skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So following rules is a problem now?

If Waymo gets caught violating even a small rule, there will be a thousand articles on HN on self-centered Big Bad Silicon Valley.
Microsoft is doing their darnedest to own JavaScript as a language. TypeScript + VSCode is making inroads.
Q&A with Lawson Baker, Founder at Relayzero
AFAIK such cards make money primarily on breakage, i.e., points that people buy but do not use.
I think this would be a great feature. This could either be a selectable/tunable filter that filters out results, or it could just provide detail on the page size of each item in the search results. People already do some amount of mental filtering when looking at search result lists so this should seem familiar to them, in other words they will understand the filter.

I think you should email the people at duckduckgo.com and let them know that you think it would be a very useful and valued feature by users.
Just exactly how longsuffering are we supposed to be? My '16 MBP has been in for repairs 3 times SO FAR.

This was also my most expensive Apple purchase ever.

Usually, the trend goes the other way. I don't know about other folks, but I'm less inclined to forget after dropping $4300 on that unit.
You can fly over but you can't land. I'm not sure what the rule is about jumping out of the helicopter hovering a few feet above. Clearly against the spirit of the designated wilderness.

Planes are in fact really common sight over many of the Sierra Nevada wilderness as east coast to west coast transcontinental flight paths go right over the area, its a constant reminder you aren't really that far away. Some of the wilderness along the CA coast feel quite remote as you see almost no planes passing over you.
> I’m not touching Ruby though. There are jobs for it but they don’t pay well.

Source? I know I’m an N of 1, but I just got hired to work on a Rails app and the pay and other benefits are pretty competitive...
Oh yeah, gotta adjust for the fact that the article was about NYC/Washington DC and mine was rural New Hampshire.
Ask a Rohingya: filtering your own feed doesn't help when the unfiltered mob arrives to burn your house down.
Most places that the poor (at least in rural areas) shop at offer substantial discounts for paying with cash. There is typically the "cash" price and the "card" price. At a liquor store, a 44 dollar bottle paid with card is 39 dollars cash. A haircut at the local barber is 13 dollars cash or 15 dollars card.
As someone that develops almost exclusively in high-level languages on top of may levels of abstraction, it's nice to see what can be accomplished close to the metal.

This reminds me of Steve Gibson's SpinRite, which (from what I recall) is a fully functional disk recovery utility written entirely in assembly. https://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm. Say what you want about the man, but this is something that's saved me on at least one occasion, and is smaller than things I produce that do a lot lot less.
Suicide rates tend to be lower in developing countries. Don't you think that lifestyle is part of the reason?

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/535557fc6bb3f78245a35...
The farmers here in Kansas are crying because the subsidies are being cut right and left. It's going to shake up the agricultural market big time.

Plus, all the grain storage facilities are still mostly full from last year and we're looking towards another bumper crop from all the rainfall this year.
Aren't these typically reloaded via a credit card?
Prospecting for Hash Functions
The only stumbling block for old laptops is bad display quality. Switching from classic ThinkPad to MacBook really save my eyes.
Native Americans push schools to include their story in CA history classes
Upvoted. I hope your comment does not get flagged like mine have been.
I just run a restore from a Time Machine Backup and wipe it before giving it back.
I bout a full spec XPS 9560, the second time my '16 MBP went in for repairs. The same generation CPU, the same storage (2TB) and double the RAM... and it's $1000 less than the full spec MBP.

I wonder how long before a lot more folks come to the conclusion that Apple premiums aren't worth paying anymore.
An alternative to this is to have a generator that works with either propane or car-gas.
You shouldn't be in business if you don't know what your growth will be. That is all part of your business operation's and deployment strategy.
Amusing that the organizing principles of our society are so waekend as to be broken by bad-intentioned memes
Bell's theorem says that no other theory with local hidden variables (which do away with randomness) can explain all the things QM explains.
I have a coworker who hoarded quite a few when we were shutting down mainframes in an old dc way before my time. I often casually tell him that when he retires he had better give me one.
All flagged comments here should be unflagged.
Yes. But compare one $25 transaction to six $4 ones over a large population, and even the per-transaction fees alone seem like a pretty decent savings.
Thanks! Then I take that part back. I do know they, Walmart, and Target spend piles of money on bullshit, though. Kroger was doing the worst by far last survey since they were severely cutting stockers beyond what every company in this area was.
Debit cards and credit cards are obviously different beasts though. You might as well be comparing cash against credit cards. Nobody expects them to be treated equally. The question was, can/do merchants discriminate against different types of credit cards from the same network (such as regular vs. Signature Rewards)?
I believe it.

My MasterCard is 2% cashback (through points, but that just means I batch it), but has an annual fee of $150 for two cards, and a minimum household income. I need to spend $7500 on the card just to break even, but if I funnel nearly all my expenses through the card I can net $1000 or more a year.

These "rewards" come from the merchant, in the form of higher fees, and because the merchant can't discriminate prices between credit/cash (probably in the CC t&c somewhere) then if the merchant wants x% profit from me, they're earning >x% from someone paying cash.
New tech almost always starts out being available only to privileged individuals but then becomes commoditized and available to everyone.
Funny thing is I use my i3wm environment on 16gb of RAM and a 4k screen. I'm actually migrating to rat poison because it's so incredibly simple and basic that it has been making me drool. I mean, look at the source code. It doesn't get much simpler than that for a tiled WM.
It's not about you. It's about messages other people are receiving about you.

For example, Alex Jones insisting that the parents of some murdered children are fakes has resulted in them receiving death threats offline: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/09/sandy-hook-c...
Simplii Financial (direct banking subsidiary of CIBC) has unlimited transactions, Interac e-transfers, Autodeposit and Request Money, Interac Flash (contactless payments), and supports Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay, and all these features are absolutely free. Maybe you just need to change your bank.
I honestly have no idea. Part of my curiosity was what kind of data they were collecting.
Keyboards, I believe, are a personal thing. Some people can live with any kind of keyboard. Others may need to feel the 'click' and feedback from the pressed keys.

I personally can live with some keyboards but not others. I'm currently typing on a USB based Thinkpad keyboard and like it. On the other hand, a Dell keyboard that came with my office system had a 'mushy' feel like I was typing on a dead fish that completely turned me off using that keyboard. :-)
Around 1996/97 I heard two very similar rumors, from two people who did not know each other. Both rumors had it that the NT source at that time was at least in some part the source of "Micah", the OS that Dave Cutler and crew had been working on for the Prism architecture. The NT source still had DEC copyrights and mentions of Micah in it. That's why DEC had such a weird deal with Microsoft, and why there was an Alpha AXP port of NT long after all other architectures went by the wayside.

As far as credibility of this rumor, if you have a copy of "Inside the Windows NT file system" (https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Windows-NT-File-System/dp/1556...) by Helen Custer, you'll see a more than passing resemblance of NTFS to ODS-2, the on-disk layout of VMS filesystem. G. Pascal Zachary has a big chapter on the development of NTFS, if I recall "Showstopper!" correctly, but he doesn't mention this... coincidence at all, giving full credit for NTFS to a couple of guys on the NT team.
The content of this comment is very sensible. The fact that it has been downvoted speaks volumes about the defining culture here on HN.
Now that .NET Core exists, it is possible to develop on the .NET stack without licensing fees (By hosting on Linux and using an open source database) or using a third party implementation (Mono).

It remains to be seen whether this will help it gain traction with more companies or not though.
How do you figure in the chance that some birdbrain from Microsoft is going to call you up and demand that you participate in a "voluntary" audit of your license compliance, which you agreed to as a term of your Windows license agreement? I know many of you don't really remember the 90s, but Microsoft was and is evil. I wouldn't touch anything from them, or Oracle, with a ten-foot pole.
How dare someone organize protests on FB.

Is the issue just that the organizers are ostensibly from another country/nation? Maybe the solution is for FB to regionize similar to the DVD industry? Posts in one region can only be seen in the same region?
How Capitalist Utopia Became Everyone Else’s Dystopia
There's an overwhelming majority of developers who recently majored in CompSci or went to Bootcamps that have never touched a Microsoft development ecosystem, let alone Windows before. Schools/Camps are mostly teaching Python, JavaScript, or Java although that's starting to change now with .NET Core being open-source and cross platform and being one of the fastest frameworks out there on TechEmPower Benchmarks.

I founded a startup on the Microsoft tech stack (.NET Core, VSTS, and Azure). Why? It's an incredibly productive dev/tooling environment that Java/Python/AWS doesn't even come close to. The downside? It's really hard to find good C# talent that isn't stuck in an enterprise development mindset.
I work with C#/.NET but if I had to start from scratch I wouldn't use it. With a lot of platforms you are a second class citizen with .NET because most APIs get released as Java, Javascript or Python. The .NET version often comes much later. After working with MS for 20 years I am also not convinced they will sustain long term what they started with .NET Core.

With a startup I would stick to open source. It's the more vibrant and reliable option.
Cakes are made with batter, not dough, so none was saved.
Does divestment from a corporation actually provide an incentive for the corporation to change its behavior?

Maybe if you were boycotting their IPO. But the mechanism of influence is much less clear if you're just declining to buy their stock secondhand on the exchanges...
Edit:

Redacted.

I'm tired and maybe misreading your comment.

I'm outta here folks. Talk at you good people some other time.
I don't understand how this is outrageous. The terms do not say that you can't have other means of distribution just that you can't link to them through the MS app or the listing page. Its like you selling a product on Amazon with a link in the listing that says buy it from my website for a 10% discount. I'm sure Amazon won't allow that.

Krita was asked to delete a link which points to the external download location and not the one to their website. Seems fair to me. Krita being a FOSS can have it available for free on the MS store and have a link to their donate page. If MS doesn't allow that, then it would be outrageous.

The terms look to have been written to prevent abuse by devs. This being a FOSS might warrant special circumstances, but I wouldn't hold it against MS for not providing those special circumstances.
I’d say it’s closer to the truth that the 2016 disinformation clearly disfavored one candidate.
It appears to support Unicode just fine, you just have to use UTF-8. I find that in most cases you should only use UTF-8 anyway, so in most cases that is not a problem.
My mother has been a florist for 40 years and this is totally normal and has been for generations. I don't understand why this article exists. Everything old is new again?
I think you may want to re-evaluate your cynicism. If you read the article they mention that baked tiered cakes for weddings are stale and mostly ineadible. I can believe this. I have baked a few layer cakes and anything more than a few thin layers (enough to make a good topper) is a serious challenge. This is pragmatism and guest enjoyment over deception.

I’d take the fresh sheet cake over a week old repeatedly frozen and thawed cake.
>divisive hate speech

All of the people who are so vocally anti-free speech always fall back to "hate speech", but there is literally no such thing. There is no robust definition of what "hate speech" is, and whenever it is invoked, it invariably turns into "whatever I disagree with". The truth is that "hate speech" is entirely in the eye of the beholder, it is exactly the same as "offensive speech". The listener/reader is the person who decides whether or not they perceive something to be hateful in exactly the same way as they perceive something to be offensive. You can come up with entirely contrived examples that most people will agree is hateful, but that's not what you're trying to stop. Saying that a country should have borders is considered hateful by many, saying that there are only two genders is considered very hateful by many, promoting national sovereignty or pride is considered hateful by many, and this is what you're talking about when you refer to "hate speech".

The other premise that all free speech detractors completely fail to understand, is that free speech is not just a law, it is a foundational value of the nation. You can't dismiss free speech in any situation where the 1A doesn't provide protection, because people are often talking about values, not laws.
Legitimate question downvoted because it is counter to OP's narrative. This is the current state of HN. Sad!
Putin openly campaigned for Trump, promising war if the United Stated elected Hillary Clinton. Russia for whatever its reason clearly had a preference.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-russian-trum...
This is a great reason to use a ROTH 401k over a Traditional and max your ROTH IRA every year.

Why? It's nearly impossible that taxes won't start skyrocketing soon.
Excluding 77 of the results because they were PHP and so probably "weren't software at all" is silly, to be polite. I understand the assumption is that they are probably ecommerce frameworks or WordPress sites but a) that's a pretty bad assumption and b) for an eCommerce framework, how is that not just part of the stack like any other framework? They are never off the shelf solutions at that scale, and surely it would be interesting to note that a majority of the top 100 were using a particular framework in the stack.
Those aren't really counterexamples. They corroborate this finding by the OP:

>There were people with degrees in unrelated fields who then did a bootcamp who were good
Still, it is more organized as desktop stack than any UNIX based alternative, with exception of macOS, which doesn't care much about their UNIX underpinnings, even during NeXT days.
0.7% of car accidents in Florida are fatal. That works out to more than one accident every half a million miles for humans.
Funny!

It's as though we moderns are all grazing in a 100-acre meadow that's been grazed for two centuries. The easy stuff is gone. Even the magic beans are rare. The question is: with your magnifying glass, which seeds do you look at in hopes that they're nutritious?

One of my college advisors muttered, and I quote, "Einstein wasted 30 years of his life" (looking for a unified theory). Well now. Sadly, this advisor put graphite on paper for a whole career with little to show for it (apart from employment).

Mr. Nobel's name is -not- still recognized because of his economically worthy applications. And it's lucky for Kelvin that he invented a temperature scale.
Yes, but some of it... it's really just like this:

https://goo.gl/maps/rQjoQWY9Svu

It doesn't support many cattle, but that's about all you can do with it, and there are better places for 'outdoor activities'. Cattle do need to be managed so as to allow the native species (sage grouse for instance) to thrive.
> Has anyone just farted around self published books or fanfic a bit?

I just published my first print book [1] with Amazon CreateSpace.

I learned a heck of a lot technically - I wrote it in LaTeX for ultimate formatting control, then ran it through PanDoc and a bunch of my own scripts to massage the epub how I wanted.

CreateSpace make it extremely simple, in all honesty anyone that has used facebook has enough computer skill to publish their own book.

I also learned a massive amount about writing, editing and so forth. Each new draft I kept saying it was "almost done", then would spend months re-writing entire chapters and paragraphs. Along the journey I read many fantastic books about how to write, and how to make my stories more engaging.

It was an extremely rewarding process. The first time you get a draft copy in your own hands is fantastic - it's staggering and the only thing you can say is "holy sh, it's a real book!" Haha.

I'm already working on my next books, and I plan to write for the rest of my life.

[1] The Road Chose Me Volume 1: Two years and 40,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina - https://amzn.to/2vo3S3G
And this wasn’t a good thing. Presidents could literally intimidate journalists with exhibitionistic displays, confident that the matter would not be made public. (Lyndon famously flashed his Johnson at journalists demanding to know the rationale for the Vietnam War, saying, “this is why!”)
That would make sense. There’s also the customer loyalty factor. I use the Starbucks app a lot (probably too much if I’m being honest), and all of the “stars” and “challenges” definitely work in terms of gamification.

PS you can pry my caramel macchiato from my cold, dead, jittery hands.
> Those who have been disallowed to associate with Facebook remain free to associate with other very similar platforms.

Facebook has been abusing it's massive size to block access to competitors using their Facebook Zero program : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Zero

From the page :

> In 2015, researchers evaluating how Facebook Zero shapes information and communication technology use in the developing world found that 11% of Indonesians who said they used Facebook also said they did not use the Internet. 65% of Nigerians, 61% of Indonesians, and 58% of Indians agree with the statement that "Facebook is the Internet".
No one is doing any commercially meaningful farming (not even for a small business) on 20 acres.

Consider for grazing use 2-6 acres per cow is needed. 4 cows, isnt even a blip. Nor can you farm most crops meaningfully on 20 acre plots either.

On lot 1, most of the taxed value is derived from the improvements, not the land itself.
Honestly Model M's are little more than historical curiosities at this point. The state of the art has moved on. Once you get used a to a good modern keyboard - I'm partial to Topre switches, myself) - the actuation force of the Model M is just really excessive, nearly double.

PS: If you really want them, you can get Unicomp boards built on the original IBM tooling for about $80.

[1] Yes, I have a couple Model M's around, including a 1991 'vintage' IBM with a PS/2 connector that doesn't play nice with modern motherboards - they don't generally supply enough milliamps).

[2] I don't much care for Cherry switches either.
Larger areas of land with high value are taxed more. Low socioeconomic people don't put mansions on large estates.
I have vouched for your comment because it's a completely reasonable observation and I have no idea why it was dead.

That said, ...

Edit: I'm tired. I've redacted argument here. Let's just say I did use a qualifier and let's leave it that.
Haha, I think the web is a lot like markets. Buyers will pay up to what they can afford, i.e the best price is the one that the buyer feels very uncomfortable but still pays because they want something and they can’t it anywhere else at a better price.

Sometimes this is abused (see US healthcare) but that’s the rule of markets. Demand and Supply.

I guess the internet is the same. The media companies will try to use every analytics and ad company under the hood to maximize every little ad click they can get. They will fill the pipes to the brim and implement every dark pattern as long as they make that extra revenue. (See taboola - the scum of clickbait advertising)

At the end of the day if you don’t like something. Don’t use it. I rarely visit cnn. I install adblockers and tracking blockers. We fight it with what we have.

It’s supply and demand laws. We as consumers install stuff to block annoying things, they as sellers will keep on annoying you as long as you keep on visiting them because a mild annoyance of ads and auto-play videos is how they keep the lights on.

The case of Google however is they are on a mission to have a monopoly of search on their browser and ads on their platforms. That’s how they make 90%-ish of their revenue. Google could say whatever the hell they want to say their mission is, their actions and financials clearly say what they value.
"Once a KGB, always a KGB!"

So does that also apply to all the "former" intel people in the American MSM? They work for three letter agencies that are legally authoized to lie to the American public...
It was the University's main library so there were lots of different ones. For a while, one of the interesting ones was the congressional report on the nature of pornography (it was illustrated) but that eventually made it out into the main stacks, I remember a book on the McCarthy anti-american hearings which had some material on people in Hollywood that was "sensitive", some chemistry books that were pretty explicit about early explosives and their manufacture. That sort of thing.

As the article states, and I doubt this was different about USC, restricted books back in the 70's and 80's often seem tame by modern standards.
Stored energy is stored energy. Batteries may burn, explode, spark (ignition source), electrocute, and/or be a source of noxious fumes or chemicals.
Lotsa FUD here.
The lands natural state was grazing lands - before we killed off the millions of buffalo that lived there to try to starve native Americans into reservations. The most unnatural use of the great plains is farming, arguably, and farming was the singular cause of the dust bowl.
I don't think Twitter is analogous to yelling in a town square.

It's more like talking at a bar, where others can overhear you. Twitter can of course start throwing people out, but then it turns into a clique and will probably be eventually subsumed by the larger society that it ignores.
> It’s really hard to find good C# talent that isn’t stuck in an enterprise development mindset.

I’ve found that C# devs manage quite well in F#, and the ergonomic way of doing things is sufficiently different to break people out of the 3+ levels of inheritance I’ve seen some small C# projects devolve into.

That said, the community is smaller.
I find that the best way to do this is to just VNC to a windows or Mac dedicated slave computer to do graphic arts work. VNC is so good nowadays that I can use my QHD phone screen as a second monitor for all my Adobe apps- and the lag nowadays is almost non-existent thanks to super fast wifi.
And you think this is the only lifestyle difference between the countries? There are millions of confounding variables.