skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the kernel code seems to be written in plain old C. I didn't come across any C++ code while digging around the kernel internals, but there's at least some C++ code in the userspace components.
I started offering hosted guestbooks as a Perl CGI script, backed by a homegrown pipe-delimited text file database, in the 1990s. I moved them over to PHP and MySQL in 2002. 11,000 of those guestbooks are still linked from live websites, and about 600 have had people add new entries in the past year. I added reCAPTCHA a few years ago to keep the spam to a minimum, otherwise they look essentially the same as they did in the 1990s, with a variety of neon fonts on custom tiled background images. I plan to keep hosting them forever.
Yes, amount of Labor doesn't always determine value. But this article isn't really about value, is it? It's about pricing.
> Besides that it is pretty obvious that the standardization of systemd and the elimination of distribution-specific scripts and services has resulted in massive reduction of bugs and complexity in the Linux OS. Accounting for each distribution individually, counting those bugs up, adding all them into one lump sum... I am willing to bet that for every 1 bug that systemd introduces into the OS it has resolved at least a 1000

Citation needed.
I don't know whether they're typically introduced with malign intent, or with good intentions that inevitably go bad, but I don't really think it matters much -- open vacation policies are a terrible idea from the employee's point of view... and in the end probably a terrible idea from the employer's point of view too.
> They usually don't just change for the sake of change, there tends to be an advantage over the old way

Did you carefully couch your statement because of iOS7 specifically? Gossamer font-faces and weights, "abstract art" choices for icons and palette really felt like "change for the sake of change" to me, an overcompensating reaction to the "skeuomorphism" backlash.
"Significantly" "in all crash types"? That's not what the evidence I've seen suggests. Nor does it align with my personal anec-data. In all the crashes I can remember having in the last decade on a bicycle (nearly all failing to unclip when stopping or failing to negotiate an obstacle at low speed) I've never even touched my bicycle helmet (or head, if nt wearing one) to the ground.

There's quite a few studies recently that've revealed quite glaring errors in the claims that bicycle helmets reduce injuries in any significant fashion for typical cyclists. Sure you'd be foolish doind a mountain stage of the Tour de France without a helmet - but for a typical non-heavily-trafficed-commute or a weekend ride-in-the-park - there's very few accidents where a helmet makes any statistcal difference.

I also recall recently reading a study that calculated the overall benefit of bicycle helmet laws were negative when the reduction in cyclists was taken into account, and it's resultant lower level of public health. Have stringent helmet laws, and fewer people ride bicycles; fewer people riding bicycles results in more overweight/unfit people. Nett cost to health system goes up, not down.

I will never question your choice to wear a helmet - either always or occasionally. I do question your motives for supporting the establishment to _require_ (with threats of punitive fines) me to wear one, without conclusive and in-controversial evidence that it is of statistically significant benefit _to the sort of riding I do_...

If you want to "lowest common denominator" the argument - explain to me why you don't wear a helmet with driving/riding in a car? Have a guess as to what the most serious injuries in cases of automotive deaths are…
This article says nothing about compensation for heavy R&D costs. It doesn't concern itself with develpment and production costs at all. It is just describing ways in which consumers can be manipulated into spending the highest amount of money possible.
> I suspect that the vast majority of people would take a 50% performance hit if it yielded a library that had only half as many major flaws as we've seen

How would one know whether there are any major flaws in a code base?
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Yes, but looks like it's too late - WebM and MP4 taking over by now.
That's one side of it but the UK isn't the US.
The US is huge if you go to college out of state or even within the same state you can be separated from your community.

The UK overall is smaller than many US states (Texas is 3 times the size of the UK, California is twice it's size). In the UK it's also pretty common to go to college/uni in the city or town you live in or nearby, same goes for work, and even if you work pretty far away 1.5-2 hours commutes are not that rare in the UK and it gets you pretty far on a train.

So while I could see how going from state A to college in state B and ending up working in state C in the US causes this rift I don't see this being much applicable to the UK.
The 2nd part was also about men vs women, as the article specifically was about men in the UK does this mean that Women preserve relationships better? If so why? How do "nontraditional" gender identities and affinities affect this?
> This is capitalism at its finest. [...]

> Noone cares about interoperability, noone cares whether all the data and content we're generating today will be accessible in a few decades or centuries.

It's not a consequence of capitalism alone. Capitalism wouldn't result in that
if its actors were rewarded for interoperability and future-proof access to
data. Sadly, customers don't care about these two aspects (or long-term
durability of a product, or servicability), so almost no company makes any
effort to provide them.

> Our industry has gone to shit.

It's hardly specific to IT/consumer electronics. You have the same with cars,
tools, clothing, everything really.
Journey of World Web Technology from Unknown to Trusted Consultant of EDD
Want to have money? Do not do this
I would argue that it depends on how predictable the output is for a given system that determines if it is a gamble or not. A simple rule system with numerous agents can produce output that is really hard to predict.
Containerization Technology
Whataboutism: the radical idea that everyone be held to the same standard.
I'm not a fan of the kernel-up/desktop-down dichotomy, but please remember that "1. User's needs/wants and 2. User's application" are a) not necessarily desktop applications (in fact, for 99% of the places where Linux is deployed on this planet, it's anything but desktop applications) and b) depend on systems software, which is anything but pleasant to write and integrate with community non-players like systemd.

This binary, "user needs = true, programmer needs = irrelevant" dichotomy is very toxic to an environment that still, by and large, depends on community support for its existence.
I was just thinking about these the other day. The other thing that died off was "web rings". From back in the days when search engines were rubbish, so you'd have to find one site that was approximately what you were after, then click lots of links until eventually, at about 4 or 5 degrees of separation from the original search, you might find what you were originally looking for. I know, it seems barbaric now.

Reciprocal links between similar sites were much more important in those days. In fact, the web was generally a friendlier, less commercialised and siloed place, because cooperation between webmasters was the only way anyone would ever find your content.

What I find sad is that now Google is becoming more commercial and heavily gamed through SEO, the first page of results is increasingly likely to be full of links to buy a thing than information about that thing. And because there is much looser interlinking between sites now, it's a lot harder to find information any other way.
> What's the argument that this is gambling?

I suppose because you pay a small amount of money and you may or may not get something valuable out, which makes it effectively gambling from the bidder's point of view.

> but I don't see where this is a game of chance instead of a consequence of who is participating

From the point of view of an individual bidder, "who else is participating" is a matter of chance.
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That is true - but _only_ for some types of bicycle rides.

I can get from my place to the local shopping centre, a bunch of cafes or pubs, and the Cook's River bike path - all without needing to ride in "traffic" or on major (or even busy) roads. The chance of a helmet providing _any_ safety benefit for me riding to do my grocery shopping, is about as high as the benefit of me wearing a helmet while _driving_ a car to the shopping centre.

(And don't think I'm completely anti-helmet - I also ride motorcycles and wear a helmet 100% of the time on that, only _mostly_ because it's the law.)
I agree that there are people who had luck. However in my experience those people are usually quite confident and don't have any problems with that. They know they cheat and are quite happy and relaxed about that, and have no wish to change it.
How likely are chance resemblances between languages? (2002)
4000 years of writing, thought and guidance seems useless to some people. Life is as simple as you make it. Nothing is really new.

I speak to as many people in their 70s and 80s and 90s as I can and more often that not they are quite lonely, scared and sad.

Obviously I'm not immune to such feelings!
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From a career perspective, JavaScript has a pretty wide reach. Jobs range from designers that fiddle with JS to server-only NodeJS jobs and plenty in between. A demand for JavaScript devs writing mobile apps is growing with things like Facebook's ReactNative and there are decent desktop apps (VSCode, Atom, Slack) too, although it's not exactly a demand just yet.

Money is good too, here in Aus $600-$800 a day (or around $130-$160k a year) is the going rate for a decent developer with a few years under their belt.
'loosening' isn't even the beginning of the solution.

Build baby build; I would actually love to see this solved by taxing out building uses that are no longer congruent to the density of the surrounding area.

Historical landmarks could become immune if they are deeded over to public trusts as a form of museum or park.
> My grandmother has a switch like this one [1]. Now it's like 60 years old switch.

Oh boy, how fugly it is. I had the same xD

Still, it did an excellent job and was almost indestructible.
You may want to read "The limits of “unlimited” vacation" by Jacob Kaplan-Moss at https://jacobian.org/writing/unlimited-vacation/ as well as previous HN comments about that essay at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613526 .

There have been other related HN discussions on the topic, at https://hn.algolia.com/?query=unlimited%20vacation&sort=byPo... . For example, the top comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125973 is:

> "Unlimited vacation" translates to "no vacation" ... Unlimited vacation sounds nice, but in practice it doesn't work.
It appears that some countries have spotted this: http://www.pennyauctionwatch.com/2010/04/italy-shuts-down-lo...
When he's a big brave "motorists activist" while wrapped in and (barely) in control of a ton of metal cage doing 30mph, sure. But when he's stopped at a light and you're beside him in a position his weapon cannot be easily aimed? They're _mostly_ pretty soft and pathetic and mouthy. I often quite enjoy antagonising them into a frothing rage.

(Note: this is a point of view from a country where they're spectacularly unlikely to be carrying a firearm or even a knife, ymmv…)
Kind of a snide way to dismiss Penrose's work. If our brains are doing things that algorithms can't and QM really is non-deterministic then there could be something to his book. I don't think we know enough to say yet.
Props to the people who made this - fantastic public contribution. My big wish list as someone who works in urban design and planning would be this paired with 3d point cloud detection to make a 3d model of streets and spaces. Maybe one day eh!
I don't think your proportions are right.

> Cubans have bigger concerns than getting a page to load a few milliseconds faster.

A big concern for Cubans could very well have, is having webpages load several seconds faster (I don't think we're talking miliseconds). They are paying per minute.
A PoC Off-Path TCP Exploits: Global Rate Limit Considered Dangerous
This page should be the first site on the History of the WWW Webring.

Reminds me of the homepages I used to design with frames and image maps, wierdly-tiled backgrounds, and tons of <FONT> tags of course. Good times were had by all.
From the article:

> But the horrible truth is that this really was how these websites were. They all looked like this, every little one of the fuckers.

Well, no. Many websites did not bother to include all that stuff. But these didn't bother to do a lot of styling at all. Original browser style. Very ugly, but at least informative and not nearly as distracting as the sites described in the article.
Yes, record accessors being partial functions is a big problem.

One way to deal with this is to not use fields at all together with algebraic data types (i.e. when you have more than one constructor), just pattern match. When you have some common field across all constructors, define a regular function to pull it out:

someData :: MyData -> a

and use that instead. As to the second use case, if you need to access something common to A and B but not C, then:

someOtherData :: MyData -> Maybe a

and pattern match on that. Or first pattern match on C and then have a catch all _ for A and B.

lens remedies a lot of Haskell's pain points when it comes to records, but I have to say that PureScripts record system is so much nicer.
> has no more or less free will than a computer

Exactly. The only difference in our modern times is that a brain is orders of magnitude more complex than a computer. None of the scientists who are working on replicating the consciousness think that nowadays computers have comparable consciousness to a human. They all understand that the complexity needs to go up MANY times before we can talk about it. But it's still very clear that a consciousness (with free will and all other aspects of it) is definitely possible to have in a (future, much more advanced) computer.

> Your three sources of data for choosing your state n+1 are your state n, your perceptions of the world around you, and maybe some truly random factor.

That IS free will!

Perhaps you define it in some other way? If you say that "free will" is not possible if the decisions of such entity are based on some past experience (partly)? Well in that case there is no living entity that we know that have your definition of "free will", so what's the point of trying to recreate it? How would it even look?
Loved the office space reference. Marquee one of the feature I learnt which made others go crazy. Back in days it's all about HTML not about JavaScript.
Because I'm a grown up who can evaluate the risks/benefits for myself, and I'm sick to death of nanny-state victim-blaming resulting in erosion of rights and freedom?

When you drive - do you wear a helmet? Why not?
Does having consciousness mean we can't be completely deterministic?
Not true. My cousins who were born in Hong Kong, are British by ancestry and Australian by citizenship, and describe themselves as expats, even though they've spent their entire lives in HK.

It's purely a "us vs them" distinction.
Changing the config settings that logind applies to session units is the inferior solution. The superior solution is for logind to use KillUnit to send a hangup signal, leaving StopUnit for use at system shutdown.

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825394#221
Lets Talk about Object Oriented Programming
If eBay is gambling, then buying a house and upping my offer against someone else should also be considered gambling.
Take a wild guess...
Don't Mess with Perfect
The Relation of Toxoplasma Infection and Sexual Attraction to Fear, Danger, Pain
Drones used to smuggle drugs and mobile phones into a London prison
From the article:

> Which side won? Like any good mutually-assured destruction, we all lost.

This is true on so many levels.
Here in Sweden, it is not illegal - it is more that there is no legal concept of a public domain which makes any license that try to transfer something to the public domain be nonsense and invalid.
I don't know if game theory is the branch of mathematics that can help you out here. Game theory usually rests on matters of "If I do X then my opponent(s) will do Y", but in this situation you don't even know how many opponents you might have.

Your best shot would probably to be just to sit there and collect a shitload of statistics about under exactly what circumstances you're most likely to be the final bidder, and then only bid under those circumstances... and then hope nobody else has been collecting the same statistics and coming to exactly the same conclusion.
It would be interesting if someone created a site that helps users of these penny auction sites collude. Imagine, if the site queued up each user as they registered, and the user as the head of the queue gets a guaranteed win on the item because everyone else stops and don't bid... So if you wait in the queue long enough, you'll get your turn and get the item really cheap.
> in fact, for 99% of the places where Linux is deployed on this planet, it's anything but desktop applications

Don't forget that by device count, by far the largest deployment of Linux is Android. Technically not 'desktop', but close enough in this categorisation.
I don't see how this doesn't apply to the UK? The UK may not be as ridiculously huge as the US, but it's still unlikely that I'm going to take a 3/4 hour train or car ride to see friends in my hometown on a regular basis. The people I met at university have ended up in jobs in opposite ends of the country. I definitely feel like the GP's comment applies to me.
Its a havoc when there is a crowd, like the floor housing the common cafeteria/lunch place in an office building. In a group of people waiting, inadvertently someone misses out to specify their floor and panics!

Also, surprisingly large no. of people make a mistake in selecting the floor they need to go to (visitors, new joinees...)
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And Ada's repetition could easily be automated in the IDE or smart editor (does sublime have an Ada-syntax--and I probably don't even need to ask for emacs). The repetition is there for readability and maintainability, so the author loses nothing if it is automated.
The directory is only at the end in the PKZIP, there is additional info before each compressed file, like in TAR. It's actually good to have both, as it allows recovering individual files even when there's a corruption in other files or in the directory.
It's one of the kinds of problem statements that gets habitually distorted by the technology we have to hand. Here we naturally envision it as something that a computational system might represent.

But as soon as we solve some fraction of the problem with scientific means, a small fragment remains to be probed further, still mysterious. Solve that and a yet smaller facet still remains, as in Zeno's paradox. That has been the case with AI, with simulations and physics models and medicine and most fields of study.

Our notion of the authentic is always on fragile ground, and this is most easily seen in music, where technology has enabled total control of the sound on a theoretical level of adding harmonics, but not in the practical sense of "reproduce this sound but make it Better". At the extreme ends it becomes a matter of taste again - why else should vinyl or vacuum tubes or analog filters remain so cherished? As we gain more technology, more of our lives enters this limbo where science can provide deductions that identify and change the measurable, but do not tell us how to pick good measures for ourselves. Philosophizing it is just a matter of continuing to ask those kinds of hard questions and inching forward ever so slightly each time.
Yep, that's exactly it. Let's say I fall somewhere in between - I found the old time machine way overdone and I also agree that the old floppy disk symbol needed to go at some point. But giving Jony free range was a mistake as well. Apple really is missing a curator and uncomfortable UX questioner with decision power. But what comes from them today is still way better than the competition - with some (very big) exceptions like iTunes / Apple Music.
>Somehow it has seven settings

With three things that can be switched on or off there are 7 state permutations (plus all off)

> It's awful.

The alternative being three separate toggle switches.

While this would be easier to scan and make a decision if you wanted granular decisions every time you cooked something, 90% of the time the oven will be set to the same setting; ALL ON. I think that having a single switch, rather than three is a more efficient UI for this.
Whenever you see "Internet of Things", think "Unfixable Heartbleed Everywhere Forever".
Assuming a constant cost per bid, given that every time you put in a bid you lose money, and the site owner can always get a guaranteed win, you need to minimize the number of bids you make:
Optimal number of bids is 0. Since we're constrained to play, bid once. (It doesn't matter when, you won't win).
Fortunately they are back-pedalling quite a bit in iOS 10. Bolder everything buttons that actually have outlines and such.
No you can't accommodate every form of transportation, but you can have Motor Vehicle, Person Powered Vehicle, Person.

Comparing Unicycles and skateboards is like saying we have to have a different lane for each type of truck, car, SUV, motorcycle, etc etc.
Wow, I would love to see someone filing suit and seeing them subpoenad to discover the shill accounts linked to it.

There is just no way that Arsenic is legitimate.
Come back tomorrow as in Sep 1, 2017 for the answer I suppose.

There I cracked that one :)
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And "there's another non-trivial thing that PKZIP had going for it":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Katz

"SEA was attempting to retroactively declare the ARC file format to be closed and proprietary. Katz received positive publicity by releasing the APPNOTE.TXT specification, documenting the Zip file format, and declaring that the Zip file format would always be free for competing software to implement."
Sorry, this is off-topic, but PG on graffiti is simply brilliant:

"In this respect trolling is a lot like graffiti. Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to make their mark on the world, but have no other way to do it than literally making a mark on the world."
Ask HN: Do we have any open directory to search developers?
Hello, I am a developer myself and looking for another developer with specific DEV stack who can help me in my project.
I didn't find anyone from my personal network and FB groups for last 2 days and I don't want to go with upwork like platform so is there any Open directory to search and connect developers?