skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I miss the self expression that was possible when the barrier to entry was so low, and the link chains. It really was a "web" before search engines became the hub for everything. Granted, most people probably aren't gonna design anything well, because they're not designers. But for those who do, or at least try, even a color gives you more info into a person's personality than a facebook list of places they've worked and what school they went to.
I just stumbled on W3's ActivityPub and hope this takes off. If we can combine the independance of publishing and a way to link stuff together, it might go a long way to reduce our dependency on big platforms.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
http://www.aolwatch.org/chronic2.htm

Hack the Planet!
Because you asked -- gates ;)
Check out the (official?) site to buy Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy! tickets for some nostalgia:
http://www.wheeljeopardytickets.com/
You have a larger piece of a smaller pie, but you have the same amount of pie.

Yes, this was my point. Stock buybacks are value neutral if the market value of the company is correct. Ie. the share price stays the same.
This is hating the player, not the game. The only way to win is not to play. Relocate to a country with no software patents. I hear Estonia is great. Do all your filing online. Be a remote working foreign contractor for your own company :P
Nicky Case has made a lot of excellent games/lessons, but 'We Become What We Behold' is one of his best. The player takes the role of a photographer creating a social conflict to promote TV viewership. Things escalate rather too far, and the result is horribly realistic.

It's nothing that will be novel to you after that Burroughs quote, but it's still awfully poignant to be the one making it happen.

https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb
I don’t think fewer people publish on their own sites today. There are just more people on the internet.
Yes, although with bad result of the other companies negotiating lower fees and throwing the protagonist under the bus. (If I remember correctly) I hope that in real world there would be some legal paperwork ensuring this doesn't happen.
One thing I noticed: Xoom.com referenced in the webpage is now a large money transfer company
UWP and Xbox One apps must use DX. Microsoft appears to be gearing up to deprecate Win32 in the coming years.
Yes, I do. And my assets will be seized by the credit card company via legal proceedings if I refuse to pay.
This part seems to be written by somebody who's never had under their care more
than a dozen of servers at a time. What's the alternative for managing
configuration across a modest hundred of servers if you de facto can't use
CFEngine/Puppet/Chef or deployment tools like Ansible?
You seem to have noticed the over-the-top tone and still responded as if you didn't.
Sandi Metz’s talks and Practical Object Oriented Design with Ruby book.

Here’s one of the talks, nothing is something : https://youtu.be/29MAL8pJImQ
You most likely earned the luck you received.
Re: health issues, that's why I said "barring very bad luck". However, I would say that yes, everyone has an opportunity to work in high paying fields. You have to work toward it, and that starts by getting good grades in school. But yes, any reasonably intelligent person that is sufficiently committed to it can do it.
Yeah I wrote my own guestbook with Perl in the late 90's and it lasted the entire life of the sites I used it on. Perl is great for stuff like that and it's supported by all kinds of hosting environments!
The funny part is that even though the blink tag is gone, it can be reimplemented in CSS. :)
In number of speakers it is, but parent talked about the economy, and Germany alone has a GDP of almost 70% of all the nations with Spanish as their official language combined.
Uber is just a taxi company. You can hardly expect car makers to hate taxis or carpooling.
Writing System Software
If you pass triage, and wait your turn... And outside of hospital emergency visits, if you can find a family physician. Free has a large time cost associated with it.
Student loans are either guaranteed by the government, or there are special rules like you cannot discharge those loans via bankruptcy. Otherwise, banks would not make such loans.

Ultimately, if the loan is not repaid, and there is no collateral nor assets to seize, it comes out of the assets of the bank.

This is still fundamentally different from counterfeiting.
Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) discussing system software development issues using parts of redis as examples.
It's not embarrassing at all! It's no different than picking on the clothes we used to wear back in the 90s. Everyone was neon, too large, and a bit too flashy. It's a product of the times.

It's always kind of neat to look at these sites and see the creativity of them. I wasn't really on the internet back then, but I do remember just looking for all of those multi-color joke sites. I love it when these sites pop up here.

I always enjoy showing people Zombo Com:

http://www.zombo.com/

Over time, Flash died and so they kept the spirit alive by creating an HTML5 version:

https://html5zombo.com/

Some things are just worth keeping around, just so that we don't lose our history and zeitgeist of earlier decades. We don't have photographs to remind us and if the old internet dies, we lose a huge chunk of what made today possible.
The distrust of anything "not invented here" is prevalent in big corps like Google.
I actually disagree.

I will take 100% of the time a kernel that /doesn't compile/ because an option has been set that had 'bitrotted' than a kernel that compiles with the same code in a "if (my device tree flag)" block that in fact is equally borken but you'll never know, until days/weeks of debugging to figure out that bit was rotten, and nobody had tested it for years until you.

And in the meantime, that code was rotten, and rolled in in every phone and servers on the planet for absolutely no reason.

At least, when you decide that CONFIG_ARCH_TOASTER is no longer supported, you CAN trim the code out easily. You can't do that with code that is living in shadows.
Do you recommend Aurelius or Seneca for Stoicism texts? I read a small amount of literature on Seneca and really fell in love with Stoicism.
If you're still selling to the US, I don't think this would protect you. Your product can be banned anyway.
I don’t want to detract too much from this discussion, but I can provide insight into what kind of bullying company AmEx truly is, and how their ethos permeates throughout everything they do.

I worked for AmEx for about 5 years. Everything was going great, and they announced a 5-month paternity leave program. I’m not going to lie, but it made it a lot easier to decide on having a child. Long story short, my son was born, I took paternity leave, and got laid off after 2 months into my paternity.

I get that I’m an at will employee, which is what lawyers keep telling me. It’s true that large companies, not just tech companies exert a lot of power, especially when it comes to swaying what’s ethical and what’s not. That’s a whole separate discussion, but AmEx clearly used me to send a message- don’t act on our gesture... or else. Influencing future behavior is what AmEx is really good at. Not credit cards.
Copy/pasted article by Simon Black. Not my authorship and not my formatting.
Could Gambling Save Science? Encouraging an Honest Consensus
Great nostalgia. What a fun and unique time for the web, truly.
Are you sure that they were average people? In my experience, average people only started to publish things on Web after blog platforms enabled them to do so. The only people who published in the web at that time were people with technical background (or people who had enough free time and will to learn). HTML is not easy for someone, who's not computer-savvy and a quest to publish and support your website might frighten experienced software developers even know.
Warning: the site plays a loud video.
How can that be, why do they continue to fund development of the product if they aren't going to keep up with current trends.
Reminds me of when I found a circa 1999 archive of my old site. Uploaded it here: http://worldmaker.net/wmo99/

It mostly inspired my current blog design when I realized I could do so much better at the pseudo-LCARS thing with flexbox and border-radius today instead of TABLEs and corner gifs I had to work with then. I'd like to think that 90s HS kid me would be quite proud at my current blog design.
Looks like software patents can actually benefit society in some cases.
Emergency care (and EOL) represent the majority of all costs for many people. Other than regular check-ups I haven't been to the doctor more than 30 times in the last 30 years. One visit to the emergency room in an ambulance is at least $10k and that is equal to 30 years of $300 visits. A real emergency can easily be several $100k once you figure in recovery. So I can't shop at all for 50-90% of all my spending!

After a heart-attack/car-wreck the ambulance should take me to the closest hospital not the one that happens to be 30 miles farther away and in-network. If I'm EOL care, then I likely have pre-existing conditions and travel limitation that will limit my ability to change plans, much less hospitals.
This brings back memories, I found my site: (http://mypollsorelse.iwarp.com) and my friends site I did the markup for: (http://steaksteaksteak.iwarp.com)

Honestly I'm amazed these are still up, it's been almost 20 years and I don't think there's a chance I'll remember the password or email I used.

P. S. I was 12 when I wrote it, just ignore the ridiculous content
It's okay, humans make these kind of mistakes too.

A friend of mine has a young son (~2-3 years old), and a cat named Mono.

Her son knows the cat is named Mono - he plays with her everyday.

But when they go out for a walk, any 4 legged animal he sees is also a "Mono".

Fortunately for her son, his developing, extremely plastic brain will soon know how to differentiate Mono the cat from a random dog on the street (unlike neural networks which we will need to entirely redesign, rebuild, and retrain to get similar progress).
Yes, it's a tough problem; but that does not make college degrees as certification any better. I think that if we, as a society, stop kidding ourselves with inadequate workarounds, we might be able to find a real solution.
dude, yes! I love that spinning Netscape cube! One of my favorite gifs from the era. That and the obligatory "Made with a Macintosh" found at the bottom of so many websites back then :)
Killcord: a censorship resistant deadman's switch for whistleblowers (alpha)
Man those overexposed and noisy webcam photos really take me back. I have a whole folder from about 15 years ago that look exactly the same.
That's a misunderstanding of what a sunk cost is. Which of the following are sunk costs?

A car has a resale value. That resale value decreases with each additional mile on the odometer. That's the depreciation incremental cost.

A car requires insurance. Insurance rates fluctuate based on miles driven per period (and also based on whether the car is used in ride-sharing).

A car requires maintenance and repairs are incurred on a per mile basis. For example, when a $30 oil change is needed every 3K miles with 300 miles of trips to the grocery store and 2700 miles of Ubering, it'd be asinine to assign that cost in a way other than $27 of that going to Ubering.

A car requires fuel. The same logic as the oil change; $30 for gas to drive 30 miles to the grocery store and 270 for Uber can be uniformly distributed per-mile.
Rebecca Black’s “Friday”, Or: Dear Internet, You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself
It really is interesting how 95% of attacks are ad hominem without any substantial counter arguments. He has some strange ideas sometimes, but the central ideas are pretty solid imho.
Yes, according to my Iranian colleagues.
Define luck. The Universe by definition isn't deterministic starting from three particles in classical mechanics and one particle in the quantum case.
Define success. Is it doing what you like being surrounded by people you love? Or has it to be a mansion and a yacht?

Without proper definitions the entire discussion is useless.

For example, I state that I have already succeed not because of luck, but because of my free will. And all further improvements in my life will be just better grades of success.
Argument 'if a raptor didn't kill that butterfly far far ago you would now be slave to the vicious Uganda Empire' doesn't fit, as it can by applied to every statement.
Argument that I don't have a yacht doesn't fit, as "yachts are for loosers" and success isn't tied to material posessions.
Look, it's already fucked. You are talking in a black room via robotic voices, all non verbal communications channels stripped - with twitter there is a harsh beep that silences you or the other speaker every fifteen seconds.

Who in his right mind would conduct meaningful conversations in such manner... no wonder that even plain email ends up so many times misunderstood, even if I pack it with smiling emojis, there's a good chance that the other party attribute this to cynicysm (or vice versa).

At least in the "old times" snail mail made you sit down and think, you could not fire and forget a message because you had to sit down, write it down, put it into an envelope, go to the post office, buy the stamp, write the address and then go back home.
I think I was able to run WRF or a similar model on my laptop in 2010 (A Macbook Pro with a Core 2 Duo). It took about a day to compile and run the sample dataset. I gave a presentation about it at my weather forecasting class. I almost got it running with our local sounding data but I ran out of lab time I needed for the class. It was fun though I was reading reddit while it was compiling and running. I was the only person to give a presentation about it in my weather forecasting class.
Most who were just tinkering still posted to something like geocities, but I agree that spirit has been lost. What do they do in middle school / high school web development classes these days anyway? Kind of the appeal 20 years ago was that you could learn HTML pretty easily and whip up a simple personal website like this and have fun doing it. It didn't exactly "teach" much, at least in my experience, but it was inspirational in a lot of ways.

When I took a class like that we used Dreamweaver (after writing some pages in notepad of course) and later Flash. Never learned Javascript back then, in fact our teacher encouraged us to check it out, but it wasn't part of the curriculum. It was mostly a class for anyone interested in dipping their toe in the web without any prior experience.
This so much! This was literally my point! The English language != America, and I say this as a born and bred (slightly unhappy with our buffoon in chief) American.
IANAL, but no (if I understand correctly). Companies outside the US (all the way outside, with no US footprint) are subject to the laws of their own land. You could sue them in US court, and never collect a dime. You could sue them in their own courts, have the lawsuits be subject to the laws of their land, have to spend a lot more money on lawyers... and still (probably) never collect a dime.

If they have an office in the US, though, you can sue the US division in US court.

If they have no office but some sales in the US, I'm a little less clear on...
> like Bernie and impersonated left-leaning entities like Black Lives Matter.

yes but not within anything generally viewable on /r/politics
Personally, because there are so many sketchy things on Facebook, this is what I tend to do:

1) go to snopes, search for the article
2) read the article, specifically using the links to their sources and reviewing those.
3) if still unsure, do some more searching.
4) if after steps 1 and 2 it can be deemed that, yeah, whatever was posted to Facebook was a crock, then I'll share a link to the Snopes article and in the case where there's a video being sourced, link to said video and pertinent timestamps.

So yeah. Used right, Snopes is a good resource. If you (not you you, you generally) just blindly take the word of anything regardless of the source, well, that's interesting.
No, it's not.

Keeping an entire class on the same page is.

Introducing a new side-topic would be detrimental to traditional lecture-based courses.

...not that they are a particularly good method in the first place.
XOOM was a great free website host for several years before they sold the domain and broke SO many links.
I think most Icelanders, including myself, would start off conversing in English as a matter of courtesy; it would be rude to assume that a person of an ethnic minority isn't Icelandic based on their looks. A lot of times they are indeed Icelanders of ethnic minorities, and you avoid a situation embarrassing for both parties, and perhaps make them feel more welcome in the country they were born in.
You will be hated.
There's historical importance to. If you lose the native speakers and writers of language, you lose the ability to read and interpret the written history of a culture. There's ancient Mediterranean civilizations we don't understand because we cannot read Linear A or Cretan.
If you just can't believe that a sane person could be against government enforced "universal healthcare, education, and higher minimum wages" you should expand your horizons a bit. These issues are not so clear cut in the details especially when thinking about long term solutions to problems.
I am quite certain that is not the case.
The 'Sign Up' button got me. I thought I was signing up to your blog's subscription or something.
FWIW, I have had bad experiences with AMEX chargebacks. Even when it’s obvious their cardholder is committing fraud. There’s a sort of weird corporate swagger that says “yeah, so what?...we’re big, you aren't”. Lost a chargeback for non delivery when I had the cardholder’s signature on UPS paper.
Ah, the Netscape cube :)
That's true, it's not flawless, but you certainly aren't getting too much unnecessary medical care!
Not sure I follow - I think you're saying the way the patent is worded means the game dev is protected, but if there was no patent at all there would be nothing to attack them with in the first place?
This is... amazing...
End-to-end arguments in System Design [1] convinced me that a lot of special case handling I thought was necessary was really optimization and optional.

Though I already understood recursion pretty well when I read this, the explanation Paul Graham gives in section 2.7 of ANSI Common Lisp was pretty useful [2].

[1] http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoen...

[2] http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/acl2.txt
I call them average. My buddies and I were all starting up our own sites and fan pages about our favorite cartoons using homestead and geocities before we were teens. Didn't know crud about HTML but WYSIWYG editors existed then too.
I view this as a $1.8 million dollar tax for owning a home in Silicon Valley. The average house in Michigan sold in 2017 for $118 per square foot or a little over $100K for a house that size. Even in a nice affluent Michigan suburb with great schools I couldn't see paying over double that amount.

I was just out in the Valley a few weeks ago. Absolutely love it out there but that's just crazy. As usual I think DHH put it best in a tweet:

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/969684080185950208
Your product could be banned, but the sue-er would never collect any money. So, if the sue-er is a patent troll, why would they bother? They don't care about banning competition. They'd burn a lot of money on lawyers for zero income. That's not a fight that they want to pick.
I'm kind of sorry to hear that about country music; some time ago I occasionally caught a country show on, I swear, BBC World Service, featuring singers clearly from the British Isles.
This is the best icon I have seen in a while: http://boglin.iwarp.com/iexploit.gif
Maybe a little embarrassing, but overall beautiful just as a reminder of how innocent the internet, and most people on it, were back then.
How did you arrive at that conclusion after reading the linked statement?
I think Adobe moved a lot of that type of offering to other projects like XD, but I'm not really in that space.
Don't twitter stockholders want to see that hate channeled into profits. Hate sells.
The need for old SCSI/IDE drives is being filled by SD/microSD/CF adapters for those connector types :)
Yep. I imagine if they went after Supercell that Apple or Google might get involved, at which point a tiny patent troll would get destroyed.
Your point is completely false. You missed 2 major vendors of credit cards plus 2 additional minor ones.

Technically there are 26 different cards most POS terminals support. 11 of those are Visa or MasterCard

Edit: "Private labeled" is considered anything a normal gateway will accept and go into the generic category. Which absolutely exists
That’s very reasonable. Maybe there are new functionality that can be implemented to at least bring back to the frontpage flagged articles of interest to the majority?

I think there needs to be a punishment function for ideologically motivated flagging and maybe even other actions done by such a minority, so that it cause the articles to stay on the frontpage longer when brought back in order to dissuade the behavior.
>Also, if unions are not a direct, full frontal attack on capital and hierarchy, why are they facing constant attack from organs of ruling class consciousness, like, say, the WSJ, the Financial Times, or even other less explicit papers like the New York Times?

The fact that the capitalist class doesn't appreciate tactics that complicate or reduce the effectiveness of their preferred business practices doesn't mean that those tactics represent an attack on capitalism itself. Corporations violently oppose taxes and regulations, too, but neither threatens capitalism or its fundamental class structure.

>Unions started as an instrument of class struggle and remain precisely that, the fact that that is even slightly controversial is more representative of the ideological climate of today and specifically this website.

It's hardly peculiar to the 'climate of today'. Karl Marx, 1865:

At the same time, and quite apart from the general servitude involved in the wages system, the working class ought not to exaggerate to themselves the ultimate working of these everyday struggles. They ought not to forget that they are fighting with effects, but not with the causes of those effects; that they are retarding the downward movement, but not changing its direction; that they are applying palliatives, not curing the malady. They ought, therefore, not to be exclusively absorbed in these unavoidable guerilla fights incessantly springing up from the never ceasing encroachments of capital or changes of the market. They ought to understand that, with all the miseries it imposes upon them, the present system simultaneously engenders the material conditions and the social forms necessary for an economical reconstruction of society. Instead of the conservative motto: “A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!” they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword: “Abolition of the wages system!”

And in regards to unions specifically:

Trades Unions work well as centers of resistance against the encroachments of capital. They fail partially from an injudicious use of their power. They fail generally from limiting themselves to a guerilla war against the effects of the existing system, instead of simultaneously trying to change it, instead of using their organized forces as a lever for the final emancipation of the working class that is to say the ultimate abolition of the wages system.
Language affects our thought process, so therefore the fewer languages there are in the world the more monotone the thought process of the world. I'm not saying there's any chance of saving the languages, we will most definitely end up with only one language somewhere in the next 200 years, I'm just pointing out that there's something we'll lose along the way.