jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Still, please don't turn HN into one of those mobile friendly sites with information density approaching zero.

I would also be extremely conservative with any changes to this website.

I love that it loads very quickly over 2G data and that my blockers don’t block anything on it. I also do appreciate the consistency of the design over the years.

I grok the glacial pace of progress on HN. I’d still be curious to know exactly why this wasn’t taken care of in the UI. Seems so noisy for any mods.

Does it just not matter? Did they just stop paying attention to mobile flags internally? But then it’s kinda messy to leave them visible for me. Hmmm.
That's like picking a plumbing job because you get to work with hex instead of torx screws. As a professional solution-provider, you're free to offer only work with a specific set of tools but don't expect jobs to magically appear to accommodate your preference of tools. If you're a plumber, your worth is in the value you create and the tools are a footnote (which you might have to justify anyway). Software engineering is not any different.
People who work on GHC are good C/C-- programmers working at Microsoft Research (Cambridge) for 60K GBP :)
The Waddington Effect makes perfect sense. I know from making my own auto repairs that the first few hours after the repair are the riskiest :-)

This is one reason why Boeing has made huge efforts to reduce the required maintenance on airplanes.
IE is responsible for 4/5 of the bugs. Color me shocked.
Yes. There's something about walking isn't there? Returning attention back to the body and the senses amounts to relaxing after hard concentration. Perhaps petting the dog enhances that, the body being where emotions are felt. Scientists seem to suspect that walking or just standing occasionally is important for health.

To complete the argument about learning: you play the tough section, correcting a few errors. Then you go away for a bit, and during that period the brain updates its hardware to include those corrections. The mistake is to hammer/saw away repeatedly and interfere with what you have already achieved, wasting time and effort. I think the OP kinda acknowledged this by recommending switching at whim between different tasks within a practice session.
Domain names are a underrated risk.

The likes of MarkMonitor and the safety of .com are well worth their price.
Google's revenue per user is unfortunately much higher than $10/year.
I wonder how many category defining businesses Nathan has started.
I agree, formatting details seem to be very context-specific and this is a lab setup, not in the wild. I would trust much more some AB test results from the NYT or any media organization - line length is one of the most obvious things to test!

I tested page-widths (which forces line length) on my own site, using n=109k visitors (so, quite a bit larger than n=20): http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing#max-width-redux A wide - but not the widest - version performed best.
I think another great example of this is turbochargers. One of the biggest issues when Chinese companies started making counterfeit turbos is that they physically looked the same/identical. It turns out though, when a Cummins/Holset turbo failed, it was in a controlled manner. When the Chinese knock-offs failed, you were probably replacing an engine block, and potentially could kill someone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za0DieZHMKc
Why would it a matter of "if they could get away with it"? It's a genuinely good feature.

What I am saying is that it's highly implausible that the executive team deliberately set out to advantage iAds by reimplementing Readability in the Mac version of Safari. (If Mobile Safari had Reader--where it would be even more useful--then some suspicion could be warranted.)
Actually it does. It's fed with data that says: Condition X is usually caused by Y with Z% probability, etc etc.

Then you feed it all the symptoms, sometimes it asks questions, and gives you a list of causes sorted by probability.

It works almost exactly like this game http://www.guessthename.com/

Apparently the biggest problem with it is that doctors won't use it.

The second problem is feeding data - you basically have to parse every medical paper ever published.
Someone once said that madness was necessary for creating. Does anybody know who it was? Can't find it.
I wouldn't have even bothered to click on this article if it said "My 2c on Pricing" -- but somehow, "2 bucks" made it seem worth it.
Different, but I really like the proposed circular formation for 51 stars. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/US_...

Of course if we adopted it, some right-wingers would say it means were going commie, or something like it.
http://www.karmacrm.com is a startup in free beta out of Ann Arbor and they will have a forever free account too.

http://pipejump.com is something to consider that is also very simple and focused.

And SugarCRM has a free and open source version you can install in addition to their paid, hosted versions with support.
In what way does requiring people by force of law to do things a certain way "improve the experience in a lot of ways"? How would the experience be diminished if Blictivision acted less dickish?
I think mythbusters did the same thing with similar results.

Im surprised they didnt do(or if they did, it wasnt mentioned) the difference in long distances. Maybe it doesnt make much difference for a lap, but what about the 100m?
I've been using the same branching strategy for about 5 years, and it has worked really well. I suspect it's fairly common, although everywhere I've worked we've switched to this from something with less structure. Essentially the branch naming pattern looks like:

[ticket-type]/#TICKET-[ticket-description]

In practice it might look like:

bug/APP-123-prevent-auth-redirect-loop

It makes it so you can easily automate ticket statuses with commits and merges, grep for types of issues without needing to type/remember an emoji, and you don't need to worry about emojis rendering differently on different platforms. The text will always be the same.

The emoji thing is fine if it's for fun - we should all enjoy ourselves and our work a little more - but I'm hard pressed to see the practicality of it.
In the late '60s, the introduction of PL/I, which had complex numbers as a primitive type and a math library of functions of complex numbers, made transmission line calculations much easier.
lol no

first of all you have to control prey population because pests will balloon with the increased safety and consume resources, strangling the prey population.

secondly if you can't control the whole area Predator population will follow the pest increase, often resulting in larger problems or an out of control spiral of environmental issues

you don't have to go back to pre scientific anecdotes like the stories around the pest, just check the Australia history with cats and rabbits

here's a substantial population study with ferrets in UK https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-011-9965-2

mainland control is only worse
This is an incredible piece of work, kudos for releasing it!
I loved the HP Touchpad, such a waste...
One might ask why increasing productivity in a region leads to higher cost of living (rent).

Well, that one is pretty obvious. Landlords will charge the highest prices they can get away with.

The more interesting question is why landlords are supposedly entitled to all of the new wealth. After all they had no role in creating any of it.
Is this an argument? Can people be weary of companies in two countries or do they just have to pick one?
Did you read your own link? Chomping at the bit has the same meaning.
It's not moving goalposts. If nobody is using it, not even the developers who put in the effort to make it work, it's a pretty good sign it's not a production ready solution.

Like "technically works enough for a demo" isn't what I'd call full support.
This is a very nicely written article. I especially like the way the author builds up by describing the evolution of dynamic and static languages and how julia does a great job at solving the problems facing most static and dynamic languages in scientific computing.
I can't speak towards repairablity and legality, but I know cars are safer now than they used to be back when they were made of steel, because they crumple which absorbs the impact of crashes. Rigid steel transfers the impact to it's occupants.

I'm eager to see how this thing performs in crash tests.
Splinter is a rat, though. For expert mice, you probably can't beat these guys:

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Mice
And what if I said that Rolex has more chronometers in stock than there are homeless people in LA. Would that be any more of a moot point?
> Google and Apple are not much better. Neither have upgraded to Flat 2.0 [1]...

[1] "Google’s Material design language is one example of flat 2.0 with the right priorities: it uses consistent metaphors and principles borrowed from physics to help users make sense of interfaces and interpret visual hierarchies in content."
"a couple hundred years from now" by whom? He contributed to AI, will not be forgotten by AI.

Edit: if you don't get what I mean by "not be forgotten", he will be the most cited scientist so why AI will exclude all his papers from some of its training sets (assuming that at least some stage of AI's development it will learn how humans do research)? Sounds unlikely.
> Analysis of the “Oxy” database revealed an almost complete scrape of LinkedIn data, including recruiter information.

"Oxy" most likely stands for Oxylabs[1], a data mining service by Tesonet[2], which is a parent company of NordVPN.

It is probably safe to assume, that LinkedIn was scraped using a residential proxy network, since Oxylabs offers "32M+ 100% anonymous proxies from all around the globe with zero IP blocking".

[1] https://oxylabs.io/

[2] https://litigation.maxval-ip.com/Litigation/DetailView?CaseI...
Personally I prefer to avoid any kind of JavaScript simplifier just because I view it as a crutch. When it comes to job interviews and being able to just pick up and start coding, knowing how to do it purely is going to give you the advantage.

The time it takes to get acquainted with these pre-compiled versions is hardly worth the supposed savings in syntax or function writing.
Doubt it's as unpopular as you think.
Has anyone found Safari under Yosemite and iOS8 to be of "disappointing" quality? I know of DNS being broken in Yosemite but my wife and I find Safari to be extremely irritating- it just sits there at 20% of address bar progress after entering an address and pressing Enter.

EDIT: And another thing - Spotlight now takes a significant amount of time to get results. I notice a large difference between my personal i7 2012 MBP with Yosemite and the 2008 single-CPU (quad core) Xeon running Mavericks at work. Maybe it's the disk difference, but I sometimes wonder if Spotlight is doing anything as there is no search indication / activity indication.
The act of linking against a library produces a derivative work of that library. But since APIs are not copyrightable (in europe, at least), the act of using an API does not produce a derivative work, and thus code which uses an API is not bound to any particular license wrt it.
I know why. HR received so many resumes which they don't do any additional effort, do they receive compensation for each hire, no. Most of them are not FTE.
both Firefox and Chrome don't like the certificate if you hadn't already heard that, but otherwise this is a funny and good idea, and I'm having some fun tooling around wondering why these connections went unsecured and how many more are out there (lots and lots) that aren't listed yet
Isn't a resume a relatively public document already? When you apply for a job, do you ask to see the employers resume privacy policy? Besides, most of the same information is found on the average LinkedIn profile, so in the grand scheme of things is a privacy policy in this site really a battle worth creating a new HN account just to complain about it? Perhaps one of us can make a public key secured resume builder to ensure that the NSA doesn't find out you worked for McDonalds for two years. I am all for privacy, but there's also a level of common sense that ought to be used before criticizing someone's free tool that you are under no obligation to use. If it were a commercial product, then perhaps there's be a higher standard but this was some dude building a tool probably in his spare time.
I'm puzzled as to why the behaviour of %G would be desirable. Can anyone offer an example?
Right, fixed.

Thanks.
https://github.com/def-/LPATHBench/blob/master/nim.nim

Statistics (on an x86_64 Intel Core2Quad Q9300):

Lang Time [ms] Memory [KB] Compile Time [ms] Compressed Code [B]
Nim 1400 1460 893 486
C++ 1478 2717 774 728
D 1518 2388 1614 669
Rust 1623 2632 6735 934
Java 1874 24428 812 778
OCaml 2384 4496 125 782
Go 3116 1664 596 618
Haskell 3329 5268 3002 1091
LuaJit 3857 2368 - 519
Lisp 8219 15876 1043 1007
Racket 8503 130284 24793 741
> does not allow for cars with what I would consider minimum for a single car family, in locations with real winters: 330miles EPA.

* in the USA

Our EV (our only car) has 100-150km real-world range (60-90miles). We have real winters. We can get everywhere we want to for daily driving. My grandparents has a cabin 2 hours away that we visit regularly in winter. We can get there one one fast-charge that takes less time than we use to buy groceries for the trip (fast-charger we use is next to a super-market).

I've borrowed my moms ICE car and a friends Tesla Model S for a road-trip across the country a couple of times though.

But Northern Europe does not have the same problem with suburban sprawl and lack of public transportation, people don't usually drive as far regularly, speed limits are lower (higher efficiency) and now there's fast-chargers everywhere.
Are we ready to talk about 9/11 yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_Saudi_role_in_Septembe...
I picked up a series on Audible with the same theme called Trackers, mostly because it was 33 hours of audio for a single credit: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Trackers-Series-Box-Set-Audio...

It's not going to win the Nobel Prize in Literature but it was interesting, made you think about how quickly society might fall apart after an EMP attack.
This. Would be amazing to have a ruling enforcing DNT on GA, even if for Incognito since that gives backing to the DNT header, which has mostly been "don't honor" for advertisers.
> How does it detect that, exactly?

Detect that chrome didn't send the x-client-data id it sends to every google owned domain. Oh, wait, it probably still does that in incognito mode.
I mean, they know what they're getting into, it's supply and demand. More people simply want the job more than there is demand, so they'll be paid less.
Define "truly one-way"! We don't have any functions that are truly one-way, just very hard to go in the other direction. This is probably easier to reverse than prime factorisation for example, but it's still asymmetric in its difficulty.
Of course blocks also requires runtime support. The compiler is useless without a matching runtime library. Is there a production-quality "C-with-blocks" runtime available for other platforms than OS X?
Um, Lisp was invented in 1958. What exactly was it supposed to be backwards-compatible with?
Isn't the assumption made there that the large irresponsible player was more irresponsible than the average player? Is there much evidence to suggest that? Or would we find that the average player is worse than MtGox, should they be put under the level of scrutinity that MtGox was/is?
Right, but V8 doesn't make the language itself particularly appropriate. (And calling it "lisp-like" is way over-reaching. It has first class, anonymous functions and closures, and that's it.)

To me, the node story seems to boil down to "V8 was a readily-available fast runtime and people who already knew JS flocked to it" — which is fair enough, but hardly an argument for how appropriate JS is, as a language, for this sort of programming model.
I can't wait for the time to be able to write in javascript native code to run on Android or iOS. Maybe a future TypeScript would be the solution for this but it is not too late to remind people that transpiling is a two way street.
It's within their right and probably a terrible corner we have painted ourselves into. But you can't even get people to use firefox. So what to do?
That's an interesting point about @POTUS. I wonder if they would still let him use it, and if he had already been using it if they would have blocked that, too.
In a book about how the Trump era changed democracy, this would merit a paragraph or two at most.
I've been browsing thedonald.win today to see how his supporters are reacting to recent events, and that is one of the ways some users interpreted his tweet. Other than that, a ton of crazy theories. They literally take any two-three words from his tweets and make it mean whatever they want it to mean. To give you an example, in one of the recent tweets he put words "GIANT VOICE" in caps and they interpreted it as a reference to a military communication system with the same name. From that other people started theorizing how Trump will use the military system to circumvent the "big tech censorship" and deliver some dirty secrets about his "enemies"

So, looking from that perspective any tweet of any person could be taken down because some conspiracy theorist interpreted it in a particular way. And in their heads, this ban only gives them more "proof" that they are right.
They figured out how to market genocide to western audiences
> By design, CPU clocks have jitter to resist timing attacks.

Where did you get that info? Never saw anything like that.
The problem is whether through incompetence or on purpose, Donald Trump has a history of being unable to - unequivocally - denounce the people that do this shit in his name. He always throws in random bullshit that they can interpret as support for their actions and goals.

Personally I just think he has a hard time saying bad things about people that support him. But it's a pretty big fucking problem when they're doing things like this.
It's important to reward good behavior.

If you'd like to see more divisiveness, just watch to see what McConnell says in the next 112 days.
Twitter has done a bad job communicating this.

After the 12 hour ban, Trump's twitter account lost its special privilege too and instead of "blue tagging" his tweets they said they would just ban it next time. This was "next time" so they followed through and banned it:

> Future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.[0]

I'm surprised more people aren't bringing this up. Per them this only needed to violate "Civic Integrity" which per their explanation it looks like it does.

[0] https://twitter.com/twittersafety/status/1346970430062485505
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I've done Ruby for 16 years at this point, and avoided Rails for most of it, including for most of my webapp work.

I really wish people didn't associate Ruby so much with Rails.
I suggest being the one-man IT department in a non-IT org. E.g. a university department, a smaller school, a small-time manufacturer or retailer, etc.
Automating your job on one hand and managing expectations on the other should set you up for a while.

Your tech skills will degrade if you tend to them, but accumulating good will and maintaining occasional contact with people should ensure they help find you new jobs as they move about.
This coin is only traded on a single exchange, and cannot be bought with USD unless you do some really dodgy shit. Every time I think crypto might get interesting I try again and find it to be so shifty I immediately bounce again.
You should go vegan. As a lifelong vegetarian, it will be easier than you think, since you're already used to resisting the temptation of foods with animal ingredients. While it's easy to imagine that dairy and egg industries don't require killing animals, they're only economically viable if they do kill animals.

As for cheering up, remember that being vegetarian and vegan does make a large difference at the individual level, not just at a collective level. Every chicken you don't eat is practically a full animal that didn't have to suffer. The animal agriculture industry does react to demand, and on average, you're individual effect is at least equal to the animals you would otherwise consume.
Another vote for Scrum Master here. It's only in the past 5 years or so that I've personally seen it as a job in itself - previously, I'd seen Scrum Master as part of the role of one of the developers or similar.

But now in large corps, Scrum Master exists as a distinct job, which appears to require doing very, very little - chairing most of the regular scrum-related meetings (daily standup, planning, demo, and the much loathed retrospective), sending out meeting invites, occasionally futiley butting heads with the Project Manager, and... actually, I think that's it?!

I've worked with some good people in the Scrum Master role, but beyond being good people to work with, they are glorified secretaries, and really don't have anything to do all day.
This isn’t unethical. There are entire companies that do exactly this. If done well, this is actually an extremely valuable service. It would be unethical if you are hired as an employee and outsourced your work, but as a contractor this is fair game.
Interesting situation. With all the interest in Greenland, it feels like Denmark are going to need a bigger navy.
By the age of six Von Neumann could divide eight digit numbers mentally and speak in Ancient Greek. If it is nurture, it is something accidental which happens in early childhood, not something you work on and learn about later in life.
I feel almost entirely the opposite as you. Ignoring inconvenient comparisons because of political borders or because it is difficult to enact change is the actual red herring and trap.

I would charge that your "network centricism" is a buzzword to help you rationalize ignoring bad things in our world. I would charge that it appears to be nothing more than "Completely ignore things you can't change", which is a honestly horrific ethos to live by.

"Comparison of how women are treated in their local communities [elsewhere] with how men are treated in China is completely irrelevant and counterproductive imho"

It's only irrelevant if Chinese people are irrelevant. Sorry to state hard facts, but this comparison is only irrelevant if the plight of the Chinese person is irrelevant.

To you, maybe.

I don't take offense to how you write, I think you use 100 words where 15 would work, and I think you enjoy the concept of ideas more than thinking them through to their endpoints. I amount all of this response to nothing more than justifying not giving even 1% of thought to the plight of people who are oppressed in the world. The highest IQ "Out of sight, out of mind" I've ever witnessed.

I think you're clearly smarter than me, but I think you have some very immoral ideas. I don't mean to offend, I just think it's shocking how one can compartmentalize so efficiently that you think it's a "red herring" to bring up real oppression in the world because, basically, you can't do anything about it. Reality isn't a red herring and to even suggest that real situations happening right here today right now are "red herrings" is just such a feat of smart stupidity to me.

Thanks for replying. But I fear your opinion is why it's so easy for genocide's like the one happening there to happen. Out of sight out of mind, it's a red herring and trap to think about it!