jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Honorable mentions that broke HN's character limit:

Want something that's a little bit of everything, with a fantastic interface for an SNS, and the entire kitchen sink of features? Try Misskey: https://join.misskey.page/en/

(Warning, Misskey is written by native Japanese speakers, and you'll find very few English speakers who know the software if you need one, for whatever reason.)

Want something like SoundCloud for your music library? FunkWhale's really cool, and similarly has a really nice interface: https://funkwhale.audio/
No, its not just an oversimplification. It's entirely incorrect. Most psychedelic drugs are very low in toxicity, to the extent that they can accurately be called non toxic.
In any discussion about Delphi, you really should also mention Lazarus (https://www.lazarus-ide.org/). It's more mature (i.e. more cross platform) than Delphi, and fully open source. It's based on the Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) (https://www.freepascal.org/) (also open source).
Please embrace the visitors. You share this planet with them. Your fear of losing your resources is natural, but they weren't yours to begin with.

If you still want your special benefits on Earth, well thats what politics is for.
Why an entirely new class? Why not just pass a constructor argument to specify joining behavior? It's not like there's any reason to believe this is the only thing we'll ever want to customize for a thread.
yes open an issue on GitHub https://github.com/davidesantangelo/dato.rss/issues
https://prohardver.hu/forum/index.html

Hungarian tech forum; think tech only reddit. The thinkpad thread used to host quite a decent knowledge in the x200 modding era.

http://www.elektro.zolee.hu/rajz_lista.php

Oldschool electronic circuit board drawings, also Hungarian.
> That's an exaggeration. At worst its 50%, but usually its ~80%.

That's too high. In London getting 80% of equivalent pre-tax salaries in a big US city is virtually impossible. And then 1/3 of it goes to taxes and national insurance deductions.
Completely agree, would not want to live in China either.

My comment was a response to parent, who feels betrayed by science, because lockdowns were supposed to work.

What I will say though is that there is no win scenario. It's lose-lose, either way. A non-Covid world does not exist anymore. Lockdowns come with exactly the downsides you describe. No lockdowns come with an overload of the health care system and high death tolls. Light lockdowns are a combination of both.

Both proponents and opponents share the same motivations by the way - to be able to see relatives, meet other people etc.
Why is there a war for my data with these big companies, who do NOT have our best interests in mind, and never will?

For the same reason as there is a war for your money by big companies. This is how capitalism works. Except with data, it's worse: because people will use free services in preference to paid services, and because network effects are so strong (you can't be the only person you know using your chat service), services have to be "free" and extract value in other, exploitative ways.

Someone has to do the organisation and make it work. IRC makes the users do more of that work. This is true of open systems in general. Proprietary systems end up more convenient but with underhanded ways of paying for it: selling your data, intrusive advertising, etc.
I sense the whole area of domain-specific languages is due for a belated renaissance.

Everybody shirks away from it, but most languages are not very good for solving most problems and the standard libraries bloat out as more and more gets crammed in.

I don't think in a commercial context we can all step back and say "to solve this problem, let's first design an appropriate language" but as a means to define the problem better, or to encapsulate learning we've made in building a prototype in a general language, it can be very powerful.

If you aren't able to best describe the problem space, how do you intend to solve a problem within it?
1. That would be an issue of environment configuration not language.

2. This is saying nothing. C is designed as a programming language but it's certainly possible to shoot your foot off with it as well. Go isn't going to protect you from using exec in a dumb way, or from unsanitized data by default, or by screwing up your file outputs.
> The two with discussion are certainly relevant.
> The others were not. To me, they served only to
> give the false impression that this has been
> discussed a lot more than it actually has.

That's why I said how many comment there were - to give the data that there were lots of submissions, not all of which had generated discussions.

> So I guess that explains why you
> began with 'oh no, not again'

Yeah, OK, point taken. I guess I've just been around too long and read too much stuff. I went away for a while and have only just started to read again, but I guess I'm still too jaundiced.

I'll go away again. Sorry.

Do you want me to delete the comment? I think there's still time.
Instant messaging was useful to non-tech users since the days before web 2.0. Don't you remember AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger?
It depends how UBI is funded. If it's based on consumption then the people buying your cars end up paying more (say 20%), the additional amount goes to fund UBI. When you buy raw materials and machinery for your factory you pay more (just as the consumers do) which goes to fund UBI. So instead of 10 robots maybe you can only purchase 8 for your factory, initially.

In most places within the US we pay state and local sales taxes today. If we eliminated income tax, AMT, and other taxes on earnings and instead went after consumption, I think it would be a simpler system with fewer loopholes. Obviously transactions between individuals wouldn't be taxed unless there was a way to enforce it (e.g. make eBay capture that 20% consumption tax) but we have that issue today with the states trying to figure out how they can tax online sales.
Thanks for the link to matrix.org. I hadn't heard of it, and I wish them success. I don't think XMPP is awful, and I think the reasons for its failure have been political/social/cultural rather than technical, but if Matrix can get more traction, then more power to them.
Old woman=this artist and all artists. Proselytizers=Google rep. The Book=Google's service contract.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFUW6htvUss
It's not ethical for a distributor to strong-arm the hands that feed it on a 5 year basis, no matter how small a slice of the pie it may be.

Google has DMCA takedown capabilities. I'd suggest simply hiring a third party to monitor Google and send appropriate take-down notices. Then, on an annual basis, submit the invoice to Google. It's dirty pool, but then again, when has the music industry ever been a transparent and constructive and profitable enterprise for anybody outside of the top 1% of performers/acts/songwriters?
You basically described what's wrong with caputalism in general. And I agree. Everybody shits their pants when there is a statue erected for the big leader but somehow noon really seems to care about the impact of big Corp to the same effect which is EXTREMELY troubling
I don't see where 'security' fits in with this.
I built everything myself from scratch in regards to the maps. This includes all vector paths (you wouldn't believe how much work this is), JQuery & Raphael interaction. There is also some websockets goodness. 90% of everything is handled in the background then pushed to browsers via websockets (for browser which support them).

To get location I do a variety of things mostly based off of the IP address of a user. However, I've built up a lot of meta data around locations which I may release later on down the road. Happy to talk more if you want to email me.
I think you miss the point in that expression. It isn't advice, nor is it literal. They are words of encouragement, of optimism and hope. I don't even think kids understand what it means.
"don't try too hard"
I used to be a star student/great work ethic. then i figured that i was working too hard thanks to this advise and my work ethic became horrible and i am struggling to keep my grades. always work at full capacity. itll get you places in life
Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1944418

ICE is part of Homeland Security, which makes sense because they are the homeland's 'perimeter defense' to some extent, but they aren't solely concerned with finding terrorists, it's immigration and customs.
"I want you to hit me as hard as you can." A whole downward spiral started from there. Until I hit bottom. :-D
There are all sorts of interesting and useful things you can do with them: monitor/troubleshoot various AM devices around the house (weather stations, garage door openers etc), tune in to a number of amateur radio bands (there's surprising amount of traffic on them), receive NOAA weather broadcasts, aircraft broadcasts, debug DIY projects (433MHz transmitters etc.)... there's a lot of stuff being broadcast in the frequencies that these dongles can receive. You just need a decent antenna[1] and to explore the spectrum around you a bit.

Granted, the absolute most common cases are out of reach with the cheap dongles due to frequency, bandwidth and encryption issues (i.e. ATSC, Wifi, Bluetooth) So they're not going to be terribly interesting to the average consumer but they are very handy little devices for hackers with any interest in RF.

[1] The default antennas they ship are not useful over a wide range of frequencies and/or for weak signals
Now call qsort with a closure.
> such as the Chicago(?) judge getting a kickback for every juvenile sent into the system.

the "kids for cash" scandal was in Pennsylvania unless you were thinking of another case where that was going on.
Oh you bet Pipes was a godsend for anyone gaming Google SERPs at the time!
It's actually because we programmers like to recreate things, because there's this itch and wonder about how stuff works.
Http hasn't changed that much.

Html did. It was hyper text, and rendering was done for document flow.

Then we could script a bit, and soon after we wanted "webapplications". Now, we lost probably 15 years trying to fit in an application-ui and lifecycle model in a document-flow model.

Html, or rather xml, or rather trees, are a good way to represent a user interface. Unfortunately back then, the only languages available were C++ and Java for any proper work oh yeah, and visual basic!).

Javascript, php, and perl were a godsend in terms of productivity. Just like the 80s home computers and basic. It just worked. Type and run. This is also why bad badsoftware gets popular btw..

Coming back to the post.. Lynx renders HTML how it was intended: as a document.
I thought the same when I started with this project.

It turns out making it an open source library with decent documentation, landing page, tests, edge cases covered, etc takes much longer than I expected.

I wish it had been just 15 minutes but I am happy people liked it, that made the work totally worth the effort.
a11y = accessibility; I had to look it up so I'll save everyone else the trouble.
They also have actual fonts:

https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads
I dislike this essay’s use of the concept of heresey. Heresy had force back in the day when religious orders had hegemonic control over society. That’s no longer the case today. I know that’s not what PG means by his use of the term, but there’s no reflection in this peice about the metaphorical use of the concept.

Furthermore, the argument is fundamentally flawed. What consitutes heresy is entirely contingent upon the prevailing societal order’s judgements. Let’s put aside the problematic use of heresey for a second and deal with PG’s actual argument—which is that it’s good to go after ideas that the majority of society either doesn’t recognize or sees as anathema. This quality alone doesn’t prove the marker of a good idea. For all the « heretical » ideas like Darwin’s and Galilleo’s that proved lifechanging, there are a horde that were useless of harmful.

The value in these thinker’s ideas has almost nothing to do with their heretical nature, which is a politico-religious quality—that these ideas are felt as « life-altering » in history may have something to do with their heretical nature (since they necessarily flew in the face of the prevailihg order of the day) but their fame and historical import does not actually have anything to do with their theoretic rigor, scientific value, or general usefulness.

I don’t really see the point of this essay other than to say « think outside the box » in a quite clunky way by arguing from history and making some dubious claims (e.g. the essay seems to suggest that chasing heresies is an operable method to make novel discoveries while neither of the examples it uses are evidence of this methodology—while the discoveries may have been heretical, its unlikely Darwin or Galileo chased the discoveries on account of their heretical status).
You have a point, in that these trends are not worldwide (and that there's a much bigger inverse trend in Asia)
If that happens, it will be a loss for Google.

Bing Maps will do fine. Bing search will do fine for a large percentage of users. Youtube will be missed but its web app is pretty good now.
Did anyone else instinctively highlight the end of this to see the spoilers?
Great, drop a line to greg@bizo.com - he can get you started and answer any questions you have
I think that Stallman is discussing 2 points at the same time.
First thing is freedom of data (easy import/export and ability to completely delete your data from a SaaS app) - in the world where each MB of information is replicated around 7 times (archiving, backup, replication etc.) and therefore it's virtually impossible to delete information...

Second thing - free software - you have no control of the app when it's run by the service provider. Again - reality is that most of the people can not read code and sourcode or even executable binary is almost equal to 90% of the population. Biggest advantage of SaaS is that it can provide value that normal "behind the firewall" software can not match. What kind of value? I.e. cost reduction (thanks to consolidation effect). This leads us to the democratization of access to the computing power/software power - and it's, after all, what Stallman is all about, right?
I doubt anyone reads into what you've written as bashing. There is a definite complexity cost to using macros, but as you will hear often... avoid using them unless you absolutely need to... and even then try using a function. A similar sentiment can be said for monkey patching, metaclasses, and eigenclasses. They are advanced techniques that introduce complexity and should be avoided if at all possible. It's the cost of power I suppose.
uhm "The United States Army Institute of Heraldry has plans for flags with up to 56 stars"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Institute_of...
http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/
how do you think em-dosbox compares to jsdosbox?
Just follow Asimov's laws of robotics:

0) A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
You can rebase commits in your feature branch as well and clean up the history. Having separate and small commits also helps in blaming and looking at the history do figure out why a certain change is in there.

If you squash all the commits you probably should summarize all the commits into that single commit message which is also work if done properly.

In the end it's preference and how your developers create commits and documment them.
One trick I used at university was if there was a course I wanted to sit in on, I would just show up, sit in the back and listen.

Most classes are so big you can slip in there under the radar.

Dont wait or let some professor tell you can't take a course.

Get the reading material, do the assignments, and learn what you want.
Fantastic. The second article seems exactly what I was looking for.

Also appreciate the article references workarounds (eg., use trunk version of plugin). I'm suspicious of articles suggesting everything "just works".

Thank you, Otto.
I mean, let's imagine for a moment that it's reasonable to treat everyone who doesn't speak your language as the vanguard of a situation such as you describe. Is Lisbon a dystopia we should fear becoming?

Returning to the first point, we've had a lot of non-english-speaking immigrants over the years and no plausible threat to the primacy of English in the US. Shouldn't that be reason to think "maybe the thing I fear won't happen"?
Also "plan's fail in startups".
Unless you aren't charging your users money, you will make that money back from improved retention.
All I want is to be able to buy another 50-100GB, even at a premium.
sorry but what is the point of the post? what are you implying?
Define "fair". You can't just s/equal/fair/. If you meant "equal", say it. Don't argue morals by wordplay.
As to income viability...

The large government run National Household Education Survery which is the best data available shows little difference in homeschool and public income demographics. Over the last 4 surveys('99,'03,'07,'11) homeschoolers have had ~20% in poverty and 50+% within 200% of poverty.

http://www.responsiblehomeschooling.org/homeschooling-101/ho... is a decent summary of the data with links to the most recent Department of Education surveys.

http://www.responsiblehomeschooling.org/wp-content/uploads/2... is a single graph of the above data from 2003
12703 / 7098 = 1.78965x.

So a 6.7% increase in intrest rate (3.2 vs 3.0) makes a 79% difference in return after 300 years.
Of the three, my guess would be making web-form creation accessible to people who could not do it before. While it's great to save time, that's a percentage improvement; whereas making the impossible possible is of a different order altogether. It's also to get people to adopt if they haven't already invested in a way of doing it that is already working for them (even if it is inefficient etc) - change is hard when you have bigger problems to worry about. But that's just my guess - I'd love to hear from the wufoo team...

But I agree with you about the support, design etc. There are a few companies providing online forms. Technically, it's not that hard to do; and I had a quick play with a competitor, that seemed pretty good. So I guess the "what people want" above just defines the mini "industry" of online forms - if Wufoo's is within an industry, its success must be based on additional factors, like the ones you mention.
Whoa - you can't attack another user like that on HN, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are on other topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When I first moved out to Woodland Hills, I could walk from my apartment to Frys easily. I bought more junk than I really needed because of that arrangement, but I guess not enough to keep 'em in business. :'(
It’s like gen 3 crypto, incepted in 2017. I’m a believer in their platform and governance models, and enjoy their fast, cheap transactions today. IOHK is delivering something with vast consequence, generally on schedule. They will lag until dev adoption takes off, but then I have high hopes for the network and protocol to deliver on early crypto promises.
> easier to divide and transact and verify ownership

Yes, in the presence of high tech infrastructure, but otherwise impossible.

Gold coins carry on working no matter what the nazis do to the internet and the chip foundries.
I fly Southwest quite a bit (well, did before covid...) because their routes and timing work well for me. But I absolutely despise their boarding system. Or, at least, I despise the lack of seat assignments. I care a lot about what seat I get (I travel quite a bit, and know what makes me most comfortable), and I hate feeling like I have to 1) get an early boarding number, 2) make sure I hover around the gate early so I don't miss my turn, and 3) hope there aren't a ton of through passengers in order to get a seat I like. Assigned seats obviously do not guarantee me my ideal seat, but at least I have a fighting chance (sometimes I will pay for an upgrade depending on what's available and whether I have status on that airline), and I don't have to stress about where I'm going to end up.

What matters more to me? Being comfortable for the 2-5 hours I'm in the air, or shaving 10 minutes off of the time it takes to get on and off of the plane? It's a no brainer.

I ABSOLUTELY realize that in the grand scheme of things, this is an incredibly minor issue. There are much bigger problems in the world. But if I'm going to be flying a lot, as I have during certain career phases, every little thing that makes it a little more comfortable or less stressful does make a difference. And for me, the Southwest seating/boarding system adds stress.
And then this one time, bitcoin went all the way up to $30 and then crashed all the way down to $13.

And another time bitcoin went all the way up to $1100 and then crashed all the way down to $200.

So the moral of this story is don't buy bitcoin. You know it's going to crash.
Yes but only for irreversible computation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
Who is everyone that you refer to ? One thing I can certainly say is that US isn't the only one that interferes. China is a growing power with intention to dominate. We're already aware of the cyber attacks that have originated from China. It makes sense that their intervention goes beyond hacking for weapon blueprints.
So basically they were late by 13 years as checksum and delayed reaction to tampering was already used in FTL's dungeon master.

Even better, there is a very detailed post about it: http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/210
Weren't multiple plots already common in soap operas before the 1980s? In fact, I believe Soap (the sitcom, from the late 70s) already had them, as well as long running storylines, much like the shows it was parodying.
No, just keep the trash for yourself
P-values aren't probabilities you should multiply or add.

At best you're computing odds according to the null hypothesis (probably not what you indented). At worst it's as meaningless as adding meters to seconds.
The handlers give the dogs false cues, obviously.
It's pretty damaged as a brand, so that's a tough call. The one area where they seemed to maintain some strength even as they were fading, was in the music area, so I'd probably try to do something there. Maybe drop everything else and focus on being the premier place for artists to interact with fans, sell music online, etc. If possible, maybe partner with the major labels for rights to sell digital tracks of mainstream artists, and then go heavy on music / artist discovery / recommendations, etc.
The 10,000 hours theory though requires something called Deliberate Practice. The theory notes the difference between simply doing something a lot, versus doing something with the intent to get better, presumably with some form of feedback.
This is a hacker community. It will take all of 24 hours for purpose-built bookmarklets or even browser extensions to appear.
While I do not agree with the patent bullying especially because the said patent was very general, I would not go to the extent to say "they didn't even use computer vision or any algorithms for most of their matching". I know a couple of smart computer vision engineers who worked there, and probably the stuff done "by hand in other countries" was getting the training data and getting a lot of it, which I think is fair.