jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yea, we've been wondering that ourselves. :)

We've already gone through the DD process with him and his lawyer, and a new shareholder's agreement has been drafted. It has verbiage in it that basically allows him to come on as a voting shareholder, with the ability to ascend to a director once he feels "he is ready".

His readiness is mostly contingent on industry knowledge. We're in a space that is largely unknown to him, and he wants to take the time to bring himself up to speed before taking a more active role in the company.

One of the reasons we're feeling trepidatious is that we haven't spoken to the man since August, save two email. The rest of our interactions have been with his lawyer, who, while civil, has been a bit onerous to work with.

We're just not sure if this is an indication of how our relationship will work going forward, or if this is merely a difficult courtship period that could result in a truly beneficial working relationship down the road.
Something tells me you'd manage to sell about one problem set per assignment.

Live by the sword, die by the sword :-)
Unfortunately, the Dalvik VM and JVM are quite different too. Dalvik may act like a JVM and talk like a JVM but it isn't a JVM (not according to Google, at least; Oracle thinks otherwise).
You are correct about the airframe, but the airframe wasn't what I was referring to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar-absorbent_material

Active countermeasures aren't very stealthy except when you're attacking a specific detection system.
Also: unit tests can only take you so far. If the code is brittle, it will find a way to break.
I mostly agree (and use void* myself), but I don't 100% agree on the last point. There are a bunch of algorithms that are conceptually generic, but get a significant speed-up if type-specialized to certain types, mostly numeric ones. For example, I think STL's type-specializing sort is a pretty reasonable default, while C suffers from having only a non-type-specializing sort built in, which ends up much slower if you're sorting, say, an array of integers. Same with a bunch of machine-learning algorithms that work on generic comparable types, but work much faster if you type-specialize them to integer or double, the way C++ templates would do. That's the main use case I see those terrible C macro approaches used for. An alternative I've seen is to actually generate the type-specialized variants ahead-of-time using some external templating or macro system, or even some hacked-up Perl script.
> Aha. Logging in with me.com doesn’t work, but Mac.com does.

I'm guessing this is probably just a bug then - not a data breach.
I got .00007%, actually. But I'm notoriously dumb with simple math.
try st
Everything needs protection

I'll go with everything which you want to continue into the future needs caring for, but purity of the Chinese language seems like a strange thing to be optimizing for and expending effort on instead of, say population happiness or ability to trade with other countries or healthcare or whatever.

Who is keeping score on language purity and what makes it a metric worth doing well on?

Here, the geolocal minority language is Welsh. It is kept on life support by a smallish and dwindling number of native speakers (virtually no only-Welsh speakers remain, 600,000 people identify as Welsh speakers, but the Wikipedia article suspiciously avoids mentioning how many of those consider themselves 'fluent'), and a government mandate that all official documents, announcements, roadsigns / etc. must be in Welsh as well as English, and mandatory teaching at school.

I was wondering recently if it would be interesting to argue that forcibly teaching children a globally useless language for the sake of pleasing the adults who arbitrarily want it saved is a weak form of child abuse. It certainly isn't a form of educating children in a way that is in their best interest at least, which I'd think is a pretty strong heuristic for a useful education system.

The main out against that argument is that language education in school is so ineffective and accounts for such a small amount of time that it's hardly a thing worth complaining about against the backdrop of all the other things which could be improved.
I signed up for the startup plan yesterday and followed the instructions that appsumo sent off to me, but my account has yet to be upgraded. My initial email to the mixpanel server keeps bouncing back. Has anyone else had this issue?
Well, that is just it. Certainly 100% of the people I have ever worked with, even the bad ones, can write a for loop and an if statement. I mistrust the process more than I mistrust the people, though I suppose maybe the same bad people and endlessly interviewing.

50% of working programmers can't write a for loop? Does that square with your experience outside of interviewing?

I don't quite buy the whole fizz-buzz story, though I don't have an adequate explanation for what could cause these kinds of failure rates. Something seems very off.
p-adic numbers are measure of necesary- resolution to describe. A pair of p-adics is very close when you can use a very coarse ruler (of tick size p^n, large n) to measure the exact difference (1 vs 10000000001). p-adic numbers are far away when you need a very fine grid (1.0 vs 10.000000000001) to measure the exact difference.
Not being funny, but when Signal gets enough users, what’s stopping them relenting on their promises of privacy and punting the company to Facebook just like what happened with WhatsApp? It would almost be a good business plan.
Trump didn't incite violence. As other comments point out, twitter's cited tweets are poor justification. This is a political purge in order to win favor with the biden administration.
> despite being still stuck on lithography somewhere between 4 and 5 times less dense

That seems a bit high, I know it's 14nm vs 5nm but they're not real numbers anymore, and even that would only be 3X.

Don't get me wrong though, Intel are still screwed. Even if they get 5nm in 5 years, where will TSMC be then?
What I'm not sure on is the effect of making a community smaller. If you have 10 million people in a tepid cesspool, shutting down that cesspool might make 100k of them move to a more extreme location, while the remainder stop being exposed to that influence. The remaining smaller community is more extreme, but primarily because it has only the more extreme members of the previous iteration.

Sort of like how doomsday cults get more fervent with each incorrectly predicted apocalypse. The cult gets smaller, but those that remain are the true believers.
Enterprise Value can be incredibly misleading for companies with large financial arms. GM has a large financing arm that provides loans to consumers which is what makes up the vast majority of their total debt. If you EV correctly captured what you wanted, companies should make as many loans as possible.
Thank you for saying concisely what I've been thinking.
Some languages (Python, Tcl, R and possibly others) expose the stack as part of the language/standard-library, and thus an implementation that DOES do TCE cannot be compatible.

In python, it's mostly visible through exception objects.

In Tcl and R, it's in common use because it is standard practice to do things in your caller's scope instead of your own.

In C++ (and any language with destructors), many routines are invisibly not TCEable because the language semantics require the destructor to run after the tail call returns - which means that a change to a different part of the code determines if a specific function is TCEable or not.

So, despite your claim being technically true, it is in practice often informally specified by the language or standard library.
Is it surprising that when fascists and racists are muzzled, they lash out to try to maintain the power to hurt others? No, it’s not surprising, and the lack of surprise is not part of any of the newsworthy stories of the last several days.
Unless you're conflating "science" with "a certain wing of the social sciences", this seems like a huge overstatement.
Hunh. Well, I don’t need the app anymore. In fact, I reject it.
Let me be the first to predict this will fail miserably. How much money and time have people wasted the past 100 years on "systems" to beat the stock market?.

Need proof that there is no system to predict the market? There's no person on the earth that owns everything. Theoretically, if someone could predict the market even somewhat effectively, he wouldn't just make lots of money, he'd make ALL of it.
I got this from a former co-worker and am now completely reliant:

alias r='sudo '

Note the space after sudo in the quotes. Cuts down on keystrokes when you have to spend a lot of time sudo-ing.
This scratches the surface of an unmatched essay by Harold Goddard called Atomic Peace. Both pieces seek a virus (or a chain reaction) that could end war, but Adams falls short. Indeed, education is not enough and can actually encourage war. Although I'm hesitant to omit even a piece of Goddard's essay, I've reproduced excerpts from the beginning below.

The Atomic Bomb is the outstanding fact of our time-- not just as a scientific triumph and military weapon but as a symbol of what our so-called civilization has brought us to. As Emerson remarked, "Civilization crowed too soon." How shall we meet the menace of modern scientific war-- not the menace of atomic attack but the menace of the bomb itself, of the ugly fact of its existence? The fission of the atom is an intellectual achievement of the first order.... we can understand what Emerson meant when he declared that "pure intellect is the pure devil". Over the entrance to Plato's Academy at Athens was the inscription, "Let none ignorant of geometry enter here." If I could choose a similar inscription for the entrance of all the colleges and universities int he world today I would pick that great sentence of Montaigne's "All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and goodness."

WANTED: a force for good as potent as the atom bomb is for evil, a force, preferably, to complete the analogy, that produces a vast result out of a chain reaction of little forces each of apparently negligible amount-- a result, however, not of disintegration and destruction, but of integration and creation.

It its widest manifestation life itself as revealed in the process of organic growth is such a force and it is not chance that the bomb came into existence for the express purpose of defeating that process, as if it recognized in it its natural and opposite enemy. For what is cellular proliferation but a chain reaction of millions of tiny forces each contributing to a tremendously disproportionate total result of integration and creation? This chain reaction of the tiny into the mighty may be observed, though on a smaller scale, in the mental and spiritual life of man even more convincingly and often at a more rapid tempo than in his physical development....

Goddard goes on to explain this mental and spiritual force in detail. I simply cannot do his work justice with with excerpts from the rest of the essay. You'll have to go read it. It may be the most important thing you ever read.
I would be willing to bet that most people who use the app to flag other drivers are themselves worse than average drivers. Does the app send flagger's info to the insurance company as well as the flagee's info?
good call. I will keep that in mind next time. thanks for pointing that out.
Basically the gist is: You need to be prepared for anything to stop working at any time.

The tone of this post indicates to me that the criticism and problems experienced by Netflix with AWS are understated, which I can understand given their position as a flagship AWS customer, etc.
Stop talking about profits. Twitter creates value for millions of users, they will figure out how to monetize those users. If you put profits above all, it will slow you down.

People were saying the same things about Facebook and they figured it out. Same for Youtube, same for Google, etc etc. Twitter is a 4 year old company, there are thousands of companies that dont make any profits in their first 4 years, it even took Amazon 7 years to be profitable.
Reading through the comments at the end of his entry, it is sad to see how many people missed the point entirely.

Everyone got so caught up on his meme that they didn't see the power in memes. Evidenced by everyone discussing the meme and forgetting the point.
Agreed. When I write code on a single core machine, then watch it peg only a single core when I run it on a multicore machine, I start thinking about changing languages. That's a pretty big change! [Before you say I should leverage features in my current language to perform better on multicore machines, keep in mind that's also a big change! I'd rather switch to a language that does it for me, or at least makes it trivial.]
Perl was the language that I used many years ago but I moved on. Perl 6 was announced in 2000 and took over 10 years to see a release and by then most developers moved on like I did. When a language takes that long between releases there's clearly a lack of enthusiasm and support for the language. And touting market share? That is a pointless argument. You should be working with multiple languages and move past these silly blog posts.
Except, in this scenario, it's relatively easy to come up with a good 99.9% solution:

Seven text fields will cover greater than 99.9% of users:

Name
Address Line 1
Address Line 2
City
State
Country
Postal Code

So much of that article discussed stuff that was irrelevant - Live in Singapore? Great, just fill in Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. I've done that on many, many sites and it's always worked fine. Don't have a postal code in Ireland? Most people there learn to try EIRE or 00000.

I think a better article would have been:
"Here are the scenarios in which the 7-text address system doesn't work, and how you can make it better." - But I couldn't find anything that suggested it wouldn't work just fine.
A lot of companies verify postcodes with QAS, so probably worth reporting it to them:

http://www.qas.co.uk/knowledge-centre/product-information/ad...

They are run by Experian who one of the main credit check companies in the UK, so you might be able to hit two birds with one stone :D
That dog will be alright. Great job you did there on the website.
So it won because of historic marketshare? By the same logic, Commodore 64 already won. All those C64 haters with their new machines are just jealous.
I think they only ever planned to manually remove user's files in the event of receiving a DMCA takedown notice. So they implemented an automatic notification stating that.

Or maybe it was a default option, one of several, and it wasn't changed to something more appropriate.
It depends on your budget. If you have next to nothing, then you should also grow with the technical knowledge required.
Hate to nit pick but isn't it Gaddafi, or Qaddafi?

Edit: So it is, although the correct spelling is already taken.
> Which leaves me to wonder why the JavaScriptCore library that comes with iOS is private in the first place.

Because the JavaScriptCore library is not finalized? I don't understand what there is to wonder about. Other than that point, I still think this is really awesome.
Wow. I really hope the blogger isn't proud of neglecting his brother, sister, father, and wife for some company. He has skewed priorities.
Now, if only we could stop getting our tv from Tuvalu. Stop reliance on foreign domains! America needs Internet independence!

/palin rhetoric
Not what I meant. A large part of Linux's success came from companies contributing their code and using it. Companies really don't like GPLv3 because of it's Tivoization stuff.
Worse, it’s a regressive tax.
The wording on the Sign Up & Pricing also lead me to believe that it's 3 designs a month for free.

How about pay as you go pricing? I'm not going to pay monthly if I only need it every now and then, but I'd happily pay $15 per design on a non-recurring basis.
I think you're looking for "An Awesome Book", by Dallas Clayton.

It actually is a children's story book, and I bought a hardcover version the last time it came through here.

http://veryawesomeworld.com/awesomebook/inside.html
Can you say which keyboard you're using?
Because the idea of having hjkl available everywhere sounds appealing.
It's difficult to steal something offered for free. You could try to charge them with attempted DDOS or something like that but since wikimedia did not suffer any actual degradation of service. I think that at most you can go for something like "causing harmful traffic through negligence" but you'd need to prove the traffic was actually harmful.

In any case let's not get carried away. 90 million requests for a 70KB file is only 5.8 TB. Wikimedia mentions in their about pages that they are hosted on bare metal servers in various places around the world. Just going on the bandwidth charges of the first provider in the list, that'd be about $30 USD per month if they have the "bulk" pricing or $300 USD per month if they use the list pricing. I don't think that is worth going to court over for the Wikimedia foundation.
Public pressure to avoid being seen as profiting from opportunists seems to work.
> Intel doesn't do contract manufacturing

What about Intel Custom Foundry?
It's a good example but I think it's not exactly that. Maybe it was a GUID generation code that would generate the same one for every instance?

> I know it has something to do with some mythical thing called a mutex, rarely can I find someone that bothers to stop and explain what one of these are.

Oh my
This is f*cking amazing!
I hear a lot of complains about the Sonatype process being not trivial. Here is a background article about why:

https://blog.sonatype.com/why-namespacing-matters-in-public-...
I don't know of one, but I'm pretty sure you could hack something with a small enough wacom tablet if you really wanted. I used a wacom tablet for some time when my mouse broke and the store didn't have the one I wanted. Anyways, trackpoints are readily available and can easily be added even to custom keyboards. They're even more handy than trackpads in my opinion, since with a trackpad you still have to leave the keys while you can install the trackpoint at the hjn-join or the fgv-join (or whatever the layout puts there, for me it'd be nrt and aeä).
If one were to decompile and check what the app is doing, I'd guess it would still be a good idea to not say so on a public forum. Especially, in cases where there is so much public attention. :)
I primarily develop Unity Applications and there is IL2CPP that compiles and runs IL code as C++. Also, I’ve developed in Java regularly over the years and it’s never a pleasure. C# is a better language. Java 8 introduced Stream API and it sucks. I hate how blotted every new Java Library is in size and API smell. Everything in Java land is over-engineered and Tomcat can die in a fire.
Twitter allows you to mute keywords: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-m...

It's not perfect, but muting key words like the names of a few popular political figures, names of political parties, and names of hotbutton issues will drastically decrease the amount of political content in your timeline.
I've asked around for this feature, since I started trading because its the type of investing I'm interested in. There do not currently exist autobalancing features on trading platforms (at least on TD or for small fish).

You'd have to build something custom. I'd definitely use their product!
I've heard amazing things about WalMart's logistics systems, care to comment a bit more about the ones at Target?
Glad they finally add this. Used to be a painful lack compared to chromium-based browsers. During the long wait I've found this amazing addon called HighlightAll [1], which allows you to search multiple keywords and highlight them with different colors; the position will also be labelled on the scroll bar. Super helpful for researching/consuming long articles.

[1]: http://jgoudey.free.fr/highlightall/
Regarding their privacy commitment, visiting the link with Tor browser gives "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable". https://old.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lqtecn/update_to... works - for now.

It didn't use to be this way - they wait for network effects to create lock-in, before turning hostile. Almost like a trap.
> Doesn't that just leave you in an echo chamber of people who agree with you, and you don't learn anything new?

The idea isn't to unfollow people you disagree with. The point is to curate your follow list to contain the type of content you want to see.

I enjoy reading different viewpoints, as long as they're presented in good faith and with a willingness to discuss them openly. I still follow a lot of people I disagree with.

I've also followed a lot of people with whom I agree, but I don't want to consume their endless Twitter dogma about the subject.

Shape the feed to the content you want to consume. If you want to consume healthy debate and alternate viewpoints, curate accordingly. The idea that the only way to break an information bubble is to let low-quality arguments from the other side flood your timeline is not true.
It's probably more that communication between different cultures and across a 11.5 hour timezone delay pose a significant barrier that require efficient project leadership and company culture to manage.

Neither of these exist in a relatively local WFH setup. People still have the same weather, sports and other interests which allow for better cohesion. Hell, I'd often zoom into a meeting rather than walk to the conf room pre-covid anyway because I'd gain 5m to/from and I had back to back meetings.
>For those of us who want a computer to tinker with, we’ve never had it so good.

I disagree to an extent. While the hardware is much, MUCH faster, efficient, reliable.. it isn't something we can tinker with anymore.

Would you feel safe picking up a random USB drive and running the programs on it? A huge chunk of the fun of early PCs is gone. You can't just find new stuff and try it out to see how well it works.

If its open source, you get dependency hell, if it works at all. Plus there could be any number of backdoors or bugs in it waiting to subvert your system. Plus the ever present threat of having all of your passwords and/or data exfiltrated to who-knows-where.

In the days of 2 floppy disk machines, none of this was a worry.
1. Choose an app- maybe your favorite IDE
2. Build an app to work with it and will:
2a. Allow migrating your current state to another computer running said app.
I don't mind the proprietary drivers and firmwares. (Actually, I do, but I'm realistic and know that the completely open source phone won't happen ever, so I just accepted it.) What I'm after is stock AOSP (with binary blobs, if no other options exists), with root access, and without the proprietary Google apps (not because of their proprietary nature, but because they are of absolutely no use to me, I'm happy with the open source equivalents). Replicant tries to clone the proprietary bits, but that's not what I'm after.

I'm only after convenience. As I said, I can compile AOSP, but I don't want to invest in this maintenance work at all. I just want a plain Android that can update itself. Basically the only thing I'm after is OTA updates to stock AOSP. I don't care about modifications, new features, or more free drivers. If such a project ever appears, I'll be the first to donate. I would even pay for a subscription to such a service.
Very few people actually have hard problems to solve.
I wrote a static, static site generator called "Jr" (https://github.com/Xeoncross/jr). There really is nothing you need to do but write your posts. The client's browser renders the whole site when it's requested.

There is nothing to install, nothing to setup, nothing you have to generate. I don't know how to make it simpler and yet still self-hosted.
Sounds like we need Spider Jerusalem.

(Transmetropolitan, if you enjoy cyberpunk + gonzo journalism, highly recommended)