jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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try it out! I found this style of password (horse-battery-staple) to be much longer and less memorable. The proof, of course, is in the pudding. The next step (for me) is to conduct a reasonable experiment to discover whether or not these passwords are memorable.
OP here. My original title was "The Inventor of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup Works at Morgan Stanley", and after 20 minutes, it somehow changed "Bjarne Stroustrup – Managing Director, Technology". WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
That wasn't Patrick's point at all. You're conflating "real problems" with "problems that have a measurable impact on a moral concern of mine." This is the wrong way to look at Stroustrup's claim, and by extension, Patrick's comment.

Morgan Stanley has plenty of "real problems" in that they have plenty of challenging and exciting technical problems that rival those you would see at a top tech company. It isn't fair to dismiss someone's reasons for joining a top Wall St firm as purely financial, because it has many technical challenges to offer very skilled engineers.

Couple this with the fact that, let's face it, most people at AmaGooBookSoft simply aren't "changing the world" in the moral revolutionist sense of the term, and that most of the top tech companies have so much technical debt that many of their engineering teams are focused on maintaining old CRUD apps.

I can perfectly understand Stroustrup's decision here. You'll almost always be sorely disappointed if you join a company for its glamorous reputation. On the other hand, it's objectively verifiable that some companies have truly challenging technical problems, and others don't.
Yes, absolutely. 100% invertible.
The online shopping experience doesn't require me to find my shoes and generally doesn't have fixed hours. Also, at this point, online shops often offer better security.
"You Cannot Have Exactly-Once Delivery" is not the same as "Exactly-Once Delivery is expensive".

Which is it?
> Retail shopping is usually freaking depressing - the employees and customers are often rude, and you're bombarded from all angles with sights and sounds designed to entice (or scare) you into buying things you don't need. No thank you.

That's not about retail, that's about urban life. I live in a town of less than 2,000 people. There's one grocery store, and when you go there you recognize at least half the people inside (if you didn't already recognize their vehicle in the parking lot). In 2015, there is less need than ever for us to all live in the same few places. Remote work can offer you offer the benefits of small-town life without the loss of economic opportunities that used to go along with it.
Any way to get early access for a huge React fan?
Do you know what kind of problems he's solving there? You sound so judgmental and cynical, it's ridiculous.
I get the same bug.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US) Firefox/3.6.3
programming.reddit.com
Oh no, I understand what the author says. I just disagree with her views on it. There is a huge difference between "I am not being responsible but want to be, tell me how" and "I take on too much stuff and then give up to surf the internet like a squirrel on PCP".
Did you read the claims? Claim 13?

"A computer system that provides a service to users over a network, [...] providing a user interface for users to establish contact relationships with other users of the service such that each user can have one or more contacts, said user interface enabling a user to identify other users of the service, and to selectively initiate generation of requests to establish contact relationships with the identified users"
Does numpy's record array do what you want?

http://www.scipy.org/RecordArrays

It doesn't quite have first-class status in the library the way data.frame does in R, but it does let you index an array using strings.
For motivation, have you tried the approach of starting with a modest problem and a book on a language and learned the (beginning of the) language as well as basic programming through solving the problem?
I've fixed the typo above (originally it said PEXLES.COM). Thanks!
""Shelter in place" laws telling residents to stay in their homes whenever possible are sweeping the country, making it clear that public health concerns—as opposed to worries about staving off economic collapse—have carried the day when it comes to responding to the coronavirus."

This is the first sentence of the article. It then goes on to attack our society for deciding that public health is more important than the economy.

This is straight garbage. The virus will kill, that is reality. We only have a small set of interventions to attack it. The economy can be managed as we see fit. It does not follow the laws of biology or physics.

Posting articles like this is evil and will get people killed.
Just don't pick companies that end up going bust.
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I really want to call upon any engineers/managers at Apple/Google/Garmin/Fitbit: please start working on body temperature monitoring. It doesn't have to be a realtime readout like a heart monitor, but something that could work overnight to find an average. This could stop entire pandemics.
> But we’re having trouble portraying the value of the system when they can’t track how it affects their revenue nearly as accurately. We’d love to hear the community’s experience and ideas in this area, as well as any questions or feedback!

I was in this space at one point. It's really really hard to sell to small restaurants. Most of them don't even have anyone who is familiar enough with technology to get it set up, so prepare for a a lot of hand holding to get it set up, even if it seems dead simple.

Most of the restaurants were willing to try something once, but if you couldn't prove ROI right away, they wouldn't do it again. And that will be really hard, because most of them aren't sophisticated enough to even find the ROI in their finances. A lot of them pretty much just use their bank account as their measure of profitability. They don't know how to do advanced accounting or how to discount one time purchases, etc.

Since your model is a one time payment, you'll probably have to do a free trial, which means all the effort of the install up front, and then possibly even more cost to remove it if they don't want it.

You'll need to build up a case study library. Figure out a way to quantify your ROI and build case studies. You'll probably have to volunteer to run their finances for them to help them find the ROI, or find a small business with a good accounting system.

Good luck! It's a really tough nut to crack, but if you can keep the price reasonable and show ROI, everyone will want it, especially if their competition has it.

ps. When you're setting these up, please make a strong suggestion to the owner that they turn on closed captioning for their TVs. :)
That's fine. They can be correlated, so long as the bond one doesn't move nearly as much. You can accomplish the same thing.

"Being correlated" doesn't make it useless.
Without first-mover advantage, without the enterprise sales network it would be just foolish for FB to waste their time and energy on such highly competitive field without much of natural advantages. You don't really synergize social media with cloud infra.

And they know it too, so they rather compete in fields where they are good at, namely social media and apps. Maybe its part laziness, part lack of interest on their part too. But to me it would be wiser to focus on some promising new areas, rather than start catching up 2 laps behind the competition. Yet it's not easy, like VR/AR market shows. Maybe in ML services they could challenge Google a little more.
What "other side" is there, if it's a step-by-step description of x264?
yes thats right, however there are some suggestions for an ergonomic workplace which i have pointed out above and working only on a laptop is definatly not as ergonomic as working on a Desktop. Still many people on here seem to prefer laptop only.
Almost every language fixes a certain problem in a way that the authors felt was better than any existing method.

In college I took part in an experimental Ada course - two semesters - taught by arguably one of the first dozen or so experts in Ada. Ada was going to save the world - everything in the US Government was going to move to Ada, learn it or be a dinosaur. Ada had some very unique traits that made it very flexible. Dealing with financial figures/budgets? overload your math operators to handle currency. Dealing with extremely accurate numbers for missile tracking? overload your math operators to handle extremely precise numbers.

The problem was, after receiving this Ada training, replacing Cobol (which was the main intent), never took place. Now, the US Government allows programming groups to choose the 'right' language for the job. Ada is still used in some government and civillian tasks, but, it certainly didn't live up to the original hope. I believe portions of the Boeing 777 use Ada. It was still cheaper and easier to maintain Cobol code than to rewrite - and still is. I know two recruiters that occasionally mention their passing need for Cobol programmers - and it's been 25 years since Ada was going to replace Cobol.

PHP was originally developed to get away from Perl CGI and allow pages to be easily scripted and customized.

Every language has a particular strength or weakness and their own following. Not that you can't accomplish almost any task with any of them, it is selecting a language that might handle that task more efficiently.

Even for something like webapps, if you had 30 people in a room, I seriously doubt you would get any consensus on the best language for web scripting. Add on top of the language choice, frameworks, and you've got another religious war.

I don't think I have any projects that use a single language in deployment, even discounting bash from the equation. There are things that I find easier to accomplish in different languages.
I think it would be correct without any punctuation. Did anyone else think "Battlestar was right"?

But we still have to deal with the issue of whether to put the question mark before or after the quote mark. Some folks insist on putting it inside, even when it obviously makes no sense, like in this case.
I didn't mind registering. In fact, I wanted to check out your registration process.

Sorry I misunderstood the contest thing.

Maybe you should add a slideshow or video demo to the site.
Here's cached version:

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22nd December 2010
Peter Parkes

Skype downtime today

Skype structureEarlier today, we noticed that the number of people online on Skype was falling, which wasn’t typical or expected, so we began to investigate.

Skype isn’t a network like a conventional phone or IM network -- instead, it relies on millions of individual connections between computers and phones to keep things up and running. Some of these computers are what we call ‘supernodes’ -- they act a bit like phone directories for Skype. If you want to talk to someone, and your Skype app can’t find them immediately (for example, because they’re connecting from a different location or from a different device) your computer or phone will first try to find a supernode to figure out how to reach them.

Under normal circumstances, there are a large number of supernodes available. Unfortunately, today, many of them were taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype. As Skype relies on being able to maintain contact with supernodes, it may appear offline for some of you.

What are we doing to help? Our engineers are creating new ‘mega-supernodes’ as fast as they can, which should gradually return things to normal. This may take a few hours, and we sincerely apologise for the disruption to your conversations. Some features, like group video calling, may take longer to return to normal.

Stay tuned to @skype on Twitter for the latest updates on the situation -- and many thanks for your continued patience in the meantime.

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Great! One thing, and I don't know how you'd necessarily resolve this, but specifications aren't the be-all and end-all of buying a gadget: a lot of it is taking the time to read reviews on build quality, issues like drivers and overheating, etc. It'd be great to see a way of incorporating that - even initially something as simple as adding Amazon ratings to each item.
Do you think this is the same concept as Angels List?
Although I learn a lot from the comments on submissions, I tend to learn a lot more from the submissions themselves.

Maybe the Hacker News team is trying to place more emphasis on submissions instead of comments?
I hate to be "that guy," but I don't see why the count display isn't an option in our account panel.

In the previous polls, people seemed to be split 50/50-ish. Unless pg, as HN Overlord, feels that either removing counts has a performance or pedagogical purpose, this option seems like a perfect candidate for an account setting.
auto detect generally tends to work best on longer strings. try something like "ciao amico mio" and it works fine.
Advertisers are the customers, users are the product.
ugh has a very good definition of what a high vote count means: the comment is a must read. It doesn't mean everyone agrees, but it's a key point in the overall discussion.

You took away such an important buoy for us to navigate HN!
It is limited to Twitter only so we could launch it faster and iterate quickly. There is lots more to come!
Love how TC writes:

> Update: CEO Daniel Ek says this story isn’t accurate: “No it ain’t true. Media these days are funny. Soon I’ll be reading that Spotify is launching a space rocket.” Since he’s said that in the past about a number of our stories, all of which turned out to be accurate, we’re going to wait and see.

And fails to point out a single time they were right.
> 63 months in federal prison, minus 28 months already served. For count one in the case, he receives 48 months.

Does he not get any credit for time served in jail pre-trial [1] or is the 28 being subtracted 1-for-1?

In the Canadian criminal law code you get time-and-a-half for time served in jail so he'd only have 26 months in prison vs the 48 stated here. Historically it was often 2-for-1 of time served pre-trial which in this case would have mean only 12 additional months in prison.

In America I believe it is up to the judge to provide 'credit' during sentencing and there is no pre-defined ratio.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_served
Thanks for checking it. We indeed are in beta right now and you are correct with the sign up part.
We actually had it first made in a way that you could check it out without having to sign up. But because if you went in without signing up the two widgets (the badges and timeline) were missing and we thought the user experience would be better with them.
But if you're still interested in checking it out without having to sign up go to: www.targetgarden.com/explore directly. It still works.

What we hope will separate us from other sites, like the one you mentioned, is collaborative work on your life goals.

We are trying to set up the app in the way that the users will be stimulated to help each other with their life goals.
The more positive feedback your answers or solutions to other peoples goals get, the more traction your own goals get. How? Well for now you appear in the users who helped section(now there is just one user:) more often and you also appear with the profile of every user that you gave help to.

Have fun! Roq
In all likelihood it's a little bit of both external and internal factors.

I disagree with the article that seems to want Ballmer's head on a platter for bungling Vista - that was a bad move for sure, but tossing out everyone responsible for that mess seems like tossing out all opportunities to learn from it.

Hubris has a lot to do with it, I think. There have been a remarkably large number of instances where Ballmer has said something that betrays the fact that he has no respect for his competition. Everyone's a lame duck competitor compared to the wonderful products of Microsoft... until they completely trounce MS in the marketplace. Then you might hear a half-hearted mea culpa from Ballmer, but after that it's swept under the rug.

Maybe it's the job of a corporate CEO to talk big about his own products - but I've seen few other CEOs so openly negative and dismissive of competitors' products, and IMHO this has probably a significant hand in MS's failures at tackling new product lines. His reaction to more-successful competitors seems to be unproductive: note his claims that Google and iPods are not allowed in his house. How can you compete when you are willfully ignorant of your competitors' products?! When someone is leading a market I'm trying to compete for, you bet your ass I'll have my hands all over their product.
Depends on the MRI magnet type apparently, but with modern superconducting magnets, yes:

http://health.howstuffworks.com/mri.htm/printable

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnet#Persiste...
I know many langauges, but I enjoy ruby the most. I'm not sure why programming an IDE and running arbitrary ruby programs wouldn't be useful?

I can make a one-liner in ruby to do what I want as fast as I can make a macro, generally. Moving files and directories, find and replace with conditional logic, running cleanup scripts, after-update hooks, generated files. Those are just a couple of things I might use it for, and I'd like it in the IDE so I can just work out of there. The point of programming is that it lets me do anything.
.tk already did this: http://dot.tk/
I doubt he thinks of those things as "sacrificing free time".

I'd say those are more of a lifestyle choice than a sacrifice. He's prioritized free time and freedom to enable that lifestyle. It may look like a sacrifice to some but it's part of happiness for others.
Anyone else think the useless illustration they have on that page wasn't worth anywhere near the amount of time they spent on it?
One of the worst I've ever seen. It wasn't even worth it if it took 3 minutes to draw it up.
This one always baffled me: http://www.nissan.com/
I had a much less pleasant experience, when an ATM ate my check. Basically they would send a tech out in 3-6 hours, and retrieve the check, and give it to me. Luckily I lived down the street so that wasn't that big of an inconvenience, and they gave me a call, but I was pretty annoyed.
I've been working on this tool for a while that makes documentation easier and faster. The main idea is to have the code itself be the driver. Would love some feedback: https://trymaniac.com
> The real problem is the lack of housing supply

I guess one group of people are suggesting that we adjust the demand to the local people who live and work in the city rather than allowing the demand of tourists to take the supply. In some areas it's also simply not possible to change the supply as all the land who could be built on, is already built.

I for one would love to see a re-prioritization for the local people in favor of tourists, and we're slowly seeing that shift happening now.
I've been spending the extra time learning to DJ, just for fun.
I'm just a single HN'er and I wasn't really thinking of PRISM... I was thinking more along the lines of how obviously valuable it would be to the NSA to either A) start companies like Google or B) infiltrate them.

I also said that I suspect that's the case, not the I assume it to be. Given that the NSA seems to do what it wants and the obvious motivation for infiltrating or starting companies like Google...I think the suspicion is warranted.
I’ve usually used moment.js in the past (https://momentjs.com/).
Halogen is a popular one https://purescript-halogen.github.io/purescript-halogen/
SO you want Information need to be regulated? is that your point?
Please don't do this here. In HN threads the main thing to optimize for is signal/noise ratio, because that is what serves the site goal of intellectual curiosity. This is why the site guidelines ask you not to go on about getting downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Downvotes are irritating, of course, but it's an irritant we all have to deal with.
Learning to code is way easier than learning to tidy one's room. Many people struggle with the latter their whole life.
Many people typing in English find it useful to be able to type names, places etc which require foreign characters.

"Let's meet at Nørreport, Lærke says she will be late."
Thank you newsbinator! We definitely want to expand in this direction.
TI have some sweet analogue products with very high performance and (just as importantly) excellent documentation. For example I've been very happy with https://www.ti.com/product/TPS61098 If you're not trying to shave every cent off BOM costs, it's worth paying a premium for high quality datasheets.
The MiSTer can do this. It can do MC68020 and will meet and surpass A1200 performance with AGA, and RTG graphics support is in fact there as perhaps the most recent major update. Yes, in 16 bit color and all with very good performance. And it's much, much cheaper (and quicker to get!) than a standalone Vampire. Like a third of the price or something for a pretty complete setup.

https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?t=414&start=25

This should be the install instructions once you have the MiSTer. (the code is closely related to the FPGAArcade RTG support so apparently the procedure is pretty interchangeable)

https://www.fpgaarcade.com/kb/how-to-setup-the-rtg-picasso96...
That's a pretty intentionally obtuse take on a completely unrelated problem
Indeed, they do.

We should just drop the pretense this playing field is level...
First, it took me a very long time to really, fully get that AI is not fundamentally different from a simple linear regression (infering a rule from data).

I had a similar revelation. I sat through an AI for health presentation and basically asked “ok, so you take a data set then try and find a set of rules that accurately describes...like a linear regression?”

As you said, it’s more sophisticated than that, but in essence, yes, it’s fitting a curve to data.
I really like the workplace expectation that no one discusses politics or religion. It means I can be friends with people, work together, do our best for each other and not feel concerned with divisive issues.

I must be getting old.
She didn't have to go to the US for the MRI; implication was the clinic was in Canada. Private care isn't illegal or anything there.

People from the US go abroad for care all the time.
That's a fair position to take. We just have different definitions of what constitutes a coup.

I certainly agree politics is way too corrupt and the constant lawfare is harmful.
Being a math wiz really only pays off if you become a mathematician. Even a physicist doesn't really have to be a math wiz. Eg. being good with people is a much better thing to get good at and has a much wider payoff horizon.
Setting expectations and communicating them clearly and continuously.
The attackers in Paris were under surveillance until 6 months before the attack but they were ruled out by French authorities as not a threat.

In addition, the brothers shaved their beards, stopped all unusual activities in public, and purposefully acted like regular Parisians for months before the attack. So passive surveillance wouldn't have made a difference.
What if they share data?