, not its CPU/GPU/RAM/SSD.
As far as cultural things go, I'll take it over "tall poppy syndrome" anytime. I'd rather be looked down upon for doing poorly than be looked down upon for doing well.
Aside from the interesting information about what is happening is the instructions on what tools to use to get the job done. An article like has a double payload; I wish more were like that.
The real estate & bitcoin comparison is apples & oranges.

Real estate existed (and still exists) in a world of inflationary government IOUs (read: fiat). People were taking out too many & too large loans. Ofcourse it was going to go bust. People were talking about it. The author of the book he linked, was being a contrarian.

Bitcoin has created its own reality, which has only just started to gain traction. It's the early days of the dot com boom. It's the early days of SEO.

Every informed individual sees the writing on the wall. Something doesn't grow for 12 years straight, unless it's got something interesting going on.

To state that bitcoin is going away, is the equivalent of stating that the Internet is just a fad that will soon die out. It's an inherently contrarian view.
> When Delphi was released in 1005

Lovely typo, although it undeniably feels as if Delphi has been around forever.
And correctly dealing with arithmetic overflow.
I did not mean to dismiss it's negative side effects , this is a dangerous drug. For a general purpose anti anxiety it's a down right terrible choice, even to suggest it feels irresponsible. Chugging a bunch of alcohol while on this ( if say you forgot your anti-anxiety meds were also an anti alcohol drug ), might literally kill you.
Who uses twitter anymore? Nearly everyone I know prefers Facebook status updates because you can comment on them and everyone's already running FB 24/7 anyway.
I don't think removing the 140 character limit would be bad necessarily, as long as only 140 characters are displayed by until a "view full tweet" option is invoked. The problem is that people will complete a thought over multiple tweets, so the stream becomes polluted.
Right, that's what I care about. I don't care if they are running late or if they have a beautifully typeset resume. That stuff just doesn't matter. How they answer interview questions does matter.
nice! i will look into that.
>"Go's authors clearly have some trouble understanding the mathematical foundations of type systems"

Well, yeah. Is there anything wrong with that?
If they free up the developer license, MS will get lots of Apps in for their phone versions as well..They are already supporting javascript for native apps..
You realize that repeating something clever wears off the novelty and ultimately becomes just very annoying?
> Will the company be worse off than before? Of course, but it's the best they can do under the circumstances.

Exactly--but that doesn't mean "Apple is doomed" either, which is the angle a lot of people seem to take.

Apple with Steve Jobs (2nd time around) was the most innovative, profitable, and successful company in the entire world. Apple without Steve Jobs is likely to be one of the most innovative, profitable, and successful companies. (Still pretty darn good.)
> It looks here like they checked his apartment to corroborate his statements.

Checked? That's being charitable. You mean it's okay to break into someone's apartment without a warrant and steal shit? What happened to the rule of law? Having said that, we don't know who broke in or what happened.
That sounds scary. I wouldn't do that.

Why not just build yourself a website and put that in your portfolio rather than giving it away. Build a reviews site for some niche.
Please stop the "fragmentation" Android argument. Its overplayed, sensationalist, and misleading when it comes to developing for android phones.

With iPhone first gen, 3G, 3GS, 4G, and the iPad - theres enough screen resolution and memory differences to make the same argument.
Cut/copy/paste is annoying for about a week, then you're fine. Here's my learning curve: http://www.superjoesoftware.com/temp/dvorak.png

I think now (2 years or so later) it's between 90-120 depending on how many typos I make.

You aren't really going to be super fast with dvorak but I do notice that my hands don't feel so tweaked.
I can see why non-technical users might go to the google homepage for searching... but I'm suprised geeks ever go there. I just type search queries type into my Firefox search box, which is just a keyboard shortcut away. No background images for me!
If you're comparing two products by comparing a list of features, you're doing it wrong.

The most ridiculous example of that in this list is "On-device Video Editing". That is not a feature you can compare with a simple yes/no.
All the more reason for men to work as hard as they can to introduce more women to the field of engineering. What could possibly be more engineer than replacing yourself?
You can still get the T series Thinkpads in 4:3 but the display options are limited.
This is slightly off-topic, but It's nice to see that Phusion updated their branding and website. It's been a while since I've visited that site, but that stupid graffiti tag logo they had before was awful. The new look helps me take them more seriously.
What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women?

What if modern, postindustrial society is simply hostile to males in return for all the past hostility to females?

edit: apparently axle replied while I had my lament on the state of scholarships. Summarized: out of literally thousands available after pre-filtered (however poorly), I had to toss out all but a dozen or two because I'm white and male.
When they turned pictures into videos it started to make sense to autoplay them. The only reason for that is higher video ad revenue vs static pictures.
One mitigating measure would be to use secure VPN. Traffic from the VPN to the destination would still be unencrypted, but would eliminate drive-by hackers.
You could try one of the live discs.. For example burn Ubuntu installation disc and I think it should have also the live disc in it. Basically insert it to cd drive, boot from it and you can play around with ubuntu as if you had installed it.

You can even do it with thumbdrive nowadays so no need for CDs.
No I'm not, I said "I love these accounts", I find them enormously entertaining
Microsoft did.
That's a disingenuous - of course it makes a difference. Trying to infer an efficient allocation of registers from a chain of stack instructions involves a ton of tricks that bloat the compiler and make loading the bytecode slow and processor intensive. That's the problem Dalvik was designed to solve, and why Dalvik's successor ART is a regular compiler and not a JIT.
Very good initiative, thank you very much!

If you would like to switch to are more capable framework it would be much easier to add some collaborative features. I recommend strongly looking at the Python Pyramid framework or at Flask (or at Django, if you want more "rails that lead you") as soon as possible, so this could grow into something really powerful. Many java frameworks also have everything you will need.

Unfortunately there are still many frameworks used nowadays, that are missing very important things around groups, ACLs / RBAC and collaboration. I do not know why, but especially in the PHP world these things seem to be looked at as some "advanced science", with a few exceptions.

Not integrating these features from the very beginning into your product will determine the long term direction of your project without you even knowing about it. This is the dangerous result of using popular, but very limited and limiting frameworks that do not support your growth.

An experienced developer will of course identify these weak points of a framework immediately, unfortunately many people still waste a lot of time with these misleading trap-frameworks, just because they are cool today.

It is important to spot at the weaknesses of these half-assed "frameworks" and clearly tag them as dangerous for serious project work. Laravel is ok for a quick and dirty prototype that helps you to model your ideas, like a brainstorming session, but should not be used for a real project. And this modelling phase should be very short, quickly moving on to the more involved engineering process that takes all aspects of a modern web app into consideration.

Hopefully it is not too late for your project to switch - it will be a very good investment of time, I promise!
A feature I miss in Typeform: being able to redirect to localhost. Another one: being able to redirect according to a URL query param to a different origin. No clue why is it blocked in Typeform
For what it's worth, the 14" MacBook Pro is nearly the same size. 0.34" wider (left to right) and only 0.35" deeper. Smaller bezels and the fact that the 14.2" screen is measured diagonally mean that it's actually not that much bigger than the 13.3" device (basically a third of an inch, 0.9cm). I was also worried about the size of the 14" MBP, but it's the best Apple machine I've ever owned and it's not even close (and I was coming from a 2020 13" MacBook Pro with one of the 28W processors).

I'm skeptical of a refreshed 13" MBP. Apple doesn't like having products that only have minor differentiations and offering a screen size that is only half an inch wider seems to muddy the waters a lot. Offering a 13" MBP with M2 Pro would mean pricing it at essentially the same price point as the 14". The 16" is $200 more expensive (for comparable models) with a 2" difference.

Likewise, people talked a lot about how the 13" MBP and the 13" MacBook Air were essentially the same machine, but the 13" MBP is $250 more. What does that get you? 500 nits instead of 400 nits and 10-15% more battery? A fan that seems to never kick in? We know Apple is ditching the TouchBar which was the differentiator for the current M1 MacBook Pro (even if most people hated it, it did increase the cost of the unit).

It just seems unlikely that Apple will want to offer a screen that is only half an inch less wide for basically the same laptop. And realistically, if they're moving to the notch and the 9:5.85 aspect-ratio (~16:10.4), they'll either need to increase the screen size from 13.3" or you'll end up with a narrower screen than the old 16:10. The 16:10 screen should be 11.3" wide so they'd need to boost it to 13.5" to keep the same width. At that point, what's the difference between the 14.2" and 13.5"? 0.7" on the diagonal, 0.6" in width. By contrast, the 16.2" is 2" more in the diagonal and 1.7" more in width - a significant difference when choosing which machine to purchase. The differentiation in screen size between a 14 and 16" MBP is 2.85x larger than the difference in screen size between a 13" and 14".

Either Apple creates a 2022 13" MBP that's essentially an identical product to the MacBook Air or they create a product nearly identical to the 14" MacBook Pro.
That must have been a design tradeoff.

These are some pictures of the Model X, I have found. There are no "holes", only arm-rests. The black detail on the second picture must be the window control.

http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/230436/model-x.jpg

http://b.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/codesign/poster/201...
If you're in the US, lack of a license generally means standard copyright: http://choosealicense.com/no-license/
Funny. I can't recall where but a few days ago I overheard a teenage say something like, "I wanted to make a Tinder account but I didn't have a FAcebook, so I had to go make that first."

Mind you, it seems like a really low quality user for FB and not something I would want to hang a bubbilicious valuation on for them -- unless FB's able to track her activity off FB as well. And I think this is the case.
It's built using Meteor, and the page is constructed on the client. You can determine this by right-clicking the page, and selecting "View Source" in most browsers.

If you're having trouble with this, see this guide: http://webdesign.about.com/od/chrome/a/view-source-chrome.ht... as an example.

Once you see the HTML source, scroll to the area where the body tag is found. You'll notice the lack of any static content:

<body>
</body>

Or did you mean something else by static page?
Who are you replying to? If you're actually replying to someone's point, reply directly to it. However the haughty, I-am-disappointed-in-all-of-you tactic is entirely boring and has been played out.

The responses in here are mixed, but seem to be predominately supporting. A few mention the conflicts of interest that may arise, and of course they should: They're real and should be considered.
This is pretty harrowing to read. I've been fortunate enough to never go through any of this (but I don't _look_ like a 'terrorist'). I think America needs to take a hard look at itself and the compromises it has made on civil liberties in the name of this supposed 'safety' that we have now.
It's not an either/or. Ideally, I prefer the both/and.
> Two hundred years earlier [...]; in the mid-nineteenth century they became show-business celebrities.

As Chesterton wisely almost said "When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing,— they believe in anything." ( http://www.chesterton.org/ceases-to-worship/ )
Ditto keep in mind that so called "hacking isn't just digital. Social engineering in many instances is involved in hacks. Boil it down to not only discovering vulnerabilities in code, but people as well.
The article actually says: "If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough."
Out of the total number of demonstrators, how many was that?
Of course :) Have you tried the demo? We've clustered all the airports in the world (~40k) and it's fast
You're talking about Emacs, right?

Over the last 18 years, I've tried to figure Emacs out a few times, but it always ends up baffling me. It may be as powerful as you say, but given how obtuse I am (or perhaps how terrible Emacs is), I'll never know.
Every Wolframy thread turns into the same discussion about Wolfram himself. Let's not let that happen here.

It's enough that the article is Wolfram's attempt to decide for himself what the story is. Idiosyncrancies aside, he obviously has the mathematical and computational background to understand the material. The main obstacle is putting in the time to understand it, which he did.

The article is replete with historical information, he explains why he concludes what he does, and the result is an order of magnitude more substantive (and technical) than any other Lovelace/Babbage article I recall seeing on HN. I think it can stand on its own. The content is fascinating and is what deserves discussion.
Salafi Islam is really just like mainstream Islam, meaning we believe like the other Muslims, pray the same way, etc. The only difference is how we view the companions of the Prophet (sall Allah alaihi wa sallam). We consider them to be authoritative sources on Islam, while a lot of Muslims see them as just regular people. So for example, say here we are living many centuries after Islam started, and someone comes and says they have a "new interpretation" of the Quran -- well, it's not really possible for that person to know the Quran better than the people who actually met the Prophet (sall Allah alaihi wa sallam) and learned it from him directly, while seeing him implement it in his life and hearing him explain it. That's the main tenet, I guess, and it's really just a logical and common-sense way of looking at things. That's probably the best I can do without going into too much detail. Thanks for showing interest.
Don't ever let yourself think you are dumb. It's a lot more harmful to your psychology and to learning than it may at frist appear.

If you can't figure something out, you are just lacking some knowledge you need. I wish I had learned that a long time ago.

Being dumb is never the explanation for not understanding or figuring out something.
But it is an implementation, albeit a non-standard one.
Which is why I figured you'd be first to know. :-)
This article would be much more useful if the author discussed alternatives. As it stands, he's not really telling us anything most serious API developers don't already know. We choose technologies like Amazon SQS because it provides the durability and scalability we need for services to talk to one another. The author fails to say why this is a bad thing, other than to talk about coupling. There is always coupling in such a system, whether it's monolithic or microservice-based; the real discussion is what either choice buys us. Don't mind scaling vertically? Build a monolithic API. Want to scale horizontally? Build microservices.
People in the UK aren’t taking the advice of the government. Many think a full lockdown is coming, possibly today.
But the OP is misguided and targeting a beaten down population. What difference does it make if you’re making $7.25/hr as a natural born citizen or an undocumented immigrant? Either way this thing is hurting you hard, and people are going to act like people.

It’s really, really misinformed to think that undocumented immigrants are the only ones suffering, and that “good natural born Americans” can all afford to sit inside for a few weeks.
I'm a believer in "heroine leads to economic loss" theory, but admittedly I've benefited greatly in my career by selling heroine.
COVID-19 is a completely new (Novela) virus.

That's not true. Coronaviruses did exist, and they are not new.
//"Me Only"-mantra is unsustainable.//
Exactly opposite, we will see in the near future that the government which one destroyed their economy will eat shit in next years.
To a large extent it was realised that the cold war preparedness was collective madness: In retrospect we know that the Soviet leadership in many respect were posturing because they were terrified of a Western first strike. Reagan wrote about his realisation after Able Archer 83 that the Soviets genuinely seemed to think NATO was a threat, rather than see it as a defense; both sides saw it as inconceivable that their side would start a war.

The point being that even at the height of the cold war, the threat was massively overblown, largely because of lack of understanding of how the other side was thinking.

The threat of Russia today is much smaller - for all of Russia's threats to some countries, it is contained to a threat against countries with Russian minorities, and there's no realistic scenario where Russia is suicidal enough to attack an EU country.

And this kind of preparedness was a massive economic drain. Now one can certainly argue that some of the civil defense in terms of field hospitals etc. ought to have been kept up, for a tiny fraction of the cost, and that would be a separate issue.

I grew up in Norway during the cold war, with similar levels of preparedness; air raid siren tests on a regular basis, bomb shelter at our school etc.. The assumption that there was a real threat of invasion was there until Gorbachev, basically, and then it evaporated as the increasing openness and eventual collapse of the Soviet Union showed that the threat assessments throughout the cold war had been completely wrong, and vast amounts of resources that could have gone to e.g. better healthcare had basically been thrown away.

EDIT: This is from Reagans memoirs (taken from [1]), regarding his realisation of the Soviet view of the US:

"Three years had taught me something surprising about the Russians: Many people at the top of the Soviet hierarchy were genuinely afraid of America and Americans. Perhaps this shouldn't have surprised me, but it did...During my first years in Washington, I think many of us in the administration took it for granted that the Russians, like ourselves, considered it unthinkable that the United States would launch a first strike against them. But the more experience I had with Soviet leaders and other heads of state who knew them, the more I began to realize that many Soviet officials feared us not only as adversaries but as potential aggressors who might hurl nuclear weapons at them in a first strike...Well, if that was the case, I was even more anxious to get a top Soviet leader in a room alone and try to convince him we had no designs on the Soviet Union and Russians had nothing to fear from us."

Likewise the West kept posturing on the basis of a belief that the Soviet Union might well decide to attack. The regular air raid siren tests in Norway were not for fun. The regular NATO exercises were not for fun. There was a genuine fear. Only, as it turns out both sides were certain the only party that would be evil enough to strike first was the other side.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83#American_reacti...