jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
@dbaupp is correct, I didn't make the gif. If I had to guess though I would say that photoshop can probably convert video files to gifs. Not sure.
Do you actively and regularly check for changes in all laws that might apply to you?
There's plenty of Garbage, but perhaps less so than stock Ubuntu or Fedora.

Its also Debian so you're unfortunately likely to be fairly behind the current patchlevel thats required for a maintained/modern OS. Not that Debian is bad, but its often woefully behind. Not that long ago I discovered how hard it was to get CentOS up to spec on "the new stuff", it was rather frustrating as well.
Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7858000
Um, one could argue that Rails has lost quite a bit of hype recently, mostly to the hands of Node.js, but Node isn't as mature as Rails was at that time, nor trying to solve the same problem.

PHP is still hugely popular, and much better than it was in 2009, and still getting better, ever so slowly. Arguably because of the beauty of Rails.

Depending on one's definition of "enterprise", Java is slowly become less enterprise, pulled towards to cool side of the Force by Clojure and Scala.

And I'l go out on a limb and say that the evolution of front-end technologies, and the popularity of REST interfaces makes the current web friendlier towards wacky multi-language setups, hence friendlier towards wacky languages.

You see people suggesting stuff like using a compiled lang as the REST server for a front-end JS app using a Node.js instance to do server-side rendering.

But no.

The conclusion remains: it's totally legit to start new projects in PHP these days.
This essay is about two hundred thousand bytes.

In disbelief at the fact that I did not feel like I had read 200KB of text, I had to check and it was around an order of magnitude off. The page with the markup included is around half of that.

I suppose that in this era of GB and TB, people are going to overestimate a bit more.
By taking away the ability of programmer to read and understand the code written by somebody else, or by himself 1 week ago
I really like this video. He goes over the difference between clinical and observational studies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RXvBveht0
This website brings back so many memories, both of first discovering it, and before that my time on the Amiga.
VSCode is Electron, not VS.

I would add Discord to that list.
What's the point?

Sure, one might want to correct a typo or something but the main reason is you don't want information to go into the public eye is because it is information that the public will react negatively to.

And that information that the public reacts negatively to is that information which the public saves locally, especially if they public gets used to revocation efforts. Sure you delete all your photos on your photo bucket and most will be gone but guess which photo your boss saved?

I envision something that spreads encrypted data through a cloud but only provides specific decryption keys when requested. Uh, that is DRM, just not enough DRM but there's never enough DRM to do the job that DRM wants to do.
About rounding the numbers, sure, I could do that, but I didn't want to put the time into it. This is what I could do in 15 minutes using Google Docs.

The graphs show the real picture. You don't need to look at the numbers.
I'm pretty sure that if you get a data logger like this (http://www.microdaq.com/lascar/temperature/usb-thermocouple-...) and combine it with a good thermocouple probe and you should be good to go.
> The attitude that culture cannot change the mind and can only be adapted to it is unjustified.

ADD is a perfect example of this. I was diagnosed with it and I was medicated through most of school because I really couldn't focus on boring material. Eventually I learned to focus on things I'm not interested in and I don't need medication.
You should round your numbers to a fixed number of decimal places (1 or 2), and then align columns of them to the right. It would be a lot easier to read and compare them.
Section 8 of the US Constitution says "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"
It takes more work than just trolling forums, but I think there's an open niche for long-form trolling, in the vein of the early-2000s site http://www.adequacy.org/. Perhaps think of it as a cross between linkbait-style journalism and The Onion.
> Richtel, to his credit, focuses at the end of his piece on a distracted student who can, indeed, focus — not on the books he’s assigned but on the video he’s making. Maybe that’s because he’s creating. Maybe it’s because he’s working with tools that give him feedback. Maybe it’s because he is communicating with an audience.

Maybe he's interested in the video and not on the book? I have several tickets piled up in JIRA that I really am not interested in. (Really, really not interested) I'd rather be spending my entire day on hacker news. Instead I only stop by every few hours to clear my brain between tickets. Discipline is useful and not easy to learn.
To be fair, a foreign student who is trying to rebuild a social group from scratch has more incentive to be be socially outgoing.
I don't really see that there's a problem with incivility on HN.

Of your suggestions I only take issue with the first; if I had to post with my full name I'd leave. I've already got Facebook/Twitter/blogging if I want to publish something on the web with my real name.

I'm also not sure how easy it would be to enforce.

On a side note I usually really enjoy your blog. So, you know, thanks in general.
"I have even lined up speaking gigs at conferences in my vertical (no idea if I'm actually going to be any good at this)."

Toastmasters International is your friend. They exist for this reason. Find a local club, visit, and see what you think. Really, whether you are naturally awesome or terrified you owe it to yourself and the audience to polish your speaking skills.
The main point is as you quote. Secondary points are to see if the candidate can understand common expressions and idioms, and if not, either to look them up, or to ask.

As it says elsewhere, the purpose is to get some code, then use it as a start for the discussion. If someone allocates memory then that's where I start. In that case they clearly they don't understand the usual meaning of the expression "in-place."

> If you had said "string in place (don't allocate
> any memory)," I suspect far more people would have
> given you the output you wanted.

I suspect you're wrong, and I would be interested to see if anyone else comments on that point. I got nearly 100 submissions, and only one (from memory) allocated memory. All the others did the modification "in-place" as requested.
While we are are looking back, my first computer was 166 MHz K6 (I think), 32 MB of ram and 1.6 GB HDD. Probably wasn't that good of deal even then.
Wow, I love Mr. Suster's contributions generally but this one is unfair. It reads like an indictment. HN "falls short" on its goal of maintaining civility. A YCombinator company CEO goes there only when he wants to get "upset." And so on.

This paints the site in a false light - yes, the individual bits of evidence might be true in the particular case cited but they are nowhere near representative of the whole and to say that they are makes it a gross distortion.

Not at all fair to this site or to the administrators and core members who, if anything, regularly go way out of their way to keep standards high around here.

That said, I look forward to many future outstanding posts from Mr. Suster, who remains one of my favorite bloggers on the whole range of startup issues that are important to the HN community.
exactly. do you want to live an extra 10 years as a pathetic 130lb loser or be a jacked 200lb hero.
Your code also fails (i.e., reads and writes past the end of the string) if c == '\0' and s is "\0".
Not related so much to the OP, but the Crohn's/yogurt thing...

I've had Crohn's since adolescence, and I've found that eating yogurt (with live cultures!) seems to keep things working well. I recommend a purpose-built yogurt maker. I got one for about $15 from Amazon. And Vivtek skipped an important step: you've got to kill any bad stuff in the milk first. Heat it to 180 degrees, just before boiling. Then be sure to let it cool to 110 before introducing the culture, else the heat will kill the culture.

Along with this, you should be aware that what you eat and drink has an effect on your intestinal flora (I think this is part of what Vivtek was getting at). That is, the friendly bacteria like to have access to certain kinds of foods. And on the other hand, other intake may change the environment in a way detrimental to the good stuff, or even to encourage the not-so-good stuff. These relationships can be difficult to see, because the effects aren't noticeable until quite some time after the food is eaten.
My spouse has simillar issues, and we have really loved not driving since moving to (downtown) SF. Some people think it's cold and foggy here, but compared to places I lived in the northwest or northeast, it's almost like there is no weather at all. The vast majority of the time, it's in the 60's or 70's, and rarely more than partly cloudy. Also, because of the relatively lower lattitude, it's light more in the winter than other places I have lived, which I would expect to be the most important factor for S.A.D. People who think it's cold here think cold means 60F. This is a legitimate point of view, but nothing like where I come from.

Consider that noise, impersonalization, aggressive people, and a certain amount of urban squalor will likely weight on your mood and cause some degree of anxiety if those things bother you. It will take time to adjust your expectations and habits to avoid the worst of that. I slipped into the habit of wearing headphones and sunglasses when I'm out walking to dull the noise, and make it harder to for people to hassle me (I used to find this mildly anti-social; now I'm one of them). There are plenty of natural green places you can go on public transport to unwind from the city, but you have to go through it to get there. I suggest finding an apartment building with a gym in it, or nearby if you can.

Also, moving here without a job is a risky proposition. 20k$ sounds like about 4-6 months runway at best, if you live by yourself, with no car, and _very_ modestly. OTOH, it seems like employers were suddenly more willing to talk me when I got here just because I had an SF address. Good luck, I hope it works out.
I remember when JavaOne was definitely worth going to. I've not heard anything like that for years and just assume it's dead as "Code One." Anyone want to confirm?
Not OP but I think I've participated in a group SMS maybe twice in 10 years and initiated none. I don't feel like I'd be missing out by not having group messaging support.
Jon Haidt, one of the authors of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coddling_of_the_American_M..., said that "isn't it overstated?" was such a common assertion that it was one of the reasons he wanted to go quantify it for this book. And it's not overstated.

Of course, instead of throwing a book at you, here's his 1-hour podcast interview with Sam Harris about the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaniQUlqzgE

Though the book (nor interview) is just focused on call-out culture. But it does talk about some interesting aspects of it, like how calling out is a way to win prestige.
Except there is a direct, causal link between treatment and life and death, or at least quality of life.

Economic or social studies are a lot more nebulous.
Somewhat "tongue in cheek" however: I find I get a lot of work done trying to avoid working on another unrelated task..

See also: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
People wouldn't "like" anywhere near as much if it wasn't public
The comments on reddit and the article itself almost make me support the NSA's surveillance programs; people can be convinced of anything given the right emotional rhetoric. Literally the left wing equivalent of the tea party, and more terrifying.
Now, this is a statement of fact, which is always nice but I don't see what is the point being made here.

Is it that LSD is a concern for public safety? If so this incident puts it in the same category as drunk driving, texting while driving, and being so horny that you can't look at the road while looking at the woman in the red dress.

This article is two days old and I don't think ME would have published his report yet. So it is not even clear that the driver was conscious.
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>Google has turned much of the internet into a wasteland

I think I understand what you mean but would benefit from an explanation of that point
And the way you're doing it sounds like you avoid the docker mount slowdown issue. Sounds like quite a good solution
Mismanaging themselves into irrelevance- see Texas power grid.
No AMD is an absolute deal breaker for me. Might as well get a mac.
Your analogy is not applicable. A better example would be... Well better. Perhaps:
"Here's a crazy idea for early humans - don't map out the location and habits of all the food that you hunt to maximize the number you kill, instead focus on improving the tools that you hunt with so you can reliably kill what you need. Only focus on maximizing kills when you start needing more food than you can find."
While it is important to be good stewards and not pollute etc, I don't think we are competent to solve climate issues as a whole, when we can't trust each other to keep our word (so much of the time), and especially when we have rejected the specific advice of the planet's Creator.

But things can be OK in the long run if we really try to learn what we should do, and do that. I would include praying, honesty, and kindness among those things. Really there is good reason for hope for the best; many of these things are expected.
> But a globally distributed cost-conscious company is physically incapable of collaborating that fast.

Penny-wise, pound-foolish. Sounds like they’re saving money by cutting corners and that that is incurring a cost greater than the amount saved.
No, it doesn't match my experience at all. Microsoft, Apple and Google all tend to randomly drop messages from addresses that were perfectly good the day before without any change in the sending mail servers configuration. It is super annoying because it actually forces me to use one of those to send email and that actually rewards those companies for creating this problem in the first place. I'd rather deal with spam than random delivery issues without any knowledge about it.

Oh, and I get more and more false positives in gmails spam folder as well, and since they're deleted after 30 days I now have one more 'inbox' to monitor.
I don't think there's enough evidence to claim that zombies don't obey the laws of thermodynamics specifically. Perhaps zombie-ism transforms something in their core into a nuclear reactor that slowly converts atoms into a near-endless supply of energy. It's apparent that they don't obey physical laws, but which ones specifically depends on your interpretation.
Thanks for taking the time to make these interesting points.

Nonetheless reading them it just made javascript even more repellent to me.

It looks like a cup of bad tea to which you need to add some corrections and addons in the first place to taste at least as decent as the other teas.
But still it's generally preferred to much better alternatives because it comes with this kind of unique (not true anymore) feature of non-blocking IO.

What some programmers don't realize in this, is that this inducted preference is just the result larger and larger scale profits needs, influencing the programming world.

If a competitor enterprise which operates in the same market as yours can answer to 10000 more concurrent visits than you do, then you are out of the market. Or: Internet marketing rules will tell you that if your visitors are not engaged in your website in about 5 seconds they'll leave.

This is why we are now forced to learn javascript.

And... programmatically speaking, it's really sad.
YouTube HD has been barely functional for most Time Warner customers for years now.
The most impressive part is that Chris did this all by himself.
Interviewers seem to be out to trick you at something, or else to prove how much smarter they are than you.

I'm sure there is a lot of that out there, but that is definitely not my reason for asking hard questions.

We will always be interviewing at least a few people to fill a position, I think that's natural. Suppose I ask you and the other candidates questions... and you all get them all right. Well, that's fabulous, but now I have no way to distinguish which of you actually knows more about a particular subject.

And I think it would be stupid for me to ask the interviewees to answer questions to which I don't know the answers.

So we're always going to be in a situation where I'm asking you at least some questions that you don't have the answers for. I need to test your limits, and see how firm a grasp you have on various subjects.
> Y'all are confusing your words.

No, I'm not.

> "Blackouts" you describe are local TV broadcast blackouts if they don't sell out the stadium.

That's one set of blackouts to limit the extent that remote viewing substitutes for live attendance, but...

> "Blackouts" the GP describes are the blackouts on Sunday ticket because you are supposed to watch them locally.

...that's also a set of blackouts to limit the extent that remote viewing substitutes for live attendance (in part). (It prevents Sunday Ticket from providing an end-run around the other kind of blackout.)

It also serves another similar purpose, to protect the local TV contract revenue in the same way that local TV blackouts protect stadium revenue.
Wow, now this makes me excited. The Wired piece was prepared in advance and seems to be in tandem with their February issue, so I wasn't sure how much to trust it. But arstechnica is the real deal. Can't wait to get my hands on one of these!
We all know how MS approached those manufacturers. With big gun lawyers and strict NDAs for not disclosing the Patents in question. I believe those patents are BS, no matter if Patent system accepts it. On my eyes it makes MS a terrible company because to me it is stealing money form all users pockets.
Hi, author, I like your article but those animated GIFs are driving me nuts. Please don't make readers also watch a movie at the same time. Thanks.
What is it about US streets that makes them so much more filthy than other streets that they not to be fully vacated in order to clean them sufficiently?

The only example for "irregular" no parking times I've seen in Germany are special exceptions for markets (typically Wednesday and Sunday, but the sign won't tell you if the market is cancelled on a particular day for a particular reason and you won't get towed or fined if you then park there when the market isn't happening) or special occasions (e.g. a circus) where they put up a temporary sign a week in advance.

I guess Germans really are more efficient (while simultaneously being more in love with having rules for every eventuality).
The first tick appeared immediately since I'm using WhatsApp which has been long before Facebook acquired them.
>I wonder if you can be truly depressed if you don't fear anything?

I would say yes, often times depression manifests itself not as a feeling of fear or dread but as apathy. See for example Hugh Laurie's personal life [1,2] or Nine Inch Nails' Everyday is Exactly the Same[3] which captures that exact feeling. Or of course the wonderful Hyperbole and a Half's account of depression[4], especially the second part makes the point that depression at its worst is a void. No positive feelings, but also no negative ones.

Now I made myself sad^H^H^H apathetic going through those sources. Why does Trent Reznor have to be so good at projecting?

As for the anxiety bit (anxiety and depression are to completely different things), the article mentions her response to having her blood-co2 levels elevated, which seems to me to be a standard anxiety response. A feeling of restlessness and dread.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Laurie#Personal_Life
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2316880/Playing... (I know, I know, Daily mail but the quotes are worth it)
[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Aj9_8t1eQc
[4] http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.nl/2011/10/adventures-in-d...
I understand that, and agree to some extent, and yet universities don't claim to give preference to East Asians or South Asians (actually they discriminate against these groups, but that is another matter). Usually universities would call Blacks and Hispanics "historically underrepresented groups" or something similar.
I'm not sure, but the assembly code generated when using __builtin_expect looks almost identical.
Here's a great PBS documentary on the history of the transistor which is also a great look into both the creation of Silicon Valley and Intel

http://video.pbs.org/video/2332168287/
True, but those languages have a strong set of idioms for coding. For example, even though Ruby supports mutable calls, they are generally the exception and denoted with a ! (eg map vs map!) Meanwhile, Python is idiomatically opposed to map (to the point of intentionally crippling lambdas) in favor of list comprehensions.

My concern is whether Java8 will spark a strong change in idiomatic usage or if it will just be another incremental change to the current status quo.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

- Cardinal Richilieu

Things that seemed perfectly innocent at the time can very easily come back to bite you on the ass later. Donating to the wrong political campaign (Brendan Eich), being a part of the wrong political party (the Hollywood Six), overestimating how fast public attitudes to sex will change (the 60's supporters of NAMBLA who found it expedient to renounce them later).

If everything is anodyne consensus bullshit you can't blame anyone without blaming everyone. So all the real decisions get made somewhere there are no written/recorded notes.
What?

These aren't some random bank robbers, these are entire countries.

What the hell do I pay the US government for, if not to protect me from other nations?

No one even has remotely enough budget to deal with foreign nations attacking them. Not Google, not Microsoft, nobody.
I can't wait for a massive security hole from some app using this..
Although in Toyota's defense the officer was too clueless to know he just had to hold the start button down for three seconds to turn off the ignition.
That's a fair point, but as evidence of likelihood, it's still kind of weak. The US government might post here. But then again, so do communists and anarchists and libertarian capitalists and what have you. It's not as if HN is awash in pro-US, pro security sentiment anyway.

It seems to me as if the purpose of bringing it up is to warn people that any opinion they encounter of a certain kind can't be trusted, because it's probably part of a coordinated campaign of government manipulation. That's a couple of steps away from calling it thoughtcrime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

Writing code generators, inventing the wheel over and over again.
it's very hooking! :-)