jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I tried several things but what got the interest of my daughter(10) is code.org

She also uses it at school, and she regularly enjoys working with it on her own.

Because she seems to go more toward the graphical creative side, I made her work on the logo of a personal project I work on at the moment, and she did enjoy it a lot.

Sometimes I ask her to edit some c++ code I work on and see how the result is when running the code from Xcode; we have a lot of fun doing that!
Has Gradle finally got an equivalent to parent pom? It's such a vital feature, to be able to set dependency versions and plugins up to use on all child projects and publish into a repo. Last time I looked, Gradle couldn't do this.
Thank you for the comment. We do not plan on redistributing others' content. That would be totally against our primary goal for this project. We just provide links (no downloads from our site) to the original works so that the illustrator gets more traffic for himself and his other works. Sorry about the redundancy. We try to keep the license info as simple and accurate as possible. Currently, We only provide license info for CC/MIT and let users read custom licenses from the original site. Also, we are always ready to respect the decision of the creator if he finds a problem with his work being showcased.
I’m older than you and I think it’s fun. I also question that this is a new thing. Look at the web in the 90s for example.
When I talk IRL I don't use GIFs or stickers, and the only background is whatever is behind me.

I like the idea of moving around to decide who you talk to; it is the premise behind jitsi-powered Work Adventure http://workadventu.re
> I recall debating with a friend who was against socialized healthcare recently, and then seeing them promote a GoFundMe campaign for a mutual friend’s medical bills on Facebook a few days later.

> The irony was lost on him. I think the key is that Americans love to dream of themselves as wealthy philanthropists (no matter how poor they actually are).

I'm not sure I see the irony either. if I'm understanding correctly, your friends pooled their own money together to help someone they knew and cared about. how is this similar to socialized healthcare at scale?
Will be installing Prey ASAP. Great recommendation.
> 1. Agreeing on it doesn't make it moral. [Edit: although it does create a moral majority, aka, the tyranny of the majority]

Yeah, but it does mean that we may unapologetically assume it when we talk about economic issues.
Except the screen grab showed the text as being "the new white meat", which is what has me a bit confused.
> Non-profits are just as bad, the only real difference is that profits are given to overpaid and underworked employees instead of shareholders.

I truly hope you aren't talking about professors here... they're in quite the opposite position. I think it's a damned shame how little professors make, unless they're at an absolutely top-notch university.
In this case there is no product. While it did not make it through trial, The North Face vs. The South Butt seems more intrusive: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36334733/ns/business-consumer_ne...
If you're a developer, the version released today is the same build as the one that has been available as the GM Seed since WWDC.

No need to upgrade.

Edit: apparently there are a couple differences. Game center isn't installed in the "retail" version, and there seems to be at least one fixed bug on non-3GS devices (see comment below). But the build is the same.
There is already an established market for "White Meat" and ThinkGeek is just breaking into it. It's not their fault Pork has created a binary market. It would be akin to Bing entering the search eng... Ah fudge it, it's Unicorn Meat!
It's taking forever to do the backup. I wonder if there's something wrong.
He wasn’t even wrong. Most users are dumb fucks and anyone that has had to design interfaces knows this.
Other than Android, where Google is pushing Kotlin no matter what, I would use the platform's official language, Java.

No need for FFI, additional IDE plugins, it works across all Java IDEs, no need for idiomatic plugins, annotations to make code understandable by the JVM, full access to JVM opcodes without constraints or special cases, and it will be around as long as the Java Virtual Machine matters to the industry.
They were hiring for their storage and networking groups, but that’s all we know.
I thought the proper moral lesson was to change your ways instead of making sure you don't get caught again. But who cares about morals?
> The Foundation secures Kotlin's development and distribution as Free Software

But then...

> The code is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
I mean, the reporter may be one of those people.

Like, to use your analogy, if I were writing an article on someone and they threw references to Hitler into otherwise innocuous topics like vegetarianism? Maybe I wouldn’t describe it as “aligning themselves”, but I’d probably find it suspicious enough to include.
I think fundamentally you have 2 arguments here.

First your argument is does one have a right to make money doing something the same way it was done yesterday? Or 10 or 20 years ago?

At one time you could make good money operating an elevator. Do we ban buttons in elevators to protect these jobs?

So no. No I don't think it's on societies best interest to outlaw buttons in elevators. New technology is happening that fundamentally de-values what a driver now does. It's unfair but it's maybe time for new jobs. That's simply best for society as a whole. The amount we all collectively save will vastly dwarf anything these few get by holding back the tide.

Two - the old system sucked. It was terrible. It still is. Taxis in NYC were already a cesspool of con-men and corruption. Lives were ruined in the buying and selling of medallions. The cars sucked, the drivers refused to go places, the ONLY reason it survived at all was the government forced it down our throats.

Uber won because people like it better. No matter what you say about any of it - people decided they VASTLY prefer pressing their own button in the elevator. It's sad but it's life.

So yes, it is "stupid" to fight this when everyone using these services has so clearly said the new way is better.
I had an idea for a dating app a while back, in which the basic idea is that you pay the service to message someone (above a free weekly limit of say 1 msg).

The pricing would be reactive - as popular attractive people get more messages, the more it would cost to message them, growing exponentially in order to limit incoming messages to approx a few a day. Unpopular people who got few messages would have a price that would go down to zero. This would hopefully solve the problem of women getting hundreds of messages a day, and men getting neither any incoming messages nor any replies to their outgoing messages.

It shouldn't be much of a problem to get women on board, as they rarely send messages anyway and it would always be free just to put up a profile and receive messages. And for men it would hopefully be a fair an transparent way to have confidence that their outgoing messages would be received and read (and have fewer immediate competitors), rather than just lost in the noise.

I don't have time for it now, but it's always been something on my mind.

Edit: Thanks for your comments. This is interesting. Lots of hypotheses worth experimenting.
Should add Irish Guiness beef stew (also called Irish stew/beef stew?)
That's quite an amusing story! Perhaps cabs are the new fashion police?
Nothing is easy when more money can be made by claiming it is difficult.
> One idea I've had is to disallow conversation in the app, and instead focus on making date plans if there's a match.

You should likely run this idea past a few women. The typical reason they want to converse before meeting is security: Meeting strangers is dangerous and they want to "sniff test" to see if it is safe enough to even go that far.

Your app idea largely seems to exist to solve issues men have with dating apps but it doesn't really address why women avoid them/prefer direct social interaction.
Warning: comment strongly biased towards a specific type of learning technology :)

At a molecular level, all memory (dendritic spines) declines at roughly the same rate. Some memories last much longer because the dendritic spines formed were much stronger (such as traumatic event, a well-formulated memory, or a memory strongly linked to other things such as a smell). But they all decline at the same rate nonetheless.
I've been a fan of spaced-repetition learning for a few years. Programs like Anki use a variation of an old algorithm (SM-2) based on decay-rates for memory extrapolated from data gathered through tens of thousands of people over many years.
I use a similar program for rote memorization first, and then to remember concepts.

After I grasp the basics of a subject I can eventually delete that flashcard and create a concept-based flashcard that allows me to understand the forest for the trees. Example: "very frothy urine is a possible clinical symptom of what disease? Proteinuria/Nephrotic syndrome" → "what macro-nutrient, when mixed vigorously in liquid, makes it frothy? Protein". So now I understand the key concept for both nephrotic syndrome and why I should only add whey protein to my shakes at the end of the mixing to avoid creating bubbles, etc.

If I had started using these programs when young, I would have saved years of life not having to re-learn the same thing year after year, because it takes much longer to re-learn than to remember. And now imagine I hadn't been forced to rote-memorize useless things just to pass a boring exam. Years of life...
I wonder if spaced-repetition can also be used to remember skills that aren't practiced often.

The only limitation I know with spaced-repetition algorithms is that the data shows that it's not very useful for children until they're about 7 yo. This is because the algorithms are tuned to adult-level memorization, and children under 7 usually aren't nearly as good as adults at retention (for many reasons).
I don't see why you're singling out afl-fuzz when you can say the exact same thing for every automated penetration testing tool.

There's scores of Linux distributions dedicated to bundling as many security-related scripts as possible. If we're going to be talking about "utility to blackhatters", there's plenty of tools that have been around for longer and have been far more influential.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic but I'll respond in case you aren't. I don't recall saying that I thought there were mistakes in the book; I wouldn't know I haven't read it.

The person I was replying to just didn't seem to understand what anon1385 was trying to say; it's difficult to recommend a book written by someone who writes and teaches on topics he/she doesn't fully understand. There was a link to a thread where the author of a book on C was wrong about one of the fundamental aspects of the language.

Again, I don't have the slightest idea whether there is wrong information in any of the author's books, but I can also see why one would be wary trusting a book written by someone who has shown a serious lack of mastery on previous occasion.

I believe the person I was replying to misunderstood the cause of concern as being one where a person is taught poor or suboptimal practices as opposed to one where a person is taught things which are just flat out incorrect.
Thinking about this some more, I suppose the take-away for software engineers who don't want to retire young is this: Kill any sense of aesthetics you may have; always back the platform or technology that appears to be winning, regardless of what you feel its merits are; never hope for the underdog to win; worse is better; either be a mercenary, or look for ways to do some good within the broken system without trying to fix the parts you can't change. Is that too negative a conclusion?
I don't see why I can't be in shock and horror at what the NSA has been doing with my private data while at the same time not be in support of the way I found out about it.
Well, I tried it just now from my computer ... e.g. playnoise.com or https://github.com/PatrickStankard/ShutUpAndJam.js

It sounded like a nicer "fan" ... very consistent. I think for it to be effective, you'd want to direct it to bounce off cube or glass walls between you and the speaker. If it's loud enough, without walls, it might prevent conversation, hindering productivity for co-workers.
Finally someone implements the tab organization feature I've been peddling for years.

My latest peddle attempt: https://mozillalabs.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=5000...
Here's what a can of Tenka-ichi looks like: https://shop.ippodo-tea.co.jp/shop/en/images/goods/g00010217...
So enterprise means a macbook docking port?
I like knowing the alternatives. Unfortunately, without news on the most mainstream stuff, the most unknown alternatives never surface. Therefore I really appreciate comments like this.
Does anyone know where I can buy the PINO Digital Kettle Pro in Europe? Amazon refuses to ship it to my address in Sweden.
Good insight, thanks for reminding me of that also great book by Vernor Vinge! Anyway, Metaplanetary is one of my favorites.
Furthermore: if you don't need to be thinking all the time, you can re-use cells whose main job is something else the rest of the time, and probably get along with many times fewer.

It is not hard to imagine a world filled with nothing but plants and their products, where everything is done 100-1000x more slowly. Visit, and it looks like everything is frozen in time. But what is the all-fired hurry? It's a big universe.

Interstellar travel would be no big deal, for them. 1000 years to the nearest star? Time enough for a nap on the way, then. Their ships would be controlled by computers that work faster than they do. Like ours, really.

There is no objective reason to believe that Sequoias are not thinking. We just don't know.
Black Forest Games is still around, and making Giana Sisters games.
It's the most beautiful thing I've ever laid eyes on. #ithrewupinmymouthalittlebit
#itriedtokeepastraightface
My reading is different:
* Paper says, sea level will rise, with many areas vulnerable
* Newspaper exaggerates to say, "OMG people will be at the bottom of the sea"
* Article says, well this one bit of global warming we can deal with, as we always did. Dikes will be built, drainage added, and it's all kinda cheap

I don't think they argue against combating climate change.

Another way to put it: let's worry first about the climate change issues we cannot mitigate.
How much snow do you get there?

I live in Northern Europe and drive a Prius and have no issues in the winter. Last year we went to visit my wife's grandma, who lives in a 'village' (nearest neighbour 1km away) ~5km down a uneven dirt track which is bad enough in the summer. When we went, there was 30cm of snow on the road, but I had absolutely no issues. I was surprised by how well it handled it.

Sure if I had ended up in a ditch I would have had troubles, but you'd also have issues with a truck. (There aren't many big trees you can use to tow yourself out in this area)

I get that maybe you like trucks, but I don't think there is as much need as you make out (in the winter department - your other points are fair arguments). Modern cars (esp. 4x4) can handle pretty much any road surface, the only case you would need something bigger is for off-road where you need higher clearance.
Former private security guard here: in our training, we were told that we, as private citizens, could "arrest" someone, if you're willing to sign your name to an arrest warrant. You'd want to have the cops on the way, and be willing to face a false arrest lawsuit for detaining them, so you'd better be really 100% sure you caught them in the act of doing something illegal.

We were also taught it's almost never worth doing this; basically, if someone's shooting people and you're doing an armed job, yes, use your gun to try and stop them or detain them, but if it's just property damage or theft, call the cops and let them do their thing. The risk to you isn't worth it, nor is the risk of a false arrest lawsuit.
Based on the stated ranges of 250, 300 and 500miles (!), I would guess those battery sizes are 75, 100 and 150kWh.
I hope the upcoming triple motor model S, will get that 150 battery pack next summer. That would mean 600miles of range for the new model S.
Thanks for the input. Our teams are currently employed in startups and are happy to jump on a project during their next sprint in order to pay the bills.
Aging is encoded in our DNA with a purpose, if we will be able to fully understand how DNA works me might be able to partially disable it but will we want to? maybe when we will reach that level of knowledge we will also have the wisdom to understand the implications.
>Users like stability and predictability in their software. Sure, they like new whizz-bang as well, but that excitement lasts for a week after you buy a new machine, and then they want stability every day for years.

After years of linux use, I was always excited to see new releases, and how it was catching up with Windows and OSX. Ubuntu by version 10.4 was great, and I loved it, but then I hit the upgrade button and it borked the install (actually that happened a lot before 10.4, with various distributions).

Nowadays I am very wary of system upgrades, because more likely than not something won't work and I can't be bothered to reinstall everything the way I like it.

Ten years ago I enjoyed installing the various flavour of Linux and seeing what new shiny whizz-bang they contained - now I see it for what it is: some novelty eye candy, that rarely adds any real usability). Now I prefer rolling releases, and I am using XFCE, as it is basic and works.

The thing is, it has taken me dozens of installs of Linux to realize that the new shiny whizz-bang shiny features are usually a lot of crap, and my guess is that most "normal" users are still at the stage where shiny is far more exciting than stable. I would expect that Apple fans are even more geared to that attitude. Shinny new crap is what sells, not stable and boring (how many people do you know that use Debian stable, and compare that to Ubuntu users).
There is nothing else. Basically, calorie restriction works, and nothing else does. I recommend Fight Aging! if you are interested.

https://www.fightaging.org/faq/
You don't know how much fun I had writing it. Each paragraph was an instant flashback.
Who does this kind of system benefit except the lawyers?
"These compromises have been made up ad hoc to avoid the inference that aging evolved to benefit the community, not the individual."

Isn't this just group selection again? Has this view become more accepted nowadays among biologists? There are very compelling arguments against it.

Maybe a better way to phrase it would be to say that aging has evolved to benefit the offspring, which traditionally happened to make up a significant part of the community?
> The author is not saying "write C in Python," he's saying "Aim for C-style abstractions in Python." i.e. build the codebase around the bread-and-butter: function calls, iteration, reference-passing and mutability, and not around abuse of the numerous higher-level abstractions available(meta-programming, yield, exec()...). It's a lesson learned regularly by programmers as they gain experience and move towards conservativism, after having seen all their silver bullet attempts go up in flames.

Amen to that. I've been programming in Python for 7 years now, but lately I had started to see more and more of my fellow Pythonistas dropping "yields" all over the place, using "generator this / generator that" etc. I thought I was either getting too old or maybe I was not smart enough, because to me Python it's 99% about writing and manipulating nice hash tables (dictionaries, as they are called) and lists (I love those list comprehensions).

Again, maybe is just me, I just felt that adding another layer of abstraction would get between me and the data I'm trying to manipulate when I write my programs.
> Merely having copyrighted files in your Dropbox is certainly no violation of copyright law.

Actually, it could be. Copyright means exactly that: the right to copy.
Feel free to do so. As far as I know, the FSFE fellowship is open to anyone:

https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php

However, engaging in FSFE campaigns might become a difficult undertaking if you can't attend any of the local meetings. (Of course there are mailing lists, but those are, well, just mailing lists.)

So for a US citizen, I think it would be more effective to join the FSF instead, and to stay in contact with the FSFE from there. Those connections should already exist and probably just need to be pushed forward.
Of course, Dropbox can't prevent people from sharing content out of band. But if Client A and Client B are offering arbitrary byte ranges to complete strangers, they are effectively playing BitTorrent again.
Are you referring to the link in the title? It is true that the company was hosting cardiac patient monitoring on EC2. This was not life threatening infrastructure, but that is not implied by the HN title. How is it linkbait?

The poster on Amazon's forum misrepresented the severity of the infrastructure and tries to backpedal later on in the thread. This is an example of someone using EC2 and fucking up, firstly for hosting production level infrastructure without backups, and secondly for misrepresenting the importance of the infrastructure in an attempt to get more technical support, making them look liable for some sort of medical malpractice.

The poster probably panicked when they realised their first mistake, and thought they were showing that they were trying to get back in control. I don't think the poster was totally stupid, maybe she/he didn't understand the risks of EC2, or maybe it wasn't even their decision to have no backups --- in which case they should have pressed harder at meetings or refused to continue to work on the project. And then they panicked. We can all learn something from this.
Thank you! Halloc works great for Mongrel2

http://mongrel2.org/dir?ci=4ff647658e12c6f4&name=src/mem

edited to add (for third parties): iirc, halloc is mainly used by mongrel2 in things like the routes table, where it makes the code for maintaining the trie much cleaner.
Arash (the CTO) asked me to, in a really civil way. So I decided to respect his wish and take down the repository.

Myself, I really regarded dropship as a nice feature. As Dropbox had implemented the great idea of putting all humanity's data in one big hash-addressable vat, sharing is a logical extension. If you would cache the popular blocks locally (dropbox already does this in a way with LAN P2P), global data distribution would be pretty much a solved problem.

Obviously, this affects legal and illegal files in the same way. It's really a shame that people are still so obsessed with the illegal applications, that they become blinded to how useful this is for legal ones.
That's not a debate, that's a Pinker curb-stomping Gladwell, hardly surprising when Steve Sailer is entirely capable of doing it.
Also, if you live alone (or have a diet incompatible with your housemates), try cooking for several days at once. Cooking and meal planning are skills you're guaranteed to be using for life, so put in the time to become at least moderately competent at them.
I used to ask recruiters in NYC (this is 1-2 years ago) for candidates with hacking backgrounds. They continuously looked at me with perplexed expression.

From my perspective, they make the best employees. A 1990's hacker, for example, is someone interested in coding and the internet before 'building web apps' was a viable profession. This means they are creative and quite skilled at taking things apart and dissecting them.
Excellent point. An added benefit is that most people will respect you for standing up for what you want, and will tend not to bother you with trivia.