jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell are good examples of this. Their obsessiveness with computers combined with the technology and market opportunities opening up - they were a product of their times. Like the great railroad magnates of the 1800's, they were essentially the same person (same schools, same upbringing) combined with obsession and opportunities.
That seems like an accurate description of Copenhagen weather in November.
> Kubernetes is CORBA of this generation. It will float around because of few heavyweights preaching it and suckers falling for it.

This sort of assertion is oblivious to the fact that Kubernetes does solve a few basic problems that no other orchestration service solves, at least as easily.

I'm referring to problems like cluster autoscaling.

Until there's any alternative to Kubernetes that not only offers these features but it is also supported by service providers like AWS or Azure or GCP then Kubernetes is not a fad but the default tool of the trade.
I've been on the fence about cancelling my subscription to PIA after being a user more than five years. This prompted me to finally do it.

I'm not sure there are any companies left to trust.
And the Samsung printer group was sold to HP and all support vanished. I guess they fired everyone.
Meh. Maybe if you think Paul Graham is a god.
Funnily enough, I love React. Maybe because I am old enough to have worked with Borland's Delphi in the past.
The feeling I have is that React and UI frameworks put programmers with no design background back in the User Interface game. Because, for the love of God, I hate CSS with a passion.
I enjoy doing side projects not only for the money, but also because of the good feeling of owning the whole stack of the product.
You vastly overestimate the security of safes. It might take a while and you might kill a few drill bits in the process, but you could definitely drill through most safes, especially in home installations.

As far as relockers go, you've already resorted to destructive methods. If you find that it's worth opening after drilling, then you'll find a way in.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.10434.pdf

The author is Roger Wattenhofer. Currently taking his Computer Systems class at ETH.
You should check out https://srclib.org, which is an abstraction layer for writing editor plugins and other code tools that work for multiple languages. It makes it so you only need to write M + N things to support M editors and N languages, not M * N.

E.g., the Go toolchain is https://sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/srclib-go, and the emacs mode is https://sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/emacs-sourcegraph-mode. Neither knows about each other.

edit: Oh, I just realized I met the parent poster and have chatted about srclib with him. :)
You could add it... :)
It's from 2017 and about Trump, not Musk.

The backpedalling back then:

https://twitter.com/morningmika/status/834463604531404800
Er. Because there's no evidence of that, including on this page?
Judicial elections also directly introduce lobbying into the judicial branch. Successful judges now have to pay for their campaigns and more money tends to equal more success in elections.
Nope. Before WWII, military spending during peacetime was much lower than current levels.
This reminds me of Joy Behar's foot-in-mouth comment about immigrants "if immigrants can't come to the US, who will clean our toliets?"
Assuming by "we" you mean the United States, then we only ever compensated slaveowners in DC [0]. Notably, abolishing slavery in DC did not require going through a costly civil war as it did in (almost) all of the slave states.

Granted, it is hard to decide how to read this history. Specifically, the civil war did not start because the federal government tried freeing slaves; but because the eventual confederacy states feared it would. Abolition wouldn't become union policy until well into the civil war (largely due to the sunk cost of fighting the far). And, the 4 union slave states would eventually abolish slavery as well.

Still, given how costly the civil war was (both in terms of money, lives, and politics), it is worth considering the counterfactual where did a compensated abolition, which seems to have worked out better when it was attempted.

[0] The act to search for is District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act
I think you're overthinking it. It's just regular stealing, something that would be more historically associated with Marijuana grow-ops. Bypassing your meter, tapping off your neighbours meter, street lighthing, mining in your employers basement without them knowing, etc.

Basically using electricity that isn't "yours" without paying for it.
> Language and symbolic thought are not opinions or value judgments.

They are according to John Zerzan.

> But this is fine, I’m an anarchist because I oppose coercion and you’re a criminal for supporting it.

Anarchism, fwiw, is not meant to be a pejorative, but a reference to an actual ideological framework, albeit a radical one. One that has both left and right variants, including the aforementioned ancaps.

> And so that makes it moral to suppress peasants with unjust taxation regimes?

No, it's moral to provide people with food and shelter, health care and education, opportunities for social advancement, funded by surplus wealth generated by a society, in a manner deemed agreeable by societal consensus, so as to create a stable social order. A just tax regime would not be taxing peasants more than nobles nor burghers.

> I decline to identify as a proponent of any belief system because of the harmful epistemological consequences of group identity.

But by crowing "taxation is theft", you have clearly virtue-signalled yourself to be a libertarian.
Best thing? Microsoft isn't making money on selling Kinect (or Xbox, for that matter), they are making money on selling games for Xbox.

How can making Kinect work without Xbox (and even without Microsoft's OS) can be a good thing for them? If this would let to increase in Xbox sales then sure, but the thing works without Xbox now, so I don't see why anyone at Microsoft should be happy about it.
Interesting discussion on reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2t4pkq/retiring...
Sure, you could just as well predict one from the other. But the question asks "What is the following is the best interpretation of the _slope_ of the line of best fit in the context of this problem?", and you are expected to interpret "slope" in the usual jargon sense (as the the ratio of vertical change to horizontal change, rather than vice versa).

(By "vertical" and "horizontal" here, I mean with respect to the graph, not the interpretation, although it happens to be the case that the vertical axis corresponds to height and the horizontal axis corresponds to length.)
I never said laypeople

No, but you also didn't specify the people taking part in the debate. So I just tried to interpret it and suggested 2 possibilities.

All biologists/chemists/virologists came to the same conclusion?

How is that possible?

Because it makes most sense. Note that the conclusion was not "the virus spreads by surface all the time". It was: "we don't know for sure (which was completely correct at the time), so better safe than sorry".
And anonymizing the source too.
There is also nnn and Vifm (C), lf (Go) and ranger (Python)
Most Azure services don’t, but Azure Monitor does. I guess it’s easy to deploy something that emits tons of logs or metrics inadvertently, so having a quota might be nice.

I think it’s tricky to implement, though.
The headline is very misleading. The actual text contains

the relative risk of fomite transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is
considered low compared with direct contact, droplet
transmission, or airborne transmission 1, 2. However, it
is not clear what proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections are
acquired through surface transmission.
https://app.wire.com already has that feature and it is based on signal protocol.
Easy. You end up with accumulating evidence showing that it is difficult to pull off surfaces in normal cases, and from contact tracing with the vast majority of spread explained by droplets. As evidence accumulates, people get less and less worried about fomites.

And I'm sure that not all came to the same conclusion. You can probably find some that think 5G is a major contributor. But a broad consensus forms, where people start to think of surface sterilization as somewhere between "not important at all" or "only mildly important" as a measure to prevent COVID spread.

But the precautionary principle means, until the evidence is in--- maybe using protective measures that are effective against other viruses is a sane thing to do until we know more.
Um yes they have. Today you can buy a pretty good spec MBP for $1500. 4 years you'd be spending $3-4k+.

The same applies to Windows laptops. I bought a 17" Dell Inspiron 9400 in 2005-06 for A$3k (actually it was a $4k spec where 2 coupons collided bringing it to about $2.8k). At that time a similar MBP was A$4.5k.

This year I specced a 15" Dell for my sister for $1k. A gaming laptop is under A$2k. My 2009 13" MBP cost A$1800. The top (base) MBP is <A$3k.

Macs have a gentler slope of price decreases as Apple tends to increase the (relative) spec ate the same time but it's a complete lie to say they haven't dropped price.

IMHO the iPhone will be no different.

In fact the first iPod Touches were more expensive than the current batch so it already has happened.
This is completely ridiculous now.
Click "not now" and you don't have to.
Looks like Facebook is taking over the page, not integrating with it. The top links are especially redundant.
If you need multiple failover regions at large scale for real time operations, and particularly if you want to run true OSS, what alternatives are there today besides Cassandra?

Most use cases don’t fall into this niche, but they never did. Its earlier popularity was perhaps artificial, as perhaps is the popularity (particularly on HN) of the current wave of NewSQL.
Note: I have never come across such sizes for salt and block though. I may be totally off.
DaisyDisk is really awesome, I use this app a lot on my Macbook Air because disk space is still relatively scarce compared to my other machines. I like it a lot and recommend it.
"That’s why it’s so important to follow your passion. You do your best work in an area that you love. A lot of creative talent goes to waste in this world because people tend to choose money over their passion."

I know it's been played out millions of times but I always get excited whenever I see a quote like this.
Why is Darius Bacon's account dead? I just flipped showdead back on to check, and it's his first dead comment. Seriously, WTF?

Skipping stuff commented on elsewhere:

While _The New Turing Omnibus_ is probably nothing too surprising to people here (at least not the subset that also hangs out on LtU, etc.), it's got a lot of approachable 2-5 page summaries of many major topics in CS.

_The Craft of Prolog_ is quite good, though perhaps of less interest to non-Prologers. _The Art of Prolog_ is essential, however. It's an SICP-caliber book, focused entirely on declarative programming, constraint programming, DSLs, etc.

_Compiling with Continuations_ rocks. It's an ML treatment of CPS-as-an-IR, like Steele's _RABBIT_ and Krantz et al.'s _Orbit_.
"nofollow is a bad idea and I wish Google stopped using, Matt."

Note that rel=nofollow is just a mechanism to indicate to search engines "Please don't give this link weight in computing reputation or search results." If you're talking about a website that is doing shady things, that's a perfect time to use the rel=nofollow attribute if you link to that website.
Just remember that "moving the ball forward" doesn't have to mean moving it in giant leaps and bounds like the examples he cites.

Even a little forward motion is worthwhile, if it means a lot to you personally.
Some typos are okay, but in some cases there obviously can be too many.
Sugar Sync

I've never compared; I just use the first one someone invited me to use. 5GB free.
Rob probably just wanted into the kid's pants.
Because 1080 vertical lines equals a HDTV 1080p image size, and economies of scale mean that 1080 pixel tall display panels are less expensive than their cousins (because they double as televisions). And because they are less expensive, every monitor maker has decided that "1080p should be enough for everyone".
Disclaimer: IANAL - anyone who has had their domain seized should contact a lawyer and not read lay opinions on the Internet.

If, has been implied, they are being seized under a Search and Seizure warrant (presumably as "property designed for use, intended for use, or used in committing a crime" - see Rule 41, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/Rule41.htm) then there is no obligation for charges to actually be filed, but the owner of the domain name could move to have the property returned by proving that the property wasn't "designed for use, intended for use, or used in committing a crime" and was therefore unlawfully seized.
I'd place another vote for SpiderOak. The fact that you can pool storage between computers on a consumer plan is great, and their DIY API looks promising.
"Learn cocos2d 2 - Game Development for iOS" by Steffen Itterheim and Andreas L ow

http://www.apress.com/9781430244165

Still reading it (up to Chap 11 of 15).

Covers creating 2D games for iOS using the cocos2d 2.x framework, and Kobold2d 2.x framework. All code is in Objective-C, and it's expected you know Obj-C to understand the content. If you've done any OS X or iOS development already you'll have no problems following along. The frameworks are really simple to learn and use.

It does promote some inexpensive pay-for tools to aid in development, but always offers a free alternative if available. TexturePacker, Tiled (qt) (free), GlyphDesigner, and ParticleDesigner.
Read the source of your target language, mature projects, and find some style guides. There's going to be some contradictions in style, but you'll figure out what works best sooner than you might think.
The real estate and university thing is more of status symbol than a real exit strategy.

Most wealthy chinese people would not feel comfortable living outside of China due to a lack of language skills, cultural unfamiliarity and a lack of extended family and friends.

Those making the move long term are usually economically motivated and not very old.
What's the economic cost of car crashes? Or obesity? How many lives are lost in terrorist attacks vs slipping on banana peels?

What little terrorism actually exists is caused by the US government's own actions. So not only do we pay taxes to create terrorists with our sociopolitical skylarkings, we pay taxes to "fight terrorists" that are created by it. On top of this we all get spied on in the process.

I smell a raw deal.
the company name seemed vaguely familiar, and then I remembered to check my Pocket reading queue: http://thebillfold.com/2014/10/my-day-interviewing-for-the-s...
that was a light analysis of player motivation. These links are more in depth on a similar subject:-

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1419/designing_for_mot...

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3085/behavioral_game_d...
Right, do nothing to be ashamed of and nothing can be made public to hurt you.

Given your stance on this, you obviously would have no issue with your full internet browsing history being made public and associated with your real name, the one by which your partner / current flirt / potential employer knows you and might find you, right? I mean, if you didn't want people to know that you're into midget goat porn, you'd just not browse for it, correct?
> I had some angel investors who each invested about $20k. Now I do a new startup that is going really well and those old investors tell me that the right thing to do for me would be to give them some stock from my common for free.

Would they have been willing to have their previous investment diluted on the same terms?

They'll respond that they're not asking new investors for stock, that they're asking you, but ....
For a second I was like "Rand Paul used to design logos?"

Then I was all "That's silly, he would have been like three years old when he did that logo."
It would seem to me that P3P could legally be just as enforceable as a written privacy policy.

It would only take one lawsuit to prove it.

(And yes, I bet a lot of sites would break if they made their P3P policy actually match what they do with the information they collect. I think most developers just cut & paste the P3P values they find via a websearch without thinking about it)
Thanks David - we will definitely try and cover that somewhere on the site. I expect that in the majority of cases people who are comfortable with Google's terms that Google Maps would definitely be the right way to go - they've got a great team and build an awesome product.

Most of the interest I have had with Tile5 locally has been with GIS providers that build mapping systems that are for use within the confines of an organisation (i.e. not for public websites). In these cases you are required to purchase an Enterprise agreement for Maps and for some people this just isn't cost effective.

In these situations the fallback choice is either something like OpenLayers or a mapping vendors own mapping library. Most of those libraries lack the polish of the GMaps library.

Will definitely try and come up with some words that capture this for the tile5.org site.
There is only one company I would love to see Apple acquire - Nintendo
Another gotcha with sharding is that during a re-balance some documents will be on "both" shards simultaneously. Thus issuing a count command repeatedly on a 100k doc collection will see the count bounce up as it shards. 100k, 106k, 100k, 104k etc. This is not a problem for lookups of single documents but means any row scans will produce inconsistent values if the collection is re-balancing. There is a certain mode you can trigger for scan queries that may address this but I have not tested it yet.

You learn a lot about mongodb just by playing with it. It is super simple to set up and just hammer with different tests. I'm playing around with 4 extra large instances wired to 4 drives each in raid 0 on amazon right now and having a blast.
I'm an infrequent contributor.
Don't worry, this is Wakemate!

There'll be a new HN thread soon enough, and they always blunder just enough in each that their company stays at log(n) on the Cuil scale (where n is the number of threads).
> This can be extremely important if you have a project with heavy CPU-use

Would you recommend using something different than JavaScript when writing CPU heavy apps? I was under the impression that it's better suited when dealing with high I/O.
I'm curious why think he's guilty of the charges against him. Now, he's obviously guilty of civil copyright violation and can probably be sued into bankruptcy. But criminal copyright infringement requires mens rea and internal company transcripts show that the people at MegaUpload thought that they were within the law on some technicalities. They weren't but a reasonable belief that they were means that this wasn't criminal copyright infringement.
KISS: Python, Ruby or PHP, Django, Rails or Yii.

If any of those take the world will be his oyster.
Very witty - is the implication that Apple now has no leader and the end nodes are floating off without guidance?
I'd recommend this book and the bootstrapping community in general:

http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching/...

He could probably do ok with Ruby on Rails, Django, Node.js or something like that.
> Lack of namespacing … in the same module

To clarify:

1. You can’t have more than one function with the same name in the same module.

2. Standard record accessors are functions.
Oops.

I felt that the context of the claim "Pets != humans" meant that the commenter was claiming more than just the bare bones of that statement.

I interpreted my parent comment as dismissing the grandparent comment by saying that pets are not in the same 'moral class' as humans, without further justification.

It was this (probably imaginary, I now realise) distinction that I was trying to provide an alternative point of view for.

Sorry for attacking a straw man.

I have read Singer, yes.
I've learned to adopt the following attitude concerning software and hardware: Use a device for things that the company making the device cares seriously about.

My iPhone was absolutely fantastic at music playback. Apple takes a great deal of pride in its relationship to the music community and it shows. Bluetooth happens instantly. Songs sound great.

When I switched to a Nexus 5 last year, the difference in software quality was immediate and jarring. I can't put my car in reverse any more until my music starts playing because I don't know whether it actually will. Sometimes getting it going requires a simple hitting of play on the player. Sometimes I have to go into the settings menu, force a shutdown of Google Play Services, turn off the Bluetooth, turn it back on, then finally re-select Bluetooth playback in my car so it'll re-connect. Occasionally the Music app will incompletely break, the only fix I've found is rebooting the phone.

Even the music sounds off. For the first few seconds, I get this weird wobble in the pitch. It crackles and stutters.

Software is hard. Managing software development even harder. You have to focus your limited resources somewhere, if you don't, you get Google software, which is OK when you look at it in aggregate, but horrible if you're looking for a refined experience in something important. The music player wasn't given priority over other stuff, and the resource management isn't great, so the Music app sucks. I'd go so far as to call it dogshit, Google oughta be ashamed of themselves.

Apple is opinionated, and its opinions tend to be pretty good. A device streamlined around a few critical functions that are in use all the time is all I really need. I make calls, I listen to music, I read books. That's all I really need from my phone. The App store is similarly opinionated. You need to have a certain kind of business and buy into Apple's philosophy if you really want to do well with it. The more I used my iPhone when I had it, the more I started to understand the issues Apple faces when providing a mobile platform and why that philosophy and opinionated-ness exists.

I'm really glad Apple has found a way to ignore the noise from developers that don't understand those challenges. Apple is a design company, they focus all their resources around providing a consistent, gorgeous, and useful experience, that has to come at the expense of the hacker mentality that exists in software developers. The ones that do well understand Apple's design mentality, and Apple helps them out by featuring their products.