jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Don't ask and hesitate, just do it and implement them. :)
"Not even business logic yet, all configuration." - You are doing something wrong then.

With JEE6 you can pretty much start writing code immediately. Without any configuration.

In the most recent Netbeans with Glassfish you can pretty much create a new JEE project and start writing POJOs with business logic, timers or REST endpoints without any configuration except simple annotations.

Netbeans will also auto-reload your code right away on the ap pserver (glassfish) so you can see it in action or debug it immediately.
back when they were simple called unibody MacBooks, and the 'pro' didn't start until you hit 15"

But yes, they're sans firewire. I know; I have one
The air canon itself is very interesting, and I don't fail to appreciate it. I'd very much enjoy seeing a video or reading in-depth about how one is designed and constructed, or about real-world uses for such a technology.

I do fail to appreciate a video that is entirely focussed on using one to knock things down, when said things are obviously constructed to be as weak and fragile as possible. Thus, the reaction of the presenter seems to me somewhat contrived and incongruous. It appears on the face to be typical over-the-top T.V. production and I, personally, don't find it particularly impressive.

Since you are obviously involved in this stuff, do you have any links to some material that talks about the technology itself? That I would appreciate.
> I think a lot of web technology could have been built earlier if people had only known it was worth building.

Well... The web browser was there in the 70's - we called it the 3278.

Now, on a more serious tone, in computing we see the worst solution gaining share over better ones on a regular basis. It's only a half-joke when I say Smalltalk 80 beats Java (or C#) 2010...
I totally agree with this. The exploitation of the human resource is true and brutal!

I grew up in Sri Lanka, and there is a relatively small yet similar situation. Workers are paid $100-200, and have the jobs hanging in a thread leaving no room for negotiations.

There is a massive environmental impact as well. Those big companies often don't play by the rules, and often pollute the water ways, air, etc because who cares if they make money.
Seems like this is where a generator and appropriate hookup for powering (primarily?) a gas furnace might not be a terrible thing. Unfortunately almost all homes regardless of source will lose heat if the power goes out because of fans and furnace control.
Priors matter here, as we have no good data to actually verify or refute the issue, because Chinese gov't won't release the early data for scientific community at large around the world to analyze. So you can only rely on:

- do I trust the WHO
- do I trust the CCP

I don't really trust either - but this is just my opinion, based on my interpretation of historical events and evidence. We are all adults here, we can choose to agree or disagree - that's what makes forums and free speech really work.

Some of my reasons for my choice to not trust the CCP:

The Chinese government has numerous reports of it conducting human rights abuses against Uighurs and other populations (Falun Gong, etc). There is constant state denial, but in my eyes, the evidence is compelling. Let's not play the "oh but other countries do this too" - other countries are not relevant to the issue at hand, and my opinion on them is similarly irrelevant here.

If you want to be absolutely pedantic, sure, we have no evidence to conclusively say anything - we also can't say evolution is correct, but it's the most likely theory given prior evidence. Note that my original post says that we have no smoking gun evidence (and again, I'd really want to stress, my original post was OPINION. It was meant in passing, but somehow it got the attention of people on both sides who clearly have a bone to pick).

But, in the "balance of probabilities", my priors suggest to me that I wouldn't trust the CCP. I'm not saying I'm right. I'm not saying you need to believe me. I am simply exercising my right to say my opinion, based on what I think are fairly reasonable priors given CCP track record.

CCP isn't an evil regime, which I feel like is what some of the stauncher replies in this thread feel that any criticism of the party secretly says. They've done great things for the country and its people. Healthcare, stability, infrastructure, and tried to right the wrongs of Mao and the GLF. But that doesn't mean you have to trust everything a government says. Your parents provide you with food and shelter, it doesn't mean you need to blindly believe that they are incapable of doing dishonest things.

This is also not an attack on the Chinese people, contrary to some silly posts I've seen saying "demonizing the CCP means demonizing thr Chinese people". I totally understand why Chinese people tolerate the government. When you emerged from a generation that suffered incredible rural poverty, like my own family, a government that promises you a stable paycheck, food, and housing seems reasonable to support and stay loyal to. I am fortunate enough that my father was talented and lucky enough to be able to leave for a country where we could obtain those things without needing to profess that loyalty unflinchingly.
Not only do bonds yield nothing, they yield less than zero once you consider inflation. And long bonds yield near zero but...you have huge bond price risk if rates rise again.

There is no real choice now, you have to park the cash somewhere...and so it ends up everywhere from stocks to commercial real estate to VC (and eventually into our tech salaries, into rent, to the landlord, to the bank, and back into MBS in institutions :-)
When I see a video I want to watch, I always cluck watch later. I'm at like 600 videos. Right now, my second last added video, from 2 days ago, was deleted.

In my list I have at least 30 deleted videos.
I ought to proofread my comments before submitting, apologies.

Unless stablecoins, custodial or noncustodial, gain widespread adoption, DeFi will remain as a niche for hardcore crypto fans.*
If you cannot see the conflict interest here then there is a big problem.

You cannot have people responsible for policy also being paid by organisations that they are meant to oversee. The biggest thing that keeps a democracy a democracy is trust in institutions. The last two decades we have lost an immense amount of trust in our institutions, and it is going to be very difficult to get it back. Speaking fees of $800 000 for former public servants and public servants to be anointed does not help.
Not tried with a digital camcorder, but I can do all that with my phone using Ubuntu on my four-year-old desktop, so can my mother on her two-year-old Dell laptop. It isn't as smooth as on OS X, but it's definitely possible.
OSS is an opportunity. It's not about the software; it's about the services and the ecosystem. There are a lot of people making money from Wordpress plugins, themes, and development.
Managing a playlist (sorting and searching multiple fields) is easier with some kind of DB layer. Usually those blobs are either MS Jet DB (MS Access) or SQLLite and can be opened for inspection/export. Unless of course of the blob is in a proprietary binary format in which case it's all about vendor lock in.
This is why we need a distributed system like OpenBazaar.
That replaces the character under the cursor, it doesn't insert a new one.
I have no knowledge; I suppose some are, some are not - yet, that's not illegal and not what Hollywood accounting is all about.

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Ikea and anyone else who can are all doing the same (google "Double Irish Sandwhich" for an example). I think it should be illegal, but apparently it isn't, and if Apple can do it, Hollywood can too.

Hollywood accounting is all about making sure that there is no direct profit booked, so that profit sharing (which they manage to sell even to people who should know better like Stan Lee) essentially become free labor/assets.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?keywords=packt+publishing&...

I got "Building Machine Learning Systems with Python".
> where countryside and suburban living is prevalent. It's just impractical, so cars reign supreme

That a car is practical in many situations, i have no doubt. However being on the countryside doesn't mean you can't get trains near you. Half a century ago in France most folks on the countryside had a train station within walking range (or at least biking range) with a few trains going through every day.

But these stations/rails have been discontinued in orchestrated policies dismantling public services (along with the hospitals, schools, etc). You can clearly see the result of such policy on a map of railway networks in France through time:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Railway_...

Simply because modern capitalist politics consider the countryside as an enormous farm or waste dump doesn't mean it is the only way.

Also related, some french regions still have countryside buses going regularly and for a cheap fare (1-2€). It's simply a matter of policy/will.
100%,

I hate their new releases, it makes me feel duped. My team has so much pain working with amplify. The very basics of their API functionality and lambda layers are extremely broken and it seems like it will be impossible to scale beyond a team of 5 people without insane conflicts.
Two weeks notice? Only if the company cares about reputation, there’s zero legal requirement for notice or severance.

It is also pitifully easy to be denied unemployment. 8 years ago I was laid off from a failing startup with the option of 1 week’s severance or 2 weeks if we signed non-disparage / non-entice.

Everyone who choose 1 week was “fired for cause” and had their unemployment contested. Mine was contested after 4 months and I was forced to pay it back with a 50% “fraud” fee.

In America money talks and bullshit walks.

The irony is that this is why we hop startups every year or two. The only reliable way to get a significant income increase is to level up on popular new technologies at employer A and get employernB ton pay more.
Hmm. Cool?

I guess I don't expect my shell to do much, I reach for numpy or something when I want fancier math.

Not to knock, but what's the use case? I think I prefer bc - "10/(200.7-73.6)" is easy to look at, I don't mind the extra dependency for that.

Actually on that note what I do need to find is a proper calculator on Android, what I have found are computer algebra systems with arcane learning curves. Its surprising how bad the default calc is and nobody had made a popular good alt...
It has already happened dozens of times and no one noticed. Probably the only such fork that anyone here has heard of is Dogecoin. And, that one only took off as a collective running joke.
Right, Bitcoin is like slave trading, great point
Policy can help, good stories can do a lot of work too
“Advertising is immoral, not because it is inherently insincere, manipulative, and intrusive, but because it is inefficient.” -James Oyle, Advertising Director

so efficient advertising is moral ...
Laravel 4 http://laravel.io for large dependency heavy projects,

Slim Framework http://slimframework.com as a microframework.
Fine, they're different things. My point is that seemingly no one uses Objective C except to make proprietary Apple things. Which is fine, but I always find it annoying when people sing the praises of Objective C but avoid using it for web servers, cli applications... or anywhere else Objective C doesn't have an institutional advantage.

I think what people really like about Objective C is not Objective C but Cocoa.
scribd is a YC company. Any pdf submissions automatically get scribd.

Previous discussions:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1124940
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=175378
Tim, I imagine you'll get over here eventually, if this thread picks up steam. I've quite enjoyed and found useful many O'Reilly titles, especially the "classics" from the '90's and early on in the prior decade.

However, I've had in-depth experience with several recent O'Reilly titles that are not just somewhat worse, but frankly not at all worth the money. That have left me wondering where the hell the editor, any editor, was; not just to tidy up the language a bit, but to assess the competence of the author and the worthiness -- and correctness -- of the title's content.

My impression is that you've shifted your own attention more to the conferences and some of the forward-thinking activity going on in the Valley and beyond (e.g. "alternative" energy development). While I don't begrudge you that, part of me hopes you might cast a rather attentive, and sustained, eye upon the current state of O'Reilly's publishing activities and titles. If they aren't improved (perhaps the "Head Start" series being an exception; but that's a genre, not a publishing house), I fear for O'Reilly's future as your pre-existing momentum runs out. My selfish interest being that I could use, and would readily pay for -- as I have often in the past -- higher quality titles akin to those of yore.

Maybe my anecdotal experience is the exception, but I've been reading here and there comments from others to at least somewhat similar effect.
Seems like he's referred to frequently as 'Dr. Stallman', including on gnu.org.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Dr....
This is interesting:

"The adaptive character of the training leads to continual engagement of executive processes while only minimally allowing the development of automatic processes and task-specific strategies."

In Iconclast, Gregory Burns talks about 2 pathways in the brain, one used for tasks we know how to do and one for new tasks. Using the latter, he says, is when we are being creative. And he presents ways to use the latter more frequently.

In meditation, one of the most important lessons is to realize that there is the thinking brain, which is the conditioned mind and is concerned with time, the past and the future.

And there is the listener, the one that gets a chance to solve problems when the thinker gives up. We can't even see how it works. There is no visible linear thought process. The brain is not using that automatic pathway. It lives in and pays attention to the present, not what happened in the past or what may someday happen. It is about being present.

So training this listener part of the brain, the unconditioned part, makes sense to me. We've all known people that are stuck repeating conditioned behaviors. There's no doubt this interferes with achievement.
Or use the builtin X security extension.
Scribd links automatically generated for PDFs. I wonder if they check for mimetype, or they just assume it from the extension..
I don't think that Stallman should tone down his message. Sure, he can be rough, but so what. (I've experienced this in email with him when he asked about re-releasing some of my early Lisp books under the FSF doc license, but that is OK.) The world needs people with strong contrarian opinions and even if I don't always agree I value what they say.

Way off topic, but: I can imagine a future world where there is an underground using free software, private but linked ad-hoc networks, etc. The victories of the super rich over the rest of us in the last decade actually have me looking at fiction like the world in Gibson's 'Johnny Mnemonic' as a real possibility for the future.
Really? Exactly how?
Completely agree. I took a look at all 6 projects under your portfolio and I was underwhelmed with what I saw.

The first thing I noticed is the grammar. I get the feeling that you're not an American by birth, but you should still go through each page and fix the errors. It doesn't impress me to see a smart guy write like a first grader.

And I guess the other gripe I have is the actual designs you came up with. They're mostly uninspired and impractical. You have some really great ideas and some really bad ones. Unfortunately, the great ideas are also hampered by practical problems. The best idea is probably the large touchscreen device for creating and joining events anonymously. The problem is that there are cheaper alternatives (websites can reproduce the same functionality without requiring a large touchscreen display). Then you'd also have to be able to login with something so you can join the events, or else people can screw with you by joining over and over to blow up the numbers when there's actually no one going. This is college we're talking about and there are bound to be a few jerks.

The "Design for Sadness" and "Friend-O-Meter" ones are something kids can come up with. The "Friend-O-Meter" especially has no practical use.

The "Grocery Stop-and-Go" device might be cool if it wasn't so flawed. Groceries aren't updated all at once. I might want to buy some ramen, milk, and eggs (aha, all my examples are random) this week, but only some milk the next because I have enough of the other two. Now, if the labels were on the packaging of the individual items, it might work better. But then you'd have to figure out a way to minimize costs.

And "Textbook on iPad" is uninspired (I'd be shocked if it turns out no one has ever tried this before) and also wrong. Just wrong. In your example, the book is on the left while the dictionary is on the right. Ask yourself: How often is someone going to be interacting with the dictionary? Probably not as much as the actual book. Most people are right handed, so to change pages using your design, they'd have to awkwardly reach over to the left half of the screen and the right half becomes dead space. It's almost never interacted with (why would you need to touch a definition except if you wanted to copy and paste it?) and things would be much simpler if you swapped the two areas.

I admit that I sound really harsh here (and I'm probably a lot off-topic), but it frustrates me when people going into UX design and they completely ignore actual usability. I have no degree in UX design or anything like that (and to be clear, I have zero degrees whatsoever; I'm in high school), but it's people like me that will be using the products. And unfortunately, people like me would be frustrated by the issues that I raised up there. Looking at your resume, I see that you're pretty smart. You just need to start thinking outside of what's already been done and at the same time, finding a way to make it practical and useful.
Note that hasn't been true for years and years. -Y and -X are different.
I feel the same way. It's a bad world we live in where tech companies have to moderate the speech of everyone, but until we're out of that situation (thanks to decentralization), then reducing hate and speech that causes harm is the right move.
Cities Skylines is very nice for such traffic simulations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yITr127KZtQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17182008) (https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/7h6zr0/traf...)

https://www.youtube.com/c/BiffaPlaysIndie/search?query=lane+...

This is frequently posted here on HN.
E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632642.
The assumption of censorship is unfounded
They could have been laughing at "your hardware sucks, why don't you do software and Microsoft will do the hardware?"

And when you look at the giant-ass (and noisy-ass) box and controllers that were the first Xbox, I'd argue that Nintendo weren't too far off laughing Microsoft out of the room. Of what little I know about Nintendo, there's no way they were sticking their name on that.
Thanks for this! Someone gets it.
The old newspaper empires typically operated at the national level, rather than global level (even the Wolff/Reuters/Havas telegraph cartel operated within specific geographical boundaries). Similarly, for-profit companies with quasi-governmental powers operated within specific spheres of influence, plus they were more overt in their powers, e.g. the East India Company had a royal charter giving it the ability to wage war within their territories. Social media platforms, on the other hand, have been directly implicated in bloodshed and interfering with democratic elections all over the world for years, e.g. the Arab Spring and ensuing civil wars, foreign bot farms influencing election results, etc., all under the guise of being innocuous platforms e.g. for sharing funny cat pictures. Not suggesting they should be banned, and I don't think we should just give up and say it is too hard a problem to fix. Just finally accept that social media platforms are dangerous weapons, and treat them as such. Many countries already have good legislation around mixing politics and conventional media, we just need the the legislation to catch up with new media before too much further damage is done.
Nintendo isn't a perfect company by any means. But the are the only console/gaming company that keeps thinking outside the box.

Sony and MS: let's build a gaming PC and just have a different enclosure for it.

Nintendo: what if we try <any number of crazy and interesting ideas>.

Also: a few days ago a friend of mine got stuck with shitty mobile internet for e few days. The only gadget that by default assumed there's no internet and just kept on working with no problems was Nintendo Switch. Everything else (phones, consoles, readers etc.) just couldn't imagine a world without an internet connection and would suffer when connectivity was bad/intermittent.
The difference is massive. Destruction of property is an inconvenience. Literally interrupting the Congress' Constitutional duties is a whole new ball game. It is essentially the difference between vandalism and sedition.
That may not be intentional. Or permanent.

They may have had an accidental data loss. But more likely it is data that is rarely read so not stored in a hot cache near your edge.
You should take the next step and switch to GNU/Linux. :o)
Yes, I got this. But if your server is compromised, then the attacker can erase your backups, which ruins the point of doing backups in the first place. This is why there is an append-only mode.
> As well as cutting 98% of your workforce as no office employee knows how to work on anything different.

Techies repeating this should take a lot of the blame for why Windows still sell as well as it does.

A 50 year old electrician convinced me to start using Ubuntu 13 years ago after someone at his kids elementary school or something had told him.

UX wise Linux passed Windows in many areas around the time Ubuntu was introduced.

The only reasons now are prefererence, hard dependencies on Windows only software, stubbornness and incomptence.

Only the two first ones are good reason in my opinion.
Heck, companies are already starting to use CNAME records to fool ad/content blockers. I don't think what you're describing is far from becoming reality.
For the rest of the world, voting without proper documents screams voting fraud. It's not that black and white.
That's a pretty good example, but I wouldn't completely discount the role of cultural bias in amplifying the gender imbalance in that field.
Well, there's always the Smalltalk approach.
I suspect he may be getting downvoted for suggesting that the plaintiff had a weak case, and as one of "the 1%" was not likely to garner much sympathy with a jury. There are many better examples out there of women struggling to break through the very glass ceiling that she's spent her career strolling around on top of.
FWIW, I didn't downvote you but you're also kind of hijacking the discussion (especially since this comment is the top comment and it really shouldn't be).
http://slackhq.com/post/114696167740/march-2015-security-inc...

http://valleywag.gawker.com/slack-is-letting-anyone-peek-at-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425799

Tbh, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if these "problems" occurred after someone discovered the bug and reported it.
$33k/month severance plus benefits and bonus? It's absurd how much money venture capitalists make for essentially handing out money.
Yes, but we currently have 2.1 million users, so that's still no small burden. And don't forget that's only after you brute forced the passwords.