skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There needs to be a journal for negative results.

>We tried X it didn't work.

Would be invaluable in a lot of fields where knowing what's been tried is more important than knowing what hasn't.
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IRS was a bad example as they are not a typical business. They have to worry about voters.
Of course, but it's a start and a symbolic gesture.
No, but it cuts down on most of it and at least guarantees a physical unit is in the US ready to ship quickly.
It’s hard to know what you mean by “immediately removed from public view.” As of this writing, it’s got its initial single vote.

From the FAQ:

> ”How are stories ranked?”

>. ”The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in comment threads are ranked the same way.”

> ”Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which downweights overheated discussions, and moderator intervention.”

In general, it’s better to contact the mods directly via the contact link in the footer if you Have questions like this. They’re the only ones who can provide a definitive answer.
I don't know much about Linus's personal background prior to his announcing his project as a student. His communication style always struck me as surprisingly easy to understand and relate to. It reminds me of what used to be a common subculture in tech fields in California, namely the ex-military enlisted men's culture. I have wondered if he somehow had similar early exposure.

It's the combination of swearing like a sailor, sarcasm, thick skin, and being prone to hyperbole when talking about any kind of trained skill or procedure. As a child, I learned from my dad (and eventually figured out what he really meant), "There is the right way, the wrong way, and the Navy way" to everything. This culture is indoctrinated when young men go through boot camp, but it also spreads itself when concentrated enough other environments. In boot camp, the yelling, the swearing, the insults, and rigid expectations are used to shock, reset, and motivate. Initiates are bootstrapped into a command hierarchy and also taught trust, duty, and shared responsibility. A lot of this rubs off on the successful graduates.

When people with this sort of background mingle, it is easy to fall into this sort of brusque communication. Language may be harsh, colorful, and full of crude imagery, but usually isn't intended to be cruel or hurtful. Those with fluency will take it as quite the opposite... people are signaling trust and fraternal interest. Such insults and jokes are exchanged to strengthen bonds. Ironically, while someone communicating in this mode can easily hurt the feelings of someone not conditioned to understand it, in turn they can feel hurt themselves as they were putting their feelings out there (albeit in a coded form) and having them slapped down and rejected. To a person steeped in this culture, it is frustrating dealing with the subtlety and opacity of "polite" and "diplomatic" society whose practices often seem perverse, passive-aggressive, and insincere.

I feel that the tech scene used to be more strongly influenced by these ex-military participants. Some of the older hacker ethos also seemed to mix this with other hippie and subversive attitudes which could somehow tolerate and complement each other. This is disappearing. I would not link the change to political correctness nor women, but to a general dilution of those old norms. More and more participants are coming in as tech becomes mainstream. There is a new wave of youngsters further removed from military experience, in spite of US activities abroad. There are also far more immigrants from many other cultures throughout the world.

The only thing less effective than groups of people speaking different languages at each other is when they mistakenly thing they are speaking the same language...
There is no computer model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, this has to change
Even if I get to that level of net worth - which, as I noted, I'm not at yet - I'd probably still have some earned income. I could just care much less about how much and could be a lot choosier about what work I want.
I have visited theatres that perfectly match your description in Taiwan, with the exception that the film has to be out on DVD. You choose the size of room you would like (some rooms are large enough for parties, some are comfortable for two), pay for the amount of time you would like to book the room (with discounts for longer amounts of time or late night bookings), and choose from their library of DVDs. You are shown to your room and the movie is played. There is a phone to call the front desk and you can order food and drinks to be brought to your room. The chain I visited a few times is called U2MTV [1].

[1] http://www.u2mtv.com/
In the US, they can't. See Bridgeman vs. Corel. Despite whining from the museum community, nobody has successfully enforced a copyright on a public domain work in the US since then. This follows the Supreme Court decision in Feist vs. Rural Telephone, which wiped out copyright in telephone books as not being creative works. Bridgeman was followed by Meshwerks vs Toyota, which ruled that 3D scans of an object are not new works.
The most important thing to remember is that technology of all kinds, software frameworks and even programming languages themselves come and go, mostly affected by the whims and fancies of the megacorps that own them, or the communities that eventually implode into a thousand forks, whereas abstract design and techniques, aka algorithms and analysis, are forever (well, as long as we stick to the Turing machine model). It might seem boring and disenchanting for a recent graduate to know that the "dry and boring" stuff he just got done with will be recurring forever, but that's the way it is (if you are creative then nothing is dry and boring anyway). Even things like design patterns and best practices are basically product of the technologies and the general state of affairs that people had to wrestle with at different times, so they have a shelf life and must be reevaluated before application, without succumbing to cargo cult or taunts and ridicule. These things are after all opinions of few influential people propagated by their minions (jk), and not laws of nature as observed and analyzed for centuries by great minds. Its alright to have counter opinion as long as its not contrarian just for the sake of it.

The second thing to keep in mind is that computer science/software engineering is basically like metallurgy - its purpose is to produce tools to make lives better, mostly for STEM people but also for laymen. So, while its perfectly alright to have some fun building sand castles in the foundry, it must be remembered that there is a greater purpose. An offshoot of this point is to pursue your interests in non "tech" field of your choice by getting away from computers every now and then; you never know from where you would get your ideas and where your ideas might have an application. As software guys we have an inherent freedom, much like artists, to explore other fields of knowledge, for it has benefits of many kinds. So avail it.
It’s a straw man meant to excuse bad behavior as the only way to provide strong direction. Pushovers are not the under discussion here: Torvalds’ behavior is.
Unfortunately the "bad-faith actors" have all the media attention, and at least on the left, also a lot political power (i.e. they can get people fired/banned from Unis) (at least the media and academia seem completely left-dominated; maybe the opposite when it comes to the current US administration, although I don't see the far-right making any big progress, except maybe "the wall" and "Muslim ban"). Basically this is the "no true Scotsman" fallacy.
I always thought of Bluetooth as a form of wireless USB. It’s specifically designed to connect devices in close vicinity.
ignoring your emotions and the emotions of others and seeing all of life as an exercise of pure rationalism is not emotional maturity, it's emotional cowardice.
Indeed. Monopoly doesn't care about quality and support. Its users have no choice.
The neighbouring Rijksmuseum has digitised most (all?) of their collection with CC-0.

Including Rembrandt's Night Watch: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-C-5
They may have been able to fly because, perhaps, the air pressure was different back then. 2 bar or more

http://levenspiel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/DinosaurW.p...

Going back even further, there's giant insects. Bugs today are limited in size to the efficiency of their respiratory system. They don't have lungs like vertebrates. Air just sorta diffuses through their bodies. I you raise insects in a high oxygen environment, after a few generations they get bigger. The size of bugs before the dinosaurs indicate a higher oxygen content.

https://www.livescience.com/1083-oxygen-giant-bugs.html
The key, I find, is to be extremely direct and brutal in one on ones. Don't hold back, but be very supportive and positive when more than two people present. I try to explain this to be people I work with, but I don't think everyone appreciates it.

Horrible people, in my opinion, are those that do the opposite.
How did Russia set that stage in a manner that $6.5 billion [1] (publicly known at least!) along with thousands and thousands of hours of free & corporate biased advertising via mainstream media couldn't defeat? $100,000 in mixed republican/liberal ads surely had nothing on $6.5 billion.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/14/someb...
Or perhaps an acknowledgement that people are imperfect and the world is imperfect and, if you want to accomplish things, x all-too-common defect is preferable to y all-too-common defect.
Or has that "hacker subculture" actually worked AMAZINGLY BETTER THAN ALL THE CORPORATE CRAP OUT THERE.

Corporate/Professional: Symantec, Microsoft

Rude/Hacker: Linux, OpenBSD
You don't need to jailbreak in order to do that.
But if you had $2 mill to invest you wouldn't have it all in one concentrated index fund - you would have at least 50% in wealth preservation funds and diversified investments commercial property, overseas funds/trusts etc.

I have less that 10% of that in my investment portfolio and don't actually have a FTSE 100 tracker I have around 20 investment trusts and individual shares.
I rarely laugh out loud when whatching YouTube videos. If I do, it's probably because Tony caught me off guard with some sneaky subtle joke that snuck up on me 5 seconds later.
>In other words Snowden's taught millions of young people he influences that working within the frameworks of politics and the law is pointless and can't create the lasting change they hope for.

Snowden attempted to expose an incredibly corrupt and unconstitutional surveillance apparatus by working within the system but was ultimately ignored.

This security apparatus undermines the very fabric of law and government that you speak so highly of.

In case you've forgotten the 4th Amendment.

>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things

So what's your suggestion?

Silently put your head down and continue to breach the Constitutional rights of the American public?

Maybe you'd have kept fighting the man from within a system that clearly ignores one of the most fundamental pieces of our democracy, our Bill of Rights?

Sure, peoples rights are being trampled on but at least the youth wouldn't get any funny ideas.

Snowden gave up more for the USA than you, me, and many people on HN likely ever will by exposing an unconstitutional surveillance system so vast it'd give the Stasi a wet dream.

Edward Snowden is a patriot and I say that without reservation.
There is a certain cost in time and energy required to separate yourself from harsh statements like that identify it as such. While it's pretty easy to say, yes he's not suggesting physical abuse, the statement implies this guy is not going to cut me any slack, I can expect to get verbally attacked for missing something in my code, etc.

Bad code has a cost associated with it as well, it takes time to reject it, explain why it's wrong, and deal with the frustration of someone less experienced. Unfortunately with some developers they want to push that off on the person writing the code and bear none of the burden.

I've seen the costs of the latter in open source projects I've worked on. People who feel encouraged stick around, support the community, and when given good feedback will often learn from it and submit better patches. Taking the time to communicate and make sure everyone feels included is part of the cost to get that.
> It’s also important to recognize that essentially nobody chooses to be incompetent

Nonsense! Sometimes people decide to do just enough to get by in life and otherwise completely check out. Other times, people decide to care about their work. Sometimes, they care so much that they get deeply emotionally invested in it. What people do and do not care about is based on their values, and values are instilled by the culture around them. Part of that culture is maintained by publicly rebuking people for flouting cultural norms.

And--by the way--everyone who has ever criticized Linus for the way he communicates is doing the exact same thing--publicly rebuking people for flouting some cultural norm that they want to normalize.

Now, judging from the results, I would say that for kernel development, "not breaking backwards compatibility or tanking performance" has been an extremely valuable cultural norm to maintain, while "not cursing at people on the mailing list" hasn't been necessary to date.
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> The right is concerned with maturity and personal responsibility and anti-political correctness, where those things are defined primarily in contrast to the left's perceived over-sensitivity.

I agree this is the common narrative, but surprisingly to me, it seems that the conservatives/right-wingers are getting very good at using outrage themselves. E.g. three times as many professors are being fired for expressing "liberal views" compared to "conservative views" [1], and the situation appears to be the same outside of academia, with people like James Gunn.

Not saying that all conservatives get outraged, but they certainly seem to do so a good deal more than immediately comes to mind.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/po...
He cut out one piece of plastic relating to barometric pressure, and moved the taptic engine a bit. And all of this was on the 7, so Apple surely had space for a headphone jack on the 7+, right?

Maybe wired headphones are going the way of the DVD drive. But at this point, the change has felt very user-hostile. If they cared about their customers, iPhones would support USB-C and wired headphones.
Going to be hard and would be ineffective. For one, America still has several military bases in Germany alone e.g. Ramstein, which was used by the CIA in the Milan kidnapping [0][1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case

[1] Black Hat talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwGsr3SzCZc
And who sets that budget?
I had to call the IRS recently and had a pretty good experience. The lady was super helpful and provided me with some resources I didn’t know about before.
Take a look at the chart in https://twitter.com/ErynnBrook/status/1038893975279550465

Many people are so afraid of ending up in the bottom right (just giving in) that they head for the top left (zero-sum competition).

This underlies some of the things people fear about codes of conduct; they're afraid that they're being pushed into that bottom right corner, rather than striving for better collaboration.

Be direct. Be clear. Seek the best solution. Don't be awful to people while doing it.
Or a very small fraction of that in taxes, also ensuring vastly more equitable collections.
I think a better approach would be to keep all the traditional musical symbols and rests, but get rid of all accidentals.

As long as you're changing the staff, why not use a chromatic staff? http://musicnotation.org/
I’ve called the IRS recently due to them losing my filings, hard to get a person on the phone, even their advocates told me everyone struggles with it, the robot hangs up on you, when you do get someone they have no idea what to do an transfer you around, some agents just make things up, contradict policies they just told you. I ended up physically going to their office to drop off the paper work to get an official receipt they received my filing for when they lose it again. Next step is contacting my local congresswomen’s office for help. My experience at least with something very simple.
How do you remove FairPlay without a jailbroken device?
It certainly will if Linux kernel development continues successfully. I don't see why that wouldn't be the case, but you can't really use this to end the myth just yet.
Eye for an eye leaves everyone blind
Posted a Prototype on reddit, and I plan on posting it on HN in a month or two.
I learned programming to build that platform, I have a job and I had to do it in parallel to my university. I hope some day I can work full time for it.

But to respond to you, I already showed it to real people, who took a dump on it, and the redesigns are partly what I am working on right now. After that is finished I will try to do a cooperation with my universities language department and do a test roll out.

There is a woman who did multiple Kickstarter campaigns for a language learning app and she raised like 100k, but 5 years later the app is horrible.
My goal is not the money but to build a perfect learning platform, so critique is welcome.
I didn’t want to give an answer till I spent some time picking apart Maru and looking for similarities.

First, thanks for pointing out Maru. I’ve often wondered how to translate Lumen into C, and this is an excellent guide.

Also, I’m not sure how to shoehorn this into the conversation, but: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2XID_W4neJo

Regarding Maru the Lisp, the goals are similar-ish to Lumen’s. Lumen started life as an experiment: “what would a table-based Lisp look like?” Maru on the other hand is a (very fine!) traditional Lisp. It has cons cells, for example, and a GC. Lumen elides these features by virtue of running on a host that already implements them.

You’ve got me excited to try writing a Lumen to C compiler now...

Actually, that highlights one interesting difference. It’s possible to implement a C backend for Lumen relatively easily. It would just spit out C, which is fed straight to gcc. The problem is self-hosting. It’s easy to emit some C functions. It’s hard to emit code which is capable of compiling itself, i.e. implementing Lumen’s runtime and compiler systems.

I would say that Lumen’s power is largely thanks to its brevity. In fact it’s so small that I almost overlooked it, that first day many years ago. It didn’t seem like something so small could be production-quality.

I’ll keep studying Maru and perhaps report back with more thoughts.
Ironic that you complained about lack of data and then launched into an anecdote.

I have a few anecdotes about the DMV. I wonder if research would back up my hunch that the DMV is really bad at customer service. I'd certainly bet on it in a prediction market.
> Unfortunately, the technique for making both Damascus and Wootz steel has been lost to the centuries.

I've watched the artists on Man at Arms Reforged make wootz steel in a kiln from pig iron and wrought iron when recreating a Viking-era sword. It certainly isn't lost.

edit: video here if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EG34YoRHs8
Last time I called a week ago I was on hold for 2 hours before finally giving up.
> but it's not necessarily a bad thing to explicitly list traits commonly targeted by bullies and harassers.

I see a big problem by them omitting protection for people of different political opinions (whereas e.g. religion, which is essentially opinion, is protected).
I think its clear enough as is, and that the readme benefits from its current simplicity. Though for interest's sake this wouldn't hurt.
This is a great suggestion for those stuck on this crash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_tactics
> loads major news sites 2 to 8 times faster than Chrome and Safari on mobile, and 2 times faster than Chrome on desktop.

How does it compare to Firefox Focus? That's my go-to for mobile searches.
Hence the rise of political correctness, i.e. the art of saying nothing
This basic anker cable seems to fit the bill:

https://www.anker.com/products/variant/powerline-3ft-usb-c-t...

it might have been rarer when the macbook pro got out, at this point I think it’s decently common.
> When it comes down to it, most of today’s super exotic alloys will outperform any pattern-welded steel ... A well-made Damascus blade will stay sharp for longer than most production quality knives, but if you’re looking for the ends-of-the-earth best performing blade steel, look elsewhere

Can someone link/name one of these super exotic alloys knifes?
So, being nicer when someone else is watching and could corroborate, while being brutal to people when it's your word against theirs?

I wonder why people don't appreciate that advice.

"Direct" does not need to go hand-in-hand with "brutal". Don't change your behavior based on who's watching; people deserve to be treated well regardless.

EDIT: For clarity, I'm not necessarily suggesting this is the intention, but rather, that this would be the net effect, and a problem with that approach.
Linux was named after Linus.

Linus admits that he named "git" after himself too. At least he had some self-awareness of his own "git"-ishness.

Trump, for example, is too far along the narcissistic spectrum to even feign humility.

The software industry is sadly plagued by empathy-free, narcissistic gits.

It's sad - Why?

Empathy is actually essential for creating good software (and good leadership too) - we write software for humans not computers.

Trump is sadly too far gone to show real empathy. Linus may be too ... but at least he's seeking help.

Peace Linus - I hope you find your true empathic self.

More empathy in the development of Linux would be truly great (and not in the Trump sense).
Amazon’s customer service is still very good to excellent especially considering the volume they handle and the loss they take on return frauds. It’s still no Costco or Nordstrom but Amazon is the gold standard for online retail experience.
I found that blogging the steps as I do side projects made progress really helped with this - it makes it feel like I'm always completing something. It also allowed me to break a problem down into small steps (what be done in 30 minutes-1 hour before work).
blackpenredpen (math): https://www.youtube.com/user/blackpenredpen

mathologer (math, rubix cubes): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1_uAIS3r8Vu6JjXWvastJg

Welch Labs (math): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UConVfxXodg78Tzh5nNu85Ew

Physics Girl (physics): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DdEm33SyaTDtWYGO2CwdA

minutephysics (physics): https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics

Khan Academy (math, science, etc.): https://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy

Bob Ross (painting): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxcnsr1R5Ge_fbTu5ajt8DQ

The Virtual Linguistics Camps (linguistics & phonology): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaMpov1PPVXGcKYgwHjXB3g

NativLang (languages & language history): https://www.youtube.com/user/NativLang

Dr Jackson Crawford (old norse, scandinavian languages, old english): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXCxNFxw6iq-Mh4uIjYvufg
lite.qwant.com gives an interface as light as Google or DDG, without all the social and news garbage on the main page. Doesn't need JS active like the default home page either.