jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For you maybe, do you speak for everyone else? There are definitely a lot of people who want to reduce whiteness, not just include others more. A concrete example is media capitalizing Black but not white in reference to people. There's also this statement that apparently you would agree with, yet many people got upset by: "It's Okay To Be White". There's even a wikipedia article on it. Inclusiveness is not the same thing to everyone
Back in 2014 when i last used Cassandra, Netflix were using it for some kind of metrics store i believe. They also published the nicer-to-use client back then (astyanx or something it was called - nicer API than Hector).

My memory is letting me down here on specifics - in my defence it's been a long time since i answered questions on stack overflow about Cassandra. I absolutely loved working with the product even if the sharp edges cut me a few times (ultimately my own fault not Cassandra's).
About the choice of Pascal for TeX in 1980… was it the case that Pascal was the most widely available language at the time (at least at universities and the like where TeX would be used)? Is that why Pascal was chosen as the language for the "portable" TeX rewrite? Or was it just that Pascal was available for PDP-10 (was that a common computer?) and reasonably easy to translate from, so it was a good base?

About some of the other issues (system calls, a default for "case", etc), isn't it the case that most Pascal installations did have their own extensions that resolved this (even before Turbo Pascal)? (I'm actually surprised how many distinct Pascal compilers there seem to have been, with their own extensions… it must have been a language easy to write compilers for, which must explain some of its rapid popularity.) So some of this was more a failure of standardization (Wirth just didn't think about these factors enough to put them in the original standard, or update the standard fast enough) rather than non-availability in the Pascal that anyone used at a particular place. (Of course they'd become issues for porting programs over to another system.)
I'm just thinking with the unemployment high as of it is now, this would be no problem? When our situation gets back to normal then this would be a problem.

Please correct my line of reasoning here.
Who would you rather be taught by, someone who spends the rest of the week using what you are being taught, or someone interested in something else (at best, teaching itself, at worst, doing anything else)?

I might suspect bad linear algebra teaching is caused by a lack of interest in linear algebra by the teacher.
> The fear is that excessive money creation would create inflation. However, there's no sign of that happening any time soon.

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that it accelerates inflation. Inflation doesn't happen in fits and spurts, it's on going and has been happening well beyond my entire life.
https://i.imgur.com/82QXoAj.jpg

Here's a tip that will massively improve your personal quality of life: Stop getting offended. Don't you have better things to do with your time?
Don't ORMs use parameterized queries by default?
Can anyone comment on exactly what types of data AdMob collects?
Zee of The Next Web is awesome approachable. @zee on twitter. Reach out to him, TNW is a big name (I think it goes TC -> RWW -> VB -> TNW)
please do publish it...
That's not necessarily true. Microsoft lobbyists specifically target middle and upper management, and using arguments from authority, convince them that they must stay on Windows/IIS because it has better ROI.
The article talks only about recordings and mashups. The former aren't covered by such an agreement, and it's not clear if the latter are.
Is this a real question or a silly jab at Microsoft? I think you're underestimating the number of existing businesses who have .NET at their core, in which case the question is what justifies moving off of .NET? In my experience .NET can be - while not as hip - a very solid framework.
Could apple change their developer contract to say anything they want?
Great! Looks very good! :)

Although, table-support seems to be very limited. The table is generated correctly, but it doesn't look nice enough. Take a look at LightPaper for inspiration.
This seems like it's by far the strongest batch ever. All of the ideas are solid, and it seems like most of them are in fast-growing markets and already have traction. Whereas even as recently as five years ago, it seemed like at least a third of the startups were built around ideas that were barely even plausible.
It will be day trading firm. There are much better stock or futures to day trade as GME properly still requires 100% margin.
> Easiest to just try

Nope, easiest is to skip this and move along.

The HN frontpage gets you 15 seconds of attention. It's worth taking the time to come up with a 15 second pitch before you go live.
I know of at least two companies (in the UK) which do this. They are fairly small companies, however.
If you want to talk more about persona and try to promote it (brand new mailing list):

persona.advocacy atsign librelist dot com
send an email to subscribe, the first email will be
How do you know this is natyral? Whether it is or not, aren t they thinga you could do to remedy it?
I can't be bothered to find it, but I remember reading the same thing. I'm sure a short search will turn it up if you're interested in reading it.
I work for a large games developer(one of the largest ones in the world in fact), and the salaries are completely taboo. No one will say how much they are paid, no one will say what bonuses they've got, nothing. When I asked the HR manager what I can expect to be making if I advance higher up, the answer was "that depends", and when I asked for an estimate they said they can't give one. I absolutely love the job, it's the best thing ever - but I honestly don't understand the salary secrecy.
That's an interesting counterpoint, and one I hadn't considered. Definitely worthy of note (especially when you combine it with the 'zero Android vulnerabilities found' - which isn't to imply it's an actively nefarious project, but that everything should be taken with an objective eye).
This is where the nail comes... if FB can become an integral part of the learning process (e.g. providing homework/study collaboration tools) they will really be disruptive within 5 years.

Partner with Kno (or BUY them) and the game is on.
> As an example, take for example streaming raw AAC audio from the internet. Android as a base platform does not support this in hardware or kernel...

Have you tried streaming OGG audio? I've been looking at doing an streaming audio app, and by all accounts, OGG is properly supported by base Android. I'm willing to add an OGG encoder backend because I already had to do that once to get iPhone/AAC support, but if OGG doesn't really work then I might try a different approach.
What does $60m in stock options mean? Can they be exercised at profit?
I'd second the jacquesm's post: you should write a book or a blog post on those.

One of the reason I've noticed for everyone's wanting to use "distributed" and "cluster" stuffs is that we have no intuition/ experience on how much can be processed within the limit of a single machine: when someone start designing a data pipeline, even if they know how big (in term of GBs/TBs/ whatever criteria it is) the dataset is, they still don't know if it can fit in a machine or not. So the safe solution is to design a distributed system: if it doesn't fit, you throws more hardware at it. It's somewhat similar to the "no one got fired for buying IBM"
Everybody loves open standards until they are large enough to dictate their own.
Have you looked at sed yet?
It should not be difficult to limit ANY queries on Linux systems. Something such as this perhaps (which could be tweaked in various ways):

iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 53 -m string --from 50 --algo bm --hex-string "|0000FF0001|" -m recent --rcheck --seconds 10 --hitcount 5 -j DROP

For IPv6, just replace 'iptables' with 'ip6tables'. I imagine OpenBSD's PF could do this as well.
This goes for anybody that 'made it'. The luck factor is discounted after the fact except by those who didn't have it.

The main factor is the size of the pool, if the pool is large enough then some will end up to be outliers and those are the ones whose profiles you will read. The profiles of one of the countless numbers of also-rans never make it.
You can use Yahoo finance. It's not RESTful though.
I know Lenovo lost some respect recently, but I love my T420s. I anticipate using it another 3-5 years.
Oh I would pay so much for something that keeps the cat quiet around 6am.
I think it's well worth mentioning your project and I hope you continue to do so. It's useful to put the Diaspora hype in perspective and let people know that there are other mature projects in active development as well.
He was an intern.
I have migraines on occasion, but I hate doing diaries. I think if it had some FitFu like appeal and made me want to use it, I might be down.

Bill / Tatiana... good luck!
I think it's a great idea but it's not a big business and likely uninteresting to YC or other investors. Wikipedia tells me that 10% of the world's population has had a migrane (https://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0030-1249220) but how many of those have them regularly? How many seek help? How many would use a tool to manage their triggers?

I think you would be better off canceling the interview, explaining why you are abandoning you last idea and trying again next cycle.
Pretty much. You'll see that the aggressive ones are taken down, like the Beatles, won't find that at Grooveshark. However, you can upload your own Beatles tracks and label them differently "B34tles" and it'll stay up there longer, just like the Kazaa days.
Here are some qualities I've noticed in great UX/UI designers:

- Deeply understands the technology involved and how people want to use that technology

- Looks at UI the way users do and is disgusted by pain points (ala Steve Jobs)

- Empathizes with users who use technology differently than they do (or anyone else on the team), and is able to build out UI specifically for their use cases

- Wrangles the development team to do everything possible to make life easier for the user; set-up that auto-detects your rig, Mint's on-boarding process where all you have to do is enter your username and password from your bank website log-in, etc.

- Concepts and implements things like emotional hooks, look-and-feel, embedded tutorial, etc.

These things are "seen" and not "done" like playing the piano or other activities which require 10k hours to master. Some people have excellent product experience vision and give themselves permission to use it in a business context. Other designers will push pixels their whole careers.

Some people think deeply about why they do things, others don't. I think that's the critical skill in UX design and cannot be trained.
Wise words. Good essay, too.
This is the same situation I'm in, except that I'm at the beginning of my career as a developer (despite being 30+... took a detour through grad school). I feel like it's hard to know what's up, down, left, or right at a small company or startup.

For the most part, I get my projects done, start my own in areas where I know there is pain, and advocate for other projects/solutions when I think they're applicable but I'm too swamped with my own work.

It's an issue I've been meaning to bring up with my supervisor ("So just how do I fit in? What's next?"). Is a frank discussion with your CTO out of the question?
I'll also jump on the band wagon that deleting it is a bit of a bad idea as much as i hate facebook too, but if you actually read the full terms and privacy you can opt out of moat things and they only really effect you if you have other services in the "facebook company" group much like how google tracks you across everything with their ad ID it's the same with facebook.
read the terms and privacy thoroughly and you'll see it's not all that bad and this is coming from a strong hater of facebook
Ah. I just crossed 500 days of ban on high speed mobile internet. So much for cheap data and fundamental right. I think indian supreme court even decided against declaring intenet as a fundamental right because the same wasnt in the constitution. Smh.
> Asking to leave WhatsApp is like cancelling your contract with your ISP and going offline just because you don't like the company.

Not "going offline" since people are obviously looking for an alternative. More like switching your ISP because you don't like the company.
Except if no one is using the protocols, they don't actually solve the problem.

People don't want everyone to have a complete platform to them to say anything they want. So somewhere someone has to be doing some deciding of who gets a platform. Protocols can't magically solve that problem.

I think there is something to giving people options on what moderation they want distinct from having to limit who they can communicate to, but all of the current attempts at that don't do a good enough job, they all offer technical solutions, but no real solutions.

What you really need is for one of these protocols to get a particular instance that does an amazing job of "no nazis, no one telling you to die or that you shouldn't have human rights", while giving you the room to move and remain on the protocol if the instance you are on starts to limit you or you start to disagree with the moderation.

Of course, this begs the question of who is going to be doing that moderation and why. That's the hard part, not the decentralised platform.
Would it be so bad to stop believing his claim of fraud after all such claims have been proven in court to be false?

At what point should a person stop believing their own claims?
> Have you had much experience finding quality developers who can see the BIG VISION...

The ones I know have their own companies. You are going to have to compete with developers who also are good at business. Learning a bit of tech will improve your chances of success.
What kind of books? I discover that I'm usually cherry picking chapters or section in technical or books where there is no strong interrelationship between the various elements or the topics. As already pointed previously, marking or taking notes inside those kind of books is useful to keep a trace and easy find back what you discovered or learned in a technical book.

There is a good reading about taking notes and especially the approach of thinking while relying on our current readings : Notebooks of the Mind, Exploration of Thinking, Vera John-Steiner (ISBN13 978-0195108965).

We are often learning at school to always finish a book even if we don't like it or we have some difficulties to read it. I tend to agree for the difficult books where sometime, you have to force yourself to finish it. But sometime, giving up is not so bad and relaxing your mind with more "easy to read" or "easy flowing" books is helping us to relax before reading more complex books. That's why I always keep around 4 or 5 books in my reading queue... and jumping back to some of them when my mind is more ready.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=742268
record everything you do and put dates on everything

print out all your email exchanges and mail them to yourself as you send and receive them (physical mail) and don't open them, and include dates in the body of your emails. Then you can at least have some documented, dated proof of your attempts.
Well, a number of folks who come visit Boulder find the town, the developer community and the tech level enjoyable. But I understand that there is a larger pool of people to pull from in SF. Why not go to a few Meet Ups or User Groups, or find some start ups to visit in these areas and go there and see.
His bad press comes from the fact that he's been in the hype cycle long enough to reach the backlash stage, and he made a bold enough move to trigger that backlash.

Any successful startup will fall into this trap if it operates in startup mode for long enough. Just mash up the concepts of "startups iterate quickly and fearlessly", "people fear change", and the hype cycle. Or hell, just rely on the hype cycle by itself.

Note that this is true whether or not changing Facebook's default privacy settings and launching Instant Personalization was a good idea or not. It doesn't matter whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, just that sufficient numbers of people consider it a bad thing, for the thing to trigger the backlash stage. And if you're innovating, you almost have to do something lots of people consider a bad thing. You get a pass for this early on in the hype cycle, of course, but even if you continue the same pattern of behavior, once the hype cycle reaches backlash you will pay for it all in spades, and internet comment trolls will call you a psychopath.
According to the other comments (and SpaceX[1]), SpaceX has a contract with the government to deliver cargo to the ISS when the shuttle retires. It has plenty to do with politics.

[1] http://www.spacex.com/dragon.php
Wondering how this affects SEO and non javascript enabled browsers. I assume one would still have to implement the more traditional solution as a backup option.
Either the writer of the article sucks at coming up with analogies or doesn't really understand what pipelining sequential logic means :)
Well, they have the AdWords equivalent as far as search advertising. And advertising on Microsoft AdCenter not only gets you on Bing search results but Yahoo! as well. Yahoo! has completely outsourced their search advertising program to Microsoft as of this month.
I agree people cannot be attentive to everything.

HOWEVER, people can be a lot more attentive now then they could ten years ago (for example, online reviews of cars/restaurants/etc) and in ten years they will be able to be even more attentive.

If we do things that foster attentiveness, everyone will be better off.
Sure. You may try compile IL to js http://jsil.org/
I do believe in God, I'm a christian, I go to church usually 3-4 times a week (because I want, not because the church requires it or any rules) and I'm a very technical person, software developer and I'm also very into astronomy and physics.

When you say "around 99% tech people I know in-person do not believe in God", this may be biased based on your location. For example, my country (Brazil) is predominantly catholic. So, I'd say around 99% of people in tech I know believe in god in some sense.

There is a huge misconception, mainly in the US, with this evolutionist vs creationist thing where a correlation was created where evolutionists are mostly atheists, and believers are mostly creationists, so there must be a "clear distinction" between people that understand science and people that believe in some kind of god.

IMHO even great speakers like Neil DeGrasse Tyson fail epicly doing the same thing they complain about creationists, they reject arguments of anything related to God in a very unscientific way: "oh, so you believe in God? so there is an old guy floating in the clouds? so his special ability is to turn water into beverages" - How is this different from believing that, as Carl Sagan said, there are dinosaurs on venus? It is just making up a lot of assumptions out of nothing.
I'd actually go further and say that you shouldn't even buy a theme, you should just use Squarespace, Wix, Weebly or whatever other easy site host+design catches your fancy.

You're bootstrapping and your time would be better spent on marketing and sales than even on the relatively small amount of time it might take to modify a theme or start from scratch.
Right, that would follow.
I'm going to guess that they didn't know how to do the volumetric conversion.
There seems to be a response by "the" (please rise) Ken Thompson:

"viewpoint may be largely unrelated to its usefulness. Many if not most of the software we use is probably obsolete according to the latest design criteria. Most users could probably care less if the internals of the operating system they use is obsolete. They are rightly more interested in its performance and capabilities at the user level.

"I would generally agree that microkernels are probably the wave of the future. However, it is in my opinion easier to implement a monolithic kernel. It is also easier for it to turn into a mess in a hurry as it is modified."
That's assuming ... quite a bit.
If trees kept their leaves permanently they wouldn't have to grow new ones

If leaves were kept indefinitely they'd also have to deal with damage, wear and tear and so on. Biological systems often seem to prefer replacing over repairing damaged parts, which is perhaps another reason why leaves are replaced. For instance our skin is constantly being replaced, so injured pieces are discarded instead of repaired.
I take it your current visa is an employment visa?

In which case, I assume, strictly speaking, you're not supposed to run your own business on it?

Or is there a single type of visa that covers employment and business?
You mean like a webcam?
I had heard about this a while ago, but cool to see it in action in public.
I've recently started using VMs to help get me into my zone faster and keep me there longer. I keep a separate VM for each project I'm working on, and I keep all other activities (browsing, music, chat, etc.) out of them. I've found a few advantages:

1) Easier to get into my work. When I restore a VM, it's still in the exact state it was in the last time I worked on that project. Terminals open, commands still partially typed in, working files open, notes typed to myself, docs/references still open, etc.

2) Easier to avoid distractions. The logical sandboxing of work and play has really been helpful for me - once that VM opens up, everything else gets hidden and drowned out. There is no temptation to "just peak at HN" - I'm either completely in my work VM or completely out of it. When the divide between work and play is blurry, I err, but this keeps that divide very crystal clear.

3) It's easy to recover from distractions when they do occur (and they are inevitable). I just minimize the entire VM I'm working in, and all of my work is kept in its exact state: positioning of windows, files open, etc.
It does autosave (although as you mention the UI is not very clear on this)
Deprecation of those awful vendor specific DB extensions is a good start, no doubt. But those are library functions, rather than language features.

Another thing to consider is that PHP developers have a track record of deprecating certain functionality, then a few releases later changing their minds and no longer deprecating it. Some examples of this include is_a, and var in property declarations.

Given how it's still relatively common to see PHP 4.x installations in use today, 10 or more years after they were first released in some cases, merely deprecating some of the broken functionality now won't help much. We'll still see deprecated features in use in 2020, if not well beyond then.

The broken functionality needs to be stripped out completely within a reasonable time frame (well under a year), not merely deprecated and left around for years, if it even stays deprecated. But this involves the PHP community acting responsibly, and going along with these changes for their own good. I don't think we can expect that level of responsibility out of them, unfortunately.
That still makes no sense: 1) light itself cannot be transparent or translucent, only objects, and 2) the human body is in fact opaque in the infrared, as evidenced by the fact that heat lamps warm us up.
I use DDG as my default, and when I'm not getting the results I know I could get with Google, I go to Google. It's usually pretty obvious. This way I support DDG, while not sacrificing my productivity (too much).
Thank you for the explanation . I assumed options always have a symbolic price.
Blimey I didn't know anybody still used ICQ!!
What a bizarre comment. They are paying him.

He has said that someone could sponsor him to do it in his own time https://github.com/chaoslawful/lua-nginx-module/issues/165