jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"The entire profession is rooted in split-second decisionmaking, for reasons I cannot fathom."

Right. There are very few points in time where decisions in medicine need be like this. Even in the ED, where I interact most with physicians. Hell, the ED I see most often has checklists to "stop and review" (and they do) for things that most people would consider (and are) time-critical, cardiac arrests, intubation, and the like. It's odd to get used to, but seems to work very well.
Is it possible to install Linux on the HP Stream ?
Plenty of big online companies either try hard to be uncontactable (google!) or will simply have their first line support tell you that it's your own fault and nothing can be done.
Agreed. In fact markets can from time to time exhibit systemic inefficiencies. What this means is that the very fabric of the market itself can give rise to bubbles or crashes. A brilliant book that I found an eye-opening read is by Didier Sornette, a physicist by training, "Why stock markets crash," circa 2003.
Well, how do you explain the fact that Web did not win on desktop? I am still puzzled why people think web should take over mobile for some reason, but never mention desktop.

> Just how exactly do you archive that content anyway?

Why should I archive anything? I don't archive web pages I visit either.

> Anything you "buy" on those platforms is not something you own.

I don't care if I "own" something. Owning for the sake of owning means nothing to me. If I pay for the book it is because I want to read it. If I pay for the music, it is because I want to listen to it. Even CDs I do own are now represented by their cloudy ghosts using iTunes Match. Why? Because they are always there. I don't have to walk with backpack full of CDs just in case I'd like to listen to particular song. I can get it on any of the devices I use.
Yeah, I don't have a install DVD for every app I bought. I don't care. I change my phone: they are already there. I get new Mac: I go to App Store app and just click "Install" for every app I want to have on that machine. Maybe to some it is a death trap, I don't know.
They could collect bcrypt hashes to verify instead of raw emails.
Who rejected you today ?
I have not read much in regards to WHY this exact same bug was also found in OSX. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Do they use the same code stack for iOS and OSX? This seems weird to me - even though parts of code could be used in both operating systems, I would imagine separate teams would be on iOS and OSX, each reviewing code bases on their own, running unit tests and whatnot. Still, this major flaw has been present for 2.5(?) years - all the more reason for paranoia about its presence.

Add to this, why wait so long with the OSX update? A security issue THIS serious MUST be patched instantly and rolled out as an individual/separate update as soon as possible, even if that means pushing back OSX 10.9.2. Or did they need some time to introduce a new flaw somewhere? o_O
Just because Google has your data (because you created an account with them) does not mean that you should be okay with every spammer and script kiddie having it.
I'm hoping he's trying to be facetious in this article because the only "ineffective habit" that I see in this article is #1. And, I could argue that is not always a bad thing because of the quality-of-life benefits you get from seeing the 'big game' or spending time with your friends.

#2 and #6 are pretty much saying the same thing. Both speak to how people tend to be over-optimistic with work they're planning to take-on and are unable to take into account of the possible delays to doing that work. Also with #2, It's not clear if he's saying that planning itself is a ineffective habit or if its just the inability to take into account future events.

I'd lump #3 and #4 together as both of these are symptoms of the same problem as well, seeking constant distraction.

#5 is poorly described as it does not describe a habit. He should call this the "keeping up with the Jones's." Either way, I don't really agree that this make people ineffective. Misguided? Maybe.

Edit: fixed some spelling errors.
Ah, I found it: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/business/safety-gap-grows...

But the article was from 2003, unfortunately. Searching online I can't find statistics per mile driven, which is what you need to made the claims the replies to my posts are making.
Context: Parent is paraphrasing a well-known quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
Are the old hosting companies of the past still sharing the same disk with other users? I remember going cd .. and seeing a bunch of folders in /home from other users. If any one of those users used a chmod incorrectly I would be able to access their shit. It is not super likely for most files but well known files can be a problem. Beyond that, trusted CGI-BIN processes could probably be used to get around security concerns (takes some work). I've been wondering if many of these FTP/SSH/Hosting sites have since moved to docker or some containerization tech.

All this assuming the hacker would use a gift card to get a paid account to start.
Interesting. Can you please provide an example of what you mean?
We really need another name, which refers to people uninformedly quoting 'the AI effect'.

How about "the AI effect effect"?

This happens all the time:

- X suggests that success at a particular task is a good proxy to general intelligence.

- Years later Y solves that task with a clever hack and lots of computation, but no general intelligence.

- The media breathlessly suggests we've made progress on general intelligence.

- Z points out we haven't really.

- Someone says "Oh that's the AI effect!", by which they mean the goalposts have been unfairly moved on AI.

No, they have not. There's something called general intelligence, humans can do it, and Deep Blue cannot, and it's fine to say that Deep Blue beating humans at Chess was not thinking.

It just turned out that Chess wasn't as good a proxy to thinking as we initially thought, and mentioning "The AI effect" just clouds the discussion.
When you can print money every project looks good. It's the same thing as government waste or academic faffing.
DevOps started out as “Agile Systems Administration”. In 2008, Andrew Shafer did a talk called “Agile Infrastructure” addressing issues around involving more of the company in the same disciplines as programmers.

In 2009, Patrick Debois created “DevOpsDays” conference to help to bring it to light. However, it wouldn’t begin to trend until about 2010, when people would begin to describe it as a standalone discipline.

Today, DevOps goes beyond just developers, systems administration and infrastructure, its about dev, ops, agile, cloud, open source and business, everything.

DevOps is a movement. There’s no certificate, role, set of tools or prescriptive process. There’s no specification, it’s not a product, or job title. There’s no one true voice on what DevOps is or isn’t. It’s about attitude, ideas, customs and behaviours. Culture, paradigms and philosophy. It’s a way of thinking, a way of doing and a way of being. Practicing as well as preaching. It’s a conversation. It’s about taking the best experiences and sharing those with others.
Has anyone tried out python in postgres? (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/plpython.html). In the past, I've tried to avoid stored procs for the reasons mentioned above, but have not yet had the chance to try out python and would be interested in hearing about people's experiences with it.
Run flats are trash.
> That's not a particularly interesting question (and it's not an improbable unbroken streak of 39 years, but a mixture of successes and failures, much more likely to result from chance).

Why is any particular permutation of 39 wins and 8 losses more improbable than another? That's like saying HHHTT is more likely than HTHTH.

> The herd can be relied on to make Buffett's choices after he has established his position, which means he's positioned to benefit from the public's responses to his choices.

But now you're playing it both ways. Are markets efficient or not? Can't every rational investor realize the herd will do this and just ape Buffett?

I may have misunderstood, but your thesis seems to be that markets are efficient, and no strategy can consistently beat the market over time. My thesis is that we have an existence proof that isn't the case.
You see now this is news!
A few quick questions to help you think through your decision:

- does your 'refusal to buy into this idea' prevent you from seeing additional options?

- is it really a binary question, or are there a range of possible solutions to your need that include different mixes of university and work

I got a Ph.D. at age 20 by being a bit creative with the institutional side of things. My university, rpi.edu, brought me in as a transfer student from nowhere and gave me credit for university-level classes i had sat in on at skidmore college and through johns hopkins cty program. i finished the last 2.5 years of my undergrad in 2 years by cleverly managing course requirements and taking a few extra classes. Then i cranked through my ph.d. while getting sent to japan for a summer through the nsf, and to conferences in Nice and Hungary.

if you set out a list of all that you would like to do and view university more as a mix-and-match opportunity, there are a lot of ways one can do things, that can be more productive than the traditional route.

for example, one could camp out in palo alto and attend a pile of stanford classes and events, plus tech industry startup events, plus ...

for two years i was on a campus without being a student there... but hey, some people like to get a degree and have a student i.d. card. at what cost though... food for thought ;)
I have a problem voting for a comment that is entirely in brackets. Feels it could cause a divide by zero problem if the bracketed part doesn't count thus rending the comment to be of infinite value per character.
Defense contracting (communications, deployed software systems).

Medical software (PACS/RIS in radiology primarily; some automated lab and pharmacy experience, medical paging. Limited EHR/EMR experience).

Firearms (retail, wholesale, and manufacturing of small arms)

(plus crypto/security and some datacenter/cloud/etc. stuff, but that's better covered by existing startups)
Probably the first thing you want to do is put whatever is supposed to be on http://docs.racket-lang.org up because that's resulting in lots of broken links on the front page.

I think it would be appropriate to post again when the site is complete.
For me, the real question isn't about "how to find a technical or non-technical" co-founder but "how to find another great entrepreneur that want to join a hell of a ride". That's even harder than to find a person w tech- or non-technical background.

Of course it's a big plus if the person that you'll have as an partner is a great programmer, designer or business developer. But to be honest, the most important asset of a co-founder is his engagement. Find people who are highly motivated to work with you, your idea and your product and you'll be able to achieve awesomeness.
Well, two things:

1. It's a great way to learn a new codebase.

2. It's a good way to get some political capital so that you can get autonomy more easily.

You just don't usually start out with the plum assignments when you start a new job. If you do, you won't be given the autonomy to make them satisfying. So in my opinion, it's better to start off with jobs that you know will be drudgery to prove your worth than it will be to get a neat-sounding task where you'll be kept on a short leash.
I concur. If you are doing web or app development, all you need are some non-tech reviewers to keep from making stupid mistakes.

If you are looking at the enterprise space strlen's advice is sound. What you really need is an adviser with connections in your target industry to mae connections and open doors.for you. (Get legal advice on how to structure the relationship, so you dont get blindsided by a submarine co-founder later on.) Find the industry associations; attend their conferences; read their journals/rags. At the conferences you can find customers you can work with.
I understand. I wasn't sure about listing them here due to the somewhat desperate nature of the post (and with an eye on posterity). I'm happy to reveal all upon request though. If that's unacceptable to some then I'm sorry about that and I guess I'm not your man :)

I do appreciate your point though (not a wasted post far as I'm concerned, re comment below).
None of that says "really bad UI". Quirky, sure. Not as straightforward as others. Could definitely be improved. But not "really bad".

Though I will add that the index is a horribly named concept and it really bugs me that different commands use different names for it ("--cached", but sometimes "--index"). They need to rename it to "staging" and change all the command line options to --staging (keeping the old ones as hidden backward compatible options, of course... "diff --cached" is engrained in my memory at this point). I think that would make things more consistent and clear.
1. My wife and I have our Amazon account linked to several devices: my Kindle, her iPad, an iPod Touch, my Blackberry, and my computer.

If Amazon is being that permissive NOW, then I assume things won't get more restrictive.

2. How young? If they're old enough to read a chapter book, then they're probably old enough to treat a Kindle gently. My son (who is three) is quite gentle with my iPod touch, because he knows if he isn't: no more "Bug's Life".
(That said, I don't think there's any way Apple wants to get anywhere near Comcast's awful customer service reputation.)

It actually might not be that bad for Apple. There's no place to go but up in terms of Comcast's customer service, and Apple could always present it like it is a serious uphill battle (which it is), so if they don't kick its ass out of the gate, it'll just be one of those things Apple tried but couldn't do. Of course they'd still be left with this huge service albatross if it doesn't work out, and that's where the risk is.
On the first, SS is running a surplus right now. They need to invest that surplus. The safest investment on earth is US treasury bonds, so that's what they buy. It all made perfect sense until someone figured out you could spin it as "raiding the trust fund". The US has the same obligation on that debt to the SS trust fund as it does to anyone who buys a t-bill. The US has the same obligation on that debt to the SS trust fund as it does to anyone who buys a t-bill. See the "interest payments" section of the budget. They're not "IOUs" on a sticky pad or something.

On the second.. strictly speaking accurate and honestly speaking inaccurate. Debt isn't the point of this, everyone knows we have a deficit, the point is what % of spending goes where.
Hmmm... Not really. People familiar with BASIC can read most C++. People glancing at a Russian Newspaper see sentences, words, stories.

I've seen a fair amount of lambda style code, prolog, and so on. This code just looks ugly.
It's pretty obvious that "Le Coq Sportif" is part of a non-english brand name. Coq not so much, especially out of context - eg. people overhearing professional conversations about the theorem prover, or when trying to introduce it to new audiences. I'll accept it was a tit-for-tat joke back in the day (re. 'bit'), but the original namers should have foreseen this day coming. It's branding 101 to do your research and avoid these issues.
Here's the new paper referred to in the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10891
It's interesting because in some ways, GPUs are much less specialized than CPUs – GPGPU programming mostly involves treating the GPU like a huge, dumb collection of very simple processors. I expect effects in the opposite direction as well, i.e. that programming languages get better at using GPUs to do a wider set of workloads. For example, I was recently able to prototype an ETL pipeline with no machine learning or matrix multiplication to a GPU and get a ~10x price/performance improvement, which would have been a lot harder even 5 years ago.
It’s easy (although verbose) to add help text, and valid options, too.
GCC or anyone else's C compiler doesn't really count as far as this convention goes. GCC's flag parsing is aiming to be compatible with conventions that preceded GNU, other vendor's compilers break their own conventions to be compatible with GCC or whatever else cc(1) is etc.

GNU's conventions are generally complimentary, but not incompatible with POSIX. And POSIX specifies the behavior of the sort of flags cc(1) should understand[1].

There are many POSIX and other traditional *nix tools that are a convention unto themselves for historical reasons. E.g. notice how GNU "dd" doesn't follow normal GNU command-line conventions either.

1. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/cc.html
On a tangent, I find the straight-up Debian Stable pretty polished. On the surface of it, feels exactly like Ubuntu, which makes me wonder why would anyone choose a derivative, especially given that anyone can easily configure it to their heart’s content.
Yeah, but that 1% can choose either the Linux reference hardware or keep buying some other random laptop and throwing Linux on it.

So, the market is really rather less than that 1%...
You can see this as well in TTRPG's. There is a firm divide between those who use descending or ascending armour class in D&D editions, with those who prefer ascending claiming it's simply easier.
Are you serious?

Lookup how many millions seized from The Silk Road, Empire Market, Dark Market and the many millions in dollars seized from criminals each year by the FBI and foreign intelligence agencies.

You can check the new ones on (dark.fail) and you'll see there is more of them than ever, and with more offerings than ever. They all require your browser to have JavaScript disabled and use the Tor Browser, which has the highest security and privacy settings enabled.

Say whatever you want about cryptocurrency, but them having no value is the furthest thing from truth.

Just this year alone so far, Tesla started accepting BitCoin for buying its cars, together with PayPal too that lets you pay with crypto instead of a bank-issued card, effectively enabling BitCoin for millions of online (and offline) vendors who use PayPal.

The view that crypto is only speculation with no real-world value hasn't been true for many years for large segments of society.

In other countries, people put their money in crypto because obtaining hard currency in large amounts is very hard and their government has proven to be willing to outright stick its hand in their bank accounts and take however they want. You might not feel it in the Western World, but in many countries its very hard to obtain USD or EUR.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/everyth...

In a country like Venezuela, you don't have the choice to buy a foreign stable currency and at the same time the money vanishes due to inflation faster than you can get it because to take all its gold reserves from the USA and sell them in the open market.

https://nypost.com/2019/02/01/venezuelas-maduro-to-sell-gold...

This was from 2019. Look up yourself how much their currency has fallen since then after he followed up and started selling the gold.

He even created his own cryptocurrency to hide his own illegal drug sales!

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/petro-cryptocurrency.as...
Short article on this: https://web.archive.org/web/20150823053040/http://blogs.msdn...
The Java compiler does almost no optimization. I think it's an idealistic thing: All optimization is supposed to be done by the JVM. Personally I think that sounds stupid.
> Who do you think will have your back if it hits the fan and we have to tough out a nuclear war or similar? These fresh of the boaters sure won't.

People will. FOB or not doesn't matter. I'd venture as far as saying that most FOBs I've met are far nicer people than most americans. Regardless of the originating culture.

Most Americans in fact display the exact same arrogance you just did. They're better than everyone else just because they happen to have won the geographic lottery.
> Given that segfaults almost never happen in the JVM (I've never seen one)

I've seen 5 segfaults over the last week in our system. Unfortunately we don't enable core dump in our system (yet) so we haven't really had a good sense of what might cause the system. We've been seeing about 30 SIGSEV's over the last three months, but we haven't been able to root cause it yet.
I hope someone does "Try Javascript in the browser".
It is posts like this that make me realize how slow and outdated traditional media is, when they need almost a week to publish an article after it has been trending on front-page of reddit.
Obligatory Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/literally
There's even a word for it.

Contronym.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
I hate these moon landing as human peak people because they always pull the same bait and switch:

First they'll tell you why it was great: organization, collective will, pushing the boundaries etc. But instead of matching those things, you'll be asked to match the end-result i.e. lunar missions!

If you're serious about human progress why not pick a more useful project e.g. investing in alternative energy.

Otherwise, just say you want new moon missions because it would be cool. I'd respect that argument.
The argument here is that this was intentional, not unintentional. Nothing in here leads me to believe that someone claimed the domains and just happened to leave them dormant on a registrar. Rather, they setup the domains with the expressed intent to redirect internet users.

This is not what is being argued against Names.

You say it's a starting point. Considering it has no relation whatsoever, I fail to see where it can lead. My searching has turned up nothing. Until someone presents otherwise, I consider this entire argument and article FUD.
That's definitely something we'd want to add. At the moment we wanted to release an MVP and see if people like it before adding accounts and other features. We didn't think it was crucial to getting the core experience with the product, but we're going to keep improving it over time. For now, you could save locally or to Dropbox to avoid losing revisions. Thank you for the comment, I'd recommend signing up to the mailing list to hear about when things like accounts would launch.
Why would you say that? What does C offer as a language that makes it more secure in your mind than php?
Did the original link change? I can read the article without logging in
I think a lot of the problem is that you don't know how much you want to commit to a product. I have tried a number of JS frameworks, and wouldn't pay for any of the, I would pay for Django (or get my company to) as it has saved me loads of effort over the last 4 years. Though it did take probably 6 months before i was aware quite how much effort it was saving me.
This is cool. I've thought about this sort of the service before. It surprises me that Gravatar has never bothered creating a widget.
In the search results, the "link" part, which is supposed to point to the HN discussion instead points to hn.algolia.com

For every single link in the search results which are HN text submissions. The article submissions still point to the correct link.