jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The Covid crisis has exposed a lot of the disaster in public education. For many kids, the quality of education they receive is a function of the quality of the school and the quality of the teacher. This is non-sensical.

Kids can learn from online sources. So why should someone's education be tied to their school district or teacher quality?

I would love to have the local school system provide lab space, athletics, support services and one-on-one tutoring as necessary.

But the bulk should be delivered online. Sal Khan is comprehensive and brilliant, but perhaps someone out there is better at chemistry or art history. Regardless, every kid should be exposed to the "best" teacher of the subject. Why should a child's Algebra education be school or teacher dependent, when the best Algebra teacher on the planet is just 256kb/s away.
That's a pretty self-centered way of seeing things. The isolation isn't that severe to you, in your circumstances. But how do you know what esotericn's circumstances are? How do you know what his/her mental health is, and how the lockdown affects it? I submit that you don't know. You're projecting your circumstances and your mental health onto esotericn, and then judging that he/she is selfish for not being able to take it.
> This is intuitively similar to how TLS works

How TLS 1.3 works.

This way of proceeding was introduced earlier, but wasn't the only option until TLS 1.3, in TLS 1.2 for example, even though chances are any TLS 1.2 sites you run offer a more modern Elliptic curve scheme, it was mandatory to implement
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA.

For TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (and many other schemes) RSA is being used to transport the session keys chosen by the client (and thus implicitly authenticate the server). This means if an adversary gains possession of the server's RSA private key, even perhaps several years later, that's enough to decrypt the session key and thus decrypt all messages that adversary might have captured before.

Whereas with the schemes using Ephemeral Diffie Hellman (whether conventional or elliptic curve) once those ephemeral values are discarded going forward the only way to decrypt the messages secured by them would be something like Shor's algorithm to break DH, hence the term "Forward Secrecy".
I was wondering why this was all so much easier back in VB than it is in the browser, and I think you're right: we've got to keep the state in the DOM and the "useful" state in the program in sync. Whereas in VB there was only one program so only one source of truth (though it was possible to get your GUI desynced from your database, you kinda had to work hard to do that).

I think this is what Elm solved (and then by plagiarising the same approach, React and Vue). Make the interface declarative rather than imperative and voila - state is automatically in sync.
This page[1] has more detail and context, but in short, I don’t buy the “lower speeds cause less accidents” — the human cost of road traffic incidents in India is immense. Especially when you count injuries and maimings, which isn’t reported here.

Road traffic related injuries and fatalities are also massively under-reported in India’s press because of various cultural reasons, notably that the problem is so deep-rooted that reporting on it has the same newsworthiness that water is wet. The only time it does get reported widely is if the victim is famous.

Anyhow, India has 16.6 traffic deaths per 100,000 population, which is pretty high. For 1.1 billion people, that’s what — 180k deaths? And more injuries. On a human scale, this is to the point that most families know people who’ve died or been badly injured in road traffic accidents.

It also has 130.1 deaths per 100,000 motor vehicles per year, which is higher than neighbouring SE Asia, and higher than all but two regions (Eastern Med & Africa).

tl;dr — please don’t use minimise the scale of the problem road traffic accidents cause in India. Indians deserve safer roads just like everyone else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Anecdotal, but in all my "watch later" playlists about 5%-10% videos now are "Deleted video".
> But HN has a highly disproportionate number of Valley and NYC residents. They're all getting [big] pay cuts if you get rid of location-based pay. The biggest (but not only) reason someone in SF makes $250k+ total comp is because it's so expensive to live in SF.

I'd argue that this isn't really what location based pay is worried about. In this case, you're being paid specifically be close to some location or collective building because your employer values that collectiveness. That's okay. That's the company communicating "we value the ability for you to be here, in person, with this group of people - so we're going to incentivize it".

The problem with location based pay is when an employer says, "You can work from anywhere you want, but we want to know where that is so we can pay you less". You provide them the same value from mid-city America as you do in rural America. They simply want to pay you less when they can.
It wasn't loading for me. Disabling uBlock Origin didn't help either.
That's pretty cool. I want that power. New stretch goal!
Funny, I (very grudgingly) scrapped our (upcoming) Cassandra deployment last week. It's a nice project, but there were too many bugs and glitches for our production requirements.

HBase is an interesting choice, although I'd need to see stronger public "trials by fire" before I'd use it - but then again, we don't have dev resources to spare (like Facebook does).
But you didn't think it was weird that "aunty_helen" above me claimed "the club" of all Comp Sci grads are smarter and more well-rounded than all other practitioners?
If that's their attitude, then frankly there's every reason to complain about that. Defining a language by implementation is absolutely horrible practice.
It would be fascinating to calculate when the dead on Facebook will outnumber the living. Anyone able to interpolate based on the data provided + Facebook's growth rate?
This is retarded.

Horrible navigation, simplistic content.
The comments are largely very, very accurate. This does not compute as does Gladwell's formula. However, this can again, reductionally, be broken down to another cool cliche: work hard, and beat out the dip.

So, read Seth Godin's "The Dip".
Apple should hire him. Ha!
Agreed. The problem with page-curl in this case is that the left-hand-side of the book is a blank page. This means that when you're "curling" the page, you don't see a a bunch of text/images mid-transformation (mid "curl"). Also, there is no transparency at all to the "paper" - it's totally opaque. If it were semi-transparent, you would see the other side of the page bleeding through, giving some context/reality to the curling.
This is a great question. I actually spent a bunch of time searching since there was no citation but all I could find were references to the wikipedia page.

So this is possibly made up.

I went back and found the original diff[1] where it was added. It is from an IP in Redmond in March of 2007.

Wikipedia needs a better interface to search through diffs. I had to manually do a half-interval search. :/

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wingdings&diff...
I'm surprised to find a comment like this here. These are sins only from a worshiper's standpoint.

For everyone else, these are great rational evolutionary strategies.

eg wanting to be number 1 so you can ensure good genes for your children, sloth to conserve energy, gluttony to store up excess for a rainy day, etc.
"With Twitter, Zynga, Facebook and Google in the ultimate game of one-upmanship, small startups are simply not going to be able to compete for talent in the Valley."
I disagree, there will always be a sizable handful of engineers that would rather work in a startup environment than in a big company like Google or Facebook.
The consequences of technical subject matter experts dabbling in policy are often pretty bad.

You can get involved in this, but it takes real work (i.e. time taken away from your research area) and an honest understanding that the policy issues their own deep specialty, and you are likely to be quite naive about it going in.
I think that's right. Tangentially related: have been thinking a lot lately how tone often (but not always) implies some kind of distortion in thinking. To a degree where you can _anticipate_, but not necessarily intelligently articulate why some position is incorrect.
SGI no longer does graphics, but UV still has their massive ccNUMA technology in it.
Random question, if the guy had messaged Paramount pictures and informed them of this cool plan and asked their permission, would it have worked out? Or is that just too optimistic?

Btw remember that bot that tweeted gifs of movie quotes, that counts as fair use?
> Yes, Rust is very promising especially if you look for better alternatives for C++.

Go kind of wanted that prize. It didn't quite get it.

Many will say how they care about cool features, built-in concurrency, nice stuff and in the end, when comes to releasing product if performance isn't there, it won't replace C++.

Some program in C++ because they love the language. They really do. There are people like that, I've met one, once. Quite often others do it because the rest of their world does (libraries, coworkers) and performance.

The niche were performance matters (and I understand that is a loaded word so to speak) is going to be hard to get into.
Except that Bill Gates isn't going around building furniture himself. More like donating a small part of money for purposes like that, and a big part of money for science and technology which can help eradicate bigger problems(like disease and hunger).
do (foo) ->

is also a nice one
This is too incredible to be true. But if it is true then I would expect the company in question to be out of business quite soon. A company that put's a life critical system on AWS shows a total disregard for their patients well being.
FYI, this is an affiliate link. Anything you buy on Amazon in the next 24 hours makes the OP money.

Normally, you would disclaim that fact and provide affiliate and non-affiliate versions of the link.

EDIT: Since the OP has deleted this topic in record time, I'll point out who it was for future reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whenimgone
We have an option that says "Notify friend when I agree or disagree" to promote virality. It defaults to false, but I should clarify this in the note.
I just use 'this' as much as possible. It helps me keep track of which object/scope 'this' is referencing. Creating a second reference to the object/scope referenced by 'this' doesn't really change anything.

Something I also find helpful is reminding myself that I'm not just writing a function, but a method for the current object (referenced by 'this').
I don't. It defaults to Philly because that's where I'm from and I didn't have time to add a landing page before someone submitted this.
Pretty cool, similar to https://www.views.fm/ (or at least, does the same thing as views.fm for me)
Pretty sure the parent corporation owns a disturbingly high percentage of the video sharing sites. At the very least they own Pornhub, Redtube, Youporn as well as a bunch of others (Wikipedia about Mindgeek).
4.1M clicks about to go down.
https://i.imgur.com/0pxHInh.png
You can’t say anything of substance in 280 characters, or find room to cite references. It’s just a bunch of disembodied statements meant to go viral to build peoples followings or get people mad, with no meaningful discussion back and forth (for the same reasons). Maybe I’m just getting old, but Twitter seems like a bad way to get and share information, even without the random bans. Apologies if I just haven’t seen the good parts of Twitter yet
Stone age humans are hardly the standard we should be aspiring for. The biggest two arguments for veganism are:

1. The horrific practises of the animal agriculture industry, which looks nothing like a chiseled hunter holding a bow

2. The devastating impact of the above on the environment

Cavemen had neither of these issues.
What definition of "shell" are you basing this on? Some (current) Unix systems I use have default shells that have neither command history nor tab completion.

Easy access to command history and tab completion are certainly niceties that came along at some point, but are in no way part of the definition of a shell.
"Survives first freezing night" == Is this just sensationalism? Should NASA not have a good estimate of what the chances of survival are? Maybe it is the media, maybe it is the need to fill columns (like the old days) but I would probably make a list of milestones and track "time to first flight" or something similar.
In 2019, age 30, I ate only red meat (and a little fish) for about 8 months. It was by far the peak of my physical condition. Better sleep, stronger workouts, no mid-day grogginess. Blood test results were as best as one could hope for, apart for the debatable "high cholesterol".

Unfortunately a couple of trips abroad (damn Italy) and I got back to a more standard diet. Have put on 15kg since. I've been longing to return to it, but the quality and price of meat here in Israel makes it so hard.
What exactly is the problem here? How is this meaningfully different from investing your own post-tax $500k into the market and growing it forever?

If you dislike this situation, what you need is wealth tax, not profit tax. As the value of John Smith Inc. grows over time, John Smith the person will have to pay increasing amount of wealth taxes...
OP is wrong, dead wrong.

In my home city there are a few software companies, even a major games studio, but no real community - there's a Linux User Group peopled by beardy academics, but nothing more.

In the next nearest city, there are tech events every night of the week. There's a hacker space open and another being planned, startups sharing offices and the general buzz of stuff happening. The networking opportunities are absolutely immense - in any given week you could meet the founders of two dozen startups, easily.

What do you think my odds are of getting a great job in each city?

OP is wrong, absolutely dead wrong. Yes, there are opportunities outside of major cities, but they're much fewer and further between. There's an argument that competition is less fierce outside of metropolitan areas, but it's a bad argument for two reasons. First, it smacks of a poverty of ambition, a "good enough" attitude that no young developer should sink to. The other is that it isn't true. There is absolutely massive demand for good developers. Recession or not, most firms are desperate for people who really can write software.

While I'm sure you can build a good career in software anywhere, it's going to be an uphill struggle if you're not surrounded by people who are doing the same. There is a reason that companies are still spending fortunes building skyscrapers - proximity matters.
So apparently there is such a lack of flash analytics platform that the biggest providers tried to force a game analytics provider to fit their use-case?
"Only for white"

hmm..so there are no whites in Russia?

Most e-commerce companies where I've worked block both Russia and China due to massive piracy or credit card theft.
Honeybees are not native to the US. It would be odd to rely on a non-native species for our food supply.
You don't have to buy that hardware. The point is Google is all in favor of you having control.
I actually didn't know about materialized views but from what I've read it seems like this wouldn't be a good place to put it to work just because the conditions on the calendar where changed pretty frequently (most of them weren't, like I said on my previous post, but some were and from that I read that could be a problem since the view needed to be updated frequently).

It feels really good to learn something new, I'm thinking of some scenarios which might improve with this type of views, thanks!
Ugh. Let's just throw around all kinds of terms to describe all kinds of people, few of which barely even make sense.

Secondly, here's Assange:

> Leaking is an anarchist act.
Another "spy rock", this one belonging to Britain and found in Moscow: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jan/24/russia.politics http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16614209

Apparently one of the upsides of an idea this absurd and obvious is that when you get caught you can use "Are you serious? Who would use an obviously fake rock to spy on people?" as a defense.
If a meteor was headed for the earth tomorrow, the president would get up in front of the nation and say, “my fellow Americans, we have created 100 trillion dollars of imaginary money in a database in upper Manhattan, so everything will be fine..”
According to https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis..., the biggest sources are electricity and heat production, transport, and manufacturing (I suspect livestock is part of the manufacturing stat). So for CO2 emissions, switch to renewables; for methane and nitrous oxide, do something about agriculture.

But please don't mention going vegan; that MIGHT only improve the situation by 0.000000001%. It can only be done if on a national scale meat production and consumption is reduced, or we find a way to capture / sequester methane / nox emissions. Factory farming shouldn't have an excuse in that regard, they keep their animals indoors anyway.
There's more to the world than the US. Quite a few Asian states are aiming for zero, and so are some subnational entities like Tasmania in Australia.

We may well end up in a world where corona-free islands float in a sea of infection:

https://gyrovague.com/2020/03/20/islands-in-the-sea-a-simple...
That's exactly it. If the virus is exploding exponentially the number of recovered cases is a tiny, tiny fraction of the active ones. This treatment doesn't work until things are under control, basically.
Hospitals can't even get enough masks and other PPE, I'm not so sure that Amazon would be able to source a reliable supply even if they wanted to.
A foreshadowing of all developed country central banks’ actions.

It’s only a matter of time before the Fed, BOE, and the ECB do so at similar scale.

Incredibly disappointing as an educated investor that you must be judicious about asset acquisitions and allocations, and yet central banks just make the money printer go brrrrr when they deem it necessary (something, somewhere is always “too big to fail”).
Isn't this simply how the buy box works?

If you are not the lowest price (with some consideration given to other factors, like reviews and delivery times), then you will not be in the buy box.
Just to add that while most tracked music in the 90s was electronica, there were others who tried different genres. My favorite example is Leviathan's "Dust To Dust", a Scream Tracker 3 composition that tended towards jazz / soft rock with something like a saxophone sound for the lead - once it gets going about a minute in. You can even see briefly in the song notes at the start, Leviathan says "I hopefully will never be forced to return to the typical demomusic genre":

https://youtu.be/gFWrHFQdb7E

But even with the original MOD format, Bjorn Lynne / Dr Awesome wrote a lot of Prog Rock MODs inspired by Genesis and other bands.
The source is shown at the top of this article:

>Liu Zhen South China Morning Post 22 March 2020, 6:29 am CDT
People are allowed to be wrong. If you want to do something about that, the thing to do (on this site) is to respectfully provide correct information.

I don't know what you mean by "confronted", but usually people have in mind something like the internet callout/shaming culture. We don't want that there. Snark, name-calling, flaming, putdowns, and so on, are against the HN guidelines. They're also not in your interest, because (a) they don't persuade, and (b) they discredit your view in the eyes of neutral observers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Speaking of #startups, that channel is free to join on irc.freenode.net.
One of the reasons why QTKit sticks around is that it has been around since 10.3 and it's foundation is even older going back to I think 1992.

So I think QTKit is an edge case and probably not used by a ton of developers directly. I think the 80/20 rules also applies here... by porting 20% of the frameworks you get 80% of the functionality.

That being said: I think that if it happens it will happen over time. Deprecating something in Mavericks does not mean that it has to be gone in the release after Mavericks. GC was with us for way too long... But you can replace almost anything within lets say 5-7 years. That would be 5-7 major releases.
I'm going to go a different direction from the rest of the commenters so far. How long have you been with your girlfriend? Are you thinking this girl could be around for the long haul? No reason to give up a good job because of a girl, especially if you don't think she's going to be around 5 years down the road.
The thread doesn't have a limited size. This isn't stopping people from discussing Kronos.
Dart is much more full-featured than CoffeeScript. Dart is a completely new language, with much improved semantics. Dart has features such as method cascades, mixins, async/await, optional types, a rich core library, factory constructors, libraries, named parameters, lexical this, Futures, implicit interfaces, generics, and lots more.

[disclaimer: I'm on the Dart team]
"Complete software engineers", eh? Does that mean things required for modern software engineering, like complexity theory and relational calculus?

Or are they just skipping over this?
Hey I am the founder. I would love to have your feedback on this app and answer any question you have. Have fun.
People-based marketing has come a long way, but it still lacks deterministic evidence about purchase intent/interest/history. Datalogix does a good job connecting online profiles and advertising to offline purchases, but the industry is by and large focused on probabilistic methods to build audiences.
I get the impression that other browsers have committed to never supporting NaCl or Dart, so taking the initiative to build a prototype in Chrome wouldn't help.
Yes, we have very similar goals with CockroachDB as FoundationDB had: a distributed, transactional data store (ACID, CP, etc). We're starting with the key/value layer, although we have ambitions to also build more structured interfaces on top of it. It's not quite ready for use yet but we're approaching our first alpha release.
I see many, many homeless people everyday. Last week I was in a hurry and sat down on the subway next to a homeless man. Within seconds I almost passed out from the overpowering stench of his clothes and body. For some reason, perhaps pity, I didn't want him to see me get up and move to the other end of the car. So I sat there for an agonizing 10 minutes until my stop, and gasped for fresh air when I emerged from the underground.
I thought about it - what if I was him, and all I wanted was to not smell like that. How would I do it? I'd need a shower with soap, and new clothes - no way we could clean those old ones. With no friends or support, I had no idea how I'd do it short of begging enough for a bar of soap and then jumping into a chlorinated fountain in a park. And then what? Maybe I smell better for a day or two and then it starts all over again. I'll try to be less judgmental about the homeless, after realizing that.
Paid by company according to http://blog.ogletreedeakins.com/faqs-on-californias-paid-sic...
If you're ok with animation you might like Kaiba. This very weird visual style which is actually the whole point, and a superficially childish world that makes the underlying cyberpunk horror all the clearer.