jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was hired by a related entity. Was benched for just over six weeks. Got fed up with it and quit. Never regretted it since.
I find the "Internet economics" argument more compelling than your argument that "Money supply does not determine the prices".

It's intuitive. You increase the amount of money chasing assets, asset prices go up. It's not affecting the price of milk or electronics. But look at land, housing, tuition, medical, stocks, bonds, and gold.
The new website is not complete yet; more info on the changes: http://www.racket-lang.org/new-name.html
That works, many thanks.
I've been wanting to do that for:

* NPM packages whose package.json file is missing a link to the package's GitHub repo

* Markdown READMEs without the right file extension (for GitHub)
Picking the nit: 2641 hours of uptime from the start of the year until the downtime began, so the uptime calc is 98.88.
So? I find the opposite much more comfortable.

What I do to save my coder sanity is not try to write serious code in my web browser.

I've recently switched to [Solarized](http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized), which offers both options, but I think it excels at keeping contrast comfortably low.
I don't see how that made the difference. If IE7 was released in 2004 or 2005, at best it would have been IE7 as we know it, and more likely would have been something halfway to IE7, and not particularly compelling - not unlike IE7.

As usual people who didn't care would use IE, and people seeking something better still would have used Firefox. Reading from their track history of lack of effort, innovation and overall mediocrity, there's no way MS could have killed Firefox and now Chrome by releasing some other schlonky IE.
The calculation is an inclusive, yearly, uptime percentage. This is assuming no other downtime will occur during 2011.

Additionally, this percentage is adequate for the 365-subsequent-days credit calculation. It doesn't matter at which 365-day window you look, my calculation assumes no other downtime has occurred, nor will occur.
>Is this truly a convenience?

Yes, and stop sleeping at your desk. :)
This talk is really, really good. It is complex though so you might want to pause/play or rewatch to really get it.

It made me nearly buy Tom's book but the only reason I didn't was because I already owned it! I hope the book is similar to the talk.

Unicorn unix magic tricks is really good at explaining some of Unicorn's advanced features. It shows how Unicorn uses Unix signals and forking in detail.
agreed. Thanks to gfycat this is done now.
Nice meme!
Well, I just made up this example, so feel free to embellish it...

But as you do, remember the question. We're in an embedded system, with lots of situations where sequence matters, and lots of stored state. The question is, what do monads buy me in that environment?
Currently working through this with a couple of 7yr olds. It's pretty good.
I have degrees in philosophy and Classics, speak multiple languages, and am "used to math and critical thinking."

I immediately sorted out from the context that "number sentence" = equation, while "story" = word problem. "counters" appear to be tokens to make arithmetic problems more concrete (people use "counters" in games and other things all the time). I got all the answers sorted out in less than a minute, though I am definitely puzzled by the "subtraction sentence" thing in #12...

Using simple terms for math ideas for first graders doesn't actually seem like a terrible idea, it sounds like an approach to bridge understanding.

It isn't a great quiz (#1 is poorly written and uses terrible confusing clip-art, #12 seems like an error), but if I had a penny for every poorly written math quiz American kids have been exposed to I'd be a millionaire. It's completely peripheral to Common Core or any other didactic approach.

If nuclear engineers couldn't sort this quiz out, I think that's a very compelling argument against nuclear power. This is not an incredibly complex problem, and any one capable of critical thinking should be able to use that to sort out that the quiz used simple terms for math concepts. I know little about Common Core, but this isn't a compelling case against it at all.
I honestly have no idea how you don't see this as an awful idea. Not only do I not want to aim my car into the garage in the first place, now I have to aim within some range again? Definitely want to just park and have a snake extend into my car to charge, not some large clunky floor piece carrying the weight of my entire car.
I still don't know why people keep throwing this out there. Yes, if you were effected and it caused you to lose a lot of income because your business could not operate when EC2 was on the fritz then it's your fault, not Amazons. You can't keep blaming Amazon because you didn't build a fault-tolerant application. It's like blaming your electric company because your home is lit by one super huge flood light which burnt out and as a result you couldn't see or get any work done because you kept no backup bulbs in the house.
There's quite a nice quote on the subject from Terence Tao (Livingston, Sir Ken; The Element; pp 100-101):

"I think the most important thing for developing an interest in mathematics is to have the ability and the freedom to play with mathematics -- to set little challenges for oneself, to devise little games, and so on. Having good mentors was very important for me, because it gave me the chance to discuss these sorts of mathematical recreations; the formal classroom environment is of course best for learning theory and applications, and for appreciating the subject as a whole, but it isn't a good place to learn how to experiment.

Perhaps one character trait which does help is the ability to focus, and perhaps to be a little stubborn. If I learned something in class that I only partly understood, I wasn't satisfied until I was able to work the whole thing out; it would bother me that the explanation wasn't clicking together like it should. So I'd often spend a lot of time on very simple things until I could understand them backwards and forwards, which really helps when one then moves on to more advanced parts of the subject.

I don't have any magical ability, I look at a problem, and it looks something like one I've already done; I think maybe the idea that worked before will work here. When nothing's working out then I think of a small trick that makes it a little better, but still is not quite right. I play with the problem, and after a while, I figure out what is going on. If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding. It's not about being smart or even fast. It's like climbing a cliff -- if you're very strong and quick and have a lot of rope, it helps, but you need to devise a good route to get up there. Doing calculations quickly and knowing a lot of facts are like a rock climber with strength, quickness, and good tools; you still need a plan -- that's the hard part -- and you have to see the bigger picture."
Eh, I've used all of those except for bc, mkfifo and xmlwf. I only used ldd once (maybe twice), but the rest I've used many times over the years.
You (anybody in fact) can have them too in Italy. You have to get a license though - before you can purchase one. Mind you, having one and carrying it along with you is considered very different.
Welcome! Feel free to look me up and say hello.
There is a JAVA version of reddit at
http://www.codereddit.com
Normally I use eclipse's internal browser to read it along side my normal code, no one ever notices it

I wish there is a version for HN.
and why do you equal weight loss/gains to being starving or not?

I bet most of the people adding weight are actually doing that because they feel starving (majority of American food being too fat and sugary and not nutritional enough).
Win NT 3.51 was the first version I used. It looked like the old Win 3.1 at the time, and using PROGMAN.EXE instead of the windows Explorer (NT4 was the one getting the Win95 look, IIRC). In version 3.51, the video subsystem ran in usermode, and not in kernel mode. That happened in NT4 I think.
What were your successes this year?

For someone coming from tech background, is introvert and has never sold anything in life before, I took up the responsibility of handling sales and marketing for our start up, did cold calling and sales meetings and signed up our first two customers.

What did you learn?

Like everything, you need to persevere and stay patient to succeed in selling. However there is still a lot I need to learn to do sales better. I often find myself looking back at the sales meeting and cold calls that fail thinking i should have handled it a bit differently

What do you hope to achieve next year?

I hope to do better in sales and get our startup from customer 1 to customer 100 hopefully
In general, yeah, it's good to apply the principle of charity to any argument. However, it's very hard to do when the argument is expressed using such emotionally loaded words as in the examples given.
If you have personal experience, read, any of the books, I (and I imagine other HNers) appreciate your comments on the books.

Specifically are the "AI Game Programming Wisdom" books, the new revisions of the same thing? or they complement each other?
Or even Beanshell. In fact, the ideas behind Beanshell (i.e. closures on the JVM) and Groovy++ (i.e. static typing) were scooped up and copied into Groovy, that kitchen sink language, which was bundled as part of Grails, that knock-off of Rails for the JVM.

The software industry is divided into "Makers" and "Takers". The people behind Gosu are obviously Makers, whereas those presently behind Groovy are Takers.
Policeman is still "beta", despite being quite usable. It just need polish.
Interesting, and fair point. I tend to type things explicitly for the opposite reason, because I trust my fingers more than some obfuscated typo in an URL - but I see logic on both sides.

OTOH normally when I ask the people I see doing this why, their answer is more along the lines of "dunno" :)
I am not sure their are a lot of use-cases for this where there is not already a great java or c++ library. So I fear that it might not make a lot of sense to use Rust for most apps.

Regarding the API, IMO a solution can only come from Google.
There are good arguments in favor of replacing Java by Rust (or a Rust inspired language managed by Google) and even to rewrite the app framework foundations in order to improve the current offering. Officially, Java is the language of the platform, but that does not necessarily mean that they won't replace it in time.
I'd encourage you to write some code, too. There's a lot of intuition you gain by manipulating the bits that you can't get by reading. You may think you know what a pointer is, but until you've had to debug a double-free segfault or a memory leak, it's hard to understand the ramifications of the concept. The standard string handling functions look trivial in documentation, but when you actually use them you'll find yourself forgetting to add null bytes or not realizing that some of the functions mutate the string you're working on. I'd argue it's that process of figuring out how to make things work that gives you the famed understanding of how computers work.
Thank you, Rich, very informative.

What is the rationale behind not letting 'declare' declare vars in other namespaces? I've run into that when dealing with circular dependencies, and sometimes it seems that would help.
1) Never volunteer your property to be searched. That's just common sense.
2) Well that's hardly a traffic stop anymore. They're pretty free to take their time at that point.

(I didn't downvote you)
As with Jehovah's Witnesses and the end of the world, this will no doubt be rescheduled due to the rain.

Yes, somewhere in the world it is raining. Once it stops, global cataclysms will be free to proceed. Its a union thing.
Out of interest, why use absolute URLs at all if the files aren't on a different server? Won't you have to go through and change them all when you deploy?

Anyway, re: translations, I believe it's a tunnel so your local server is visible to the outside world as myserv.showoff.io - thus, no translation of anything.
Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy[1]

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[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
I would say that Ketsia and Sardone are the boldest examples here, but Laura is more accessible, and a beautiful work, yes.
Since about 2010 heart disease has been on the rise again after decades of decline, which seems to coincide with the craze in keto type diets. Sugar consumption has declined slightly over that same time period.
Not OP but I think the true Scotsman isn't that laws don't apply, it's that the ledger is infallible and authoritative.
Somehow I suspect trees in Papa New Guinea are different than the trees where you are
A framework presents a scope.

If your project falls within the scope, great. You may be sporting a bunch of YAGNI functionality, but could grow into it.

Now, should requirements venture outside the scope...

- You may eat some Level Of Effort to meet those requirements, assuming s decent plugin system, or

- As The Famius Article notes, you could eat the framework equivalent of DLL Hell trying to appease the Version Gods.
Yup, call it "Zoe's YouTube Band" and make every release under that, maybe add a slide whistle at the end of each track so it's unique, and BAM...applesauce...
A study with 20 students? This is useless.
Yep! That's my favorite TV bit of all time.
Welcome to Google!

Excited for your new adventures - congratulations!
If the primary purpose was to funnel money from you -> .mil -> military industrial complex it succeed wildly beyond all expectations. Otherwise not so much.

I lived and worked very close to Eglin Air Force base where all the initial F35's went. Many Air Force people thought the primary design decisions were to spend money and little else.
Google wanted to deprecate and remove SMIL, but public outcry was sufficient that they suspended those plans indefinitely, and I haven’t heard anything against it in the years since.
Skin-to-skin is also for pair bonding. To toss it out as just for body temperature is too hasty.
"Car wash companies will hate this stuff."

Never took you for a limb air headline writer! :)
"Torus is product of two circles" is a basic fact of algebra/geometry/analysis.
You can easily assign a coordinate system [0,2pi] x [0-2pi], with 0=2pi.

But I guess it's cool you can prove the same thing with over-abstract gobbledygook
I like OS X - I got a MacMini ~15 months ago, and despite my plan to install Debian, I still haven't.

But it does crash on me every ~6 weeks. A - halfway - modern operating system should not crash, unless the hardware is faulty. I really like badmouthing Windows, But my work laptop running Windows 7 has crashed only two or three times in nearly two years.

Also, as a former GNU/Linux user, I am unhappy about the poor integration of X11. Cygwin's X server is a lot smoother in that regard.

(Let me repeat, I do like OS X, and yes, Windows has plenty of things I intensely dislike, which is why I do not use it on my private computers.)
In 2009 Facebook did 25TB/week in just photos, and I imagine it's significantly higher now (particularly with Instagram added).

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/needle-i...
I just switched back to Windows after about a decade on OSX (I was on Windows the decade before that and MacOS the decade before that). My reasons for switching are more hardware related, so I won't get into that.

For the most part, it doesn't really matter what OS I use, since the tools I use are pretty much available everywhere. Before I made the switch, however, I was really worried that I'd have a much inferior user experience on Windows than OSX. But that turned out to be a non-issue.

I thought I'd be concerned about being stuck with cmd.exe, but Cmder is awesome. I don't really need to change any of my OSX terminal habits at all.

I thought I'd miss Gitbox. I still do, but SourceTree does enough of a good job that I can get by.

The one thing I like about OSX is the level of polish of the UI and of apps that run in the OS. Things on Windows aren't at OSX's level, but they are generally way better than they were when I switched to OSX. Faint praise, I guess.

The Windows 8 Start Menu thing. I thought I would hate it. But here's the thing, I switched to using Spotlight to launch everything in OSX, and it's pretty much the same thing on Windows, just hit Windows key, and type the name of the app I want to launch. Having said that, Windows local search is horrible vs. Spotlight. There is a (paid) fix - Listary is a great substitute for Spotlight on Windows.

I hated Windows Explorer post Windows 2000 (but I still hate Windows Explorer less than Finder). It still sucks. But Classic Explorer restores things to the way I preferred back in the day.

My day to day tools are pretty much cross platform, Sublime, DBVisualizer, PGAdmin, Evernote, Postbox, etc. So there were very few hiccups there.

Windows is far from perfect (although Windows 10 definitely looks like it addresses my biggest annoyances), but it's not a huge downgrade from OSX in the way a lot of people think about it. I still prefer Windows over Linux Desktops, probably because the way it works is a lot more familiar to me than Linux.
One thing that might help is a significant reduction in street parking. The two-lane road (one each direction) I take to work has parking each side. Each may become another lane for cars or bike lanes once the need for parking starts to be eliminated.

The four-lane alternative to work has two lanes set aside for parking. In that case, I suspect they'll put light rail down the middle and retain two lanes each side.

I think price and convenience will mean that more people car-pool in automated ride-sharing services too.
Another recommendation: bpython.

bpython is the friendly alternative to ipython.
The poetic reference to Rome being better than Rome reminds me of Edmund Spenser's adaptation of Bellay's poem about Rome. http://www.bartleby.com/153/23.html

I think the most famous stanza (an excerpt from a much, much longer poem) is

Thou stranger, which for Rome in Rome here seekest,
And nought of Rome in Rome perceiv’st at all,
These same olde walls, olde arches, which thou seest,
Olde palaces, is that which Rome men call.
Behold what wreake, what ruine, and what wast,
And how that she, which with her mightie powre
Tam’d all the world, hath tam’d herselfe at last,
The pray of Time, which all things doth devowre.
Rome now of Rome is th’ onely funerall,
And onely Rome of Rome hath victorie;
Ne ought save Tyber hastning to his fall
Remaines of all: O worlds inconstancie!
That which is firme doth flit and fall away,
And that is flitting doth abide and stay.

Bellay (and Spenser) claim that the only city that was ultimately able to conquer ancient Rome is ... modern Rome. I found that a striking observation.
Something else you might want to consider: exposing yourself to techs that are not trending. The problem with just learning RoR, WebGL, NodeJS, HTML5, etc. is that everyone does that - while you have an advantage over someone who doesn't learn anything outside of class, you don't have all that much of an advantage over other programming enthusiasts. In a good job market, this doesn't matter, but in a down market, every little thing you can do to set yourself apart from your competitors helps.

Compiler design never goes out of fashion. Neither does statistical machine learning and large-scale data analysis. Image and video processing may become increasingly hot in the coming years. I know someone who parlayed a $15/hour college-dropout webmonkey position into $75/hour consulting because he got involved in mapping and geolocation technologies.

Deep domain knowledge counts for a lot when companies are looking at resumes.
This sounds like it might just be what I'm looking for!!!
The quick answer should be: anything/everything that's helpful but does not involve programming. Also, contributing cash is always helpful. Even with a lean strategy, open source software, etc., there are always going to be dollar costs and opportunities to spend cash to gain some advantage.
What about e-75 "Building Dynamic Websites"? http://cs75.tv/2010/fall/

I'm in the same boat as the person that posted the original message but I'm currently doing Rails for Zombies (free in-browser interactive course) after first doing tryruby.org (free interactive introduction).
Oh c'mon! I'm just wondering how they secured funding to prove this hypothesis. I'm part of the scientific community and I know how difficult it is to justify your research projects.
Don't have Opera and Safari installed on this machine but these are the results on Windows 7 32-bit:

FF 4.0.1: 240 + 9 bonus points
IE9: 130 + 5 bonus points
IE10 PP: 130 + 5 bonus points
agreed, but isn't part of the point of the web to allow you to do things at your own convenience? i agree that some definitely prefer the physical tailor visit, we're just providing a web-enabled offering
> In one sense, this is the classic path trodden by people who listen to all the good advice available here. The idea of page rank was worth very little. What Larry did was learn enough programming chops to build a prototype, then used then prototype to prove the idea worked, then iterated better and better versions as the requirements became more clear and as the bottlenecks became apparent.

Yes, he had to build a prototype, prove the idea worked, and iterate and address bottlenecks. But take the page rank idea away, and Google would not have been anywhere near what they are today. I don't see how the idea can be dismissed as being worth very little.
White Light by Rudy Rucker illustrates set theory in a way I found very inspirational.
Well, I for one enjoyed it.

This problem has a name actually - there’s a solution called Bjorklund’s algorithm which was originally used in physics. It was picked up by a music researcher (Godfried Toussaint) who noticed that it generates satisfying rhythms too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_rhythm I implemented it myself for Sonic Pi as the spread function.
It's not clear what you're really trying to argue here. Obviously, he's not suggesting we use "qwerty1234" as our passwords; it's you who's reducing arguments to absurdity here.

I'm pretty sure Grugq is aware of the current names for the Russian IC agencies.
I didn't go into the idea of "sound money" because I don't consider it a valid concept. If you use gold, you favor the miners, if you use shells, you favor the fisherman. If you use the wax tablet, you favor the accountants, and if you use cryptography, you favor the nerds. But most people just don't care that there were people who profited from the segnorage, or who those people are. With money, what you are interested in is buying goods and services, because then you can eat, shelter and move around. As long as you can do those things with reasonable predictability, empirically, that's what people will accept as money. Everything else is just arbitrary complication.
Must be a setup right? I've taken several years of French in college, never had a vocab set quite like that!

Another odd detail, TSA didn't randomly read a stack of paper in his carry-on. TFA says "handed cards to the agent" after being asked to empty pockets. How is a TSA lacky supposed to NOT alert a supervisor in that situation?

The only thing more ridiculous would be after handing the deck of flash cards directly to the agent is if the top cards were in the order "Bomb", "Touting", "Terrorist".
I am not familiar with Evernote and the other tools -- but when I try to test Paperwork, I got stuck:

How can I create a note? When I press "New note" simply nothing happens. I can take no notes, add no documents -- nothing. Just two big white areas that are plainly saying and doing nothing.

Ok, I found the problem: When I use "German" interface language, it does not work. With English interface language there comes a new dialog. Guess, this is a bug.