jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's a Jay-Z line.

I posted the 99 Prolog Problems link about a year ago and got no response whatsoever, but I'm guessing that the (somewhat weak, IMHO) chapter on Prolog in _Seven Languages in Seven Weeks_ has created a bit more interest.
In the comments he says that the restrictions were not THE problem, THE problem was the instability. List of restrictions is kind of reminder of what he had to cope with, and wasted money on, until it turned out that GAE doesn't work properly.
I've had power transfer switches fail more than once. Just because you have a redundancy available doesn't mean you are reducing failure points in the system.
Yes! Absolutely! Just take the part in the this.$get on line 20 and move it into it's own object and then you won't need Angular anymore.

Why it's a provider for Angular is simply because we're using Angular for work and my primary goal is to use this for our application while doing synchronizations and fetching external resources.
Perhaps that is vague, but to me that is clearly a statement about a distinct lack of justice. He obviously isn't saying that the UMCJ doesn't exist or that Manning does not fall under it; that would just be silly.

In an immoral legal system, justice is fleeting. He is accusing them of, not 'not existing', nor being incorrect, but rather of rendering a verdict that deserves no respect.

That's how I read it anyway.

Edit: His (much later) comment here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6251625) indicates to me that he understands this situation just fine. "I'm not disputing that Manning broke the laws of the military.... ...I don't see how you can defend the laws and regulations of an organization...."
I agree with this. The proper function of a military court is to examine compliance with military law, not to pass judgement on ethics outside of that law.

The function of civil authority, say a moral President, something I hope to live to see, would be to pardon Manning, overruling the military justice sentence in the context of a greater good.

Clearly, this will not happen. Obama will simply wash his hands - not explicitly, though. The media will never even ask the question.
Define awareness. Once you define awareness.... Problem solved!
shrug They address different problems. Reactive systems are great but they aren't an overall architectural approach. You have to come up with that yourself.

Flux is an architecture.

I used BaconJS and I found that my overall page event and data flow ended up being reactive spaghetti. Architecture is not my strong suit. One of the great things about flux is having extremely strong conventions about where everything goes:

- All interactions are through actions.

- All state is in stores.

- No mutable state in the actual UI.

- etc.

What's your overall dataflow architecture look like using RxJS or BaconJS?
Barely enough to cover the medication required to keep your blood pressure at a healthy level. Luckily when you fall over face down in a balmy server room the people you need to save you are close by.
His "stainless" series, particularly this shot of the 6 train in NYC, is incredible: http://www.opiomgallery.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/adam_magy...

I keep checking for a place to buy prints online but they don't seem to be available.
Was anybody else slightly disturbed by the Raytheon product placement? http://i.imgur.com/ekogOBL.png
I think it’s interesting that you’d blame this family for the horrors of colonialism. They haven’t had a say in British policy for around 2 centuries. Although the monarch meets the Prime Minister every week, they cannot tell the PM what to do, unless it affects the royal family personally. The PM listens to what they have to say but charts their own course.

If you’re looking for someone to blame, Churchill deserves some. Many Prime Ministers before him as well.

But I don’t think Philip deserves any. You call them a symbol, that’s all they are. They’re someone to point at and say “yeah that’s our country”, so no single politician can claim that mantle. As an Indian you must be aware how easy it is for a politician to claim they’re the personification of the nation (“India is Indira and Indira is India”). That cannot happen in the UK because the PM is merely a temporary caretaker appointed by the monarch. The symbolism matters.

Source: The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot (1867)
Is it just me, or does $200k seem far too low for this? I understand that the reward was paid by the event, not Zoom... but it seems to me that Zoom should “pony up” some additional funds for this research.
In reality though, for a given company, cost of living adjustments don't really compensate for the difference in actual cost for most people. If you're earning market rate in Tulsa and get a 20% bump in your base pay for moving to the Bay Area, you're almost certainly not coming out ahead.
Murray is not merely a racist. He's a white supremacist eugenicist. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26126606

edit: I'm "posting too fast" so responding here: UBI isn't inherently bad but Murray's version is. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26127207
It’s a good point, but it’s people that die, not cars. Pedestrians, scooter drivers and bus passengers are going to make up a portion of the deaths too.
The hit piece is dramatic, but does it matter? 10 years ago I used to read the weekend NYTimes as a ritual, now I don't know anyone who bothers and would even be a bit suspicious of someone who did because their social and professional lives have become a game of musical chairs of denunciations.

I don't think defending interesting writing on controversial topics needs a defense, it just needs privacy. His conclusion is sufficient. "But something about the internet is making people into infantile conformists with no taste or appreciation for the life of the mind and frankly I’m sick of it."
Time corrected vertlet integration[1] is really approachable and I'd strongly recommend trying it out.

[1]: https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/math-and-physic... Edit: http://archive.gamedev.net/archive/reference/articles/articl...
This is a pretty common joke about all game development, not just Rust.
Which side of the road do they drive on in Egypt? The shaded side.
> I thought the New York Times was a decent newspaper until their "French police shoot and kill man after a fatal knife attack on the street" title, that replaced later by a not so much better "Man Beheads Teacher on the Street in France and Is Killed by Police".

That was so bizarre. As a minority, I am afraid to openly discuss about the racism I face. I don't want to participate in oppression olympics or let other people use my suffering as their own political agenda. I want to be treated as a human being. I want neither discrimination nor preferential treatment. I want my work to speak for myself, not my skin color. It just saddens me the amount of identity politics out there and lack of any nuanced discussion.
It'd be a start if people just started trying to do any negotiation.

Over 25 years in tech, I've hired many dozen developers. Only maybe 3-4 of the candidates I've given offers to in that time have tried negotiating.

I've never given an offer where there wouldn't be at least some room for us to negotiate.

Meanwhile I always negotiate when I receive offers, and have usually ended up with substantial increases over the initial offer.
So you want the government to force private companies to continue doing business with someone they no longer wish to provide services to?

We aren't talking protected class here, we're talking private companies picking and choosing who to do business with via non-discriminatory means.

That's called a free market.

Will they be restored if they're proven innocent? Maybe. Maybe not. Again, that's called a free market.
Nobody is “innocent until proven guilty”. You are either, as a matter of fact, innocent or guilty. Our constitution prohibits the government from depriving you of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. But Twitch, or I, or you, can make up our own minds about your innocence or guilt, trial or no trial, and proceed according to our rights and inclinations. That right, the freedom of association, is as important as the right to be free of penalty from the government absent due process.
Ask Blind, but the common places tend to be Microsoft, big older tech companies (Cisco), and if you're ok with low TC defense/aerospace. I worked at defense and those guys would spend hours surfing the web or talking about politics at their cubes. Other is just tech at non-tech companies like retail, utilities (gas and electricity) that still have a lot of data they are coming to grips with.
Aren't they required to disclose this, at least to California residents, under California's data breach disclosure laws? Or was it not the type of PII covered under the law?
And very few people, relatively, were online so you could reach only a small number of people. You can probably still reach just as many people online in unmoderated channels as you could back then.
> The problem is more or less solved - see Nix.

Sorry, but I'm really not sure what you mean by "solved".

Nix is yet another (language agnostic) package manager with certain tradeoffs. But, if there is not an available Nix package for a specific version of a library I need to use - I'm out of luck.

Nix is not a build tool designed to work with arbitrary or latest development versions of libraries, for example. And, it will never solve that problem even _if_ it is technically capable of doing so - because there is no force in the world that would get all projects in all languages to use it.
You are forgetting that for each "land restricted" company that had 0% 99th percentile hires locally available there was x companies having more % somewhere else for it to eventually be an distribution.

There is no way you can filter out top 1/100 candidates anyway.
Joinable thread and non-joinable one are very different in usage. It is rather appropriate to use a different class.
chacha8 (chacha20 but with fewer rounds) seeded with either a deterministic seed or from /dev/urandom (depending on what you need) is a perfectly fine PRNG, and should run at 4 GB/sec on a single core, which is plenty.

Only 7 rounds of chacha are cryptographically broken, so chacha20 has excessive security margin. Using 8 rounds of that everywhere you use random today (and not a CSPRING) should be a no-brainer, I guess.

On hardware with AESNI (like all x86 for the last 10 years), a reduced round AES-CTR should be very fast and also string enough for the cases when you don't need a CSPRING. Full AES-128 outputs 4.7GB/sec on my laptop, recent chips have better AES throughput.
I have a Boyue Likebook Ares - it cost £190. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/11/gadget-review-boyue-likeboo...

It has an 8inch screen - about the same size as the iPad mini. It runs Android 8 but, obviously, some apps work better than others. It came with several nibs for its pencil.

They have an 10 inch version for around £230. See https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/boyue-p10-is...

So, there are some cheapish, largeish, eInk devices out there.

I was told (and I have no way to back it up) that the yields on eInk are fairly low. They make a couple of square metres of screen, and then have to cut it to size. Because of defects in the process, they can have a lot of wastage. So the larger sizes are disproportionally more expensive.
Of course my code has no bugs in it!
It is also inherently insecure and offers no encryption by default, and not at all in group chats, which to me is a red flag.
Same I think the Matrix community is amazing and very welcoming. Element is really trying to build a community behind Matrix and I think they doing it with a great success. They regularly invite community members to talk in video interview (This Week in Matrix). Alternative clients are actively encouraged and promoted and small business build around the Matrix ecosystem too.

Shameless plug to the Matrix client, I'm contributing too: https://invent.kde.org/network/neochat
Interesting story. I've been on the testing site of medical hardware many many moons ago. It's quite amazing what you can and must test. For instance: We had to prove that if our equipment broke by falling damage that the potential debris flying off could not harm the patient.

I always liked the testing philosophy institutes like for instance Underwriter Laboratories had: Your product will fail. This is stated as fact and is not debatable. What kind of fail safes and protection have you made so that when it fails (and it will) it cannot not harm the patient?
One has to invest money and time to set
up a payment gateway, and then one has
the responsibility to respond to customers
and maintain the app.

Setting up a paypal account takes minutes and will be enough in such an early stage.
oh yes, there is more than enough to fuel anti-immigrant sentiment in finns. I'm sorry, but I live nearby and know those things.
Right, but when can you throw out your initial values? Because if this is going to be usable you have to free up memory sometime.
Go with Nomad then
Wow, that’s a blast from the past. I played on that MUD for a couple of years in the mid to late 90s. Never got too far, but had fun playing.
I'm also against income tax, though I'm not convinced VAT is the way to go. The main problem with an income tax is it discourages labor. There are other taxes which actually have good side effects.

First I think we should tax limited resources, especially with a land-value tax. Tariffs are also good because they encourage decentralization. Taxes on financial transactions will discourage high frequency trading. A wealth tax will discourage power centralization. Let's think about things we can do that both earn money and make society better.
Thank you! I am very excited to try this
Democrats focus on race because they think it’s the key to holding onto power. Black voters turned Georgia blue. They won’t stop until something changes that calculus.
The only time that programming seems like work are when I'm under an artificial deadline, or when I have to use something that is just irretrievably fucked-up (like this morning, an issue with SOAP and WSDL, which I loathe).

Even the artificial deadlines can be fun, though there is a definite cost to working an 80 hour week.

Most days are like playing, really. Sometimes you have to come into work and push a pencil, but hopefully those are rare.
I wouldn't want to be part of the team putting that cash in envelopes.
Interesting, what are those tricks?
I've been an Arch user for ~1 year (Gentoo before that), and "essential component" upgrades seem to take place just fine. For example, there was a recent shift from Python 2 to Python 3 as the primary Python interpreter, and there were no noticeable problems.
> First, why would anyone want $1000 in cash to take home instead of just direct depositing it?

Less paper trail if you plan to blow it on hookers and drugs?
No, you are missing the point. I have absolutely no problem with nudity. Really: I go to hot springs and cavort naked with random strangers all the time.

There is a much more profound philosophical issue here, and that is that the government should not have the freedom to conduct invasive searches with impunity. This is fundamentally engrained in the constitution, but as is its wont, technology has raced past our existing legal framework. We need to fundamentally re-examine the sort of society in which we wish to live in an age where almost any conceivable sort of search is made trivial.

Where does it end? I contend that, if we simply acquiesce to these scanners and allow them to be installed in every airport, that will be but the tip of the iceberg. You will wake up some day in the near future and find these installed in every courthouse, train station, bus terminal, Federal building in the land. From there it's but a short leap to see them popping up at retail establishments, sporting events, movie theaters, and every other facet of your day-to-day life. Just like that, a privacy which nobody even thought to care about--the ability to conceal things on your person--has vanished into thin air.

Where does it end? By your very logic, if the government had a machine that could read minds, you would be for it. Yet something tells me you would find that completely abhorrent.

Where does it end?
Considering the list of of intel CPU vulnerabilities, I’m actually quite happy to see someone threatening to eat their lunch. Hopefully it pushes intel out of complacency.
more expressive and powerful can also mean harder to wrap tour head around.
I bought RateMyStudentRental's SSL cert from Godaddy and it was a PITA to setup compared to if you get a trusted root certificate (that does not need to be chained).

After reading this thread [1] I bought LeadNuke's SSL cert from NameCheap (a rebranded RapidSSL certificate). Sure enough it was incredibly easy to setup, and is trusted on all the main browsers.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1318340
Atlanta is like a cannon, drawing in people from the eastern half of the US and spewing them out to the West Coast. (With a notable exception in southern CA.)

Seems like everyone is moving to Austin and no one is leaving.
Agreed, DH really is the most budget of budget providers, and their quality of service generally reflects that
Wasn't exactly overnight (5 months)... And it ended up being more than a million because he reserved some pixels and then auctioned them off on ebay. $1,037,100, according to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Homepage).
Seconded - their support and checkout process all suck hard. What's great about SSL's... they are all scams.. but you get to decide the level for which they screw you.
I know some people who worked on a 'porn detector' project at a University. Their main job was to tag the training and test sets by labelling breasts and other naughty bits. Fun job! ;)
There is still the process dictionary, but it's a bit unwieldy.

http://www.erlang.org/course/advanced.html#dict
My point was that GCC is not good at specific things that customers care about (and it is good at other things, but I'd argue these things are more niche, such as retargeting for custom embedded devices).

For example, code size, throughput, debugging, and optimization are all places that the Visual C++ compiler is superior than GCC. How many Windows games are written with GCC? How many top-tier Windows apps are written with GCC? If I'm writing a Windows C/C++ application, I'm going to either use Visual C++ or icc. I'll choose icc for code with lots of compute intensive loops or vectorization opportunity. VC is better when icache is an overriding concern.

Now that may not be what you do, but to say, "Who in their right mind writes programs for Windows?", I think says more about you than it does about the respective compilers.
a socially engineered email to exploit the idea of sheeple do not think, just follow with the parrots. at the cost of the innocent.
I believe it's possible to do this with the Kindle DRM books with the Kindle application.

I would not do it, since I don't want to financially help anyone who sells DRM. I would like to see a DRM-free world. That's not going to happen if I pay for it.
If not wanting my backyard covered with toxic effluent from the badly maintained evaporation ponds and failed well outflow dams makes me a NIMBY, then so be it.

If not wanting my rivers suffused with methane and other gases released by the fracking process makes me a NIMBY, then so be it. I prefer my river water still, not sparkling.

Fracking is universally a bad idea.
I wonder if it'd be possible to use a smaller wheel (maybe a sphere), and also raise the deck? Suspension?

I would try it, but just like with boosted boards, I think I would still prefer a normal skateboard. Because I can still kickflip a normal skateboard. :)

Hmm - other thoughts. What would make this really cool is if it goes really, really fast. Like balls to the wall speed. 12mph is definitely not fast enough.
So why isn't this a cost effective approach to the problem for airlines? You could even have a pool of them that you attach to airplanes that on overseas duty only to limit the costs.
Funny how that works. I saw somebody mention this city in a thread on Reddit yesterday. He talked about visiting somebody there and having to wait 1.5 hours because the one-way-tunnel changes "direction" every 2 hours...
Cracking would be considered a failure. You can still step on it, but it looks bad, so you don't want that to happen. This can happen from prolonged stress, sudden impact, or expansion/contraction from thermal cycling. The surface becoming slippery or uneven due to wear, resulting in a tripping hazard. Discoloration. Flaking/crumbling. Debris becoming embedded. Chemical reaction with air, spilled liquids, or cleaning substances resulting in toxic fumes.
I cannot even begin to express how great this looks. I hit that again and again and .. it's a papercut, but so damn annoying. Thank you. Very much appreciated.

(Now, is there an addon to fix the tablet UI back to 'simple'?)
Did they reward you in any way, or simply recognize your name on this list?
I use EasySMS for Android to do essentially this, but its compatible with any browser. I leave it open in a tab in my Firefox, and when I hear my SMS notification tone I go see who sent me a message and reply back etc. It is a nice piece of software as an alternative to this option.

I get a LOT of SMS messages, so this is a hugely useful application for me. I actually switched to Android just to get access to the EasySMS app--from Maemo/N900.
So we are starting this process right now and I can tell you that it is hard enough to hire a sales person who is really good at sales and fits with your company culture. Bringing in customers is not the same thing as bringing in investors. So hiring someone who can do both is going to be hard.
I once was doing a project euler challenge of some sort, and I had to find the nth term of some sequence. My code for generating the sequence was taking too long (order of hours), and I didn't feel like googling. So I downloaded the sequence from oeis and output the correct term.

Problem Solved!
It really is way faster now. I had uninstalled it a few weeks back because command+T would take around a second to be all ready, but now I reinstalled it and I love it.
The same way you're able to login to News.YC without sending your actual password via the intertubes.
Why would someone pay $1.99 for this app?
Nor is the term hacker(in the positive sense). In the negative sense it seems to be reserved for coding.
This post comes at a perfect time for me, as I'm currently documenting the undocumented API of Ubiquiti's Airview2[1] device, a cheap ($39, 5 years ago) 2.4GHz spectrum analyzer USB stick, which they've now stopped selling and abandoned in every way.

Just the other day I was pondering who to contact to determine whether my current method of figuring out how the undocumented API works (typing command guesses over the CDC-ACM serial interface in gtkterm) puts me at risk, but it doesn't look like it. I'm not dumping the firmware and don't have a copy of it, not decompiling the original software, there is no access control on the interface, no encryption, no handshake, no EULA on the hardware itself.

Seems that I'm in the clear from what I can tell.

I've gotten enough of the commands documented that I've been able to write a library based on what I've learned, and I'm hoping to publish my documentation and the code soon. It's been quite fun to figure out how it works so I and others can actually use these things in other software :)

[1] http://dl.ubnt.com/newsletters/0112.html
Aah, yes, the “you’re just lazy” argument. Never heard that one before. Never had a belt taken to my ass because my parents thought I was just being lazy.

Fuck that noise. Seriously. It’s somehow more ignorant than the “just cheer up if you’re depressed” hot take.