jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I gave the reporting a try, and I like the flow in the demo (which is for a Public repo); easy to use.

For a private repo, I would probably also want people to be able to leave anonymous replies (to get 'as much feedback as possible'), but that's just my n=1 opinion.

Good luck.
I worked at two big, well known software companies which had the same default password - company123, albeit for low security stuff, where you wanted wide access but a password was required for some reason.
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/irap/index.html
I saw an interview once with the producers saying that 1955 was not that much in the past had changed. So for some of the things (like the gas station attendant scene and some of the cars) they had to go back into the 40s to make it look 'older'.
As of this time, that data isn't publicly available.
If you assume (incorrectly, as science has proven) that the human body can metabolize 100% of the energy it consumes, your worst case scenario is your caloric intake. In practice, since you're not receiving 100% of that energy, you're actually better off. Figure out your BMR (basal metabolic rate) and add your estimated calorie expenditure and consume fewer calories than that. The fact that not all those calories are actually used by the body makes it even easier to stay below your daily energy requirements. Thanks for the reply
Since then they've bootstrapped their way from 1.28 all the way to 1.50:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages...
> Parsing JSON?!

Many developers I have spoken to out there in the wild in my role as a consultant have wildly distorted mental models of performance, often many orders of magnitude incorrect.

They hear somewhere that "JSON is slow", which it is, but you and I know that it's not this slow. But "slow" can encompass something like 10 orders of magnitude, depending on context. Is it slow relative to a non-validating linear binary format? Yes. Is it minutes slow for a trivial amount of data? No. But in their mind... it is, and there's "nothing" that can be done about it.

Speaking of which: A HTTPS REST API call using JSON encoding between two PaaS web servers in Azure is about 3-10ms. A local function call is 3-10ns. In other words, a lightweight REST call is one million times slower than a local function call, yet many people assume that a distributed mesh microservices architecture has only "small overheads"! Nothing could be further from the truth.

Similarly, a disk read on a mechanical drive is hundreds of thousands of times slower than local memory, which is a thousand times slower than L1 cache.

With ratios like that being involved on a regular basis, it's no wonder that programmers make mistakes like this...
Depends on the country. In many smaller countries (and even some medium-sized ones, such as South Korea), a majority or plurality of the population lives within the metropolitan area of the capital.
In my experience most engineers have never used a profiler even once. They write the code, and if you're lucky they get it working correctly.
They're not normally distributed. Almost any investment strategy has heavier tails than normal. So exceeding some number of sigma (assuming a normal distribution) does not imply an implausible amount of luck.

For example, a single investment in Amazon 20 years ago would outperform the market by many sigma. But the probability of an average fool having picked that particular stock 20 years ago was not 10^-(some large number). At least 1 in 100 fools would have picked Amazon.
It's also a freely-available book from MIT:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...

Texinfo version (recommended) and pretty PDF version:

https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf
This is not Little League people, this is the lawyer they retained to spec this thing out.
Here's an idea: a reverse book review. A book reviews its readers, or the author reviews its readers' review. Maybe it's boring. Here's another one: a book review reviewed by another reader. Could be interesting.
Getting x509 issues. Output is below:

$ httpdiff https://www.google.com http://www.google.com

Doing GET:
https://www.google.com
http://www.google.com

Error doing GET https://www.google.com: Get https://www.google.com: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority

I'm sitting behind a pretty heavy proxy though; could be that. That or OS X(10.9.5) certificate store issue maybe?
Quad-core devices are probably in the 100s of millions for now, not billions, but I agree with the rest. :)

(Globally speaking, the most common type of smartphone today is probably a one-core 0.6-0.8 GHz Android device running Android 2.x. With a crappy 320x480 TN display and not nearly enough RAM.)
I like the idea of an eternal gravestone. The base is a very slow 3D printer, constantly extruding a headstone. The material ablates at a predictable rate, so the oldest bit - the top of the headstone - slowly crumbles away, while the bottom looks new and fresh.

You'd have to scroll whatever message on it - your name, birth and death dates, etc. - like a very slow marquee.
It's hard to point to examples of cities that don't do it because it doesn't make the news when a new building is put up in Nashville. It doesn't make the news when a law to limit building height is never even proposed in Kalamazoo. It doesn't make the news when Akron's population increases 3% year over year.

It does make the news when San Francisco's residents start getting driven out of the city. It does make the news when Madison limits the height of buildings downtown. Can you give me an example of people who didn't get a flat tire today? Of course not, because that's just called normal functioning.
Always this talk about valuations. Never about revenues and profits. Reminds me of the dotcom days when people used every other metric when they couldn't talk about profitability. Like eyeballs, clicks, etc. There will be a few winners but a vast many will do down in smokes or get acquired for pennies on the dollar.
If you won't listen to me (someone who does this for a living) maybe you will listen to a quote from wikipedia:

> imposing restrictions on the available resources is what distinguishes computational complexity from computability theory

And for the record when I say the ability of algorithms to do something I mean the class of all possible algorithms.
That's why it should be normalized per startup. Roughly $30m per, at 5 years.
We the citizens and voters. We do vote these people in office.
>>> Of course, there could be a macro collapse in 2018 or 2019, which wouldn’t have time to recover by 2020. I think that’s the most likely way for me to lose.

Macro collapse = Bubble Bursting. The performance of YC's personal portfolio is irrelevant to the idea of bubble bursting if there are other investors running a pump and dump on the industry at large.
He's also the same guy behind other videos like "MongoDB is web scale!": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGHa3q15FmqB4D9yNlxrdKQ

Time for a new one, I loved the Erlang sequel.
It's irrational because the 10 minutes of work that doesn't destroy the door is worth much more than the hour of work that does - replacing a door is expensive and costs the homeowner additional time and aggravation.

Also, it's really more than 10 minutes of work, since the locksmith has to spend time driving to and from the customer. His fee needs to cover his travel time and expenses (gas, wear and tear on his truck, insurance, etc.). So $70 for a 10 minute house call doesn't seem unreasonable.
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Agree. Professionalism is what I look for in a company, not culture.
> Playing along felt like the price of inclusion.

Wait, what? The author played along for more than a year and then placed a complaint? Maybe it's the way the article is written but this seems pretty bad on the author's part.

The author seemed to be mainly worried about their ruining their 'upward trajectory' in the company.

Aaannnd the author is writing a book.

Yes, I am cynical.
This looks like something out of Total Recall, which maybe makes sense since Musk is obsessed with Mars.
There is a better article at DOI 10.1126/science.366.6467.782, if you know where to find such things.

When Chemical Vapor Deposition is used to produce simple structures like diamond or graphene, the carbon source is typically methane, with one carbon atom.

These scientists instead used molecules with 6 carbon atoms in a † shape, which deposit to form a more complex structure. Their unofficial name is "U-carbon" (for "unusual"). They suspect that variations of the process could produce hundreds of new allotropes.

Edit: The article from the DOI is also at https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/next-graphene-shiny-...
This is a great article, makes me want to get off my bum and do some exercise :) One thing I'd like to know is, for women, yoga and pilates and all that seems to be quite fashionable these days, but they don't tend to be either cardio or weightlifting -- what sort of effect do they have on the body?
1) In TFA, s/cersion/version/, but that's an amusing typo. :-)

2) Initializing inside the for loop requires C99; is that to be considered idiomatic? I didn't think so. I'll be curious how many submissions were either identical to your suggested idiomatic solution or its K&R equiv:

https://gist.github.com/3f4daf24595788258a01

:-)
This is an interesting one, because I think you're entirely right.

The tough question I see is this: would exaggerating, downplaying or relativising the severity of the BP Spill increase or decrease the chances of more catastrophes like Chernobyl & Bhopal? The prospect of continuing abuses by oil companies in poorer parts of the world? Would it increase or decrease the chances of catastrophes like those being dealt with and cleaned up?

I'm not wording those questions like I know the answer, cos I really don't. Optimistically, I try to hope that more environmental awareness is always a good thing.
I wonder if Ballmer is aware that Elijah is pumping FF as his first-target JS environment on an MSDN blog? Not exactly eating your own dog food.
Kudos to Microsoft for indirectly recommending Firefox!
My bicycle charger kit is a good night's sleep, followed by a nutritious breakfast. :)
UberX from Manhattan to Newark is $65 flat fare, no tip required.
In other words, they new it was a bad idea that would draw backlash, but they did it anyway
Einstein said: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler". This is an instance of "but no simpler".

Any non-trivial page written in only html will eventually evolve into a self-written static site generator, the author even suggests that by recommending shell script to automate html generation.

The real simple solution is to use a static site generator, however one could debate whether it is better to write it yourself or to use an existing one.
Rakuten Kobo evaluates Couchbase and RavenDB for their eBook enterprise app. Databases are measured by performance, cost savings, and ease of use.
What I mean is that if we’ve (meaning the privileged Americans) already got it pretty good, then why should we leave? If the reason is that life would be better elsewhere, then that’s a valid reason to go. If the reason is that we feel our fellow citizens are treated unfairly, then shouldn’t we stay and try to fix it (as voting Americans with potential influence). I’m not saying to take responsibility for the world’s poor, I’m saying that if you’re already in a privileged spot, it’s the ultimate privilege to just up and leave.
If you assume a well-functioning insurance market, I think the argument can be made that the negative expected value should however be very small. Then going one step further, I think mitigating downside potential is actually the opposite of gambling. Driving without insurance is gambling.
If you can find a way to get a hold of it, Saunders MacLane's Mathematics: Form and Function is a tremendous book for understanding how math arises from the world and reflects it. What's written here is a lot more specific than that, of course, but if this illustration interests you then it might be a good book to try digging into a little bit.

On the other hand, while I am always cognizant and amazed by the POV of math as a human construction, there's something a little otherworldly about it from time to time. In the same way that you sometimes hit a code design which feels so damn good, Math, especially older math, is just a huge collection of these. Somehow, despite this all coming, apparently, from our minds, we hit on these design decisions that are just so sweet that they last millennia. This is what inspired things like Voyager---maybe it's hubris, but it just has to be the case that aliens speak mathematics.

So, I encourage anyone excited by this: math isn't "hard", it's just big and wonderful. You'll never finish learning it, but the journey will be incredible.

I'll leave this linking two more great resources (edit: to be clear, really the first one is the great resource... the second is just me talking, not really great at all). First, Paul Erdös, a famous mathematician who perhaps specialized in combinatorics, loved this idea I espouse above. In his mind, God had a small number of "proofs" in his mind when he designed mathematics. These are so wonderful that their beauty is completely self-evident. After Erdös "stopped doing math" (passed away) people compiled some of his Proofs from The Book along with others they imagine he would have so regarded into a great text book called, unsurprisingly, Proofs from The Book [0].

Finally, I'll self plug a little essay I wrote, actually in another HN comment, a while ago about learning mathematics.

http://jspha.com/posts/there_is_no_royal_road_to_mathematics...

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Proofs-THE-BOOK-Martin-Aigner/dp/36420...
I'd love to know why they're still being sold at a 6 week delay. Tim Cook is really good at operations stuff, and this isn't like Apple . They certainly know the demand is there by now.

Seems like the only possibilities are some sort of part shortage (maybe it's really hard to get those tiny batteries) or a very high defect rate (there were rumors of that around launch).

I wonder how long this will last.
> I've never run across anyone in the U.S. who refers to postal codes as zip codes.

Say what? Where in the U.S. do you live? I've been all over, and I've never once heard them called 'postal codes'; always and every time 'zip codes.'
I cannot tell that from the database, sure, because a database is simply structural information, not functional. Without a list of things that the database is supposed to do, it might be great or it might suck. Don't know.

But all modern systems have both structure and behavior. For every database there is a MVC model somewhere, for instance. And looking at those controllers, you should absolutely be able to tell whether the database is well-constructed or not.

Now there's another consideration: does the database structure map into some problem domain such that the introduction of new controllers will be supported? That's usually what people mean when they talk about architecture: the mapping of a problem domain over to a solution domain such that changes in the requirements have minimal impact on the solution.

In System-of-Systems work I'd argue yes, such work has some value -- as long as it is continually driving some kind of delivery (and not just "smart guys drawing boxes"). But in regular green-field system development? Not so much. That's because the tendency is to begin focusing on the wrong thing, the model instead of the user. Timeboxes help with this, so much so that I wouldn't advise any stand-alone architectural work in such an environment without team integration and time-boxing.
This looks like a very uncharitable interpretation of the pop version of Dunning-Krugger. For one, people who use an explanation like that pretty much always talk about unskilled individuals in particular. I might be projecting but it seems like a more charitable interpretation of what they are saying would be 'The less someone knows about a subject, the more they [overestimate what] they know' which is roughly correct.
That's not an argument, Bjarne Stroustrup understands C++, does it make it elegant or simple?
First tool I ever used that I remember being good was Firebug which I was using around 2006-2007. That was one of my main reasons for using Firefox at that point. Once Google Chrome came along with it's inspector, I switched browsers.
I know why we use it. The API/Integrations are awesome, and they allow us to have a fluid, subscribe-to-what-you-care-about stream of everything our remote team does everywhere.
We do say it about people who are too lazy to tie their shoes though.
Take this for what it's worth, but virtually every example I see here is for applications that are supported on Linux, but certainly not specifically targeted towards Linux. Looking through the comments I see Jetbrains apps (which are built in Java and designed to be cross-platform), Steam, Sublime, Spotify, Dropbox, etc. I can guarantee all of those apps make the vast majority of their money from paying Mac and Windows customers, and they either offer a Linux version because they can afford to for essentially developer goodwill, or there is an interoperability story (e.g. a Dropbox user may use Mac most of the time, but needs it to manage some shared storage on all of their machines, including some Linux ones). Perhaps one exception I could see to this is highly technical or engineering focused software (e.g. Matlab, CAD software), but that software is largely paid for by large organizations like companies and universities.

HN folks may not like to hear it, but in general your "average" Linux user makes the absolute worst software customer: they can get tons of stuff for free so there is a high bar when it comes to willingness to pay for non-free software, they have very high demands about how software should work, and they are most likely to run customer configurations on different combinations of hardware, making bugs more likely, and they are usually quickest to switch if something better comes along.

And by the way, calling someone a "bad customer" is not really a putdown; being highly discerning about where one spends their money is more of a compliment.
I wonder how many companies have optics catalogs. I needed a mirror with a reflective front surface (instead of inside or on the back where the light has to go through the glass on a normal mirror) to do what they did in Tim’s Vermeer (the simple mirror version, not the full lens version, although that would be cool if I can figure out the parts I need). Anyway, they (Edmunds) later sent me a full catalog with all kinds of laser stuff I don’t understand with detailed educational information about them and how to set up proper measurement systems and so on.
Knowing the phone number doesn't mean you can get the texts that are sent to it.
A significant amount of energy in the battery is dedicated to keeping the electronics warm, which is why the flights are so short.
A low interest environment make this effect stronger, btw.
Now THIS person writes.
TF2 is such a classic, and it shows in that it's still active 12 years after release. I've also accumulated >10k hours over the years leaving and returning, though I haven't played much since spy got nerfed.
Well if you are focusing earning from desktop users check Elementary OS app store they have options to charge for app similar model to Apple's store.

If your target audience is developers or corporate check this license and their parent project
https://prosperitylicense.com/
How much mail do they get?
Why don’t you provide some data instead of conjecture. We generally don’t accept that the government inflation numbers are just plain wrong without substantiation.
Some Famous Inventions by Black inventors:

The Game Cartridge

The Super Soaker Squirt Gun
When I started working in Investment Banks, I was sent on an Introduction to Finance course. Next to me was an older guy (50's) with a massive bruised thumbnail. I asked him how he did it and told me he worked in the vaults and had dropped a gold bar on it.
Yes. Obviously they don't want to leave this growing billion dollars market. How could anyone rational think otherwise? Why hasn't any journalist paused for a second and questioned this?

The treatment of this litteral fake news really has been the perfect case one could draw against the state of news today. How many publications have run this with a title akin to "Breaking: Facebook to leave Europe because of interdicyion to prey on our data"? I counted more than 10 in my EU country, all 1st tier or so called.

Facebook should sue each and every newspaper that ran a false story about them without applying basic fact-checking or even basic logic.
Yeah, because if you happen to look at the evidence, the fact is that he took a gun across state lines, to "protect people's property" at a protest, and he ended up killing people, it would be pretty easy to come to the conclusion that he's guilty of at least manslaughter. Of course, he was charged with murder, and that's harder to prove. The fact that he was found not guilty doesn't mean he's innocent. It means he's not guilty of the crime they were prosecuting him for.

He's not someone I'd hire for anything, he's not someone I'd want my friends and family around. He's not someone I'd want attending any protest I was attending. He's not a good person, and he's a clear and present danger to society. These are the decisions that I, as an individual, am free to make because I'm not the government, and I don't have to abide by "innocent until proven guilty" for how I personally judge people.
Generally I use the model builder methods for this anyway, because I'm using the ORM and the models represent tables, so I barely ever build my own select statements at all.

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent
> I can bet you buying a pizza in Spain with Spanish currency using a US card will charge you a foreign exchange fee.

That sounds like a personal choice. There are plenty of banks that don't charge fees for purchasing in foreign currencies. Monzo and Revolut both spring to mind here in the UK, and I believe both are now available in the US.