jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Thomas seems confused here. An API (declaring code) is not a computer program. A computer cannot execute declaring code - by definition - because it is missing the implementation.

This standard doesn't really make sense, and the legal standard says nothing about executability. What about programs with external dependencies, or a code snippet? Those won't necessarily be executable in a self-contained sandbox, but I'd certainly consider them computer programs.

Also, per Thomas's dissent:

> The majority also belittles declaring code by suggesting it is simply away to organize implementing code. Not so. Declaring code defines subprograms of implementing code, including by controlling what inputs they can process. Similarly, the majority is wrong to suggest that the purpose of declaring code is to connect pre-existing method calls to implementing code. Declaring code creates the method calls.

He clearly has a much better understanding of APIs than some software engineers I've worked with.
I don't know about the warehouses, but a family member stocked shelves at Target for years, and was paid the minimum wage the whole time. Hours were 1) part time, 2) too inconsistent to allow any other work.
No but it’s okay to copy all the entry names in the encyclopedia and fill in the content yourself
It's not surprising that police don't side with Democrats who vilify them for defending themselves, and refuse to respond to psychiatric calls that might make them a target. Consider the killing of Walter Wallace, one of the "psychiatric incidents" you're talking about:

> Several 9-1-1 calls were made by Wallace's sister, brother, and neighbor, telling dispatchers that Wallace was assaulting his parents

> The two officers arrived in the area to respond to a domestic dispute. When they arrived, Wallace walked out of his house carrying a knife. The two officers backed away while telling him to drop the knife, and as Wallace walked in their direction, each officer fired several rounds at Wallace, hitting him in the shoulder and chest. He later died from his wounds in the hospital. Wallace's family stated that Wallace was having a mental health crisis.

> Protests and demonstrations against police brutality and institutional racism in response to Wallace's killing took place across Philadelphia throughout late October.

> The then-presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris published a joint statement saying, "Our hearts are broken for the family of Walter Wallace Jr... We cannot accept that in this country a mental health crisis ends in death."[34]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Walter_Wallace

Body cam video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl1QBL8TijI

Edit: And it really says something about our ability to discuss facts on Hacker News when quotes from Wikipedia and a body cam video are downvoted to invisibility.
Just because it is illegal doesn't mean it's not done. I've seen plenty of faux competitions ran successfully without consequence.

Same with email signup regulations. Plenty of laws and regulations, yet it's really hard for people to get caught and fined for misbehaving.
Not if you are content to send SMS/MMS messages. I text all of my friends, clients, and family networks and avoid propritary platforms and none of them have ever complained.
Can you cite anything on this? I've heard it claimed before but haven't seen a primary source.
Right but in this case BLM got arrested so much people were put in holding buses in this case nothing happened
This is what Noam Chomsky has been saying for decades.
It's interesting that they only analyze the abstract syntax tree and ignore formatting. I would suspect that brace placement, tabs vs spaces, etc. would provide a useful fingerprint as well.
Most of this noise is pumped into the car (to make the consumer happy), not out of the car. The two most common systems in use today are the car stereo (either amplifying the real engine's sound or by simply synchronizing a synthesis mechanism to the engine's load conditions) or a "sound pipe" which runs from the engine's air intake into the cabin ventilation system.

This article strangely managed to conflate the two by bringing up external electronic car noisemakers, which are entirely unrelated in both purpose and execution to the noisemaking devices explained throughout the rest of the article.
And every single other major browser.
I can't even begin to tell you how hard what you're doing is. There is an endless graveyard of "deals apps". Restaurants are almost impossible to pitch to begin with, but as soon as you say "deals", they'll kick you out the door.

I'm begging you, from experience, not to do this business. The fact that you're so hung up on the name is also not a good sign.
Can you show me where Jordan has spent his life shitting on everyone else that can't do what he did?

You're going beyond exaggeration.
The soil moisture probe comment in the article is wrong. Several years ago I worked for an agricultural telemetry company, and we resold soil moisture probes that were several meters in length - measuring far more than 'a few cubic inches'. The soil moisture probes were excellent for determining when the plants were finished 'drinking', and you could also use them to determine how far down the roots reached.

It's interesting to see the chickenwire around the probe, too. We had a problem with native parrots who ate everything; our weather stations had rubberised doppler probes... eaten; plastic cable ties... eaten; anything not metal... eaten. Probably not digested, it's just that the birds get bored and try anything...
As they said, it's only the beginning...
"Best university" doesn't always translate into "best [insert subject here] curriculum." There's lots of great schools with individual not-so-great departments, and less famous schools with individual departments that are superstars. So don't assume that there isn't a better CS department out there without checking first.

An alternative suggestion: pick the CS professor you have the highest regard for, and go ask him/her what you should do. "I love this subject, but I'm bored here. What should I do?"

Assuming that your work in their class backs up the "I'm too smart for this class" judgment, they may be very happy to help you work through your options. Maybe you can just take a test and get a bunch of credits without having to sit through years of classes, or there's an advanced program for grad students you can get into, or they know of a stellar CS department at another school that would be right up your alley. Never hurts to ask.

Good luck! Or since you're in Austria, maybe I should say viel Glück :-D
>Emacs editing and movement shortcuts are built into OSX system-wide. (Ctrl+A and Ctrl+P collide on Win, Linux and keyboard management in ubuntu is messy and unreliable)

Not everyone likes emacs. Like the vast majority of PC users, I grew up with CUA programs and I loath emacs keybindings.

>Modifier-remapping is easy and solid on OSX (Need to run the download.com gauntlet on Windows, Linux is again an unreliable mess)

Autohotkey on Windows. I'll give you Linux, I don't remember exactly what song and dance involving .xmodmap and .xinitrc or some other shit I've forgotten that I had to go through last time.

>Opening a document's parent folder(s) is easy and universal on OSX (command click on document icon in title bar), good luck finding this outside an IDE anywhere else.

Most programs I've used support a "right click->open containing folder" option.

>Turning off a laptop's screen on demand is easy and reliable on OSX. It's frustrating on windows (I need 2 apps and a couple lines of code, wtf) and a nightmare on linux (where you're lucky to get working brightness control at all, let alone one that goes all the way to 0).

I could have sworn this "just worked" with my Thinkpad, but maybe it's different for Macbooks. Ditto for thermal management. Linux of course is a nightmare.

>It's easy to get a file from Finder into "Open..." dialogs: just drag and drop (e.g. attach file), as opposed to re-navigating through the entire filesystem. Windows has one especially braindead "open" dialog type that almost seems to be designed for the particular purpose of making this difficult (you know, the one that doesn't let you Ctrl+L, doesn't scroll sideways, doesn't remember the last directory you were in, etc).

Drag and drop is supported by almost every Windows program I've used. For attaching files in web forms, you're supposed to drag the file onto the "select file" button in the web page, not into the "open file" dialog.

>Finder knows how to sort alphabetically. For some reason the closest that Windows is willing to do is "Sort by File/Folder status, and THEN alphabetically by name." This has the very frustrating effect that unzipped folders are often very far (both in screen space and keyboard space) from their .zip files. When you have to deal with a lot of them, this gets frustrating FAST.

I prefer it that way, because 99% of the time I'm not unzipping a bunch of .zip files, and I'd rather see the directories first if I'm trying to navigate deep into a directory tree.
Agree. Am currently going through the Khan academy linear algebra course. I find it excellent.

I am finding the best approach is to watch the video at 2x speed, take notes at the same time and then catch up with a book a little later on.
My understanding is that prior to creating Perl, Larry Wall had studied (natural language) linguistics, with an aim towards perhaps designing a writing system for some natural language.

I believe he's explicitly rejected the ideas (common in the Lisp world) that extreme conciseness and conceptual orthogonality should be the ultimate goals of programming language design.

Calling him "relatively clueless about language design" seems a little odd.
Pretty strong charges:

* Violation of Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act [5 years prison]

* Operation of Illegal Gambling Business [5 years prison]

* Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud and Wire Fraud [30 years prison]

* Money Laundering Conspiracy [20 years prison]

And for all of them fines double the gross gain or loss: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/April11/schein...
Those are unique per year, so the phrase "a simple but potentially" is counted many times. There are about 600 million google 4-grams, slightly more than there are 4-character ascii strings.

Summing up, a meaningful 4-word phrase, is, in the terminology of the article, "risky".

My advice: use generated passwords, and apps like 1password to remember them.
Yeah, I don't get why this is even being posted. The poster got to know someone to push some traffic to their website? What?

Either way, I don't see what the fuzz is about SA's article. He's calling the men who want to whine about male inequalities for pussies. I don't know how else you'd sum it up.
I'm not sure, it was easy enough to carry by just myself, so the fiberglass weight wasn't significant.

According to this chart: http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/attachments/fiberglass-comp...

The fiberglass weight would be under 3lbs.

For the plywood - 3 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness according to APA Plywood Design Specification so

= .25 thickness * 8 width * 4 height * 3 lbs

= 32/4 * 3

= 8 * 3

= 24lbs plywood weight

So I'd say the boat was between 25-30lbs and that feels about right.
So when everyone was expecting them to compete with Gmail, they've gone and imitated... Goggle Wave?
All programs evolve until they can send email.... even Facebook.
wait, did you just say contact = groping?
I wonder if $/GB matters when people are selling VMs (like say linode), I don't know how many Virtual Machines are put into one server but if you are doing 16gb per VM and depending on the RAID usage as well it might start to add up.

I also don't know if this is still a problem but there was a worry about limited writes on SSDs and if normal harddrive lifetimes are greater than that of an SSD by a significant amount I could see why it would be a problem.
Simplify it down to one question: Do you have enough traffic/users where a 2% to 3% conversion rate will sustain your business?
Telling the world what you did and are doing assumes the world cares.

Facebook status stream:

"Waiting in line. It's going slow"

"Eating a burrito, no cheese"

"Ate a burrito... I think the no cheese will pay off"

"Low on gas, going to fill up"

"Can I use my cellphone if I'm just using Facebook at the gas station?"

"Just in case you're wondering, I didn't blow up at the gas station. Still here"

"I like to do it on the dog house"

People no longer care if the world cares. I don't think we really know anymore what is biologically encouraged is discouraged. Biology has never been here.
Keep in mind email wasn't "broken" when everyone was using Outlook, and then Gmail came along.
That's what I've been using lately. They all seem that have roughly the same torrents on each site.
Wind farms can't operate in icing conditions.
Not really. First you have to understand the paper in question, so you need at least partial background. Then you would have to find the authors. Many sensational paper authors or citation hunters don't like to answer critical questions. Nor is often raw data/algorithms/notes published so you can check if there is a problem.
Thanks for that story - now I am really glad it didn't work for us from the start.
This post discussion might help: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-inference-lattice-vs...

As far as I know, currently the non-julia-types type lattice is hardcoded. But even if that's the case, that's not fundamental to the design.

> If [you make the type lattice user extendable], how do you get code reuse?

What kind of code reuse do you mean? This alternative type lattice is not supposed to change the semantics of any Julia program, aside from rejecting programs that would otherwise have semantics in Julia.
On the contrary there's always this:

>There's new research on the best oils to cook with. If you’ve been hesitant to use extra virgin olive oil for high heat cooking, read on.

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/extra-virgi...
The tunnel has been flooded with QE methods' light. The tunnel is hardly dark... for asset owners.
> Only about 1.3% of the planet has ever owned Bitcoin.
Source?
Is this "repeal and replace" assessment inaccurate?

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3284076/brave-browser-...
and look at gigantic bubble that was created in crypto, because of that asset rotation - do you think crypto (which is funny money) is fairly valued as compared to real companies with real cash flows?

the only right strategy is what China have been doing - they have been selling US treasuries and buying real assets left and right across Asia and Africa - securing their grip on rare earth minerals, gold/silver, commodities, emerging markets, infrastructure projects and land.
The people who observe the slow loading time already paid for the game, so I guess R* won't lose much revenue because of this nasty bug.
This literally can happen. If the company causes enough harm lawsuits can drain their coffers and cause the company to go under or nearly so and restructuring to stay afloat temporarily can harm pensions.
GTA, at least the core gameplay and the single player mode, is quite well optimised. The game ran well even on the cheaper side of gaming PC hardware.

This... this is GTA online. It's a cash cow designed to suck cash out of your pocket. Ads for things you can spend your money on are shown while "connecting", so if this delay wasn't introduced intentionally, it sure isn't a high priority fix. The code isn't part of the optimised, streamlined, interactive part of the game, it's part of the menu and loader system.

Most of these online games/services have so-called "whales" that contribute most if not all of the income the platform makes. If these whales are willing to spend the wads of cash they throw at the platform, they won't even care for another five minutes of ads. The amounts of cash some of these people spend is obscene; the millions Take Two profit from GTA every year are generally generated by only a tiny (usually a single number percentage) of the total player base.

In the end, I doubt they've lost much money on this. They might've even made some from the extra ads.
Have you looked at the flagship element.io client?
Well 2 orders of magnitude can turn a problem that occurs once a decade into a problem that occurs once a month so it's not too surprising that the problem is a bigger deal in space.
thanks, I hate it so much
I don’t believe you can turn on file vault if you do this (full disk encryption)
i was just thinking of removing windows 10 and going back to manjaro i3 this evening. Will give this a go before I do! Thanks
Do all these entities operate independently? Is there no internal web of trust they could use to distribute rebuilt binaries?
It obviously depends on what "change this" means, but I would expect anything meant as a pro-merchant reform to first take current discretion to discriminate away from visa and merchant side processing.
> Atomics in signal handlers - N2547 - it s listed as missing here (at msdn), but listed as done here at vc blog

That was me being cautious, see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/04/29/c-11-14-17... - "I previously listed "Atomics in signal handlers" as No, because despite maintaining <atomic>'s implementation, I didn't know anything about signal handlers. James McNellis, our CRT maintainer, looked into this and determined that it has always worked, going back to our original implementation of <atomic> in 2012."
You haven't actually stated a position, but merely made an ambiguous observation, so I can't disagree with it. You may want to parse your comment again.

By the way, I think you're being DV'd for not adding substance to the discussion. I'm now guilty of the same thing, so feel free to hit that upside-down triangle :-)
clever. I hope it works out for you
This is how I solved it before looking at the answers:

I calculated that from a scale of 0 and 1, we have a 0.33 chance of going in in 0 days.

The probability of going in within 1 day is equal to the probability of choosing the second door (0.33) multiplied to the probability of choosing the first door the second time (0.33). 0.33 * 0.33 is equal to 0.1089, so we have a 10% chance of getting in with 1 days.

To get in in 2 days, we would have to choose the second door, and then the first door. Again, this is another 10%

At this point I thought that we have a 53% chance of getting in within two days (33% + 10% + 10%), and 47% of getting in with more than 2 days.

The probability of getting in within 3 days is 0.33 * 0.33 * 0.33, which is around 3%. Considering that the probability of getting in within 4 days would be 1% (0.33 * 0.33 * 0.33 * 0.33), I somehow imagined that of the remaining 47% of chances of getting in within more than two days, the 75% was represented by the probability of getting in within 3 days. The 75% of 47% is 35.2%, which is slightly higher than the chance of getting in within 0 days. The answer is 3.

Given that I lack math background, I wonder if my way of solving this problem is correct (hopefully someone can follow my reasoning).
I agree, but that means that the USA doesn't need to respond if China will keep NK in line.
It won't make its population any less hostile (and armed) when they find out that their beloved leader has been assassinated by the exact people they've learned to hate for as long as they can remember themselves.
Really nice. Some things are much faster to do in hardware, and this makes it really easy.

That said, why not link to http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/11/22/intel-launches-fpga-equipp... instead of slashdot?
There have been more revolts in what is now the UK than I can list easily... some were completely successful and ended up with regicide, or the effective independence of that part of the island for a few hundred years.

The most recent case that I can think of, was that soldiers had to patrol Glasgow with tanks in 1919 to suppress what was perceived, probably incorrectly, as an attempt at a Marxist revolution.

At a small scale things like the Battle of the Braes on Skye where people stood up to the Clearances eventually led to huge reform in the shape of the Crofting Act.

So I would hardly say that we've never revolted.

[Edit: And of course there is the history of the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland as well]
Not sure about in TX, but in my state the list of people he actually vaccinated comes before front line workers. I'm impressed that he was able to find so many head-of-the-line people so quickly.

(Further, he made house calls to sick elderly people, which is something sorely missing from our existing vaccination strategy.)
Too late, they should have done that first. Nice idea though.
While react-native isn't for me, some of the features are really nice. Hotswap for mobile development is definitely a very nice thing to have. I do wonder how that handles app state. Is only the UI reloaded or all of the code?
I'm sorry but if you employ programmers to build the project to spec without any awareness of the environment it's going to be deployed to, then no wonder you see that problem time and time again.

The problem here is not that you have insufficiently detailed specs, but that you're treating your programmers like bricklayers.

I strongly suggest you try bringing your programmers into the room during the specification process, even get them to write some prototype code to explore the tricky areas (something bricklayers don't get to do either). You'll probably find you get better code as a result because the people writing the code are aware of the environment the code will be deployed to.
Wow this is huge.

I used to play online poker for a living, I had a decent chunk of cash locked up for almost a year when they came down on online poker previously (UIGEA) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFE_Port_Act#Internet_gambling...

It's worth noting that these are NOT American companies. It doesn't look like anyone (players) has had their assests seized; but this is bad news for a lot of people.

It also appears people are still playing.
Because it's not true! Or at least not the way it was explained. The reason to change your password is to avoid the vector of attack where someone gets your password and can therefore use it against you. If you change your password each month, you limit the damage the person can do to whatever they can achieve in that month. Similarly if they have your username and don't have your password, they only have a month to try as many combinations as they can.

To say that is is 'the only way' is certainly not true. However, it does help in these circumstances and that's why it is a method which is used - mostly in companies as far as I can tell.
Using "000" for 3 months then "111" for 3 months isn't secure. So changing a password regularly doesn't make it secure at all.
They shouldn't be able to seize them at all. No transactions were occurring in the US, which (at least by the poker sites' arguments) makes them legal businesses.
Awesome - thank you, I'll watch that.
Another interesting thing to note is that most of these are not US companies (I doubt any of them are, my guess would be a US based registrar)
As what happened with the guys run the porn redirector under the Libya domain, if you're using a domain/registrar which is regulated under laws which make your website illegal then you're just asking for trouble.

It's just basic common sense: Use domains/registrars which fall under the legal authority of a country in which your website is legal.
I think the same idea applies to creating multiple user accounts or working on a computer you don't own.

The extra bit of effort separating doing your work from consuming Internet junk food is significant. I've noticed this myself when I'm coding for school projects. I tend to be much more productive on a frozen system* in a public/private lab, rather than on my own laptop at home.

*For the unfamiliar -- DeepFreeze removes any changes made to a disk from the frozen state at each restart requiring you to save work on a flash drive, Dropbox, etc.