jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No bad for a first try, but my goal is

cat /proc/cmdline
initrd=/install/initrd.gz quiet init=/usr/bin/emacs
What's basically clear is that the candidates complaining here (...) are seriously misrepresenting Netflix views on letting people go.

You can assume the posters here are being malicious, or that they're honestly telling what they understood from the interview. If the latter, then I'd argue it's Netflix fault for failing to leave the right impression.
To paraphrase from around 19:10 of [0] - readings of games throughout the ages have flip flopped between two moralistic binaries; between a wholesome pastime for young children, and a depraved and immoral one suited for soldiers, gamblers, or angry youth.

In saying the game is "supposed to be" something one elides the nature of play: As players interact with the game's systems, they reify what the systems allow and encourage, not any particular targeted messages.

Simcity's presentation of homelessness is intentional. It could easily design this out and immediately disappear people who no longer have a home; it makes this exact kind of assumption in making Sims gender and race-blind. Neither does it present homelessness within a simplified framework where you just push a button to make it go away. It molds the issue into a front-and-center strategic consideration, one balanced against others.

Now, not every game can tackle every issue. What is presented in Simcity is a popularized conception of "problems a city planner must deal with." Different versions of Simcity have emphasized different parts of the city. Although more detail and more simulation can always be added, there's ultimately some pivotal focus it tends to revolve around, one which tells us the sensibilities of its maker(s). This is true even of Dwarf Fortress; the point of the simulation there is to deepen the storytelling and provide believable details about its fantasy world.

So, complaints about homelessness as it's experienced in Simcity are very much a part of the discourse - whether we say "it's not really like that" or "I have a better solution," the game is prompting a kind of criticism that doesn't appear within the typical news-reaction cycle.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLDizDa_rXw#t=1150
Awesome. Looking forward for a finally lipophobic smartphone. In fact, in the future all surfaces of consumer electronics and other stuff should be superhydrophobic.
I've said this before in other places but I'll say it again.

We get the features we want.

Most companies aren't so stupid that they would cut the features most desired by their customers. When features are cut it's because it didn't hurt sales to cut them. Imagine people wanted great screens on laptops more than anything else, what would happen? Every manufacturer would make a laptop with a great screen. They don't and that means that most people kept buying laptops even when they lost their great screens.

It's pretty basic economics, the market won't bare bad products in the face of competition.
Anyone care to explain what problem thrift solves. I sort of understand what it does but I can't really get where/why one would have to use it?

Thanks.
Clearly Subway considers "footlong" and "3 foot" to be trademarks and in no way connected to the actual length of their sandwiches, because the box their "3 foot" sandwich comes in isn't even 3 feet long. http://consumerist.com/2007/07/subways-3-foot-subs-are-short...
"Trademark law is unambiguous on the point that prior use of a mark in commerce always trumps (within the geographical area of such use) subsequent registration of that mark by one whose actual use was later in time."

I was under the distinct impression that trademark law was unique in that it was a form of intellectual property where being first didn't guarantee a victory. For example: If McDonalds (the Golden Arches) opens up a franchise location in a small mid-western town where a Scottish family had been running a business for the past 200 years, the Scottish family could be forced to change their name because McDonalds has greater brand recognition.

If you can find something that will back up your understanding (or mine, because I can't find anything), I'd really like to see it.
This is not a black a white world and nothing says you need to act on information.

Is also possible for poor diet to represent 25% of the problem, poor DNA to make up 25%, bad luck to hit 25% and few options to make up the last 25%. Given that breakdown there would be plenty of options outside forced adoption or sterilization.

PS: Most "black" people in the US are less than 1/2 black genetically. And there are also plenty of poor white, Latino, and Asian’s.
Well, yes, this is the dirty little secret of feminism. Feminists are outraged that there are so few female CEOs, but not that there are so few female refuse workers. It's about cherrypicking the "best" jobs, not about equality at all.
I think the major companies have become too attached to their habits to do much about it; the suggestions in this thread seem more directed towards the smaller fish who are still able to overhaul their business completely.

As much as I would love companies like Lenovo to get their act together.
Not to defend Turkey here but other Western style democracies can be just as boneheaded when dealing with technology. For a long time France was notorious about restrictions on the use of cryptography.

It is a natural tendency of governments to try to control the flow of information, the commercial landscape for ISPs in Turkey probably contributes to the current predicament more than the political climate.
XMPP have troubles with synchronizing chats between clients, with push notifications, with user-friendly mobile clients. I like XMPP, I did set up my own server, but I finally abandoned it. It's usable only with one client, preferably on desktop.
Yep but you wouldn't get free hosting right?
So they can plant the SSL hole so that anyone can remotely blow up Tesla through its car API.
I think he means that we need editors that are powerful AND easy to use.

Seems like vim isn't really for someone like me (I haven't studied PhD level computer science and I don't write compilers and/or lisp interpreters in my spare time for fun).
Leo nails what you need to do day in and day out to become successful in blogging: Publish today. Get it out there. Be authentic. Be extremely useful. Don’t be spammy, don’t have ads, don’t have popups, don’t push people to share or subscribe. Just put the reader’s interest first, help him as much as humanly possible, be sincere about it.
Except that with a proper namespacing solution, you just declare that you want Foundation's Array in one spot, and in the rest of the file you just write Array. With NSArray, it's NSThis and NSThat and NSBlah and NSFoo and NSBar and NSNSNSNSNSNSNS everywhere.
If you want less stress, turn off your computer and go out for a walk, do some exercise, be with friends/family.

Can't put into words how horrible this idea is.
there is a much simpler reason why this is the case:

"But in a rational world this incident (might take a bit of time for the market to realize this) should actually INCREASE confidence in BTC, since a large, irresponsible player was knocked out, and the rest of the players on the field have a net higher level of responsibility (for now)."

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7295430)

I predicted that the BTC price would bounce back quickly, but I had no idea just how quickly (just wished my paycheck came in faster; I'd have bought in at 450 instead of 600).
The report states that Android users are younger than iPhone users. I think perhaps it is a sign that younger users are the first to adopt a growing platform, then it spread to other age ranges...
This made me feel slightly nauseated, and I'm not sure why.
I'm guessing you didn't flip beyond the title page.
Because it's incredibly misogynistic.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360436
This is only true if your device does not have parental restrictions set. If it does and 17+ apps are restricted, you won't even get that far.
My GPS tracking app contains the same warning, because we show the wikipedia pages about parks.
It's been the opposite for me. It regularly surfaces songs I've listened to in the past from artists I listen to frequently. As a music discovery algo Spotify has been nothing but poor in my opinion.
This still doesn’t explain what was uncovered with the New York images. If Apple shipped them a month after collecting them (and if Apple has spend the past 5+ years driving), then why are so many areas missing Apple’s Street View?
Already done. It's up to 10% of turnover, not profits. Which the companies would happily go to court over. But how to actually prove in court that company X is tracking users if a leak doesn't occur? Subopenas? They need a court order for that. They need reasonable suspicion to get a court order.
Oh, but is from the sun. you can reliably know that it isn't news.
That's actually kindof neat, assuming they don't have to file TPS reports. I hope they don't get ripped off paying 50x the price for movies like the U.S. prison system does for phone and video calls. How does the AU treat its prisoners?
really excited for more popup policies to approve
Looking here: https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code/pool/main/c/code/ it seems, it has been available natively for some time already.
Teach your kids about Gentoo today!

https://raspberrytips.com/gentoo-installation-raspberry-pi/
What was purchased from Canonical?
Such non-Apple laptops with high-quality touchpads exist. Ever used a good Chromebook? The segment making up most of the Linux-using crowd is either ignorant to the problem (not having used good hardware with MacBook-quality touchpads, so not knowing that touchpads don't have to be bad), or is unwilling to actually commit to the machines that come with them. Loud fans are another thing.

I ordered a laptop from a prominent Linux laptop vendor, and it already seemed overpriced at the time of purchase, but I got assured by someone that it would be worth it. When it arrived, the fan noise and the fact that the touchpad was not just bad but actually the worst I'd ever used led to me wondering, "is this a joke?" (I sent it back after a week of dread and misery.) The fact that this was a flagship product is evidence of the wildly different standards of quality that come from personal experience, like people who just assume that things like their bathroom habits or their childhood upbringing are normal and shared by everyone.
People we are talking about features on a consumer device -- these are not life changing events! No where near the level of importance you'd ascribe to choosing a life partner or a career.

So I propose you swap being single to being celibate in the metaphor.

Personally I'd choose the short term gratification route :) Although strangely I've chosen iPhone over Android...
No, they call them Baby Boy, and Baby Girl - it even goes on the birth certificate.
Typescript does support incremental conversion, at least according to the talk I saw about it. Most JavaScript files are also valid TypeScript (they say), so starting to use the compiler for your project isn't hard. Also, external libraries can be described with .d.ts files.

It didn't sound like migrating a large codebase would be that hard, assuming you have a consensus about doing it.
Asking this question on this website, you are probably male, under 30 and working with technology. The largest amount of capital you have is probably yourself.

You should increase the returns you make on this capital. Buy some books, take some courses, invest in your health, hire someone to design your portfolio. If you get a job with 10% more payment, you effectively doubled your investment after one year, tripled id after two and so on.

Its lame, I know. Alternatively start and finish a side-project and invest the money in PPC ads.
> Nature also created smallpox, if you'll recall. But we killed that just fine. You're a part of nature, and you'll die too.

You're not comparing apples and apples. You're comparing apples and oranges. If you want a more accurate comparison, it would be like if humans wiped out disease completely. And we're not even close to that. In truth, it would be impossible. Diseases will adapt and evolve to fight whatever cures we can throw at it. We can minimize and mitigate their effects, however.

> Like flight?

Do you think you could stop every human on this planet from loving? Again, if your answer is anything but "yes", then you're self-admittedly wrong. A hypocrite.

You can't eliminate something that is fundamental to human nature. It's silly and naive to even consider it.

> And don't try to use meaningless examples like 'perfect human' and 'love' to argue about corruption.

Why not? You're trying to eliminate something that is inherent to our very existence. Ok, so you don't want to use "love". Then how about laughter. Do you think it's possible to eliminate laughter if, for whatever reason, we wanted to get rid of humor?

It's a rhetorical question. No, you can't get rid of humor. And no, you can't get rid of corruption. They're the same exact thing. They're part of us. And always will be.
Keep the regular job. Just buy a cheap van, and rent a 24/7 parking space.

You can figure out the rest. Buy takeaways or use a gas stove for food, use a 24/7 gym for showering/toilet, and go to your job for the internet (alternatively, the library, free WiFi places, or mobile net).

That's probably the cheapest way to live without being entirely homeless (or just buying land/house).
That's not really a problem with serving web requests. Usually there isn't a downside to multiprocessing these. I don't know anything about this framework but I assume it is using some sort of non-blocking IO which works just about as well as OS threads for web servers. Look at something like Gevent if you are interested in this.
Where is ESR's god now?
VSCode is winning the war that Sublime Text (and it's python api) was winning a few years back (and perhaps Notepad++ before that). A few years from now VSCode might still reign supreme... or it might not. If you're fine jumping to the next winner every few years, great. If you'd rather just invest in one editor platform and stick with it for a couple of decades, and know you can rely on it to stick around and be supported that long... well, you might want to take a look at emacs.
However, not everybody agrees that all of the questions are necessary or appropriately worded.
Obviously it's not universal (Federer in tennis, Gaze in AU basketball, etc) but I wonder if it's more common?

And whether it's that attitude that helps them achieve, or more that the success enables poor behaviour.
> Here you seem to be blaming globalism for failing to account for the true price of a product.

Fair, but in my mind this is why globalism is a thing -- because it doesn't account for the exploitation of human labor and lack of regulation. If it did, there would be no reason to ship a few dollars of plastic from China to the USA.
"headspace" doesn't mean anything
Greenpeace is a farce for sure, but surely some blame lies with big oil's lobbying efforts?
I hope that was sarcasm, because that's the most Big Brother thing I've ever read on Hacker News.

Don't question authority. Trust Google. Trust Facebook. We'll make the decisions about your personal property in a way that benefits the "vast majority of people" who own stock in our company.
nrp's reply makes complete sense, but I like this argument as well.
This was a great read. It is very thought provoking and inspiring. Something you could read and contemplate every day for a year. Bravo!
Thanks for the feedback.

Huey is actually the name of the chameleon - but I guess that doesn't quite articulate that. Will have to find another way to do that.

Huey is also the name of a plan, so I can see how that causes confusion.

In terms of the price, I am not really selling on features - yet - but more on the benefit. I used to have this problem - i.e. managing multiple designers, with stakeholders all over the world - and I would have paid those prices to solve that problem.

That being said, I do intend to possibly add cheaper plans in the future - but I need to get the core problem solve and get some real customer feedback from paying customers.

Also, given that it is just me right now, I can't realistically support a ton of users - so we will see how it goes.

Btw, re: the design of the marketing site. Was done by: http://fairheadcreative.com/ and the UI design was done by: http://www.andreeblixt.com/ Both awesome designers.
It seems strange that this article doesn't reference the reported acquisition of TweetDeck by Uber Media back in February.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/11/ubermedia-tweetdeck/

EDIT: Thanks for the info/links. This report certainly makes a lot more sense given that the Uber Media deal never actually closed.
Fair enough, and they probably deserve to have their US assets frozen. But a .com shouldn't automatically be a US asset simply because the .com root happens to fall in US jurisdiction.
Would certainly be nice if it listened to the EDITOR environment variable for a default :/
The timing of this post is a coincidence because I just did the "status game" this past weekend at my improv class. It's a fun insightful game and Amir is spot on about the fact that we are always playing this game. In fact, we were in a class with 12 people, and after walking and interacting around the room (while only knowing the numbers of everyone but yourself on the forehead), the instructor asked us to arrange ourselves in ascending order in a line. It was amazing how almost everyone knew where exactly they were with respect to everyone else (especially when a #5 and a #6 interact, its hard to figure out if you are the superior or not, but the subtleties do tell quite a bit). Both times we did the exercise, only one person was out of place, and that too, they were right next to each other.

Like mindcrime says, there is quite a bit of wisdom in improv. I enrolled in classes because I wanted something very different to break up my usual routine that mostly involves writing code. What was really enlightening to me was that most of improv was not about being funny, but really about the fundamentals of how to communiciate and convey something to a fellow improviser as well as the audience, in the least amount of time (short scenes).
Any clue why Apple is beating around the bush and not going after the main source (especially since this is just finishing off the trifecta of suing the main Android OEMs). While Samsung has been pretty blatant in their ripoffs of the iPhone design, I'd have to imagine they are better suited to fend off Apple than Google in this field and the suit is somewhat biting the hand that feeds Apple supplies. Are they just trying to make it known that "You go Android and we sue"?
Yes, notice the part

> And an economy in which millions of willing workers can’t find work is surely one with massive distortions of some kind.

He is talking about very specific economic circumstances (defined by macroeconomic conditions, and which should happen only rarely), whereas you are talking about "any work in the future".
My question is, why are so many people upvoting these threads? People should be encouraged to use Google as their first resource before posting questions on Hacker News. Even if you haven't been here long, you could probably guess that such a basic question has likely been asked before.
Apple is lame. They claim Nokia is suing them with dumb patents and then proceed to sue others with their dumb patents...
> [this is wrong] because an interface is a contract promised by the implementor.

I think the point the article makes is that you can instead think of an interface as a list of requirements demanded by a user (so your criticism here is a bit of a tautology). The article backs this up by describing concrete advantages of that approach.

Maybe you could share why (or whether) you think these don't apply, or how they contrast with your preferred approach?
George W. Bush should have known better than to have run for President.

Now if Bush had posted the same questions on here I am pretty sure we wouldn't be seeing any of the responses we have seen so far.

So I'll just end by paraphrasing from the Gita -
You have freedom only to take action

You have no claim on the reward of that action

Whenever you take a risky action keep those (including yourself i.e. be self aware) that might get effected in the loop

If your actions are good rewards will come.

If your actions are misguided you will sooner or later suffer. And others will too.
Any non-trivial code is non-portable between Unix systems in practice. No system implements all of POSIX, even when they do they often disagree on how parts of it should be implemented, and some software needs features that simply aren't in POSIX. (For example, high-performance webservers need a better way of polling for events than select/poll, and that's platform-specific.)

As for libtool, anything that deals with shared libraries is inherently non-portable. The file extension they're created with and the compiler and linker flags to create them are entirely platform specific - POSIX won't help you there. (Also, a lot of libtool's hairyness exists because some older proprietary Unix systems don't support shared library dependencies.) If you're only planning on supporting open source OSes you don't actually need libtool though - their native toolchains are either the GNU one or something compatible with it, and include most of its functionality natively.
And fast-food. Look at all the obesity on the developed countries! And it's not even a case of lack of information, like it used to be.
When the nature of the hazard is entirely new and it causes no symptoms in the short term, who could imagine it's dangerous? Are we confident that Facebook use won't cause psychological problems as people grow older? That reading endless news stories on the internet won't reduce people's ability to maintain a long train of thought?
Computer is a job not an object.

English reuses terms, but thus that’s not a wheelbarrow anymore than there are wheelbarrows in a wheelbarrow race. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelbarrow_race

“A wheelbarrow is a small hand-propelled vehicle...” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelbarrow while also saying “Power assisted wheelbarrows are now widely available from a number of different manufacturers.”

TLDR; That’s not yet a wheelbarrow, but it might eventually become one.
Using NL as an example here is a major stretch... NL has been designed around non motorized transport; it’s like using Venice as an example for why gondola based transit is a good idea for North America <>
given that most browsers already support woff, i may go with your approach :).
Wow—regardless of its use to answer the question, that's a new word for me, and a fascinating article. (Who would have expected such a debate to lead to literal shots fired? Well, I guess any student of cartography and history, but not me.) Thanks!
We use Haskell heavily at my startup and it's definitely a competitive edge and well suited to the many general programming problems we solve with it (amqp processing client, rest api, javascript heavy webapp w/ haskell web framework backing, db orm modelling, scrubbing and feeding data into influxdb, the list is long).

I know quite a few professional programmers who credit Haskell with making programming fun for them again (this holds true for me too and my production skill set includes php, c, c++, python, ruby, erlang, scheme, javascript, scala).