jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wait a minutes....rdl......just checked your profile....now I know who you are! I haven't seen much about you since '05ish, since Wired did the profile on you. I actually asked around for your outfit for a while when I was over there to see about getting sat service around BIAP in '06-'07 for a couple buildings I was in. Crazy, this Internet -- small world and all that.

> A lot of interesting stuff wouldn't be appropriate to publish, and a lot of the hyper-accurate stuff would be boring.

What's the old saying? "War is long periods of interminable boredom followed by intense moments of stark terror."

There is something really bizarre about being there that's really hard for people to understand via description or pictures or stories or articles -- taking rocket fire while standing outside a Taco Bell so you can pay $3 for a taco, not even flinching because you know it's just one of 30 or 40 attacks that day and the QRF will be in the air to handle the situation anyways, and you've waited like 3 hours in line for this taco. Then you go back and watch CNN or something and hear about the attack you were just in -- and think it's getting boring, why don't they report something else? At least that's how it was back then. It's always stuck with me you could buy a brand new 46" LCD TV and a Wii to put at the foot of your bunk and a case of frozen steaks and sunflower seeds, in an active war zone. I remember thinking, "the news is describing where I am, but I can't seem to really relate it to what I'm seeing".

I've heard it's calmed down tremendously in the last couple of years. Nowhere near "safe", but not like at the end of '06 and the beginning of '07 by any stretch.

> I'm pretty sure this is my last trip, unless I get deployed contracts for my product, which is always possible

Good luck with it. Our role there is changing very fast, wouldn't be surprised to see very few contractors/civilians over there in the next 12-18 months.
But given that Windows is still the dominant platform in the desktop space it would be disingenuous to claim this it's "cross-platform" if it's not coming to Windows soon.
It's hard to imagine any group of people that would fair to get a perfect score on this test within some small margin of error.
If/when Pacific Fibre happens, I'd like to move at least 50% time to NZ.
Agreed. There can be tighter integration with third party tools as well like GitHub and Gitlab among others
The same reasons any number of atrocities are committed without so much as a blip on our consciousness: Ignorance and apathy.

We're pretty limited beings :).
small highly intelligent populace works well for direct democracy, a largely stupid one does not.
People who would rather pay $30/mo to have someone manage it than run it themselves.
I suddenly have less of a craving for a steak all of a sudden.
We shouldn't practice bandwagon bias at this early stage. There are plenty of exchanges in the US. Kraken, for one.
Perhaps, but it's awfully hard to keep your existence secret from your competitors when you apparently have nonzero traction in other universities in the area.
I have to agree it's a good start but I am still not sure what it is you are doing
Yes. The analogy only goes so far - natural languages are inherently more complex than any programming language I know of for a number of reasons. Nevertheless, it's just as easy to find examples of code which are "simply more verbose" and that do not "disambiguate anything" as it is to find examples of the same in natural language - conciseness and clarity are valuable everywhere.
It doesn't matter how many mathematicians they have, they can't break good encryption. Unless the NSA has a super secret quantum computer that even Snowden didn't know about...
"Yes. Parents and really not much else but parents. They care the only thing that scale."

I would claim government policies scale up to the limit within the borders of the said country. What effect they may have depends, but most good stuff in the daily lives of ordinary people in industrialized countries owes quite a lot to government policies (public schools, no child labour, etc).

Great teacher don't scale but improving teachers education thus moving the average more towards "great" does.
Should say 2011.
I was obliquely suggesting that there is clearly "utility" in speculation (but let me note here that this layman would not accept metaphysics dressed up as physics).

I agree that the institutional angle here is what is the critical issue. So to answer the GP once again, "Go ask the Pope!"
So, in case it isn't clear, I'm ardently for unconditional free speech--with the obvious observation that that is not easily practicable in our current society.

Obscenity and pornography don't necessarily hurt anyone. Sedition laws are, by definition, used only to support the current ruling class and government. Most of the trade secrets, NDAs, etc. are just to help entrenched interests--something many here have rallied about when signing contracts. Public order, public security, and public nuisance are additional laws mainly used to censor and justify the persecution of people who are in disagreement with the establish government.

Frankly, regulation of free speech has pretty much always favored the majority at the expense of the minority.
This would be a good time to wait and let security professionals analyze the documents and take what you read in this article lightly, as I've found a number of sensationalist examples.

For example, they claim Canada is monitoring hockey sites:

> Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSEC) even monitors sites devoted to the country's national pastime: "We have noticed a large increase in chat activity on the hockeytalk sites. This is likely due to the beginning of playoff season," it says in one presentation.

But if you look at the actual slide https://i.imgur.com/2GO8H6L.png, it is clearly a fake sample report of what a real one might look like. It even uses the name 'Canukistan' as the country name.

There are 44 slide decks, one of the biggest leaks so far. It will take time to make sense of the noise. And any misinformation from reporting by non-technical journalists doesn't help the cause.
I have never heard of "Java TCKs" but after a little research, I understand them better. Just out of curiosity, what would passing the Java TCKs do for me or my users?
When I clicked through to your Wufoo form to sign up for launch notification, the visual change was quite jarring--from soothing green to washed-out grey. It felt very alien. Maybe if you carried over the same green background over it wouldn't have had the same effect.

I know what Wufoo is, and that it'll be safe to give them my email. But your less-savvy customers might wonder where the heck they've bounced to.
> A large number of people are chasing a small (and decreasing) number of good opportunities

The number of good opportunities is dramatically increasing all over the world... every breakthrough we make opens like five new potential avenues for breakthroughs.

Every generation thinks the sky is falling because old industries are being obsoleted or automated - subsistence farmers, shoemakers, textiles, horse buggy whip makers, horse breeders, typewriter makers and typists, telegraph operators.

Paper mills, traditional publishing, traditional media/television, and music are all happening now.

Old industries go by the wayside or become automated. But that's exactly where opportunity and progress comes from - here's tons more opportunity now than ever before. I can't think of any past era I'd rather live - I can see infinitely more opportunity today than at any point in history.
Sparse matrix kernels and finite element/volume integration. For bandwidth-limited operations, it is sometimes possible to get better performance by using less threads than physical cores because the bus is already saturated (for examples, see STREAM benchmarks). For dense kernels, I'm usually shooting for around 70 percent of peak flop/s, and any performance shortcomings are from required horizontal vector operations, data dependence, and multiply-add imbalance. These are not things that HT helps with.

Additionally, HT affects benchmark reproducibility which is already bad enough on multicore x86 with NUMA, virtual memory, and funky networks. (Compare to Blue Gene which is also multicore, but uses no TLB (virtual addresses are offset-mapped to physical addresses), has almost independent memory bandwidth per core, and a better network.)
moreover you actually already have trivial code for that in $JAVAISH_IMPLEMENTATIon's Character.isUnicodeIdentifier{start,part}
"What kind of application blocks on disk IO but nothing else for extended amounts of time? I'm having a hard time seeing how installing an SSD and maxing out your cores are terribly related otherwise"

Virtual memory paging to/from disk. This is probably why the new MacBook Airs feel faster than the CPU+RAM specs suggest.
“The timeline, nobody can tell you, it depends on how we handle it,” Mr. Cuomo said. “But 40 percent, up to 80 percent of the population will wind up getting this virus. All we’re trying to do is slow the spread, but it will spread.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/nyregion/Coronavirus-new-...
I'm a believe in "advertising leads to deadweight economic loss" theory but admittedly I've benefited greatly in my career working for ad tech companies...
See the talk "Hammock driven development" by Rich Hickey on the topic: https://youtu.be/f84n5oFoZBc
Yeah our societies functioned for centuries without targeted ads, and we can do it again. It's only the past decade or two that we've had targeted ads. I think you could compare targeted ads to selling drugs: there's clearly a market for it and it will sustain many peoples' livelihoods, but as a society we've seen the ill effects of letting them run rampant and decided we're better off highly regulating them. It's time to reign in this massively detrimental business model. The businesses will adapt just fine.
there is also the possibility that the comorbidities are indeed causal but we can't do anything about it since most elderly people would have them anyway, and hence besides being an interesting fact it's effectively indistinguishable from a pure statistical age correlation.
- Games are "fire and forget". That means technical debt is very different. It is bad at the start of a 3 year cycle, but at the end it is totally ok.

Game companies don't "copy and paste" old versions of games to jump start the development on new versions of games? cp doom1.c doom2.c
Deserializing data from the user is itself a security vulnerability, in my opinion. Given that we have not had a mass outbreak of PHP vulnerabilities, I imagine the impact here is low.

I wouldn't be surprised is the Linux distributions that these sites run on have just as many vulnerabilities if you use the same criteria as presented here.
You can see a list of vulnerable PHP versions here: http://www.cvedetails.com/version-list/74/128/1/PHP-PHP.html

Note that this list refers to those versions as released, not as OS vendors may have patched them.
Interestingly, I think that keeping everything can actually give us a much more fuller account of our lives. If were are able to create an AI that will help with the augmentation of all the data. I can really see something like: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2290780/?ref_=ttep_ep1

Which is what Gordon Bell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLifeBits) and Microsoft Research have been looking into.
dat bae doe
Not sure they can afford an interim leader. They need to got for someone who will be decisive soon.
I hadn't thought of that Bush failure! I'm adding it to the list as #523.
Uh, wtf. That's approximately as threatening a group as the Boy Scouts. SPLC is crazy, now I have to question the rest of their work.
I can't talk from a consumer perspective, but from a developer perspective, they need to open source everything .NET-related if they want to remain relevant.

With Ballmer gone, if people like Hanselman and ScottGu gain more influence within the company, I'm sure we'll see great things being open sourced.

It's hard to shift the company to open source with someone like Ballmer at the top, it would be like admitting defeat to the open source movement, and people in such positions of power never like to admit they were wrong in their strategy. It's human nature, I almost don't blame him.
This is the tragedy that is a publicly-traded software company. Ballmer's sole responsibility as CEO is to maximize shareholder value, and the Board has to hold him to that. If A CEO prioritizes anything else, they will be fired and will become vulnerable personal lawsuits. It is literally their job description to make money over anything else. Taking the "long view" rarely appeases the Board, because short-term quarterly numbers are what determines the corporation's value.
It wasn't a very constructive OP! I've watched it about 10 times though. Is that "except in Nebraska" at the end? Is that a tax/sales restriction thing? (I'm not US based)
Well, first you have to pick a gun framework, then figure out how to $elect your gun in it. Then you update the Gun model and set a callback onFire, and wonder what the hell happened. Later, the callback shoots you in the back of the head.
At least for me, Arduino is not even about the hardware itself. It's about a nice, simple and standard platform. You can get many different Arduino compatible boards from different manufacturers, usable for different purposes. You can easily make your own. Having an IDE and a simple library that works on all those boards, without needing any complicated setup, is what makes Arduino what it is.
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This is exactly the reason progressive income taxes are unfair: the incentive to create additional economic activity is reduced because of higher marginal rates. I never understood the stupidity of people paying different percentages in a taxes; it's punishing hard work. Your exampke makes it clear that it would be better to not work as hard because it actually would be irrational to do so.

The other part of this is the inherent infairness of someone paying $65000 per year for Stanford. That's just insane. The price of something should not change based on someone's income. Why should someone making $225k per forced to subsidize everyone else? If the lower income kids want a BMW, should higher income families be required to pay for it? Going to Stanford isn't a right; it's a luxury.

Tuition, like tax rates should be the same for everyone. As it is now, the market responsiveness of higher education costs is distorted because of this cross subsidization scheme. If we eliminated all financial aid, Stanford would cost $8000 per. As it is now, universities have zero incentives to cut costs because many of them face no exposure to actual market forces. Whatever extra they want, they know students will just go deeper into debt.

It's a scam. How many Vice Provosts and Assistant Deans or "coordinators for diversity" does a university actually need? They could likely cut half of university administrators and it would make no appreciable difference to the quality of education.
And does Stanford really make a difference over a state school over the long term? Motivation and talent are more more important than a particular school.
a) Web 2.0 sites.

b) It has four redundant power supplies, as do all systems of this size.

c) It's a Beowulf cluster.

d) See the FAWN, Amdahl blade, Gordon, and CEMS papers.
There was an article on HN a while back about a developer who switched from a desktop to a mac mini and the savings on his electricity bill covered the cost of a mac mini after 18 months
"STREAM OVER." That is all I've ever seen from Meerkat. I think they did a great job in terms of getting the users behind their product, but the user experience is terrible. I've tried to click on about 15 Meerkat streams in the last 2 weeks and I haven't seen one. At least Periscope has a video archive that lets you watch something even after it's over.

Being in SV and reading all the news, I will say that I thought it was bigger than it actually was. On the other hand, I've seen Periscope videos from all over the world. Twitter seems to have created something great, solving the usability issues which were in Meerkat's product.
Unfortunately, the apparent conclusion of this piece is as dangerous as the position it opposes.

Yes, we should embrace our imperfections. But not blindly. Doing so makes us fat and lazy, while indeed trying to "bench press them out of existence" makes us gaunt and workaholic.

I think the old cross-stitch on the wall in my parents' house got it right: we need "the courage to change the things we can, the serenity to accept the things we can't, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Thanks! Any idea what the quoted carriage return does? I wouldn't have thought of that in a million years.
If efficiency was the only reason people did anything, life would be fantastically boring.

Besides, this is an awesome way to give a visual of what exactly a wave is. I'll have to remember this one for sure!
You can do it now without a transpiler if you set harmony flags in Chrome/Node and use yield+co. (And just use a transpiler for deployment.)
iPhone preorders are why there are a line apparently, not this.
But when I see benchmarks that suggest Python is 10 to 100X slower for critical server code, I have to wonder why anyone would use it for enterprise development.

Because not all enterprise development relates to critical server code?

Neither language is pretty or fun or interesting from a CS point of view.

I find working with c++ brings huge amounts of fun, and I do that almost daily :P But maybe I don't have a CS view (not sure what that is supposed to be?)
That doesn’t mean 350 units have been sitting empty since last spring. It means at some point each unit waited two weeks for cleaning, viewing, lease approval, and a new tenant moving in.
It's not really meant for "naive people": nobody expects you to change your behavior as a result of this press release.

The target audience is really science journalists on EurekaWire. They're hoping this press release will get picked up by a science writer for the New York Times or Scientific American, etc.

A parallel goal is to demonstrate that the university is doing cutting edge work, which helps with student enrollment, fundraising, and recruitment. This also applies to the funders: they want to demonstrate that donations (or tax dollars) are being put to good use.

If it directly catches the attention of science aficionados, that's mostly a bonus.
Been using it at the Fortune 500 and some other projects I work on and folio fixtures (the test runner under playwright-test) is really nice can pass POM, db connection, JWT token getter directly into your test as test function parameters. Test look like jest. Just wish Webstorm/pycharm would get built in integration
You are correct, I didn't address the basis for the cost difference until later in my comment. Trucks are more expensive due to the number of drivers needed per freight rather than the cost of a roads vs rails.
You are right. Investors, including VCs should look for an intersection of team, product and timing. A world changing product will not change the world without a team that can execute (part of executing is marketing and selling). A great team will fail without a product. And even the best team, and the perfect product can fail if the timing is too early or late. Business is hard.
> ...there is no way to get it if you are in a monogamous relationship...

People are frequently unfaithful without their partner's knowledge. Healthcare workers/Dentists are at an elevated risk of infection, and by association so are their partners. As are law enforcement, and their partners. If you routinely interact with the homeless professionally or as a volunteer, you're at an elevated risk.
Signal still uses and verifies phone numbers, so at some point they will pass through their infrastructure. They could still save them, knowing the source code they use gives at least at hint that they don't.

Sealed sender also is based on the pinky-swear that the infrastructure distributing the sender auth certificates doesn't correlate identities and connections with the messaging infrastructure. And that the server receiving the enveloped messages doesn't log. So all based on trust based on believing the right source code is running somewhere.

When access to that source code is restricted suddenly, of course people are worried.
While it feels terribly hacky, one could probably write an Android-wrapper around Rust in Java. A rather big undertaking, I'd guess, since it means exposing all APIs to rust somehow.

An other approach would be to employ one of many thin webview wrappers, in which your app is HTML+Js+CSS. When such a webview wrapper supports WASM, the JS part could be written in rust.

Not something I'd do other than "to prove it can be done".
Has basic 2D drawing (lines, rectangle, bezier curve etc) added yet? I remember it was in the plans in the very beginning.
The ceremony to cast the magic spell is a waste of time. But without the ceremony the spell won't work.

The ceremony is part of the spell.
> The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.

I'd probably be sick all the time with all that wind.
Oh, thank you for identifying that error. I had actually already internalized it as knowledge. Leaving it that way would have been bad.
this also highlights that somehow it's ok to not be able to easily extract files out of your phone. it's maddening.
Surprisingly many, if you're bold enough to try.

The only reason me and my circle of friends use Telegram is because one of us was using an Ubuntu Phone at some point, and that was the only acceptable messaging app he could use, so we all moved on. It requires a certain authority in your group, but people are likely to adapt to you if they care about you, even if your choices inconvenience them slightly.

Of course it's never going to be "all their contacts", but the only platform that actually has all my contacts on it is good old SMS anyway.
> No shit, Sherlock.

Please don't do this here.
Nick should headhunt someone to fix that site up a bit. Awful.
I think googles own Eric Schmidt had the best response to this. If open office's were bad for buisness or destroying the workspace the free market would bear that out. There are tangable benefits which is why companies move towards it. I understand some people hate it, but most don't so why do we keep getting the same articles every few months saying the same thing. We get it _you_ don't like the open office space others do. I am sorry your not able to have the office the way you like it, I am upset that no one else seems to like TV shows I find enjoyable and they keep getting canceled.
I always recommend looking into having laptops covered through your insurance company. I have state farm, and my wife and I have our laptops under personal article policies. The coverage is better, broader, and cheaper that anything else I've seen. My wife recently got a surface pro 3 to use during her forest soils PhD, and I was adamant we get nice insurance if she was going to be using it in the field. Two years of no deductible spill, drop, and malfunction coverage through squarespace is 280$. I get the same coverage plus theft and loss for 40 a year through my insurer. And it is a 3 block walk to the office where I can eat pastries and drink coffee while I file a claim. I have only had to file one claim, but it was for a head crash and they covered a new hard drive w/out question.

I'm not saying it is a good fit for everyone, but it works out well for me. I do recommend squarespace for individual parts of a self-built tower pc. I spent 120 on a motherboard and on the third replacement spquarespace upgraded me because it turned out that model had an almost 50% failure rate in the first year.