jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sweet to see an official push from the Swift project behind server-side use-cases (and of course in a cross-platform way, as is Swift already [0]). Looks like this spirit is taking hold community-wide too, with projects like CocoaPods tinkering with Linux support this week [1]. The future looks bright for Swift!

[0]: https://swift.org/download/#releases

[1]: https://twitter.com/segiddins/status/790326153051447296
> Where do you find your sense of purpose working in the private sector?

Helping people is what works for me. You can help people at different scales and in different ways in the private sector. These people could be your teammates or your customers.
“Do you put Mensa on your resume?” is clearly a personal attack in this context. At least own up to your words.
It's not about missing deadlines, it's about staying focused and not being interrupted while I'm working.

At work I use both C++ and go. My experience working on a C++ project is that it takes several minutes just to build, so when I make a change and try to run the unit tests, I find myself wasting a lot of time. I'll often get bored and go on HN for example :)

When working on go it's like night and day. Projects mostly compile in less than 30 seconds (unless it has a lot of C++ dependencies). With this pattern I can maintain my focus and continue the modify-build-test loop, I find I end up being a lot more productive.
That’s a fair statement. Point taken
Good. Then pay for storage service. Why do people feel entitled to get free stuff?
But surely the social consensus that engineers are more prestigious than nurses is on the society and not on Peterson.

It might be difficult to predict the success of somebody via IQ if you compare two individuals from radically different socio-economic backgrounds, but you can compare two individuals with different IQs from similar socio-economic backgrounds and statistically IQ is a very good predictor of success.

With regards to men-to-women ratios, Peterson pointed out that countries that have the free-est social expectations(e.g. Scandinavian countries) have the most diverse differences between men and women. From my personal experience going to a university in the UK and studying CS, I could count maybe 3-5 women out of a cohort of 350+ students. I don't think you can accuse the UK of actively discouraging women from joining these fields, quite the opposite. So why don't they choose these high paying fields in such progressive countries such as UK?

I do agree with you that "race" has no strict scientific basis. I'm not sure how those studies qualified races, so that's something I'll need to look up.

I still disagree with him using conman-style tactics per se, but I will admit that I was a bit disappointed in SOME stuff that he was saying outside of his areas of expertise. Not because I thought he was wrong, but because for me his explanations of psychology set such a high standard that anything less would be overshadowed. I find that he has a very "conversational" approach at discovering new ideas - he'll sort of discuss different aspects as he goes and almost arrive at conclusions right in front of the audience. The drawback to this approach is that sometimes he might be wrong about some things - I think that's okay.

Case in point - in his debate with Zizek, iirc he quickly got shotdown by Zizek because he was pretty much out of his depth, and Peterson admitted that he was wrong. A lot of his detractors point this out as a coup de grace for Peterson, but I find it refreshing to see somebody who makes mistakes in the search of answers, but admits they were wrong and perhaps corrects themselves(not sure about the last part, I haven't kept up with his most recent stuff).
for bathrooms, i can usually find one. for showering, i used to find them too... but more recently showers are just something i gave up. i live indoors atm and i have access to a shower pretty much 24/7, and i,m just not interested.

i don,t think it is missing, it is one of the most frequently asked questions, and also one of the most frequently answered.
Not OP, but you can't go wrong with randomized/stochastic hill-climbing.It's actually very competitive with complex, fancy genetic algorithms:

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/37767541.pdf
I understand that R Markdown format is not similar to the GitHub MarkDown format. (Correct me if I am mistaken.) I would like to use the basis format of GitHub, also because it compatible with the github.io documentation websites.
Are all psychometricians INTx's, then? This sounds like exactly the kind of over-conclusion that bothers people about personality testing and its applications. ;-)
It's particularly frustrating because the framework for this feature already exists - if you link a new phone it offers to sync your history to it.
Just to clarify, %20-25 of the population is Kurdish in Turkey. In elections, PKK affiliated legal party gets half of the Kurdish votes and other half goes to Erdogan roughly. So, there is no single Kurdish identity in Turkey, more like split between these two. Ofcourse, there is a few percent which is not among these two. So, if you ask is there any Kurdish people in the government, yes there are a lot. Erdogan gets half of the Kurdish votes, so we can say Kurdish Erdogan supporters have enough representation. PKK affiliated party is not in government, because they didn't get enough votes but they are in parliament ofcourse representing their %10 votes.

I don't think PKK cares about Erdogan's Islamic Turkey dream. You don't see PKK or it's legal party saying anything about it in Turkey, I think they mention it only when they are talking to western media :)

In Turkey, there is secular opposition which is rougly %40-50, they stand against Erdogan's Islamic push but they still lack of %50 + 1 votes to dethrone Erdogan unfortunately.

PKK says they want federalism for Kurdish cities, you can advocate for that, it's okay, their legal party is doing that, that's fine. But when you're holding guns and saying my way or high way, that's a big no. So, if they really care about democratic, secular Turkey, they can put guns aside, get together with opposition in Turkey.
There is already the GDPR, but it lacks sufficient enforcement.

This is a very relevant read (PDF): https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Publikation/EN/Ot...
I don't understand what (or why) you're asking
Not just the country. All major coal power plants, period.
Even worse: if you just say "Software Patents are invalid", you lose the right to all their products. Or if you claim to have prior art to any of their products, you lose access to all other of their products as well.
>If it's a lot of power plants

That's exactly the problem, though. If you don't already know something about the power industry, there's no way to tell from the article whether this is "a lot" (enough to be an intentional trend) or just one or two aging out.
>The world needs more CEOs like him. It makes me fall in love with Apple more.

Did you read the article, or just the headline? There are more CEOs "like him".

"More than a hundred" have signed up to give away their wealth to charities, including Bill Gates, who started the pledge along with Warren Buffet. Of course, around here Bill Gates eats vitriol, because of some business practices in his history and despite his generosity and charity work. Meanwhile, Apple openly conspired to keep industry wages low and gets "#Respect"?

This is not to take away from what Mr. Cook has decided. It's great for the world. But let's not put him on a pedestal without at least acknowledging there are a slew of wealthy individuals doing this, some of them real pioneers of the idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge
I am not a fan of Apple, far from it, but just like you, I feel lots of respect for Mr Cook, and wish more people could be like him.
They manufactured the vaccine virus by developing 2 things: a strain of Ebola that lacked the gene to express a certain protein and a cell line that did express that protein. They infect cells from that line with their defective strain of Ebola, and since the cells are providing the protein, it is able to reproduce.

They isolate that vaccine virus from those cells, expose it to hydrogen peroxide, and then expose the monkeys to it. Lacking the protein, the virus is unable to reproduce.

After that exposure, when the monkeys have had time to develop immunity, they are exposed to active Ebola virus. So the earlier exposure to the vaccine virus provides them with immunity against the active virus.
That could work if you were a freelancer (although it would make life significantly more complicated). However, no established employer would agree to pay cash or bitcoin. It'd be highly illegal and no business would want to take that risk.

Aside from that, you'd still need a way to convert bitcoins to cash, which involves the money running through a bank account. It would turn in to an elaborate fraud operation.
if you save 3000gbp in London, you'll save 500eur in Lisbon.

Compare that, and living costs don't matter that much.

In 10 years the difference is huge
Joins are supported, both between the cloud tables and with local data. Local data can be created in the public schema, which is available for writing & table creation. Writing & updates to cloud tables are not supported. It works using an embedded Postgres instance with foreign data wrappers implemented by Steampipe ... you could try adding SQLite to it as a Postgres FDW. Hope that answers your questions and helps!
About 30 of the devices are low bandwidth IOT devices, I have one hub and one node.
I’ve been using Mimestream since the very early betas, and have grown to absolutely love it for its simplicity and performance. The developers are very responsive, and are iterating quite quickly to tighten up the client before stable release.

I will absolute purchase a license when it’s out of beta.
Sure, that would make a good point as part of a relevant comment somewhere.
Agreed.

It is a bit sad though that free software has come to this choice, now needing to maintain a commercial and an open source version, and the conflict of interests that means and the possible diminished value of the open source product.

But alas no other solution than this is really on the table for the developers to actually make money out of something so valuable to society.

Donation-route? Didnt they have that?
No way in the world. MS has nothing to counter Google's search. Users will not switch to Bing, there's no reason to.
This first showed up in Tweetie, whose author filed for a patent on it, so be aware:

http://gorumors.com/twitter-patent-drag-to-refresh/2754292

Edit: Since there is curiosity about the claims, here's the application:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=C3PTAAAAEBAJ
That Alan Kay signature quote is telling. Well done, Amazon.
1. There are many news about linux installation in schools. I don't mean Moscow. Most installation done in regions.

2. There are special packages for slow computers.

3. Kids are learning linux

4. Many entrepreneurs start to use linux on their companies. I saw it in shops and banks.

5. Microsoft is evil
it is not difficult for you in your cover letter to indicate that I might be interested in x,y,z in project foo because they demonstrate a,b,c, and I can find the code on github.

I think it's fair to assume that after my years in the industry, that I would not simply hand you a link with no context, nor that I would be applying for a job which didn't relate to the work I had done, and I don't feel these arguments apply to the situation I presented.

But as far as I'm concerned, my preference would be to hire based on established code and real world tasks, not abstract puzzles. Not only are puzzles like these faddish, I've met too many programmers who excelled at puzzles, but were severely lacking in more mundane (but all too necessary) departments, so in terms of what kind of things I would use to weed people out, I'd do a set of real world tasks like the one I mentioned above, well before I'd ever give a list of clever puzzles to solve.

Assuming the applicant didn't contribute to open source, which would always be a huge plus in my book.
The iPad is essentially twice as big. So screen size and portability preferences should steer you well for a start.
This isn't a poll. It's a request for information.
According to wikipedia there are about 96,669,000 cattle in the US, and 1,970,000,000 chickens. Compared to about 300,000,000 humans.

Food animals aren't kept alive long, but they do live at least around a year, so lets ignore births/deaths within the year.

Lets see, a chicken is about 5lb, cattle about 1600, and humans say 150.

So about 45,000,000,000 lb of humans, and 164,520,400,000 lb of food animals.

Based on that I would expect 27% of antibiotics for humans, and 73% for animals - and that matches pretty well with reality, especially considering the crude estimates I used, and completely ignoring pets.
The Reeder functionality is slightly different: it is not used to refresh but to get to the previous/next article. Of course it is possible that the patent is broad enough that it covers this too...
ODEs are one-dimensional PDEs.
The Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3 TB drives are another story. We’ll cover how we handled their failure rates in a future blog post.

I'm really looking forward to this... could it be a similar problem to the one that caused the huge amount of 7200.11 failures a few years ago?
I'll certainly attest to that, btrfs did that to me. Moved over to ZFS and all that went away.
Eh... yes, this post is attacking a straw man, but that's okay, since the post is explicitly about attacking a straw man (spelled "rock" in the post)?
Plone. Obsessively focussed on being user friendly.

http://plone.org/products/plone/features/

There are many features that are part of core plone, that many other CMSes do not even think exist in a CMS. Anybody suggesting Wordpress as a CMS obviously did not read your requirement for "most modern in terms of ...user experience".

If you hear negative comments about Plone, it is usually from developers who don't actually use the product or opining based on hearsay.
You are right, this won't work, you do not know what is in the check digit. There is actually a very clever way to do this, which involves using pointers that go back and forth to avoid the random value problem.

I do not have time to explain it, (and since it involves pointers, it would be pretty hard to explain without a white board) but I encourage anyone interested to look into the Knuth book and check it out.
I believe these are already covered:

https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Python.gitignore

https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/OSX.gitignore
How long does Google need to maintain your unlimited storage before you won't complain when they take it away? Until the sun goes out?
2015 MBP also suffers from staingate and in many regards isn't good enough by todays standards... Not being able to keep up with decoding 4K HEVC footage is one.

Another thing is that 15 inch model had Intel CPU from previous generation (unlike 13'), because Intel couldn't keep up with production of the latest architecture dies.
Did you ever see cloud hosting where you can run privileged containers on a shared machine?
UBI is literally government funding.

The point of it is to provide all with means to buy staple goods/services, and as with all government funded goods/services the price will go up.
Isn't 350k salary of an engineer in silicon valley?
So it appears that the NYT actually went ahead and published that attack job on Scott. I had hoped that they had choosen to forget it, but no.

Hopefully this will be what we remember as the legacy of the NYT. Pointlessly destroying things out a shear inability to create it themselves.
The same applies to German, what is spoken today isn't much like the German spoken 150 years ago. English of today is close enough to English back to around 1500, but go back to 1400 and it starts to become a different language.

Talk to a linguist if you want the very messy and complex details I just summarized to the point of butchering the truth.
So you think they'll magically declare to Apple what they've been hiding from you as the user? :D
It's part of the HSTS spec that a server receiving a request over HTTP should redirect to HTTPS.

I assume the logic here is that as it's best practice for any site with HTTPS to use HSTS also, all HTTPS sites should not be available over HTTP apart from a redirect to the secure version of the page.
Thank you very much :)
I obs feel a bit stupid now, but I would have never guessed that is what the dash does :)
"[...]offering the assistance of my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else[...]"
So, why doesn't he offer a mirror? His site is not listed on http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html
I have yet to design anything interesting that hasn't required both apps to complete efficiently... although that probably says as much about my design as it does about the differing approaches and results of these two apps.
Hmm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder?
I think FB disliked his map because it showed how poor the connections between areas where. FB's map pretends that all areas are equal and focuses on the global nature of their network.
And not everyone was using xdoclet.

One lesson from that fiasco: Just because all the giants of the day are supporting something doesn't mean it's any good.
Do you work there, at mlstate?

This seems to be very cool project too. I will not compare technical merits of all the mentioned projects, because I am not experienced with any of them.

Do you have any big application developed in OPA? How was the experience compared to more traditional webdev stack?
Seaside (written in smalltalk by Avi Bryant) and Lift (written in Scala by David Pollak, inspired on Seaside) also have this goal. Seaside is also quite old, but works just fine.
For a few reasons, I had to take a job maintaining/enhancing some huge government Java applications (largely Oracle based). I thought that there was some interesting things going on in the ecosystem because of what I read about all of the JVM-based hacking. I thought that because all of this hacking there would be a lot of solid, well integrated tools and good documentation.

I had successfully avoided Java for most of my career, so it was also an opportunity to learn something new.

That was a terrible mistake. It's almost impossible to find answers that are relevant. There is very little readable documentation, even directly from Oracle. When you do find a relevant bit of information on a forum or blog, it's either outdated or useless because the author doesn't specify what their environment is.

I asked my colleagues for books, blogs or other resources to help me get up to speed. They pretty much laughed and said I'm out of luck.

I won't complain about the tooling. It's bad, but that may be more a matter of taste than anything else.
As much as I appreciate your praise of TDD here, there are large categories of defects that TDD does nothing to prevent. TDD only helps programmers write the code they intended to write. It doesn't protect against programmer misunderstandings.

As a result, well-TDD'd code may still have defects that involve:

- the programmers misunderstood what needed to be built ("requirements" defect)
- the programmers interfaced with an external system that behaves differently than they thought
- the programmers used a third-party library or framework incorrectly
- there is a systemic error in the programmers' approach to the problem (e.g., not knowing about SQL injection attacks)

As I say in my "Let's Play TDD" series (http://jamesshore.com/Blog/Lets-Play/), TDD does a great job of helping a programmer write the code she intended to write. But it can't check the programmer's fundamental assumptions, so it's still important to check those assumptions using other techniques.
I actually struggle to understand why people even use Math.random() when the Random class exists.
I'm fairly sure that my downtime due to a hardware failure at softlayer would be less than the downtime AWS has had for huge numbers of people this year. And hardware failures on a given server happen less frequently than 1/year on average.

Problems are just not as common if you're running on a handful of dedicated machines, and a single dedicated machine at a good host can handle a LOT without having to do all the crazy reliability engineering that running on AWS requires. You need backups, but you don't need that same assumption that you need to be able to failover instantly or you will have guaranteed downtime sometime soon. I don't think that that difference can be overstated, since it lets you focus on more important things.
If you want to talk about tech only in the Western world, that's great. Stating that the West "is really the only part of the world where we can meaningfully talk about technology" is just nonsense, though. Technology can be applied everywhere. The laws of physics don't magically stop outside the Western world.
It's downright quirky that I can get a visa to do it from Japan, a country which, ahem, has not historically been known for its welcoming embrace of foreigners. (Long story short: my previous employers know how the game is played, and keeping a status of residence once you have it is pretty trivial: pay taxes, file forms in a timely fashion, and don't get arrested.)
I agree it's all about trade-off. Cleaner, faster, cheaper development vs risk of alienating some percentage of users with older mobile browsers. I was trying to get a feel for what people are currently thinking - but there doesn't seem to be an overriding consensus yet.

As regards focusing on what the stack looks like now rather than making an educated guess as to the not-too-distant future, here I have to disagree. Our business is all about well-reasoned gambles, and it seems pretty clear HTML5 will win the day for all but the most complex / intensive apps, so it really only boils down to timing.

Highly-respected VC Mark Suster made a similar point when he advised people to "skate where the puck is going" http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/10/17/skate-where-th...
Are you saying it's not surprising, or just not surprising to you?

Evidence shows that most people don't know the actual wealth distribution in this country:
http://www.slate.com/id/2268872

Looking at the Real vs. Imagined Welath Distribution, it's easy to see that people underestimate the top 20%, but what is striking to me is the the bottom 40% isn't even visible on the actual distribution because they make up about %0.3. Call me ignorant but that was a big surprise to me.

EDIT: Just wanted to make it clear that the slate link is only about wealth and not income.
Did the author or this article even read netflix's statement? There was no "lamentation" of the fragmentation of the Android market. Because Android doesn't enforce a DRM model on every android handset Netflix is going to be working with individual manufacturers to try to bring DRM to as many phones as possible.

When I read "Netflix on Android" it seemed more like an apology to me. Netflix was saying we're sorry that we're going to fragment the market and confuse people, but this is the only way. They mentioned nothing about any fragmentation that already exists.
Voice is getting integrated elsewhere, so perhaps the "dial, ring, answer" model IS going to go away. Witness Sococo. But voice communication can't for all the obvious reasons.
howud u complish tht?

[That was a serious question with an illuminating response. How would you know whether those who downvoted me were doing so because of my comprehensible but poor writing style, or out of disagreement?]