jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hmm. Maybe Gary Taubes has changed his approach, because in a typically-logorrhetic blog post last year, he went on about why low-fat calorie-restricted diets work exactly because the "absolute amount of carbohydrates consumed goes down."

http://www.garytaubes.com/2010/12/calories-fat-or-carbohydra...
For what it's worth, in the past 4 months I've got 46% IE visits (out of 5.5M). http://i.imgur.com/9NqYq.png If I look since March 2007, then I get 54% IE visits (out of 39M). http://i.imgur.com/gV4BY.png

This is for http://www.quantcast.com/scratch.mit.edu
The reason I went with a phone number is that phone calls generally play well with cars (in-car bluetooth headsets, etc...) whereas audio for apps usually has a harder time connecting to in-car devices.
It looks like the software is designed to inflate follower counts by recommending people that auto follow, and to schedule automated tweets. It is not surprising that spammy marketers use good browsers.
Mike's absolutely right. Unless you're attached to an old-school news organization, there's no real journalistic standards in tech, and everyone writes favorably about their buddies. Since venture capitalists all read the industry blogs, this favorable coverage can be very, very useful at key points in your startup's life. Personal relationships are also great for getting a more moderate viewpoint out there when you've cocked up and the industry blogs are doing the usual rush to pile-on. (Internally, I referred to this as a 'combo breaker'.)

I was terrible at this game when I first became aware of it - probably because I'm a pretty private guy with only a few close friends. But after seeing others do it well, I'm convinced that it's important. Should I ever run a VC-backed startup again, I will employ a head of marketing who knows how to make nice and buy drinks.
The media makes no pretense about providing fair and unbiased coverage. Especially bloggers. And this is Techcrunch we're talking about. If they omit covering a startup (or give it a bad review) due to staff investments elsewhere, well, that's how it goes. Roll with the punches, there are other ways to get press.
It manages to read _some_ HTML emails but there are definitely still tons of rough edges. Turns out email parsing is not fun. :-)
So in the example, is Cloudflare proxying to http://example.com or https://example.github.io?

In the case of the former, wouldn't we be setting a false sense of security since the request is traversing the internet unencrypted from the GitHub servers to the CloudFlare servers?

From what I understand, the benefit would really be to prevent snooping on requests between the end-user and CloudFlare, correct?
fully agree on every point
True, I am not a native English speaker (French here). Doing my best to fix all those tiny typos. Any report appreciated. :)
That's bizarre. As if CPU vendors were unable to run "realistic" workloads. If they truly aren't, that's because they are unwilling and then they are designing for failure and Apple can just eat their lunch.
"Ignorance of it at this point is willful."

Very true.
Wow, total IT security failure. Absolute amateur hour.

These systems should be setup to make this impossible.
Yeah we haven't really done anything with guides and links yet ( more pressing, mundane details ). I'd just skip them entirely and read what James has so far in the Small talks series.

We also did a presentation at Smalltalk Solutions a couple months ago.. http://vimeo.com/22084832 which has some good background info from a 'what are they trying to accomplish angle'. Its geared very much towards a smalltalk audience but others can get stuff out of it.

There is also the mailing list where we'd be happy to answer any questions.
At some point, wouldn't you need to cut your losses?
Yeah, I did take a look... I felt that it added nothing to the conversation. What's the problem with dupes? 2 sets of insightful conversations instead of one? So? Obviously if more than a few dupe stories get through then that's something to be solved technically. But one or two dupe stories on the homepage now and then? So?

Compare with a huge history of comments saying nothing other than "this is a dupe [link]". especially when the link has no comments attached to it.

edit: example on an "A humble programmer" submission they wrote this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1895032 linking to ten other submissions of the same article, none of which had any interesting comments, and all of which had exactly the same content for the link. What's the point in that?

I can totally see the point in saying "there's some interesting discussion over here [link]", but it seems mostly his efforts to de-dupe add nothing of value.
May be it's less about kubernetes then about the market itself? If I don't want do any ops I also don't want to maintain a server and keep that safe, so I would go for Heroku instead of running that myself. And if you need more there are also managed k8s offerings which seem to be working fine for many small teams as well. For us it's basically a cheaper version of Heroku with a little bit more effort. We are actually using small managed k8s clusters from Digitalocean since nearly a year now and had zero issues with it so far. I really like not having to take care of the servers.
So logical conclusion, all children are put in isolation from their parents, since we cannot their parents tarnish the children in any way
Are you using FFmpeg or directly using libavcodec (or similar)?
I think the primary goal is Mac/Windows/Linux/BSD/iOS/Android on x86/ARM (32bit and 64bit) variants. That covers 99% of consumer and server computing. And aside from anything else: making that secure would be a huge win.

But it's not like Rust doesn't have wide platform support. For example, it's already possible to run Rust on Risc-V. And it's is improving all the time.
> GTA, at least the core gameplay and the single player mode, is quite well optimised. The game ran well even on the cheaper side of gaming PC hardware.

It's easy to forget that GTA5/GTA:O was originally a 360/PS3 game, getting a game of that scope running at all on a system with just 256MB of RAM and VRAM was an incredible achievement.

The A-Team developers who made that happen were probably moved over to Red Dead Redemption 2 though, with GTA5s long tail being handled by the B-Team.
> support theirs fridge platform.

I love this typo in context of s390!
Imagine getting banned for fixing their insane load times lol
A lisp interpreter including lexical closures and a parser in 114 lines of Python code:

http://flownet.com/ron/lisp/l.py
Or they could host it on any site that's not user hostile.
If you like this, also see the talk titled "How Github uses Github to build Github".

http://zachholman.com/talk/how-github-uses-github-to-build-g...
Let's ask the important question: will it have snake?
That was exactly my problem too - I've tried in a complementary post to talk about some practical applications of the YCombinator.

http://www.viksit.com/tags/clojure/practical-applications-y-...
Very good guidelines, agreeing with 99% of the things and learnt of mix at the same time !
You'd do me a great favour if I get some feedback on this project.
I can't imagine why anyone is surprised by this. The people in the know will never tell us the true depth of the problems with the economy right now, the floor of the gulf is absolutely destroyed from being covered in oil, etc. A conspiracy theorist sized dose of cynicism when reading the news is about the only way to get any sort of reality out of it.
For anyone wondering what a JRE has, which is more than a runtime: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/jre
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Yes, if the best engineers really have x100 or x1000 productivity, why aren't employers offering higher salaries?

There's been high-profile high-tech anti-poach collusion, and Ed Catmull (pixar) even claimed it's for the best. But without that, there would be implicit collusion anyway. It's obvious to employers that an arms-race to attract talent is not going to benefit anyone (who is an employer).

But what would happen if wages did rise to their natural level? First, it would attract people to the profession. Second, the most-profitable companies would end up with the best engineers because only they could afford to outbid everyone else (and resources end up in the hands of those most able to utilize them).

Startups, being poor, will find it difficult to attract excellent salaried, non-equity talent ("inequitable"?)

Thirdly and sadly, it would also mean less development work would occur (because it costs so much, and employers have limited money). But I have a feeling you'd end up with even more open source projects; and more people working on startups (to fill the gaps).
What actions do you think should be taken to stop other preventable deaths?

I'm in a country that has banned all unnecessary movement, traffic/pedestrian accidents have dropped dramatically, it has saved magnitudes more from dying than from covid-19.

Logically, all movement be banned then? Keen to hear a rationalisation for 10 traffic lives vs 1 contagious virus life.

10 people have died in 3 months since the virus was first tested here. 1500 have died on the roads. I'm interested in the sort of person who would stand up and decree one life worth more than others. Please justify the logic behind such selections.
I saw today on Japanese TV that China reportedly doesn't count asymptomatic people who tested positive as of the 14th of February, and that there might be 40k+ of those.
A bunch of people have asked this question and variants of it, so there’s some good threads you can read:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how+help+coronavirus

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how+help+covid
Yep, absolutely. US response has been abysmal.
> Are there any downsides beyond the niggle the author mentioned?

For me, using a GC is just a lot easier than making the borrow checker happy. Given that in practice it's rare that the GC is the bottleneck (and when it is I write around it after profiling), the trade-off just isn't worth it for me.

> Are compilation speeds an issue for anyone?

Yes, it's pretty slow to compile.
Something I found during the weekend, if you have PowerShell available (so any Windows machine, or any macOS with brew installed, or linux if you're willing to add a pkg source from microsoft):

1. Take a Markdown document

2. In PowerShell: ConvertTo-Html -Body (ConvertFrom-Markdown -Path .\README.md).Html -CssUri "stylesheet.css"

That results in a complete and valid HMTL document that can be published anywhere with its assets.

ConvertTo-Html: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

ConvertFrom-Markdown: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
COBOL is still in demand and highly paid.
Oh I misunderstood, yes some people vwant too see the world burn or alternatively they don't understand the gravity of the situation and the potential harm to themselves or others.
Nice! Here are some J solutions. Unfortunately, I only have time for a few, right now. Hopefully, I can add some more later:

'mississippi' +/@:= 's' NB. 0 - Multiplicity
(-:|.) 'racecar' NB. 1 - Trapeze Part
(~. #~ 1 < +/@|:@=) 'applause' NB. 2 - Duplicity
'teapot' -:&({~/:) 'toptea' NB. 3 - Sort Yourself Out
(~. #~ 1 = +/@|:@=) 'foo bar' NB. 4 - Precious Snowflakes
Regardless of the correctness of the code, if it's not obvious and you need to explain it, you probably should not write it (unless you have profile data that makes you do otherwise).

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
Yeah, seems like dividing ints would be a much more expensive operation than comparing them.
They "convinced" developers to get on board in large part because they let devs use the same tools they've been using to create the original games on Windows with. If I had an existing PC game it's a no brainer to target WP7. Android is a much tougher sell.
The non-sarcastic answer: most of the time, the differences are irrelevant.

Clearly you have not had the wonderful experience of trying to get something working in IE the way it works in all the other browsers!
I've been working with Linux for many years (Ubuntu is my main desktop right now). Ubuntu's gem package simply isn't compatible with the latest version of Rails which means you have to install rvm and figure out lots of stuff.
We all don't agree - I disagree.

I think it's the job of the future employer to "waste their time" finding and filtering people rather than getting applicants to waste their time applying. I've solved quite few puzzles in my day. What irked me was getting chosen for my solutions and then getting rejected for other, arbitrary criteria.

An employer generally has more leverage in a transaction like this, let them put in some effort in compensation.
Oh really? How much faster would that be?
With the verbiage about dragging videos and a vast expanse of white, I spent a moment wondering whether something had failed to render before I thought to try typing something into Search.

Also: "embed", and don't be afraid to use capitalization.

All that having been said, the densepack display of video thumbs is nice.
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Simulated annealing is gradient based. It's an extension of gradient descent and in the degenerate case (zero temperature) they're the same: it generates random neighbouring states, and if the fitness of that state is better than the current one then it jumps there. That is, it seeks the local minimum.

The key part that simulated annealing adds is that when the temperature is non-zero there's also a chance of jumping to worse states. The probability depends on how much worse the new state is and what the temperature is. It's unlikely to make the jump if it's much worse or if the temperature is too cold. The idea here is to jump out of local minima to (hopefully) find the global minimum.

The temperature is a knob that trades off between exploration (high temperature) and exploitation (low temperature). You start off with a high temperature and jump around a lot, hopefully seeking the general vicinity of the global minimum. As you do so, you gradually decrease the temperature and settle on a locally-optimal solution.

Let's say the fitness landscape looks like this:

\ B /
\A/ \C /
\D/

If you are at A and you're seeking the lowest point, then there's a probability that you will jump to B even though it is worse. The hope is that you'll then discover C and finally D, the global minimum. There's no route from A to D with monotonically increasing fitness, so gradient descent won't find it. But simulated annealing might.
Man, the hardest questions for me to answer was the first one: "what did you learn yesterday/this week"? I do so much reading and research in my free time and then to realize how hard it was for me to summarize what it was exactly that I learned. Maybe I just read this stuff for the short term stimulation. When it comes to comprehension and retention maybe I'm not getting out of it what I thought I was. Maybe I should start asking myself what I just learned after everything I read and take some notes o_O
Completely agree. I saw some red flags while going through this. The buzzfizz problem I've heard many a time over is a fun exercise problem but not a good interview question. Also many of the questions seem unrelated to todays standards. The HTML questions ask "difference between quirks and standards mode". Last time I used quirks was with IE6. Also "what are the limitations of XHTML". Don't honestly think I've ever used XHTML in my 4 years as a developer.
This is the most bothersome and asinine aspects of Elon Musk fandom. Instead of a smart space approach we're degenerating back into a Star Trek-like fantasy of manned exploration. Sorry but our bodies are not built for space travel and the costs of fitting machines around us to keep us alive is incredible. I don't know why people can't be satisfied with robotic missions. Lusting after landing on what is essentially a dead and hostile planet like Mars is a bewildering prospect. I don't see these people going to Antarctica, which would be a comparable experience.

Seems to me, cheap and effective terraforming is a prereq to any planetary migration or exploration. Even then it would just be a pick up and drop service to Mars or where-ever. Exploration, in general, should be done by robots.
But stealth, at least in its current form, isn't something that can simply be integrated without making substantial concessions elsewhere in the design. You lose the ability to mount stores on hardpoints on the wing, for example. That reduces the variety of munitions the aircraft is able to carry, which in turn makes it less flexible and adaptable to new missions.

Your argument that stealth is just the way things are now implies that stealth, as a feature, is more valuable than the features you have to give up to get it. The article is arguing the opposite -- that stealth is less and less valuable as radar technology improves to counter it, so maybe it's not worth giving up that other stuff to have it. You disagree, that's fine, but that in and of itself doesn't make their reasoning "flawed" and thus able to be ruled out with a wave of the hand and a jaunty "stealth isn't going anywhere."
As a percentage of total money supply, mtgox was the biggest theft (or loss, there is no differene to victims) of currency in modern history.
Nitpick: a historical population bottleneck does not necessarily mean that only that many individuals were left alive at a single time; it only means that that many individuals from a single time successfully contributed to today's population.

Simple example: imagine you have two groups of humans, A and B, living in two neighboring valleys. Group A consists of 1000 individuals, group B a million. Over the next several hundred or thousand years, group A thrives and slowly increases to a million people. Meanwhile, group B declines to extinction at an even pace.

At no time were there fewer than a million people, but there was a population bottleneck of 1000 people.
Anyone looking to follow up on this comment should search for "GlimmerBlocker", not GlitterBlocker.

Useful stuff, though, thanks!
I'll second PCL. It really is incredibly good. Unlike some other introductions to Lisp, which tend to be of the algorithmic, CS side of things, PCL approaches things from more of a scripting/software-development side.

Common Lisp really is a great developer's language, and PCL helps show why. Peter Seibel's a great writer, too.
Yes, at the moment it only works with the Built-in Audio Device. The reason is that I'd like to use the private DSP API inside Apple's HDA Driver in the future, which would further reduce CPU usage to approx 0.5%
Yeah that's huge. In Montreal I had all that, plus free healthcare.

I would have gone bankrupt at least four times in a more expensive city. Was an indispensable benefit in the early years.
Yosemite, Macbook Retina 13". I hope it doesn't trigger again as I still can hear my ears ringing.