jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Certainly on my own projects any and all dirty hacks are fair game. When I work with others I try to avoid being cute for cute's sake. I suppose it's no great revelation that some prefer Ruby syntax to Clojure's. However, I can say that Clojure works hard to reduce the number of parens that you might find in similar Lisp or Scheme code. For example, the `let` form in Common Lisp looks like:

(let ((a 10) (b 20)) (* a b))

After many years using CL in school I can sympathize with the idea that Lisp is full of parens. Common Lisp's `let` is nicely delineated and is easy to reason about... for macro writers. Experienced Lisp users don't blink an eye at this. However, Clojure takes a different approach:

(let [a 10, b 20] (* a b))

There are still parens, but they've been reduced leading to (IMO mind you) a cleaner look. Our opinions clearly differ on aesthetics, but I think it's worth noting that Clojure libraries will strive for the latter over the former.
Nick's acting like a dick.

Craig, please continue to distribute Simpletip. I see that you seem to know more about the licensing issues than Nick.
Examples:

If you are a mortgage broker or a car dealer then 1000 clicks is easily worth $2000. Even if only a tiny fraction of them leads to a sale, each sale is worth thousands of dollars.

If you are Prada or Lexus and you need people to associate your brand with high-value objects like iPhones, then even high CPM's are a good investment; especially because high CPM's price out the rabble, so your fancy brand won't appear next to an ad for psychics or penis enlargers.
Inside Edition, Hard Copy, A Current Affair...
Extremists?

Let me know when the community is full of libertarian nutcases, rather than ideologue hating HNers.
There are three kinds of patents: utility, design and patent [1]. For example, the Apple Samsung lawsuit was over a design patent [2]. Design patents are good for 14 year.

[1] https://www.justia.com/intellectual-property/patents/types-o...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....
But how many of these will wimp out later and not pull the trigger?
Afghanistan, yes. They rape boys there quite frequently. My comment was very specific to Eastern Europe as it was in the 90s.
Some relevant context:

- Model 3 deposit was $1000, ~300k pre-orders in a few days

- Model Y deposit was $2500, but pre-order numbers are still unreleased

- Cybertruck pre-order deposit is $100

- Many people are placing 3-5 orders per household [1] due to buggy pre-order forms

- Tesla explicitly states (now, not previously) that "pre-orders" are not "orders" [2]

- Many aspects of the vehicle and presentation are otherwise nonsensical [3]

[1] https://twitter.com/btsparks/status/1198453324741111810

[2] https://twitter.com/lorakolodny/status/1198410917794312192

[3] https://twitter.com/tedstein/status/1197904256466112514
I personally believe that some charities / relief services in almost all areas are in it for the money.

Of course, my beliefs don't amount to anything other than researching who I personally give money to, but I do not find it far-fetched to believe that some agencies act in bad faith; I have a hard time aligning with the false memory syndrome foundation for example.
Ordinarily I'd agree but at a $39K base price, at first glance it seems quite practical and probably made execs at the big car companies pee a little bit in their pants. I'm sure this is a bit specious, and there will be a pile of add-ons that will certainly qualify as increasingly conspicuous.
I extend this to explicitly have an adaptor in the middle:

app > depends on > app interface

service > implements > api

adaptor > composes (api >> app interface)

That way the app doesn't need to know about the API, nor the API about the app. The wiring up the two are managed by the adaptor which is free to be implemented on the client/app side or vendor/service side.
How about being able to raise money for a project, and whitelist investors, without people having to trust you to send them the securities after they send you the money, and them seeing exactly what is being done with dilution or whatever instead of having to trust?

Or having a fair pricing model as investors buy in using a bonding curve, eliminating priced rounds and other crap, pg said that’s the “future” - Ethereum makes it possible.

All this is only possible because enough gateways trade ETH that it can now be considered money. And it can be used as an input to tons of cool smart contract things. You couldn’t do this stuff 10 years ago, at best you’d have some sorta hookup to Stripe API and banks.
> That is, if an autonomous decentralized organization issues a token, who's to make it pay you dividends or enforce your rights for whatever this token represents? This is the thing that ETH fanboys are completely delusional about. Securities only work because state regulators enforce the laws guaranteeing their value.

I thought the point of this would be that the contract code, that defines organization would automatically pay you back in whatever. No need in regulators with laws, that random judge can overturn any day. And that is the whole point of it...
Please elaborate in the context of the Cybertruck (isn't part of the appeal its relatively low cost)?
Bizarre Google Trend Spikes are traditionally caused by 4chan, it doesn't seem like that is the case here though.
If not tomorrow, the next time some faction decides it needs to do something to make an internal point.

It has been said that the last time the DPRK attacked civilians was in 1987 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_858), which was during the transition between the Great Leader and Dear Leader. This time, the transition is messy, Dear Leader appears to have suffered a stroke before anyone anticipated, the transition has been foreshortened and his anointed son newly introduced (I've read that a "Gang of Four" including an uncle are positioned to be the new leadership), etc. etc.

Basically just about anything could happen for opaque internal factional reasons. When the military and secret police aren't getting enough food to eat....
Example: "#Amazon looking to sell #AWS ro #Oracle - that's the buzz at #defragcon cc/ @rwang0"
Hey - maybe his dog is named Fear. ;)
Definitely a cool idea, but wouldn't a single high-powered GPU pretty much blow away thousands of browsers running JavaScript?
I believe your definition is correct. My understanding is that the way bucket shops operate is that they are the customer's counterparty. So if you buy stock, they short it in equal amounts.

The business model, at least in the 1920's, was to get customers to take big positions on margin, then to manipulate the actual stock (on an actual exchange) to the point that customers were wiped out. If the manipulation cost less than what the customers put up, the bucket shop would win.

People occasionally accuse forex companies of doing something similar, but the market is probably too deep for any retail-facing forex company to successfully manipulate prices like this.

Reminisces of a Stock Market Operator talks about bucket shops--and trading against them--in detail.
they have to reference the underlying, but they don't have to involve delivery of the underlying. E.g you could define an index based on the valuation of facebook as implied by recent stock trades, and trade the index value, like a CFD.
I left a few years ago, and once I left the reality-distortion/no-disclosure zone I was amazed at how paranoid we all were over computer accessories. When you're in the mix, it feels like the most important thing in the world. And yet, since leaving, I haven't been able to find a job that challenges or stimulates me anything near what Apple did.
But the article directly says source code can't be the spec because it contains low level details. E.g. you implement something with map/apply instead of loops because that's all your programming language has, or your filter out some characters from a data stream because they often make a third party parser raise Exceptions you don't understand. These are programming details that the source code contains but the spec shouldn't. Therefore I think your argument is debunked by the main article already.

In any case it's a good discussion to have in this thread, which is why I gave you the up.
I used this TSP solver configuration:
https://github.com/droolsjbpm/optaplanner/blob/master/optapl...

but with incremental Java calculation instead of scoreDrl, to speed things up.
looks like Jaconda. Are you guys together?
The amount of horror stories coming from Amazon like this one:

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/245561031/content?start_page=1...

and you being so defensive about a simple comment are NOT a good sign about a company's culture and image.
Probably off topic, but the deadline point struck me most about the video. I'm a firm believer in self-directed learning, but I must admit that one of the benefits of having an overarching system that pushes you to deliver on time, such as school or a boss, can also have its benefits in setting the deadlines for you (and enforcing them). It takes a great amount of self-discipline to stick to one's own deadlines.
It's a completely valid point that usually companies will do a single security review and want it to last for a number of months, often a number of years. Continuous monitoring is the only reasonable way to ensure adequate security of a company's website; if new code is being written, new vulnerabilities are bound to be written too.

Prioritizing vulnerabilities by which to conquer first and analyzing which vulnerabilities will hurt you more quickly and hit you or your clients the hardest is also interesting; it's something we (Tinfoil Security) already do, but not something we see enough people think about.
Not sure why the text isn't showing up:

Built this at a Startup Weekend last November. We've been sitting on this code for months. Would love to have some people signup and throw us a little feedback. Clearly this isn't finished, but with a little crowd support, we could just wrap it up in a weekend.

A few things:

- Works with Youtube and Vimeo, probably a few others.

- Web UI is still pretty sloppy

- zero onboarding. sorry.

- We have native iPhone and iPad clients that are a handful of bugs from being shipped. Anyone interested in beta testing them, shoot me an email at ddinch :at: gmail. We will beam you up via TestFlight (great service).

- Our original name was Video Store, so that's why you see "video store" peppered throughout the app.

- Tell us you want this so we finish it.
They show a history of updates to their status blog and to the herokustatus Twitter account since April 21, what do you mean by 'they weren't communicating'?
There's IPP, there's the printing part of CIFS, even plain old JetDirect (raw print data over a socket).

What's nonstandard is the ways of telling the hundreds of ink nozzles of various colors to produce a particular picture. There's of course PostScript, but it is only implemented in expensive printers.
Cue the bitter non Apple fan who can’t handle their success. Of course they will go many core. Of course they will provide extension points. I am sure you saw the FPGA accelerator from the existing Mac Pro.
Flagged as duplicate; the other BBC story is essentially the same.
Wow. How are you getting the inventory data from the stores? Especially small ones? I can understand how big guys are submitting the data but mom'n'pops?
And are you sure you really have 15,000 stores? Number seems too big to me for just one US region, even that NYC is quite large. Milo and others are claiming around 50,000 locations in the whole US.
https://github.com/ry/node/wiki < there is a good list of companies using node.js in production.
They don't publish them immediately because they want a worldwide simultaneous release with the New York Times, Der Speigel, and the Guardian.
I absolutely love my Kindle. Here's a word of warning though, if you like to read books that have code listings you will need the DX. They just don't work on the 6" screen.
Thanks for the props.

The other operators are still supported as/is and don't cause the warning that == does.
I think the overarching idea is to focus on learning and not worry about the grades. Exactly what you'll end up with depends on the school, but also doesn't really matter. I'm at MIT, and here it's very difficult to both understand the material and do worse than a C. I imagine other schools are similar, but I can't really speak to that.
Actually not, three are still available right now. I marked the two that were already taken.
Apparently no one is moving OUTSIDE of the US! :B

Guess that means I wasn't counted in this data.
Thanks for this. I've been looking for Discrete Math lectures for a while.
I've been in journalism for about six years now and have worked on some fairly prolific sites; in that time, I've learned that objectivity is a myth. Don't trick yourself into thinking otherwise.

That said, I'd love to offer advice/guidance on a more specific level if you'd like to chat.
Thanks. NFSN looks really awesome - but the pricing is a bit too complicated. Right now, I am with Webhostingbuzz and I get a warning for using too much CPU from time to time.

Kiva / Kickstarter is very interesting. I wished I have heard of these sites right before my "busy season".

Right now, I am planning to save up so that I can get a Linode for one year.
I’m skeptical Team17 is still selling software as claimed in this 2010 article, as their website reads “© 2002 Team 17” and purchase links end in a 404 error!

Still, a good article, even if the idea that users don’t always know what they really want isn’t so new.

Edit: somehow I was on their old site. http://worms.team17.com/ - odd they let that subdomain stagnate!
A legit service that was hacked?
I think that is the case for smaller counties everywhere. The most likely the town is to have a college the more moving. For instance check out Milwaukee which has three colleges.
Recent comment by PG on the outing of startups who anonymously post jobs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022335. In my eyes such a thing falls in the "not-unethical-but-something-you-shouldn't-do" category. There's nothing strictly wrong with it since you are just using publicly available information, but it is a courtesy not to. Sure perhaps someone else will out a startup, but you don't have to be that guy.
Sounds like the original developers were either incredibly incompetent, or wanted to guarantee themselves future work.... 100+ VMs? ridiculous. No op code cache? No memcache or other forms of caching? Stock DB settings? No indexes?

This is all stuff that is so basic. I gotta laugh.

And I have to wonder how bad the actual code was...
Getting a .gd domain from modone.gd was not quite as slow, but was similarly not fully automated - but their service was really good, and I always got a personal reply from their domain manager. I wouldn't dismiss all lesser used TLDs - and .gd has loads of great short names left.

I reg'd we.gd and om.gd - hope to have something interesting up on them both soon.
What is it rated to? I am looking for one that will work for the oven and not just the meat.
I use the same technique, but it suffers from usefulness-creep. I'll sign up for a service to play with it (like Reddit) and then it becomes a bigger part of my life -- all the while forgetting that my auto-saved password is "12345".
If we are going to live with ads, they might as well be properly targeted.

My only complaint is that most of the general public doesn't understand what they are opting in for, and those that try to understand it mistake it for something much more nefarious than it actually is.
You know at the end of Kanye's runaway track where there's two minutes of heavily distorted vocals. I think that's a strong analog for what you're seeing here. Essentially he's using his globally-identified voice in that track to send messages beyond just lyrics. If project management protocols are his passion, then this distortion effect is email.
I imagine as you start scaling the size of machines/automata up, it becomes more efficient to have your crank/windmill/whatever turn an electric generator that then drives an electric motor. Any ideas on where this tip over point is?

You lose the artistry though.
Nice. Something's up with www.google.com though http://www.snaprobot.com/www.google.com?&sl=0&d=1
+1

I like the implications of the name. Fructose - it's kinda sweet but not quite real sugar, and there's a suspicion of some deep and not-quite-right subterfuge going on underneath the entire industry that supports it for no real reason...
So where's the target now? That they should be able to improvize? I'm sure that can be added too with some work. Kurzweil famously wrote a program to produce music based on the music of classical composers as a child, I'm sure it could be done for dancing as well, especially since computer vision is making leaps, which would aid analysis. But then again, that would also just be "mechanical", as we would be able to explain the model.
It’s easy to say things like that when you live in a bubble of hypereducated successful people and you are being myopic concentrating on your own field.

There is no shortage of heresy in modern culture: astrology, homeopathy, creationism, dianetics, quantum mysticism, anti-aging creams and essential oils, torsion fields, moon landing conspiracy, the Bermuda Triangle, feng shui and yoga woo (at least in the form they are practiced in the West), conversion therapy, graphology, anti-vax, neuro-linguistic programming, phrenology, aryanism, etc.

I think Gavin Belsen is an apt caricature of this mindset turned up to 11, a successful Silicone Valley entrepreneur with megalomaniac tendencies and his own exotic, mystic and Eastern spiritual guru.

Yes, some people may cry wolf every time a new idea is presented, but oftentimes they are right and the new idea is indeed heresy and maybe even dangerous.
I beg to differ. This is exactly spot on for science too. You gave homeopathy as an example. Here is an article that explain water memory, the underlying principle of homeopathy: ["Water Memory Due to Chains of Nano-Pearls"](https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=...)
Nobody is trying to make a different depiction of sex because sex itself is taboo, not hardcore porn in particular. No reason to spend effort only for the result to be slandered by snobs for being lewd.
I think others have made the point well: tests give you the confidence to refactor and change and know if you broke something a customer expects to work. One caveat is that they should be good tests and not overly coupled. Don't mock as those are brittle. How so? Usually mocks assert more than contracted behavior. If you have a method under test, it doesn't matter what its guts are doing. You shouldn't assert its state. What matters is that its observable actions and errors behave as expected. You don't assert that internal functions of that method are called so many times in such and such order with the right arguments. Just test at the exposed edges.

You will want unit tests this way and to verify error handling and logic flow. You will want integration tests or acceptance tests to verify things work together and can perform the actions your users will take. These pay dividends and prevent the manual need to verify you did not break anything on a given change.

You also don't need to exhaustedly test everything. Start with critical parts. And, like others said, add to your test suite any bugs to prevent regressions. A paying customer who reports a bug, sees it fixed, and sees it come back is not a happy camper.
I have zero objections to you recording your porch or driveway or whatever 24/7. Just don’t send it to amazon or google where they face match me and use their clever algorithms to extract money out of me at a store or something. Keep the video to yourself.
>> There are taxi apps that work exactly like Uber's like 'Free-now' where you can see your trip, its aproximate cost, the driver's rating...

Pre uber hailing a cab from a location other than the airport in Atlanta where I live was impossible. You'd have to call their 1-800 number hours in advance with no guarantee of it being serviced. Even if such apps exist now it might be due to uber pushing the envelope. Uber and other ride sharing service might not be relevant in the NYCs, Chicagos and Londons of the world but for cities like ours they were a godsend.
While I would love to disagree, I am slowly coming to a similar conclusion. I have zero influence over decisions made in WH, VA or or other national power centers.

However, I can attend our local council meetings to ensure our neighborhood issues are addressed. Hell, after hearing him, I just found our chief of police is a reasonable guy. It was a shock of sorts.
expect is used to run a bunch of interactive tests for the fish shell (https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/tree/master/tests, all of the files ending in .expect, where the file interactive.expect.rc defines a bunch of utilities).
Thanks. I saw the name and immediately suspect that was so.

Good times.
I’m still going through this process after my team at a FAANG was killed off.

Granted, I can at least get interviews. But with each rejection, even when I make it to on-sites that seem to go well, I just walk away feeling like I suck or should do something else.

It’s really hard to keep going like this at times... painful to see new grads out leetcode me / interview into FAANG right out of school :(
Lyndon Johnson is complicated. The NASA budget was significantly increased, and the civil Rights act was passed. But he also increased the US military presence in Vietnam from around 5000 to a peak of 500,000 in country armed forces, and dramatically escalated the Vietnam war. Hundreds of thousands of fatalities on both sides of the war are directly attributable to his policies.
“The basis for this argument is that big government has two major problems.”

UBI skeptics would suggest that there’s a much bigger third problem – and that’s the inherit tendency of government programs to grow beyond their intended purpose.

If politician A says a $1,000 a month UBI makes sense, then politician B doesn’t seem too irrational to say that it should be $1,100. Pretty soon you have politicians justifying $10,000 a month based upon economic models that seem reasonable to some and fantasy to others.

While simplifying benefits into one basic payout may make sense in a simple economic model where all our needs are similar, reality is more complex. I don’t need a UBI, but my neighbor looking after her adult disabled son could certainly benefit from a lot more than $1,000.

I’m not personally for or against a UBI. I just don’t feel like the proponents have answered the larger challenges. This essay, while well-intentioned, avoids the biggest problem pointed out by skeptics – keeping the UBI from becoming bigger and bigger until it collapses and or forces massive austerity measures. Self-restraint when it comes to spending is a trait we’ve yet figure out how to encourage in politicians.
Well job ads are already the wrong approach.
Go meet your local business in meetups, social gatherings, etc.
Obviously. Which is why I used a plural—I was referring to Comcast’s overall customer base.
Pi-Hole has a fix for this going by Mozilla staff

https://twitter.com/selenamarie/status/1175092910200483840?s...
I'm not sure that interpreting Taiclet's response as "we need to mimic authoritarian regimes" is quite right. It seems to me that what he's really saying is "as long as we have more competition than our authoritarian opponents, we're just fine".

Of course, there is very little practical difference between tacking towards more consolidation as a result of explicit mimicry vs. as a result of shifting the Overton Window except perhaps in rhetorical terms of the stated preferred end state ("duopolies are more competitive than monopolies, right?")