jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I found the rust-lang guide (now the rust-lang book[1]) very useful when first learning rust. The style used to teach ownership in that guide is very similar to this, but helped clear out a few remaining doubts I've had.

Consider adding contribution to the book!

[1]: http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/README.html
You hit the nail on the head. Survivorship bias is a bitch! There are millions of such postings from remarkably talented people starting out interesting projects all over the world. Only a few will get the recognition they deserve and in hindsight it will look like the successful ones were somehow special or different from the rest.
When Google is doing your authentication for you? This node is about rolling your own auth.
I don't think he wanted to equalize both. Yet, snooping on your private conversations is wrong, executing people for their sexuality is also wrong. It's worse but both are wrong according to my value set ... this is a bit off topic, yet how would you rate the killing of innocents with drone strike?
git config --global --unset color.ui
It's difficult to un-print money, especially when it's traded away for other currencies. That means you don't necessarily want to finance a move to temporarily drive down the price of your currency by expanding the money supply - if you think you're defending it against a short-term fluctuation (eg, a flight-to-safety from Euro-denominated banks), excess printing will cause the value to be much lower after the transient circumstance has passed.
shotgun is a bit overkill for sub/urban environments, although i agree it would be especially effective. i've never shot clay before and i was able to hit multiple times on my first clay outing.

however i imagine it would be no more than a weekend job to design a net-firing sabot or perhaps some kind of plastic scatter shot that could launch out of a t-shirt cannon.
I believe they're referring to the lack of algorithmic sorting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule
> This may have been MSIE

Indeed it was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX
I still can’t log into Twitter because they refuse to send the verification to my phone number. It’s been three weeks of multiple emails to their support.

All this and I only need the damn thing for my data analysis course.
"well as its ramifications in terms of the type of society it can produce asymptotically."

My assertion is that it can't though. That's because the complexity of even a fairly small entity makes the number of the particles in the universe look infinitesimal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_Beaver_game

"In 2016, Adam Yedidia and Scott Aaronson obtained the first (explicit) upper bound on the minimum n for which Σ(n) is unprovable in ZFC. To do so they constructed a 7910-state[2] Turing machine whose behavior cannot be proven based on the usual axioms of set theory (Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice), under reasonable consistency hypotheses (stationary Ramsey property).[3][4] This was later reduced to 1919 states, with the dependency on the stationary Ramsey property eliminated."

To me, granted I have only a vague idea of the meaning of the above, that's saying that "solving the economic calculation problem" (society having more than 1919 moving parts) is not just beyond physical limits of the amount of matter in the universe that could be used for computation. It's not just beyond the physical laws that we think we know, like a FTL spaceship would be. It's beyond the most fundamental math we have. To me, that's like a third order of infinite impossibility.

And as far as Harvard goes, how can the interaction between students and faculty have nothing to do with higher education? What else is higher education? In every school, people learn from each other, and they interact more than with people at other schools.
Most companies build a moat with something other than patents. Brand, scale, distribution networks, etc.
China could still do a lot of harm to both YC companies and what and who remains of YC china/MiraclePlus. Its pretty obvious that the boss woke up one day and gee we decided to completely withdraw from a country isn't the whole story.
> It was frankly idiotic of them to have it there in the first place.

exactly, you have to be stupid to buy apple products...
> 1 is so close to true that it's a basically harmless statement.

It is indeed a very dangerous statement, because it leads the scientifically illiterate to think that they don't need to speak frankly with their doctor for health advice. For example, your 'harmless' statement led to my brother incorrectly receiving the MMR vaccine. You see, he has hemophilia ,which is a contra-indication to receive the vaccine. Hemophilia is relatively common enough (because, according to the CDC, any blood clotting disorder that extends bleeding time, is a contraindication for MMR). He ended up having severe seizures as a child.

Or moreover, neither my daughter nor I should (or should have, in my case) receive the MMR vaccine as infants due to a family history of sometimes severe immune issues. These are also relatively common conditions.

I'm not an anti-vaxxer, BTW. I'm just following CDC recommendations, to the T: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/should-not-vacc.html

Neither of this means that most people should receive MMR. But not everyone should. MMR is not 100% safe. No vaccine is, even if the general benefits outweigh the cons.
By comparison, see http://tld-list.com/tld/museum , http://tld-list.com/tld/aero , and http://tld-list.com/tld/coop .
Also redirect to buffer : ls >> #<buffer scratch>

(warning stars are turned into formatting in HN)

with C-c M-b to pick a buffer name easily
It's pretty much unwatchable for me at work as well, way too much buffering. Somebody on the Azure Media Services team is probably going to get an earful afterward.
Awesome. We built a POC that did the same thing a little over a year ago. We got our moms to use it and they loved it for updating their own sites. There's definitely a good business model there.

Back then we did it the hard way basically making our own Dropbox API. We had a Windows server running with the Dropbox client installed. You would share a folder with our Dropbox username and our script would auto accept it, and then we ran rsync to sync up the Windows folders with our web servers. Back then getting the Linux client to run was a bit of a pain which is why we went the windows route for that part of the site.
I don't think any westerners want the current money system to collapse either. So it is interesting to hear the perspective we give to other countries that think we want that. Trust me, no one in the US wants to see the current economic system collapse.

We have already seen it. We know how it goes.

We saw it in the 1920s. It was horrible. It permanently scarred many of our great grandparents, and even left scars on our grandparents (because they grew up learning vivid horror stories of it). Seriously it was so bad that it took multiple generations to recover from.

Then we saw it again to a portion of our financial system just a decade ago. Luckily we learned from our mistakes and prevented total collapse, but we still saw how vulnerable the system is. Everyone here remembers that, it was only a decade ago.

No one wants to see the system collapse. I think what people are really thinking is they want to create a system that theoretically can't collapse. We are aware of how fragile our current banking system is. Crypto originally sought to create a system that removed the two main wildcards in the financial system (the Fed and the Banks).

Now we replaced Wells Fargo with Coinbase. So we aren't much closer to our goal. We replaced NASDAQ with Bittrex. We replaced the Fed with unregulated ICOs and Miners (if that's even a thing anymore).
Here you go, public promise article in Polish wikipedia. It seems there is no english translation - go figure.

It is a part of the European legal system, and provisions for it appear in German, Italian, Polish, Turkish and French laws.

It's a one-sided contract essentially, so there is no need for a member of public to sign it. But if you don't fulfill it, the affected member of public can sue you.

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przyrzeczenie_publiczne
Perhaps you're only hearing back from the ones who love it?

Related, survey respondents are known to be weird.
I would like to read about that too.
So they're basically taking the "pulse" of the population to figure out what to do.
Rocky Linux will come with no such restrictions.
This sounds like what Microsoft were trying to do 15 years ago with webforms: the browser was treated like a dumb terminal with the UI rendered on the server and pushed to the client.

The UX back then was horrible, however technology has come a long way since.
Fraud and extortion are already illegal. It's totally possible to allow non-accredited investors access to early stage deals and continue to disallow fraud.
I think “Reddit but smarter” is a legitimate point of differentiation. I gave up Reddit for HN because despite all the issues you probably have in mind, the average quality of interaction and information is marginally better here.
I dislike the idea that every single leader in the world must only conduct themselves according to Dale Carnegie, as it were. There is an over-abundance of people doing just that, and judging from this post and many of the comments, a lot of people seem to want others to conform to that sort of uniform "persuasive" behavior. I'm not saying it isn't effective, but surely not everybody needs to do that. Isn't there room in this big world for a few genuine personalities?
As much as we hear about blockchain, carrying coins across the border in your mind wallet, store of value, and other Bitcoin narratives, most people don’t care about those things.

They only care that their number goes up. Why would it go up? Because more people buy Bitcoin. Why would more people buy Bitcoin? Because the number goes up.

It’s a great system for early adopters, right up until the music stops. Currently there are a lot of businesses, billionaires, and massive mining corporations heavily invested in keeping the hype going, though.
And online dating is so horribly broken anyway. Anecdata, but I'm in that age group and just completely checked out of dating (and even general socialisation) because it's just impossible. Many of my friends have done the same.
How is that odd? Software salaries have been outpacing hardware ones for at least the past 1-2 decades. When the big tech companies are paying over $100k for software developers fresh out of college, supply and demand is probably forcing this state of affairs.
Agreed, for instance BLM's website used to say:

> We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by...

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20190118185735/https://blacklive...
Why would you want to be a single parent?
This book has been debunked and/or criticized so harshly that it’s really not a good argument to bring it up.
By JS do you mean Node here?

Node has both blocking and async versions of a lot of IO operations. But async IO is more commonly used certainly. The real question might be whether a thread pool backed async IO implementation makes your program do concurrent IO better than a GIL + blocking IO calls that release the GIL, it's not obvious to me.

(Doesn't Node have threads too nowadays?)
School districts get some federal funding, but it's mostly from property taxes.
I see some benefits to the tight coupling between a JS client and the backend (eg: DSL fields), but are those benefits worth having such a tight coupling compared to REST (I realize this isn't called REST, but rather just CRUD).
Wouldn't it make sense to switch to S-expressions for the underlying expression structure then (or some sort of automorphism between the two) ? You'll have the misfortune of calling yourself a Lisp, but then you'll have more power :)
A 5.6% raise is not nothing. ;-)
I'd like to see Amazon offer some new services to improve working across multiple regions.

Just being able to copy an EBS volume and AMI to a different region with a single API call would help a lot of people quickly establish much better redundancy than they had a week ago.
Sure, intellectual property "theft" is not actually theft of content.

However, it deprives its victim of the ability to monetize and get credit for his/her creation. It's "theft" of revenue.

You can say that competition does the same thing. We tend to be okay with this because if you can figure out how to write better software or manufacture a better widget and offer it at a lower price, you deserve to win.

Writing, producing, and distributing a better movie is completely fair. Beating the studio at distributing the movie it paid to create deprives it of the position in the market which it earned and you didn't. That sounds an awful lot like theft to me.
I agree that we in most of the western world generally are awash in things and that we all are "ungrateful bastards" (wording mine).

But then the author goes on about how time it would take to make a shirt in the medieval age and then calculates the cost using today's minimum wage. That make no sense at all, and dies give us any information.

Maybe compare it to price of a loaf of bread back then, that would give us an idea. Then we'd have singing to go by.
A "paycheck" is too individual to successfully result in quality in an organization larger than a couple dozen.

The correct method is to understand the system of work, and implement good process to continually improve it. Quality needs to be built in from the beginning.
Hi,

I'm interested. I'd to discuss by email. Yours doesn't appear to be in your profile, but mine is, so please get in touch and I'll run you through some reasons why I would the right person to build this for you and we can discuss it from there.
That's correct, I'm the one who first found the project and I wouldn't call it a "leak". The site is live (domain registered by GH), the twitter account is live, the repo is full, the release is probably imminent.
Original author here - I just discovered this thread. Thanks so much for all the comments!

Some context behind why I wrote this post: as a researcher and technologist in biology, I've realized that it's unclear to me what the real questions are; that this lack of clarity is not due to my immaturity; and the field seems dangerously aimless.

>99% of the time, work is justified (and finished) with some application to health and medicine, with little regard for theory building or true understanding of a system. Bringing up this point usually solicits two responses: 1) we don't have enough data yet 2) there's little use for theory in biology. I hope I can give more in depth responses where I see these themes in other comments, but I'll generalize my thoughts here.

First, how do we judge what questions are worth asking and researching, vs trivial details? How do we even know whether we understand whether a question has been adequately answered? The current state of research to me often seems like John Searle's Chinese Room: we just generate a huge dictionary of perturbation-responses and call this "understanding". This might be effective to find drug targets, but is it real understanding? It might be the first step, but it seems to me that we're swimming in plenty of data already and it's worth it to step back and try to figure out what what it is we are actually trying to do. I'm comfortable with the fact that answers to our questions might be a long ways off, but it's scary that no one seems to care that we don't even know what the questions are.

Second, I'd argue biology has historically been very theoretical. We developed a whole quantitative theory of genetics (Fisher, Wright, Haldane, ...) before we had identified what a gene actually was. Hell, it was still debated what matter even looked like at that the microscale (where we knew genes must exist)! In the advent of molecular biology, Watson, Crick, Brenner, Gamow, Delbruck, et al, predicted through (some) experiments but mostly reasoning and conjecture much of what was later found to be true about transcription/translation. There are countless other examples of where theory has driven the study of the origin of life, molecular biology, ecology, et cetera. Only recently, when health science started to dominate biological research, did biology become less theoretical and more focused on individual instances of problems.

tl;dr - What's most scary is that we don't even know what the foundational questions are anymore for modern biology, and no one seems to even care. Rather than focusing on clearly stated foundations, the field is guided by the latest trends in glamour journals, which tend to obfuscate questions rather than answer them.
No, I haven't seen any vomiting. I was worried about that since I was breaking up the pill (and it smells awful) but my vet said it was fine since it is supposed to be chewable. I always serve it right after a full meal (usually the morning).
With a lot lower odds of winning, which are in turn a lot harder to evaluate than the upcoming superball match, for example.
> which means they're likely not plugged in to the app discovery scene.

That is a very significant point.

I bought my wife a Google Play voucher at Christmas, and she was so overwhelmed by the mess that is the Play Store that it took her three months to find a decent solitaire app.

Everytime she would go looking for one she had to wade through pages of junk and just gave up.

Eventually I found one recommended on a forum and even then when we searched for the exact name in the Play Store it was only in the second row of results.

App discovery is HARD, particularly for people unfamiliar with app stores. I am not surprised that they just don't bother.
your match-box protip is known for at least half a century to everybody who was even remotely interested in electronics in USSR :)
Can you clarify what you mean with "reactive view"? "Reactive" is such an ill-defined and overloaded term these days.

However, I'd like to point out the long history of constraint systems such as Sketchpad, ThingLab, Garnet/Amulet and all the smaller/more limited variants. See also http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/03/the-siren-call-of-kvo-and...
def noticed this like 5 minutes ago. DNS completely failed for a second.
It does seem like a lot of overhead. I've been reading this with interest because I had been wondering if it might have positive implications for indie film financing (which usually goes through regulation D for mid-size projects; there's a real opportunity for seed/small project financing at the bottom end of the market), but don't see these changes having much impact in the short term.
On the upside, since this isn't a competition, I'm not losing!
Still getting lots of instability in spite of the status page.
Apple is especially open to criticism here because in all of these cases, Apple was by no means the originator of the innovations. We're all familiar with the Xerox GUI saga, and I saw multi-touch UIs demonstrated in TED videos several years before the iPhone came out.

But Apple also deserves some praise: their unique strength has been in designing commercially viable products that integrate technologies that are still very early in the adoption curve, providing the marketing force that's needed to push new tech into the mainstream. They've also been very effective at breaking the logjam in established industries that have held back certain innovations (digital music distribution and consumer smartphones come to mind).

This has been enormously valuable for the technology industry as a whole, and has often opened the frontier for Microsoft, Google, and others. We probably wouldn't have Android devices now if Apple hadn't used their marketing prowess to get the phone carriers to accept the entire category.
>HFT companies are making huge profits

Were. Regulation and competition are chipping away at those profits. The days of obscene profits in the Wild West are done.
I'm sorry, I can't speak to 10.7.5; though I'd be surprised if it didn't work. This trick works great in 10.8.x and 10.9.x.
Hey, did those end up being any good?

I wanted to buy some to develop on, but they didn't really seem to have their act together.
You should have received a confirmation email. We would have sent the recipient an email asking them to setup their gift delivery (i.e., let us know the place and time they want their gift delivered). If you didn't get a confirm email, just shoot us a note at support@sweetnessapp.com and we'll take care of it.

Normal gifts will be back in play on Wednesday!
I was attracted to math in elementary school because it required less memorization and rote learning. Spell - that was the subject where rote memorization was required. I essentially failed spelling until it stopped being a subject - somewhere around Middle School.
SBA statistics and so on are meaningless, because startups are such a small proportion of small businesses generally.

I have no idea where the rule of thumb that 9 out of 10 startups fail comes from, but it doesn't sound too far off. IIRC about a third of companies that raise series A from VC funds fail, and most startups that fail do it before getting VC funding, not after.
You'll need to participate a lot and then you can start to get a sense on who to trust. Or at least who is sensationalistic, who's logical, etc.
Doubtful. You think Chinese readers can understand HN conversations with Google Translate? Especially when commenters are trying to be subtle to dance around censors?
Or get a job at a lab that sends satellite instruments to space. Work on really cool, mission critical software. Work with really bright scientists and programmers alike in a very relaxed and fun environment. Just sayin'.
Hauling people away in handcuffs is a much more potent deterrent than randomly shaking people down for a few grand.
If the grid is numbered

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 ...

I had to investigate the primes

Primes less than 20

all up: http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=1q2q4q6q1t3t7t

all right: http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=1w2w4w6w1y3y7y

all left: http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=1r2r4r6r1i3i7i

all primes up : http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=1q2q4q6q1t3t7t0o4o...

all right : http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=1w2w4w6w1y3y7y0p4p...

all down : http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=1e2e4e6e1u3u7u0a4a...

So many ideas... there goes my Sunday afternoon...
His linked article says of the popularity of dynamic language: "From what I can tell, it’s largely a matter of marketing.", that dynamic means fun, and that they are subversive. http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-lang...

Dynamic languages are popular because you don't need to make decisions about types up-front, nor specify the types, nor change them when you change those decisions. In terms of the act of coding, it's more flexible when you begin, and more flexible when you maintain. He's right of course that static types are more flexible in terms of carving out a particular subset of the space of possible programs (as context free grammars are more flexible that regular expressions).

That is, some simple and well-known facts are unknown to him. I still think he has something interesting to say, it just takes some extra work to get to it, and you have to take it with a grain of salt because although he's supremely confident, he's coming from quite a limited perspective.

EDIT There's some hints in his conclusion and a comment that he does see real benefits to dynamic languages (without articulating them) - so perhaps he was just trolling or being ironic.
$10 CPM is at the bottom of the rate card for publishers like newspaper websites, etc. When we were doing advertising for Stormpulse we were making $5-12 CPM off direct sales and $2-3 CPM off ad networks. We knew the direct sales prices were actually selling ourselves short.
That actually makes the argument stronger imo.