jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've linked this somewhere else: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25479729. This references studies from the SARS times and for flu. N95/FFP2 masks are pretty well established, they were used by front line workers in all the pandemics in the last decades.

That's why most Western countries were stockpiling them - as protection in case of a flu pandemic.
Adding support for this feature might be tricky on some platforms, but I agree, it is important to be able to look at both.
> Some of them made 150k, 200k, 250k - while other people, also qualified, make salaries that are not enough to start a family and have a decent life.

I don't understand why they are arrogant. Is it because despite making that level (which is objectively nowhere near the ceiling for global SDE salaries), they still want more? I can understand the cognitive dissonance of viewing that number without context, but I think it might be worth taking a look at something like levels.fyi.

Look at engineer salaries at FAANGs at top hubs such as SF, NYC, LDN. The reason they are so high is because the companies need to pay that amount to get access to the talent they need to run their companies. If they could pay less, they'd save billions (maybe trillions), so they would have already tried that. And indeed they did, before they got taken to court for collusion lawsuits.

The truth is, as high as engineer and tech salaries are, they're high for a reason. They get very expensive things done. I don't see anything arrogant about that. On the contrary, what I would find arrogant is expecting them to do that without taking their fair share.
Wouldn't that just mean the event loop cycles faster, lending credence to the gp's snark?
Speaking of wikipedia, I'd be perfectly content if the "urgent appeal" banner were replaced with an ad.
Novell owns SuSE. That's probably the biggest thing they have going right now, so yes, they are the maker of a Linux operating system.
I always wonder how many people won this long con by being so small nobody cares. The DoJ document states they already succeeded in taking the funds cross chain and through some privacy enhancing alternative assets. For every idiot dumping millions in a bank account there's got to be someone else living a "modest" but luxurious life looking like a small guy nobody cares about, cashing out a few hundred to a thousand at a time somewhere where that kind of money is big enough to get a nice day to day living but small enough to not be worth organized crime taking much notice.
It's gonna be responsive, still working on it, now I'm just looking for some feedback so that I can improve it before final release.

here are few responsive template examples made with it:

http://start.codable.org/
http://blog.codable.org/
Just curious, what's your specific/gut criteria to drop everything and go with it?
foreign cruise ships
If I could give you some unsolicited advice, I'd say focus on learning how to program, and not on a particular language. Use whichever language will help you to program the best. Once you understand programming, particularly in the functional paradigm, picking up a language like Arc, or Clojure, Python, or Scala is a quick study (ok, maybe not Scala).

If you think Arc will help motivate you to learn to program, and has sufficient resources to teach you, then by all means go for it. Otherwise, there are a lot of similar language that have tons of learning resources. Racket in particular, as well as MIT Scheme, are two languages related to Arc, both with great, open-source books (How to Design Programs and SICP) that teach you how to truly program, not just hack up a web site like many programming books do [1, 2]. Really, these are probably two of the greatest programming books, albeit with very different teaching approaches. And like Arc, both of those languages are schemes, or at least very close.

Finally, one additional unsolicited word of advice: don't put off learning data structures and algorithms (particularly their time and space complexity). Both of the two books above will teach you the fundamentals of these topics. I'm a self-taught programmer who put learning these things off for several years, saying to myself, "eh, I don't need them, what do they have to do with real programming?". I confused them with the "interview puzzles" everyone was (rightly) criticizing.

Well, I was wrong, and now that I have a better grasp of the things a good CS education can give you, I'm advancing at a much quicker rate, and I understand programming at a much deeper level. I wish I knew back when I started teaching myself that these were important things to learn. Coursera has some excellent algorithm courses. Khan Academy also has some very good algorithm learning materials [3]. Finally, VisuAlgo is an excellent site for visualizing algorithms [4].

In addition, if you ever decide to become a professional programmer, you'll have to know algorithms and data structures for most interviews.

1. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/index.html

2. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#...

3. https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/algor...

4. http://visualgo.net/
I've had a similar realisation regarding the parallels between software design and scientific theories. In science you have observed phenomena, and you try to find the best (preferably simplest) theory/abstraction that will both explain them and also be able to explain phenomena that you haven't observed yet. In software engineering, you have a set of current requirements and you try to find the best (and hopefully simplest) architecture/abstraction that will meet the current requirements but also be able to naturally accommodate requirements that you haven't foreseen. Both science and software engineering try to devise abstractions that try to convey some "higher truth" than the given data, and both invariably need to be reassembled into a higher abstraction when reality doesn't agree with them, but the test of a good scientific theory as well as a good software architecture is how long can the abstraction hold until something doesn't fit the model.
> unless they want to lose many low-end customers to "easier" clouds.

I've never gotten the impression that AWS is interested in building a 'cloud' for those less technically inclined. Heroku and others fill that void, EC2 is where you move after Heroku doesn't fit the bill and before dedicated hardware does.
My opinion based purely on anectodal evidence says the essential reason why bikes are highly preferred by the people of Amsterdam is that it is mostly a flat city. Compare this to Istanbul, where even seemingly trivial journeys have 100m climbs in it.

Example for a popular home to work commute:
http://cycleroute.org/?slat=41.061029&slng=29.00681199999996...
I've heard the same arguments. Sadly, I have no good answer for how the TSA should do their job. However, treating someone rudely and, to an extent, inhumanly, doesn't fit the bill.
your artistic cousin uses

iPod is the music player that everybody uses, and iPhones are what about half of adults I know use.
maybe i should just set it free and make it opensource ?
i don't see anyone buying this :S

let me know, it's my first app and i don't have any experience at all, ( i'm an 18 years old )
Sweet! This can only be a good thing. Alexis is awesome (as evidenced by him talking to us for 30 min at 1am for our YC pre-interview.)
"The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it. The way real science goes is that you come up with lots of ideas, and most of them will be wrong." -- Francis Crick

A slightly relevant quote from an unrelated article I recently read in the New Yorker[1]

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/25/110425fa_fact_...
A good majority of my interfaces are based on UITableViews of some form. Used them for forms, navigation, etc. IB doesn't help me model up some of the fairly static data sources I return. I end up getting 90% of my apps done without touching IB for that reason.

I'll use IB occasionally for some custom views but since I'm using dinking around with the CALayer level adding shadows effects, and handling rotation animations and resizes in custom ways it usually gets in the way. I honestly never feel like touching for a lot my stuff.

I also do a lot of custom views and the designer doesn't help me manage those as well. Before XCode 4, I could write IB plugins but those were removed in 4, so more and more I'm finding less use for it.

One neat trick though is that I'll create NIBs and run Nib2Objc to generate code that I'll fix up as needed: https://github.com/akosma/nib2objc
> It's the first thing to do in the morning, even before I leave the bed.

Unless you're a landscaper or something, I have to say this sounds a little on the crazy side.
Sure. Just like APL, Prolog, and others.
Yes, and I meant to say that would be a bad thing. For example, Welsh is compulsory in schools in Wales where most will know English fluently, there is quite a political effort to keep it going.
"I wish that when GC encountered a cycle it would just tell the programmer that they now have a leak..."

Wow. Overreact much? :-)

Garbage collection works great for one use case: managing heap memory. Please, let's not return to a universe where you need to free each chunk of memory piecewise. That makes freeing memory O(n) in the number of chunks freed, where modern collectors can free unlimited numbers of objects in O(1) time. Compared to this, malloc and free are a little like keeping score in soccer by tracking every action that does not result in a ball entering a net.

The trouble is finalizers. Finalizers suck. They tie the management of one resource (say native memory or file handles) to an unrelated resource (heap memory). This has the terrible consequences highlighted by this story, plus others. It keeps the native resource tied up until the collector decides to run, for one thing. It also harms performance in secondary ways even when the finalizer isn't running. For example, finalizers typically defeat escape analysis, meaning objects with finalizers can't be stack-allocated.

It's a good idea to use finalizers mostly for detecting invalid final states of objects (like leaking resources), as long as you stay aware that finalizers can slow down your program in unexpected ways.

[These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.]
Haven't actually tried it, but anything that helps with mod_rewrite is gonna be useful :)
If you don't have a lot of investment type stuff in the USA then tax forms are a breeze. They really should be zero effort but it's not hard.
Dutch language is relatively close to English.

Dutch people learn English at young age. British English at school.

Tech industry practically has English as main language. It is not like that in Germany or French.

Dutch people are used to focus on trade with foreign countries. Helps if you speak the language. Youth learn Dutch, English, French and German at school.

Finally, Allies liberated us from the Germans. We remained on friendly terms with each other, though NL is not part of FVEY.

Contrast to French and Germsn, which are both still important languages in both Europe and the World; Dutch is irrelevant...
Stories like this regarding almost all of automotive manufacturing history makes me wonder if the only reason Tesla is being highlighted on all these issues is just because they have significantly more publicity.
TL;DR: The answer is no, and here's how you can find a quantitative basis for that decision.
Hi steve, since you are around: is there a (formal?) description of how this "niche" layout optimization behaves on ADTs in general, or any documented work on the topic?
At least theres good reason for London to reform a bit more & become competitive, like stamp duty on stocks is a bit silly.
I hadn't heard about the Lindy effect before. That's kinda cool. I do know a good technical setup when I see one. The $doge weekend pamp has arrived once again like clockwork.

(Not trading advice, always buy low & sell high and protect your capital. I can also see a stretch down into the .03 range possible @ intermediate time scale preparatory to longer term highs)
The Greek citizens went through this because the Greek government has been lying for many years in its financial reports.
An iphone is as disposable as a kleenex. It is not an asset, at least not a better one than a 250 phone.
It would be cool if we could add a "Rust" tag to this entry. I almost didn't give this link a second look because I thought it was an older link. Glad I did give it a second look.
I am thinking of it as a message from the writer to the user, and doing so gives me a little chuckle as I remember there is a human on the other side of the code that makes my server run.
What, no mention of _The Whole Internet Catalog_?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Internet_User's_Guide_and...
https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1424/1228569/cce6eb26-27a6...

"Collaboration is now working (and accepts 2FA logins)."
How much would this cost ?
What sets this apart from the other WebKit-based text editors, LightTable and Brackets? In general it seems like there's been an explosion of new text editors with this style since TextMate went into hibernation around 2008. It's great to have options, but there's lots of these TextMate clones now.
This looks pretty cool, there seems to be Vim shortcuts [1] and even theming. Judging from your screenshot, Solarized Dark is the default theme?

But I'd have to wait until its release (or beta, should I be so lucky!) to consider moving from standard vim editor and Solarized in my Xresources.

[1] https://github.com/atom/vim-mode
This is not really an answer to your question, but it sounds like you have PHP developers trying to become part time database developers. I don't mean this negatively, just that server-side developers are different from database devs which are different from UI/front-end devs.

Once you get beyond normal queries and enter the realm of real database development you likely want someone who is a genuine database developer.

I'm worked with several database developers plus my wife is a database developer. They are a different breed, and they really develop applications in the data layer.

I can say from experience that once you add a database developer you'll never look at the data layer the same. Often, there is a substantial amount of work that can be performed better by the database (whether it's Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres or whatever) since they have 30+ years of tuning for specific data operations.
Do you mean a situation where the service provider is not directly providing the service to the customer, like paying out a caterer for your office lunch? I'd love to better understand exactly what you're trying to use this for.

The short answer is that we're also really excited about the "many-to-many" use case of moving money around. There are many hurdles to getting there, and we're checking them off one by one. This is a leap towards that eventual world.
Well, I think a large percentage of people do realize this.

They just forget it as soon as the news media present whatever is the current horror story.
Note that there's a http://www.dilbert.com/fast, too.
In my dream workplace, they'd put aside little lockable rooms with HEAVY sound insulation, warm-white lighting, no distractions in the decor, and a beanbag to lounge in, and let us use them when we need to think. I bet it would pay for itself in code quantity and quality.
or does it?
How about next time, you refute me instead of voting me down. I will pit my 9+ years (since .NET 1.0 Beta 1) of experience with C# versus whatever you would like to bring to the table for discussion.
For IT stuff they are things ranging from: "please give us feedback on how we should redesign our site" to "design a mobile app". The design-a-mobile-app-one I looked at led to feedback that what hey really wanted was a mobile website and a good exchange with the poster. For non-IT it's like, we need a copyrighter on this one project, we need a logo, etc.

I'm curious how effective this will be for most non-profits. I would love to hear serious feedback after the fact.
if your employer feels like you are not working enough since you do pauses in order to think to your design, also think about picking a different company...

Your boss should be utterly happy that you spend some time in design activity. At max I think that if you want to make this a bit more clear, use pencil and paper when reasoning about your design: it tends to help also.
I found it offensive too. My wife has full access to my email/facebook/bank and everything. Just this weekend my wife ordered something in my name and thus used my email. I don't see it as a problem.

Like my wife said one time: "If you were cheating on me, I wouldn't know how to track it online." Not because she's not technologically adept, but because she's seen me using proxy servers and disposable emails that she knows I wouldn't be dumb enough to do it in plain sight. Just like it'd be moronic to receive love letter correspondence at my home address, it's moronic to receive it at my main email address.

I'll also clarify further. The woman prosecuting is a moron for using her normal email address (with her password in a book next to the computer) to conduct an affair. If you don't try to hide it, you're trying to get caught. I'm sorry, I was computer savvy enough at 4 to start up a PC and use DOS to load a game. A 6-10 year old today would beyond the shadow of a doubt be able to access her email - therefore it was unprotected.
Does this sound to anyone like the blades on a snap-off knife - when one layer gets dull, it breaks off revealing a new sharp layer?
When anyone asks me what I'm doing if I've "come up for air", I just reply "Programming. I'll type it in later."

Software development doesn't happen in computers, it happens in our minds. And not just one person's mind, but in the minds of the collaborators. Sometimes the only way to sync up with someone else appears, for all the world, to be just a bunch of Monty Python quotes.
This is a question close to my heart.

My favorite way is to pull the terminal down and start compiling something. But this only works for good 30mins.
Then I just think to my self I don't give a shit what "they" think and start doing what I want to do like reading HackerNews.

When I have my moments it can last anywhere from few hours to few days of just procrastinating then its back to business. But this time of procrastinating is very importing as I play out different scenarios in my head (and research) on how to tackle the current problem on hand and what will its impact be on current and future code, but you can't aspect everyone to understand that.
I always think how come eggs can stay so fresh so long? Is there any other "whole" protein that stays fresh so long?
The purpose of this project was to get a docker-compose setup with good developer ergonomics.

Basically you should just be able to `docker-compose up` and start hacking at front-end or back-end code and have hot reloading of both _just work_.

I aimed to keep things pretty minimal. With some effort you can swap Redux for Unstated, pick a different component library, swap my api router for gorilla mux, whatever you want.

Happy to make changes based on feedback. I'm _sure_ this could be improved with more eyes on it.

Enjoy :)
That is debatable (I personally don't agree with your view at all), but regardless people are still allowed to post and discuss meaningless content here.
> If I ever have kids, I'll make a concerted effort with other parents to prevent them from joining any social media before they turn 16

Honestly that seems unlikely. If all their friends are on some platform they will find a way to be on it also. Best you can do is really try to educate them on how badly things can boomerang and that the internet never forgets. But even at 16, most kids don't have the life experience and perspective to really understand this.
sqlite and json.1 gets you pretty close to emulating a more powerful nosql database.
Yes. And with acronyms as well. They are always spelled out the first time, before the abbreviation is used.
This is a forum with a bunch of (pseudo) technophiles. I'd expect them to be more, rather than less, inclined to believe someone who got sensors and other data together. The expressed skepticism isn't gender motivated.
Same, with escitalopram (lexapro in the US)
"Usually do this, but then other times do this, unless this other thing is true. If there's a parse error, then do xyz and keep going."

This is almost exactly like the descriptions I get from my team leader for getting results out of a database. He doesn't think in sets for SQL.
That sounds incredibly brilliant- issue being accurate GPS locating, and actually finding out what rules are there.

I really wish there was some sort of public works API where you could pull sign data, traffic lights data, etc. Seems like there could be some very interesting applications developed from that.
I wonder if they could at least bring it to the east side, where their Kirkland office and Microsoft in general is located. I bet there are lots of high tech workers who would be more than happy to dump Comcast for Google Fiber over there.
Not to mention that you're potentially putting a very crucial part of your company infrastructure in to the hands of another company whose interests are probably not aligned with yours.

What happens to your startup if (though unlikely) in six months time Twitter decides to start charging for authentication or different levels of service?

Something to consider.
The Penny Arcade community isn't made up of douchebags.

Explanatory enough?
Hold on there. We added RPX (wraps Google, FB, Twitter, etc, etc) signup/login in addition to our username/password and the response has been...unexpected. We still have well over 50% of people sign up with username/password instead of RPX. I had expected a huge shift, but it didn't happen.

Sure, maybe some of those would have used RPX if that were the only thing we had, but apparently they still prefer a username.

Going 100% with the 3rd party logins is a tricky route. It's impossible to know how many potential signups you're losing.
Some years ago I watched a fascinating documentary on Jean Giraud (Moebius), one of the visionaries mentioned here that Jodorowsky gathered under his banner for a time. Before watching this film, I had no real idea how all these guys who were involved in or inspired some of my favourite science fiction had come together. The doco mentions how the original screenplay by Dan O'Bannon for Alien was what he did after the collapse of Jodorowsky's Dune project and that much of the team that had assembled for Jodorowsky's Dune (Giger, O'Bannon, Giraud) went on to work on Alien.

I highly recommend this doco if you are interested in the topic of this post and am pleased to find that it can be viewed here:

http://www.cgexplorer.com/2009/05/05/moebius-redux-video/
Sea-steading might be the solution to the problem.

Of course, it might be a pipe dream, but it's the only concrete effort that I am seeing around here.
Actually, I'd say "Torture? What? Don't torture anyone! Even Reagan! Damn!"

Then I'd quite rightly get thrown out of the thought experiment for involving the Golden Rule without a licence.
What's politically incorrect about his solution?
I use RPX only on my site, and the first time someone signs in they can choose a username other than the one which was forwarded by the AuthN provider. So, using RPX does not preclude you from offering custom usernames to your users.
Agreed, but for one thing. He IS NOT an asshole, not in real life. He's actually super-nice. Online he has the asshole persona, but that's it.