jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm just a rube who managed to make a living doing something with the computers I found in junkpiles.

I will be raising what is effectively my hourly by whatever the minimum wage increase ends up being.

For me it's about distance from my past but I suppose that means that I've currently left money on the table today?
i had xiaomi redmi note 4. Best affordable phone when u just bought it but dont last long.
> and sometimes I asked them to do random challenges such as turn around and continue reciting the numbers
And we can have a good fight knowing that the other one is not going anywhere :D.
It took me 20 seconds of googling to find a picture of the medical director for my county.

But that's not really the point. The point is that part of his job was to come up with a plan for these situations. And he settled on give them to my friends and family. That's obviously a poor choice fraught with ethical issues. Like I said, arresting him is not the answer but he is not innocent.
You are only forced to pay taxes in USD.
I always thought those coconuts were the green coconut without the rind.
Interestingly enough, for those of us mature enough to have experienced the former "ship it" attitude second-hand as consumers know these companies often only really have "one shot," because I'm sure as hell not going to pay to be QA at my age.

Reading articles about products that crash day one tells me all I need to know. I don't consider the product even after it's been patched.
"Israel values its security, and pays for it. According to an analysis by Bloomberg News, Israel spends around 10 times more per passenger than the United States does."

I'll bet those numbers change if you include the cost of a pair of world trade center towers and the associated expenses of that incident.

"Cheap and ineffective" != "inexpensive"
The tracker doesn't know which peers have what data; "have" messages are used for that.
We should stop calling them passwords to users, seeing as the best passwords are the concatenation of several non-words.
I run a fairly busy but normal implementation of MySQL on Amazon EC2 - 1 Master server and 3 read only slaves, with about 50GB of data spread between our portal database, a mediawiki instance, a forums database, a large dataset data for FCC license data, and a large core content database.

In initial testing of RDS after their recent updated release (we were excited about it!), we've found that RDS performance is significantly lower than running your own MySQL implementation with your storage being a 4 disk RAID-0 implementation on EBS. I suspect RDS uses a single EBS disk which is probably the root of the performance issues.

We didn't run actual benchmarks, but we quickly determined that RDS wasn't going to cut it from a performance perspective. In some cases, queries that take 3 seconds on our own MySQL implementation took well over 20 secs on RDS.

I see the value of RDS for many use cases, but in our case the performance of RDS is so significantly lower for a high-traffic use case that it wasn't going to work out for us.

Now, we still see performance problems when running MySQL on RAID-0 EBS - so we're considering going to an ephemeral disk implementation on EC2 and letting a single slave run on EBS and then snapshot from there often. If we lose an instance, we could restore from a snapshot quite quickly (within minutes).

In any case, regardless of our approach, RDS isn't going to be a part of it for now.
He may be complaining about all the overhead that goes with teaching rather than the teaching itself. I'm tutoring this semester for a Data Structures course and a painfully large portion of the time is spent dealing with things that really aren't teaching.

Trying to deal with plagiarism (which even goes as far as assignments posted on RentACoder), using ancient marking systems (WebCT is well and truly evil), handling students who obviously don't care at all but feel entitled and so on.
As a word of warning, nearly every single lead programmer I know (in games) find that their schedule and responsibilities tend to expand to the point where they have annoyingly little time to focus on writing code.

The sole exception I can think of was a founder of the company -- he was able to effectively delegate management responsibilities and did not need to answer to anyone when he went into heads-down mode to work on a major task.
I am a dual citizen (IL/USA), have flown in/out of many airports around the world, know my way around a security apparatus.

Every time the TSA pulls another ridiculous stunt in the name of "security", these Israeli airport security consultants get interviewed to death. Here we go again!

As before, every article on the subject stops short of highlighting the uncomfortable truth which precludes the TSA adopting the Israeli model: a lack of brainpower among TSA screeners.

The article correctly points out that the Israeli model is more about evaluating the person and less about evaluating their luggage. Problem is, evaluation implies good judgment -- a quality demonstrably lacking in enough TSA agents as to make a generalization accurate. The TSA does not employ the quality of manpower that it needs to in order to base its operations on subjective character evaluations.

Even if the TSA were able to foot the bill and hire/train such manpower, it would still be unpalatable to enough people in the US that such a system would fail. Evaluation is inherently subjective and discriminatory. There is no impartial way to say "I'm deciding whether or not you represent a threat." Some agents will let their personal views influence their judgment. Some passengers will inevitably feel persecuted for their skin color, rightly or wrongly. Several lawsuits later, the system would be neutered to the point where agents are no longer free to exercise their judgment, and we're back to square one.

Finally, it's worth noting that the security expert in the article is spinning a rose-tinted tale of airport efficiency experienced mainly by Jewish passengers. Ask an Israeli Arab and you'll likely hear a tale of exasperating interrogations and adversarial, dumb agents -- much like the TSA.

I wrote more on the subject a few months ago, in a comment for a similar article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025173

Feel free to ask me questions, I'll answer to the best of my knowledge.
I think America's collective view of JFK works the same. If he hadn't have died so young, what might we think of him now?
No worries, think your interpretation of just api calls is a good one, a bit like "tests as documentation". Could then have another tour for each module (api implementation). This approach would tend to confine the effect of changes (as in Parnas' On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/edu/2ip30/references/criteria...)

Though multiplicity of tours is also complexity!
yeah fair enough jdpigeon, I should have put more of the references in the text used for making those statements, so here you go;
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b09262
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2006/cs/b5177...
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/03/17/1914982117
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352566/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25884283

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I also receive free text messages from my provider (Edit: e.g. the texts that say 'thank you for paying your bill'). Does that mean that I'm connected to every subscriber on the network that also receives these free texts?
People are spoiled easily. And contrary to common belief, programmers are people too.
By the by: Magic Maps is unbelievably awesome to get your map nerd on. (Or playing around with any shapefile, really.)

Check it out at http://magicmaps.evanmiller.org/gallery.html.
Can you link me to such a file?

As a former developer on Ace and now employee at GitHub I've honestly never run into a problem. I can't promise anything but I'd like to see what you mean.
Along these same lines, I can't even imagine what it must have been like to be a programmer (or any other kind of knowledge worker) before the web. You mean I have this problem and I need to wait 6 months for somebody to write a book about it, and then read the whole thing cover to cover in hopes that he/she wrote about something pertaining to my problem? phfft this is bullshit
That's not a description of a Ponzi scheme.
We're also doing a magnitude more with these frameworks than was ever possible before. Tools are better and bigger, but so are roles and responsibilities. There are different sets of problems that now need to be solved.
I spoke to an engineering manager at Twitter a few months ago. While he did not definitively say that "all" front-facing code is in Scala, when I asked him where does Twitter still use Ruby on Rails, he said something along the lines of "We still use Ruby on Rails for internal tools," which would imply that the main Twitter app is mostly/all Scala.
I totally agree. However particularly in the southern US where I live, these modified ridiculous diesels are a pretty vocal minority. To the point where anecdotally, at least, people associate diesel to that. I'm a huge diesel proponent, my next car will likely be an "oil burner"
Nooooo!!!! FoundationDB is too special to relegate to the iCloud back-end. There's nothing else quite like it out there that's publicly available, either commercial or open-source. This just set the industry back several years. Given that Apple has virtually zero interest in server-side development tools, I highly doubt us civilians will ever see this amazing technology again. :-(
Doesn't the Gödel theorem say that such proof cannot be found for all conceivable systems; but that for any particular system, a proof could in principle be found?
Weren't there a lot of accounting irregularities at Groupon?

There was never a stock I wanted to short as bad as GPRN when it first floated, but my broker wouldn't let me, and it was too new for options. So frustrating.
> There's nothing particularly long-winded (it's only a thousand words or so!)

Using a thousand words to say 200 words of content makes it long-winded.

> I also liked the low-key tone. In contrast, anything that calls itself a "manifesto" is apt to sound a little arrogant and abrasive out of the box.

That's an entirely pointless and off-topic criticism. You're only holding yourself back if you refuse to learn from anyone who doesn't make you feel warm and fuzzy.

Every one of the original signatories of the agile manifesto are well-respected coders who have produced major successful pieces of software. Arrogance is unearned confidence and I don't think you can reasonably accuse them of not earning their confidence. If you're judging them as arrogant based on the word "manifesto", that sounds a lot like anti-intellectualism.
How much does that invalidates Coq results ? like the 4 colors theorem.
alarm.repeatInterval = NSEraCalendarUnit

Triggers the bug, its totally valid as well.
> Maintains the standard caloric ratios: 20-30% of calories from fat, about 10% from protein, and the rest from carbohydrates

This is the weirdest breakdown I've ever seen.

If you are at all concerned about lean muscle mass, and you should be if you want to be even the slighest bit athletic, then the minimum amount of protien you'd want is a half gram per pound of body weight.

Most people who work out or play sports try for closer to a 1 to 1 ratio.

This diet is severly messed up.
Thanks! I've been doing it for 41 weeks now and the feedback has been great, but wanted to wait a bit till I posted it back on Hacker News.
Which is why I wrote "OP" in front :)
I always was a little skeptical about unity , and thought I'd rather go with the gnome3 , but consider it a peer pressure or whatever i am upgrading to unity as I type this :) [and yeah i'm every bit excited] , cheers .
you can still enable the old desktop
"My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn't suck. What do you think?

I got fed up with all the other image hosts out there so I made my own. It doesn't force you to compress your images, and it has neat things like crop, resize, rotate, and compression from 10-100. It's my gift to you. Let's not see anymore imageshack/photobucket around here ;)

I'll be listening if anyone has some suggestions."

-- https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t...
My company is standardized on G Suite and only dole out MS licenses on request.
Thanks for pointing me to fair trade; I'll have a look. There are a lot of things I'm interested in, but mostly they fall into one of a few groups. For any given product, I want to know:

1. If (or to what degree) the product was made via exploitative labor conditions

2. How harmful is the product to the environment (manufacturing through disposal)

3. Does the product benefit from subsidies? (e.g., is a foreign product cheaper only because shipping is heavily subsidized relative to a local alternative)

4. Is the product I'm buying reasonably advertised. If the product is fraudulent, can I trust that the company (including investors and leadership) will be held to account or will they simply rebrand and continue their scheme? This concern spans the gamut from Walmart selling name-brand merchandise from low-quality OEMs to companies paying for fraudulent Amazon reviews.

There are probably other concerns as well. In my experience, these concerns seem to be highly bimodal. On average, products which are not Chinese (i.e., not sold/manufactured/etc by Chinese companies) score very highly while Chinese products score very poorly. So while it would be great to have some certification provided for each of those concerns, I would settle for some certification with respect to whether the product is Chinese or not (of course, if that certification took off, there would be all sorts of issues with enforcing it--Chinese companies could operate shell companies and so on).
Afterthought: an interesting test of coops like this are how well they identify and exclude/expel customers and workers that cause trouble.
While I would like this issue resolved I'm not sure I follow your logic at all that Intel should be the people to fix it.

When there are only two viable options in a marketplace, offering improvements to make your direct competitor's product better than yours is shooting yourself in the foot.

Your point about happy customers would make sense if Intel was selling all manner of service contracts and extraneous engagements with it's consumer base, but is it?

I'm pretty sure the chip business is speed / cost and that's all.

What's ironic is that AMD knows better than any tech company I can think of exactly what the rewards are for coming second in the chip game.
> For anyone else interested who, unlike me, doesn't want to spend a few seconds swearing at how useless Google's become, OP meant 'CM-5'.

Oh, sorry for the typo. I just fixed it. It used to say "CX-5", I must have been thinking about Mazda cars or something when I wrote the post...
I had one of the authors (Dan Margalit) as a prof when I was a math undergrad at Georgia Tech. Cool guy and a great instructor.
There's a strategy I only saw applied [twice, forgot another team was using this somewhere else] but I've been stumping for it every place else (I may almost have my current team convinced)

If you segregate classes of service (consumer/producer/admin, or paying/non-paying), then you can over-allocate one class of service to guarantee responsiveness. The most obvious cost is that you need monitoring to make sure all classes of service are working, but you tend to have that anyway.

With this structure, the HN hug of death still leaves your admin console running even while the public traffic is falilng over. Logged in users can still modify content. Or in the case of an image service, paying customers are undersubscribed and free tier is oversubscribed.

In my situation, the customers are responsible for most of the CPU load on the system. We could throttle them while keeping their customer's requests highly responsive.
Are there any benefits to using backpropagation for sensitivity analysis on larger datasets?
https://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft/plc/

Sestoft is a very clear writer, and F# is a better language than most for writing interpreters or compilers.
Your "skyscraper" would need to have its top in geostationary orbit, or else it would be wrapping up around the earth as its top would be in LEO or HEO and thus would be moving at a different speed than its base. I.e. your skyscraper (or cable) would be crashing down.

So that's a space elevator. But can a space elevator be said to be "flying"? It stays above a single spot the whole time.
While I suppose in practice this is true, I don't think the 5th amendment would technically apply. By mentioning the gag order you are not incriminating yourself but rather committing a crime.
After using Mootools for a while, I was once more comparing it to Jquery, and was pretty lost trying to find out how to do date parsing and number formatting with the latter.

A search returns loads of plugins with no documentation, you don't know which one satisfies your requirements and is mantained.

In Mootools, its intuitive to find those at http://mootools.net/docs/more/Types/Date and http://mootools.net/docs/more/Types/Number.Format, and you know they are good to use because they are official.

What is the usual approach Jquery developers take when they need something like this?
Why should any critic have to explain what they should do? Perhaps they can do nothing. This doesn't absolve them of guilt.

Personally, I'd let them off the hook if they admitted their previous deception and explained the limitations of their security model in terms that any user can understand.
I wouldn't read too much into it. I can't count the number of propaganda films I've seen that called soldiers "boys".
Thanks for the answer!

I'm a Canadian that works in the US on a TN. Would it probably be a bad idea to get a green card even if I have future bay area startup aspirations?
Its not about the fact that they comply with court orders, of course they're going to, it is in their ability to give the courts unencrypted data that they shed light on the real issue to do something they said was impossible.

If it were impossible for them to get at the unencrypted data, the encrypted data would be all that that had to had over.
This is really cool, looks like it will make integrating your microcontroller with other systems really easy.

But - and I hate to be the REST Nazi - this is RPC, not REST.

"REpresentational State Transfer" is about making things happen by Transferring REpresentations of resources' State.

The GET requests are good, but for setting outputs it should do something like:

PUT http://192.168.1.177/9

with body

HIGH

POST could work too, the important thing is that the resource's state, the resource's address, and the action being performed are all separate.

This RPC system is beautifully simple, it does what it needs to and I can't think of any way that making it RESTful would improve it, but it's not RESTful right now, and calling it that only deepens the confusion about what REST is.
What do I expect them to do? In reality? I expect them to continue to lie, defraud their customers, and attack the credibility of anyone who criticizes them, treating this as a public relations issue instead of an issue of personal integrity.
Wow.. I didn't even think of this angle. Think of how many jealous boyfriend/girlfriends there are with complete access to their mate's iphone. :/
would be incredible if it could assemble other lego kits from pieces in a bin/conveyor belt.
The very fact that people wouldn't pitch a fit about losing access to Myspace is a perfect example of why these network-effect-based "monopoly" claims are bullshit.
The Inform 7 one is cool. It's almost not recognizable as a program.

Imagine: programming by dictation.
The pat downs are sexual in nature because they are done by rubbing the palms against the persons body including the genitals and breasts on women.

A police officer conducts this type of pat-down when a person is arrested or is in the process of being arrested or detained because there is a sufficient threat indicator. What the TSA is doing is saying that either you get irradiated and people get to see you naked, or you're a potential terrorist/criminal.
OK, but you don't object the supremacist part? Good, we are on the same page.

Um ...

She was doing an essay on Malcolm X, these fellas attended one of his conventions.

While remaining agnostic to your point, it's troubling that you keep citing references that don't support it. The caption on that photo makes no reference to these Nazis being in attendance at a Malcolm X rally.
Pedantics. The suggestion that full body scanners and effective pat downs provide no (or little) additional security over the status quo is difficult to believe.

I'm guessing the same people critical of this policy criticized the previous one for being easy to circumvent.

What do you all suggest we do?
Well I was still "verified as human by Pokerstars" so I'm qualified for the t-shirt
He also sells me my pizza.
Does 23andme allow users to get their data out? I.e., get them in some raw format that one could use to correlate with other studies you might find, or put them into some other service?
I've been looking into doing something like this, building a dongle that plugs into your car and logs data, reporting it back to a db when it gets within range of a wifi (probably the owners home wifi), and then a nice web service visualising and utilising this data, so it's interesting to see the manufacturers are already into the idea themselves.
Can I ask you what is you current job?, the one that pays you $250k per year.
I put up the demo after seeing that some simple stuff worked, like

x = 10
print(x+25)

etc., but I didn't test the compiled interpreter a lot more. Probably the statement you tried doesn't work because some stdlib function needs to be implemented. If people are really interested in getting this to work, we can probably figure it out, it will take some effort though.
I learned arithmetic at a young age, yes (and I taught myself BASIC when I was 5-6ish). My main objection to prefix notation for arithmetic is that it's cumbersome. Mostly because if the arity of ops aren't predefined (e.g., + isn't limited to 2 arguments), parenthesis are needed for grouping.

Infix, w/ order of op:

y^2*(6x^3 - 3x^2 + 2x - 9)

Prefix:

(* (^ y 2) (+ (* 6 (^ x 3)) (* -3 (^ x 2)) (* 2 x) -9))

Infix, no order of op:

y^2*((6* x^3) - (3* x^2) + (2* x) - 9)

But as long as we're talking polynomials, J wins, IMHO:

(y^2)*+/_9 2 _3 6*(x^i.4)
Seems like this would be great for multiplayer gaming. Anyone know how well PulseAudio works on windows these days?
I would've guessed that they packaged everything inhouse. I'm fascinated by this industry, it's so incredibly omnipresent products, yet "we" know "nothing" about the process of going from "sand" to gigaflops in your machine.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_VZ-1_Pawnee

"Due to aerodynamic effects in the duct within which the propellers rotated, the platform was dynamically stable, even though the pilot and center of gravity of the platform were fairly high up. In testing, the prototypes flew well enough, but the U.S. Army judged them to be impractical as combat vehicles as they were small, limited in speed and only barely flew out of the ground cushion effect."

Seems like it wouldn't be so great for going over mountains and such.