jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, I forced myself to use it because I am well aware that even now, linux is not perfect. and back when I forced myself to try out OS X it was a fair bit less perfect still, Case in point, it was not a flawless install on this notebook I am currently using it on, I had to fiddle and experiment and google to get the video settings just right because the internal hardware is by no means standard (two video cards, one for high power low battery life, one the other way around).

Things like that I frankly don't want to have to deal with and if I could have the power of Linux with someone else handling setup for me so it all "just works" as Apple afficionados are so found of saying; I'd be all over it.

I was even prepared to sacrifice some of that power so I wouldn't have to deal with it. But at the end of the day it simply did not cut the mustard.

Mouse acceleration curve was infuriatingly bad, the interface was bland and ugly to the point of distraction, I hated the iconoclastic keyboard layout seemingly designed just to show the rest of the world how smart Apple is for putting the control key near the space bar. There was at the time no way to get the functionality offered by the compiz grid plugin, nor GL zoom, nor the multitude of plugins I make use of in various linux programs all the time, and the spaces implementation was clunky by comparison to the compiz based version of the same.

And all to boot I was ticked off at having to pay Apple to cripple me in all of the above fashions and accept an inferior CPU/memory/hdd to boot.
http://www.bcheck.net/apps/hoe.htm
She must be pretty damn happy with it, if you're getting away with browsing news.yc whilst on honeymoon :)
I've known about it for ages, but assumed it was very CT-focused so only now really dug into the site and registered. It does look like the go-to place for local startupy types, thanks!
They'll be kicked out of the committees that allow them access to that classified data and will be unable to do anything further to try and fight these things.
jailbroken users can install a opt-out pref : http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/164789333/a-pinch-too-much
True, but they are the best defence we currently have available.

I would like it if the largest players in email (Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, AOL) got together to organise the creation of an independent not-for-profit organisation which would run a public whitelist. They could set a cut off date after which they would no longer accept email from non-whitelisted addresses.

Email admins who don't usually pay much attention would suddenly notice their mail being rejected, would be forced to register on the whitelist, and would ideally implement the db themselves on their systems.

The difficult part would be deciding how IPs get onto the whitelist and under what circumstances they are removed. And its day to day management of course.
You can't really compress encrypted data. If it's encrypted it looks more or less like random data. So any encryption is very likely to result in a (minor) size increase, when compared to the original.
I understand that we need to be careful take precautions and all that but come-on we closed down an entire terminal because somebody shipped a computer monitor? If a dog smells explosives, fine, shut down the airport, but just because a monitor releases some radiation (which it's supposed to do) doesn't mean we need to shut down an entire terminal while we wait for an all clear.
You're correct. UDID, for example, is part of that "normal connected functionality."

Transmitting location, gender and all the other data specifically to advertisers is NOT part of normal functionality.
The Government's problem with an opt-in system is that once you agree it should be an opt-in system, who says it has to be a Government opt-in system? Why not a private service? How will they ratchet from an opt-in to an opt-out to a mandatory system if they aren't even the ones running the opt-in system?
Like you surmised - that breaks the rules.

And since a quine is generally "just" a brain-teaser rather then a useful tool - where's the fun in breaking the rules? :)
Here's the actual program for the event :
http://hnkansai.doorkeeper.jp/events/8883

Planned talks

- Hosting your Photos Online

- The Life and Death of the Sega Saturn

- Bento&Co's new service coming up in Japan

- Developing with Meteor
Speaking of Fischer Black, while he worked quite a bit because he enjoyed it and was given a lot of flexibility due to his reputation, he took great pride in having the smallest percent ownership in Goldman Sachs out of any of the partners while he was there.

He was not a banker himself, and was known to play Super Mario Bros. in his office and spend his evenings at comedy clubs. And he had a bigger impact on finance than arguably any banker since JPMorgan, without working their hours.

Perry Mehrling wrote a great biography of Black which I can't recommend enough.

http://www.amazon.com/Fischer-Black-Revolutionary-Idea-Finan...
> the language itself doesn't naturally lend itself to most programmers easily finding the most succinct/powerful expressions available, instead providing a grain that favors clarity over other values

I think that can be said of pretty much all programming languages.
Looking fwd to see bignum support in ES7 fingerscrossed
'I made it so that it could parse both normal queries (eg, `?age=12&cards=visa&cards=mastercard`) and JSON (eg, `?age=12&cards=["visa","mastercard"]`).'

It's worth pointing out, since even here in 2015 people often don't realize this, that the querystring is permitted by the standard to contain more than one value of the same type. Thus, your second example in this case could also be cards=visa&cards=mastercard.

This is particularly a problem when you've got an overly-helpful web framework in a dynamically-typed language that normally exposes querystring parameters as a string, but if more than one gets passed in, suddenly you have an array. This can cause all sorts of fun problems, including security failures, though usually just bugs.

(Even in a dynamically typed language, a web framework should either represent querystring parameters as an array at all times xor enforce a clear, stated policy of which string it accepts if it is going to pick just one, but it should definitely not just split the difference. The latter, despite in some sense being "wrong", does have the advantage of matching people's mental model, which is a useful enough thing on its own.)

This is, incidentally, a useful "Are the developers at least this tall?" test to apply to your new Web Framework o' the Week.
I was skeptical so I looked it up:

> Chrome 32+ on Android with width=device-width in the viewport meta tag doesn't have a 300ms delay, therefore listeners aren't attached.

[1]: https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick#when-it-isnt-needed
Android Firefox ref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=941995
The likelyhood of using both is not enough reason to embed them in the same SW component.

Concerns have to be decoupled as mush as possible. It is even more likely that the user will use some serialization, and there is no point at all to implement serialization inside the library! Because then, also it is likely that the user want to make some CRCs to check message integrity, or cypher de message so lets embed such funcionality in the library too :)

I have developed and used code many times using a serial port (robotics, industry), and in many occasions such extra async framework or the streams are not used. I know they are quite convenient and useful for many many cases, but it is still a separate concern than implementing the low level "hardware" comunication, and thus deserve decoupling it its own component, exactly the same as serialization. In that way, when using Async for network sockets, the SerialPortHW concept wouldnt be involved at all, it would be in a different concept not included in the current project.
In my experience with Dell and HP laptops, their versions of the trackpoint cannot match the smoothness of IBM/Lenovo's at all. Very noticeable difference that really ruins the experience for me. However, ASUS may have done better, not sure.
Jeez, I can't believe I missed that it's from 2012 - thanks for pointing that out. A friend sent me the link this morning and I just assumed it was recent. As it happens I was just reading an article about this type of time-warp effect (in this case, Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe's 2013 death getting circulated on social media last week like it had just happened):

http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzungu/chinua-achebe-no-l...
great suggestion, thanks.
Lately, I've been reading the "new" headlines as opposed to the "top" headlines to find those hidden gems that _I_ think are interesting.
I like http://screencast-o-matic.com/ for what it does... and it's free for my purposes.
Recently I was looking for a new laptop. The new MacBook Airs arguably have the best-designed hardware of any laptop on the market, but I object to certain hacker-unfriendly steps Apple has taken: namely, the use of pentalobular and triwing screws to make disassembly difficult. I cannot in good faith buy a computer from a company that so actively dissuades tinkering.

I've decided to go with the ThinkPad X220 instead. Although it's not quite as svelte as the Air, it is designed to be user serviceable. Hell, Lenovo publishes a manual with instructions on how to replace the system board (including details such as the torque each screw should be tightened to). And, although the X220 has a removable battery, its battery life is just as good as (if not better than) that of the Air.

(Oh, and the OS difference does not affect me because I will run Arch Linux either way.)
Isn't that just called "not voting"?
> Is there somewhere else where immigration is much easier than the United States?

Yes. The rest of the Western world.

> Have you ever thought of living there?

Currently in New Zealand, was in Australia.

Got citizenship after being a resident for 3 years.

No limbo either, residence was not tied to a particular employer.
Interesting. Would you want anonymity?
Once you understand all this, you still need to KISS. Going overboard with clever CSS manipulation has two major drawbacks:

1) "Fragile" layouts, where simple changes break the entire UI.

2) Broken javascript - as an eample, jQuery-UI uses the positioning in the DOM to calculate where to display some UI elements. Mixing relative and absolute positioning breaks these functions.
> slightly less durable

That might be the deal-breaker here. People with wallets sit on their credit cards daily. I've split the plastic on mine a few times, even though I've gotten into the habit of taking my wallet out when I sit down.

Credit card purchase authorization over SMS might be more sturdy, although that has its own security considerations (I think this exists somewhere already though).
Nice, I sure will use this soon when I release my next app. It is a great idea!
"real-time guarantees" is not a particularly useful requirement as you can just set the minimum time very high to accomplish it. Real-time and low latency on the other hand would be a game changer, and I have pretty serious doubts about their ability to accomplish this.
I would highly recommend PureVPN, it's awesome, it's easy to set up and i use PureVPN to watch Netflix, Hulu, Bbc iplayer and any other blocked websites outside of US.
http://www.purevpn.com/
From the reviews:

It also simply duplicates the work of Facebook's Graph Search.

There, so far, is nothing original or creative here, and considering their intrusive, complicated "YOU MUST MAKE YOUR FRIEND JOIN" policy, I cannot endorse this extension.

Steer clear.
This is probably a net loss for privacy in so far as it somewhat reduces the pressure on verizon to change their ridiculous cookie practice.

Asking the industry to self regulate, by ignoring verizons cookie or adhering to "do not track", distracts from the real problems that we need to solve technically.
Would a system that prevents double-spending of a digital currency be equivalent with exactly-once delivery?
why are google the largest user of tape drives?
Honestly I'd take the whipping to have full-height cubes like that.

My office is half-height cubes, but apparently there's a redesign in the works that's going to give us "friendly clusters with low partitions" (kill me now).
**Verbal skills**

Top ten

Philosophy, 160
Materials, 159
Other, 158
HUMANITIES AND ARTS, 157
English Language and Literature, 157
Library and Archival Sciences, 157
Religion and Theory, 157
Physics and Astronomy, 156
Anthropology and Archaeology, 156
Political Science, 156

Bottom ten

Electrical and Electronics, 148
Early Childhood, 148
Computer and Information Sciences, 149
Industrial, 149
Special, 149
Student Counseling and Personnel Srvcs, 149
Accounting, 149
Other, 149
Home Economics, 149
Social Work, 149

**Quantitative skills**

Top ten

Mathematical Sciences, 161
Physics and Astronomy, 161
Materials, 161
Chemical, 160
Banking and Finance, 160
ENGINEERING, 159
Electrical and Electronics, 159
Industrial, 159
Mechanical, 159
Other, 159

Bottom ten

Home Economics, 145
Social Work, 145
Early Childhood, 146
Special, 146
Student Counseling and Personnel Srvcs, 146
Other, 147
Elementary, 147
Communications, 147
Psychology, 148
Sociology, 148

**Anaytical writing skills**

Top ten

Philosophy, 4.4
English Language and Literature, 4.3
Other, 4.3
Religion and Theory, 4.3
Political Science, 4.2
HUMANITIES AND ARTS, 4.2
Arts History, Theory, and Criticism, 4.2
History, 4.2
Anthropology and Archaeology, 4.1
Higher, 4.1

Bottom ten

Computer and Information Sciences, 3.4
Electrical and Electronics, 3.4
ENGINEERING, 3.6
Civil, 3.6
Industrial, 3.6
Mechanical, 3.6
Accounting, 3.6
Agriculture, 3.7
Early Childhood, 3.7
BUSINESS, 3.7
Did you have that memorized or is there somewhere you looked that up?
If I can only send you a meme, answering your question "what it is that's stopping you from coding". Coding is just a part of it.
The WSJ produces just as much good content, and you can subscribe there without inadvertently funding rag hit pieces like this.
Maybe the link goes to comp.lang.functional. ;)
I think this is an important puzzle piece in "distributed living". Pretty soon we'll be "off-grid" with good connectivity plus the other parts like power for living and transportation without being super-expensive or super-low quality of life.
Waste manageable beverage packaging.
WHO can’t even say Taiwan, so I’m not going to trust anything they say related to China.
I wonder how these pages got picked up. If Wickedpictures is doing some type of Natural Language processing to identify these pages as their content, it would be interesting to analyze the content of these pages and reverse-engineer Wickedpictrue's system.

Then of course, you could package that reverse-engineering work as a service that will insert red-herring comments in source code to set off the automated DMCA takedowns, creating a free semi-private repository on github.
> the right is trying to paint her death as police brutality.

.. have they bothered taking down their "blue lives matter" decorations first?
I had a similar experience early in my career. To me it was eye opening to see some masters keep investigating problems without getting emotional. I learned how not to care about the time it takes to figure things out, but to start and carry on. This way given enough time, almost all problems are solvable. The time pressure doesn't change this fact.

In case of a time pressure, I just focus on workarounds instead of analysis. Once the problem is no longer burning, it's up to the project priorities to investigate the root cause.

I also learned that panic never solved any of my problems, so when I notice that I am moving into panic mode, I stop for a minute and cool down. This is a skill that can be learned.
>A lot of people praise British for developing India.

A lot of British people praise Britain for developing India. Indians themselves and other ex-colonies (much of the world that was Victorian pink) aren't so convinced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4

British railways were basically Roman roads. They served to move the army -- the fact the citzens could use them for trade was a massive incidental benefit.
And an answer to that is maybe youre not the intended target of this poll. If the op is looking for alternatives, that's not a very useful option
I thought that in Albania, telegrams are more common?
>removing social media, period

This is even better, how do we do that instead?
From the listed alternatives, only Matrix is the one that actually solves the issue of not having to trust our communications to any single monopolistic entity.

You could add XMPP there as well, but it really doesn't matter. What does matter is for us to start pushing for openness and start evangelizing/helping others to adopt anything that puts us back in control of our communication.

This is the one thing to fix, and the one opportunity that we are getting now to do this right.

- Element's client is not "nice": we can fix it. We can not fix closedness.

- Not everyone is using it: we can fix it. We can not fix privacy abuse from Facebook.

- It's work to run/manage a server: find a hosting provider (cough https://communick.com cough).
lots of my friends have both whatsapp and telegram

and now some of them are almost exclusively on telegram and some on whatsapp

and whats worse is,now there are some half-and-half conversations in both

and on top of that whatsapp rolled out business accounts and every mom and pop store has whatsapp and thats the only way you can communicate with them in real time

i dont think im gonna be switching out
You clearly don't get the point of free speech.
> They are convinced the election was stolen and nothing you (or he) says would sway their minds.

That’s not how people work. Imagine for a second that he did come out and say that he was wrong about the fraud claims (“we looked into it and didn’t find anything”) and conceded the election. Do you honestly believe not a single one of his supporters would fall in line? There are a few people who are too far gone, but it’s entirely disingenuous to suggest he has no power over this. Not holding rallies would help a lot too. No, this is all squarely at his feet.
I think "media player" is one of the best cases for ImGUI's, as they whole frame changes every time.

The RMGUIs (should?) be much more efficient when the contents are both hard to render and don't change much -- think large amount of styled text, or detailed SVG diagram, or a graph.

(and blank QWindow consumes 0% CPU when there are no screen updates -- this would be hard to beat with IMGUI's even with the best GPU)
Agreed. It’s a common pitfall of open source projects. Sometimes I just want to see what I can do with the thing, not the details of how I can do it.
I am blocked from the site?

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www.ercot.com
2021-02-15 05:18:28 UTC
Sooo, getting Java in Firefox working has completely taken the wind out of my sails and I am VERY bored now, but suffice it to say that

- I image-searched "nurserycam dvr" and immediately found a video, from NurseryCam itself, showing how to reboot the DVR

- I also found a PDF with some "HDD reset" instructions and noticed the PDF had a closeup of the control panel buttons

- Googling the button labels from found me some extremely hazy model info - your standard "but which manufacturer?!" fare, it seems to be around the midpoint of "full AliExpress" at one end and actual reputability at the other

- After image-searching "<manufacturer> web interface" I stumble on a screenshot of a directory service that registers DVRs via DNS and gives them a domain

- "site:*.<domain>" found a few results

- visit one of them, open devtools, and yes, there's a unique Server: string

Then it was your standard

- how to into applet in 2021? oh, FF 52.0 ESR, ok

- download java 8

- find random website with java 8 .tar.gz because Oracle

- unpack java 8, create symlink, yay!

- security exception. oh.

- replace with java 7

- [A LONG TIME LATER] ohhhh, firefox updated itself and that's why everything looks wrong and the plugin stopped working

- okay let's go through shoda... actually you know what this is really boring.

TL;DR: it look about 3 hours to install Java and about 25 minutes to figure out what brand of DVR this company is using. Security through... ADHD incompatibility, anybody?
The difference is that flour has been completely commoditized, while cloud hosting has only recently started becoming commoditized and isn't all the way there yet.
I tried it out but sadly the Android pluggable password managers, so I had to switch back to Firefox for that reason.
Please don't do this here. If you have a substantive point to make, make it civilly; otherwise please don't comment.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13833512 and marked it off-topic.
This is a very legitimate question and it's disappointing to see it modded down. The people in our industry who only care about the money have names like Balmer and Ellison. Are they running the kinds of businesses that people here aspire to? Do you look to these people as your inspiration? How boring.
The F1 is not a staged combustion engine; it's a stock-issue gas generator -- as are the Merlin engines on the current generation of SpaceX rockets. SpaceX is working on a staged combustion engine (the Raptor) for their next generation of very-heavy-lift rockets, but plans for those are still in flux.
I agree, I'd also like to buy the book. Looks pretty good, kind of similar to "The Haskell Road to Logic". But it doesn't look like he's very interested in selling outside the UK. I'll wait and hope it shows up on Amazon.
Not all are equal though if I had to guess - to add another data point, my current company hired someone who went through Hack Reactor. He was on my team before me, but he was let go before I joined for drastically underproducing and for a very low quality of code. I had to deal with some of the repercussions of his code - what supposedly took him one month to write a poor piece of code utilizing d3 for a donut chart, I was able to refactor to a drastically more performant version in 1 1/2 days.

Maybe not all who go through a bootcamp like Hack Reactor are bad - the story certainly reinforces to avoid assumptions about a candidate and assess each person carefully.
I mean, the day's events have proven the mainstream media was right about Trump and his supporters all along, but ok.
In addition, I wish screenreaders had a text mode, where they print what they say and maybe provide cues on possible actions. Actual screenreader users work with astonishing speaking speeds and great memorization of commands, but without the experience a bare-bones but more visual interface would likely be easier to use.
Never trust a site with autostarting audio.
on the other hand, palm oil, compared to rapeseed or sunflower, need much smaller surfaces to produce the same volume of oil
See also:

* Rockets
* Propaganda films

The US still uses his advancements today
Many large customers don't need the mitigations because the attacks aren't relevant in their threat model and they prefer the peak performance provided by as much speculative execution as they can buy.
Something like 18,000 orgs got compromised IIRC, but the 250 are the ones where they chose to actually activate secondary payloads. So 250 got personal attention.
Which is why anonymous speech sites like 4Chan and 8Chan and semi anonymous speech like Twitter are the most enlightening and edifying of our media devices./s

You’re allowed to say whatever you want. The government won’t stop you. Facebook and Twitter shouldn’t be amplifying it. The fact that they only do so when you express a message of hatred Turns this from a free speech to debate to a hateful incitement debate
That still is compatible with what I said. There is never just one reason to any major social thing.