jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hahahhaah. That's cool and disgusting at the same time. A former coworker shared with me he was tasked to investigate why the mainframe was throwing errors only at night. He discovered a couple of operators were rolling a couple and then disconnecting the air ducting to the mainframe to use as a covert way to vent their own exhaust.
There are things you can do with physical+software filters, and bias frames in general, for wide astrophotography shots.

My point is you'll need a tracker with the long lens, worry about light pollution with a wide lens, and worry about neither with a telescope because human eyes aren't limited to ISO6400 and can stack in real time.
I like Go’s solution: mandatory trailing commas. Doesn’t work for set-in-stone sql, sadly.
Smart DNS relay at the router...
It'd better be available in purple.

https://uzicopter.tumblr.com/
We've started working on a preference that will let you return to the previous message composer. We don't have a specific release date to share right now — it's this team's top and only priority, however, and we expect to have it available on the desktop within a couple of weeks

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"team's top and only priority"

I guess they need to learn how to be efficient if they need several weeks to add a checkbox to change one setting
Love the all-black Aer Fit Pack, which they've since updated to the Fit 2 https://www.aersf.com/fit-pack-2-black. Lots of room, super durable and did I mention all black?
If it makes you feel a bit more sane, HN is the only website Ive seen so far where most people aren't ridiculing this.

I for sure can't believe anyone would ever build this or that anyone would ever like it.
Also the Blizzard fanbase has put pressure on the company to uphold its own stated principles, which quite frankly Blizzard didn't, and arguably still hasn't upheld.

I'd be surprised if less than 80% of Blizzard's fan base isn't aware of the "Free HK" controversy and doesn't support the notion of freedom in HK to some degree.
I'm clearly in the minority here, but I like the new text input on their desktop app. Visually seeing the text change when I create a code block or bold text right away, rather than after I submit the message, is very helpful.
Not the case in central/eastern Europe (where most personally owned vehicles are second hand)
Or GHASP having plant material in their possession!
The author's point is that for some projects wireframing may not be appropriate. I've had this experience on numerous occasions where let's say a full-color design comp or an interactive prototype would better serve the concept, which may be hard to grasp otherwise.

This is especially true when taking a design first approach, or when your project gains nothing by illustrating hierarchies, navigation, or other wireframe-able things.
Ohhh, ok thanks. I need to comment?
Great, now my web pages will look like rubbish when people disable javascript
> The article you point to doesn't seem to address the complexity of quicksort with random pivots.

That paper is about experimental algorithmics, and avoids discussions of things which aren't practical (such as using truly random pivots).

> However, that is proven to be expected O(n log n) time for any data in Motwani's Randomized Algorithms book, and I don't think the correctness of that has ever been questioned.

Right, but since there are no truly random quicksorts, its hardly a concern.
It's the cost of appeals. Whether you consider that a problem probably comes down to political leanings (discussions of which are best avoided on HN).
I concur, I think there's something wrong with a big nation doing this. (Smaller nations run sovereign wealth funds all the time.)

The FED (more or less) sets the interest rates that the US government has to pay; though if they tried to buy everything, we would see inflation. I suspect the actual failure mode is a different one: real wealth is limited by productivity. If the government is buying all the stocks, we have just shifted ownership around, but don't actually increase productivity. Productivity might even drop, because the government is probably not a good activist shareholder.

For real estate, there's a decent argument to be made that the government should buy it all, and lease it out for a few decades at a time to the highest bidder.
> Who will be the MSFT of the '10s, I wonder.

I thought Google had already established themselves there by pulling all the free APIs that people had built businesses on top of.
None of those names "mean nothing"; they all have very specific meanings. Its true that in the case of return, the meaning in the context of Haskell monads is somewhat special, but since its part of the actual syntax of Haskell do-notation, its particularly important to address it in Haskell-oriented monad tutorials, whether or not it was the best choice from a syntax design perspective.
Holy crap. I live in NYC, where I walk everywhere, drink, and fly several times per year. Apparently I'm screwed.
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-...
> I, personally, think that fall from grace began around the 70's (ish) when the "We're the greatest" mentality put a stop to innovation.

You mean the mentality that motivated deregulation?
Probably around 82%. I imagine grocery store sushi has more in common with the rest of grocery store fish than it does with sushi shop sushi. The grocery store probably buys the fish for both from the same chain of suppliers.
Normally, I'd ignore any marketing touting new privacy features in iOS, but Facebook's response has convinced me this isn't just an empty gesture from Apple.
Agreed. I hope nothing in my original comment makes anyone think otherwise.
What happens to the town or whatever when and if the company goes out of business?
Our governments seem pretty confident that they can import foreigners faster than the birth rates of natives collapse so there's nothing to worry about. The economy will survive.
>If so, that incentive structure needs to change if you want to increase the quality of the anime.

The incentive is that if the anime is low quality, people won't watch anymore.
This is so stupid. Yes, he was a aggressive on AI, wow what a insight, that most of your list, now everything he ever says is equally wrong even when on a whole lot of other things he was right.

Even when it is proven that on tons of issues he has delivered. Sometimes with some delay but for the most part he has delivered.

People were laughing at electric cars, people were laughing at rocket with 27 engines, people were laughing at reusability, people were laughing at private developed rockets and so on. But nobody remembers those things because now everybody knows these things and they are not controversial anymore.

Amazing how people only remember what Musk got wrong. Lets ignore that he built the most successful space flight company ever, lets ignore that he build a car company that builds more BEV then VW and Toyota combined.

We do actually know how Starship is progressing, and even if its not late 2021, even if its late 2022 its still insane. Just shitting on him because it might not happen in late 2021 is just petty.
The actual quote: Facebook has also launched a website and taken out full-page advertisements in newspapers, in addition to a recent TV and radio ad push, to put a spotlight on how many small business owners depend on targeted ads.

This is definitely a true statement. The vast majority of small businesses who advertise on FB will be hurt by this change. The best estimate to date is a 20-30% drop in marketing efficiency due to worse targeting capabilities. Some of these small businesses will inevitably go out of business due to this change (for better or worse).
What is second generation numba? And any plans to branch numba out of pure numeric application s?
To be fair, it could be that your network admins are using web filtering defaults, which, by default, may be limiting your viewing of this page.

I had to frequently whitelist pages when using Websense and our ASA.
They're cold because they're more used to dressing up warm. If they let themselves be constantly cold, their metabolisms would eventually increase to heat them.
>I just dread the idea of moving to Linux again. I don't want to tinker that much.

If you don't use Unity and instead use a different environment like KDE, Ubuntu is actually a great system that requires minimal tweaking.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, as Yosemite has been the best OS X release since Snow Leopard for me. Runs brilliantly, added a lot of nice features (Continuity and nicer widgets than Dashboard), looks better than Mavericks (and much better than Lion or ML).

Then again, I use a MacBook Air, which doesn't usually seem to be the Mac of choice for people on here, so... shrug
>I think there's a market for a linux distro that targets a limited set of premium hardware.

Technically, and conceptually, I think a better observation to make would be that there is a market for premium hardware that works well with linux. Thinkpads used to occupy this niche, but no longer.
I just do not get why people complain about Pulse.

Don't get me wrong, I think Poettering is a blight on the Linux landscape but I've installed pulseaudio dozens of times and never had a problem once.
All video tearing problems I had on my laptop were solved with the TearFree option of the intel driver: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel#Tear-free_video
> it's definitely an asymmetric game.

This. The crackers have to deal with whatever measures were taken by the authors. On the other hand, the authors have to deal with all of the measures available to everyone interested in cracking it.
I'm not trying to say it's useless. :) I think it's very valuable, but we need to be honest about its shortcomings rather than viewing it as a sheer win. A language like Rust is completely worthless if it's not fast; we've got a dozen languages that are already memory-safe and within 2x the speed of C. Given that Rust's plethora of safety mechanisms mean that numeric overflow can't cause memory unsafety, I completely understand why they would take the practical route rather than the theoretically-perfect route (even if, as predicted, they get crucified for it by armchair language designers).
GO is designed for distributed systems that can't afford a garbage collection hit. A function is running on one machine, and it calls out for data from 10 other machines - if one of those has a hiccup to garbage collection (i.e. it responds 1 minute later instead of 10ms) then function fails, or is delayed tying up resources.

This is my understanding of why Google is developing, I'm not too familiar with it though.
I had trouble with this at first, but an easy thing to remember is that "this" is scoped dynamically; as many have noted before, you can easily create a lexical "that" or "self" reference from it, but the other way around is impossible. This dynamic scope is a bit strange when everything else has local scope but it can be quite powerful.

When "this" gives you a hard time, the Function.bind() method is often a good solution too.
Just wait till your robot drives under a tree canopy )
You should still try asking around, it's a very simple design requiring very straightforward workmanship and few, simple materials.

Thanks for your kind remarks! :)
It depends on the architecture.

OK, first I'd want to make sure I have the requirements right.

- Only use Amazon services
- Must keep databases in sync across regions. Periodic is acceptable.
- Not a lot of budget.

OK. My first instinct is to say you're still putting all your eggs in one basket, I'd request we evaluate the idea of using a second cloud provider as a backup.

I would also suggest that Route 53 is a pretty new DNS provider, can we look at other providers with a proven track record, at least a secondary server.

Now if you're going to insist on sticking with Amazon only and being on a shoe string budget, then we'd set up with region servers. I'd hope we can control the refresh time on Route 53, as I'd want to keep the DNS TTL low. We'd be paying for more requests, but we'd have the flexibility to roll over to another region easily.

As for keeping data in sync, or periodic backups, that's really dependent on the data requirements and what type of storage is involved and I wouldn't want to get into it.

The main thing I would shoot for is, especially on a low budget, keep it as simple as possible. Even if it means rolling over to an instance with 24 hour old data. That's better than nothing in most application cases. You don't want your interim recovery to be complicated. It should be flip a switch (or change a DNS entry) and there you go. Recovery is going to be a pain, count on it and expect it. Especially if you're on a shoe string budget because you're likely depending on overworked sysadmins who you're keeping too busy to manage accurate recovery testing practices. That's the kind of stuff sysadmins love to do and never get the time to get to because project work somehow ends up being more important.
Please share pics when you do build it! I'm VERY interested in how you evolve the design for standing desks. :)
Ohhh, that kind of cracker. I thought it was just going to be an interview with a white guy.
Could you please send me a pic or further description of what you mean? It sounds interesting and I'm trying to wrap my head around it but I guess I've simply never seen it.
> here's enough wiggle room in the AWS SLA that I think this outage could continue for the rest of the month, and Amazon would still not owe a penny.

While agreeing it's not about the money it's about my site being up, I nevertheless was pretty shocked by this statement.
I guess. Somehow I pictured crackers jumping between disposable mailing accounts. Or better yet, substituting email needs for /msg on obscure IRC networks.
You need backtracking if you have an ambiguous grammar. This comes up in natural language parsing; I'd guess that it is avoided in programming languages.
I suppose you're right. There are many more Armenians around than there are Assyrians/Chaldeans. In general though, this area has important histories that are seemingly ignored.
It's worth mentioning that this is still bare minimum even compared to other Ivy League colleges. Harvard plans to expand their faculty by 12 members with Balmer's recent grant and Cornell is in the process of adding faculty for their new campus in New York City (Cornell Tech - which is basically a startup incubator).
And this is probably not the device for them.

The whole point of a netbook (which is really what a Chromebook is, with the tainted name dropped) is something that has most of its functionality on the web rather than a local device.
I totally do this - I call it parallelizing (or avoiding blocking). I do it both in programming, when it makes sense, and in everyday (non-programming) things.
How about safety, independence, the ability to take bigger risks, and choices? That's what money gives you in America.
I'd argue that it would as efficient is it gets if you use the database properly. You might be able to squeeze more performance out of something "thinner" like one of the key-value db's out there, but sooner or later you will need to scale horizontally. This is where something like Cassandra is more attractive, but it lacks a lot of typical db features, e.g. aggreagations.
could you run Pycharms on this?

or install ubuntu instead of chromeOS?
Minor nitpick, but the availability should be even better, since 1% * 1% = 0.01% the availability becomes 99.999975% - six nines, anyone?
I think Godot is both. A lot of built-in nodes are meant to be extended (like KinematicBody) and a lot of them provide features via adding components (like RayCast or Area or Timer or AudioStreamPlayer).
Advocating first dose first before we got clinical trial data to support it is a gross slap in the face of every potential dose recipient.
Thank you and glad I am not alone finding this mostly fluff.

This is sadhguru level stuff imo and weird that it is something Naval is associated with now.
That's a very good point. I'm going to upvote this to make it more visible. I would encourage others to do the same.
One easy retrofit solution (though certainly not anywhere as secure as Lexan) is 3m Window Film. This will probably be good enough to keep flashbangs from being fired thru windows.
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Window_Film/Solu...

The ad copy on that page reads:

Because these films help hold the glass together,
a stronger barrier is created, slowing down
criminals to the point where they may choose
to flee for an easier target.

Sadly, there's often only a subtle difference between a violent criminal and a SWAT team member. The personality types are often quite similar.
"A life in a day of a startup CEO": http://doublestealth.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/a-life-in-day-of...
This made me chuckle :D Thanks for sharing!
Yet minimally viable.
Interesting perspective! You bring up a lot of different points:

- There are tons of positive "post mortem" [http://www.gamasutra.com/features/postmortem/] write ups on gamasutra, but the ones with problems are usually more valuable. One recent example of "doing it right" I remember was the XCOM:Enemy Unknown remake. Check their GDC talks!

- One thing that makes games special is pushing the envelope. Yes, you can make a game on a very solid stack. But it won't stand out.

- Game coders think service people are mad also: How can you use a database that you do not fully understand? You don't even have the source? Using a framework or library or cloud that you do not 100% understand seems "cowboy" to them.

- Games are "fire and forget". That means technical debt is very different. It is bad at the start of a 3 year cycle, but at the end it is totally ok.

- Not mentioned by you but important to point out: While working on games is great for learning and unlike anything else it is also a terrible industry for coders. Insane crunch time. Low pay.
Are you the author of that blog post?

Totally off topic, I didn't really expect to see you up on HN at midnight on a Friday. Hopefully no fires in CloudFlareLand to put out.
Would be really interesting if people could add their location. Seems like those in US have really long journeys to work?
Is this Lenovo thnkpad E15 gen2 (AMD) [1] decent for programming and business?
The only hindrance is that it is unclear whether it has a backlit keyboard,
but I googled and it seems that it can be at least possible to replace a keyboard to the backlit [2]

I used to think that the more warranty time is provided by the manufacturer, the better, as 3y for Dell. The local seller just told that the less is the warranty time, the more high quality is the product, as they're sort of so sure of it's quality. And this Thinkpad E15 has 1y of warranty. It is not T or X series, but it has 15.6" display etc, is this series ok?

[1] https://www.kilobaitas.lt/kompiuteriai_ir_komponentai/nesioj...

[2] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-11e-Windows-13-E-and-E...
This is just insane, and sadly mirrors the experience of everyone I know interning in finance.

But do they also treat their tech/engineering employees like this? I can't imagine an engineer working 80 hours on Wall St. when they could make quite good money Facebook, etc. as well.
Hey, check out this book, should be helpful https://www.amazon.com/RESTful-Web-APIs-Services-Changing/dp...
The menu is no longer there, AFAIK. I have not spent much time looking for the feature, to be honest, and I no longer keep Firefox installed except when testing, so I won't look for its existence now.

(I usually apt install before testing and apt remove after, because otherwise it often becomes the system default.)
Only 13,000 to go
I think a more useful coloring would be by period: "first internet bubble", etc.
I’m already projecting my own interests opinion on my child by virtue of what I choose to give him for his birthday, or allow him to do in general though.

I don’t think this is something you can (or should, it’s basically the definition of parenting) avoid as a parent.
Take a look at this sample store which exists to demonstrate how you can optimize order pages in order to lead to the optimal revenue per order and site conversion:
http://www.fastspring.com/slideshows/orderflow.php

I hope this helps you.
Whichever you need to. What are and aren't you willing to accept? His sob story should not make you feel bad and the fact that you are imagining in advance a sob story which will then compell you to do something you don't want to is ... a bug in your behaviour which you should notice about yourself and solve one day.

"I completed this work in good faith 5 weeks ago; early July is another four weeks and that's going to be tough for me, but if you are struggling we can work something out - can you pay half of it now and the rest in July?". Perhaps.

You are his equal, a business person discussing a transaction. You have the right to chase this payment without feeling guilty.
Not necessarily. http://www.sens.org/
Seems to me that as long as the number of users per license/copy stays the same AutoDesk shouldn't have a case. The person taking the loss is whoever sold the copy for less than it's worth. Where I work expensive software like EE/CAD tools are either on a license server, node-locked or have a dongle. That makes things clean.

The point about the academic discounts is a good one, though. Seems reasonable that those copies should not be resellable.
When I decided I was ready to move on from my last job, I went over to the library (2 blocks away) to update my resume during my lunch hour. I saw that the library had an opening for a programmer, so I applied. I was called for an interview two days later, and they hired me the day after that. I didn't even have time to send out any other resumes.
I'm looking for a solution to a much different sleep problem: How to consistently remind myself that trying to do without sleep is counterproductive and nuts and that I should be doing much more sleeping.

I need the reverse of an alarm clock: A clock that somehow makes me sleep.

Because otherwise not only will my brain function worse, but the additional stress may actually shorten my life, which pretty much screws up the goal of getting more hours out of life!
I like to write 1000-1200 words a day in 300-400 word chunks. That's much less imposing than 1000 words at a time.
I found my last two jobs in the same way: a recruiter placed an ad in comp.arch.embedded and I followed up on it.

Dunno if this still works: I've been here for over 10 years and haven't looked at Usenet in about that long.
What's so hard to understand about this? Regardless of your intentions, classified information is classified information. Belief that a program is inefficient, no matter how well founded, probably does not outweigh that fact. The system simply doesn't work if everyone in it gets to exercise their own judgement about when to honor it.

Sometimes, people are going to have to step outside the system. Many of those people are legitimate whistleblowers, and many of those people are patriots who are serving the good of the nation. That they're stepping outside the law and risking sanction increases the heroism of their actions. But that doesn't mean that the system itself should change.
Or Venezuela. But most likely Israel.
and don't forget what modifying the human genome will do. It could give us the means to winnow out the very imperfection that has enabled us to survive. I refer to the inherent variability that creates so many different personalities and immunities that we've been able to survive in spite of everything else that has evolved on the planet.

We must take care not to lose this quality. The minute we do, we become as vulnerable as the plants and animals we raise, most of which would quickly fail in the wild.
Not Israel?
Not all knowledge obtained by working in a defense organism would be transferable. You get probably less useful real-world knowledge by working there rather than any other place.
Not necessary. It depends on your perspective. Israel, the Koreas, Cuba (from an American perspective), etc...