skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, the example I had in mind. I tried their app and at this point I think the friction to setup an account, wallet etc. is too high for the average user, but this business model is awesome: great incentive for attracting early users, and if the platform ever becomes a hit, the financial rewards will be distributed among users, not just to the owner.
where?
https://imgur.com/a/apKjy (ubuntu latest, I also have a fedora but I only have the machine remotly which I can't access at the moment, but I'm 100% sure that is has no way to setup caldav/carddav directly inside the accounts panel)
That's a rather naive view of the work environment. There's a myriad of reasons why it is hierarchical of which not the smallest one is so people down who have a limited field of vision and expertise do not jump into decision making above their pay grade. Doing it once may be acceptable but the issue of course is that one is unlikely to know when is the time do that stick the neck out. Doing it multiple times pretty much guarantees that one would find out that he or she is imminently replaceable.
Do you really believe that there's not going to be a market for TRUSTLESS wills?

For tax-free, trustless estate transfers?
> The only ones who get a free pass on this is macOS and iOS users. These two platforms have excellent support for and let users and businesses setup CalDAV and CardDAV accounts on their devices without pretending to be, ironically enough, an Apple iCloud account.
Our SAAS company is re-designing our home page. We would love genuine feedback
This plan would fail, because someone sophisticated enough to find the naming and shaming list of awfulness would probably already be sophisticated enough to realize that old, bad advice is bad and why it is, and where to find new, good information. The problem is not merely that bad old content exists, but there is a class of PHP developer who is insufficiently sophisticated to distinguish between good and bad information independently.

Whether that's a feature or a bug of PHP is an exercise I leave for the reader.
Problem is material in the public domain quickly becomes worthless. We already have many things, like the Fleischer Superman cartoons, for example. You just end up with cheap people bundling hundreds of public domain stuff with no real curation or quality for a few bucks in either physical or digital media form. Eventually, they stop bothering once they realize no one buys them; and it just gets thrown on youtube for fraction of pennies per ad click.

Doesn't even help creatives, because public domain stuff sees little to no creative half-life apart from the very best of the best. It's great for public in the same way f2p mobile games are great, as an endless mill of free content they can consume and forget, but once the brief flurry of monetization passes, the works become dead because there's no rights owner willing to spend the money to market or preserve the IP.
Robert Louis Stevenson essays (again)
GK Chesterton Orthodoxy (again)
IMHO I think they are different. So much of what makes the web and surveillance creepy is the ability to correlate across data sources. CCTV isn't creepy for one store owner to have - it's bad when the government has it everywhere.

It's not bad for people to analyze how users interact with their site. It's bad when one entity (or a handful) can track you across the Internet.

So in other words, I don't mind Piwik and have considered sending in a patch to uBlock and others with a switch to disabled "locally hosted analytics" or something similar. Like the drive to push "ethical advertising", I think it's reasonable to permit some benign tracking as a way to coerce more sites into decentralizing user analytics.
This is circular logic and not really what I was getting at. Productive assets are valued based on expectations of future cash flows, independent of market value. You’re incorrect in saying the value of everything is determined by the market.

To quote Warren Buffett, “price is what you pay, value is what you get.”
Rent a car for the weekend? It's like $50/day, so only $3k/yr to do it once a day per week. (Not factoring in the added cost of gas, or the discounts you can get by regularly renting a car and getting your own non-owner insurance)
> the war isn't over yet fam. i'm just trying to reclaim my homeland. don't forget that the reconquista took 700 years. [...] its a big universe, i don't have to kill the beast to build a nice rural community in the countryside.

Hyperbole aside (lol Reconquista), if you prefer to live on an island, decentralization is 100% fine. But be warned: my grandparents lived a very hard life farming and toiling the fields. It's not as glamorous as it sounds. Hobbes' bon sauvage is illusory.
I agree and I think that art and design students would benefit from classes on (or exposure to) the human visual system and neuroscience/cognitive psychology. A lot of the intuition behind subjective decisions in the arts can be further understood/explored/refined through the relevant science. For anyone interested in this topic I highly recommend the book "Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing" by Margaret Livingstone.
I used to put fake passwords on stickies on my monitor just to see if anyone would notice.

No one did.
This was my brother's machine in the early 2000's, and I distinctly remember how aesthetically pleasing it was.

I was personally an Thinkpad X series guy, but that magnesium body (?) of the Sony laptop was beautiful.
> but why should this effort be made for PHP?

See https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua...

Anyone who wants a more secure Internet must necessarily be interested in improving the security of PHP.
I have the feeling that the Open Source community left the email world a while ago. There is almost nothing happening there.

You may argue that it's because email is a solved problem by now, but I don't think so:

Setting your own personal email server? Still a hassle to do correctly. Full text search a la Gmail? You can forget it. Threaded conversations across folders? Not for you. Hosting a webmail? Good luck finding a maintained one. Want a desktop client? The flagship Thunderbird is not the healthiest project right now.

I would really like to see the Redis or the Golang of emails.
I put "classical" in quotes for a reason - I meant baroque/romantic kinds of classical music. Mozart, if you will. Listen to Charles Ives, and you'll hear dissonance as challenging as anything in jazz.

And yes, theoretical vs actual dissonance. All note combinations but unison are dissonant to some degree. C and G, played together, are more dissonant than C and C, but not as dissonant as, say, C and B together (which is also why there's some piquant clanginess in a maj7 chord, despite its lush sound).

Also yes, in the right harmonic context, a major triad can sound really weird. But being major isn't itself proof against dissonance. If you're in D major, a D# major triad is going to sound very dissonant. "Perception of dissonance is cultural" is a generalization, I'll admit, but it's a good one. What sounds terrible to ears accustomed to Pachabel is merely juicy to ears that dig Ellington.
I think skyward sword was the only one that implied a romantic relationship.
On http://conceptoriented.org there is a link to http://conceptoriented.com which seem to be a demo.
Well done. Whileone forgets evil macros are, we often forget how versatile they are in that cause.

That said, I feel that in practice I have to worry more about this strange hidden behaviour in C++ and Python than in C and JavaScript. And even Python is not so bad if you stick to the standard libraries.
> "exclusion" that takes into account wider social factors

I don't think I am, since I'm having trouble figuring out what you mean by this, but I'd like to hear more.

> until they actually attempt to enter

Yes, basically. I should rephrase: the difference is not "not included" vs "excluded", but whether other people are deciding if you are part of the group or not.

> Sometimes exclusion is a good policy.

Also definitely! Both philosophically, and practically.
I think you are oversimplifying this.

Many classically trained pianists are excellent at improvisation. Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart were respected pianists. Wagner wrote the Hollander by improvising on the piano reciting the lyrics. Beethoven was feared by other pianists for his level of skill at improvisation. Mozart improvised most of his piano sonatas as far as I remember.

Gould made a recording of Strauss songs I think. The singer said in an interview, that Gould just started to improvise in Strauss' style and harmonics (Strauss is pretty damn difficult).

Contemporary pianists often know both. Anecdotal evidence: A colleague of mine from music university studied classical piano and was a regular at jazz clubs in Dusseldorf.

It is very interesting to see differences in brain structure from classical to jazz pianists. Maybe a hint at how (muscle-)memory and motion planning is stored? A hint at how volatile brain structure is? It would be interesting to see, if e.g. a classically trained pianist switching to jazz exclusively also has a significant restructuring of his brain.

Edit: Now that I've read the article and the abstract of the paper (the paper is behind Elsevier's paywall), I understand that jazz pianists are quicker at planning new movements (a.k.a. Chord progressions) with the downside of making making more mistakes, while classically trained pianists are slower here, but faster at recognizing and repeating unlearned ("unusual") finger movements.

Would be interesting to see a comparison to pianists doing both jazz and classical music.
If rats don't travel, then how do they spread the plague? If they do travel, then quarantine would not work. If they travel with humans, then we would expect to see massively higher infection and death rates among travellers due to prolonged times with infected rats as they dragged them everywhere (where is this evidence?) The plague spread across Europe at an enormously fast rate (some believe that hemorrhagic fever with a separate bubonic outbreak in Italy).
I would never want to bring a rental car into a snow covered pass or an icy parking lot. Too much liability. Good suggestion, probably good for a day hike or otherwise.
Again, it doesn't have to be mandatory from the government. It's just that the car companies guarantee they won't hit you if you have a beacon (i.e., they take on all liability), and they make no such guarantee if you don't (i.e., you or your bereaved family have to go fight them in court, have fun). They will have complicated spreadsheets internally calculating the "acceptable" level of casualties, where they can keep the public convinced that it's their fault for not carrying beacons, and not invest in improving their detection algorithms beyond that. (Engineers working for these companies will earnestly try to build the best algorithms they can, but senior management won't staff or fund these departments any more than necessary.)
Calling that "blockchain technology" would be pure marketing though. Bittorrent and the various linux package managers would fit your definition for instance.
I can't see how even America's seventh fastest spy plane could be anything less than hypersonic, let alone the fastest one. :)
Interview questions are rarely about the code itself, but the discussion about the code. I think this is what people miss when they say "I'll never actually need to do X". Yes, but I want to see how you can take clear requirements and implement them in code. Or I want to see how you'd approach a seemingly impossible behavior happening in production. As a piece of trivia the question isn't great but as a "how does a person debug some totally unexpected behavior that requires somewhat deep knowledge of the language to comprehend" it is a great question.
I'm not sure how to generalize this advice without becoming a paranoid conspiracy theorist. If we maintain an "open mind" about everything we are told and the "real story" comes out later how do we know it is real?

If we are able to identify the later story as real that means we have some other mechanism for determining truthfulness which could be applied to the current information.

Do you have any reason to believe we have been lied to? Can you point to any sources? Your vague statements suggest you know something but are unwilling to reveal it. That is a red flag for me.
I don't think people are typically making a spreadsheet and plotting out whether or not this is really cheaper or more expensive. What's happening is either:

a) They don't have a car (or a second car) currently, they spend $X/mo on Uber, and they don't think that they could get a car they'd want to drive and/or park and/or deal with for that same amount of money.

OR

b) They know that they have a car sitting in their driveway / street / etc. and they're currently spending $X per month on it to mostly sit there idle, and they're pretty sure that they'd save money not using it, so they try a month of just Uber and sure enough, it cost them less than the idling car (or they just liked it better, whatever).

People think a lot about yuppies in the city as the Uber crowd, but in my experience Uber / Lyft is far more impactful on families. Instead of needing 1 car per adult to function, you may need only 1 car per household, or maybe 2 cars for a family with kids in high school (as compared to what we used to call the "used car lot" in front of all the High School kids houses back when I was growing up in the burbs).
Pimp: Story Of My Life written by Iceberg Slim. Learned about it from the latest Chappelle standup special. Very dark and fascinating tale of a pimp in the 1940's. A lot of cold, calculating capitalist ideas abound in it.

Also just started Astrobiology: A Short Introduction which was recommended by a fellow HNer.
Have a license, but never owned a car (close to 40 yrs old). And although I use Lyft extensively now I'm visiting the US for a few weeks, I'll never be able to rely only on ride sharing in the Netherlands from a cost perspective (and I love riding a train compared to a car). Good public transport is essential indeed.
The Hawaii false alert wasn’t user error – it was a failure of design
Is it in-memory?
Does it support replication or sharding?
What's the main use-case?
How does it differ from ORC, Parquet or Arrow?
The repository doesn't have any information.
I'm sure. NYC (the densest parts anyway) is pretty much the canonical example of a place where it doesn't make sense to own a car. Many people still do but, as you say, the costs are high, transit is pretty good, taxis were ubiquitous even before Uber, and [Urgg EDIT: few] people are heading out of the city every weekend by car.
How do you know that it's the "E" that is wrong, and not the ASCII_A? Maybe it should be ASCII_E.

(If you say it's because it's written twice, well, that's only a valid clue if ASCII_E doesn't happen to be defined too.)
Really shows how much subsidized parking can affect the equation. I've never had to pay for parking at my residence, and the only time I had to pay for parking was a 20-month stint working in downtown Boston. Cut those out and costs go down by $4500/year, over half. I spent about $25/month on gas (for most of my career, I've worked either 2 miles away from home or 20 feet away). Insurance has consistently been about $1000/year. Maintenance was at basically zero for many years, but now that my car is 9 years old $1000/year is about right. Including the amortized cost of the car (which was $16,700 OTD new), I've spent maybe $3000/year on it. That's a generous estimate - the car still has some resale value (though I intend to run it into the ground), so it may be even less.
Almost certainly D. J. Bernstein's string API from daemontools , http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html and his other bits of code. Some commentary at http://www.and.org/vstr/comparison . Probably more commentary elsewhere.
I switched to Mac with the Mid-2012 i7 Air. Cost me just under A$2000 after updating all the internals

It is still my home computer and have not noticed it slowing down!

I'm glad I chose this over the newly released 13" pro retina. The low DPI screen means this thing flies!

I can't see any reason I would to upgrade in the next year or two - appart from a new battery, and my power adaptor just started fraying.

A new Air wouldn't be significantly more powerful & would cost more than my original (Australian dollar doesn't convert as well now).

Although, having just got into audio production, I think I'm almost at the performance ceiling. CPU fan gets quite loud while using Logic with 15+ tracks & effects, but it still runs great.

I need to replace the battery - I think this will make it like an new computer.
Spring creator Rod Johnson: What went wrong with Enterprise Java
That seems like good growth. Other messaging apps are growing faster? I don’t doubt it. Just surprised. Do you know which ones?
I got a 2017 13in Touchbar Pro after getting the top spec 13in MBA in 2013.

The battery was worse, it was heavier, same speed, keys constantly got stuff stuck under them. Only benefit was bright screen and better resolution. Returned it immediately.

I eventually got the new top spec MacBook, and its the spiritual successor to the air. I can't recommend it enough.
Not a whole lot to go on - what does it look like once comments are posts?

But it looks like your topic discovery is "feed" style, although that could (I can't tell) lead into branching discussions (Reddit/HN) or sequential (FB/forums)
Lawrence Lessig claimed so. See the Free Culture presentation. He makes it look as all these copyright extensions (centuries back, to the Statute of Anne) were Disney‘s doing.

That was highly influential. Lessig is a very gifted speaker.
I see quite the opposite inceintive for Google. If you are a very eccentric individual and they know those quirks, they have a huge competitive advantage in targeting ads to you vs. some bulk radio broadcast ad etc.
A cynic might say that the content of your comment provides reason to disagree with the previous poster, whereas the comment itself could also be a reason to agree with them.

On a more serious note, I wonder whether it has something to do with the fact that on HN it is frowned upon to express agreement in comment form (that's what upvotes are for), however when disagreeing/expressing disapproval, it is accepted practice to explain why one disagrees (and rightly so in my opinion).

This could give the casual reader the impression that most of the interaction on HN is adversarial, simply because comments are more prominent than upvotes.

Interested to hear your thoughts on this dang.
And figure it out with the clock ticking, a gun to their head, and a hundred thousand dollars in a suitcase.

Random outcomes FTW.
Honestly, the decision to lock down to a golden path smells more to me like a way of keeping support responsibilities constrained. What happens if the integrating service has a quirk? Microsoft and that service might argue which service is at fault and in the meantime customers will blame Windows.
I don't think we need a new bgp, we just need to fix the old bgp. I have yet to see a practical and realistic alternative. Also, don't forget MPLS is very interdependent in it's current state on BGP, and MPLS is really awesome.

Yes, BGP has some weaknesses, but perhaps calling for a new bgp is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

You know what I think is more of a problem is vendor market dominance that uses closed source proprietary boxen on proprietary platforms designed for vendor lock in.

Also, some have referenced the power of asics in these black boxen over cots hardware, but these days thats not true because there are open source systems with asics in them.

Not exactly related to BGP, but I did an entire infrastructure upgrade for a company. I talked to every vendor in existence, extreme, juniper, cisco, brocade, etc etc. I ended up going with Ubiquiti and saving over $50k... These vendors are gouging customers who already have problems with IT infrastructure budgets, and I'm tired of dealing with them. (and their often non-spec implimentations of protocls)

On top of that, you would be amazed at how many "network engineers" don't know anything but cisco, and couldn't route their way out of a paper bag in anything else, this result of the vendor lock-in is much more of a problem.

Lets also not forget to mention the NSA-cisco, etc backdooring systems.
Not sure why so many people here are almost virtue signaling the act of not owning a drivers license.

I agree—It's perfectly okay to not own a car if it doesn't make sense to your life situation.

That being said, the ability to drive is nevertheless a useful skill and asset and at least in the United States, does not have a very high barrier to entry (for better or worse).

There is so much in the United States that a car gives you access to (most National Parks or wilderness in general are not accessible by public transport). And I don't see human-driven cars disappearing from our world for the next 20–30 years at least.
I don't see why we would doubt it, what do you believe happened? Can you substantiate your belief?
I see fair number of comments on here suggesting how to fix Thunderbird, or what additional features and services it needs. Well, Thunderbird is open source. Time to contribute more than just a some good ideas.

Or is the Mozilla development and contribution process broken?

It looks like it is realitively straight forward to compile from source:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...
> Technical interviews are two-way assessments. If you're not going to put your best effort by representing the work fairly through the technical interview

Interviews (technical or otherwise) are an opportunity for both parties to ask questions and discuss what each is looking for. In that sense, interview questions should ideally elicit discussion. This gives the interviewer an opportunity to assess how the candidate approaches problems and gives the candidate an opportunity to explore their perspective on those problems (again, in discussion -- dialogue)

I don't think the questions need to be "representative" as you say. The primary purpose is not too represent the company, it's to allow the candidate to best represent themselves. I'd actually say distilled problems may do this more effectively and efficiently than ones "lifted" from prod.

Also, in terms of putting "effort" into interview questions, lifting from prod seems much lazier tbh.

> I have nothing else to go on unless you have public repos

I've generally just asked, which has in my experience been received as a normal request.
> Satellites can be re-oriented into different orbital inclinations but that requires fuel

A LOT of fuel. So much so that even if lifetime wasn't an issue, it makes more sense to launch additional satellites in the proper inclination, rather than moving one.

I know that, in one instance, a company wanted to use the moon's gravity to change a satellite's inclination, as it was cheaper to all the way to the moon and back (and then circularize again). That maneuver seems to be patented, though.
As expected there's lot of nonfiction readers here. Does anyone else find that they get more out of fiction than nonfiction? There's a lot to learn from putting yourself in a character's shoes, seeing life through their eyes and witnessing their life unfold.

I'm currently reading 'Steppenwolf' by Hermann Hesse, and 'Of Human Bondage' by Somerset Maugham. Both novels are fictional representations of the author's life.
How does a mechanism change tax rules?
Obviously you’re not wrong that there were failures on their end in this case. However I stand by my point. Passwords are fundamentally broken. You are just describing secret creation and management which is a attempt at adding a secure layer on top of a broken concept.
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