jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Definitely not dying. In fact I think FreeBSD will just increase in popularity in the years to come. It had a bit of a dip in the last 3-4 years, but even from that it has shown how well the project holds up.
Mandatory locks lead people to believe that they are safe. Advisory locks come with no implicit promises, so people know that they only protect against well behaved apps (generally other instances of the same program) and adjust program behavior accordingly.
Why did you stop reading there? That is the recent trend. Lots of the largest botnets have been connected with russian crime syndicates. No longer are botnets just crackers with free time on their hands.

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200912/3229
You have two options: try to change your state's policies, or move to another state. Both are easier when you're dealing with a more local government than the Federal government.

If the Fed mandated the approach the state takes, then there is much less ability to push back. That's really unfair to the citizens of the state.
Can you support a contra position? That bees are not significant pollinators? Please do not forget other Apidae family members - they probably don't benefit from pesticides either.

Oh... Another reference: http://www.pnas.org/content/99/26/16812.full - you can check references [6,7] yourself.

Edit: I apologize - since I did limit my rant to honeybees initially.
Probably because you missed the point. They aren't saying copy/paste this page and you've done it. Rather, they are providing a clear set of guidelines toward reaching your perfect landing page.

#10 on their list, in fact, discuss A/B testing.

However, that advise alone is useless. Testing whether A or B is better is useless if both A and B don't have a good foundation.
While I don't think there isn't a single canonical form for a landing page for the obvious reasons, I really appreciated the color-mood pairs at the end of the article.

I'll keep them in mind the next time I'm choosing the colour scheme for a new site.

Plus, now I can see why Facebook is all blueish.
"Well the marginal cost of a copy of [some digital good] is 0 so it isn't stealing!"

Many things DO work by this model.

ie, art. Someone may pay for the 1st copy of a Picasso at 100 million dollars (the copy that actually required talent to make), but everyone else gets it at the marginal cost, free.
Good thorough article. I think we'll soon need to make "incognito mode" the default and have to explicitly enable "social mode".
The concept of having to reinvent stuff because we lost all of the tacit knowledge associated with it is very interesting. Donald MacKenzie wrote about this in the context of nuclear weapons -
Tacit knowledge and the uninvention of nuclear weapons ( http://books.google.com/books?id=c5YaHkcP6DEC&lpg=PP1... )

It's highly recommended if you're wondering how things can get uninvented.
Peter Cooper's patient, thoughtful contributions to Hacker News are part of what made me so impressed w/this community when i first started lurking.
Actually, if you thought of something being discussed on HN today in 1843, then you deserve some recognition for age and incredible foresight.
Yep, now we get to have the App Store censorship discussion all over again.

I wonder if ad blocking will be allowed.

Edit: After reading the Safari 5 site, it's not clear that Apple will be exercising any control over extensions.
What have all the other video-calling capable phones been using thus far? Is there no existing standard?
This reminds me of MIT's BattleCode tournament - http://battlecode.mit.edu/
Yup that's the one! It was probably the most instrumental paper in making this app, along with the CLR paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01186
The car accident is different, insurance is mandatory because you also risk other people's lives.

And I don't say you shouldn't pay for your own protection, I say you can't evaluate the risk correctly and are very likely to be ready to pay too much. Which is how insurance make money.
Oregon, huh? I suggest you get a medical marijuana license and meet some people at the shops. Instant connection when you're smoking.
I believe Servo uses a particular version of Rust for 1-2 weeks, then updates to the new version. But somebody closer to the project would have to confirm that.

Servo is extremely important to the language's development because it is such a huge undertaking. Along with the self-hosting compiler, it allows the core devs to get invaluable feedback on how their language is performing practically.
Is this actually emailing the files?

> mail -s "NSYNC Backup" nsapao@nsa.gov
As a rule, screws are more expensive than glue for manufacturing.
The same reason why no one could search for "flotilla" a few weeks ago. Twitter search is often broken. It's not a conspiracy, it's just intermittent technical problems.
I think this is typically heard in response to people suggesting "learning to code on the side". You don't hear suggestions of "learning to become a lawyer/doctor on the side". Why is that?

I guess it's probably a combination of software development not requiring a license and people believing that it's easy to learn.
The smaller scale homelab/selfhosting people really need a better solution. I think open source developers do as well.

What we really need is a small easy to set up solution that provides a clear way for us to integrate our app into it.

My ideal would be something that

* Supports ldap and OIDC

* Can be deployed to docker using one compose file

* Only needs to support hundreds of users (keep it simple, easy to deploy, and able to run on a raspberry pi)

* Provides basic user management, I want to be able to put users into groups and (if the app supports it) use those groups for in-app ACL.

If that service worked well in my homelab (a single-pc docker swarm that runs a few private web services like jellyfin) I'd very likely end up deploying it on my employers infrastructure. My employer is a small business with maybe ~30 users.

I'm not sure how to convert something like that into sales though. Still, starting with an open-source solution that solves problems for the little guys often has a "trickle up" effect.

Right now I'm looking towards https://github.com/sonicnkt/glauth-ui/ to solve that problem, but it's definitely not anywhere near there yet.
It's a hard problem to crack. Some legitimate places need to be able to call you without you knowing them ahead of time. Say your sibling was mugged in Mexico and the local little police station let them borrow the landline to call the only number they still remember without having to check their contacts in their phone. Are you not going to pick up?

There are a lot of these little edge-cases. Journalists, lawyers representing class action suits, government id expiring, and so on.
The answer to that is in the article. The information is accessible. It is possible to become a programmer without any formal certification, all the information is out there.

AFAIK all the jobs you mentioned need a formal certification. You can't become a doctor without going to med school. You can't become a lawyer without passing the bar.

Even if you don't (not sure about a car mechanic, depending on the country), it's a lot a harder to get your hands on a car to tinker with than it is to download some framework and watch a get started video.

That's what the author said with programming is accessible. It is very easy to get started which is often misrepresented as "it's easy".

No one would say "becoming a doctor is easy" because you're never gonna be a doctor from online documentation and YouTube videos so there is no incentive to frame it that way.
People in upper middle class U.S. circles have a very skewed perception of the popularity of iPhones (almost everyone has them). The vast majority of mobile phones in use worldwide run Android.
Sports are / can be massively nerdy tbh, some of them crunch more numbers and statistics than the average Eve Online spreadsheet warrior. And the bigger fans cosplay to the sports conventions.

Also, there's Football Manager, which takes the 'playing football' game out of the game.
Sadly, I've had that a number of times too. People can be quite inventive, and painful.
those are only i5 and the usable resolution is really low on the 13. i can bump it up really high but that will be pretty useless. i have one on hand that i used for a couple of days and didnt find it comfortable
I've been meaning to try Rogue's PDX carpet beer [1].

[1] http://buy.rogue.com/rogue-pdx-carpet-ipa/
I just wanted to comment on how evil facebook is, but I've decided not to. I think there are enough people here who think the same. What facebook is doing is probably just an example of "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish" [0], though, I understand that their decision is not the same what microsoft did back then.

So to my point: Do you really think facebook is doing this only out of pure 'evilness'. They were probably facing various of problems with XMPP, and already switched with their infrastructure from XMPP to their own 'inventions'. If their own development is already proven to be working, they don't have a reason to stay at the expensive XMPP protocol.

[1] & [2]: I understand why XMPP can be nice to build into your applications (there's even a social network based on XMPP), especially in the early stage, but when you go big - or mobile, I guess the 'flaws' in the protocol are just becoming annoying
(Disclaimer I've no clue what I'm writing about) I wonder why there is no better open protocol or standard for text chat, and if - how can we encourage facebook & other giants to use it. I'm curious how tox [3] is going to do in near future. At the moment, it feels like XMPP is the only open chat solution, which no-one can touch since Pidgin, Adium & Gajim are all broken (I'm still thankful for this tools!).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2069810

[2]: http://about.psyc.eu/Jabber#Technical_Issues_in_Jabber

[3]: https://wiki.tox.im/Main_Page
Let's hope for an official desktop client of Messenger...
Most systems I know which require this just do at-least once on the sending side and dedupe on the receiving side. If you build this into your framework, to applications you have exactly-once barring unbounded partitions and the like.
I used to be a heavy facebook user. Now I log in once a week for messages.

Privacy was not the major contributing factor of me stopping the usage of facebook, but how "nosy" I felt in other peoples lives when I don't even talk to them. The more I used facebook the more alone I felt.

Another issue was the cluttered feel to it. The addition of a twitter clone feed made everything feel like an "all-in-one" solution.

After going on a month long without Facebook, whenever I met my colleages, I would have a lot more to say to them and genuinely ask questions about whats going on in their lives. I default alot less to my phone after I meet with friends.
Well, Android's Bluetooth stack is being rewritten in Rust so you probably can go pretty far in memory-safe languages (though of course Rust isn't a managed language, just a safe one).
I had almost exactly that conversation recently. Now I wish I'd done my homework more, since that conversation led to a 1 year subscription. They've also already ran into the limits of the editor as a casual user on the premium plan. My first thought after finding out about the lock-in was to advise them to get a refund, but that trustpilot page Matt linked makes me believe it would just be a waste of time.
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Wow great work tga, love it!!
I'm willing to believe that a delivery service is more efficient than me personally driving an empty car to pick up something and bring it home. I'm just saying, depending on how stuff is tabulated, one could systematically over-state the emission reductions associated with being a daily cyclist.
Depends on what they did. If Twitch lets, say, the Unibomber stream video, it looks bad to advertisers (Twitch's customers). They don't want to be associated with that.

It all makes sense when you look at it from a money angle rather than an ethical angle.
The guy came off as somewhat of a twat based on that. OK, people are dying in Africa. Does that make NSA spying ok?

He ended a little better by making the point that we should be doing more than just talking, we should be building technical defenses against such things as NSA spying. It's a reasonable point, but I think he was just trying to be edgy in his talk.
That is a static page.
"I want to run my own company and have plenty of money,"

There are plenty of ways you could be 'free' without owning a company. We all need FU money, but if 'freedom' is the ultimate goal, you could reduce your wants and probably have FU money after a year or so at a decent job, then move to some asian island and live decently off the interest.

That's not the 'freedom' most of us aspire to though. :)
I don't see what you mean.

The wording of the article has changed since I quoted it, but the meaning is the same; the material "can only be examined for national security purposes, judges say."

The police seized the material precisely because it constituted a national security concern.
don't think it's about being against the electric car, but against a world where car dealerships are unnecessary. car dealerships will eventually go the way of the book store. they don't want a world in which they aren't the very profitable middle men between the consumer and the manufacturer. tesla's direct consumer sales threatens their existence, so they want nothing to do with it.
It's not meant to replace AdWords but instead provide automated daily emails in an easy-to-digest format that gets the most important points across quickly.
I've been pondering that too.

You know what makes sense to me? MS is only broken according to engineers inside and people in the SV echochamber. They've got piles of cash, they generate piles of cash, they pay a dividend... Other than equity prices, they look pretty good. They were late to search but bing has carved out a niche, late to mobile but they've got a niche, late to games but they look like they are doing just fine there. Vista, Windows 8, RT and Surface seem to be missteps but they are still shipping numbers that most companies would be envious of.

If they were or are bothered by the flat equity prices, why did it take so long? And to be very honest, the engineers I've spoke to that have mentioned "problems" within the company generally have options that have been underwater, FWIW.

I think Ballmer and upper management think they are doing just fine, they think there is a competitive landscape but they are still making tons of money and leading a few sectors. He reorged them for what he sees as the next 10 years or something and he's going to find a replacement that sees his vision. They won't pull an outsider and probably don't see the need as there isn't anything "broken" that needs to be "changed." I predict no big changes.
Without wanting to agree or disagree with the parent discussion, one very plausible answer is simply that they had hundreds of millions and felt an obligation to invest it in support of their market ecosystem.
Account 46 days old. I assume you're a troll, so probably not, no.
when I was 6 (back in the 70s) and I had the croup the Dr. wrote a perscription but told my folks "you can save some money by making your own cough syrup with 1/3 honey, 1/3 lemon juice, and 1/3 whiskey". That was good stuff.
unfortunately cygwin takes a lot longer to start than cmd, so I use it only occasionally. are there any fixes for that maybe? :)
What about the other pollutants dumped by fracking?
Ahh yeah makes sense. Both the summaries have the same number stating the combined total of both towers (2603). Best I can figure is 2603 + 88 (Flight 11) + 59 (Flight 175) + 10 hijackers = 2760
I was thinking the same thing. Since the gene certainly isn't very long the best champions could be stored, until a better champion is found.
Dress for it and strap them on. It's not hard.
Kate Crawford is a famous researcher who focuses on social implications and ethics of AI, so kudos to her for being able to get her work into Nature so reliably!
As an aside, that would be a real feat to ONLY publish papers in Nature, I wonder if anyone ever was able to do that.
Addable<T> should evaluate to bool, so you can actually use it with a plain if.

But a plain if requires both true and false branches to type check and if your T is not actually addable and you use operator+ in the true branch you will get a compilation error.
In some jurisdictions it definitely is a criminal offense and is compared to theft in the law itself thanks to unregulated lobbying of media conglomerates.

edit: I'm not saying it's good that it has become equivated to theft, we have anti-pirate legislation to thank for this. I would call pirating infringement, but license violation is much more akin to theft than anything.
I found setting my phone to black-and-white makes me want to look at it less.

On iPhone, the setting is buried under accessibility > display and text size > color filters
MS has nothing near as simple.
typed pwd got search results.
"Are you ashamed that you find Facebook boring?"

Why, yes.

"Are you angst-ridden by your weak social-networking skills?"

My God man, you are reading my mind

"Do you look with envy on those whose friend-count dwarfs your own?"

Sorry, no, you don't get 3 yes.

http://changingminds.org/techniques/resisting/yes_yes_no.htm

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/sales/closing/yes-set_c...

When I read the first couple sentences, I felt this guy was trying to sell us something and not necessarily trying to inform us, and what do you know, he is promoting his book at the bottom.
In the case of the hair dryer, it really is much more efficient than any competitor. My wife saves 5+ minutes a day over other hair dryers.
In this case many of the manufacturers are American.

Secondly, the government can purchase the vaccine at “market price” and then distribute it at a fixed price. There’s no need to have price gouging (at least given a certain supply in the US)
I would hope anyone who made it through A US K-12 education would be able to do their own taxes if all they have is W-2. Even 1099/student loan interest deductions/etc is pretty easy.

I would say it only gets really complicated once you venture into dealing with equity and AMT and stuff.

It’s funny though that people will scour the web and clip coupons to save money, but they won’t research how their biggest expense (tax) is calculated.
Nothing is ever perfect doesn't mean whatever response to the situation is okay. Like I said, the response was a bit too strong though.
I'm personally more in favour of supporting Android development in a teaching environment for one simple reason: you don't need a Chromebook to develop for Android, but you do need a Mac to develop for iOS. Even if you own an iPhone, running an Android emulator is free and easy. If you own an Android, there's no way to run a simulated iPhone without more accompanying hardware. If you've purchased a Windows-based laptop at the start of your education, you're basically locked out of the iOS course unless you borrow someone else's Macbook or start messing with horrible virtual machine solutions that violate the EULA.

I don't even think for a second that Google's docs are any better than Apple's. In fact, I think they're much worse. What I intended to convey with that paragraph is that I don't think that Apple should be the educator that teaches people to code for mobile.

I haven't kept up with Android's new APIs but I do know that Android is great for backwards compatibility. If you know the basics for Android, you can adapt to whatever fancy framework Google pumps out this year quite fast, or you can choose to stick to the "traditional" API that'll always be supported. Normal apps can do just fine without even some of the older stuff like fragments. Whatever Google is doing, is not necessarily the best way to develop code for their platforms.
I don't believe the American culture is capable of dealing with major crises, particularly crises that require people to pull together.
[author] Power Editor was originally written by a brilliant engineer named Vladimir Kolesnikov (yes, all by one engineer), and he was solving a very specific problem of letting customers scale their ad spend. So he chose a technology that let them download all of their ad account locally to disk, do all their work, then upload it again.

WebSQL was flexible, fast and easy to work with. It's a real shame it was deprecated to be honest
In Go, malformed UTF-8 encodings are expected

They are handled in a well-defined and graceful manner by all aspects of the language, runtime, and library
A more charitable interpretation: "everyone who wants a Discord account can have one with almost no effort." Indeed, a person without a Discord account can click an invite link, click a few more times, and be chatting in a server (claiming your nick/setting a password is a few more clicks IIRC). Can the same be said for IRC/Matrix/email?

IRC: maybe, I've seen some webchat frontends that make it really easy to start. but people expect voice chat, embeds, etc so IRC doesn't really cut it anymore (which I find very sad)
I don’t know of anyone at those companies using clojure and I haven’t seen any tech blogposts by those companies about using clojure. If clojure exists at those companies I imagine it’s a small very niche team.
Yeah - after the previous day's discussion on how pretty much every existing Secure Boot implementation was vulnerable to kernel-level attack, it was nice to hear about something that was fully prevented by Secure Boot.
> I don't understand how anyone managed to get as far as even operating a Bitcoin wallet and somehow never learned basics like "don't click blindly on email attachments".

Perhaps you're not the best person to be giving security advice if you don't understand why people - even those who should know better - click on email attachments?
> In server-rendered app, there's nothing like UI state.

Of course there is.

For example, any state related to interactivity like forms, client-side validation, widgets, filters, etc.
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