jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks for making that point. I want to make perfectly clear that I have a tremendous amount of respect for RMS and everything that he's done. By no means would I recommend that he compromise his ideology or 'go corporate.'

All I'm saying is: almost everybody at his talk (already a self-selecting group) was put off by the tone and extremist nature of his delivery. His message got lost, and that sucks - it's an important message.
you should focus on building relationships with users and potential users. a good portion of apps permeate organically. think angry birds, you see it on a friend's phone, maybe play it. by the time youre in the app store youve alrady made up your mind.

its hard to do the selling in the app store. so do the selling through more traditional methods (email, social, etc) and consider the app store simply as the delivery mechanism.
The parent is very clearly not suggesting anything of the sort.

They're pointing out that the hysteria focused on resource scarcity is unfounded, has been proven to be unfounded over and over again for the past century, and will likely continue to be shown to be unfounded for the next century.
I like the warning given by one commenter:

> Just remember this...

> Learning how to program gives you a robotic mind. The kind of mind that cannot comprehend the arts, the humanties, and so on.

> Be careful what you think you "need to learn". When you stare into the machine you get the soul of a machine.
I would also love to hear a bit more about why you guys chose Slate over the others. Working on API documentation right now for a University, and leaning towards Slate.
Ah. Aiaeca Eeaeci rocking it at 1048.50 at gen 256.

EDIT I've heavily tweaked my config throughout depending on whether I thought I was trapped at a local maxima, etc. Right now I think I've settled on for late-game:

10% mutation prob
1% mutation amount
3 to copy

Currently: 1056.91 @ 338.
The lack of discussion of cap gains and corporate income tax is peculiar. The devil is always in the details.

There is an assumption in the plan that labor is infinite and fungible and interchangeable and therefore quite worthless as a limitless pool, but reality is that "growing a doctor" takes a lot more time and resources than "growing a coal mine". As a strategy for centrally controlling a market, it would probably lead to more volatility in prices and supply and demand overall.

I'm not sure how the excise tax would be different from a carbon tax. That may be the whole point, here's a new marketing spin on a bad idea, look, its got a new name and everything...
Here is an analysis from a developer who looked at Hadoop-
http://ossectools.blogspot.ca/2012/03/why-elsa-doesnt-use-ha...

(ELSA is a logger that claims to be able to handle 100000 entries/sec (!!))

When to Use Hadoop

This is a description of why Hadoop isn't always the right solution to Big Data problems, but that certainly doesn't mean that it's not a valuable project or that it isn't the best solution for a lot challenges. It's important to use the right tool for the job, and thinking critically about what features each tool provides is paramount to a project's success. In general, you should use Hadoop when:

Data access patterns will be very basic but analytics will be very complicated.
Your data needs absolutely guaranteed availability for both reading and writing.
There are inadequate traditional database-oriented tools which currently exist for your problem.

Do not use Hadoop if:

You're don't know exactly why you're using it.
You want to maximize hardware efficiency.
Your data fits on a single "beefy" server.
You don't have full-time staff to dedicate to it.

The easiest alternative to using Hadoop for Big Data is to use multiple traditional databases and architect your read and write patterns such that the data in one database does not rely on the data in another. Once that is established, it is much easier than you'd think to write basic aggregation routines in languages you're already invested in and familiar with. This means you need to think very critically about your app architecture before you throw more hardware at it.
Why not model your REST resources so that API documentation can be auto-generated from your actual code? Makes a lot more sense to me than trying to generate code from documentation.
The poor are far better off in Saskatchewan a few miles north of you with it's high gas taxes and generous social safety net.
Good idea.. I'll have to try that.
I was watching the Dow futures.

They literally went from -700 to +400 in 30 seconds.
Could you share the url ?
Look at the ECB they are buying stocks for quite some time now.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/implement/omt/html/index.en.h...
> Is there much that can be done to improve this?

I have a 50k+ lines of code project which usually recompiles after a change in ~2 seconds in release mode.

There are many tricks which can be used to improve compile times to the point that even on medium-sized projects the compile time is not an issue. But you need to keep a certain discipline to adhere to these.

1) Use LLD instead of the system linker.

2) Don't add dependencies willy-nilly. Especially for trivial stuff which you don't need pedal-to-the-metal optimized. (e.g. do you really need to add that 4000 lines long SIMD-optimized base64 encoder/decoder, or can you live with a naive 10-lines long version you can write yourself in a few minutes?)

3) Feature-flag gate dependencies/features not necessary during development. (e.g. do you actually need HTTPS support during development, or can you test your webapp on HTTP and only compile-in the TLS stack for production deployment?)

4) Avoid heavy dependencies. (e.g. there are some popular web frameworks for Rust which have over 100+ dependencies by default; if you pick such a framework then your compile times are obviously going to be very heavily affected)

5) Use dynamic dispatch (&dyn T and Box<dyn T>) instead static dispatch (impl T) when accepting generic arguments in cases where you don't need pedal-to-the-metal performance.

6) If you absolutely need to use static dispatch purely for ergonomics (and not because of the performance) then create two function - a dynamically dispatched private one which accepts a &dyn T and contains the actual functionality, and a public one which accepts impl T and is a one-line wrapper around the private one.

7) Don't use #[inline] annotations if you don't absolutely need them.

8) Split your project into multiple crates.
There are certainly money problems as we speak. Millions have already lost their jobs.
This sounds right to me. I actively avoid places where I know parking is a pain.
A few decades ago there were papers and popular reports like that. They were fashionable then. This is what is fashionable now. It will change back. Then back again.
Reporting benchmark results on a single OS, on a single CPU type isn't really benchmarking. It's an isolated case of results.

I'd recommend to perform an accurate suite of performance tests, use different OS (CoreOS, Ubuntu) that are actually used in server environments. Also different machine hardware will play a role.

There's not enough data at this point to come to any conclusion at this point imo.

This result set is like saying that 95% of the people on the web use the safari browser on the Apple website.
Every time that I have used Ship-to-Store from WalMart, I have had to spend at minimum 30 minutes between entering and exiting the store parking lot. Most of the time, I have to hunt down a store employee myself, because unlike the customer service desk, the Ship-to-Store/Layaway desk is not continuously staffed.

WalMart is great when the value of your own time is not very high, but at some point, it is glaringly obvious that they keep prices lower by making all their customers spend just a little bit more time in the store than absolutely necessary.

So the inconvenience is very inconvenient. It is only made worse by the fact that I didn't shop for the items, and didn't buy them, but I'm simply the one who drives past a Wal*Mart every day. For the shopper, it really is free at-home delivery. For me, it is, "Hey, guess what? You get to flush half an hour of your life down the toilet today--what a deal!"

Ship-to-Store is precisely the reason why I fear Amazon Locker and other "ship it the last mile yourself" services.
You are never too old. It sounds like you are interested in software development and software engineering which is a whole different ball game than IT (although often IT will overlap, but not always). If you are highly motivated and driven to learn new things on your own you will do great.
By the way, I'm also a Navy Reservist...5 months before I go Inacitve.
Or, you can write it from within Ruby:

open("out.json", "w") {|f| f.puts JSON.dump(showings) }
I'm clearly smarter than I thought I was.
That seems like an easy mistake to make from what I remember in reading the origin of Haskell. They had issue with the licensing and cost of Miranda and struck out to build upon it. Here's the original article, "A History of Haskell: Being Lazy With Class"[0]

[0]: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers...
Interestingly, four out of five court cases mentioned are from games industry.
Because it's essentially a "show HN" of an app that doesn't solve a problem (or at least doesn't explain how it does). HN is a place for healthy debate, no? Nobody said, "sucks" and moved on. In most comments, there's at least a reason stated for why this is either confusing, pointless, or unnecessary.
Pfizer has sent a letter out to people working in the NHS warning that they face legal consequences for prescribing an available generic version of pregabalin for pain relief, as although the initial patent for the drug has expired, there is a second patent on using the drug for pain.

So despite the fact that the generic is legally available within the NHS, Pfizer seems willing to chase doctors who prescribe it for pain relief.

http://boingboing.net/2014/12/24/pfizer-threatens-pharmacist...

(edited to make sense, thanks to jameshart)
CGI isn't "bare-metal", it's just the 1996 approach to dynamic web requests. The reason it continues to work in 2015 is because it's simple.
The problem with that is that when you are launching the site at the 11th hour, the content editor will overlook this because at first glance it looks like English. Not saying that happens often, but it this makes it a lot easier to happen. I actually like this Blokk thing specifically because it is not text. You can't mistake this for proper content.
It actually works surprisingly well in the residential "superblocks" because the apartment buildings are all raised on pillars so you can walk in a straight line between any two arbitrary points within a superblock, there are plenty of trees and parks, and the local commercial zones are easily accessibly by foot. But then when you get to the center with the bus station and government buildings it's a mass of huge roads and wide open spaces choked with exhaust fumes that's very unpleasant to walk around.
Yes, we'll move to vNext when it's a bit more stable (likely before RTM). We're already compiling with Roslyn for localization for example.
Yup, but they are allowed regardless. Only difference is with an ESA certificate the airline didn't make $125. A 'pain in the ass' tax that's levied on noisy people, dogs, and children and paid in a sliding scale to the people around them would be great.
> I think Chris knew these things deep down inside, but his affluent upbringing clouded reality.

He did not know these things. He died. QED.
Germany has a similar right, not for coastlines, but for forest. Everyone may enter the forest. Private owners may not forbid it.
To me, the most stunning hallucination, during LSD, was the total confusion of my senses. A specific flower was in bloom at the time, and my mind confused it’s smell with the colour purple. It was the strangest experience. Smelling colour... There is no way to describe it in words.

Even though this episode was decades ago, I still, kind of, experience the scent of that flower as the colour purple.
It's unreasonable to decide that, because Google has done bad things in the past, every single thing they say is necessarily a lie.
My post specifically pointed out "It doesn't completely preclude having a purposefully weak curve based on some publicly unknown weakness." -- just that there is nowhere to embed a secret key that only the NSA would know. The only room in it would be for narrow vulnerabilities that others could discover-- just because there aren't that many bits of control.

[As an, aside, the NIST curves do not use random primes, E.g. P-256 is 2^256 - 2^224 + 2^192 + 2^96 - 1, which is a solinas prime with a pretty obvious performance driven structure. As is the case for all the other NIST P-whatever curves. Using primes chosen for field performance is pretty common, e.g. curve 25519 uses a crandall prime]
> I'm curious, do you mind explaining, what a top 10 university is (e.g. ranked by students, number of published papers etc.)?

If the comment was made by a professor in the U.S., it could have meant "top 10 <in the field> in North America".
MacOS only. Leaves me (Linux) half our devs (Windows), all of our execs (Windows) out.
Exactly - if they don't really think they are explosives, then why are they confiscating them in the first place? Either dispose of them properly or just let people on the plane with bottled water.
I'd prefer to use the opportunity to highlight the fact the TSA security is ineffective and that we don't need this level of security, even if it did work. Raise awareness and spend the money properly.
Do you have spare time even after going through all these sites?
There was a comment that struck me as a little odd, and a lot revealing, in the official Facebook announcement by Joel Seligstein (http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=452288242130):

I'm intensely jealous of the next generation who will have something like Facebook for their whole lives. They will have the conversational history with the people in their lives all the way back to the beginning: From "hey nice to meet you" to "do you want to get coffee sometime" to "our kids have soccer practice at 6 pm tonight." That's a really cool idea.

Cool, yes, but also a little spooky.
Well, you could sterilize all the women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization_in_Ca...
For those who didn't know already, cl-who (http://weitz.de/cl-who/) is a well known sexp-to-html converter. This one works a little differently from cl-who (uses functions instead of macros), but the input is similar.
What I hear is the Israeli border guards have juvenile, petty behavior. What comes to mind is denying Noam Chomsky entry into Israel back in May. Also the border guards who put 3 rifle rounds through Lily Sussman's MacBook. 21 year old Lily had Arab letters stuck on her MacBook's keyboard.
Before anyone tells me I haven't been to an Israel airport, I haven't been to the moon either but I still know it is mostly rock.
Link to shot MacBook incident:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/video-interview-with-...
Ha! Glad to know I'm not the only one hitting the Array.to_s surprise!
Slightly off-topic, but this reminds me of the recent studies that revealed that nicotine in the air is actually spread nicely throughout a restaurant that has good air flow. Thus, even waiters and waitresses who opt to work in "nonsmoking" sections are still getting a decent dose of nicotine, moreso than in restaurants with bad air flow. What do people in the restaurant industry do to reduce the risks associated with nicotine inhalation for their employees? Tying back to this issue for the TSA employees, it seems like there would be some kind of regulation to help employees avoid prolonged exposure to rays/substances that have high risk consequences.
This looks to me like an HTML generation library, not an HTML templating tool. Common Lisp has a number of both, and I'm wondering what advantage this would have over cl-who, for example?
Early successes like "Love Me Do", "Hold My Hand",

That would be "I Wanna Hold Your Hand."
Java became what it is today, because of the Microsoft monopoly, people where looking for any alternative platform to develop on, that did not have Microsoft lock-in.

The problem was that you still needed to deliver on Microsoft platforms to get any user base. Java offered a viable solution to that problem at the time because one could develop an application for the UNIX market while still keeping a foot in the Windows market, should the landscape shift.

With more and more server products moving the Microsoft, Java was a way to hedge staying on an alternative platform while still having a quick transition strategy to Microsoft should be required. Those market realities do not exist today and as always developer mind share is key to a language success, I would argue that it's the only key to a language of success.

It has been proven time and time again where the developers go the market follows. All languages that have gained popularity since Java have been open source languages with the exception of Objective-C and the .net languages. The two most dominant web languages PHP and Python are both open source language.
Not to mention that Safari and WebKit are specified as two different, ranking products on this list.
I don't know if it quite fits your criteria but if you want a good book about Mars you should check out Red Mars (and the Mars trilogy for that matter). It is more of a hard scifi as a heads up.
Very true, but on the other hand, those who do work on cool projects might want their checks signed by Zuckerberg. (Not me, but that's a different matter.)
I'd suspect he was guaranteed to miss his flight the moment he "admitted" his trip had a religious dimension, after having set off the explosion detector. At that point, I suppose you may as well try to cut your losses, stop talking and get escorted out of the airport as soon as possible.
> One of the very first things we learned when selling to businesses in Japan is that social proof is a critical factor. So our focus changed to getting even a single business using our software, and then trying to feature them and promote them as much as we could.

This is probably one of the most important cultural leaps for foreigners to make in Japan in general -- social proof can and often will override other qualifications.

We've done some marketing on the product I've been working on, but the majority of our marketing is focused on getting big, recognizable names to use our product so we can use them as a social springboard for other companies. Once we got one or two big names, lots of other people who were on the edge started falling in line immediately.
Thanks - unfortunately could not parse your email and I left Portugal already, so another time :)
An easier explanation is that most Americans are incredibly tribal in their thinking and how they evaluate the ethics of a particular situation. The left trusts Obama, and didn't trust Bush, and therefore surveillance that would have yielded passionate protest under the latter is A-OK under the former.
Firefox OS is not Android under the hood at all.

"Firefox OS (sometimes abbreviated FxOS) is a new mobile operating system developed by Mozilla. It uses a Linux kernel and boots into a Gecko-based runtime engine, which lets users run applications developed entirely using HTML, JavaScript, and other open web application APIs." https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS
Are you implying that malnutrition or a nutrient deficiency results in immediate death? Death quicker than the 50 days it takes to butcher the chicken?
Never paid particularly close attention to formula E, but the current generation of turbo-hybrids have horrible problems with dirty air (due to the current chassis regs, not the engines). That’s the main reason there’s little close up racing in F1. Following cars take a big hit to their downforce and they overheat quickly in dirty air (just look at Bottas retiring last weekend). This is something the FIA think they’ll fix by bringing back ground effect in 2021.

Then you have the seperate problem that there’s only 3 competitive constructors in F1 at the moment (and even then 1 of them is quite far above the other 2 - apart from those races where Ferrari was cheating with their fuel injection).
I liked Namecoin.
I think it's a pretty interesting design. It seems to draw inspiration from the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust.
Or if the company is compelled to hand over the data, accompanied with a gag order...
Nice project Idea. Impressive creativity.
It is checking for capabilities and not version:
try {
gl = canvas.getContext( "experimental-webgl") ;
gl.viewportWidth = docWidth;
gl.viewportHeight = docHeight;
} catch(e) {
}
if (!gl) {
alert("This website requires WebGL. Try running Chrome 9+ or Firefox 4+");
}
why not? competition is great.
ps -ef | grep foo | grep -v grep

Will fail if foo="grep"
Pretty safe to say that if it's new, shiny, buzzing, makes money and users love it - Google will either (offer to) buy it, or build it.
Keep in mind that you can specify whatever data type you want with jQuery. The default I speak of is just for when you don't specify any data type.
That it is not being debated is the reason it's a strawman.

That's not how I've understood the use of the term "strawman," FWIW. I've always felt that a strawman can only exist inside the context of an argument... that is, that a strawman is a technique used in rhetoric/debate, where you setup a false argument for your opponent and then tear it down. That seems to jibe with what Wikipedia says:

"A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[1] To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position."

In this case, there was no debate, no opponent, etc., ergo, no strawman.

Maybe there's another usage of the term, that I'm not acquainted with?
Status often does suck, but it's a necessary evil. There is too much information out there -- filters of some kind are necessary, and status is more reliable than most
This, so much. Can’t have us flatten the curve if we’re all jammed packed on public transport!

The Victorian government’s messaging here has been along the lines of “if you can work for home, please do it”, and fines can be issued if you force workers into the office when unnecessary... but from what I’m hearing, workers aren’t raising alarm bells
Those are very keen observations and not commonly voiced in that combination. I can't remember the last time I read an article about the development of PLs that I agreed so much with.

If I had to venture a guess about future development in PLs, there would only be one pattern that I find reliable enough: In a rough birds eye perspective, PLs have moved from hardware-specific things handling mutable state to more formally defined beasts fed by mathematical concepts. That's one trend I expect to continue, but the n also not ad infinitum. In my view, Haskell is a good example of how you can overdo it, with the best intentions: concepts that are beautiful and frictionless in pure math become a cumbersome burden and an impractical cognitive load when translated too directly into a PL. I want more math in PLs, but I feel we haven't found a good balance yet. Maybe this turns out to be a moving target, too.

There are two languages I expect to keep their (niche) places for the foreseeable future: C and Lisp. Both are such a peculiar mix of properties that they are incredibly hard to beat in their respective domains. Maybe the same goes for Ada and Java, I wouldn't want to do any injustice :)
Happy to try and help here shoot a note over to support@embed.ly. Analytics is definitely an important part of embedding.