jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> why Microsoft didn't spin off FoxPro in the same way

They have Microsoft Access, which is the sort of spiritual heir to FoxPro, and is bundled with higher tiers of Microsoft Office. Access has lots of users across industries.

Access is bundled with 'Pro' editions of Office and [Office] 365 Business Standard.

Wikipedia has an interesting account of how post-acquisition FoxPro and Access were developed in parallel. Looking at both[1], it seems that the critical point was when Office 2007 was being developed, when Access got a new file format (presumably making it future-ready). FoxPro's demise was announced shortly after Office 2007 was released, although it was supported till Jan 2015.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_FoxPro
Australia has the same the population as metro Manila. It's simply not a big deal for Google other than the precedent set for other markets.
It might be assumed that the movement of larvae is dictated by ocean currents, but recent research has shown they have some ability to select currents and may therefore be able to return to the reef they came from—explaining relatedness among fish on a reef.

Cool.
I haven't followed budgie in a couple of years, but the last I understood about it, it might not be technically accurate to say it's based on GNOME *Shell*, but it's absolutely based on GNOME, the desktop stack. Just to clarify your clarification. :)

Budgie can't even comfortably coexist with GNOME Shell on the same OS installation- That's how much it shares with GNOME. If you change your settings in GNOME Shell with the Settings app, it *will* affect your Budgie session.

Maybe you shouldn't say it's "based off of GNOME Shell", but it's probably accurate to say that Budgie is an alternative Shell for GNOME.

Also, I remember a ton of hype for Budgie 11 from years ago already. And that was when Ikey was still smashing out code for the project. I even remember Solus devs at the time saying they might never actually do version 11 because they had fixed and worked around some of the issues that they thought they wouldn't be able to in 10.4(?).

So, is Budgie 11 actually going to happen?
"I can't wait to start embedding indecipherable state machines in my code using this new pattern matching thing!"
Thanks for posting. I was a Clipper app developer in the 80's and early 90's, and seeing my old friends TBColumn() and TBrowse() just gave me a rush of nostalgia :)
governments simply have to make it illegal to transact anonymously

Making something illegal does not give a government control over it. Many websites/apps are illegal in many countries. Yet governments have near zero control over their citizens using those products. VPN.
For example, for cookies, legally force, with the cookie (with a standard protocol), transmit of "intent", like cross-site tracking, whether it is used for advertisement or something else, whether it may be shared with third parties, etc. Then the browser would simply not accept cookies with intent the surfer disagrees with.

And then you get Facebook spending millions of dollars taking out full-page ads in newspapers telling people that you are an evil demon who kicks puppies and hates small businesses.

(Ever notice that when Facebook wants to reach the most people, and the most important people, it uses newspapers, rather than its own platform?)
Maybe the user used their domain as hostname.
It's totally over my head. The final screen needs a button for "don't get it" or "annoyed at the pretentiousness".
> as measured by the Winklevoss IndexSM (“Winkdex®”)
The Economist has lead editorials, and then more in-depth articles. B) is a leader (you can even see it in the URL), A) is the more in-depth article. You can see them both listed here: http://www.economist.com/printedition/2015-01-24

I think that they make a lot of good points, and think it's a good article (I subscribe to The Economist), but also think it's primarily a political subject and discussion.
i received one a few days ago, i just deleted it :)
And after following this advice, you end up with a system that can fail to fork() even when half of the computer's memory is free. This can also turn your once-working server into an unreliable toy.

(Also, see the comments in the original article that talk about vm.overcommit_memory=2 not actually doing what it claims to do...)
That's also part of the fiction book "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson.

Looking at conventional hard drives we see pretty strong magnets a few CM away from the platters so you'd need something freaking huge to wipe the drives passing theough a doorway.
How is that law morally wrong? Couldn't they forcing you to breathe smoke be seen as an aggression? The same way they blasting you with very loud noise would be an aggression. Just because it's invisible or not solid it doesn't mean it's not violence. Let alone the danger of literally playing with fire in a closed space.
> getLine >>= (return . (++) "Hello, ") >>= putStrLn

A pointfree solution - if you want one - would be more in the form of:

getLine >>= putStrLn . ("Hello, " ++)

It's really mostly about getting used reading pointfree style, but
there's certainly an overuse of pointfree style in some Haskell code,
then it gets pointless.
He was looking at a Facebook feed, not porn. Although it could have been food porn.

Still a strange example to ask for funding: with this device your employees can easily pretend they're working while wasting time on Facebook.
> Which is always true, at least in the US. The police are allowed to lie to you during questioning. They are allowed to claim they have evidence that they do not have. No amount of lying on their part will invalidate any "confession" they obtain from you. But if you even inadvertently tell the police something that is untrue, you can end up in prison for that, even if you committed no other crime. NEVER talk to the police, if there is any chance they suspect you are involved with a crime.

While police are allowed to lie, are they allowed to lie to you with regards to what rights you may or may not have? Naively, it would seem so but I'm not aware of any language explicitly allowing deceit on the part of police.
The defendant made the remark “we both know what’s on there”.

I assume the prosecution has evidence.
"Finally, teams with more women outperformed teams with more men. Indeed, it appeared that it was not “diversity” (having equal numbers of men and women) that mattered for a team’s intelligence, but simply having more women."

They explicitly claim "more women = better performace" and not adding one woman improves the male team's performance.

I assume this is highly dependend on the task and male teams make up for their weaknesses with other qualities in the long-term, like ambition and persistency.
Collection literals have been explored by http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/186, have a look at the mailing list discussions on that.
It's pretty weird indeed. Think of the misery of a traveler from/to Nepal who has to do the extra mental math every time to figure out the time for another place.

They could have settled for an easier time, considering the country stretches over quite a few longitudes. Don't know what was the logic here!
Everyone in America is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. Everyone in the startup world is a temporarily embarrassed Steve Jobs.
Privacy, as it exists today, is entirely a modern invention. For most of human history people lived in small groups where everyone knew everyone else very well. It was not until industrialisation that we had mega cities where no one knows anyone.
> Please do not baselessly accuse me of being "disingenuous," I'm trying to help you.

Help me with what exactly? Am I in need of saving for my denial of The One True UNIX Way?

> If you won't use GoboLinux or ask packagers to make AppImages for the apps you want then I don't know what to say, those are solutions to your problem.

There are lots of reasons I don't use GoboLinux, not the least of which is that I don't think compiling applications from source is a reasonable application distribution method in 2021. As for asking application developers to make AppImages: why do you assume that I don't?

Regardless, the point is that the "Linux filesystem organization story" referred to by the parent is neither GoboLinux nor a bunch of AppImages and you are being disingenuous to pretend otherwise. It's a tired old Linux Desktop evangelism tactic roughly equivalent to "well, Linux is just a kernel...", which is to say that the argument is that what Linux Desktop (and by extension its filesystem organization) is is so ill defined that it can be whatever you want it to be -- provided you write most of it yourself, from the kernel up, like Android.

However there is a clear "way things are done" for the vast, vast majority of Linux distros and that is obviously what's being talked about here.
re: 50% gain, why not use a trailing stop loss at that point? If I'm trading/investing it's to make money so I want as much as I can get.
well, when the bad players write more illegal stock to bail themselves out and that's allowed, they are just pushing the problem down the road.
I’m really worried about this and I think it’s going to be a massive problem in the next few decades if trends continue. Especially because society’s views on what is acceptable changes with each generation. What we say today may be perfectly acceptable now, but can be considered hateful or [xyz]-phobic in the future.

I try to tread carefully but even still, everything I have ever posted can be taken wildly out of context and used against me by some activist in the future.
Let me try to do some quick mapping...

> load balancer provider

consul connect handles this, how you get traffic to the ingresses is still DIY... kinda. you can also use consul catalog + traefik (I've actually put in some PRs myself to make traefik work with a really huge consul catalog so you can scale it to fronting thousands of services at once). there's also fabio. you can also get bgp ip injection with consul via https://github.com/mayuresh82/gocast run as a system job to get traffic to any LB (or any workload) if that's an option.

i've also ran haproxy and openresty without any problems getting stuff from consul catalog via nomad's template stanza and just signaling them on catalog changes.

> storage provider

anything CSI that doesn't have a 100% reliance on k8s works. if you're also just running docker underneath you can use anything compatible with docker volumes, like Portworx.

> ingress controller

consul connect ingress! or traefik, both kinda serve double duty here.

> external DNS

no good story here -- with one exception, if by "external" you mean "in the same DC but not the same host," consul provides a full DNS interface that we get a lot of mileage out of.

if you're managing everything with terraform though there's no reason you can't tie tf applies to route53/ns1/dyn or anything else though!

> monitoring

open up consul/nomad's prometheus settings and schedule vmagent on each node as a system job to scrape and dump somewhere. :)

we also use/have used/will use telegraf in some situations -- victoriametrics outright accepts influx protocol so you can do telegraf/vector => victoriametrics if you want to do that instead.

> secret encryption

this is all vault. don't be afraid of vault! vault is probably hashicorp's best product and it seems heavy but it's really not.

there's a lot here that doesn't really compare at all, like the exec/raw_exec drivers. we use those today to run some exotic workloads that do really poorly in containers or that have special networking needs that can map into containers but require a lot of extra operational effort, e.g.: glb-director and haproxy running GUE tunnels.

something interesting about the above is i'm testing putting the above in the same network namespace, so you can have containerized and non-containerized workloads in the same network cgroup namespace so you can share local networking across different task runners.
I do not think that this scheme would be effective toward your goal and it may be illegal, but I am interested in the discussion that it might incite.
Hm. Strange. How'd you get your Shoes? Did you compile it?
Facts play a depressingly small part in politics and (perhaps even more depressingly so), studies/surveys and casual observations show that pointing out various facts to people does not actually change their opinions. Try talking about income inequality to a Tea Partier and you'll get the same reaction that an evangelical christian has to evolution. Moreover, this is certainly not an American phenomenon - I see it US politics, Canadian politics, and if I paid enough attention, I'd show up in European and other politics as well.
I guess the idea is that recording and copying the PIN is harder than recording and copying a signature.
I wouldn't be surprised if most respondents are answering as if the question were about income rather than wealth.
An interesting idea in theory, but I'm pretty sure this has been addressed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
"The typical person lost more because a bigger percentage of their wealth in 2007 had been the value of their home," said Heidi Shierholz, an economist with EPI.

Cheap credit seems to have wiped out the very people it should have helped most (according to activists, anyway). There goes the decades old policy of "home owning".

It should be clear by now that having a mortgage does not make you a home owner, just a renter who can't move out.

A couple "underwater" is very nearly chained to the land; moving out means a huge credit rating hit, so they'd be reluctant to seek a better job in another city.
No, grabbed the latest Ubuntu package. I'll try compiling now.
Sure, that is fine. You can give away your copy to someone else. However no one who did not buy the book directly from me can become an affiliate. The system still works like an MLM scheme with a $0 cost per item.
Cryptocurrency discussions pop up multiple times a week. We really don't need to upvote garbage articles just so we can have another one.
> You... you do realize that you can’t order a PC laptop with a Mac trackpad, right?

You can as long as you can order x86 Macs with Bootcamp.

> No one is like, “I could have the Mac trackpad for the same cost, but I prefer the stuttery trackpad that moves the cursor and selects bleep when my palm gets too close”.

No, but there are plenty of people who think “I prefer no trackpad to accidentally swipe [—even if palm rejection is perfect, I want total hand —including finger— rejection—] at all”, from people who buy Macs and use the setting Apple provides to disable the trackpad when mice are plugged in, to people who use their Mac as a PC laptop and manually disable the trackpad (https://www.lakshmikanth.com/how-to-disable-trackpad-on-boot...), to people who try to more permanently disconnect broken old Mac trackpads (https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/386625/macbook-pro...), to people who physically disconnect their trackpads, to people who buy old thinkpads because eg. at least some x200s have only a trackpoint and fingerprint sensor.
> My main Twitter complaint is the ads. There are so many and they suck.

There are no ads in third party clients such as Tweetbot.
> In Australia I pay about ~28% of my salary in tax. 2% is for medicare ...

This is a common misunderstanding in Australia.

The Medicare levy, as it's called, is an administration levy, not a 'this all goes to healthcare, and healthcare is only funded by this' tax.

Originally set in 1984 at 1% and guaranteed to never to go up <tm>, it is now at 2%.

(Aside - within two years it was raised to 1.25%, then in 1993 bumped to 1.4%, in 1995 raised to 1.5%, in 1996 the Howard government set a temporary <sic> increase to 1.7% (ostensibly related to gun control costs) which did drop back in to 1.5% the following year, but in 1999 there was an attempt to bump it up again to 'cover the costs of our military involvement in East Timor' - this didn't happen, but it speaks volumes. In 2010 we suffered the regrettable corruption of 'if you earn more than ~$100k AUD you will pay an additional 1.25-1.5% unless you buy private health insurance'. Further fiddling got us to where we are now. Much sad.)

Point being it's incorrect, and quite misleading, to assert that 2% of your salary 'is for medicare', as a simple breakdown for public health shows that, per-dollar, it's somewhere in the range of 10-25%, though because money is fungible, budgets are intentionally fuzzy, and definitions of healthcare somewhat flexible, an exact figure isn't easy to determine.
like I mentioned above, it is speculated that they are the ones who are printing the tether, then use that to buy bitcoin. They are then probably hoping that whoever receives tether for selling their bitcoin does not immediately want usd, but instead is happy with the tether as it is 'backed 1:1'. (Again, I have to stress that this is a theory i read somewhere on the internet, while lots of things add up, it may also be completely off.)

They 'pump the market' because buying bitcoin increases its scarcity, thus raising the price.
Yeah, when data piled up I had to think about how to store it, RAM, and a bunch of other things that I didn't have to consider with sample data. Specifically RAM and how to transform data without so much need of it was a concern for some time.
In the computer example, someone using the envelope system would decide not to buy the computer if the balance in the appropriate account was short. It’s just a different approach to timing and limiting purchases.
I use incognito mode _almost exclusively_ for SFW content. Heck, I use at least five browsers, container tabs, private modes, etc, and have rotating external IP endpoints as well as using Duck Duck Go. I have a pihole, and OS level application firewalls.

I've got a PhD and I find the lengths required to have some modicum of privacy on the internet truly insane, and at times, a little technologically annoying (especially when you have to debug which random script broke a particular page). The other trouble is of course apps: android is just a _dumpster fire_ and every MS product causes an awful lot of blocklist entries to mobile.pipe.aria.microsoft.com.

_Something_ new would be nice, but I fundamentally think that Google is the most conflicted company possible to deliver it.
Also "hardware companies are still stuck way in the past" is only true for some hardware companies. Recently got into music production and lots of hardware comes with schematics of the inner workings with descriptions on how it all works and is connected, together with implementation guides for MIDI and more. Night and day if you compare to how computer hardware gets sold today.
Like I said, everyone wants to be a middleman and get a piece of the action, and your usage data.

The end game should look just like pumping gas. Maybe even take cash at the dispenser. I bring this up at work. Build what vehicle owners want, not what industry investors want.
I was finally able to login into Coinbase and do what I wanted to do.
Apple isn’t selling my data to advertisers, and I personally believe Facebook and it’s business model are abhorrent. If they can’t yet be legislated out of existence, I’ll happily take Apple’s efforts in the interim.
How much does it weigh?
Still a little fuzzy on the details but it sounds like its not supposed to replace email, but instead enhance it with an overlay service?

My understanding is that Email is being replaced for many (younger peeps) by SMS, IM and Facebook messaging already. Its funny when I look at it I actually rarely send notes to friends with my personal email anymore. Email has become my professional way to communicate but with Friends and Family its fading away. It looks like Facebook is trying to capitalize on this trend by adding an overlay on top of all those services.

I have to say this is really in some ways more interesting then an Fmail announcment.
trying to understand the stream. Facebook emails' biggest feature is similar to gmails priority inbox?
"100,000 times faster than today's" ... hard drives.
Not RAM. Or Flash.

Plus, I'm very skeptical of claims that contain weasel-words like "may" and "could" and "possibly".
tx

I'd apply for 10-20 jobs from Warsaw, then come over, stay a week...

that's exactly what I'm going to do

so I don't think the Airbus style jobs are really available here

what is an 'airbus style job'? :)
"Instant Preview" has to be the single worst change that google ever made to their search pages. I'm at the verge of switching to bing for a while because I keep triggering these god-awful popups by accident.
It's definitely a stretch, but did anyone else notice the similarities between the apple teaser page and the beatles help album cover?
I found Sublime Merge -- although it may have been version 1 when I tried it! -- very unintuitive and fiddly, a lot like using Vim for doing three-way merges. Definitely one of those "YMMV" kinds of tools. (I mean, I'm sure Vim is terrific at it once you get the hang of it.)

Personally, I've settled on

* Getting pretty familiar with the git command line

* Using a decent GUI diff and three-way merge tool (I use Kaleidoscope)

* Using GitUp, an open source Mac git client, on occasions where I want to get kind of arcane: committing individual lines of files in separate commits, re-ordering commits (on an unmerged feature branch because I'm not a complete monster), etc.

I suspect having already discovered GitUp is a good chunk of why I didn't get into Sublime Merge; it can do a lot of advanced stuff in ways I personally find easier to grok.
In my opinion, Shopify is the best and the most powerful eCommerce platform. I suggest that you read this unbiased review - http://www.webbuildersguide.com/website-builders-reviews/sho... . At first, I was looking at Shopify and Bigcommerce. I think Shopify has a easier user interface so that makes setting up much easier.
Most people just can't comprehend not being completely binary on their politics.

People here are calling Barricade Garage far right. The slightest amount of effort spent looking into what he says and how he says it should let anyone know his views can't possibly be that simple.
OK thats interesting.
For reference thats 59 Bruto (before tax) 36 after tax, medical, social contribution, mandatory pension etc.

A friend just left for a 70K

So to put that in perspective

I live my partner, and pay 600 for rent, warm for 120m2
The place was a dump when we moved in 10 years ago but we renovated it ourselves (a proper Grundsanierung)
Shared expenses come to about 600 for my portion. We split expenses based on salary, so my partner contributes 400 as she earns less.

So from the 3k after tax, 1.2k is fixed expenses, 0.5k is fun, 1.3k is savings.

We just bought a plot of land north of Berlin with a few friends (again, cheaper! and more fun!) and am building a little off grid cabin with that spare time.
Doing stuff like that with a group is just great. Its a break from this idea that it needs to be allll miiiiiiine! (evil villain voice), splits costs and splits workloads (you try mowing all that grass....)
>your absence will not be noticed for long periods of time

Be still my heart
When processes crash or corrupt memory they don't bring all the application down with them like threads, hence why security focused architectures have moved back to processes after the thread adoption hype.
I don't think that's a law.