jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree with your last statement naithemilkman. Learning your first programming language will be the hardest part much like learning your first primary language. You will pickup all the basics and rules while learning how to think through a program. If you have a support group the knows and understands C# then that seems like a good choice for you.

I've really enjoyed learning and using C# myself and I try to keep out of the politics of one language or company versus another when it comes to the languages. It's helped me that I work in a C# web development company so I have a large support group as well.

You've already got the right idea, pickup one language and stick with it and you're on your way to developing those prototypes.
Why do the men and women have to be brought back? It adds a big amount to the requirements of the craft to get them there.

Perhaps that space, weight, time, and money could be better spent on developing long-term survival and colony-establishment equipment and techniques.
Your poll is broken. I read my first programming book (a programmed
instruction text on machine programming) in the mid-60s. This was neither
before the 60s nor in the 70s.
My dad actually did this when he wanted to build a second home. He found a little lake whose lots seemed undervalued that had mostly crappy houses and built the nicest house around. Made him a happy camper.
Definitely Big Sur. Eat at the Big Sur bakery.
It is amazing that the article treats Google TV failing as a foregone conclusion:

Alas, Google TV fell apart because it didn't have great app support, and more importantly, that content owners didn't want their content shared through the browser.

(I am not a Google TV user.)
I don't think Manhattan real estate is a strawman-- the point is, in order for this concept to work, you would need to be able to buy a city block in whatever metropolitan area for cheaper than you could buy enough land in the outskirts to grow an equivalent quantity, plus the transportation costs.

And sub-10-story warehouses only magnifies the problem-- then you need to buy even more city blocks.
Thanks dang, you're
Talking on sidelines, I really, really hope there is a new Unreal single player game that follow the veins of Unreal I. However, I do think given the complexity of post UE3 engines, it is extremely difficult for even a large community to push such a game out. Years ago I heard about a project that tried to recreate Unreal I in UE4 but never heard much about it. It just takes too much time and effort.

What's your call on this? Do you think it is actually easier for a small, dedicated team (say a couple of programmers, a handful of level designers and artists for example) to get the Unreal I remake in UE4 project done, maybe in a few episodes? The first episode could be from "Vortex Rikers" to "Terraniux", the second from "Noork's Elbow" to "The Sunspire", the third from "Gateway to Na Pali" to "Cellars at Dasa Pass", and the last from "Serpent Canyon" to "The Source".
Tools can be nearly as important as the engine. I've read several postmortems where the lack of good tools made the asset creation and testing pipeline take way longer than necessary, leading to delays and crunch to compensate.
Hi all, original author here.

Some have questioned why I would spend the time advocating against the use of Hadoop for such small data processing tasks as that's clearly not when it should be used anyway. Sadly, Big Data (tm) frameworks are often recommended, required, or used more often than they should be. I know to many of us it seems crazy, but it's true. The worst I've seen was Hadoop used for a processing task of less than 1MB. Seriously.

Also, much agreement with those saying there should be more education effort when it comes to teaching command line tools. O'Reilly even has a book out on the topic: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032823.do

Thank you for all the comments and support.
See this very good comment by Bane:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739
737s vs. Everything invented since
Nope just tax breaks and bunching. Advertising has always been a waste of money. Donating for things you care about? Priceless.
It certainly looks as though the United States constituted as a federation of sovereign States is slowly de-facto transitioning to a centralized bureaucratic empire. I don't believe that's happened yet, but using the institutions of the old order to institute the new one is a very old trick, just look at the Roman Principate. So if and when that transition does occur[1] I wouldn't be surprised if the courts will be part of the fig leaf used to hide it.

[1] Perhaps it already has, the average Roman had no idea he no longer lived in a Republic.
VHS vs. Beta is a classic.
Sounds like it to me too. But these are not great times to move job -- in the interim you should be using your time to learn new technologies which you could reasonably explain might be useful to you current post, since you boss has not assigned you any new work. Make sure you keep records of all pertinent communications with him, so that you can demonstrate the latter if push comes to shove.

Good luck!
> So, I don't think you're wrong, but maybe consider if what we're socializing the cost of is worth the price?

But you do not socialize the cost, you just move it on someone else.

For example, we have two people A, B, with risk-assessing algorithm risk1 gives risk1(A) = 3.3, risk1(B) = 2.9. Risk limit for creditors is 3, so person A would not get credit.

But risk1() uses same forbidden information, so we use instead less informed risk2() that got risk2(A) = 2.9, while risk2(B) = 3.1, so now person A would get credit, but person B would not.
>I'm sorry, but hosting a domain for a production site on godaddy is just... childish incompetence

That's neither here nor there. All big players, far beyond the registrar space, have done similar things: AWS, Cloudflare, Google, ...
Wow, so much for LTS I guess. I really admired the Microsoft of before (yes, antitrust; I'm not talking about that here.)

Admittedly it's just from what Raymond Chen's blogged about, but it seems to me that Microsoft had a different "corporate attitude" back then, so to speak.
There is so much wrong here I don’t even know where to begin but I think this has really solidified my opinion that the only way to prevent Facebook from doing more harm would be to completely dissolve the company and shut down the platform.

If the reporting in this article is accurate, all of their attempts at governance have been half baked schemes mixed with a heavy dollop of LARPing. There is no way that this process will produce anything other than a Potemkin village to please any officials that care to look or worse yet a star chamber filled with self serving and unelected authorities. What interest do any of these hired experts have other than a fat paycheque? The laws they draft and the decisions they make will have no immediate impact on their lives but could potentially reshape the lives of millions who are heavily embedded in the web that Facebook has spun. The only thing they’ve done right is to limit its power for now but they should limit it right out of existence.
False. A group's ability to survive a cataclysmic event, natural catastrophe, epidemic, or genocide depends on its size and diversity. There is safety in numbers and diversity.
> what's the "correct" percentage

Whatever numer of people that, barring societal interference, in an isolated vacuum with neutral exposure to all professions, choose the profession based only on personality and aptitude.

Maybe some market pressure towards in-demand professions, but that should be mostly extrinsic to someone in their developmental years until after they are exposed to most possible career paths.

Like the OP mentions, it isn't something that the software industry alone can solve, and IMO, all the affirmative action only does the inverse draw that doesn't actually attract those with a passion, but those for the easy access or money. It require society collectively to get over itself and stop thinking you can't do STEM without a Y chromosome, and it needs to stop demonizing the intellectually curious girls. But that is hard, because the parents of those girls were raised the same way.
For me, the linux desktop experience is there. So I guess it depends on what you want.

There's nothing I want to do I can't do on Linux as well or better, except play games, and that's not enough of a factor for me to not prefer Linux.
As always, make sure your resume is up to date. Maybe shop it a bit to see if you are over or under paid.

Depending on your industry, it might be there are a lot of people in that industry who are out of work. When the IT market is soft, a lot of IT companies go cheap on the raise. Which if you are an accountant in an IT company can kind of suck.

So what industry is the company in? And do you work in the mainline part of the company?
The problem here is that we are treating a symptom of legislation and not the cause, as usual. Instead of all trying to agree on a level of tax rates (unrealistic) we could unilaterally slash corporate tax rates and watch the others follow.
1. Bigger groups === more and better data. I didn't know anyone growing up who was interested in ketogenic or carnivorous diets, now it's much more common.

2. Huge difference between the diet of a westerner following carnivore and traditional tribal carnivorous diets

3. The Inuits weren't particularly healthy, I'm not sure why their diet matters: https://www.leoandlongevity.com/post/inuit-health

4. And most importantly, there's a lot of research showing that high levels of IGF-1 associated with diets high in red meat are not good for longevity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjSl4n_KdOY
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26697325
Ahh, ok. You've sort of hit a weird spot for Elixir. Python will just start up faster and that will be noticeable. Math is much better optimized in Python, though this is changing with NX.

The real gain here would probably be streaming chunks of rows out of ecto and maybe firing those off to tasks per CPU core. Which is easier than it sounds.

That said, you had working code so no real reason to rewrite it except as a learning exercise.
That'd make sense if delaware had a low corporate tax rate, but it doesn't[1]. If you wanted to relocate your profits to a low tax jurisdiction, you'd want something like north carolina (2.5%) not delaware (8.7%).

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/state-corporate-income-tax-rates-b...
Cool, I'll add that.
I get few offers for 'free' work, the problem is that time is money. Having to mentor or guide someone, even if you are not paying them, it costs that person time, which they probably cannot afford to spend.
Oops. Also if you liked his Steambirds game he has a new one out which is awesome:

http://www.steambirds.com/
I feel a little uncomfortable with mysterious scores which essentially say "buy this!". Kayak.com essentially has to lie to me to artifically raise an airline's ticket in the search results (at least, lie by omission), but SeatGeek seems like they could massage the rankings easily for a fee. I don't really have a reason to trust them more than, say, Yelp!, do I?
I+D = R&D
Subvention => Gov funded grants
I'm confused, aren't you the creator?
It implies that there is a disparity in effort vs. reward, which to many seems unfair (not to mention the truly rich have no need nor use for all their money).

It is not that rich people do not deserve riches (well, some don't). It is that the rest of the people do not deserve any less.
Odesk does this to allow "bosses" to monitor freelancers.
Do the buyers care about the technological aspects of the website? What i mean by this is, do they buy websites that aren't written in PHP?
It looks to be a typically outrageous limitation introduced without much thought or reason.
Presumably that disqualifies both as being competitors to Netflix.
This is getting more than interesting. Out of the new entrants, I have to give the edge to Facebook. Assuming all of these companies can put together sales forces capable of finding good deals and vendors--but getting a corps of 2,000, like Groupon's, can't be all that easy--the whole revenue equation boils down to subscribers. More subs = more sales. The edge there has to go to Facebook, who, I would expect, will be able to weave something quite clever into their UI to allow and encourage people to shoot these deals out to their entire friend network. Their subs list could get massive quickly.
The article already includes a couple of "not queues" that they use for event stream processing, Kinesis being one of them. Kinesis consumers also maintain a watermark to keep track of how far they've read in a stream. Considering that, a Kafka comparison seems like a reasonable ask.
Yeah. But unfortunately IE6 doesn't support any functionality that could break the user, so developers are forced to break the browser instead.
The point of the A/B test is that, once devised, it is purely statistics and the software (from here on in) will tell patio11 which of the two options to adopt.
Can any of these tools handle offline conversions? That's our biggest issue... the main purpose of our site is to generate offline activity. We can measure those conversions (phone calls) and even tie them back where they originated. We just need a tool that we can stuff that data into and actually visualize it in some meaningful way.
Which technologies that Apple is showcasing on this page are unavailable, in principal or practice, to Firefox and Chrome?

Because if all they're doing is showing how you can get 80% of what Flash would give an iPhone app using HTML5, then the fact that they're blocking Firefox is irrelevant. Firefox and Chrome users don't need to be sold on HTML5. We'd be getting upset about browsers being blocked from... an advertisement.

On the other hand, if they're showcasing concepts that can only work in Safari, then they are indeed doing what Microsoft did in the '90s: attempting to "embrace and extend" the HTML5 standard by setting expectations that can only be met using Apple's nonstandard technology.

I would be surprised to find out that Apple is doing the latter. Their efforts with HTML5 have seemed to be in good faith.
This seems to be a point a lot of people are making, but it isn't really true. Most of the features shown in these demos are not part of any web standard. HTML5 is actually not a standard, but even if it were this would still be only partially accurate.

In reality, all of the CSS transforms and effects (and plenty of other Safari features) were created by Apple without input from any of the other browser vendors or standards bodies. Some of those things have been picked up, some haven't. I actually think this is the right way to do things, and I don't want to give off the impression that I don't appreciate what the Safari team has spent the last few years doing, but I'm also not wild about letting Apple distort the picture for the sake of scoring PR points against flash (which is what this website is all about).
I'm not convinced that the idea/execution dichotomy works. Consider the steam engine of Thomas Newcomen. We may say that it was a triumph of execution. The earlier Savery engine failed commercially because it used steam pressure and early boilers and pipe work could not contain it. The idea of using atmospheric pressure to do work and leaving the steam circuit unpressurised was the key idea in the Newcomen or Atmospheric Engine. Since this idea was due to Denis Papin, who failed to exploit it, we may say that the idea was worthless and Thomas Newcomen's success was due to good execution of Papin's idea.

Here is a second idea which fills out the rest of this paragraph. In 1712 high pressure steam was one hundred years ahead of its time. Pipes would leak, boilers would burst. Papin's idea of using unpressurised steam, condensing it, and letting atmospheric pressure do the work is obviously stupid, but if you don't want to wait 100 years, it is the only option, so just persevere and make it work.

This is idea is the ignition key of the industrial revolution. We cannot ignore it, and yet it sits in the middle of the gray area between /idea/ and /execution/, mocking the dichotomy that Scott Adams blogs about.
There is some info at http://www.siliconcape.com/ (Cape Town focused).
I think that it is something that helps. In my experience, footnotes promote further reading because there is more of a tendency to read through an article and then look at the footnotes. I think this is corroborated by ad placement strategies (or more like this links). Users tend to read through, then look at what's at the bottom of the content at which point they'll take action on it.
I found the questions the most telling.

Questions to Jobs were firstly about Apple and secondly about Google; with questions about Microsoft almost always having a historical "back in the day" feel about it.

Questions to Ballmer were largely about Apple and Google.

Apple and Google are just far more relevant. What are you gonna do? Ask Ballmer about Kin and Xbox?
It's a "joke" that is the thousandth obnoxious repetition of "Deliberately make the experience suck or impossible for IE 6 users."
That certainly was part of the dotcom bubble, but not the cause of it. In addition to a very frothy public market there was an obscene amount of private money getting invested in companies with poor fundamentals. sama wrote a great article recently about bubbles.

There are a few things from the JOBS Act that protects against terrible things. People can't invest more than a certain amount in startups overall - your quota is based on your income or net worth and is either 5% or 10%, depending.

Additionally, these are long term investments - you can't easily flip investments and I think that'll play a big part in people's psychology. You can't buy a share of some hip photo startup (for example) and sell it to someone else in 6 months at a higher price. In many cases you're going to be holding your investments until the company exists. There are exceptions to this, but I think practically we won't see secondary markets for a long time.

Another thing (this is more specific to Title III - the crowdfunding part of the JOBS Act that we're still waiting on) is that companies have to publicly set a goal and meet it through a registered platform. So a shaky startup can't find 10 suckers to give them $1000, they have to set a real goal (e.g. $50k) and convince a crowd of people to give them money. It still will happen, but I think fraud will be much less common than well intentioned startup failure.

The best part (IMO) is that the economics of investing will be dramatically different, so people can invest $100. Startups are super risky, but with $5,000 you can invest in 50 businesses and spread the risk. Because they're startups many will fail, but it's less likely to get conned by 50 founders.
You can use other apps such as Authy too.
Good pull, but are there really that many use cases in production code where you need to consume JSON that you don't have an expectation of what types of data are coming your way?
I suppose technically that's a "considerable portion" :)
When I was 8 or 9 years old I had dinner with a contemporary of Andre the Giant, Baron von Raschke. He was friends with my best friends dad. He gave me "the claw" (brainclaw). Life as a young boy doesn't get much better (except for blueberry pancakes).
You ask 'what's so terrible about derivatives? ' well their very non-transparant nature and lack of regulation and registration.
I agree, and shouldn't have painted all the Central Asian republics with the same broad brush (that wasn't really my intent, but I see how it came out).
From an energy point of view, maybe.

But from a pollution point of view not even close.

PS. Shipping is not really that expensive in terms of energy.
I use it as the processor for BeautifulSoup! This should be the default IMHO - the default caused me lots of issues.
For anything on Django 1.7 (the version it will come out in), yes, South will no longer be needed. Older versions of Django should get a South 2 in the next few months with a lot of this code backported.
I recently used it for a project and I am quite a happy consumer of this library.
PWAs have long failed to reach adoption on mobile- not just iOS, but also on Android- because of technical limitations that they have compared to native. And perhaps, lack of sufficient interest both from independent developers and from larger tech corporations. That interest is probably orthogonal to the sideloading battle.

Seeing as how Epic was the first company to launch a lawsuit against Apple's control of the App Store, and they certainly care more about avoiding Apple's cut, and little about privacy restrictions, that would seem to contradict your point. We haven't exactly seen Meta or Google throw in with Sweeney's crusade. Instead, the companies who have publicly supported the suit have all been companies that want to bypass the 30% cut, such as Spotify or Tinder.

Finally, if Apple introduces a heavily sandboxed sideloading experience (hopefully they will also introduce more privacy sensitive APIs to Safari as well!), then perhaps the courts will recognize that as a reasonable action and beneficial to consumers and the public interest, and will not press the matter further. There's only so much back and forth this sort of thing can wage on in the public, anyway. Lawsuits are costly in time, in attention, and in fees. If Apple does something in good faith, unlike what they've been doing in response to Dutch legislation (0), then presumably our systems of democracy will appreciate it.

(0) https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1489595417117483010
That wasn't my comment. Also, people freely chose to start using the new version of ETH, they weren't required to.
Once they showed interest in reading, we did a fair bit of literacy practice. In retrospect, I suspect they still would have acquired reading skills early (just less so) if we hadn't, and if not, the Kindergarten and first grade literacy instruction we have available to us is pretty good.

So, maybe substitute reading to them for some of that time, and looking at science books, and playing with microscopes, etc. Note we did all of those things too, but I'd change the proportions a bit.
Also anecdotally, upper management I've talked to has noticed little to no difference in productivity.
Here’s a conflicting view. https://www.utsa.edu/today/2020/09/story/covid-spread-outdoo...

In my mind, it really depends on how many viral particles are needed to cause an infection. If it’s a very small number, then dilution does more harm than good because the infectious plume is larger. If it’s a large number, then dilution is very helpful because the concentration very quickly falls below the critical point.

The author breezily says that 500 ppm at an outdoor restaurant is “pretty good”, but we have no way of know if that would be over or under the critical concentration of viral particles. The epidemiological data suggests that eating at restaurants, whether indoors or out, is a strong predictor of infection.

Personally, I don’t wear a mask if I’m walking around my suburban neighborhood and can cross to the other side of the street to avoid other pedestrians. I carry a mask when I go hiking on trails where I’m likely to run into other hikers going the other way on a narrow track. I wear a mask if I’m going into a central shopping district or outdoor market. And I only eat at outdoor restaurants if the tables are truly outdoors, not in a tent, and are 10+ feet apart.
Just to add some context for the OP, Fulcro is kind of an evolution on om.next.
Yes. But that’s a silver lining to a black cloud not the best case scenario.
I always felt it was a slur to Sus scrofa—an animal I like.
Sad to see it, but I'm not terribly surprised either. I wrote about this after reading a few articles as well [0]. I also wonder if a lot of it is sunk cost related to office space.

[0]: https://phillipcarter.dev/posts/remote-skeptical/