jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't know the lineage of this particular system. But I have worked on janky systems in the past. In one instance, an intern built a language during a summer project. It was an expedient solution to a problem that a team was having, so they began using it. Then they put work into making it faster and integrating it to other systems. Eventually they wrapped a service interface around it and reexported it to other teams. But there were serious semantic problems with the language as a concept and with the technical implementation of the language. Once it had users who came to depend on its bugs, it became very hard to fix, and the whole mess became more convoluted as people tried to build sensible extensions on the rotten core.

It's finally gotten to the point where there is the action potential to fix it in my case, but for a lot of systems with a complex and expedient lineage like this, it never gets there. So garden well, I guess, is the takeaway.
Tim again here. AWS announced support for containers on Lambda last year[0]

> the "main advantages" Tim describes are the same as Docker

Yup, that’s it! If you value Docker to build container apps, we think this will help you build Wasm apps in the same way, and the only container-centric abstraction this Technical Preview uses (packaging artifacts as OCI images) can be bypassed, if you prefer to deploy your artifacts as native Wasm binaries. The latter can be helpful if you are trying to get the full speed & efficiency benefits of a Wasm-native deployment, as the shim in our OCI package introduces a small performance penalty.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/containerizing-lambd...
The real problem is more general.

Relations are easily persisted because they only have fields meaning they are easy to persist (store).

Objects are not easily persisted because they have methods meaning you are not always assured that the object is in a safe persist-able state (unless they are value objects).
Sage is going strong. Their new cloud service https://cloud.sagemath.com/ is fantastic (multiplayer ipython omg).

Amusingly, they are also going partially-closed source: http://sagemath.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/what-is-sagemathclou...
I hate to say it, but honestly, I think Atom is probably going to be my next full-time editor. The purist in me hates the idea of running such a powerful rendering engine inside a desktop app, but all desktop GUI toolkits have proven that they really really suck at text editing (I've tried almost all of them). This is probably the best way forward.
To put your comment into perspective, Vista came out almost 6 years after XP and was a disaster. The next usable (and far more widely adopted) release, Windows 7, came out 8 years after XP. Apple, on the other hand, has a far more rapid release cycle which tends to not break things as much.

It's a strange move by Microsoft for them to make huge changes every 5 years, rather than small ones every year or two like Apple. It's much easier to adapt to change incrementally.
I don't feel like I experience this problem in Django. But this might just be because I programmed database-driven apps pre-ORM, and as such I am predisposed to making my object model more relational to begin with. Or perhaps it's the case that using Django's model layer is really just an OOP veneer on SQL. In any case, I don't feel like I've had a major pain point here.
People doing things like covering up an 800k+ BTC theft "for the good of Bitcoin" is what will probably kill Bitcoin in the end. However good your intentions might be, if people can't trust the people running exchanges they won't use Bitcoin services. Doing something dishonest such as covering up a major crime for the "right" reasons is still dishonest. As beneficial as a secure anonymous currency may prove in the future, this debacle just goes to show how important the human factor is, and no amount of clever crypto is going to stop that.
I hear the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia also gets paid fairly well, but I'd argue such examples are irrelevant to democracies.
I don't use the right modifier keys out of habit. However, using Ctrl+Alt with Caps Lock still feels natural (I press alt with my thumb and caps lock with my ring finger, feels very natural). Also, I leave Ctrl still mapped to Ctrl so effectively I have two Ctrls on the left side and use whichever is more convenient. (Still tends to be Caps Lock in almost all situations)
Unless it gets repealed circa 2012, which is what I'm betting on. (Or if not a full repeal, a major dismantling of large sections.)
Who said it was ballistic? A submarine launched, nuclear armed cruise missile could be potent and worth defending against.
The protestors aren't controlling the source of the fear, though.
In general, anyone who is on Hacker Newa is not who I'm referring to when I say "people". 99% care about not seeing ads.
The context: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/01/16/president-obama-an...

Yes, it was on a gun bill; the children are apparently kids who wrote the President letters regarding gun violence and school safety after the Sandy Hook school shootings.
Yeah, it doesn't feel that dated until you get into the technical details. I think part of that stems from the fact that Gibson didn't really know anything about computers and technology (and, IIRC, wrote Neuromancer on a manual typewriter). The novel itself is about humans. Well, and a couple AIs also.

But a glaring example, as Gibson himself has mentioned, is that lack of cell phones. In fact, once of the most powerful scenes in the novel -- that I remember raising the hairs on the back of my neck as a read it -- involves the AI, Wintermute, wanting badly to talk to Case. Case is walking through an airport, past a bank of payphones, and the AI causes each phone to ring in turn as he passes it.

There aren't even long banks of cellphones in airports anymore, but that notwithstanding, why wouldn't Case and Molly and everybody have cellphones, in this future-world where they have fully immersive VR interfaces to the matrix?

Of course they would. But you can't really hold that agains the decades-old novel... especially since it was so remarkably prescient in so many ways.
I think you're at least a decade, more likely two or three, on the optimistic side. But we'll see.
That bigot who sent the letter to the chief of police seemed pretty terrified.
Oh, TLP looks interesting. To be fair, I haven't used Linux on a laptop (outside of a VM) for the last 3 years so the landscape might have changed quite a bit.
And the step after that, printing and unprinting the car itself, no need for parking or garage anymore.
I wonder how long it would take to run all the possible games, assuming there is no sleep time between moves.
Large companies like Sony don't just go out of business - they are bought out, maybe broken up in the progress. This "cease to exist" idea is really removed from reality.
They are called HR, Human Resources, to any company who employs such a department you are indistinguishable from coal

Not disputing that but seriously: what sort of people call other people "resources"? Did they think that's who they were going to grow up to be, when they were kids?

They even know it's wrong because they don't call themselves "spreadsheet resources", they're "HR professionals".
From 9:07 to 20:43, the status updates were generic and not very helpful in answering two questions customers want to know:

1. What exactly is going on?
2. When will it be fixed?

In the middle of a crisis, saying "we're aware of the problem, and we're working hard to fix it," for hours does not really count as communication. It increases customer aggravation rather than decreasing it. Customers want to know answers to the above two questions. They don't care that you know about the problem and that you're working on it, unless you're not doing those two things in which case they will be (and should be) furious; those two things are expected.

Barring the ability to tell your customers "we will be back up at X:00", I think the best approach is to share as much information as you can without getting into proprietary information. That's why I think GP considered their communication a failure. That's why I consider their communication a failure, although I've seen this pattern enough from different companies that I don't hold it against Heroku as long as they learn from it.
I love the animation on this! And apparently it was actually controlled on the conference participants' screens using a live message queue connecting the presenters' machine to theirs. Awesome.
I had no idea Sparkfun was that big.

I think it's very admirable that a company can keep its soul even when growing and firmly holds these principles as beliefs. A "This is the way we are, this is the way we do business" sort of thing which i find refreshing.
atrocious grammar and style of writing. wonder how this makes it to the front page. and it isn't even breaking new
Yaasss of course! This is why I wrote this post and am sharing on social media too. :) lots of people are contacting me now on facebook asking how to do it. www.manara.tech will help them. that’s how I got into these companies. their mission is to help palestinian and middle east engineers fulfill their dreams and work at international startups & companies! Now that I got in, I am going to go back and mentor the next Manara cohorts to help more people do it
L O L !

That's hysterical. Thanks for sharing it!
Cities in California are creatures of the state. The state can usurp any of their powers, your thoughts about ideal, spherical, frictionless democracy notwithstanding. It's the same principle under which the state of Georgia is unable to simply vote that black people aren't humans, because the federal government forbids it.
Well, thanks for the info, it's good to get a realistic description of the situation. In that case I might just start taking a look at good weekends and hope for the best. Also good motivation to get more serious about backcountry camping!
While you do pay for AWS support, I must say that in my experience AWS support is pretty top notch. I don't particularly like the (somewhat) recent changes where the priority of your ticket is based on your support plan but I'm guessing it's because everyone always chose "critical" when making small support ticket.
Right, not the same as 501(c)(3), was my point exactly.
Buying and renting homes has become a good business in these low interest days. In the past higher interest rates on mortgages and in money markets made buy to rent unattractive. Now cash from China, black cash, offshore cash are parked and get rents. At 2% you can leave a home empty and not compete by lower rents for tenants.
Solution = easy, a rental business should attract business taxes on both rented and empty houses. This will impose a cost on this system that will drive out the rent seekers.
You could exempt US citizens who rent our part of their own house, or perhaps one added home per family. Over a few years this will bring supply and demand closer together. Also scrap nimby housing bylaws as well as racist bylaws.
Yes, it's true that invasions from long ago can have long-lasting cultural effects, but there's no way this effect could conceivably characterized as "devastating" on a daily basis.
Rail might work in some parts of the country, but after seeing the money spent on the light rail in the Twin Cities (MN), I am pretty sure the expansion of the 494 / 694 loop did more good. If the light rail money had been spent on another loop around the cities, it would have been better spent.
Intonow was spun out of Auditude which developed the audio fingerprinting technology, and Auditude has been around since 2006.
what about handmade crafts? there will still (always?) be a market for high-quality goods made by a person, even if machine made goods are of the same quality.
OTOH, a place with abundant solar energy, unexplored mineral deposits, amenable to several fabrication processes (easy to obtain high-grade vacuum), with easy access to space (low escape velocity) and a very good place to build and place telescopes with much easier access by maintenance crews (a moon buggy instead of a shuttle) seems a winner.

What you call "rocks" I call "minerals".
Yep. And this may be one of those cases where they would have been better off ignoring their customer requests for the good of their reputation and their customers uptime.
This sort of 'science writing' is infuriating:

"Specifically, he found that men who reported more than 23 hours a week of sedentary activity had a 64 percent greater risk of dying from heart disease than those who reported less than 11 hours a week of sedentary activity. And many of these men routinely exercised."

Well, is he controlling for those who exercise or not? If not, then what is the point?
Foreigners only?
Amazon's health benefits are actually quite good for entry level positions. Those benefits are a big reason Amazon's warehouse workers put up with the low wages and exploitation, at least in the US.
captive portal != proxy
Premature generalization is the root of all evil. (With apologies to Don Knuth)

The original formulation may have been a real problem at the time it was made, but in our time running into ugly code due to misguided optimization seems pretty rare.
Code that attempts - and almost always fails - to be generic, and instead ends up overcomplicated and awkward to use, on the other hand...

It's not just 3rd party code either, in my own teams it's not rare I find myself arguing for KISS and YAGNI. Sometimes I prevail, sometimes the premature generalizers do.
RHEL 5, mostly because most of the system ops seem to be more comfortable with it than the newer version.
I visited a workshop a few weeks ago, and also attending was a COBOL programmer (in his 50s) who still was active on that platform.

I wonder whether it could be lucrative to learn COBOL (and CICS!) and work on those legacy systems that are still out there.

"While CICS has its highest profile among financial institutions such as banks and insurance companies, over 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies are reported to run CICS along with many government entities." - Wikipedia
The thing to do is to convert it into something like 'equivalent driven miles' and then calibrate your outrage to that number.
I think that techempower is a neutral third party yet they show php having a huge advantage over hhvm[1]

[1] : https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
I always thought the hackable angle on cooking is patterns. A whole lot of stuff that you might cook for everyday eating is, in fact, a pattern and once you know that, you can riff off whatever is in your fridge.

Take soup, for instance. You need a certain amount of liquid, veggies and meat are optional in their type and amounts and you need to apply the correct methods and tools.

I've had a domain and plans to write about this for years but never gotten around to it. Maybe 2015 is the year - even casual interest around here would hitch it up on my priority list.
>the animators are seeing none of that money yet they are a core part of why the show is successful

because they are worker. they get paid with the wages that they agree on. Koyoharu Gotouge probably get a big chunk of that money since she created the manga.
I think the 2012 generation was the last one. T420 at least.
The advantage in BYD packaging you can also get to the same extend with other batteries. As Tesla does with their next generation platform.

So that argument doesn't really make sense.
This is a rudimentary browser tut https://www.greengeeks.com/tutorials/article/activate-the-bu...

And to activate it on mobile, open the browser and click on the opera logo(bottom right). There you can toggle the vpn on. And an add blocker as well.

Sure it is just a browser http proxy, sure owned by a Chinese company, but you can be sure google Chrome nor their wage slave Firefox gets to see your data.

I expected the worst but was pleasantly surprised, it is pretty fast, the ux on mobile is beautiful.
NMP. :D
I would like Apple to be doing some of these against all the apps.

Few app developers have the time/bandwidth to do these things and it would be a very inefficient use of resources to have everyone do it over and over again.
Alas, I wanted to try this out, but the format shenanigans triggered the Sophos "machine-learning"-based threat detection on my Windows laptop in mid-download.
How about 10 bit bytes then, would only make more sense, right?
Thanks for expanded on your feelings.
What I mean is that most of us already have data plans these days and we are already paying for it. Why pay extra for texting when we can use something like whatsapp that uses the data plan. Not to mention the crazy International texting charges. Even if you have unlimited texting from say T-mobile, you will pay for international texts because the unlimited is only for domestic texts.
Point 2 is a bit much I think. I've attended/sponsored/prepared hackathons in the past and all have been great without needing their own mobile app.

The other points are all valid. I'd add that sponsors should be aware of point 8 from the get go. If you sound like a pushy sales guy trying to add your company's API to "hacks" that don't need it the attendees will remember your company for the wrong reasons. If you have product development, pitching, or technical experience that applies you should share it.
very accurate assessment of the news business. the big issue is that trends in online advertising (more mobile, programmatic) is driving prices to zero. native has an impact but its grains of sand compared to the the waves of these bigger trends. the point that the middle is the death trap of content is 100% spot on. i own a content site in the middle and i'm taking the advice in this article to heart.
Proton rocket with DM booster and Zond - a version of Soyuz spacecraft, without the orbital module - was launched multiple times in 1960s. DM adds about 3 km/s deltaV. Baikonur latitude is 46N, to get to 39N one needs to change orbital plane for 7 degrees, sin(7)*8 km/s is about 1 km/s. So there could be some options there.
Long before 2004 you could use Opera for that.
Authy (a two-factor auth service) uses a combination of Twilio and BulkSMS (they say that BulkSMS is particularly good for Latin America). Authy explains how they handle global SMS here: http://blog.leanstack.io/how-authy-built-a-fault-tolerant-tw...
Yes it's not. I removed Uber in the name, they doesn't deserve this bad publicity.

EDIT: the user has been banned. Thank you github !
I have found that the Chrome Web Developer Tools can do anything the Firebug can do and usually Chrome does it in a better way in my opinion.
Canon EOS 400D (in US known as Canon Digital Rebel XTi).
Believe me once the pictures from Seoul comes in, nobody is going to care much for the NK civilians.
At least where I'm from, it's common. It's a sign of respect for the position, not submission.
You assume the survival interests of general North Korean population and North Korean ruling class perfectly align. One of those groups was known to starve to death, the other - not so much. You shouldn't really consider the interests of DPRK populace as any driving factor when analyzing political situation on the peninsula.

EDIT: actually the nuclear war is beside the point. Just that conventional shelling South Korea while having a number of deliverable nukes on hold might become a weekly routine for the North.
Propaganda is so effective in NK that the people believe their leader is the good guy and that the rest of the world is evil. Bombing them will only get rid of the leaders, set the country a few decades back wasting time rebuilding everything, but these corrupted ideas will remain in place amongst the survivors.

I believe the only long-term solution to NK is education of their people, which will hopefully lead to either progressive reform of the regime, or even revolution.

Education is happening right now with Internet slowly penetrating the country, notably via black market cell phones. Edit: as one of the child posts point out, propaganda is eroding. Change is on its way!
I would assume that should North Korea use nuclear weapons, masses of conventional military will roll in. Could China or anyone else sufficiently powerful really object to South Korea and the US (maybe others?) invading in that case? I guess China would want in on the action, themselves invading North Korea.
> free-range eggs or seafood does not

Personally:

1. Eating seafood supports the over-fishing of our water-ways.

2. The 'free-range' label, IIRC, only requires that the animals have 15 minutes of time outside of their cramped cages. It's not a huge improvement.

3. In general, when they are hatching new chickens for egg-laying they sort out all of the male chicks and then kill them. Industry-standard practice is to put them into garbage bags and suffocate them, or to toss them (in garbage bags) into a wood-chipper.

4. Egg-laying hens are only kept alive as long as their production is at a certain level. As soon as it drops below a certain level they are called 'spent hens,' and killed.
Reminded me of a comment by Linus Torvalds [1]:

Meat is kind of important to people. Young kids in particular need a lot of varied nutrients, and a balanced diet - with meat - is likely to be way healthier than the alternatives.

Quite frankly, being vegetarian is like being religious: you should let the kid decide on his/her own when they are grown up and can make that choice on their own. Plus by then they've done most of their development, so your choice won't mess them up for the rest of their lives.

Humans are designed to be omnivores. Don't play games with your kids nutrition.

Eating meat is not at all unnatural. It's generally considered to be one of the main reasons humans could afford to evolve a larger brain - because meat is denser in nutrients than vegetarian diets.

Yes, you can do a healthy vegetarian diet (and even a vegan one, although at that point you really are crazy - there's no substitute for milk), but it is certainly not at all a trivial matter. It's much saner to just say "eating meat is natural".

Once you're fully grown, it's a different matter.

Quite frankly, anybody who tells their kids to "don't eat meat" is kind of crazy. You're much better off telling them to not drink sodas, avoid overly processed foods etc.

And yeah, I care a hell of a lot more about my kids health than I care about cows or even pigs. Deal with it.

[1] http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2010/05/pig-lovers-oath....
That wouldn't work - the board still has two sides locally, it just has one side globally. So there could still be current leakage between the two (local) sides.
I can see why Apple is against Grooveshark...people buy less music. I've been using Grooveshark for the last 5 months and went from buying about $20 worth of music a month to maybe $2-3.
Please don't doxx Ford engineers if you don't give any proof. There are hard working, ethical people working who don't want to kill people by lightheartedly pushing stuff on the road. Just because you don't know them does not mean they are not talented.
Because if there's a direct connection between the amount of electricity used and the amount of money generated, the only logical conclusion is for human society to burn up every possible available ounce of energy as quickly as possible.
Is it possible to move the heat into the stone (material that Mars contains) via metal bar digged into terrain? What about converting heat back into electricity?
That's a long two weeks.
Bitcoin continues to grow at an enormous rate. It hasn't failed at anything. Soon BTC will surpass the value of gold. We are actually on our way to getting off fiat.
Nobody understands the biology fully enough to drive a better ML implementation. Individual neurons are very complex and their interactions even more so