jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What in the world are you talking about?

> you attempt to use a couple of tired old rhetorical ploys

I do no such thing.

> Your argument here depends on the misunderstanding that all explanations in computer science are abstract

Not at all.

> That is not so; a discussion of argument-passing can be (and is) done in terms of addresses and stack frames.

Sure you could do it that way. But it becomes exponentially more complicated because you need to either stick to one specific implementation of one specific language runtime, or you have to deal with explaining them all. Neither is ideal.

> are of no help to anyone who doesn't have a solid understanding of C++, anyway

You just need a basic understanding. This isn't advanced stuff here. People learn Java's object references the very first time they

Thing x = y; y->something(); // Why has x changed?

and they learn C++ references and pointers ... well from the start.

These are week-one concepts for anyone learning the languages.

> This is just as well, or how else would anyone have understood this stuff before they had C++?

Most people have no trouble understanding the concept in week one of Java, or C++, or whatever other language they are learning. And the rest get it from the fundamentals. But those aren't the people in this thread who continue to confuse the issue.

If someone can't take the phrase "pass-by-reference" and the phrase "Java object reference" and understand that the two uses of the word "reference" mean different things, even after reading the simple-to-understand definitions of each, then they really need above-and-beyond help. This isn't "dive into CS theory" or "show them the machine-level stack frames and register contents", this is "try whatever you can that might help them". C++ is a very valid place to go for these folks.
Apparently creating a successful programming language is about sticking "Google" in front of the name.
Ahhh, I suppose it depends on where you are in the US. In ultra-affluent places like some DC suburbs, the prices are closer to those Canadian ones you mentioned.

At the absolute bottom fast food chains (McDonalds and Taco Bell) you can get meals <$7, but at any other nationwide fast food chain it'll be $7-9. Local places (fast casual) are typically $10+.
Don't forget his newest company - Tamr! http://www.tamr.com/
do with a while (0) executes the body one time. This trick is used to package several statements into one, so it can be used in places like:

if (foo)
BN_CONSTTIME_SWAP(0);
I've often wondered - maybe bonobos were too friendly, chimps were too aggressive, to sort out technology, but prehumans hit the Goldilocks for that.
The author, Hugo Giraudel, also writes one of the absolutest best blogs on Sass (http://hugogiraudel.com/). I've been using Sass heavily since 2009 and consider myself a fairly advanced user, but still learn new and useful things from Hugo's blog on a regular basis. This styleguide looks like an awesome compilation and extension of years of blog articles.
So while I haven't read the PDF (I don't have an account/institution), I wonder how robust this study is given that it's based on a questionnaire on how often people talk to their babies. This kind of self-reporting is often troubled as the assumptions as to what 'always' means is very relative on a per person basis. It wouldn't surprise me that people who read frequently to their baby might under report how much they speak to their baby when given a line of questioning about it, and vice versa.

I also question how much you can really test a baby for cognitive development that is robust against time to say anything about adulthood. The Ages and Stages questionnaire used is about assessing delayed development versus adulthood, and the sensitivity is as low as 51% for the 4-month ASQ and 75% overall, and the specificity is 86% [1]. These numbers themselves aren't super great which only will compound with the cohort study in question.

It's probably better to do both, especially as when the child ages reading to them helps them gain practice reading themselves. I fear that many people will look at a headline like this and feel like they can avoid reading to their kids by turning on the radio.

[1] http://www.psychwiki.com/dms/other/labgroup/Measufsdfsdbger3...
Just a small update, because there's basically nowhere else anyone is going to read this given Google suspended Google groups for AppEngine and doesn't answer StackOverflow questions. I tried using the sample code from the User API pages and built this: http://kordtester2.appspot.com/. The app is using standard Google authentication, not the federated auth. The docs say it should work, but it's clearly broken.
Interesting to watch the term "brogrammer" evolve. I'm not entirely sure what it means anymore

It means people with personalities more than one standard deviation away from the speakers' personal social preferences w/r/t techies (and "neckbeard" is reserved for the other end of the curve).

Choosing "bro" as the label is not a particularly meaningful descriptor, it's just a subgroup that is OK to openly deride.
Bonuses and commissions can be really different. Sometimes they're just supplemental. Sometimes they're the real pay, and the salary is just a nominal token effort. For many jobs, expecting the lowest isn't realistic. You wouldn't take that job if you expected the lowest, because the lowest is unacceptably low and almost never actually happens.

Waiters get tipped. That's the expectation and the reality. Anyone who takes a waiter job not expecting to be tipped is deluded (assuming they don't work for one of the few places that ban it).
This seems almost "too" radical even for Apple. Which is to say I'm struggling to believe it.

Apple have always been after that smaller and lighter device, but the cost here seems too high: much worse keyboard (due to loss of spacing), losing all of the standard USB, losing the SD Card slot, losing Magsafe, etc only so the already super light Air can be even lighter?

I don't know if this is true, if it is true then it is a step backwards if you ask me. My Surface Pro 3 has one standard USB port, and that to me isn't enough, having effectively zero is just a non-starter.

If this is true (which again, I have my doubts) I wonder how much battery would have to be cut also. If you look in a current Macbook Air, it is largely just battery [0] internally.

PS - Apple's cooling is a little suspect in the last few years both from first hand experience and from other's first hand experiences. So let's hope they get it right with this machine.

[0] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Air+13-Inch+Early+2014+...
The Peter Thiel grant program won't accept 20 year olds, only <20.
[Interestingly] The judge Robert Holdman who shot down his appeal because of this fraud, has a (IMHO) history of being overly harsh.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZrFEGVE... (search for 'Holdman' on that page)
Whoops! I thought I was reading Hacker News. Silly me.
I think the TED video is a lot better than the original submission. Thank you very much.
for me Quicksilver is quick and stable with the most recent version of OSX

I haven't found a viable replacement yet. Being able to append text to a document, move and delete files, check my IP address etc. from one place is wonderful.
In general, I couldn't say. (Also, a citation showing that the people who are ostensibly meant to uphold the law are in fact not playing fair and doing everything they can avoid justice..? What? How would that work)

But a nice example would be this very case - even after the case was basically retro-actively thrown out, the prosecutor's office still maintain everything was kosher. (They still maintain that Collins is guilty - seriously, what the fuck?)
http://letscrate.com/ - file-sharing.

http://rmmbr.com/ - notes.

http://digitfish.com/ - ratings.
it's becoming increasingly more common to sort columns at the application layer
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/the-cost-of-vaccinating-is...

says $47 / dose
I agree with your point on principle, but to balance a bit: I'm trilingual but don't (yet) speak German. Yes there's no fair reason why English should be the standard language, but there's value in a standard language and that's the closest we have.

Edit: I'm not American and English isn't my native language
>Correct. And I’m fine with that, it was a terrible idea right from the start for most use cases IMHO.

I completely disagree. Platform dependent Java is worse than useless the same way electron made Linux support worse.

Running a complicated Electron app under wine can be very difficult and yes you will have to run electron under wine one way or another because not every company provides linux builds of their electron apps.
My experience is quite contrary :)
I prefer to not use ORM (even if I wouldn’t mind, clients often ask me to work with the DB directly, without ORM), and every selected column matters - in terms of performance and amount of transferred data. Some fields are TEXT/BLOB and sending thousands of them “just because” is not cool.
Meh, you don't have to go into crazy theories to find weird things about Gates and his foundation

I'm cautious about Gates, his foundation and anything he has to say about health in general since the Haiti cholera situation. It's hard to tell exactly what happened but it sounds extremely shady, it basically goes like this:

- Cholera was eradicated from Haiti, no cases for 2 years, after 3 years Haiti would have been officially declared as cholera free. (apparently the cause of cholera there wasn't environmental but caused by sanitation issues that were solved in the meantime https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/05/leaked-un-repo...)

- 1 year before the official eradication deadline, 4 teams, including 3 indirectly financed by the Gates foundation, came to the conclusion that a large scale vaccination was the only way to get rid of the cholera in Haiti

- They somehow fail to mention that there hasn't been a single case of cholera in 2 years, they also fail to mention their link to the Gates foundation and other entities involved in the vaccine production

- Large scale vaccination happens

- Gates claim victory over Cholera even though no cases were reported before the vaccination started

It would appear that his philanthropist actions are at least partly motivated by some kind of fame or other personal interests to the point of mandating vaccination campaigns on healthy population who already eradicated both the virus and its cause.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1...
Yes, not such a great idea to plot that without totals...
Or more people need to learn German? The community is already there, obviously — if others want to join, that's how they do it.
Oh no!! I really wanted to know how they develop their AI so reliably :). This is a massive issue today. Hope we develop tools and processes to get us there soon.”
See also: https://royal.uk
I get their point, though. It's less about seeing the animation of the move, and more about seeing state. Seeing state you're manipulating is helpful. CLIs, being naturally line-oriented, don't give you that.

Myself, I do a lot of file management in Emacs these days. Dired - Emacs folder viewer - essentially turns output of `ls` into interactive folder listing, that you can manipulate the way you'd use an orthodox file manager like Norton Commander or Midnight Commander, but that you can also just edit as text and have Emacs apply changes to the file system. To kind of boost your point about "normal" being learnable, it's absolutely normal for me now to expect to be able to rename files or change permissions by editing output of `ls`.
So we don't exclude them to make a point, that's also true for Mac and PC laptops.

My XPS 15 wifi won't wake automatically after sleep on Windows. Wifi works perfectly on Linux, but there are things that don't work with the touchscreen in tablet mode on Fedora that I've been told work on Ubuntu.

My T2 MacBooks are little nightmares sometimes, fans screaming during video meetings and crashing and draining battery instead of sleeping, and I still haven't seen a compelling reason to give up my 2015 13". If the second gen M-series solves the weirder problems, maybe.
I don't know, find one of the many thousands of people who've done it and ask them.

If people could manage stepping off the boat at Ellis island with maybe a suitcase but not a scrap of English or a dollar to their name a hundred years ago, people can manage a trip out of the city or out of the state today. Hell, today there's probably a subreddit and series of Youtube tutorials that will lay the plan out for you step by step.

I'm not saying it would be easy, but it's obviously not impossible. Being able to move isn't a sign of privilege in modern society, stability is privilege. The poor are always at risk of losing what little they have and needing to move on or start over.
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Do you recall who was that other dev?
Even if everything is political I would still ban in my forum topics related to current or recent political events/people. 1
To clarify:

> Why should his desire to not have voice assistants in the house trump his roommate's desire to utilize the technology they paid for and want to use?

One thing is about security and privacy (important), while the other is about convenience (trivial).

That the roommate didn't even consider the security and privacy of other people is Not Ok. It seems fairly common in this early stage of voice assistants, so having a discussion about it may resolve things.
Maybe Tim Cook will show some "courage" now.

[Edit] Sorry for the snark. In a market economy, the only way companies like Apple might act in the same way that compassionate human beings would, is if it were in the interests of their bottom line. Perhaps articles like this will hit critical mass, and Apple will put out a statement, carefully composed to ensure that China doesn't lose face. Perhaps they'll do something tangible.

Come back 12 months later and nothing will have changed.
Any software has vulnerabilities. You have to keep the operating system on any server patched and set up basic defenses even for a static site.
The truth is probably somewhere in between. I was firm but polite. I was called in because I was going to be analyzing the data. Build data warehouse and import other data. I had to be firm because I know how much time it takes to clean up data before you can analyse it.
Let’s be clear about the problem with ETH. It has a 60% pre-mine, and the next 35% of the mining was done by just a small subset of the same people. Only 5% of the supply was ever “up for grabs”. A currency requires highly-decentralized float. ETH will always be speculative.

Other than that (fatal problem), its a great technical project.
If you love React and being super productive nothing beats Gatsby + TailwindCSS + Netlify CMS/Hosting.
This is crazy to me. Any reasonable certification to qualify someone for an AWS specific role will cover IaC in depth. I guess it explains a lot about the number of cloud antipatterns I see on a day to day basis though.
It’s good reasoning, I think. Would love to see an experimental prototype.

At the same time, I feel like the DOM presents us with some hard to overcome performance problems (like single-threadedness), and the current batch of declarative view libraries is actually making things worse (in terms of performance).

I think these hurdles will be overcome eventually – but I feel at this point, the stars are not aligned yet…
I can't say too much but I work for a company that supplies software to businesses that need to take thousands of transactions a minute on data that's got to be current with real-time and frequent price changes streaming data to 10s of thousands of people and third parties that are themselves big companies.

Downtime is not tolerated - I've been surgically torn apart by boards of major listed corporations over small amounts of downtime (it was something of a pleasure to be so professionally abused, strangely).

For all this we have found the best solution to use a monolithic DB with SAN-based replication, C libraries to connect to the SQL db, and a process-based custom-built application server with an embedded (unfashionable) scripting language for ease.

None of these things are fashionable, but no-one's beaten our performance.

The trouble (from my perspective) with all these social sites is that downtime is tolerated (Facebook is always screwing up; I consider them a partial joke technically) and the data is easily distributed (think Google) because the demands on consistency are low.

I'm sure our time will be up one day, but you go trendy at your peril. I'm an advocate of functional programming languages, but it's not realistic to get hundreds of these guys to switch seamlessly and reliably to a new paradigm without serious pain. Ditto NoSQL.
What (from a code organization perspective) might work better in practice is:

water.heat(stove);

because it's the water that's being changed and change should be encapsulated. On the other hand, the stove may also change in the process. In fact, the water and the stove do things to each other. Then what makes either of the two options more appropriate? Similar issues arise with a method called sendMessage; is the object having this method now supposed to send a message or to receive a message?
The problem is that global warming doesn't necessarily mean nicer winter here (Ontario). I mean, ask buffalonians about the lake-effect snow they saw last November, and scientists say that was caused by the warm lake.
Special about Nim is also that Wikipedia consistently tried to delete the article about Nimrod (and did), because someone considered it not noteworthy.
What a joke those editors are. If you have no idea about software languages don't interfere.
So? There would be no federal income tax. Further, there would be no corporate income tax, so in general prices will fall and wages will rise. Money invested or saved would not be taxed, lowering the overall rate. Finally, the prebate makes up the difference for low-income folk.

From the article you linked:
"Moreover, even FairTax critics like Gale agree that consumption taxes increase the size of the economy. Many studies show that long-term incomes would rise under a consumption-based tax system. Optimistic accounts show a 10 percent rise in income over time, but even the more cautious studies show gains of 5 percent to 7 percent. Because the FairTax will grow the economy, workers will eventually see increases in their income."

There are difficulties in implementing the Fair Tax (income tax must once again be made unconstitutional) but overall it's an extremely good idea. Imagine the gains just from the recovered productivity of everyone employed at the IRS, the myriad tax accountants, and individuals relieved from dealing with the entire mess. The billions spent on the IRS every year would also be used for something better.
Great post, love the short Do/Don't format. I would add "How will you get users." That's the single most important question Hajj had for us in the pre-interview Skype chat.
Also, VocaTalk uses all the installed voices on your system, and randomly changes the speaker for each paragraph. That's also great factor for reducing monotony. It also has other optional audio processing features like moving the voice location, echoes and dynamic voice pitch modulation.
Why? Shouldn't journalists (including Gruber) be held to some kind of truthy standard about their claims?
Price elasticity testing is one of the simplest ways to drive up your profit margins - and usually one of the last things people seem to test.

It gets way more complicated when you have longer revenue models like subscriptions, etc but if you've got an online product that's mostly one-time sales, you need to give it a try.
He isn't saying ALL ideas have equal potential for success. He is saying the value of most ideas is $0.00. To use your example, part of Henry Ford's success was the $5 work day. He was not the first person to think that increased pay would decrease turnover. He also did not invent the assembly line. The intrinsic value those ideas is nothing, but using the ideas he created value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_line#History
I had a two hour commute for two summers when I was younger because I could live for free in San Jose, but my job was in SF. I road CalTrain everyday and was blown away by the number of people the took the train for such a long time every morning. But I guess it all comes down to just whatever is financially reasonable and keeps you happy.
http://www.getharvest.com might be what you're looking for. there's a lot of buzz about the company right now.
For what it's worth it's not a drawback of Flash, the developer's just using the mouse out event to trigger changes. People make bad choices in all languages.
Show business, being primarily driven by the profit motive, tends to focus on ideas to which an audience can relate and enjoy. The story of the RMS Titanic, being one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history, is generally antagonistic toward these ends because most (not all) people don't like thinking about the possibility of dying on an ocean-liner and do not enjoy watching it happen to others.

It should be clear how these two are in opposition. For this reason alone, conventional thinking would call a movie about the Titanic a "bad idea."

The movie worked, though, and made a billion dollars because the director executed it in such a way that it actually wasn't about a sinking ship and people drowning, it was about something else. And this other thing (call it the human spirit or what-have-you), overcomes the tragedy of the situation to make it something the movie-going audience could relate to and enjoy.

From a more technical perspective, the Titanic story could be considered a "bad idea" because, on the surface, the plot should hold no surprises to anyone: boat sets sail, boat hits iceberg, boat sinks, passengers are drowned.

The remarkable thing about the Titanic film is that EVERYONE knows how it's going to end, even before they sit down to watch it. This, according to conventional wisdom, would be a bad idea as far as show business is concerned. Who wants to see a movie like that? Yet audiences returned to theaters multiple times. It is a credit to Cameron's direction that the film could overcome such a large, inherent obstacle in the Titanic storyline.
likely gist.github.com
"Copy as cURL" is pretty much the greatest addition to web dev/debugging since I started like 15 years ago..
Yes, I think very many are dependent on these feeds. As you mentioned, they are the official prices and are referenced for compliance with all those damn regulations and most of the market relies on them so it'd be pretty much impossible to facilitate trading while it's down.

Also, trading in any derivative that is based on any underlying in the feed will be very problematic because that's where the underlying spot price come from. Options trading for example were entirely shut down in those symbols while the feed was down.
There are law firms that specialize in greasing the right cogs. They are usually reasonable in their fees.
Yes, this is SF's main advantage. It's a continuous/liquid market instead of a discrete/illiquid one. No matter how finicky you want to be, you can find what you're looking for (on either side) at some price.
After reading the memo... The article, and even calling it the "end-game" memo seems rather sensationalist. I guess that's Vice's MO (not that they don't do some compelling stuff, but they do seem to have a particular flare for the theatrical), but the memo seems utterly banal and only ominous after Palast's shrill interpretations of context. I'm not saying necessarily that such shrillness is unwarranted, but Palast doesn't remotely give the reader the information to connect the dots independent of his interpretations, which on the whole don't come across as level-headed objective analysis.