jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Agree with the sentiment in those bug report threads.

The one that grinds my gears is that when you select the URL bar in Chrome it shifts the whole thing to the right, so if you want to edit text you have to reposition the cursor, you can’t just click, pause, then click again.
For stocks Bbg is overkill. A stock investor basically needs latest PR, SEC and earnings release info for his watchlist of stocks, which can be done using Feedly and Seeking Alpha. Alerts connected to the watchlists ("high volume on stock at new high in this watchlist") would be useful but I haven't found anything with that. Finviz is good for charts, although it doesn't have log charts (at least in the free version). That's basically it. Yahoo Finance was brilliant while it lasted.
Related to the poster's question. ... A former coworker had a father who packaged nuts to TJ specifications. He described Trader Joes as a generic food store with better packaging.
I heard that the Drake Well Museum in Pennsylvania operates a replica of a similar system, if you're looking to see one in action:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Well_Museum
> For #1 you can just use a closure.

I don't think that will work. See the discussion about rebinding in the post or elsewhere in the thread.
Thanks, that's cool. I'll post it on our team group.
There's a thread in Quora listing a fair chunk of NYC startups that are currently hiring, and it grows almost daily: http://www.quora.com/Which-startups-in-NY-are-hiring
`Oh, did I mentioned I'm a fanatic gamer as well?`

Shouldn't that be "Oh, did I mention I'm a fanatic gamer as well?"

Good Luck.
It is possibly confirmation bias. But it is one I embrace: it lets me continue to dream, take risks and help people out. A little self-delusion is a small price to pay for all that.

And, yes, I am aware that I am very lucky.
Salting and choice of hashing algorithm are orthogonal. If it takes X amount of time to brute force a password of strength Y and you do salt, then an attacker can crack N passwords of strength Y in time NX. If you don't salt, then an attacker can crack all* passwords of strength Y in time N, which is a huge difference.
But wasn't Java originally targeted at embedded devices, like settop boxes, and NOT enterprise apps?

And C++ was originally written to help Bjarne, not for a user base. It was accidental that "C with Classes" caught on at all.
What do you wanna do? Any of this interest you? - http://www.clearspring.com/about/careers

If so, e-mail me - justin@clearspring.com
Interesting stuff. The article references a PDF document made by Pingdom about uptime of a few social networking sites in 2008. It would be interesting to see how these numbers were in 2009, if they made a similar one.

I for one, am pretty impressed with Facebook's uptime. I've thought about that before. Facebook is by far the largest social network and seems to have the most users. Also, Facebook is a bit more complicated application than (for instance) Twitter.

I hate to compare Twitter and Facebook, since they're not really competing for the same market, but none the less, this is how I see it from a technical standpoint: Twitter has less users, simpler structure, a lot of downtime. Facebook has more users, is more complicated and has great uptime...
That article is from 2004, is this a new site, or something that was just released?
This gives me yet another good reason to keep BECU[1] as my only bank for any non-trivial amount of money...
it can be a pain if I need an ATM, but I can at least trust that they will generally be on my side.

[1] https://becu.org
Good human factors engineering should make human inattention or negligence result in a safe(r) outcome. Clearly these systems are not designed this way and require careful attention to a variety of metrics (if the OpEd is to be believed) in order to proceed in a safe manner.

Given that this is the industry standard, it is morally reprehensible, if not criminal, that more care was not paid to the red flags indicated in the oped, or the clear signs that something was going horribly horribly wrong in their piping operation. Lives were at stake, both of the workers and of the wildlife and aquaculture in the Gulf.
This site seems rather non-political, not sure why it needs to be framed as such
Half the stuff in here is already possible in X11. The rest make very little sense.

> - Timestamps. The way timestamps work in X11 is messy.

Well, yeah. Distributed timekeeping is messy. Clients can already retrieve the server's timestamp and keep a rough approximation of what's going on (I wrote a server time estimator for GNOME/mutter). Not sure how you'd fix it. Wayland replaced timestamps with serials.

> - Font path configuration.

Are you familiar with XSETTINGS? It was supported for many years in the toolkits, and got basically no traction.

> - Screen saver configuration. I would have the core protocol has only two things dealing with screen savers: the screen saver event, and the suppress screen saver flag in window attributes.

If you want to propose this as a specification, you're more than welcome to do so -- some sort of EWMH hint like _NET_WM_INHIBIT_SUSPEND or similar. Write up a spec and mail it to wm-spec-list. But you'll probably be told about to use the existing screensaver inhibit spec instead:

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/idle-inhibit-spec/lat...

> - Mouse cursor shapes

A client can already arbitrarily get and set the cursor image for a given cursor name with the XFixes extension, including setting RGBA32 cursor images.

> - Allow different screens to have their own keyboard, or to share.

XInput 2 supports multi-seat just fine.

> - The -retro option should be the default.

Not sure why this requires a whole new protocol version, just compile your X server with it on by default, or configure your display manager to set it.
This is a very good implementation of something I've seen more than a few times. Some of these features are amazing, but at a certain point I'm apt to just press F12. I wonder if there's a way to integrate this software with the dev tools.
waypipe works with single applications just fine. There are some rough edges but as far as I can tell it already works at least as well as remote X ever did.
Since it’s SOC there was a blog post for it that got posted here. Should be findable with some searching.
Why are all the best performing funds closed to new investment? Good strategies have limited capacity. The more capital you have, the dumber you have to be with it.

Otherwise we'd invest the whole economy in the Medallion Fund and go home.
Yeah... And they still do. I work in the api management field (vendors / software)

And I think it is more akin to have an aircraft carrier and the protection fleet of smaller ships..

You have your big api gateway with management, billing, governance (for B2b, b2c, b2b2c) and your service mesh.
Why exactly are we fighting gendered language? Don’t we want to know if the subject is male or female?
We heavily use programmatic SMS sending at work. There are two options how it could appear on the recipient's end: as a normal phone number, to which you can reply,etc. We had to purchase a dedicated number for this. The other option is to simply put whatever sender ID you want- we use company name.This way you can't reply to the message,so we mainly use it for marketing purposes. Nothing stops me from replacing <company_name> with <random_number_belonging_to_bank>
The 5-6 byte variants (and also 4 at the time) exist because of the need to round-trip UCS surrogate pairs through UTF-8, no? That's what I assume the "political reasons" are...
Of course a government body would never actually do this. Isn't it more likely a concerned citizen would?
Did they not see the user ids in the leak? Just do facebook.com/user_id and you got the person...
If your application doesn't rely on hardware details (such as GPU acceleration or networking) that bypasses well-defined OS APIs, it's actually a very good approach.
I've learned to avoid using fabric softener, but any time I'm exposed to it (in other people's houses), I get a frightening lung reaction; some wheezing initially, then my chest seizes up making me feel like I can barely breathe at all. I think it's a protective anxiety reaction to warn me to avoid it, rather than an actual dangerous allergic reaction, but there's something about it my body really doesn't like. I don't have any other allergies or asthma normally these days; I had dust/mite-related asthma as a child but have mostly grown out of it. That fabric softener reaction is the only reaction of that kind I've noticed in about the past 15 years.
His WP talk page is a shit-show. I'm leaning towards 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carl_Hewitt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACarl_Hewitt%2FArchive_2

(to disclose, I am not qualified to actually judge the arguments)
> I suspect that we'll have "working homeless" in the decades to come.

In the UK several BBC documentaries have covered exactly this phenomenon. I don't doubt it is already more common in the US then you suspect.
There are three answers to this:

- Do you really want to be using important models in such an error-prone and difficult to test environment as Excel? There's a whole Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (http://www.eusprig.org/horror-stories.htm) that collects tales of billion-dollar errors that are attributable to (poor use of) Excel.

- A simple sensitivity analysis such as a tornado plot (while clearly much better than the common practice of reporting nothing on sensitivity of uncertain model inputs) is a local approach: it's telling you which variables are important around one specific point in the input space (generally the median for each input). A global sensitivity analysis method such as implemented here gives you information on the entire input space (which can be quite different if your input model has non-linear features).

- A tornado plot corresponds to a "one-at-a-time" sensitivity analysis (modifying each input variable individually), whereas a global method varies all inputs simultaneously and can reveal potential interactions between inputs, potentially very important if your model is non-linear.

Some background material on these points from a course that I run: https://risk-engineering.org/sensitivity-analysis/
>there is no reason to preserve those beyond a couple of weeks or months

I find preserving TODOs to be an important part of yearly evaluation of work. I can quickly go over my notes for a year and see all of the items that I did over the year. If I didn't have a rolling todo list, I'd have to maintain a separate list of accomplishments, which is actually the TODO list.
1% it is much higher than you realize. 30% on the low enn and upto 85% on the highend.
Seems to miss Z-Axis Conductive Tape, which sounds pretty cool
In this case not even. In this case the police indicated that surveilling the subject would help them find the dealer, but they did not indicate that they suspected the subject of being the dealer or even knowing the dealer. Or at least that was my takeaway from one reading, and I'm not going back for a second. Even if I failed at reading comprehension and recall, the important thing is not what happened in this case, but what happens generally, and I bet judges and magistrates routinely issue these warrants with weak or no probable cause.
Alto had a graphical file manager way before Apple, because of course it did.
Which reputable vendors would you recommend that have a full PaaS offering for ASP.NET and have a significant presence in Australia?

As far as I know Azure's App Service has no direct competition other than AWS and GCP.
I'm sure you're aware -- but I was very surprised to find out -- that the European CE certification mark was _quite_ so similar to the younger China Export Mark: https://www.ybw.com/vhf-marine-radio-guide/warning-dont-get-...
You can only pin your own certificate, not someone else’s. In this case you probably don’t even need SSL proxying to pin down the culprit, as I dare say not many apps connect to wikimedia on startup. You do need SSL proxying to be sure though.
You can also look for comparable quality masks by name. For example Korean airqueen is still available relatively cheap and they're amazing quality.
I had the most wonderful déjà vu the other day. I needed to do some serious-ish network programming for the first time in 20 years. I googled around a bit for a refresher. What do I find? Beej's guide – the same Beej's guide that was my first introduction to the topic 20 years prior!

It was wonderfully poetic to me that the same document that taught me how to make a wildly dangerous IRC bot in my teenage room for the lulz also re-taught me the stuff I needed to deliver a low-latency ML offloading demo at my serious(-ish) job 20 years later. Gave me a real warm fuzzy feeling :-)

PS:

HN disucssion anno 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9445692

Anno 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13983212
But is transactions the right metric? Maybe we should compare it by total value, or smth.

For example a national gold reserve does even fewer transactions, but it has power, security, etc. National bank doesn't do many transactions.

Or lets compare it to something useless, how muxh power is used by casinos.

Or better yet: all unused idle devices in the US use more power than bircoin does.
FWIW, the link posted here is just to the Haskell part. This is the fully-inlined NixOps file: https://github.com/Gabriel439/simple-twitter/blob/master/sim... (which is no less impressive -- fewer than 500 lines in a single file to specify a full web app!)
>And 1) I don’t understand. Feedly was one of the first ones I tried, and none of the settings I tried got me close to a headline-only view that I used in GReader.

I am pretty sure that I tried Feedly in the post-"Oh no, Google Reader is going away!" panic everyone else using the service was in at the time, and like you I could not replicate the feel. The Old Reader was the closest alternative I found among the several I tried, but soon afterwards Inoreader appeared with a very, very, very close-to-Google Reader feel, and I've been extremely happy on it ever since. (If only Inoreader would correctly open the comment link and not the original article in the HN RSS feed.)
Are you talking about DNS over https?
> Sometimes you have to sacrifice fancy features though.

Often times I see this as a bonus these days. My refrigerator does not need to be "smart" for example.
Thanks for that. Having got past the setup and configuration issues, have you experienced any problems with the packages that are available? What's the ecosystem look like for F# on linux?
Meh, I think he just didn't explain what a "scheme" is very well. Compare it the NY Times piece. From that, I immediately understand that it is an elegant generalization of solutions to polynomial equations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/science/the-lives-of-alexa...

Compare it to:

''The proper foundations of the enlarged view of algebraic geometry were, however, unclear and this is how Grothendieck made his first, hugely significant, innovation: he invented a class of geometric structures generalizing varieties that he called schemes. In simplest terms, he proposed attaching to any commutative ring (any set of things for which addition, subtraction and a commutative multiplication are defined, like the set of integers, or the set of polynomials in variables x,y,z with complex number coefficients) a geometric object, called the Spec of the ring (short for spectrum) or an affine scheme, and patching or gluing together these objects to form the scheme. The ring is to be thought of as the set of functions on its affine scheme.''

Sorry, this writing is just awkward. I can see why the editors of Nature rejected it.

I think the audience of Hacker News is closer to mathematics than the audience of nature (programming being more closely related to math than biology). I doubt that anyone in this thread unfamiliar with schemes was able to get much useful from Mumford's obituary. I don't even see many comments on the exposition.
I'm in. Been looking for an excuse to use my budding perl-fu.
That sent me to the link to look and I was slapped down by the price. It says it was to be part of a trilogy. I see other books by him too, but did they conclude the trilogy or did he die before finishing?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of SASS and Compass and think variables have been implemented well. But retroactively adding functions feels ad-hoc, even if great care was taken when adding the feature. I feel that designers might be more likely to write Ruby methods than these style functions (though of course I don't have data to back that up).
Let’s look at this from the practical point of view. Even if these numbers are valid, would they change the way you start or run your business? No! The reason is that statistics is about the average and there is nothing average about you or your business. You make your decisions based on the intimate knowledge of your own situation, goals, etc. I guess VCs have to use statistics (even bad one) because they get thousands of applications…
This is quite common, years ago I was working as a security consultant to a police department and this was before EFF made it public - http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/ they were actually arresting people based on tracking printer serials in money counterfeiting cases.
I have, and you're right it doesn't seem to help. But funnily enough, I also found with so many people watching over my shoulders that I was forced to think cleanly and logically about the process I was going through to diagnose the faults and bring the systems back online. Since I was explaining to a group of shoulder-surfing engineers and managers each step of the process, I managed to get a clarity which I may not have had if left to my own devices. It's like the "Inflatable Engineer" scenario, except I had several real ones available instead :-)
Taken from http://wiki.envato.com/buying/licenses-buying/themeforest-re...

Regular License Examples - The Regular License could be used for any of the following:
Single website (commercial, personal, or non-profit).
Single website for a client (commercial, personal, or non-profit).
Single intranet site project.

Extended License Examples - The Extended License could be used for any of the following:
Template for a web service such as WPMU.
Part of a software package for sale.

To me that reads like in this case, the Regular license would be fine. The extended license seems more about situations where your customers will be creating their own unique and publicly accessible content using the template (You start up a blogging service www.omgblogs.com and someone could create their blog at mahblog.omgblogs.com then pick from a template you got from ThemeForest)
No, £550-£750 is probably the norm, things in the £750-£1000 range do come up but generally in combination with some sector speciality or if a company is really desperate (not normally a good sign).
Actually, the real reason was that Doom ran in "Mode X", where it was actually faster to rasterize vertical strips rather than horizontal ones. This worked out especially well in Wolf3D and Doom, since perspective correction in the vertical direction was never needed.
I think Quora's err page summed it up best - "We wouldn't be where. we are today without Amazon". There are lots of discussions about variable EBS performance from larger consumers around the web, i've yet hear smaller players get vocal about it (or vote with their wallets). So until you become a large consumer it's probably not worth being too concerned about it.
guys, http://www.worldsalaries.org/computerprogrammer.shtml

US has the highest income in the world for programmers. The only european country close to US is UK, everything else is at least 50% less.
As a developer who knows nothing of devops....

Given Pupper, Chef and CFEngine; why would I choose one over the others?
"The EU asserts it can penalize a US based company" ...

Well, of course it can, if the company violates EU law inside the EU. Do you think US law trumps [sic] national law globally? If a US company doesn't want to comply with GDPR, it is free to cease trading in the EU, or cough-up the fines.

Extraterritoriality is an old US habit.
Gentrification is often seen as bad but it's merely a matter how it's managed. Displacement is not a problem if you build the newcomers enough housing. They are willing to pay for expensive high rises and live there. Be happy that they don't actually want your house. But for the NIMBY that's the worst outcome. He doesn't want his neighbor to sell the plot because he wants to sell his own plot for profit. The lack of housing eventually results in displacement.

The opposite of gentrification is far worse. Stagnating communities feel the same effect. The local economy is transforming. Local culture is getting lost. Except all of it happens for no one's benefit.

People get the wrong impression and start "fighting" gentrification and then introduce real problems through misguided policy.
This is the new MS Word resume template.
This post has gotten more traction: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002742
That is exactly what they're doing:

"As a proactive security measure, we've reached out to users potentially affected by the gawker breach to change their password."

http://twitter.com/#!/LinkedIn/status/14507486753062913
On the other hand, if you were to think of the kind of people in each country who wouldn't have any friends at all in the other country, wouldn't they probably live around there?
Does anyone have any more specific information on whether they just called crypt(key,salt) or actually used a larger salt with a call to encrypt()? The crypt() function only takes a 12 bit salt which is marginally helpful against rainbow tables.
All that dark may be attributed to numerous things as alluded to already: lack of development, lack of human settlement, poverty, simply not on fb

The border region between the Canadian prairie provinces and the American plains may be because the cities aren't smack against the border as in BC/WASH. or Ontario/NY etc.

The few dots in NK could be those few expats or SK/foreign tourists, or NK operatives logging in. NK does have a twitter account.

Anyway, the map is stunning and i think its a great visual of the inequalities, especially between Africa and the global North. It might also highlight the irrelevance of fb in regions where community (not the same as digitized "communication") is more necessary, strong and relevant to the life and survival mechanisms therein than costly technologies elsewhere.
Loyola Chicago because I didn't want to apply to college and my parents chose it.
I lack to see a reason as to why you posted this.
At the risk of exposing myself, I’ve had to jump in and make changes to Sigma on several occasions. It was painful and I am not convinced having it in Haskell did anyone a favor.
by looking at it?
Remote work was already a very long-term trend before COVID. COVID pumped steroids everywhere on that trend, thus making Zoom and others see tremendous growth. I suspect the growth will "slow" relative to the first 6 months of, say, March-September 2020, but as remote continues its long-term trend, including the after-effects of COVID's steroidal injection, the growth rate will probably wane but will still be strong cumulative growth regardless.
The repl still uses single quotes.
He was using python 2.7 so he would have lost the type safety after he fetched the data anyway
That does seem very, uhh, minimalistic, if that's supposed to be the reference documentation. Just one very short sentence per method. Most arguments are unexplained. No examples that I could find.
.... If George Costanza wrote an O'Reilly book, where he requests a specific animal for some sitcom reason, but instead his book gets something silly or embarrassing.