jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wish Paul would have elaborated more on the Google/Facebook pissing contest. Having worked at both companies at the level Paul has, I would imagine he has insight into the personalities that are pressing the issues. Then again, it looks like Paul got to work on what he wanted to, which didn't involve this new conflict.

Edit: Or maybe confidentiality agreements with each company prevent him from giving a public opinion right now.
Individuals did it when there was nearly no food and you could get eaten by lions in your sleep. Humans are also one of the few species of mammals that can get pregnant year-round. Our breeding works in a shotgun approach - make as many as you can and hope that one makes it. Coupled with the fact that we have large heads that make birthing one of the most difficult among mammals, it's very unoptimised. But it works.

I'm not saying it's rational by any means, I'm just pointing out things.
You're not the only one.
https://github.com/alaiacano/geocities-theme
anyone know or have good estimate of Movity's exit price?
^ Oh look, a throwaway account. I wonder who created it :/
(I work on HiFi)

You're 100% right. What we're describing sounds a lot like waterfall. Here are a couple more details:

* Our team of devs have collectively built over 450 websites. We know the domain well.

* We also did a lot of UI design early on that guided some some of our work.

That said, we didn't just design and give birth to a great API. We have iterated on a it a lot. Our clients were going on HiFi 6 months prior to the public release. We learned a lot and iterated on the API quite a bit during that period.

What ended up being nice was the ability to make sweeping changes at one point (the API) that benefited the entire application. This is a huge advantage.
I can imagine it would self-DDoS from lack of peer supernodes to share the load.
Yeah, a religion that sells its product door to door like Avon probably has the SEO down, I'm telling ya.

Please. Warez/malware/porn sites all have great SEO chops too. Why again are we applauding these particular moronic snake-oil salesmen?
I agree, they're not that useful as descriptive categories for people who are still alive and working. However, I think they're good as prescriptive categorical goals/mindsets: if you want to be remembered as a generalist, then you should be striving to find connections outside the fields you're aware of, and then pursuing those connections where they lead.
Not true at all. I encounter incidental complexity all the time when writing code in Java, Ruby, and Python. Especially when I need to interface with other libraries and other frameworks.

Ruby, Python, Java deal with the expression problem very poorly. The desire to write code generically is real so you have the mess of generics and people run to dynamic langs. In dynamic langs the desire to monkey-patch is real because you often need to extend objects whose source you do not control. In dynamic langs you often want an extension point, that does not a mean a list of methods to call, rather a list of method signatures to implement so I plug my own functionality in w/o reading through your source.

All this adds up to countless hours wasted.

These are real problems in real software today that current mainstream languages address very poorly.
I agree. Kilimanjaro's enthusiasm is just what you need as an entrepreneur :)

In some sense, my "openness" might be too much reality. He may find the business model he needs (and I was serious when I said there were 10's of copycats already - good idea to check those out for ideas)

And, of course, Mailinator is surely just a "weekend project" for me too. It just has an advantage of a good few years worth of weekends.
This is a startup in a similar space.
https://usesummit.com/

It is a replacement for Excel that is much more powerful. Target users are CFO pulling in different financial data.

If you listen to the Out of Beta podcast, you can hear the founder as he progresses through creating Summit. Might help for learning product and marketing process.
Is there a specific list of things the union will push for (more pay? Shorter shifts? Which benefits etc)? I can't find one among the deluge of poop on Google either saying unions are amazing or terrible...

The best I found was this, it had a sprinkling of facts and figures:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/23/amazon-be...
"What features are not in the beta, but that I can expect soon?

Database connectivity. Right now, you can only access REST apis, and local files. Support for MySql, PostGreSQL and others is coming soon."

That is killing you in my opinion. I'd wager it's 90%+ of your typical use case.
If FreeBSD has a maximum limit on PIDs that includes those running in jails, you'd probably run into that well before you run out of memory (especially if the goal is to run "as many jails as possible", you can make a whole bunch that effectively do nothing at all).
Pijul can detect when a patch commutes and when it does not. From there it can construct a dependency graph of commits and use that information in various interesting and useful ways. Back when I used Darcs I would somewhat frequently do things like pull these three commits and their decscendants as a sort of pseudo branch that would include everything necessary for a specific line of work but leave everything else behind.

To the point of the article when commits are diffs you sort of intuitively think such things should be possible. But because in git commits are snapshots it's not as easy as you would expect it to be.
There are basically no details in the article or the linked one (inside the article). I'll keep an open mind but this is the sort of article that should make you roll your eyes. (◔_◔)
I think they're pretty different. Haxe is designed to compile to many different languages, sort of like a least common denominator.

Whereas Wuffs translates only C, and is pretty semantically close to it. Its goal is really safety, while Haxe seems to be a portability (e.g. running the same game on many platforms).
I've been terrified of this chemical since watching a PBS show called "Ghostwriter" when I was a kid:

Synopsis: "The team is hard at work at the community garden center when a series of health problems arise: Gaby passes out, several other kids and adults get sick, and even some rabbits die. It's soon learned that a highly toxic chemical, tetrachloroethylene (commonly known as "perc") has been illegally dumped in the ground under the garden and is to blame. As the authorities cannot remove the barrels in a reasonable amount of time, unless the guilty party is tracked down, the team sets off to find the person responsible for such a dirty act. Investigation eventually leads to a local philanthropist named John Miller (Brian Reddy), who may not be the "Citizen of the Year" that he seems." [1]

Does anyone else remember this episode and have the same reaction as I do?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ghostwriter_episodes
When you're not buying racing tires, it's not uncommon to find tires that last 50 or 70k miles. Those are the lifespans I expect in my tires. If I were using tires on a track, of course, those numbers would change since I would be buying track tires.
This is almost certainly deliberate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandvine#Comcast_controversy
The text in the article certainly expresses they felt Twitter took a long time.
> When is it stealing?

Never.

A good read about IP:

http://mises.org/document/3582/Against-Intellectual-Property
Ha ha! Brilliant!

CGI Scripts anyone?

Unfortunately I remember very well the days when it all started to become popular. I created my personal Web page in '94 hosted on the University's servers. 2 years later I was creating Web applications using shell or C-based CGI scripts. And then when I saw Duke juggling I started to work on Java.
As an asm tutorial / case study, I found this neat. In terms of a conclusion, I found it potentially neat, but found myself wondering: cool, but how much of a win is all this special-cased effort, versus some kind of off-the-shelf constraint solver written in portable code? It'd be interesting to see a benchmark so we could have an idea if we're talking about a 50% win, orders of magnitude win, etc.

To get a rough baseline for what a generic solution could take, I took nqueens in Answer-Set Programming [1], set n=8, and ran it through clingo [2] on an Amazon micro instance, which gets me 15ms.

Another interesting question might be whether the two solutions have different scaling properties as n increases. The ASP solution scales like this (averaging a few runs and rounding):

n time
8 15ms
10 19
15 50
20 130
25 290
30 600
35 1050ms [1.05s]

[1] http://www.hakank.org/answer_set_programming/nqueens.lp. This encoding can be optimized a bit as well, but is a decent starting point.

[2] http://potassco.sourceforge.net, a menagerie of logic-programming tools, written in C++. 'gringo' takes a high-level encoding and turns it into something more SAT-like, 'clasp' solves the SAT-like (variable-free) programs, and 'clingo' staples the two steps together into one binary. I used the version in Debian stable package 'gringo', which reports itself as "clingo 3.0.4 (clasp 1.3.10)"
Thanks. I think I might have to rethink my choice of default fonts. It seems that Iceweasel uses all available ligatures. I have to use fontspec to explicitly turn on the rare/obscure ligatures in latex. Hopefully Mozilla will give a little thought to enabling all ligatures by default.

Examples: https://imgur.com/a/7Fcdm
The Saturn V doesn't really matter anymore - what matters is that we know it can be done (the Falcon 9 Heavy would be impossible without the simple knowledge that the Saturn V existed), and if need be, it will be done.

The second issue is that no one needs that powerful a rocket at the moment - though I believe if it did exist, everyone would suddenly find use for it (like it happened with PC's and smartphones, for example).
Read further on they didn't lose their jobs, their hours just got shifted temporarily.

> Turns out that we, a group of highly educated private boarding school students were so bad at the most basic construction work that each night the men had to take down the structurally unsound bricks we had laid and rebuild the structure so that, when we woke up in the morning, we would be unaware of our failure.

See? It all comes out in a wash in the end.
Location : Santa Barbara

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies (Skills): Python, data engineering/backend development, computer vision, machine learning, Swift/iOS dev

Website: www.alexmarshall.website

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MzPTIAfx294kIAgpWzcyDMcFHLF...

Email: alex_marshall@fastmail.com

I've worked mostly on smaller teams with a wide variety of technologies. I'm now interested in working on a big team of passionate engineers.
Where are the specs? How heavy is this thing?

I also don't really see what this has to do with MMA, which is AFAIK a mix of Muay Thai and Brazilian Jijitsu. On the other, you have plenty of traditional MA which either use weapons as part of training (eg, some kung fu schools) or are completely weapon-based (eg, kendo).
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted?
Only in theme. The layout looks very similar to ST, particularly the menu.
Is it just me who believes if you are online then your privacy is breached already ? For e.g.: How can we trust Gmail or Facebook with our data either , where ads are displayed based on search done and cookie tracking . Even on smart phones , who knows if they have voice samples for individuals based on Google search , sometimes I think they know more about me than myself. And single breach while accessing such services can cost us . I am over such stories of accounts hacked and security breach.
Nokia is pushing Meego in this space.
You mean something like "hg push -B sub -B set"? Why not?
I wasn't able to find LineaPro pricing, but Adwords found a competitor: LightSpeed - http://www.xsilva.com/en/store.html

Entry mobile device hardware is $1000.
The best hacks are the ones that are so silent, you never hear about them.
If it was, I do not mind. It was an interesting article of the kind that we want on hn. It should not matter who wrote it.
And what about the female-pretending-to-be-male participants?
On a related note, I am planning to start a site dedicated to Linux sysadmin tutorials. They will be in-depth guides on how to achieve a particular result, rather than quick "How to..." guides.

For example, some of the first posts will be:

Building a global, centralised logging system with open-source software and Splunk

Using Splunk as a front-end for munin monitoring data

Dynamic kickstart files (for automated RedHat installs)

Are there any topics you like to see on the site?
I didn't read it that way. I think he points out that sometimes you have to come up with a feature that wasn't in your original vision for the product in order to gain initial traction. I think it's a good thing to keep in mind - you don't have to gain traction solely through marketing effort.
In general, I get the impression that the whole virtualization trend is just a way to re-invent process isolation with newer technology.
That is, indeed, a great honor. I didn't expect my Saturday ending at home, monitoring the servers - in a good way.

The icon is a great idea, now the problem: What happens if a link was on 8 sites (2 x reddit, 4 x ycombinator, datatau, makernews). What would you expect next to the title?
Some western countries have done this for cigarette smoking on beaches, it's not longer the good old days when Singapore was an outlier.

http://www.longwood.edu/cleanva/cigbuttarticles.htm

Do we as human beings want our lives controlled or do we want to be free, understanding that some small part of the population will abuse that?

From a risk management point of view control is bad, it allows for catastrophic damage, where as allowing freedom of the populace has virtually no risks ATM when compared to personal decisions and inequities.
Please note that `python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000` only works with python2.*.
Great article!

What's the database backed dynamic website equivalent of this? For node? For python? For ruby?

Building out your own deployment on AWS or linode is obnoxious. Heroku gets expensive fast.
I really like that idea and I understand that this is aimed specifically at the friend mentioned on the site so it takes their technical ability into account but I think for most people who are struggling with basic tasks like these instructions like

> Create a directory to hold your website and cd into it.

would already confuse them.

Now that you already got that nice domain I think I'd be great to have a guide like that aimed at beginners with more detailed instructions. I could see this as a great resource to link friends who always thought about getting their own little site, even if it's just a page listing their contact details.
Wasn't that Nixon rather than Reagan?
What college kid has 'an entire life' to uproot? If you go into oceanography, hard to complain if the jobs are near the ocean; similar with other professions. You have to be willing to go where the jobs are.
I've been in a similar situation, though not nearly as dramatic. I've noticed the same effect: the talented people leave the company out of frustration. We talk about 3 people quitting in 6 months. In my opinion, it's a situation that happens when a B or C player manages to hire a B or even an A player.

And here is how it happened: In my case, I was transfered to a company that worked in cooperation with my initial company, so I didn't really have a choice. One colleague was very talented, but coming from a foreign country he couldn't really judge the company. The second colleague started at the company after graduation but grew out of it by learning and doing side projects after work.

I can understand the authors frustration, but I'd like to know how he got the job. If you knew the culture beforehand and joined with the naïvety that it would change for him, he should really be more modest.
They can. But won't.

Why allowing (socially as in bad PR) any censorship is bad.

Otherwise you get where we are at. What the mainstream deems bad is silenced. What transient outrage seems bad is silenced. What authorities convince the masses is scary gets silenced. Any voice that platform doesn't like and isnt popular enogh gets silenced.
> They do not hire them. Big difference.

They ultimately supervise and choose the people that hire the police, the people that set the policies for the police, and the people (both in and out of police departments) directly responsible for holding police accountable.
Something to do with issues with newer Android no longer permitting the background connection to remain open for battery saving purposes, I think?
The term you are looking for is New Grad. A good point to learn early on - avoid region specific lingo, communicating clearly is as important as your coding skills.
That's essentially declarative programming for GUIs, like, say, Flutter does. You have some state provider, and the GUI is fully re-rendered when it is notified of a state change. There's many different actual implementations of this paradigm, but that's it in a nutshell. I've been having lots of fun learning this, coming from a more traditional MVC pattern in Qt and the likes.

See this: https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/flutter-for/declarative
BSV has solved 1,2 and 5. 3 is on the way and 4 is a non-issue.
I’ve always wanted to get into graphical programming but I always get hung up on creating anything. Shaders feel like black magic to me. And the tutorials are spread across many different technologies and techniques that it’s hard to determine where you should start.
Yeah but for that reason I’m very thankful that the government DOES have a monopoly on this process. That’ll ensure the vaccine goes to the people that need it the most first, not just the people that can be gouged the most.
Because not all kids are able to visit the parks. My family business in India started a space-themed park because only affluent students were able to visit NASA. So it was decided that there has to be a local park for those students who will not be able to travel to the USA. Now, this park we built is in one city, but what about those students from other cities who cannot visit the park we have built? They will be missing out on the fun aspect of education.

I think there has to be a way to bring this experience to all students irrespective of where they live and what their background is.

I am in the UK. I occasionally visit a local university. I see some really heartbreaking differences between haves and have-nots. There are few students that I saw at the university who you can immediately recognise as not from well-to-do families(they form their own group). For them, even though they are taking university education(funded by the government) they still feel they do not belong to the place. It is too late for them to blend with the crowd. If somehow I am able to provide confidence to non-affluent students from an early age, that they can afford the same facilities as other students then that will be something to be proud of.
From the founder of Solo, I assume:

"I've been working on Solo for almost 3 years now. It started back when I was in college and on a whim, ordered a run of 1000 security keys that I designed and then shipped them all to Amazon. "

Hm... not sure I can trust my keys to something developed on a whim by a college student.
companies donate money to stuff all the time what are you on about?
The Yiddish used today by the Haredim is fundamentally different from the Yiddish used before World War II. Yiddish used to be the language of a vibrant secular arts and culture scene: some fantastic literature, theatre plays and films, along with journalism on all kinds of issues and political debate from all sides of the spectrum. However, in Europe that world largely perished in the Holocaust or through emigration to Israel, and through assimilation in North America. So yes, today the Haredim continue to use Yiddish, but for a far more limited range of topics, because they are an austere religious movement that has intentionally limited the range of topics in their lives.

(As an apt parallel, albeit perhaps obscure to many here, saying Yiddish is not dead because the Haredim use it is like saying that Sogdian is not dead because it survives as Yaghnobi. But the Yaghnobi language used by some impoverished people in an isolated valley is a pale shadow of the cosmopolitan Sogdian language that was used before.)
If they discover a huge security problem with the distribution you installed, they can contact you and help you upgrade to a non-vulnerable version? This like like what "technical support" is supposed to mean
All 3 ways make sense. The dump and session token ways look cleaner from Yandex employees’ perspective. Although, none of the three should require a password change for the compromised user account. At no point, users password or hash of the password gets shared.
I really like the PlayStation 1's from Takafumi Fujisawa[1] (藤澤孝史)[2]:

https://youtu.be/Jwln1ai_DYU

- "The function of this sound is to tell the user that the hardware is running like it is supposed to, and that the disc has successfully been read.
To add, the swooshing reverse sound is designed so that it can go into loop if the disc couldn’t be read, and we can understand if something went wrong."

- "I thought of the structure, selected the tones, and gathered the instruments in 2 weeks, and the studio work was done essentially in 2 days. I kept thinking from the start that I wanted the sound image to be something exciting, like that feeling when you walk into a cinema. I really wanted to communicate and reinforce that something fun is going to happen."

References:

[1] https://blog.playstation.com/archive/2019/12/05/how-sound-de...

[2] https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,5...
Think of NIT as steepening the progressive tax rate curve, and allowing it to dip below the y (tax rate) axis for sufficiently low x (income). There exist several “refundable tax credits” today in the US that effectively do this at a small scale, albeit with a lumpy phase-out curve that runs into the same disincentive cliffs as many other welfare programs.

UBI, on the other hand, shifts the curve rightward, so everyone’s income is relatively higher and is thus subject to more taxes. (You’d obviously also need to raise taxes overall if your goal is to keep it budget-neutral).
>And there's nothing wrong with that nor is there a need to be judgmental about it.

I agree that there's no need to be judgmental about it. I wouldn't fault a particular person using "literally" this way. I disagree that there's nothing wrong with this kind of language drift.

While it's nobody's fault, it makes English poorer. There are already lots of general-purpose intensifiers. English doesn't particularly need another one. The previous formal definition of "literally" was comparatively specific and fulfilled a useful role neatly and succinctly. I can't think of another single word to fulfill this role in the future.

I feel similarly with the phrase "beg the question", which in common usage now means simply "raises the question" or "invites the question". It doesn't bother me because I think people who use it this way are stupid; it bothers me because there is no synonym for "begs the question" which is equally succinct.