jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I went back to Winwdows after a long hiatus for my 'personal' laptop. The OS definitely doesn't have as much polish but I've been quietly impressed.

I'm not a developer, but I am developer-adjacent, and I really struggled to get set up with WSL. Even using some guides like this:
https://char.gd/blog/2017/how-to-set-up-the-perfect-modern-d...

I'll probably have to start it again from afresh, I just found setting up WSL unintuitive and the relationship between WSL and Windows confusing. I believe the situation was previously much worse so forward progress I suppose.

Things I like about Windows:

- Windows take up more space on the screen. When maximized, there's no title bar and sizing icons taking up space like on MacOS. For example, Chrome tabs are right up to the top of the screen without going full screen.

- There's a program for everything. I've been able to play games I used to from 20 years ago and where they don't work out of the box (some do), someone has made a utility to make it all work. I'd forgotten the advantage of Windows having so many more users.
> Buying back shares knowing they're massively overvalued would be destroying shareholder value.

That is an interesting way of putting it. Sam Palmisano took IBM on a massive buyback program a decade ago, and nothing about IBM since then has refuted your thesis!

https://mbiconcepts.com/do-stock-buybacks-work.html
I'm not a teacher but I totally feel you. Everytime I see someone take a screenshot using their phone, I cringe. Especially when it's a developer who should know better. And especially when they could have simply copied the source code as text, which would have enabled me to copy and run it instantly.
> I actually implemented a high traffic RoR payment provider on minimal infra ( 1 small VPS ), and benchmarked a couple of Python CMSes and compared them to WP.

I'd like to see your results if you still have them.
Policies written with a more holistic view would say "lets spot check these masks, and for masks we find that is sub-par we will fine the importer some smallish amount that approximates the economic effect of the deficiency".

For example, if the standard says "must reduce particulates by 95%", yet the mask reduces particulates by 94%, then it might be reasonable to fine the importer (6-5)/5 = 20% of the value of the goods.

The key is to try to encourage all products to be as good as possible, without introducing months of delay and tens of thousands of dollars of paperwork for every product.
I'd love to see them go this route, especially with their new Chrome App Store and existing permissions system in-place. I'd personally always prefer to use existing web technologies to describe my interface rather than each OS' baked-in languages and frameworks. They could even add native client language support for high-performance apps.
You can store the highest comment id for each article: any comment with an (id > stored highest id for the current article) is new.

The hash thing is interesting for detecting edits, but since comments can be edited only for a limited amount of time (an hour maybe?) it doesn't need to be stored for a long time.

Therefore maybe you could do:

- hash => sessionStorage

- article_id;highest_comment_id => localStorage
Unitarian Universalism.

Often mistaken for Java/Christianity, from which it takes many superficial elements, but opposite in philosophy. You can do just about anything in it. Many critics call this a bad thing.
That blog post just shows a proof of concept, not official support.
In the case of web designers, the answer is surely: Yes!

In other areas of design, I think the answer is "Yes", too, but not in the sense like "every programmer should know C++/Java", but more in the sense like "every programmer should know LISP".

CSS is not so much about the handcraft of designing, but more about separating design from content. This is a principle that should be applied to any kind of design, although to a different degree. For instance, the design of a poster is naturally more coupled with the contents than the design of a booklet or website with its contents.
Hence the dark side of democracy - we have to listen to people's opinion about things they have absolutely no clue about.
> "I’m not sure how to proceed. The notion that one could print money and have each currency unit correspond to the same amount of physical goods is prima facie false."

No, it's not, you're looking at half the equation. Value of money is a function of both supply and velocity. If velocity drops but supply increases commensurately, each unit of currency corresponds to the same amount of physical goods. [1]

This should be dead obvious to you, as the money supply doubled last year but the price of Apples went up 2%. Not 100%. Same with the entire CPI basket. Housing actually got cheaper. Rent went down a ton.

> Inflation is a result of monetary policy. So when you’ve adjusted the price for the monetary policy, you see that 50 years of capital accumulation and efficiency has been soaked up by monetary policy.

We are talking in constant dollars that have a 0% notional rate of inflation. That's what inflation-adjusted means in this context.

What do you mean by "50 years of capital accumulation"? People don't accumulate or hold dollars for exactly this reason. They accumulate and hold assets and value, whose performance matches or exceeds inflation.

> Things are supposed to get cheaper as capital accumulates. Social policies undoubtedly have an effect. So does increasing the money supply. An increase in the number of currency units necessarily causes each unit to be worth less, ceteris paribus.

I'm not sure what that means. Things aren't supposed to get anything as capital accumulates.

An increase in number of currency units may or may not cause each unit to be worth less, as velocity is the missing half of the equation. With that in mind the goal is each unit to be worth 2% less each year, to incentivize higher velocity of money and investment.

It's a straw man to say that your buying power drops 2% each year as a result of inflation. You're only penalized for inflation for the period between you receiving the dollars and using them to purchase assets whose performance exceeds inflation.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/velocity.asp
I don't know anyone who uses them - or at least, nobody has ever suggested I use them. And I haven't been interested enough to try myself to consider converting other users. I've got enough communication routes already without adding a new one unless it can either replace one of the current ones (I won't get all my friends who use whatsapp to switch so it won't do that) or I need it to talk to a subset of people I know (not the case currently with hangouts - this was why I started using whatsapp in the first place, though)
What is the resolution of the device? I really doubt it will be as HD as the promo video that they created.
There's a lot of things that may or may not be "right", and I'm not trying to do them, either...
Its fairly insane to use a setup like PHP under Apache that is slow even on fast hardware on a Pi. At least use something that performs ok, like OpenResty say...
People have said as much in other places in the thread, but it's probably better to consider "log in" a phrasal verb. So your instinct ("doesn't feel right to me") is right: they form a single semantic unit. You don't log (full stop), you log in.
Seriously? It's a humorous video I thought I'd share with you. Good for you for not supporting Flash but like religion, it's your choice. I think it's probably best viewed on in IE6 for Linux!
(I presume) dmm is cracking a joke about how he thinks "cpp" should mean "C preprocessor" and not C++.
Banks that hold large amounts of cash either insure it against fire/flood/theft or self-insure with other assets - what is Coinbase's plan if these cold-storage coins are destroyed, either by malicious attempt or disaster? That link shows the coins are locked away, are apparently not accessible, but how safe are they against actual loss?
I believe the difference is that you wouldn't have to then iterate over all the futures to see which one fired, it would just return one of them.

Boilerplate prevention, I think.
I'm pretty sure that you can still deny someone a job for being a drug user, even if the drugs are legal. In fact, several of those things aren't solved merely by legalization and regulation. Overdoses happen on legal, regulated drugs all the time. A lot of drug related complications are due to mixing substances, which is not solved by legalization or regulation. Clean needles and paraphernalia are not necessarily "solved' by regulation or legalization, clean needles are available right now in any drug store.
All of the work is done at this point. And I am a bit confused, as I'm based up in Canada and they're in the U.S. We don't have 1099's and W9's here from what I understand.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Every bcrypt implementation I've seen always adds a salt as part of the algorithm itself.
CTO here. Here are some more information, we did the project in Clojure, and we are very happy with this choice :-). The other parts of our tech stack include Kafka, Postgres and Aerospike, hosted on AWS. Please feel free to ask questions or give suggestions. Thanks.
I hate to agree with you but I do. If I were a foreigner arriving at JFK I would be inclined to turn around and not come back.

I make it a point to thank every tourist I come across for visiting. I also thank Americans from other parts of the country for visiting NYC. Meeting all kinds of people from all kinds of far away places is part of the fun of living in NYC.
I highly recommend '"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing' by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein and
Russel Durst. It totally reshaped how I looked at structuring academic writing and unlike lots of books about how to write essays goes beyond common sense and the five paragraph essay structure.
We ought not to call these incidents sexual assault. It
sounds too much like hyperbole.

I fully agree: these people should talk to someone who has actually been sexually assaulted. That would probably knock some sense into them as to the difference between their experience and actual sexual assault. Being thoroughly frisked, in public, in broad light, where nothing bad could possibly happen, is being compared to being helpless and alone, with, usually, someone making violent threats that is doing far worse things than touching you? It's about as insensitive as you can get.

This bit is completely inexplicable:

I had indeed been sexually assaulted because she did not
follow the SOP (standard operating procedure) for the new
search.

During our first conversation, the TSA acting manager of
the shift told me that the TSA agent who sexually
assaulted me was supposed to inform me about the new
search procedure and tell me when and where she was going
to touch me

So let me get this straight: if the TSA agent had done the exact same thing, but would have commented on it a moment before doing it, it wouldn't have been sexual assault? Since when does sexual assault depend on the perpetrator announcing his actions?
If you are looking at writing gpu code checkout http://www.tidepowerd.com/ startup in this area, just released their first beta, a .net gpu library/compiler

edit: gnu->gpu, for a harsh downvote, iPad auto correct :)
Looks like the Tidepowerd beta came out with perfect timing, must give this a spin http://www.tidepowerd.com/ compile .net code to gpu.

P.s. Disclaimer, they are friends of mine, the beta is pretty epic!
According to the various definitions on http://www.google.com/search?q=define:+sexual+assault it seems to me that she was in fact sexually assaulted. Getting touched in private parts without consent is an assault of sexual nature.

There are other sexual assault cases that are much more severe but you can't discount stealing $1,000 just because there are cases of people stealing $1,000,000. Theft is still theft and sexual assault is still sexual assault regardless of severity.
Are you looking for speakers? I might be flying into India in december and would be interested in checking it out. Let me know. Contact info in profile.
It was also attempted murder and torture, in addition to sexual assault at its very worst.
clickable: http://eatdrink.it/
It's a moderation nightmare. Facebook is a toxic name to many people. If I were Tim Cook I would leave social networks well alone to keep the Apple brand clean, if for no other reason.

I don't think Google+ ever got to the scale where that was an issue.
Thanks a lot for your reply!

Scraping websites can be quite the messy business, since some websites change their document structure more often than others.

Nonetheless, it's still a very instructive activity and you can build quite the pipeline around it (scraping multiple websites, joining datasets, efficiently storing the data, etc.).
Mailinator also added the Private Domains feature back in October:

http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2014/10/mailinator-launches-p...
I was born in 1988. I have no memory of the Soviet Union. I distinctly remember Clinton taking office however. I also remember all of the wars in the 90s amongst former USSR states, in some cases civil wars.

There is almost no way someone my age could believe the Soviet Union boogeyman theory, because it never really existed in our lifetime. Yet, people still seem to believe that the US government is somehow incorruptible.
"Yes. In fact, the Chinese sent 90 tons of plasma to Italy."

That's impressive. I wonder how many individual donations that maps to. And how many people that could treat.

Edit: Trying to answer my own question. Typical blood donation is 470ml. That weighs about 0.5 kilograms. Plasma is roughly half of what's in your blood, so half that again... 0.25 kilograms. So assuming they meant metric ton (1000Kg), 4000 individual donations per ton. 90 tons is then 360,000 donations. Did I miss some math? That's, um...wow. Maybe the 90 tons includes bags, boxes, pallets, etc?

No idea how many that treats though.
”It is however, not designed to give people who are only casually following the project an overview of all the work that's going on and why it's happening.

The NEWS file may not be designed for that, but IMO, it still is way better than this text, which, for casual followers, doesn’t say much more than “1.4 replaces 1.3, no breaking changes, a few new features”, without even mentioning those features, or why they were added.

Maybe, combining the two in a single document, and copy-pasting NEWS.md in the announcement, would decrease the amount of work and improve things?
I'm not the OP, but the world just lost hundreds of trillions of dollars of wealth over the past month

Folks wealthy enough to own equity lost wealth, that's a pretty small minority though. That it's a eye popping amount of money just goes to show how unequally wealth is distributed.

When people start going hungry because of a lack of income, then we can really start comparing the harm of containment to the harm of the pandemic itself.

Dead people don't eat. People too sick to work in America won't have any income. With enough incapacitated and dead you'll still have your economic harm, only this time with a lot more dead bodies. If your customers are incapacitated / sick, dead, or too destitute (as a result of expensive medical care) they're not going to provide you any income either.

Folks in the UK/EU will have some safety net, what happens if/when this explodes in India? Iran has a rather large middle class (especially considering the region). With the mass graves that they're building, how much economic productivity do you think's been sucked out of Iran? Do you think the CCP quarantined 100 million people on a whim without a care in the world for their economy?

In the immediate term there's also a price war going on between Russia and Saudi Arabia. That is a much bigger deal right now.

Longer term we've already got a number of high profile politicians (and immediate family) with the virus (e.g. wives of the Spanish and Canadian PMs, various American congress critters, UK MPs, etc., etc.). What's a power vacuum going to do to the economy? My guess is: nothing good.
Those ideas may be important. but they aren't valuable.

Valuable ideas are protectable.

Valuable ideas are quite often, unique and relatively secret(for example, secret in your industry).

Often valuable ideas are not just a one liner. That's just lazy. But they're a deep, complex understanding about something.

Valuable ideas allow great amplification of execution, where a small amount execution can create large rewards.

And let's say you're just mediocre at execution. But you have valuable ideas, often.

Couldn't you join a startup, help it succeed and possibly rewarded handsomely ?

Couldn't you join a big co., and become a very useful employee and be rewarded for it ?
1. That's exactly one of my points. I don't thing it is necessary for a user to stick with one system as they grow. A user may prefer to start with a very simple tool, use it for a while, then move on to a more powerful but somewhat more complex tool. I guess it is a difference of opinion there.

2. I had also tried out LispWorks and Allegro CL. It was a while ago, so don't remember exact details, but IIRC, either or both of them was not so easy to _use_ as Corman Lisp was - for beginners, mind you. Both were easy to install though.
Note: I am not criticizing those two products on grounds of technical quality. I had read up a lot about Lisp in general, plus specifically about various prominent companies and individuals in the field, and the work that they had done, earlier, before trying out these tools, and so I know that both of those companies are by very accomplished Lisp people. It's just that I didn't find them that easy to use as a beginner to Lisp, compared to Corman Lisp.
We preferably launch once in a while. ;-)
This is not really a launch btw, although it's getting a launch with upvotes on HN this time. But I just wanted to show the current state of WifiMask, it took some time to work on it more and there is still a lot of work to do, like Android and Windows apps.
It's for a non-open-source operating system anyway, who cares ;p
Am I missing something? That Asus is 1.9KG and 2.5cm thick.
The current-gen 13" MBA is 1.3KG and 0.3-1.7cm thick? So the Asus is 50% heavier and twice the thickness.

The Adamo is also considerably heavier than the MBA at 1.8KG (and 1.64cm thick)
Not sure why you are getting down-voted. I have 2 MBPs. One is s ~3 year old running 10.5 and his baby sister running 10.6.

This is entirely subjective per my experience:

- the 10.5 'feels' more responsive.

- the beachball is a very frequent event in the 10.6, specially Safari, sometimes even when switching tabs which is quite annoying.

- I haven't rebooted the old MBP in months. Sitting pretty on my desk. The new one has frozen few times and occasionally I feel the need to put it out of its misery myself.
> from each according to their ability

Good to see a bit of Marxism/Communism on HN occasionally! -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abil...
I think that workflow might work if people (maintainers) are submitting HTML or README.md's or whatever for their docs. But for 'collaboration' with visitors/readers, it would need t be simple. I personally wouldn't want to pull out the command line and git clone, edit, commit, push just to get some tweaks or examples added to the docs unless it was a project I contributed to regularly.

Another thing that might come in handy is something like code review tools that let you add comments for specific line numbers -- but for sections/paragraphs of the documentation. This could also serve as a revision history discussion as well as questions/comments on the information
Did anyone else immediately think of the ubiquitous blue and yellow tropical bird that uses the exact shades of blue and yellow that the ugly website example in this article uses? Just do an image search for 'blue yellow bird,' and you'll find multiple examples.

Looking to nature for inspiration is a great idea, but like anything else, it's not perfect. There are still plenty of color schemes in nature that either A) look horrible, or B) look horrible out of their specific context.
I would like to see someone buy Twitter, if only to have a different set of engineers and product people tackle their issues. I find twitter search to be very useful in theory, but useless in practice. Mostly I get the "older tweets for <term> are unavailable" message.

If it takes an acquisition to make Twitter more useful, I'm all for it.
>Replace "poor" with "startup", "poverty" with "solvency", and this post becomes very germane.

Thank you
Ok.

> Stock buy backs make stock prices go up. Dividends do not.

Not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_discount_model

> If an executive is paid in stock, and has compensation tied to stock price then there is an incentive to conduct stock buy backs and not issue dividends.

You're touching on agency costs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_cost), which is a broader issue than stock buybacks. Management can always game their actions to favor their self-interest (compensation) over shareholder interests. They can also choose to invest in projects that will make the company look good in the short-term at the expense of long-term profits to shareholders, because management can always just stick around for a few year before shit hits the fan. See, e.g. what Jack Welch did to GE https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/ge-ceo-feud-welch-vs-imm...

My point is the fact that share buybacks are yet another avenue for management to mismanage a company for their own benefit doesn't make them bad per se, or worse than stock dividends. Investors should evaluate share buybacks on a case-by-case basis to assess whether they believe

The solution is improved corporate governance predicated on having an top-tier Board of Director structure with a significant share of independent directors vs. an entrenched BoD. That's why ESG is an increasingly relevant theme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%2C_social_and_co...
Great idea about sharing the ideas around. I can use this idea, but currently 100% of my local friends are non-technical, still it'd be interesting to show an idea to friends. Friend-development approach?
Boomers also lost jobs to overseas manufacturing. Rural America was hit hardest, boomers there too. Now, only some boomers profited directly from this and indirectly all did by getting more bang for the dollar for manufactured products. Little did they know that the real bill comes decades later.
>if it becomes permanent they are taking a hit to their retirement savings.

This would be amazing. Imagine all the talent that would be freed into real problems.

BTW: I remember while working in the financial sector, in the financial bubble, how terrified they were if markets were to be corrected, like they did.
If it just sets the "do not track" header, you don't necessarily know whether the user is in private browsing or just always has that enabled. I think adding the extra identifying bit to the sea of identifying information would be worth it if we had regulation (with teeth!) around what sites were/were not allowed to do with "do not track" on.
I've used Rancher and while it is very nice it still punts a lot of the hard bits like interacting with the outside network, vm creation, and storage (especially shared persistent storage) to the ops team to figure out.

Creating a big-ole cluster of app servers was never really the hard ops problem which is what k8s does really well.
The SE is fantastic as it’s much cheaper and works well. I switched from an XS and years of latest models and forgot how much I love thumb reader over face.

Apple Pay in particular is better with thumb reader instead of the tap, look at, tap again buggy process.
What would happen if I wanted only some fields to be required? To borrow from the GP example, something like this:

struct Person<F> {
pub name: F<String>,
pub age: Option<u32>,
}

With `Person<Box>` still leaving `age` as optional.