jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> just cherrypicking some niche area of use case just for the sake of differentiation, yet somehow it's worth billions of dollars in market cap.

If only there was a company that financed such ventures.
I wonder how such an anemic federal govt could avoid becoming the client state of a major world power in the modern complex world where the stakes are so high, the opponents are playing the long game, and the oligarchs have no national loyalty.
Griddy is a different provider which gives you grid prices for power
Great resource. I'm about to use Sass again after a hiatus of ~3yrs. Reading through this has been a great refresher on core principles and best practices.
Well, what kind of companies do you work with—a printer, and a distributor? Any others? How did you find the ones you work with—and how did you know that they were the right ones? What have you done for marketing—gone to trade shows, paid for advertising, giving samples to the right people, or what? How well is it doing? Have you sales been steady, increasing, or was there a big burst at the start, and a trickle since? Um... that's what I can think of off the top of my head.
That's not beautiful, and worse it isn't immediately obvious that it's a QR code.
Nice script would be even better with these two (virtually mandatory) lines near the top:

use strict;

use warnings;
If they're anything like me, it's not "desperation" to get into YC, necessarily, as much as the ridiculous hatred of failure. They'd probably go equally nuts for anywhere they applied, be it Harvard or Juliar or for unemployment checks.
If you like this kind of stuff, there are a couple of fun mental math books I can recommend:

http://www.amazon.com/Speed-Mathematics-Secret-Skills-Calcul...

http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Mental-Math-Mathemagicians-Cal...

It's really baffling that people don't teach this stuff in school.
Thanks for spotting the typo. Will fix right now. Yes, it does save to full res.
There's nothing valuable enough to profitably mine from asteroids. Even if we discovered an asteroid of pure gold it would not be worth the energy required to bring it back to earth.
This reminds me of a post a long while ago from someone who basically equated getting into YC as the ultimate test for whether their company would be viable. They also hinted that the existential questions of their own self-worth were put into jeopardy when they were rejected.
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I think when I was very young and new to programming I sometimes did coding via superstition. But it was a long time ago, in say my first year or two, when I didn't yet have a good mental model of how the computer worked and how the language compiler or interpreters worked. Once you become solid at that I've found that 99.9999% of the time that computing is refeshingly rational and deterministic and amenable to logic.
I was just considering switching to neovim since it supports 24 bit color in the terminal.
Nothing blackhat, the product is free (at the moment) so I can't invest in SEM, I have a live chat in the product where users can send feedback, and all of them like the product, others are asking for features that I can add but it takes time with a small team.

So the question is relax and improve the product or worry about the "virality"

Thanks for the advise!
Maybe this isn't because the kids were given freedom from school.

Maybe it's because the person funding them came from Stanford.
Depending on your exact needs either Telegram or (preferably IMO) Matrix might be a solution.

(Yes, I think this is correct: For anyone who are currently on WhatsApp or anything Facebook for that matter even Telegram is a huge improvement in most ways.)
> LLVM doesn't have an intermediate representation comparable to Gimple: LLIR seems to be at the level of the registers rather than the nice abstract Gimple

LLVM variables are sometimes called registers but they are machine independent. The bit width is arbitrary (e.g., you can create a 129-bit integer). The use of the term register is a misleading analogy; often LLVM-IR is compared to assembly language so the use of the term register was also used.

I do not know GIMPLE and couldn't find a good description of the IR instructions. But, it seems that LLVM IR is somewhat similar to low GIMPLE.
> challenger

Well, as mgmt said, there was no evidence the O-rings were unsafe outside their operating limitations - because they'd never been tested at those temperatures before. I know, it's Twilight Zone material, but they found a hole in the launch rules (process) and ran with it. Previous O-ring failures had been within specs, so as far as they were concerned, it wasn't a temp issue, it was a known design flaw to be lived with.

> columbia

As for that article, pictures really didn't matter at that point so it wasn't "one decision." Rescue would have been a foolhardy venture more likely to kill both crews.

Columbia wasn't about mgmt, it was about engineering folks being placated by decades of success and making wrong assumptions about debris. There wasn't any workable solution anyway, it was a design flaw of the launch stack. The only solution was to never fly, and engineers weren't lined up to kill their own program.
Why the obsession of economic growth? In Sweden we currently have negative prime interest rate and people have higher salaries than ever and housing prices are all time high.

This greed doesn't lead to less global warming or happier people. I think politicians and economists should start thinking about what actually makes people happy. Economics is efficient management of resources nothing else. Giving the population ability to stay healthy with affordable health care, moderate taxes and stability should be a main priority.
Right, you need to learn by doing and cannot just passively watch a video or read a text. To learn a topic like programming, you need to practice it. So a good format is to combine a text with small questions and coding challenges. If the user is unsure of how to solve something, it's easier to look it up in the text they read than in a video they watched. And hopefully they'll recognize that the question is asking something they can answer on their own without emailing the author. (Though once the text is online, there should be some kind of forum there to ask questions anyways.)

(PS - I'm actually looking for programming authors or bloggers who would be interested in publishing online with questions and programming challenges.)
This is a false understanding of how the supply and demand for money works. For example, news about QE was positively correlated with long term interest rates. The expectation of an increased future money supply tilted the balance towards the demand side in the present.

Money is fundamentally an intertemporal thing, and we've known since the 1930s that the cute little supply-demand time-slice diagrams in textbooks don't work on the money supply.

Here we see the prices of 10-year bonds falling (=> interest rates rising) with each QE cycle: http://www.pragcap.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/arp1.png
Weird how the old one got flagged. Is there a reason why this shouldn't be discussed on HN?
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When Biden moves to the White House, he should remove Trump's Presidential portrait from the wall. Completely unperson the guy, like he never existed.
Perhaps slightly less politically, Twitter also hits Sci-Hub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25684838
The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The web has always been semantic to some extent, just not in the rigid academic sense. It will be scraped, chewed, regurgitated and recycled. That's better than catalogued.
Deterministic CPUs seem like such a distant part of the past.

I loved the days when Motorola and Intel would ship you a full set of detailed manuals about everything from CPUs to MMUs, UARTs and whatever other chips they made. I still have my Motorola manuals sitting on the shelf. Was such a nice instruction set to learn on after the 6502.
Well, for some of them, pretty darned well. A lot better than for their slaveowners, at least.

Anyway, I'm not sure what your point is. Mine was that a lot happened before the 1960s, and much of it wasn't pretty.
I'm not sure what that toolbar anecdote is supposed to say about the business as a whole.
I too had a late 2011 MB Pro with over-heating issues that led to 3 bad GPU's over three years (only paid for one of the repairs). Just last month I parked my ass in my local Apple store and told them I wasn't leaving without a brand new replacement. It did not take very long for the store manager to cave and I walked out with a brand new 2014 MB Pro. They won't formally acknowledge that their is an inherent issue with the 2011 models but I got the impression they just need you to make a big enough stink before they can replace.
Thanks for your comment. Production and delivery of vaccines is the bottleneck. Israel is a very small country, compared to the EU.
cologio® is a mobile app for topic-related microblogging. You are not following anybody in total but only in subjects that you have in common. In short: tagging+following=cologging.
My parents would never buy chocolate milk, they said that the inferior tasting milk was diverted to the chocolate line, as the chocolate would mask it.
> It would be nice if there was a single, easy to use site for mere mortals to enter bug reports (and others can comment on them, vote on them, process them, etc).....one sort of like Github or StackOverflow, where we all sort of agree to use that site.

Where they exist, they promptly get overwhelmed by all kinds of stupid shit. Then the devs have to filter through insane amounts of crap and sundry sorts of spam for the few things that are actually useful bug reports. Google code had this going on for a while, if memory serves.

With this in mind, the effort required to file a bug is not so much a bug as it is a useful filter. Yes, it cuts down on the actual bugs filed, but it cuts down far more on all the crap you don't want.
Is there any evidence of China infiltrating Microsoft or other major OS vendors?
Most of the quieter teams (e.g. the algorithms and data people) ended up with extra empty desks between them. This space enhanced privacy, encouraged quietness, and left room for interns when the summer came.

I actually would not necessarily recommend "defaulting" to the collaborative desk space. When I moved to a quiet space for a quarter, I was measurably more productive-- among other things I wrote almost twice as many ksloc.

If you want your engineers to excel, I think it's critical to have both strong collaborative and quiet places. During the first quarter or ramp-up, the collaborative space usually makes a good default. New grads will probably do well in shared space for the first 6-12 months. Beyond that, there needs to be quasi-offices (especially for ICs who have naturally introverted temperments). Personally I think it's helpful to put everybody through both arrangements because it encourages people to adapt and diversify in their communication modes and contributor roles.

My guess is that open seating at Facebook fits their core culture, and that open seating isn't necessarily a great fit for every team. If everybody puts on their noise-cancelling headphones and listens to a loop of crickets chirping (seriously this is what my colleagues did) then you need more space and/or need to rethink your layout.
Check Google Maps right before or when you leave for your trip. The Navigation app is nice, but you could always just hop on your computer right when as you leave or check a while before you leave too. Just figure out the times when you aren't going with traffic. In general that is towards SF evening and away from SF in the morning. Also aim for off hours (9am-Noon, 1pm-3pm, night time). Socal traffic can be exponentially worse and probably not nearly as predictable (haven't lived there but have heard stories).

It is going to take a long time for public transit in California to beat the efficiency of well planned driving on most occasions besides major events. It would be nice if everywhere had trains as punctual and ubiquitous as Japan!
You can use kqueue/kevent to poll on a file. That's what tail(1) and other system utilities are using.
Both of the targets for their DDOS were projects to help you circumvent their firewall. If it happened to also bring down Github at the same time I doubt they cared too much.
It may be the other way around. The older OS'es integrated too much of IE, and they reduced that coupling in Win 10.
As far as I can tell, HTML5 playback has worked just fine in Firefox for a while (including HD), for any video that doesn't have ads. MSE just allows additional features in HTML5 playback, such as DASH (which dynamically adjusts bitrate to match available connection bandwidth/quality).

(Personally, whenever it fails, or sometimes even when it doesn't, I use youtube-dl.)
is the course any good? I've considered it but yet to pull the trigger
I've been wondering about this myself. I don't really see anything that separates it from HipChat or even Glip (Which we are using)? Am I missing something?
> but I worked off hours learning new technologies and programming languages

I don't count that as work. It's rather recreational.
http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/sync_94.pdf

I posted this yesterday, with the conjecture that it may have been a sudden sync problem. It's a good read.
We asked Roland how he brings ideas to life, and here's the answer he gave. So true.

"
I start building. I’ve always been a hands on guy, and one of the best ways to inspire people is to lead by example. If you want a project to have momentum, it’s up to you to give it that initial nudge.
"
You can save: 0% in file size and 3 HTTP requests :/

I guess there's a problem somewhere (definitely more than 3 resources on my test page - as confirmed elsewhere on the page).
Ahh, i see. I have tried to make it a bit more clear. Perhaps i should put a link to a github repo to make it easier to understand the structure.

What i believe gitcp.com does better than blogger is this: No need for a web interface (might be negative for some); textile markup is much easier to write than html or using some gui editor, and gives a much nicer result than raw text; syntax highlighting of code snippets (this is the primary use case for me).
It doesn't seem to factor already enabled server-side gzip compression? It appears to only grab the files as-is...
Hey guys, tell me what you think on this script and if you have any suggestions i will be happy to implement it once i have more free time.
The US spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined, and yet it has trouble maintaining control in the poorest countries on Earth.

That's largely for ethical reasons though. The US is obsessed with minimising civilian casualties. If the US were as ruthless as the great empires of the past then there'd be no problem maintaining control. Trouble in this town? Destroy it!

On the other hand, imperialism itself isn't all that useful in the modern world. Why did the Europeans go to all the trouble of setting up all those foreign empires? Why, so they could trade with the locals! Nowadays anyone can trade with anyone, and there's really no need to have political control over India just to trade with Indians.
I think you'd be surprised at how much better/cheaper you could have done it in house.

Given proper motivation (say 20c bonus on every dollar saved) I think we'd see this argument vanish pretty quickly.

If you listen to the wrong people (sales-guys from "Enterprise Grade" vendors), or pinch too many pennies it can easily be a disaster. It's dangerous water to tread on your own for sure.
Agreed - so let's stop pretending that if someone sends in a picture with an application it should somehow automatically be scrapped. I understand the 'lawsuit prevention mode' that some companies may adopt, but realistically, the type of people who would sue over this issue will sue whether a violation actually occurs or not. And there's generally ample signals beyond a photo that indicate something 'discrimination worthy' (age, voice, gender, name/ethnicity, geography or lack thereof, etc).
You can get around that by using a service like Uptime Robot to ping your site every hour and keep the dyno running. That way you have a free 24/7 app that doesn't go idle. I think Heroku is trying to get rid of that with these changes.
This reminds me of dropout where the neural network won’t be dependent on a specific connection. Instead, it will be statistical which will actually be a good fit for this approach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_(neural_networks)
The first thing I do now on each Facebook open-source reveal, is to check the PATENTS file for the toxic second paragraph, to see if they've changed it. Sadly, no. I can't imagine being able to use this at any decent-sized company with lawyers. :-( https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/PATENTS

See for example the discussions at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111849 (eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113515)

Full disclosure: I work at Google, where many are sad to not be able to use recent Facebook code.
And me thinking someone had implemented a bare metal runtime for Ruby...
Honestly these lists are mostly just calculated PR. You apply to get in, and there are ways to game the system, especially if you know the reporters or develop a relationship with them.

EDIT: I don't mean this in a way to take away from the accomplishments of the people on that list. I say this to recognize that there are so many other people that deserve to be on such a list whose accomplishments are on the same level (or much greater) who aren't on that list simply because they didn't care for it, or didn't know about it.
It almost makes AirPlay open by comparison. At least that lets you stream your local music collection rather than restricting you to approved cloud music services.
I suppose if you have those three, then a warp engine would be straightforward.
I used to work for an air charter company so know a bit about biz jets. Stross is missing an important point: there are only a handful of heavy jets that can fly non-stop from LHR to SYD. The Global Express (and variants), Dassault's 7X/8X and that's about it. They cost from $50 million up, can seat a maximum of 8 to 10 people and are impossible to charter "by the seat". They also require long runways, restricting which airports they can use compared to smaller biz jets.

If something like the Sabre existed I can guarantee that high net-worth people in Europe/America with urgent business meetings (or a desire to maximise their holiday) in Australia would use it even if it meant needing to charter a helicopter to/from the space port to the centre of the city. Whether or not there would be enough demand to keep a regularly scheduled service going is another question. Stross is right when he says it's hard to see how it could compete with existing air transport options between shorter range locations (e.g. London - New York).

Sabre (or similar) would have advantages for New York (or London) to Beijing though, so, who knows, in another 10 or 20 years maybe there will be enough demand for a few well chosen scheduled routes. In any case, I don't buy the terrorism angle at all. The problem will be (as is often the case in commercial aviation) finding and pricing route(s) to produce a viable passenger yield. Tricky if the only routes that make sense are long-haul ones with a high density of frequent first class business flyers (that's a pretty small pool).
That's only true for generic public proxies. In the context we're talking about, however, it's too easy to imagine a company which has patient records installing a corporate monitoring proxy but configuring it in some way which either revealed data to people who shouldn't have it or failed to retain mandatory records like audit logs. Some places feel corporate proxies are necessary for compliance auditing but they're enormously risky since you're creating a single point of failure which has access to almost everything.
Yes, I was trying to think of a US example that wasn't Ezra Pound.

I find the article a little off. It feels a bit fetishistic. It's got an appeal to a fictional past where people discussed weighty moral issues (compared to nowadays when people don't bother!). Bemoans that he died to soon, but that his [nationalist and militaristic] ideals are becoming more acceptable. Uses Bowie as an example -- someone who played explicitly with fascist imagery (and who had to excuse the worst of it as being due to too much coke). Implies that people nowadays are weak.

I get the fascination with Mishima -- he's a fascinating character. But the article left a really bad taste in my mouth
I myself have a CS degree from a Polish university that's regularly in top1-top3 of the rankings. I don't think it means that much. We've had a fair share of people who didn't enjoy the work that much and did bare minimum. On the other hand, I've worked with plenty of people from lower ranked universities who didn't graduate in CS (but, for example in Maths or Physics) who are very strong contributors. The truth is that university pedigree is not a definitive indicator of on the job performance.

BTW (unrelated) - I think all Polish universities are a joke when it comes to CS. I've never heard of either one of them making you write a compiler or an OS or a database engine from scratch as a part of taking a course, while it seems fairly standard on top US universities. Instead, the workload is superficial and skews towards semester-long BS projects that prepare you for run-of-the-mill jobs in industry (web dev, big data etc.). Anyone who expected hands-on grappling with hard CS problems will be disappointed. The reason for that is because none of the professors, barring maybe a few exceptions, are doing any meaningful research, so they have no understanding of the state of the art.
> This comes across as them selling a product they know could fail in dangerous ways, but they don't want to be responsible for any of it.

This is just a safety precaution. Why wouldn't they put this in there? It may not hold up in court but it can't hurt. I don't think this means they "know it could fail in dangerous ways".

The safety model in comma.ai is actually quite brilliant. It can't perform any action faster than you're able to correct and disengage. To test it, they have someone drive while a malicious passenger seat has full access of the controls as limited to by the software. The passenger then messes with the steering and acceleration without the main driver's knowledge. The driver has to prevent the actions. The torque limit is much lower than that of Tesla or other lane-keep assist tools.
I think it's pretty easy to see, though, that restoring the world's forests to their condition circa 1700 will not get us to 1700 CO2 levels, as we have added some 1.5T tons of fossil carbon to the mix since then.
The article seems to hinge around China and etc more than most things. I do wonder how capable any company is to move manufacturing out of China at any kind of large scale.