jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Well then, are divs semantically correct for layout? Absolutely not.

Adding a div adds no semantic meaning to the page. Adding a table tells you that the elements in the different columns and rows relate to one another, that the rows or columns duplicate data types that the td have relationships with one another as data.

Tables are semantically correct for arranging data that is related correctly when presented in a table; but this is not "layout" in terms of visual appearance. The semantics of the data table aren't necessarily related to the layout - imagine a table of <name,image,date> tuples that you arrange as floating polaroid imges using some javascript.

>How else do you express stacking elements vertically and horizontally?

If ordering is important for the meaning of the data then use lists (ol) if 2D ordered data is being presented then you have a table and using the table element is expected.

The web is not print media and was designed to convey information (to myriad different UA) and not to give rigid print-like presentation of that same information.
But isn't using a fan too long in an enclosed room dangerous?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
Site works for me in Firefox with uBlock Origin active and blocking Javascript and remote fonts, doesn't ask for access to anything.
What's the point of an unstable, volatile, frantically manipulated currency that is susceptible to social media pump and dump schemes (Elon + Doge)?

Currency and its exchange rate needs to be relatively stable for the world to put trust into it. Saying that BTC is stable, but the rest of the world's fiat currency is fluctuating makes no sense.

US dollar provides stability and security, I feel confident that a cappuccino will cost me $4. Crypto's volatility deters me from using it, simply put. There is no buffer that you would have with a Treasury. Converting from BTC to coffee makes BTC exchange rate go down.
I'm not a fan of discovery via phone number for privacy reasons, but if that's your thing quicksy.im is doing just that on Jabber/XMPP.
I’m getting ready to hop into some meetings, so here is the short version, I can elaborate more later today.

So he only measured cleaning results after the pre wash cycle and not after the full cycle. Obviously you would expect a short wash with soap to be better than a short wash without. And the results there were a lot closer than I would have expected.

He completely ignored final results while opining that dishwasher tabs aren’t effective without actually testing them side by side.
All of this shows how the supposed transparency of Bitcoin is useless. The blockchain does not really tell you anything.
Price goes up 500%. Nobody knows why.
People speculate it is because of Tether or some cabal of Chinese BTC mining tycoons or exchanges faking volume;, or WallSt playing their voodoo with billions worth of BTC.

What other asset has this situation where the reason for the movement of its price is so obfuscated?
Yes, and from this we can conclude that single-core processors are distributed systems too! It's counter-intuitive from an architectural (i.e. teleological) perspective, but it makes perfect sense when you approach it from a suitable level of analysis (intentionality).
$ for your favorite infra oss startup or volunteer

rhel ~forces you to do podman in rhel 8+. They make it hard enough to do a docker install that corp policies will reject docker (non-standard centos 7 repos etc), while allowing ibm's thing. Ex: Locks podman over docker for a lot of US gov where rhel 8 is preferred and with only standard repos, and anything else drowns in special approvals.

subtle and orthogonal to podman's technical innovations.. but as a lot of infra oss funding ultimately comes from what enterprise policies allow, this a significant anti-competitive adoption driver for podman by rhel/ibm.
Thanks for the link -though I'm baffled why NYT seems to think when I double click I want the page to change zoom levels rather than highlighting the word I'm interested in o_0

edit: oh, they just make it impossible to select text at all... nice.
IIRC the reference implementation is optimized for readability rather than speed, so I doubt this will happen.
Bruce Schneier has said several times that reinforced doors are one of the very few improvements when it comes to airplane security[1]. I think the deeper question would be, if your pilot is compromised, can you really do anything?

If the pilot of the EgyptAir Flight 990[2] could not keep his co-pilot from crashing the plane, what could a mob of random passengers realistically do? It seems to me like the DRM problem - you can't protect the pilot and keep them from hijacking the plane at the same time.

At least the doors will prevent any of the other random 150 passengers from taking the plane. That does seem to me like an improvement.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2005/12/airline_sec...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990
The flight attendant also wedges the door open (and blocks entry/exit with a cart during this time. Yes, they could incapacitate, but it would take time to do this, get the door closed, and dead bolted. One would hope that the commotion would bring help before all of that could be accomplished.
Was electricity reliability a problem for working in Gaza? Just curious.
I’m starting to feel this is a positive and all countries should do this.

I know China gets a lot of flack for doing the same thing but maybe they are right? Better to have a local company do well and contribute to the local economy than to send profits overseas and be subject to global corps.
I feel like I just watched another walter jr. parody/meme. I don't know, maybe because of toaster <-> breakfast wiring on my subconscious level.
This is one of those places where I've been really conflicted for as long as I've been back with programming.

Right now, I'm going with the path that not only makes more money(and thusly induces less stress), but also has a higher probability of making people's lives better, through the kinds of things I want to put my time and effort into being focused around enabling people to create their own jobs.

Yet I know extremely well what I want to do, what makes me happy. It will make some others happy, but a significantly smaller number. It certainly won't change lives for the better. But doing it would make it so the things I think about in the margins of my mind, all day and night, for as long as I can remember, are what I spend my life working on.

In essence: I can't tell if it's a better idea to do what makes me happy, or what makes others' lives better.
These artificial limitations do not exist in the real world. Let a computer do the hard stuff so that you have time to enjoy your 4.5 million dollar condo!
It looks like make(chan int, 2) creates a channel with a maximum depth of two elements. I was curious how channels work, so I looked up the relevant part of the spec (http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Channel_types). In case anyone else was wondering, specifying the length of a channel allows it to be written and read asynchronously until the channel is full. A zero-length channel will block until both a sender and receiver access the channel.
Recently when I choose not to go through the digital strip search they spent a good 20 minutes going through my stuff, asking me questions and getting a pat down.
One I really liked is _C Programming: A Modern Approach_ by K.N. King.
Cool, getting errors with it ATM but am definitely checking this out. Sounds promising.
But Amazon is only something like 10% of all online sales, isn't it?
The major difference between this situation and any efforts of Gandhi or the civil rights movement is one of leadership.

An entire country would (and did) follow Gandhi. I don't think there is a single person in the US whom everyone would follow for a day. Especially if it meant shutting down all business travel during that day.
Babies born in March have the highest autism rate, and black children have higher rates than whites, due to (if the theory is true) vitamin D production being lower in blacks due to high melanin content in the skin. There are several other data points in the study -- it's a good read, albeit quite technical. I'm still pre-med, so much of it is above my head.
No. I don't really play poker. I was responsible for the software. My poker guy didn't step up to do the strategy. I thought about learning poker seriously myself, but eventually decided getting a PhD in math was a better use of time, so I went that route.
I often catch myself making typos while not able to see what I'm typing (really really laggy ssh sessions). If it's this guy's job to sit there and type all day, I imagine he'd get pretty good at doing that.
There isn't much of a point to this because it doesn't change the fundamental type of data that is being piped around. You're still dealing with strings or lists of strings. The advantage of something like PowerShell, an OS built on Common Lisp, or SmallTalk is that objects can be passed around rather than just strings.
Cool. PG has been suggesting a startup for startups for a while now.

See http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html , point number 30.
Interesting to note that his strategy for musicians to differentiate themselves from the Million-man race to the bottom in music is so close to the strategy you need to differentiate yourself from the Million-rentacoder race to the bottom in software consulting:

Differentiate yourself by being better, not by being cheaper or willing to bend over further than the next guy.

There's always a place in any market for really good stuff at a premium price. Slot yourself firmly in to that position, and you have a lot better shot.
"Select" "Choose" "Pick" there are lots.
Rspec doesn't really need to be in the default stack; switching to it takes what; a minute? That's not a benchmarked timestamp, but I'm just saying... :-)
How do I get into these HN meetups.
I've had exactly this before. Just ignore them, it's not worth the hassle.
I am also getting into trading, and I've been frequenting fool.com — they have great beginner/novice resources.
I agree. Deploy our Keanu Reeves immediately!
It's an interesting summation of your perspective, thanks. You depict Obama as one molecule in a sort of political Brownian motion, with me & the Times acting as a cherry-picking Maxwell's Demon.

A hard thesis to disprove, and I'll let it go from here. But I'll note that in contrast to the examples in your list (with the possible issue of no-bid contracting, I don't know about this), this tritium issue was local, raised by Obama's constituents. Also, "Exelon’s support for Mr. Obama far exceed[ed] its support for any other presidential candidate."
Would it be illegal under US law?
Well, no he isn't. He is trying to extrapolate information from a few different data sources, the figure of $1 billion from Apple, and the average price of a sellable app.

From that, and some seasonal data, he is trying to calculate how much has been made over time. While he is probably not entirely accurate, what he has done makes perfect sense, and he is not waving his hands in the air to try to make up results according to an agenda.
Number 2 is an interesting point, thank you!
There's no reason you couldn't compare costs before an emergency occurs. Not that you'd know off the top of your head which hospital is cheapest for any given procedure when you need it, but you could get a good general idea.
LivingSocial? Groupon? Shopify?
No, this issue neither falls on the "left" or "right"; it is better framed as the tension between central authority vs personal liberty. Both progressives on the left and conservatives on the right ask the government to regulate and control different aspects of society.َ†

George Washington was widely praised for disbanding the Continental Army after dispelling the British, and also declined a third term as President despite unflagging adoration from the public.

Times have changed, and some of this idealism has perhaps been lost to pragmatism over the years, but this is the golden legacy that the General and the other officers of the Executive are willfully squandering in the pursuit of a few terrorists.

† Hence the old joke that progressives want the government in their business but out of their bedroom, and conservatives want government out of their business, but in their bedroom.
Exactly. TO quote the dude, You're not wrong, you're just an asshole
I know they're not using JRuby
> 15% of US households suffered from food insecurity

...partly because of healthcare costs, which is the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US. You're making our point.
My, my, 2 mistakes on a silly uniform distribution! You must atone for this sin. Explain what the volume would be if the side came from a normal distribution over [1,5] (ie. mean 3, sigma 2/3) Otherwise I will personally call the MAA director on my speed dial & haul your ass back to stat101 :)

But seriously, you write rather well on Quora & I'm sure the crowd would want to know what happens to the volume were you to choose a normal distribution instead of a uniform, so I hope you respond.
Sometimes it's nice to take a retrospective and think about how awesome things really are

But are you sure it isn't nicer to just complain? It's certainly easier! ;)
That's not the move they made; they moved to Scala. Their original Rails app couldn't scale. They now use Rails on the front end, but the real data isn't Rails. This has been written about extensively:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-tw...

http://highscalability.com/scaling-twitter-making-twitter-10...
Isn't the aerial photography provided by Pictometry and not by Microsoft themselves?
Word doesn't produce a document that looks exactly like the document you created unless only open and view that document on the same version of word you created it on. Everyone, even HR/business types, inherently know this from their years of dealing with Word.

In short, if your format messes up a little bit no one cares.
Good lord, is the point of this kind of thing to see how much money you can move from your food budget into your health care budget?

Of all the places to save money, food is the absolute last on my list.
Does Slackware have init.d yet?
I've got TWC (Milwaukee area) and only very rarely have I had a movie hiccup on Netflix. If I do, refreshing the page usually fixes it.
Apologies, server issues, working on it.
Unfortunately that is not bit.ly uploading any data. It is the effort of a few people (me included) that scrapes bit.ly and uploads it to archive.org.

Despite claiming otherwise, bit.ly hasn't uploaded a single short url to 301Works yet.
thats great! signed up as soon as i looked at one of the previous newsletters.
I searched for the original imgur posting before clicking this post because I remembered the wording being so similar.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t...

> My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn't suck. What do you think?

And their comment explaining it

> I got fed up with all the other image hosts out there so I made my own. It doesn't force you to compress your images, and it has neat things like crop, resize, rotate, and compression from 10-100. It's my gift to you. Let's not see anymore imageshack/photobucket around here ;)

Seems like different goals though. imgur chose ease of use over business sustainability and over the years had to add on more and more ways to make an income.
Most of the corporate jobs on top of Excel/Word can be automated away, I suppose. Not everything, obviously, but most.
>is this really a play on words?

Yes.

There is a tool that your grandmother probably used a lot called a seam ripper. You stick the end of it into a seam and pull down and it cuts all the threads that make the seam.

It's a clever play on words, in my opinion.
This is the Irrevocability Myth from "Capability Myths Demolished" [0], a classic article explaining why JWT-style fusion of authentication and authorization is not unsafe.

[0] http://srl.cs.jhu.edu/pubs/SRL2003-02.pdf
Why would anyone set up such a site? Fewer than 30% of people have IPv6 today.
Ah. I assumed that "upgradeable motherboard" referred to being able to upgrade the CPU. My mistake.
>And in terms of density, NYC isn’t even in the top 50.

I don't believe that. If you look at Manhattan alone, you'll see something very different. Unlike many other cities (particularly in the US, but also other places), NYC is basically a collection of cities. Manhattan is dense, but Staten Island is definitely not, so that drags down the average density. It's not fair to compare that with many other places.
You can disable paging if you really care about that but setting swapiness to 0.

Or use something like https://github.com/LucidWorks/mlockall-agent
There's a reason why the criminal justice system operates like that though. The system has been designed like that because it turned that it is a very good idea not to go on witch hunts or to assume guilt if you want a functional society. I'm not defending the person involved here, but it's important to remember that the presumption of innocence isn't just an abstract legal concept instead of a very important part of the social contract.
The hack occurred 5.5 years ago. The Federal statute of limitations on Grand Theft/Larceny is 5 years. Is this why they are charged with Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundring and not charged with the actual theft?

Lichtenstein and Morgan are charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering

If so, this means that (outside tax obligations) they may have gotten away with it essentially by sitting on the money doing nothing for 5 years and then openly transferred it to themselves. Since they took actions that were meant to launder the money, they opened themselves up to the money laundering charges on their own.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3282

This is similar to many financial regulations where you can have completely legally obtained money but if you deposit $9,000 followed by depositing $1,000 thereby avoiding a CTR notification to the government required for a $10,000 deposit, you're guilty of "structuring" your deposits.

https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/CTRPamphle...
Crypto 102: weep for the coins you lost when your cousin spilled soda on the hard drive containing the offline-only copy of your private keys
Solar cycles are 12 years, but grand solar cycles are every 350-400 years. Half way between grand solar cycles, we have a grand solar minimum, which is a period of ~100 years where solar activity is suppressed throughout 12 year solar cycles.

These coincide with population reductions throughout history (mini ice ages). Check out the Maunder Minimum for the last time this happened. We're heading into one now, there is no denying it.
If they were good they may have support or ops people on payroll. I was surprised no one had done this at Google. Would have been easy to get away with back in the day.
I had no idea this code was such a big part of pop culture. There are some really mainstream sites listed.

Now that I'm thinking this through...the type people who do the technical work behinds the sites probably sneak this stuff in.
This had better not turn out like "Legend of the Seeker". I had so much hope for the adaptation of one of my favorite book series.
...and it seems like they didn’t do much to educate him about females in general, or, for that matter, about not believing everything you see on the frigging Internet, in general.

The kid was home-schooled, so he doesn’t have regular exposure (ahem) to female classmates; he did something with his babysitter, but the parents had no idea what; they initiated conversations with him about what women are really like only after he had been educated by porn and, like any person in the full flush of puberty, was entirely convinced that his parents knew nothing.
You can also execute SQL-like queries within a Google Spreadsheet. Surprised the heck out of me when I found that out.
Well I'm not blind quite yet. Command+-.
Do your predictions work? Until you have some evidence either way, there's not much to say about this.
I was given an iPad as a gift from work, and for pretty much all of my life I have been more sided against Apple and its devices. There are a few nice things about it, however I'm a bit annoyed of some limitations of it:

-Email is quite good on it, it displays emails correctly and quickly, but the email App is missing important things I need to make email reading/sorting a better experience. I can not show pictures by email, its either globally on or off. This is very bad for spam, and its a pain to turn on and off as you have to exit the app to get to settings.

-The 4.2.1 update has made the lock switch mute, which I hate. Apple say its to keep the iOS devices consistent, but the iPod touch doesnt have one, and the iPhone uses it as a tool to mute calls. Even having an option in settings to change its behavior would be nice.

-Multasking is a mixed bag. Some apps like email and safari need it, whereas others have never been developed for it, and it makes the experience confusing to jump between apps and having to wait for them to restart.

-The device itself feels like a slave, mostly to itunes. I have no music or videos on it whatsoever because my home computer, and laptop which with all my music and media, runs Ubuntu. Ubuntu plays well with most iOS devices now, except for the iPad. I believe they have changed how the music database works and that has destroyed compatibility with libimobiledevice.

-Id like a filesystem. Its all well and good that some apps have their own space now, but if you want it to be counted as a computer, it needs a central area where the same programs can access the same files. Dropbox helps, but i dont have internet all the time.

-One speaker makes me feel like im deaf in one ear.

A lot of those issues are why i cant regard it as a PC. It's just a huge iPod touch to me.

Edit: formatting :)
Or my related self-admonition: build the business before you buy the domain name.

There are better and cheaper ways to keep track of good ideas than a GoDaddy account!
No problem, took me a while to find it too. I would still prefer to be able to expand it in the console a-la Firebug -- however the more I use Chrome as my primary browser the less I find myself using the console in general and thus I mostly stay on 'resources' except in the early stages of coding (when there's a lot of logging going on :)).
I don't understand why this is on the front page of Hacker News. 100k monthly page views is 139 per hour. Even if you assume the peak rate is 10x the average, that's several seconds per page load. A standard install of WordPress running off s raspberry pi on your home cable connection could handle that quite easily.
Do the automakers still finance car loans directly? I know GMAC turned into Ally and is no longer owned by GM. I'm not so familiar with the other automaker's financial arms.
In the case of Tesla you mean? One look at the Lotus Elise and you'll see they weren't exactly going for aerodynamics. Tesla barely survived the launch, so it wasn't going to happen back then.

This is one of those "in hindsight" kind of things that never get fixed. The fact that Tesla is doing it says a LOT positive about them.
My opinion is that most of the bad habits of inexperienced programmers are just manifestations of more general youthful hubris and inexperience in the nuances and complexities of life.

I'll add to the list the most extreme form of 'not written here syndrome': 'I didn't write it syndrome'. The programmer sees themselves on missing out on the fun of solving a task by using a library (or reading the relevant framework docs). When experience teaches you that the real misery comes down the line when you need to support your hand-rolled physics engine lacking in tests...
The site lets you download the app, run the app, log in to GitHub, and _THEN_ asks you for a beta invite code. There's almost no info about it on it's homepage, so why post the link at all?