jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There was a recent ruby-talk announcement for live parse trees being available in 1.9 now. Presumably gives the functionality of ParseTree. http://quix.github.com/live_ast
Weird, I skipped over the part where he was selling the book, even though I read the comments.

Thanks for posting this though. It's always good to know peoples motivations for doing stuff as it naturally introduces a bias.
That's the lack of the associative property. Eventual consistency means that updates will eventually be propagated to all replicas in a distributed system and that all replicas will be consistent. Not the same thing, at all.
I agree, but there are counter arguments. Any employee (especially those featured in ads) can be perceived as representing the company or even acting on behalf of the company. If you behave badly, it can reflect badly on the company.

There definitely are many wrongful termination suits that test the boundaries of what companies can do here, so I think we have a pretty good balance at the moment.
Just a fun rebuttal by Neil deGrasse Tyson: Reason & Faith are Irreconcilable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy5yWdVHv3o :)
If you want a more 'fun' take on it, look at the Futurama episode A Clockwork Origin. The professor litterally 'seeds' a planet and it evolves following the basic evolutionary process of earth.

Compartmentalizing for this really only needs to happen if you are in the group where the Bible/whatever is word for word acurate. If you think it's a guide book and 7 days really isn't seven Earth days but some description of time passing, God "guiding" evolution still makes sense.
This is the pragmatic LKY that everyone will be saying good bye to tomorrow. Gum is a problem? Outlaw it.

Honestly, given that you can chew it if you have a medical prescription, no great loss.

Obviously not the American Solution (see how much trouble Bloomberg had outlawing the far more health hazardous soft drinks), but, certainly works well in Singapore.
It's still fresh, but Word Lens blew me and everyone else away this week.
I'm constantly bombarded with "quick" questions from coworkers about how some part of my code works (or more often why it doesn't). After several such interruptions it's harder and harder to even try to focus, maybe some kind of neurosis, fear of being interrupted once you are again in flow?
Now do the environmental impact of an Argentina's worth of electricity generation.
1. Napping
2. Obtaining coffee to stop the onset of napping
3. Code reviews
Some countries issue non-denominated stamps, which cost (when purchased) the amount to send a letter, but are still valid to send that letter even if the postage rate later increases.

In the UK, these include "First class", "Second class", "First class large" etc stamps. In the USA, there's a "Forever" stamp.

I have a few, as it's easier to stick a stamp on my grandma's birthday card than either visit a post office, or buy postage online. But I only send about two ordinary letters a year.
Thank you for the info and links! This is very helpful.
Because I'm waiting for another developer to finish his part of the code that my part of the code is supposed to talk to.
It's fun because as a drummer not that much into jazz or fusion I got introduced to Chick Corea through Dave Weckl (which yes is the best drummer alive and maybe of all time) :)

Consequently, I'm currently watching this one because my first reflex this morning was to type "Dave Weckl Chick Corea" on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-XZu8DBLSs

And speaking of Dave Weckl I can't resist posting this one with the late Didier Lockwood https://youtu.be/K-R9u-1R1FI
I'm not sure how you think it works. Do you think there's some kind of Supreme Court precedent making it illegal for OS vendors to bundle software?

Microsoft didn't lose the antitrust case. It was overturned on appeal, remanded to a lower court to try again, and then the government settled out of court.

From the Wikipedia description of the settlement: "the DOJ did not require Microsoft to change any of its code nor prevent Microsoft from tying other software with Windows in the future".

What's more "Microsoft’s obligations under the settlement, as originally drafted, expired on November 12, 2007."

Given all of that why wouldn't Edge be bundled?
Looks very promising, I'll try ASAP. Thanks for the accented chars btw
This is the same guy that said iPhone sales had peaked by 2010, a couple weeks before Apple announced record sales: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/04/iphone-...

And then blamed his faulty analysis on Chinese New Year: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/04/apple-t...
"Why Not {MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, SHA-3, etc}?

These are all general purpose hash functions, designed to calculate a digest of huge amounts of data in as short a time as possible."

See the rest here: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
A couple of quibbles.

First, Sun 4s were SPARCs, not 680x0s. That was the difference between Sun 3s and Sun 4s.

Second, it actually took several years from when the first Lisp Machine was completed in 1974 to when the first "generic" workstation was available in 1982, the year after Lisp machines became commercially available. It took several more years for Lucid Common Lisp and other such standard-CPU Lisps to improve their performance to the point where they were competitive with the specialized hardware. The exact crossover point depended on your application.

I think that by 1988 CISCy LispMs were a clear dead end for high-performance computing, along with every other 1970s architecture except the 360. The folks at Symbolics didn't think so, and kept designing and shipping new Ivory hardware for the next four years, but I think people were only buying them because of Genera.
Thanks, brk!
I think its particularly sad that the focus of various news sites is on the demise of WS-I, and not the fact that the long awaited BP 1.2 and 2.0 are finally final.
that's the big thing? I thought his newsletter was going to be long researched articles, actual investigative journalism that goes beyond the generic coverage you see elsewhere...not just announcements that so and so company has launched...and a conference?

This sure sounds like he is just jealous of Arrington and Techcrunch and wants a piece of the pie.
Reading this book right now, and loving it. It's weird, though, the more I read of it, the more I realized that I have always lived my life this way, I just haven't been conscious of it. The more aware I am of it though, the more I seem to get from life.

An excellent, excellent book.
SMS, Email, IM and FB messages all have similar dynamics. A unified system combining these four makes a lot of sense and wouldn't be horrible.
Actually I was incorrect in my statement. This was an issue with trying to sign in with two of the wrong accounts.
"solid, stable job appropriate for the kind of guy who is dating me"

It's certainly more difficult, but you could try to find a girl who wants you rather than 50% of your future earnings. You'll probably have a better time with her as well.
Not only that, well developed analytical skills often correlate with poorly developed social skills.

I hate the term myself, except that it seems to indicate a certain cluelessness that may be exploitable.
I did. I wasn't trying to be secretive about it either, considering I was quoted and I then thanked him for pointing it out. Have I confused anyone here?
Why not just start a side-business that you do for "fun". You could aim for a really small goal like 5 bucks a month.

Totally doable.
You don't have gravity in orbit so there's nothing to hold the mirror down.
So instead of "everything changed after 9/11" it's "everything changed after North Korea got cavalier with their nukes?"
Regarding producing oil from livestock, you'll want to look into
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

I believe that ConAgra has a plant for doing this to left over bits of turkey.

More to the point as far as we know oil deposits are created by thermal depolymerization of plants and animals on geologic timescales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum#Formation Therefor anything produced from petroleum very likely contains dead animals.

1. There are definitely shades of grey, but I tend to think that putting animals in your tank and on your plate are largely the same. If you think that eating dead animals is wrong, then why would consuming any product of which a component was dead animals be any different? Would it be ok to just kill an animal for no reason and not consume it?

2. I'm primarily attempting to point out that your actions and your moral code are hypocritical and thus you should be ignored as someone who advocates a standard for which they are unable or unwilling to meet themselves.

3. I don't really care how it comes across, if it effectively communicates to anyone else that the lifestyle choice and moral code of people who practice veganism or vegetarianism for moral reasons are hypocritical, then it has served it's purpose. If people who are not vegans or vegetarians for moral reasons laugh at the hypocrisy then it's also effective. Sometimes you have to make Modest Proposals in order to communicate effectively.

4. I think that voting is largely ineffective and that the electoral system produces results that are far more influenced by lobbying and money than by casting votes.

5. The entire point of the post was to convince you and others that don't eat meat for moral reasons that you are NOT living your life according to your own moral code. Or that your moral code contains arbitrary exceptions for the consumption of animals for whenever you find it convenient.
So your definition of troublesome is "doesn't do what I want"?

If you want someone to do something you need to convince them, and incentives is one way. I suppose force is another.

You may think Israel should stop building, but Israel doesn't think so. I don't see any reason your opinion counts for more.
Considering how this submission got voted and how the discourse is going, this is a good example of how powerful the USA are.

I wonder how the discourse will continue now that it's dark night in the USA and the day is starting for Europe and India.
EJB hasn't been any more bloated than Spring (quite possibly less) since Java EE 5. Welcome to 2006.
JRebel is worth a look for a similar experience. It reloads classes when they change so no server restarts required.

http://www.zeroturnaround.com/jrebel/
I am 200 pages in. For now, it has just radically changed my view of the concept of formal systems.
> I'm trying really hard to think of a recent IPO of a profitable company.

Zoom and Pager Duty. To your point, everything else has been meh.
I’m getting this sinking feeling that it’s not the tech companies that are inflated as much as sectors like retail, manufacturing, and perhaps shipping because of the trade war going on.
Searching through LinkedIn might jog your memory.
The idea of Emacs will survive, that's quite sure. The editor, I wouldn't bet on this one.
Your comment depressed me.

Take a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
I like the idea of a "curated" platform: putting together the best libraries in a somewhat opinionated way, but not writing a lot of additional code on top of it, and making sure that most of the curated glue code can be ditched if someone using the platform doesn't want or need something.

This would let people get going quickly and not have to make a thousand decisions or figure out all the integration points, but retains some of the benefits of the library-mindset (configurability, swappability, domain expertise, etc.)
> Not Safe for Childern.

Which is also a debatable because I don't think there's much resarch indicating that images of naked people are in any way harmful for children.

Maybe NSFPP?
Not safe for parents and puritans?
If $324,000 is peanuts then I think my nut allergy just went away.
Maybe, but I’m glad lawyers took her case, helped her win, and then got paid for it. Ruling itself may extend to future rides and help the blind community.
I understand that it comes from a place where we don’t want waste (in taxes, resources, time, etc), but what delivers that efficiency also delivers other undesired efficiencies (fine everyone who is contrarian, imprison the opposition, what have you).
Yeah Joe makes that point pretty often, and it was a nice revelation for me as well.

Actor concurrency paradigm has been copies by other languages and libraries. Not many managed to copy the fault tolerance and transparent distribution aspect. Granted there are other ways to solve that (OS processes, VMs) but still, it is interesting to learn from and think about.
Pity that he mixes languages with implementations, by stating Ruby doesn't have a compiler.
This breaks the HN guideline against bringing up same-old flamewars. Please don't do this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Belgians knew they were in it for the money - the main reason it went so wrong there is that they really needed the money now, and so were willing to inflict long-term damage for short-term profit.

Yes, it's very easy to get helping other people wrong, but the answer isn't to give up on doing so entirely.
Because Silicon Valley has a high level of entrepreneurial immigrants it means that it reflects the US as a whole, right? This considering it's in the state with the highest level of immigration and the probably has more H1Bs than anywhere else in the US. This has got to be the truth.
Its nice to see that other teams are currently working to solve the noise vs signal problem by using people to curate content in a more networked way.

Also, pardon my curiosity, but is that the idea with which you applied to YC or did you come up with it for the interview ?

In any cases, good luck w/ your interview ; there is sure a lot of future in that type of apps!
Not a bad idea. Not for every restaurant of course, but informal places could benefit. Though...

And he says that waiters actually want customers to pay using the devices, because they tend to get more tips since it’s so easy to tap that 20% button.

If I go to a restaurant where the waiter doesn't take my order or handle payment or do anything except courier my food the twenty feet from the kitchen to my table then the waiters better not be expecting any tip, let alone 20%. And if the restaurant can get by with one third the former waitstaff then they can damn well pay 'em enough not to need my tips.
How would this centrally-controlled, government-sanctioned fork differ from existing fiat currencies like the dollar? If we assume that a large number of people start using Bitcoins, why would this network be threatened by a competing currency that has no advantage over existing currencies?
But I stopped pirating so much music because of it (deleted shortly afterwards if I did not really like it). Surely that means they do not lose any more revenue because of me. ;-)
Social media makes information available instantly everywhere and there is always someone wanting to believe any speech.

If there is someone wanting to believe the earth is flat and triangular you will find him fast now. What could take months with massive people gatherings and paper press 100 years ago it can be done within minutes now.

Instead of banning maybe educating people on how to consume information could be a way to start. I guess it is almost impossible to educate everybody but it has empirically worked for me and my close environment, after years of educating some of my older relatives I have been able to at least make them read the links before sharing them.
Thanks, I guess this is a fair point. I'm with Sonic (who I absolutely trust) but currently my fiber is provided by AT&T, who I do NOT. Still waiting for that native fiber.

I guess I'm so used to thinking about this from the the standpoint of building DNS resolvers for business that I didn't think through the differences when it's just my house's traffic.

I'll look into DoH.
This has been a big one for me in regards to pulling the trigger on an M1 (and I need something new for work very soon).

I found a whole bunch of YouTube videos of people using DisplayLink adapters such as various docks from Targus or smaller single adapters from StarTech (brands likely don't matter but this happens to what people are testing in these videos). They all show good results. Comments all say "DisplayLink is faking it and it's gross" but the people making these videos say "Sure, but it's not gross. It's working almost perfectly."

Anyone here have any experience or thoughts on this?

I'm not gaming or needing to do high level graphics or video editing on a 2nd or 3rd display. Just basic dev stuff and window management.
Solid point. I never saw Twitter tripping over themselves to ban mention of the pee tape, which was clearly a blatant fabrication.
Elon Musk votes for Signal: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1347165127036977153
It seems more interesting that a software platform like this would be expected to treat a president of a country different than a normal person. Should the queen of England get even more privileges to break rules on the platform? And the peerage somewhere below that (but still much higher than the common folk)?
> making sure to spread the good news of Tesla and metaphorically stoning anyone who dares speak against Elon Musk.

That's an interesting take. Even if true today, does not reflect the historical reality at all; in fact I remember quite the opposite: for the majority of the history of the company I remember hearing that he is a clown, Tesla will go bankrupt, the product won't work, false stories on the product by major newspapers, the product won't make money, the factory won't scale.
Give the GAFAMs the keys of the kingdom. Wise idea.
>If the embryo/fetus could survive outside the womb I would be pro-life, but it can't.

The youngest foetus to survive premature birth was around 24 weeks old, so does that mean you oppose abortion of foetuses older than that, as they could survive outside of the womb?
If you genuinely believe this, then what you witness in the next few months will be utterly shocking.
Net neutrality is a very needed thing there it seems, as everywhere.
> It’s not like the left seem to be satisfied with anything they achieve, they always want more.

If you're going to group millions of people together and judge them by their extremes, you might want to try applying the same logic to "the right" and see if you are happy with the slippery slope you construct.
Just like this comment is a failed attempt at writing a novel. Ascribing intent to the actions of a third-party is silly, especially when it comes to controversial topics or when referring to the actions of a small fraction (it's estimated that 500K people were there to peacefully hold up signs).
He has been laying the ground work for this since at least last summer to hedge against an election loss. He has been sitting baseless accusations about mail-in ballots, solve he knew Democrats would be more likely to vote by mail because they took the pandemic seriously. What was the "stop the steal" slogan supposed to accomplish other than create the overthrowing of the legitimately elected president? If he had legal ground he wouldn't have needed a slogan, but just won his court battles.
X86_64 wasn't widely available until around 2005 which is also when Java added support for it
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It's not mechanical, but the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 is worth trying because it sits comfortably in the lap. For me, this makes it better than any keyboard with a rectangular layout. No wrist arch. No "where do my elbows go?" In EMACS the symmetrical Alt and Ctrl keys are a huge advantage.

Like many Microsoft products, this is something that comes out of the fact that employees spend a lot of time typing at the computer. It's the kind of product that comes from dogfooding.

It's the AK-47 of keyboards.
It's something that I find myself wondering about as well, and the fact that I bring it up suggests that I haven't quite moved past it.

In the undergraduate program that I actually attended, the schools we had turned down was a bit of a badge of honor. A testament if you will, to how much respect we had for the program we were attending - my peers and I turned down some pretty big names to do what we did.

In retrospect however, it reflects our insecurity with that choice. Outside of our selected niche, those names still garner the most prestige, get the best job offers, are in the news most often, etc.
Yes, the loud politicians have always been painting this as a Green/Wind vs Fossil problem as soon as the storm hit and that the solution is Fossil.

It's frustrating because unlike other debates - the underlying truth is quite clear. Cold temperatures affected both Natural Gas & Wind bringing both power types[0].

Winterizing both can be beneficial. Wind can operating in those temperatures just fine[1]. It wouldn't be cheap, but winterizing gas lines isn't either.

It's being turned into a left vs right issue by those who choose to ignore facts and outright lie to push their own agendas. It actually saddens and frustrates me because a non-partisan issue is being turned into one.

Our country has become hyper partisan and this one doesn't need to be.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08mwXICY4JM

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcarpenter/2021/02/16/why-w...
>(You'd probably just pump water from the Pacific at one end, then put it back in the Pacific at the other end.)

You most certainly would not. Because the risk of spreading invasive marine species the MARPOL convention doesn't allow it. This means ships have to gradually replace all their ballast water during a passage. Just don't repeat Cougar Ace's mistake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar_Ace
I have desk toys specifically to help me avoid this.

If, like the author, I could return to my task on time, I'd do so. Unfortunately, I just get distracted. So instead of switching desktops while a ~60 second task runs, I find I'm more efficient if I simply sit there and let it run while I play with a little desk toy or something. Sure, it feels like wasted time, but I'm actually more efficient when I don't lose track of what I'm doing and then find it at 6pm when I'm about to leave for the day.. "oh, right, THAT'S what I was planning on doing today!"
+1. The ripple effects of releasing such documents are unknown. This is a completely reckless act by Assange/Wikileaks that puts their name above the safety of the citizens of the world.
The Chatham House Rule - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule
And port Hakyll to it so my blog can be TYPE SAFE and C++!
No argument there. The vast, vast majority of TV content is abysmally bad. I like that I get to just pick what I want to watch and don't have to mess with the rest.
Seems like the doc is blocked by google, can you post it somewhere else?

Have an awesome day!
virtual server instances on a machine with a compromised instance. cpu eater becomes non-trivial.
Seems like Twitter is "vulnerable" to U+00A0 tweets: http://twitter.com/#!/olivierll/status/7852651047817216

For those who are wondering, you can type Unicode codes directly from your keyboard (Ubuntu: Ctrl-Shift-u, other OS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input)
No Linux? Am I dreaming?
Node is more adept at handling many concurrent requests due to its architecture but it's runtime is far slower than the JVM. The vert.x framework that is the basis for this project is based on a similar paradigm to node and is far faster.