jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, it was not created by Crockford. Crock was on the management team at Electric Communities (who built E) but he was mainly building powerpoint decks and helping to pimp the company to investors and tech press (i.e. while people now seem to associate him with coding due to his JavaScript work he was never really a coder and had nothing to do with E other than working at the company that developed the language.) The primary creators of E would be Doug Barnes, Arturo Bejar, Chip Morningstar, and Dan Borenstein, with a lot of help from Jay Fenton, Rob Jellinghouse, Gordie Freeman, and a whole host of other smart folks. Mark Miller later came over to EC from Agorics (where he was one of the creators of Joule, the too-slow-to-work language that was the source for many of the ideas used in E like capability security, an actors model with a message passing architecture, etc.) and took over a lot of the lead dev and architecture work on E. When EC folded E was spun out and continued as a cute research project for quite a while, leading to some neat demos and a variant in Ocaml I think.

Since then MarkM has moved to Google and along with some other security researchers has taken a lot of the E concepts over to JavaScript as the Caja project.
Their margin was certainly higher. Macs were brutally expensive around that time. It was no trick at all to drop $10,000 on a high-end Mac system.
Nine drawings by an artist while on LSD:
http://www.cowboybooks.com.au/html/acidtrip1.html

There is a distinct diregression, regression, and then a peak of intense beauty.
I didn't realize that it is possible to trademark something after it has been used widely as a non-trademarked term. Isn't that why Aspirin couldn't be trademarked?
It started as a fork of the Arabic Wikipedia, though. And most content is outdated since they don't have that many contributors.
I have yet to be convinced that paying the vaccine suppliers more is zero sum. More money potentially means more production / faster scaling up.
The standard is IAST - but colloquially people don't use it, preferring a more Anglophone phonetic approximation (since English literacy is high) so you get 'aloo' instead of 'alū' (potato) and 'jeera' instead of 'jīra' (cumin), for example.

It's quite annoying as a learner, since it can make it difficult to map back to devnagārī (resp. devnagari) to look up a new word, for example. (It's almost entirely true to say that devnagārī script is phonetic, so if you write कुछ and I don't know the word, I know how to pronounce it without knowing what it means, and can ask someone or look it up, which is a great feature that English of course doesn't have at all, and while Hindi phonetic approximation in the alphabet might get closer, it's still non-standard and different typers will spell words differently.)
It is not a step backward for anyone. The jlink model does not preclude auto-update of either the runtime or the application. It does preclude a JRE, i.e. a centralised "system" Java runtime that the user obtains from a third party. You can write a launcher that updates the runtime and your app that does what Web Start does, but for your applications. You do not and should not control which runtime is used for other applications from other vendors, and the user shouldn't need to go to a third-party that does, either.
Kazakhstan just recently conducted an experiment with sending people an sms telling them to install a root cert. And Russia is making it mandatory to install not-yet-determined Russian software on all newly sold machines, which will quite probably soon include an FSB cert.
>Imagine going through life with a high-tech spam filter from the future that can filter out wikihow and boring science.

Happily it's available now and it's called intuition. If something is boring then avoid; if something is exciting then pursue.

Problems being that it's purely anecdotal and you have to know and trust yourself. If you're too attracted to prestige, money or job security then it's going to return a distorted signal. Which is why organised science is now bureaucratic and slow despite the fact that there are more scientists than ever before.
I cannot get tested. I live in the Netherlands and unless your case is serious enough that you either have very high fever or a great difficulty breathing, the official instructions are to not even call the health line, much less go to a hospital. I have friends in Portugal, Spain and Italy that have similar symptoms to mine and are home and doing the same because those are the official guidelines.

I agree with these guidelines, the phone lines and hospitals should be open for people who are at risk of dying. But that means that the numbers you're looking at are barely the tip of the iceberg for a lot of these european countries.
Or they could take significant market share away from Windows, possibly permanently, by offering increasingly more performant machines. Seems like a better move to me.
> Because the "MVP" stage is itself production ready

> some non-MVP features are almost stable

> the posix-like system interface ABI, is still technically a "snapshot"

So... It's not production ready.
I think you are missing the point here, or at least misapplying it. These are minimum figures, but if the four-engined airliners used in transoceanic flights were actually built to have no more reserve power (above the minimum necessary to keep flying) than the 133% you are quoting, they would have always have been less safe from engine failure than contemporary twin-engined airliners (which, in practice, always achieved the 200% reserve), as they, just like the twin-engined aircraft, could not have tolerated any more than a single engine failure - but then, ETOPS would either not have been necessary, or should also have been applied to four-engined airliners. ETOPS is primarily about the risk of two engines failing (and secondarily about range with one engine out.)
But you can burn in the turned on pixels can't you? Do the LEDs lose luminance with age?
duplicate function declaration or code chunk; comment out old and modify new; leave old inline until you're happy with new and verified existing functionality isn't lost. Super useful working pattern I think that I use constantly. If it was more than `V p` Maybe i wouldn't work like that; but I do because it is so frictionless.

The more I use Git the more I've been committing/diffing for similar effect; but it's still much more overhead for smaller checks.
This article is incorrect. Kryptonite U-Locks cannot be picked with a bic pen. That hasn't been the case since 2005. That was only a certain model, and once made public they fixed it and offered free replacements.
Somewhere in the last year or so I read an article arguing that the reason bike theft is so attractive is that although the reward (to the thief) of the crime is small, the risk is practically zero. The suggestion was that if the police managed to successfully investigate and prosecute even a small fraction of bike thefts, they could increase the risk to the thief by several orders of magnitude. Since the reward is so small, this could effectively deter at least casual theft.

There would probably still be professionals stealing expensive bikes, I suppose, but still, this seems worth trying.
Yes, thanks for comment. I fixed it, four years vesting. (This is why I should get pieced proofread before I post.)
That is a different definition of privilege.
You probably got downvoted because "I once had a yucky burger" really isn't all that relevant to the discussion.
Props for sharing your actual revenue and profit numbers. This ended up being much more interesting than the title suggested. I was most interested in the two times you almost had to shut DockYard down. What do you think your employees and customers will feel seeing that you almost had to close DockYard twice, as well as what your revenue and profit figures are?
> All those teleconferencing/videoconferencing/virtualwhiteboards/etc are not as effective as everyone sharing the same physical workspace.

Totally agree. But also feel collaborative periods make up a small amount of our time - remote workers allow having more/better/cheaper developers (whichever of the three you want) which can easily offset the less effective collaborative times.

If software development were a field where we spent most of our time collaborating with others remote work wouldn't make sense. But most developers are spending most of their time alone at their desk coding or communicating with others in a manner that doesn't differ based on location (i.e. you still email people in the same office).
You can change a nation's diet abruptly too. Young folks buy and eat whatever is convenient and cheap. They don't care that its different; they know no different.
I like the idea of a day that everyone has off, but I'm not sure you realize how drastic a change that would be. NO places of business open, no gas stations, no drug stores, no hospitals, no toll collectors, no trains, plains, or mass transit -- no police or firemen?

Of course, changing the calendar isn't a realistic plan anyway (Americans still won't accept the freaking metric system, that's too much change! and of course there would be costs to having a calendar different than the rest of the world, unless we get EVERYONE to change). But making _everyone_ have off is even less realistic. So payroll systems would still probably need to account for the days.

But I do like the idea of a day or two that literally everyone has off, and would subscribe to your newsletter.
Why not just skip burgers? There's no way this can be healthier or more delicious than fresh vegetables.
The code snippets are from http://rosettacode.org/, I'm not responsible for the unfairness!

And thanks, I'm redirecting from http://rosetta.alhur.es/compare/ to http://rosetta.alhur.es/ now.
Take the USD appreciation in front of most currencies and you'll have a made up yet pretty reasonable estimation.

70 sounds fine but what about 210 for a text editor? That's how it feels in Brazil for example.
I personally am very happy about this. It will benefit the vim project tremendously.
Official Press Release from ACM.

http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/turing-awar...
I like Silberchatz et al. Pretty rigorous but practical:

http://codex.cs.yale.edu/avi/db-book/db6/slide-dir/
Full text of bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1466...
Relevant wikipedia entries on Guaranteed Minimum Income and Basic Income and the more radical Negative Income Tax

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_minimum_income

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
> This is just urban planning and development being implemented.

I feel like this is the origin of it. In the US, we seem to take a much more short term view of "urban planning" - rather than being laid out up front to support high density, cities more typically grow via low density sprawl on demand.

The idea of having a city (or district) constructed from the ground up to efficiently meet the needs of citizens 15 years in the future is alien to most of us. The context in which we typically encounter large groups of vacant buildings and empty streets is one in which something has gone wrong, which I think is why we find the "ghost city" narrative compelling.
If you buy a small piece of many houses you have much less uncertainty because it is incredibly unlikely that they will all fall down. The total loss is the same but it is spread out so much that it averages out and becomes much more predictable. It reduces volatility (which is often referred to as "risk") but I think you are correctly pointing out that it does not change the average outcome.
It's cute, but I think it's misleading to call it "non-monadic" - you're calling the same functions in the same way, just not through the Monad typeclass.
I don't know, but I would like to. There's a large body of text I would like to read comments on. Heck, even videos and music (not only lyrics). Annotated Matrix or Neon Genesis Evangelion?

These comments and analyzes sometimes exist, but they take the form of huge definitive volumes which kinds of put the damper on how much can be produced, and to their diffusions. What if anyone with a bit of knowledge could annotate a document, wikipedia-style? That's something I would like very much.
Agree with clobec, I think this is irresponsible to disclose this so publicly.

There'll be a lot of collateral damage now.
My decision not to have Bluetooth pays off again!
Yes. At least my own for sure.
Free speech is several principles. One is that you should be free to express yourself. Another is that others should not be able to coerce you into forced speech. Many commenters on HN like to forget that 2nd part because most of their 'solutions" to the first principle violate the 2nd.
Please tell us why?
Correct, though on second thought, given how slow many DAOs are to operate, the perpetrators would already be in some other uncontrollable currency by the time people voted to blacklist certain wallets.
Color is very important for food. My favorite story is the one [1] with wine tasting, where the same white wine was tasted twice by the same people, in one case with tasteless red color added. The taste was reported to be completely different. While it might be contributed to wine tasting being total BS, my favorite part of this study was that its author became a wine maker :-).

[1] https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infam...
Manual cars' speedometer "sticks" during an accident, so the police can see the actual speed at the time of impact. Who's responsible when a Google car has an accident while breaking the law?
Passwords are clearly a badly broken model. Even if each entity handles your password safely (you can easily argue that most don't) the weakest link in the chain is still the human being.
Black Mirror is awesome. My favorite episode is "15 Million Merits", which reminds me of the John Maynard Keynes discussion about digging holes in the desert and putting jars filled with banknotes for people to dig up, or Paul Krugman's suggestion about makework preparing for an alien invasion (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/coalmines-and-al...). In the future, is any work (even if not that productive, like riding a bike and accumulating points) better than no work and potential social costs?
What's obviously missing is a sample, unprocessed and processed, so that people can listen to the effect without running any os x crapps..
> Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but where am I advocating for homelessness?

Your suggestion that everyone would simply stop working if people were able to survive on an equivalent to a minimum wage stipend relies heavily on the assumption that people only work in order to provide food and shelter for themselves.

In this model people never do labor for reasons such as passion, interest, curiosity, a sense of civic duty, or simply to have more money to spend on recreation. By your reasoning the only reason why anyone would ever work, ever, is to avoid starvation or being homeless. For that motivation to exist, there would need to be a constant real threat of starvation or loss of housing tied to your ability to find and perform work (which is the current system in the US.)

That motivation couldn’t be real if homelessness didn’t exist. For your model to work it quite literally relies on homeless people existing as a sort of reminder that you have to continue working.
Peanut oil is a pretty good choice for high heat pan frying. The makeup is really what matters- saturated, polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, etc.

Although for what it’s worth my life got a lot better when I learned roasting, braising, simmering, reductions, etc and stopped trying to pan fry everything.
For countries that have compulsory food labelling, is it sufficient to just look at the carbohydrate content as a proxy for the upper bound on sugar content? Of course I'm not talking about artificial sweeteners which is another can of worms.
You say "unused phone" but the minimum iOS version is 14.1. As a comparison, I think apps like Baby Monitor 3G required iOS 9 until recently.
Film vs Digital

For many years the quality of digital images lagged behind film (in the hands of a skilled individual). Some will argue that digital still lags behind film, especially when comparing digital to medium or large format film. I will go as far as to say that even if the resolution of each is the same, the result of film is superior.

A couple of things happened in the early 2000s that made digital a serious contender to the dominance of film. First, digital sensors became cheap enough and good enough to compete with film on smaller prints. The results still looked worse, but the results were fast. Price-wise, it was still possible to shoot a lot of film for the price of a digital camera (tmax was $0.80/roll if you bought it in bulk in 2005 if I remember right). Second and most importantly social media became ubiquitous. A growing social media trend was to take a picture of yourself doing whatever it was that you were doing and post a picture soon afterwards (these days we do it right then and there thanks to smart phones). The speed at which you could post was much more important than the quality of the results. If it weren't for the popularity of social media I don't think it would have mattered nearly as much because you still would have shared your photos the old fashioned way by subjecting your friends and family to a tedious viewing of your latest vacation photos when they came to visit.

These days, sales of digital cameras has actually been falling (thanks again to the smart phone). It turns out it's the ability to share quickly regardless of quality that really matters to consumers in our current social media climate. My theory is that if social media as we know it today never became popular, film would command a larger share of the market. Film prices were competitive with digital even after digital SLRs were available at the $1000 price point. Digital lucked out for a short period of time thanks to it's speed advantage over film but was ultimately supplanted by something even faster (smart phones), quality be dammed.

Of course, I'm biased. I've always loved film. Digital had the greatest appeal to me when I had no extra money and film prices had already begun to rise in the late 2000s/early 2010s. Even today with high film prices I will from time to time wonder if it finally no longer makes financial sense to shoot film only to determine that I can shoot film for a couple of years at my pace for the price of a new digital camera. Long enough for the camera to become "obsolete". Meanwhile, my film cameras as old as my parents keep on producing wonderful images. Anyway, that's my theory on why digital was never really superior to film but won due to fortuitous circumstances (and ultimately lost).
Most seed-based oils contain a lot of linoleic acid, for example sunflower oil has 65%. It is an essential fatty acid, but the average consumption nowadays is way too high. It oxidizes easily which leads to health problems when too much of it is incorporated into cell and mitochondrial membranes.

Plant oils such as those from olive, coconut, palm, cocoa or avocado have much less linoleic acid.
Leadership in many cases exists as something of an ablation shield between the public and investors or creditors. The Pharma Bro or Chainsaw Al are classic cases.

In the case of founder-owners, the need is to create an alternative risk-deflection shield. As Facebook are doing here.

Facebook should be utterly dissolved and destroyed.
Uhh, no it isn't?
If you believe the OP the potential for acquisition was noted here: "Next he says that if I have incorporated the startup, Apple could acquire it or he could hire me to work with him."

Who knows.

I will say that it was handled very poorly. At the point they weren't interested they should have said it rather than just not responding to email.
Yeah consumer usually wins ;-)
Emailing Steve the first time he was lucky it got handed off to someone in engineering.

But to continue to pester the engineer and worse, Steve... What kind of response do you expect?

Further, does he think the software engineer has nothing to do but work on this project with him?
Yes. Execution is not actually a property of a language, but of its implementation. Some languages have several implementations, each with distinct characteristics!
Gosh, I feel safer already.
This is why I gave up trying to play Go. I could never figure out why I lost or how the scoring worked.
>Luckily, they can update Maps app without waiting for an OS release.

Can they? It's not actually a separate app from the app store like Find My Phone or iBooks. So it would require at least an OS point release, and Apple doesn't seem too keen on doing those for features.
There are CARB pollution standards for generators today. Only California requires them AFAIK. There are also EPA pollution standards for imported generators, but I consider that to likely be a protective tariff in disguise.
django-extensions is still missing, especially the shell_plus and runscript commands.
In the C++ row, what is meant by "very limited" RTTI and "limited" Automatic Memory Management. RTTI is, AFAIK, actually a C++ concept and memory management is in fact implementation defined, though most implementation provide you with none in the runtime. The standard containers do, of course, provide memory management; IMHO, the balance is great in C++.

Also, Python garbage collection is optional and generally the memory management is through reference counting, not crappy stop the world garbage collection.
Without asking technical questions, how would an interviewer weed out the people who say the former but can't actually back it up? Because if the above is the entire hiring process, your junior developers aren't going to have to be concerned about their imposter syndromes, because they'll be working along side actual imposters.
That's correct. The plan for IE 8 and 9 when I'm building heavily with flexbox will be for them to resemble the mobile breakpoints of the site. Since we build mobile-first, they'll pick most of this up without any extra work.
The city of Donetsk, population over 1 mil, is now besieged for as half year, with bombings, large swath of population leaving, lacking water and/or electricity for prolonged periods of time, supply of all things unreliable and a lot of armed men of various agendas around.

One thing that didn't happen to it is "apocalyptic breakdown of society". It seems to still tick on with rather normal human life.

I think those fears are blown out of proportions for societies that don't already have large debt of latent structural damage.
Probably information -- art, music, culture, scientific discoveries, technological blueprints (that could be "printed" anywhere), software, genetic material, anything informational.

Information has the benefit of weighing nothing and being easily transmissible at the speed of light.

This is also probably true for interplanetary trade, such as with a Mars colony... though return of very precious materials via something inexpensive like gun launch can't be totally ruled out.

Going full sci-fi mode: if something like consciousness uploading were possible, it would also be possible for people to travel interplanetary and interstellar distances at the speed of light as information as long as something at the other end existed to reconstitute them. So one mechanism of interstellar colonization would be to send unmanned drone ships first, then encode ourselves and go.
My laptop runs Xubuntu with Chicago95[0] and a high-res Bliss wallpaper[1]. (A complete mishmash, I know.) Too bad websites and other apps don't look that way.

[0] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

[1] https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi