jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The author ignores that Rand would have quite limited access to information on the whole story, for a start. But more importantly he deliberately downplays the fiction/adaptation angle. Rand was fascinated by what she glimpsed in the news story (namely the 'I am like the state; what's good for me is right' quote, and the mob-mentality of the public reaction), because it gave her some ideas for a work of fiction, regardless of the facts of this particular case. Writers don't have to be accountable for what strange things inspire them, just what they actually publish. Prescott leaves the exhonerating quote to the very end (padding the rest of the article out with random references to Neitsche and snippets of unrelated dialogue grabbed without context):

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"I am afraid that I idealize Hickman and that he might not be this at all. In fact, he probably isn't. But it does not make any difference. If he isn't, he could be, and that's enough. There is a lot that is purposely, senselessly horrible about him. But that does not interest me..."
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She freely admits that her impressions of the case are probably wrong, but it rightfully doesn't matter to her because she's just planning how to create a work of fiction based on some ideas it brought to mind, not publish an editorial on the Hickman trial. When you untangle the whole business, that's all you're left with: a novelist who privately took inspiration from a strange/shocking event, but did nothing to sanction or glorify it in the resulting fiction. Not particularly unusual: look at all the characters, tyrants etc., that Shakespeare put in his plays while finding profound truths about humanity. I'd say the whole thing would be analogous to me turning on the news, listening to something Col. Gidaffi was saying in defiance of the hypocritical NATO alliance, and then (without having the luxury or desire to research Gidaffi's own integrity), being inspired to write a story about a benign dictator who brought prosperity to the land, loosely basing him on Gidaffi's mannerisms.

So really there's nothing to it, and that article would have died a quiet death, EXCEPT for this passage:

"The first thing that impresses me about the case is the ferocious rage of a whole society against one man. No matter what the man did, there is always something loathsome in the 'virtuous' indignation and mass-hatred of the 'majority.'... It is repulsive to see all these beings with worse sins and crimes in their own lives, virtuously condemning a criminal..."

Now that is a horrible thing for Rand to say - most people have worse sins than child murder?? But this is where Michael Prescott has 'done the dirty' - the sentence I italicized was, if you read the whole passage from the diary, not referring specifically to this murder case, but to the general instances of mob indignation (eg. could be tax evasion cases, MP expense fiddling, bankers bonuses, Monica Lewinsky, Fred Goodwin, the BP ceo, public figures making un-PC remarks, etc). Which is not an altogether unfair observation, in my experience. Mass self-righteousness is seldom pretty.
The author ignores the idea that his websites don't need to look identical in every browser, and probably can't. If you're getting bent out of shape over the limits of styling an option tag, you're doing it wrong.

Give older browsers simpler stylesheets. Build your site to gracefully degrade without javascript and browser errors won't come back to bite you. We have a varied and rapidly changing browser ecosystem - you need to change your design patterns.
The existence of the circle-ellipse problem is sometimes used to criticize object-oriented programming. It may also imply that hierarchical taxonomies are difficult to make universal, implying that situational classification systems may be more practical.

I think this is why everyone was saying "reuse failed" back in the late 90's and why projects, like IBM's, to produce standard business object models failed. Shortly afterwards, folks like Ralph Johnson were saying stuff along the lines of how software reuse wasn't a failure, that it worked well, but it only worked in the small context of specific projects or applications.
I don't trust Plaid to handle my credit card responsibly, that's why I'm handing them a credit card number instead of a debit card number. With a credit card I can do charge backs if I'm victim of fraud. If I give out my bank login details and someone empties my account, I'm pretty sure I'm in a quite a different position...
That's a great comment, because I don't doubt at all that this would be the case.
Just got an email saying they are shutting down Google Translator Toolkit, too.
What about vans? Do people benefit from them?
Network protocols for printing on a LAN are quite old. LPD and SMB are two that I use at home. I know I am an advanced user and this won't solve it for the masses, but if I combine that with ssh I can already print anywhere.

So I don't completely understand why you need a proprietary Google "cloud" service that they can sunset some years later and break. When I heard about this I wondered why someone can't build a consumer-friendly solution on these older protocols.

Of course, printing itself is less relevant than it was 20 years ago, so it's not exactly a booming industry.
Looking at adoption in the enterprise, it didn’t go much beyond a discussion....
> the next developer

And that's often you, just in a few months' time.
I'm confused how this is collaborative. If a friend sends me a fiddle.md link and I change the content of the document, how do they become aware of my changes? Do I send them my link back?
Yes, that's all correct.

But the fuel injected does not detonate immediately, it is allowed to spread out a bit and the chambers are shaped to channel the detonation. It's a short interval but it is an interval. Injecting gasoline at those pressures and temperatures would mean instantaneous detonation of the fuel injected, too early in the cycle which will cause damage (to the injector, and to the crankshaft and/or pushrod bearings because they'll have to deal with more force than what they were designed to cope with because the energy is liberated in a much shorter time-frame). At best this will cause severe degradation of engine life, at worst immediate failure.

Another issue is that the injectors are carefully shaped to deliver a mist of fuel and the properties of gasoline and diesel are sufficiently different that the droplets will be of the wrong size and won't separate cleanly from the injector before detonation occurs.

All in all, not something you want to experiment with so if you find that you've 'gassed up' your diesel vehicle better drain the tank instead of taking your chances.

In winter in Canada it is common to put about 5% gasoline in the diesel fuel to overcome temperature effects on the diesel fuel.
It doesn't really matter about the content of the cables themselves, other than the immediate diplomatic embarrassment (and if an Army private in Baghdad was able to access this information, you can bet the Chinese/Russians/French/Iranians/anyone else has been reading US diplomatic cables for a long time).

Nor does it really matter about whether the United States is "indispensable" or not (worthy of a more detailed reply on US foreign policy, but this isn't Reddit).

The point is the long-term implication of governments being able to keep secrets. Of course, leaks are nothing new (for example, the Pentagon Papers). But if you have technology which allows instantaneous transmission and replication of data around the world, then governments will have a hard job of keeping secrets from their citizens except for very short periods of time. In the same way that that the internet is destroying the record business - despite their attempts to hold back the tide through legislation - the same technology is destroying the secrets business, both public and private.
Thanks! That was really helpful. I took 241 last semester and 242 this one. How much more work intensive are the graduate level courses compared to the undergrad equivalents?
In fact, I think the acquisition would have been in $50 mil range simply because VCs otherwise won't allow the sale. If they raise $2.5 mil at say $5-7.5 mil post money valuation, then for making 10x VCs would only say yes to an offer of $50-75 mil.
thanks for the reply, I can see if you make no use of functionalities other than push/pop how redis would be just fine.

Could you be so kind to qualify what load are we talking about, as producers/consumers & message rate/size/persistence level?

I have used ActiveMQ with systems of about ten nodes and a message rate of <2k/sec and it worked fine, and I always believed rabbitmq was faster/more stable (erlang bias!) so if your volume is 500k/s I'm ok, otherwise I'd file this as another slightly worrying information about rabbitmq (after the problems I heard from reddit)
Having two young children I would love to see something happen in this space. Currently I have my children in a private school on the basis that its "the best I can do for them now" - ie small class sizes, larger resources than a normal school. Whilst this is working out 'ok' I do feel that the idea of teaching children in a traditional manner - ie knowledge transfer from a person at the front - is wasteful. Outside of school I try to get them to solve problems by discovering their own solutions. I've looked at home schooling, but they would lose the social aspect. Its an area I'm just starting to explore, to find "a better way" so would welcome any comments, ideas, sites etc that people know of for an alternative way to traditional schooling. I do understand this is slightly different to the topic that has been started, but it still fits within the same area - that of innovation
nodata was talking about home users.

I think apt-get shouldn't require admin rights for security updates.
This is terrible advice, sorry.
Prophecy.io - low code product for data engineering on Spark - is Scala based - we love it!
We do compiler work - and packrat parser combinators are great.

Basic things are supported well. We use Play. We have GraphQL in web services - use Sangria. Slick FRM for database access is very clean. We use Akka for live web socket connections to Spark for interactive execution.

We extend Spark code from outside when needed - adding functions to classes in imported libraries.

It’s a learning curve for new engineers, but we hire the best and they like Scala after using it for a bit. SBT is confusing as hell, build times were painful but getting better. Debugging is sometimes hard (implicits)

One thing I’ve learnt us that if you’re handed a gun, you don’t have to start shooting at your feet just because you can. We used C++ at NVIDIA sensibly a decade back - using OOP but still avoiding horrible parts of C++. We use Scala sensibly now.

Can’t imagine another language that would work for us. I’ve used C, C++, F# before (building compilers and databases)- don’t know Kotlin. Only other language we use is Golang for our kubernetes operator (excluding UI)
Should have specified, you'd need to convert tether to bitcoin on a different exchange, then sell the bitcoin on Coinbase (or any other real-dollar exchange).

The point is that 1 dollar buys the exact same amount of bitcoin as 1 tether.
> I'm also sure it would be optional if anyone had an aversion to it. It's a small company so we're flexible on that sort of thing

Highly recommend this as opt-in, rather than opt-out, if anyone adopts this idea.
Covering your ass isn’t a weak defense for the underlings. There exists a leader(s) somewhere that made the rules and that can change the rules. They are the only ones responsible, and I don’t see why anyone else should stick their neck out and risk their income for it.

It’s actually a strategy for leaders to want the underlings to stick their neck out, so that they can be sacrificed as a scapegoat when convenient.

(in these bureaurocratic situations, obviously I’m not talking about a leader asking people to murder others and them not being responsible for that).
> Haskell people skew smarter than most other languages.

As someone who is working on broadening Haskell adoption I'm trying to stop this being true! I'd like programmers of a wide variety of intelligence levels to be able to find a comfortable home in Haskell.
Monetize? We have no plans yet. Just want the site to be useful.
I can't believe this is posted again on Hacker "News".

There needs to be a separate site that creates and maintains a hacker-oriented library of "Great Articles."

So I'm building one. Let me know if you're building one too, and we can collaborate, or I'll save my efforts and let you have the glory.
The ruby plugin is available on the netbeans plugin site, http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/38549/ruby-and-rails , it has not been verified for 7.0 yet, but it does install. Once its verified I guess it will show up in the plugin manager.
Thanks for sharing.

Here is some honest critique for you: It's about more than marketing. Where they are blowing you guys away is usability -- partly in the product itself, but more on the website.

In less than 100 words I know: a) exactly what showoff does, and b) exactly how to get it up and running.

Compare that to your Quick Start guide: https://pagekite.net/support/quickstart/

I mean, my eyes just glaze over when I see that. Get me running and get out of my way. As someone else in the thread said, don't waste my time selling me "benefits" -- that's what enterprise salespeople do to enterprise buyers.

Also, I like that you have a free trial, but when are you going to tell me how much it costs? And do I really need to complete an optional survey and check a terms of service box?

Sorry if I sound like I'm being hard on you guys, but even though I don't know you at all I'm confident you're capable of more. :) Don't fall back on the "we're not good at marketing" excuse. Spend a lot of time thinking about how you can simplify, simplify, simplify, simplify every single aspect of the interaction on your website and your product itself.

I'll keep my eye on your product though. Thanks.
my bad, internal references will be relative only (<link href="../Images/favicon/16x16.ico" rel="Shortcut Icon" />
) so no need for translation. i dont know why i thought what i thought
And Walmart?
Yes, that's the reason why we did it again. Sorry.
Probably not but these are extreme times, so everyone should just chill out and deal with getting their latest Switch game in a week vs. two days.
Well, yes, but we gotta stop somewhere or just give up any hope of computers operating on text.

Although I think grapheme clusters are a pretty good approximation in that it's usually what you want to backspace in a word processor.
I wasn't really sure what they pitched us technically, but your pitch sounds reasonable. It was also complete overkill- we were hosting
read only static images (map tiles). Azure and AWS were less than $300/TB/Year at the time, and their triple replication was more than what we needed availability wise.
Good point! I was thinking in terms of oxygen/CO2 balance. But strictly speaking, I realize your right in that hyperventilating won't actually increase absolute oxygen levels.
Never in my life would I have imagined that toilet paper is rarer and more valuable than boxed pasta.
I’ll be honest. I consider AMS Euler to be a gimmick. Yes, real books by serious mathematicians have used it, but it’s so non-traditional that it has not been broadly accepted. (Zapf is a real typographer of course. But the project, to me, is more of an exercise in avant garde typography than one to supplant “standard” mathematical type.)
> how likely is it, that we would have never found anything being wrong just based on the people that die from Pneumonia related issues this year if we had never found Covid19?

0%. Just read the reports from Wuhan and Italy. For example, citing from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/:

March 20 (GMT)

Italy: in the city of Bergamo, there were 108 more deaths in the first 15 days of March this year compared to 2019 (164 deaths in 2020 vs. 56 deaths in 2019) according to the mayor of the city Giorgio Gori. During this period, 31 deaths were attributed to the coronavirus (less than 30% of the additional deaths this year)

"There are significant numbers of people who have died but whose death hasn't been attributed to the coronavirus because they died at home or in a nursing home and so they weren't swabbed," said the mayor [source]

March 19 (GMT)

Italian army trucks form a long line in the center of Bergamo to transport the coffins from the Bergamo cemetery to cremation sites in other regions, as morgues can't cope with more coronavirus deaths

Obituaries in the local newspaper went from 1.5 pages (on Feb. 9) to 10 pages (on March 13)
So is this a usual trend with companies seeking IPO in the future?
Is there any idea which drives were shucked or not shucked from external enclosures?
Yeah IE11 is fine, if you want basic ACID compliance and ES5 support, but this is 2015 and Chrome and FF leave IE in the dust when it comes to modern (i.e. as of 2015 modern) features like WebRTC, shadow DOM, web components, 3D transforms, yadda yadda.
Missing figures, unfortunately.

EDIT: I was wrong. It's just that the figure is waaaay below the paragraph that mentions it.
I think the 'depending on the resolution' is key. Its not really a matter of software to me, its whether or not the hardware can deliver the necessary resolution to replace a monitor that's typically 1.5ft from your face. If you can break the dam by executing on the hardware the software will flow. (I wonder how Hololens compares to Magic Leap's technology.)

I think it would be very cool to just have 3 tripods on your desk (a ball on a stick) that represent 3 screen spaces. You could reach out and move them around, telescope them up and down in the physical world and the headset could use them for triangulation to render an accurate monitor on each. You'd still have a keyboard and mouse in the first iteration and then slowly overtime give way to other forms of input.
XBox too.
> But the fact is that emotions like awe, excitement, etc. are often big reasons that kids begin to pursue careers in science. Not many 18 years olds start on a physics degree because of a deep-seated desire to add 0.01% to future GDP.

Emotions are paramount, they are part of who we are, and they are what drives us to care about others. Also, pretty much no 18-year-old in their right mind starts anything because of a "deep-seated desire to add 0.01% to future GDP". They choose their careers to help themselves and/or to help others and/or because it's cool and/or because they have no other choice.
If you don't have a designer on your team, use this as a guide.

STEAL THIS PRESENTATION! http://slidesha.re/eFyqgS

After seeing a few amazing decks from design-focused companies, I made a resolve to never make an ugly boring slideshow again.
Depends, what IM protocol are we looking at?

I know one team here makes extensive use of Jabber, and if we can remove one more layer of input from the user by allowing them to keep open a conversation to the ticketing system, then I can see this making a lot of people happy.

Would I switch from my current provider? The timeline is that our current ticketing system is just a one year holdover until something better comes along.

tl;dr - we'll see.
The words 'score' and 'hustle' just make my tummy ache.

(That or the lasagna.)
It's a white phone. Get over it already.
We are building a social inbox. The way you check your emails on popular web based email clients, we wish to be your client for all your social networks. Hope we can build this and build it well.
The parsing of contractions/words with apostrophes is broken/unsupported:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=can%27t%2Ccouldn%...
vs
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=t%2Ccan%27t%2Ccou...
You don't need an automobile to travel beyond your neighborhood! You can take a bus or a train or ride your bike, even in suburban areas.

Plenty of midsize cities worldwide work on various combination of mass transit, automobiles, walking, and bicycles. The automobile monoculture in most midsize American cities is a product of our early development of cheap automobiles combined with federal policies massively subsidizing highways and the racial paroxysms of the mid-20th century.

Even Canadian midsize cities, which in many ways are very similar to those in USA (except for far worse weather) have far higher transit usage. In Calgary, 'the Dallas of Canada', full of oil money & newly-built single-family homes, 24.3% of commuters use transit, and that's considered low!
http://www.calgaryjournal.ca/index.php/news/2538-calgary-s-t...

Likewise, newly built Dutch suburbs have many features that resemble American suburbia, but have good bike lanes and acceptable bus transit:
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/01/15/dutch-suburbs-are-like...

Manhattan is still dependent on transit because it's one of the few places in America that's so dense, even 60 years of dedicated auto-first policy couldn't change the facts on the ground.
How much to you want to bet someone was told to hire their own replacement?
They bought it a few months ago. Minecraft.
I vaguely remember a story about a guy who kept rebooting the computer in order to close a running application and start another.
The author basically says "Don't prize victimhood because rich kids are better at playing the victimhood game than poor kids."

I would have liked it better if he had said, "Don't prize victimhood because it is not the job of universities (or employers) to attempt to right the cruel turns of fate that life deals to each one of us."
Why would it be likely? Spotify has almost no reason to remove Rogan. When has any thing like this ever seriously affected a company's numbers? I'm not talking about what people say. I'm talking actual numbers in 2 quarters.
Ye, I dislike the Unixy way of mounting hard drives where ever. There is some mental calmness of having the root of the HD at a drive letter in "My Computer" ...
Any able-bodied person can get fitter than most people who aren't very into fitness for (damn near) free, without even that much time investment.

Trainers and peloton classes and such give people the option to rent someone else's willpower, though. (plus leverage sunk-cost sentiments and other tricks)

It's probably part of why fitness levels go up and waistlines down as one's gaze travels up the SES ladder. Someone with money who kinda wants to get fit can pay someone else to do their giving-a-shit for them, and might get fit. Someone without money who kinda wants to get fit—won't. That's what you'd expect to see even with all else, including the distribution of willpower (however we measure that) among various social classes and income levels, being equal.
This seems like a pretty good course and seems to match perfectly what I was looking for. Thank you very much for the pointer!
As for it being a bit outdated, it should still be fine as it will at least give me a better understanding of things and help me being able to figure out other materials to study.
It would sound decidedly less snarky if they didn't start all sentences with "False.", but listing pathological examples is not by itself snarky.