skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find your relaxed attitude quite perplexing. Only one moment of chance, madness, and anguish may have shattered your life. Shouldn't you be outraged at the fragility of your social order?

I'm sorry, but you're American. I've read your insightful, articulate comments. You were educated here, you live here, and you contribute to this society. You should be indignant that your conception of your place in America is framed by some past life. First, it is dishonest. You do not live and survive in Dhaka. And second, to me at least, it is an indication of your internalized acceptance of non-American-ness.

This is a problem of America. It is a problem for blacks, it is a problem for the poor, it is a problem for the immigrant, it is a problem for the non-sexually normative, it is a problem for the incarcerated, the list just goes on and on. Yet somehow it is totally un-American to recognize this as a problem. Perhaps it is the very definition of American-ness.

I am a techie. Today, I loved the discussion of Linus on endianness, and poor userland. I can't help but wonder what a gift it is to have him in America, but also wonder if he has fears about the future of the country his children will embrace fully as their own.

My wishes for the safety of you, your wife, and your city.
Reddit doesn't really have a single dedicated subreddit that is anything like HN. It would really be a combination of /r/programming, /r/technology, /r/webdev, /r/startups, /r/entrepreneur, /r/business, and a few others. The quality of each of those varies. The content and discussions seem to degrade with popularity to the point where a lot of /r/technology is memes and "circle-jerking".

HN seems better for more real-time or up-to-date news and more serious discussion compared to /r/programming. It seems much more common for an author/developer/employee of the posted project or article to show up here in the comments and contribute to the discussion.

Maybe it is because of the more serious tone, but I find that some users here care more about showing-off or proving someone wrong than having a friendly discussion and it probably discourages some people from contributing.
In-Memory Data Management (September 2015)
MOOC by co-founder and former CEO of SAP AG.
Russian Progress M-27M suffering in space – wild rotational spin observed
Well you aren't covering Safari for starters.
I like how little patience HN has for off-topic, non-constructive or unfounded comments.

Sometimes I have the feeling that even HN is bit too redditish for me. Is there something that is to HN what HN is to reddit?
Install VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox, give it most of your RAM and hard disk space. Now run Linux on that. That's your best bet for sticking to Linux for most of your work.

You can use browser on the Mac if you want to be able to use the latest and greatest firefox/Chrome but for coding and software nothing beats Linux. All the OS X brew/ports etc are just not good enough compared to apt-get.

You can run the VM using VirtualBox in background mode too and then just ssh to it using the Terminal.app or iTerm.app on OS X.

Copy-paste works really well on iTerm so you can copy-paste links from your OS X browser like Firefox/Chrome to the ssh terminal and use it in case you download software using wget/curl sometimes.

For email, Thunderbird/Mail.app both work really well on OS X and that should be good enough unless you want mutt, which you can then use from your Linux VM.

Most likely your production environment is Linux, esp. if you're in a company that is giving you Macs so most likely web development. Even better if you mimic your production environment in your VM and develop on that instead of developing on a non-standard environment like OS X and then hoping stuff works in production. (Tons of devs do this and it makes no sense.)
Yes, each of the facts listed in the book has a Sources paragraph and bibliographical references supporting the fact.
Oh, there is a much bigger lesson there.

Not only did they generate very serious incentive to create alternatives, but each one was an escalation of forces!

At the time Napster was running high, something like 40 plus million users were on the thing. Might have been more.

And this is in the dawn of broadband too! Nothing was as huge as Napster was, and it was spreading like wildfire too.

At one point, blanket licensing was discussed. Something like 2+ Billion annually, to be sourced by monthly subscriptions.

Add up that money from that time, and all the pain, etc... through today, and that's one hell of an opportunity cost, and for what?

Only to center in on streaming today? Yeah, that's working, but what did it cost to get there?

Had they taken that deal, much would be different today, and they would have a centeralized source for marketing, huge mindshare, and who knows what else?

iTunes was born out of the basic realizations you mention.

Nobody talks about the cost of actually getting there though.

Similar costs are happening right now for video. Painful.
Drinking can different between different cultures. There are cultures that drink the same amounts (per capita) but have fewer alcoholics, because they see drinking as something social, e.g. related to eating with friends and family etc, not as something you do even alone or to cure your blues.
Walled Garden. I like the metaphors.
However, you do lose deniability -- if you have possession of that key, you have to explain it.

There might be more value in not requiring you keep track of a key, at the loss of some users who figure out how to unencrypt themselves (of course, I might be overestimating malware authors!)
That there is only one 4G provider is certainly not true. Please check your facts: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Term_Evolution#LTE-Situat...

All 4 major players offer 4G, just not in every corner of Germany.
There has been some analysis of FileVault FDE, as well as an implementation of an open source library to read it. [1] The short answer is that they couldn't break it. While it'd be better if the whole thing was open source, at least the fact that I can understand the on-disk layout and algorithms used is comforting.

[1] https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2012/08/06/analysis-of-f...
The Nokia analogy bears approximately no relationship to this situation. Nokia was a platform company. Flipkart is just using other people's platforms, ones that will continue to exist independent of their efforts.

Your theory that people with lots of money and stuff on Github have no architectural problems does not match my experience.

Also, I like you using the web to tell me the web is dead. Do go on.
Keep it rocking bro!
I only use Fish interactively. It has really nice autocompletion (which I'm pretty sure reads my mind), and cycling tab completion which I like. Also oh-my-fish[1] is awesome.

Last I checked it was maintained by one guy, meaning support isn't always great.

I still use bash for scripting (can't get away from it) and when compatibility is an issue.

[1] https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish
WordPress Zero-Day Exploit: Don’t Let Your Website Become “Ground Zero”
First; I wanted to just nerd out a little with you, because the custom ladder you describe were the crucible of my gaming habits as well (geek cred, I think I even have some screenshots somewhere of when I was playing a Wintermaul clone with duke himself, from decades ago) :)

Second, I wanted to echo that there's a concerning parallel between paid vs free mods and free to play gaming. In both, I think the proposed solution _COULD_ be better. Some mods are ridiculous. (Skyrim on Morrowind? Some of the system shock 2 total overhauls?) I would _love_ easy, consistent, and safe channels to compensate the authors, and some sort of paid system seems fair in that sense. Similarly, if a game can be released free and keep passive costs going through balanced means (Path of Exile comes to mind) you CAN walk the line of "ethical microtransactions" or whatever the hell you call it nowadays.

But it's SO EASY now to point out failures in the f2p model, games that just gave up any attempt at legitimacy to pursue profit (which can be far more... subversive, in a f2p environment as opposed to selling traditional games, e.g. zynga). The worst part to this, to me, is that it's becoming the norm, as you say. People "are OK with it", and it eventually becomes accepted practice, and games that were once pillars of buy to play (guild wars 1 comes to mind) have sequels that essentially let you whip out a credit card for most of the end game gear, and fans who will _FIGHT_ you if you suggest this in any way moves towards "bad f2p".

I see a lot of potential for the cornucopia of modding creativity and availability we saw to fade in preference for monitization, and the true impact of this may not be seen for decades. (Is there really a difference in gamers who grow up being inspired by and playing with the hilariously accessible mods all over the place, and those who just play box products, or mods blackboxed so they behave as such? Selfishly, I can't but think so.)
I have made an observation from Linus comments which is sad specially to people who worked on KDbus all this time. If you think your comment helped anything maybe you should consider making them when you see comments like the next one:

quote:
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amelius 3 hours ago

Should be rewritten in Erlang or Go, if you'd ask me.
"""

otherwise you are full of sh*t. :)
This is very old, what's the current relevance?
Does anybody know why it costs a fee to submit a patent? Wouldn't it be much more fair to small inventors if we could just submit a patent for free, and the moment we'd like to exert that patent in a court, we'd pay for its examination?
iPhone DoS restart loop (remote no iOS zone) [pdf]
I've gotten the impression (and more so recently) that astroturfing is a problem on reddit. Not so much on Hacker News.
Don't let the layout fool you, reddit is a different beast.

Reddit is a versatile tool for building any kind of community you want. However, Reddit itself is not the herald of any kind of value. Like facebook groups, multi-purpose weakens meaning.

HN was born from the core values of YCombinator. It's a tangible proof of the tribe built around hacking and entrepreneurship. Meaning and Visuals are tightly coupled. Even the language it's written on (Arc) is an integral part of the overarching theme.
Umbria is beautiful. We went there for vacation once, just before the earthquake. What part of Italy are you from?
Animated failure reports with Selenium and Cucumber
"One proposal, by Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, is to develop a split-key system in which companies hold half and the government, or some outside agent, holds the other half of the key to unlock encrypted communications. The two would be put together only with approval of a court. But many computer security experts reject that idea, saying it would leave too much room for theft and would motivate other governments to require the same."
I'm on the same deal from Three in Denmark and use it as my primary way to internet in London for the last two months. Tethering is working fine, however the danish deal caps at 10 GB when roaming. Also note that calling/texting non-danish numbers incur roaming charges.
Lobste.rs if you don't mind very few posts.

Mailing lists for the other stuff.
Apple Patents Using iPhones and iPads as Input Devices for Creative Desktop Apps
Windows 10 Icons
How easy is privilege separation nowadays? Are there any cross-platform libraries (well, cross-unix at least)?

Most programs I write I would be happy, fairly soon after startup, to drop to "just read and write handles I've already got". It would make me feel much better about my badly written parsers!
Feel at Home roaming forbids tethering from a phone.

On the other hand, Three usually allows tethering in the home country of the contract, and also offers contracts on mobile broadband devices.
>where you don't have to think about the fact that you're 1000 km away.

We pay for that through increased rates due to covering such a huge landmass, most of which is sparsely populated. Wyoming alone is larger than England and has only 600,000 people.

I wonder if this roaming agreement is being pushed back because of the massive costs it would incur. Your cheap Parisian data plan isn't going to cheap on a Greek island. Its foolish to expect to pay the same rate. I can't see this not raising rates.
While in theory, it seems a good idea, in practice I'm not so sure about their results: for example using '+' for string concatenation while present in many languages is IMHO a bad idea: D use '~' instead: much cleaner to distinguish addition and concatenation otherwise x[] + y[] is ambiguous: element wise addition, concatenation? Who knows..
Sending email is free. What can be said about signal-to-noise ratio of email? Is there a connection?
Interesting read. I think Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/) is missing as a collaborative bibliography tool.
Site seems to be suffering, here's a cached link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.fre...
There is more media produced than people CAN consume for one.

There is extreme pressure to consume for two.

For a ton of people, money is a problem, entertainment budgets are modest, and they lack options.

Those things said, yeah! I just don't consume much anymore. I could be coding, learning, talking (as I am right now), and doing any number of other things besides watching stories.

In fact, this is why I love audio. I can do lots of stuff and still be entertained, and for some drama type programs, will just listen to them rather than watch the video.

Truth is, the video content producers really don't want to start down this road, and are aggressive about it. For them, having this discussion is nothing but a loss as they then compete with people doing something else.

And nobody wants to talk about that very much, do they? Funny, how having rampant piracy keeps this stuff far more relevant than it would be other wise.

In that perfect, no piracy world, a whole lot more people would care a whole lot less about buying movies.

I made that commitment in the mid '00's. Just stopped. I rarely infringe, and the product of that and my entertainment budget means I really do consume a lot less, and I buy a lot less now.

It's hard to commit three hours to passive entertainment. So many other things to do.

Highly recommended BTW. But you won't see the content industry advocating that. They know better.

And that right there is a huge value proposition associated with piracy that is a really hard discussion.

Relevance and mindshare. They need both to maximize revenue. Being relevant is hard. Giving it away to improve relevance? Totally justified, and up thread I mentioned AMC and "Halt and catch fire" and how it's there for the taking.

I watched that one. They gave it to me, and I talked it up to a bunch of people, some who paid, some who pirated, some who watched on cable, etc...

If too many of us tune out, or really do consume according to their pricing, they are going to find out the pricing really isn't aligned with consumption and or ability / desire to consume.

Better to have massive consumption and focus on improving revenue, I suspect.
True. But since Safari can't be put on Windows I didn't include it as part of my question.

But say I did all my testing on Mac (except IE); does Chrome behave that differently between OS X and Windows that it should be tested on both? Same for Firefox?
webgl for example, is implemented with angel on windows. angel is based on directx. there could be differences. I have a concrete example, but it is a long story. I'm too lazy to type. I might be able to find the link.

chrome video decoding is another example. on windows, you might be using hardware decoder. on mac, that could be a different story.

browser sandbox is also platform dependent.

depends on what you are testing. a thorough test might require you to test it on different versions of macs even. but that costs money and time.
ugly!, i prefer the first windows 10 icon set.

m$ way to push people to mac's :P
I think and hope that they will try again with another game that isn't out yet or at least has no strong mod community yet. That's what they decided as the biggest problem, experimenting on a big community instead of a small one.
+1 on brew and cask. Also, xcode, Tunnelblick, git, etc.

Be sure to change your default path to put /usr/local/bin first, so that all of the brewy and other goodness you install is actually picked up - and, if you install a more up to date bash, be sure to change your shell: System Preferences, Users and Groups, "two-finger" or "right click" on your name in the list on the left, advanced options....

I'm happy with the default terminal, works well enough.

EDIT: Not sure whether you will also need to change the default shell used by Terminal: start Terminal, Terminal, Preferences....
Help us with a vote to #BigWhoop fellow devs :)
I like Reddit for the smaller (particularly local) subreddits. But as a frontpage, HN is far more inviting to me. HN discussions are far more engaging and constructive; with Reddit, you're competing with whoever can copy-paste a meme the fastest. (edit: typo)
Me too, and it is why I am more active here than on Reddit. The fact that Reddit has to tag posts as "serious" gives you an indication of how challenging it is for interesting and honest discussion to take place over there.
I use both, and treat them slightly differently. I'm a lot more passive with my commenting on HN.

When I do my comments tend to be better thought out, but I'll often have an opinion on something and choose to not comment for various reasons. Maybe my opinion was a bit too harsh, maybe others have a similar opinion and have already voiced it in their words, or maybe I realize its off topic.

IMO this is both a good thing and a bad thing. Sometimes I find myself not commenting when I could truly contribute to the discussion. On the flip side, there's also a lot less noise when trying to filter through the discussions.
I am skeptical of nutrition labels, so what you're saying isn't lost on me. However, much like putting the nutrition labels (or ingredient lists for that matter) on food, GMO labeling is a starting point.
My activity on Reddit has always been extremely minimal -- I have found the toxicity of interactions between peers to run rampant in most situations. I've only been an audience member in such situations (i.e., I was not involved in generating said situation, they are situations I've happened across -- often too late to make a difference).

The disheartening part, to me, was that certain individuals participating in /r/learnprogramming tended to be outright aggressive towards individuals who had legitimate questions -- questions I had myself when first learning to program.

While reddit seems to be the breeding ground for hate groups and public shaming, this is likely the minority (even if the minority seems rather large). I wouldn't expect to see posts on HN whose entire purpose is to generate hate speech against women speaking out against how women are currently portrayed in games or for the purpose of shaming an individual new to programming for their lack of "expert" knowledge.
Sure, but you don't need to defend dbus in this branch of the thread. I'm showing the difference in kind from "DBus is seriously screwed up." I knew my title wasn't great but in the context of that comparison, my proposed title and yours are effectively the same.
Yes, sorry, didn't say that clearly enough. The real mistake here was starting with the biggest mod community they have. You should first try to find a good system without being so public about it. And that's what they will change. Iterating with a smaller project.
/r/programming is a narrowly scoped -- it has to do with programming, whereas HN is more generalized.

Furthermore, there is a far wider variety of users on /r/programming. This increases the signal to noise ratio, and reduces opportunity for higher-quality content and comments to float to the top.

And, one cannot discuss HN and /r/programming without discussing the moderators -- they are the curators of content submitted and the comment discussions, after all. I would haphazard to guess that the similarities between the two groups are more closely aligned than the user-bases themselves.

As for my personal opinion -- I feel far more inclined to contribute to HN as my writing on /r/programming is more likely to be lost in the void, akin to pissing into an ocean.
I've gotten so, so much out of the archives in the /r/cscareerquestions. It's mostly cultural stuff, but I've learned a lot from there and /r/sysadmin.

When I went to Reddit without logging in (and saw the content of the standard subreddits), I was SHOCKED at how stupid it was. I frequent a bunch of smaller, focused subreddits and really enjoy it... most of the time. I have to say, I've never been scared to voice an opinion on HN like I have been on Reddit. This is a much more civil place, especially when I'm wrong about something.
In reality, I think of Reddit as Usenet.

Tons of groups, and very very low barrier. Flamewars, trolls and idiots are everywhere, and finding a quiet corner for intellectual studies is hard to find... but it is doable.

There are also such thing as invite only / private subreddits, which somewhat compare to moderated usenet subs.
How to Deal with Uncooperative Co-Workers
Excuse me- Star Trek.
FWIW, while the price for data in Japan may have seemed ridiculous (and well, it is), it's not actually that much different from what you would have paid without a fixed data plan even if you were a local. Definitely on the same order of magnitude at least.

With the big carriers here you pay 0.05yen per packet, where a packet is 128 bytes. For example, looking at my bill from March, I used 6,971,294 packets (0.84GB) which would have cost me a grand total of 348,564yen (~$3000). I "only" paid 5200yen (~$50) for it because I'm signed up for a fixed data plan like everyone else. The exorbitant base prices are only there to make sure that everyone signs up for the expensive plans without too many complaints.

Oh, and did I say that all three big carriers have the exact same prices with more or less the exact same plans? :)
Lets take in mind that genetics are complicated here.

Spaniards where a mix of mediterranean and african people: Arabs, Jews, Celts (Irish/French), Catholics (Italian/French), Hindi (Gipsies), Phoenician from the actual Israel, Guanche from Canary Islands, Dutch/Scottish/English sailors settled in Cadiz... and after this, native americans and sub saharians entered in the family and things went really crazy in this sense.

So a Spaniard and a North African can be genetically very close. And a Spaniard and a Jew can be closer genetically than an american Jew that could be in fact a mix of Mediterranean Jews and English. By the same reason some afroamericans can be pretty close to hispanics genetically. Is the culture and the history what is different, not the genetics.
but if you send a message from your italian phone to a french friend in italy (which I think has a french SIM) that would be still international, wouldn't it?

My understanding of the SMS thing is "nation of receiving phone operator" not "nation where the receiver is".
Jukely Gets $8M to Expand Its Concert Subscription Service
> Am I right to irrationally dislike reddit?

I'd say that you are wrong to irrationally like/dislike anything.
YC v.s. Techstars – Comparison by a 3-time alum
Early Videos of Larry Page, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and More
The most exciting thing I noticed playing around with the tech demo is that in the developer javascript console, Ctrl+U clears the line and Ctrl+L clears the screen (just like in a bash terminal).

The developer console is actually stripped straight out of Chrome, so I probably shouldn't be so excited about that...

It is a nice looking browser, too.