jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Pecunia non olet.

It means "money does not stink". A coin earned from scrubbing toilets spends the same as one earned from curing cancer, or one earned by selling contraband, or one given to charity, or one slipped into a g-string.

If you start spending your dollar bills, and someone demands to know where they came from, the only proper response is that it does not matter, because they are bearer instruments. All that matters is that the person who holds them is presumed to be the owner.

If the possibility that someone might steal your dollar bill and spend it for his own benefit galls you too much, don't use cash, or any other bearer instruments. Or keep receipts every time the notes change hands. But be assured that your mugger is taking your cash because he intends to spend it later, in lieu of performing multiple less-convenient crimes.

This business of pursuing someone for spending supposedly tainted money cannot end well. How is an ordinary person supposed to know when they should not accept it, when the money itself does not stink?

The crime rightfully attaches to the criminal, not to his cash.
Does your university have a job posting site?

I found my student job out of sheer luck, mucking around in bash before an exam and suddenly someone was peering over my shoulder and gave me an email address for their boss, I had a job interview a week later as a junior *nix sysadmin for my university.

You might not find the same luck, but you should definitely try to find something on campus. My boss is very flexible around exam time, and it's just a laid back atmosphere where you learn a lot.
There's no sane reason that an iOS couldn't do cloud syncing as reasonably as Android does. To Gruber's points:

> getting your stuff onto your new iPad

Apple will never do it, but Android devices commonly solve this by using an SD card that can be transferred to and from devices. My Nexus One has this hidden behind the battery, so practically speaking I'm not going to be without it. My photos, videos, and music are on there, or Flickr/Amazon/Dropbox. (Or my home computer, which doesn't factor here.)

> updating iOS

My Nexus One updates over the air automatically out of the box, and I have an app called ROM Manager that downloads/installs third-party Android distributions also OTA. Apple's made the conscious decision to ship iOS updates as full downloads rather than deltas, which makes this an issue of distributing nearly-1GB packages. I can update to a new build of my Android distribution in under ten minutes.

> backing up and restoring your iPad

Gruber mentions that stock Android doesn't do out of the box backup and restore, which is wrong. I just today did a factory restore of my phone and, after I set up my Google account, my phone settings were restored, along with all the apps I'd downloaded from the Market. This was done automatically without having to initiate a restore.

Gruber mentions that photos, videos, and music aren't updated, but those are stored (as mentioned) on a device-independent SD card when they're not stored in the cloud in the first place.

Android isn't perfect, but it does have this sewn up. As far as my Nexus One is concerned I don't own a full PC, and it couldn't care less. When I had an iPhone, I remember iOS releases as events where everyone in the office ran back to their laptops to see if they could connect to the download server, and then left their phones tethered for the next hour or two.
this scares me, yet I like it.
Totally agree. When I read Flow a couple of years ago, it's like a bulb lighted in my head. I then told my wife she should read this book to really understand me in some situations.
"Seedcamp, which now has 14 start-ups in its program…"

Is that only the last batch, or is it a typo? Or have they really only invested €700000 since 2008? At 27 investors, that's €26000 per investor on average. That seems a bit low. Their expenses of putting on events all over the world must be a multiple of that.
How does the update being OTA affect whether it bricks your phone?
I may come bug you for introductions at some point, then. :)
Just looking at racial demographics, the level of diversity is about the same, it just skews differently. The % white and latino are about the same, but Chicago has as many black folks as San Francisco does asian folks, and vice versa. San Francisco's quite a bit more wealthy, though - median household income upward of $73k vs $47k. Perhaps that contributes to more of a perception of diversity for certain folks.

Chicago's hypercentralized layout may play a part there, too - the downtown area where tourists go is really just for tourists, and to some extent it's particularly for tourists making weekend trips from the suburbs. With the possible exception of Chinatown, all those great neighborhoods you're mentioning are pretty far off the beaten path for a visitor.
I don't want a backup; I want RAID. The existence of a copy of a person does not preserve the continuity of the original.
I would suggest growing weed in that warehouse.
I think you are confused with "zero-day exploit". They are calling it a "zero-day vulnerability," but i'm not sure what that even means.
I agree with Torvalds on this matter.

In a way, I do as well.

GC as it is promoted today is a giant step that gives programmers one benefit, solving one problem, while introducing a immeasurable pile of complexity to the system creating another pile of problems that are still not fixed today. And to fix some of these problems (like speed) you have to introduce more complexity.

There are plenty of contexts where speed is a non-issue. In those cases, GC has been a huge win. The conceptual simplicity is the important part. The cost of the resources that would be saved with explicit and optimized memory management would be far outweighed by the resources required to implement such things.

The original idea is simple, but nobody uses the original idea because it performs so badly.

This is simply not true.

In the context of IO-bound enterprise systems, I've seen generational GC perform admirably, almost magically. As a lark, I've put infinite loops into such apps that do nothing but allocate new objects, and unless you are doing an exceptionally intense operation, you couldn't tell the difference. Properly tuned generational GC can be a truly fantastic seeming thing!

However, I will agree that the concerns Linus highlights are real, and that refcounting systems, like the one in iOS are by far better choices in many contexts.

EDIT: The above system I victimized, I only victimized in the TEST environment, but it was populated with something like 2-week old production data. The application in question is a traditional client/server desktop app used by a major energy company and had 800 active users at the time, handling millions in transactions every minute.

IDEA: If someone had an augmented ref-counting system with a runtime containing an optional cycle-detector and something like LINT but for the runtime reference graph, one would get most of the benefits of GC with the efficiency of the ref-counting system. I half expect someone to tell me that this already exists for Python.
It's certainly worth looking at the standard flag package (http://golang.org/pkg/flag/) if you just need flag parsing.

I've also heard good things about https://github.com/spf13/cobra and https://github.com/codegangsta/cli.
He can be a little bombastic at times, but his reporting is solid and he's one of very few journalists left who does real investigative work.
"a single world-wide time zone", Yes.

As someone who works with clients in different parts of the world I really do long for a single time zone that we can all share. In local life will 12 noon will always be the ~same time, but for business I don't care.

Usually I try to use UTC, but it's not always successful, and just trying to pin down a suitable time to speak to someone across timezones can be difficult.

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However, "replacing all writing with the international phonetic alphabet" is a terrible idea
English has intonation, which is different from the "tones" that tonal languages such as Chinese have. Intonation is the use of pitch to convey additional information regarding emotion or attitude. Tones, on the other hand, are used to differentiate completely different words altogether.

For tonal languages, the use of tone as a distinguishing characteristic is similar to any other phonemic characteristic you would typically have to distinguish words in any other non-tonal language. For instance, in English, voicing is a distinguishing characteristic that differentiates the words "pat" and "bat". Similarly in Mandarin Chinese, tone is a distinguishing characteristic that differentiates the words "mā" (mother) and "mǎ" (horse).
Trains (and station clocks) in Russia still run on Moskow time.
Nope, wrong for Soviet Union, it spanned 11 time zones: Kaliningrad (Königsberg) to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, with summer/winter time.

By the way, there's another opportunity for oddity wrt. time: the change from summer to winter time and back can occur at different dates in different countries. And indeed, it does.
By incoming connections, do you mean web visitors who fell victim to CSRF/XSS exploits in their router management web panels? Or was he hijacking routers another way?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8586066
Once you've built a system that understands timezones and offsets from UTC, does it really add all that much complexity to support offsets that are not whole multiples of half hours or hours?
That's an outstanding video. I immediately shared this link you kindly shared with a Facebook group about mathematics for beginners and enthusiasts. Thanks.
Thanks did not know that.
> I do need to look at some light weight codecs that will run in software to really call the project complete.

Take a look at Codec2, the performance at very low speeds is impressive.

https://www.rowetel.com/?page_id=452
To be generous, I would presume the banning was because he uploaded a "hack" that changes the binary of the game, and that's not allowed. There's probably a clause in the ToS that says no reverse engineering is allowed.

But I look forward to the woke brigade assuming the devs hate the LGBT community, and showing up with virtual pitchforks... /s (Disclaimer: I support the struggles of the LGBT community, but I do have a problem with stupid extremist unthinking zealots, and there seems to be plenty of them everywhere.)
But does it need to be solved perfectly? Change my mind, but I don't believe anybody, garage nerd or small startup, would be affected if they overshot their planned costs by 10%. I really need a solution when my bill gets by (my) mistake 100x bigger. And I'm convinced AWS could so easily solve this - if they cared to.
As the article mistakes... Web OS was the classic example of a skunk works project. A very small amount of people working in near isolation, and answerable only to senior managers.

To any company in trouble, and in need of innovation, this is the perfect strategy. Inevitable Wikipedia link...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
Great time to get immigration back on track. Or working visa holders who've been left out in favour of citizens who haven't lived here for decades.
There is a reason you don't know them - you really don't want to, trust me, don't go looking for trouble. But yes, they do have loads of stuff that is not in the database. 99% of them came from acquisitions and were then smashed together in something resembling a vaguely-coherent ecosystem.
Funfact: PQ is short for toilet paper in French
So libpq always cracks me up. But then again there's a theorem prover called Coq (which is indeed pronounced as you imagine, it means rooster) and it's been named by French researchers at INRIA!
That's my point. Labor doesn't have equal rights as capital
Server-side-rendering all the way! Still using good-ol PHP which really shines with Comet: https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
That's a false narrative western politicians/media want people to believe.

If there was a 'coverup' it was by local municipal authorities which should not be conflated with central govt. Even if true, the actual reporting of first case was only delayed by 1 week with the genome sequenced shared w/WHO rest of world less 2wks later.
They did not kill anything, they brought them into VB.NET, and I can tell many VBA users are quite happy to transition into VB.NET, as I experienced in a couple of life sciences corporations.

Having used VB back in the day, the only thing missing are a couple of people still not getting that VB.NET with Forms is just the same deal, even Me is available.
If you think a CPU will do that for you for free you're in for a shock so it doesn't really matter.
Greetings from another heavy user of ANC for the purpose of coping with a noisy environment.
Sounds like you should just use libp2p (which is what IPFS is using for P2P networking) in whatever flavor you're building your blockchain with! At least you still have the same bootstrapping technology you're doing now, but with the added benefit of peers exchanging existing connections when new peers connects :)
The point isn’t to live there their whole lives, but periods where they can get a lot of work done safely.
Which freedom of speech? That they don't send you to prison if you say something your neoliberal high priesthood does not like? Perhaps not, but you very well might lose your job. Otherwise go search in your free speech media anything about Assange. Now try to compare objectively Assange to Navalny and tell me why not.. Your freedom of speech is in a large part imaginary. As to the rule of law, if your legal system would get the attention it deserves, people would see that it is also in a large part a Hollywood myth
Vue Can be used in the same way as Alpine, but it's very tempting to start using the CLI, single file components etc.

Alpine doesn't have any of those (eg. the devtools for it are a community project).
There are a lot of registers. 150+ named ones, including rarely used ones like SPL -- the low 8 bits of the stack pointer. This restriction would break existing assembly code whenever Intel added a new one, which happens regularly.
For all intents and purposes, I refudiate that article.
Since most of my non tech friends send me "email" through Facebook messages as it is, I suspect you are right and this platform will take off faster then Wave!
You get the feeling, going through Ben Gurion, that these are professionals working the security line. They're efficient, polite but terse, and thorough.

They definitely do behavioral profiling, but racial profiling they do not: Arabs and Americans and Israelis, etc, could go through without minimal questioning, but there were obviously people security paid more attention to than others.

I also didn't feel like a criminal going through their airport, which, in stark contrast, I did as soon as I got back to the US and went through customs and then TSA again.
FYI: On Linux, you can do instant snapshots with LVM. This is pretty useful as it's possible to snapshot an InnoDB database as it's running without losing data.
That probably underestimates what it would cost us to have Israeli style security.

In the US, we would need to pay market rates for airport security personnel. In Israel, they can pay far less since much of Israel's domestic security is provided by forced labor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription#Countries_with_and...
Neither does Facebook, actually. Just a name and email address.
another set of iPad/iPhone templates for reference.

http://www.ablepear.com/resources/

There is definitely something nice about the post-its though.
...which is in turn a nod to _Categories for the Working Mathematician_ by Saunders Mac Lane (as is Clocksin's _Clause and Effect: Prolog Programming for the Working Programmer_, and probably several other books.)
What are you talking about? What functionality does an instant message application need that isn't supported? It can get push notifications if someone sends you a message. You could even leave your app running for up to 10 minutes in the background waiting for updates if you wanted (which probably matches actual usage pretty well).

What you can't do is have your app sitting in the wait queue for data coming in over the wifi because that would mean the wifi card has to run constantly. Ask Android how quickly doing that can drain your battery.
Counter examples (a few):

Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Larry David, Kafka, Schubert, Heraclitus, Beckett, Beyonce, William James, Henry James, David Foster Wallace, Winona Ryder, HP Lovecraft, Mozart, Oppenheimer, Rilke, Celine, Faulkner, Baudelaire, Newton, Nietzsche, Rachmanioff, Craig Ferguson.

One of the main thrusts of the article, that incubation of ideas often occurs during divergent thinking, does not entail that one must be in a cheerful mood (in fact, one could view many forms of depression as extended periods of divergent thinking), despite the study referenced therein, which claims "People are more likely to maintain broader attention and solve problems when they’re in a positive mood." Moreover, the studies represent data on a statistical average (and probably apply largely to settings conducive to such studies, like sorting blocks, or playing Jenga in a novel way), while many historical examples of creative minds suffered prolonged periods of depression.

Finally, I wonder, how many man-hours have been wasted on clickbait?
1) Why can I not comment on the actual post? That's a little disconcerting.

2) I don't understand the need to post by e-mail. What does that gain me? Is there any use in that other than gimmick? Wouldn't a nice site offer me more chances for formatting, etc? What is the difference between typing info into a site and into an e-mail? What is the benefit? Can't a site be easier to use than e-mail?

3) Security is not a concern? I hope you are happy with the size of your company since it can not grow, because once you become any kind of force in the market, you will have to deal with things that you may not have to deal with now.

If you can't think of any scenarios in which this is a problem, let me enlighten you:
- Lawsuits because an angry ex/employee/anyone posts items on a blog. (Yes, this can happen with other systems, but a lack of security is different from being hacked/people stealing passwords, etc).
- Competitors who want to cause you problems.
- Unhappy customers who find their site "hacked" including support time and money.
Now that the "hack" is discovered, expect more. Security through ignorance is gone once the ignorance is gone.

When you ignore warning signs because nothing bad has happened YET, get ready. Look at BP. Over 700 violations they shrugged off because it didn't affect them. Now it does and their stock, company name, and the well-being of many they affected is in the toilet.

This is your wake up call. Listen to it: don't ignore it. Security matters.
I am the original author of Hex Fiend. Like Tweak, Hex Fiend uses a BTree (actually a B+tree, which also cross-links nodes at the same level, for easy iteration). Each interior node is annotated with the amount of data contained in its subtree, so it is possible to quickly find data at an offset. I think this is the same as the author's idea.

Hex Fiend has an additional trick: it can save files in-place without needing additional disk space. It does this by computing a dependency graph, and then writing chunks in topological order. For example, say you have a 100 byte file, and the user inserts 100 bytes at the beginning. We get a graph:

[100, 200) depends on [0, 100)
[0, 100) from memory (no dependencies)

The topo sort means we'll write [100, 200) first, so its source data is not overwritten.

Here is Hex Fiend's B+tree: https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/blob/master/framework/s...
Going incognito on Chromium still gives a warning that it does little for website tracking and purely does not save browsing history.

So one can browse the finest pornography[1] without one's cohabitants finding out.

[1] https://nhentai.net/g/335688/3/
I think there is a place for "Priority: Would Accept Patch". AKA we don't think it is a bad idea (otherwise we would close) but at this point we don't think that "the developers" will ever get to it. However leave it open, people can mark interest (hopefully with a vote not a bump) or maybe even write a patch. It's not hurting anyone just sitting there.
> Is it even called a "trackpad" outside of Apple machines?

Yes.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/faqs/laptop-faqs/what-is-a-trac...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-trackpad-settings/...

http://support.blackberry.com/kb/articleDetail?articleNumber...

https://edgeup.asus.com/2019/the-asus-screenpad-2-0-lets-the...

https://wikidiff.com/trackpad/touchpad

Trackpad and touchpad are generic synonyms according to every source I can find.
Don't assume all deaf people are good readers. Text is enough different from ASL that learning to read is like learning a foreign language. Some learn to read well, but some do not. If you want the later to understand you, then text is the wrong answer.
Anarchist's Cookbook is a horrible suggestion, unless you want your 14 year old maimed or permanently jailed in a flawed pipe bomb building exercise. It is filled with dangerous and incorrect information.
> smartest crypto folks aren't software developers,

This dismisses the talents of DJB who is one of the better software developers and a very good cryptographer.
Research prototypes are usually very haphazard and have a ton of rough edges.

But this is how you try making something new to eventually work, and maybe even become the polished "best available".
He has done more good than legions of software engineers who make multiples of his income.

He has done more good than legions of CEOs who make multiples of his income.

So... what's the point?
Jim had a substantial family reason for abruptly leaving Intel. The sort of reason where you literally drop everything.
"forced labor" more like Holocaust
If that was the case, Google wouldn't be pushing Houdini, and everyone else pushing WebGL and WebGPU.

By the way, already mastered all CSS tricks to force hardware rendering?

Motif might be irrelevant, yet its ideas live on across all modern toolkits for native programming and the Web had to wait for the WPF team to bother submitting WPF grids to W3C as base concept.

Delphi and VB are doing pretty well.

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi?aldSet=en-GB

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/features/net-developme...

And their ideas influence one of the best Web RAD tools, that only we in enterprise care to use.

https://www.outsystems.com
I see a pretty linear drop in quality from Glados to Spongebob to Twilight Sparkle to the narrator from Stanley Parable to the 10th Doctor.

It seems to struggle more and more as the voices get less cartoony/exaggerated.
I exchanged some 20 e-mails with Evan over the course of just 2 hours over an unfortunate bug with Quirk that nearly cost me everything I'd entered into the app up until that point. This was some 18 months ago.

He struck me as absolutely forthcoming and genuine. He fixed the issue and gave me a year's subscription for free for reporting the bug and helping him figuring it out.

I really wish Evan wouldn't be so hard on himself. His product actually helped me a lot, and he seemed to me like he was both empathetically capable and morally competent.
Power related financial instruments are a pretty big market. People just don't know about it.
It's pretty straight forward to have both Whatsapp and [alternative messaging app] installed on your phone. You still have an SMS app on your phone, which was the primary messaging application prior to Whatsapp. A lot of people migrated to Whatsapp because it was more secure and private than SMS. Now that advantage is being questioned, I think it's logical to see a migration to something more secure or private.