jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Apparently they'd been having too many people place orders and just never come pick them up. It's not exactly "dine-and-dash" but it hurts the restaurant pretty similarly.

I'd always wondered if this happens a ton at restaurants, and how they deal with it. Any ideas how frequent these are normally (pre-COVID)?
they were talking about OLEDs, so 3000-5000 would be a more realistic estimate with that markup.
A database that doesn’t allow you to interface with views externally is fatally flawed because it means you cannot use views. This is one of a few reasons why we are moving away from MariaDB: https://jira.mariadb.org/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/MDEV-1...
noweb had two brilliant and one not so far sighted decision made.

The first plus was, as you point out, the extensibility of noweb, the pipeline architecture, which transforms the literate input into a documented plain text token stream, then does token stream transformation where you can insert your own transformations, like indexing, syntax highlighting, macro expansions if you wished, and then it reassembles the transformed token stream into output documents.

the other brilliant idea was to go for a minimalistic literate syntax and be language agnostic, for both the markup and the programming language.

This design decision was a focus on the absolute bare minimum, the gist of literate programming, and it still was open to all magic via user plug ins.

This decision also made noweb trivial to learn.

However. How noweb then chose to move to "icon" as scripting and extension language escapes me.

In my book, that was the design decision that killed it. And the rewrite to noweb3, lua based, remained in eternal 'beta'.

and LP as a whole always struggled with IDE / editor support.

literate programming as a discipline could resurrect with the advent of language server protocol. that might make literate programming accessible to contemporary IDEs again.
I’ve heard this mentioned on HN a few times; is there any documented case of this actually happening?
>it's worthwhile to reimplement it and make money.

no it's not, because if you do (and look to be getting significant growth) Google will just start it up again and drive you out of business, run it for a year or two afterwards for free and then kill it.
I'm surprised some poorer nations haven't taken their ~million vaccine doses, split each one into 20 fractional-doses and inoculated 20 million people.

Sure, the vaccine efficiency probably drops from 93% to 15%, but it's still better to have a population of 15% resistant people than a population where 1 million get 93% protection and 19 million get 0%.

As more doses come in, the country can similarly divide them and give them as 2nd, 3rd and 4th 'boosters'. They'd probably get up to herd immunity levels with far less total vaccine...

I wonder if perhaps the contracts with vaccine producers stop them doing this? (since it might hurt the vaccines reputation)
The Pacific DC Intertie was the biggest in the world until the Three Gorges stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie

More interestingly--it dates to the Kennedy Administration.
You are a gibberish merchant. Turning of computers that are no longer required are are merely costing electricity is normal procedure. Your oxygen analogy is loony.
Of all the things the comment you replied to complained about, people's inelastic demand wasn't one of them: it was merely the background for all of the actual things being complained about.
> there had better be sufficient assurance of liability in play because there is no element of trust

This is the most powerful counter-point against such a service. The reason why Magic works so well is because your take-out or flowers order being 20 mins late is not the same as losing business data.

That said, I'm not completely against the idea if the outsourcing method is made more transparent and it turns out there are both high levels of quality and liability assurance.
It was this way when I went to school in SF in the 80s. The rich white kids would go to the nicer elementary schools or go to private schools. A few would come back for Lowell High School (magnet high school).

Also this phenomena was well known even back then.
Apparently if you want spare cash, little books of this stuff could sell for $5-10. Just became aware myself, setting up to write again.

That’s to say, this comment probably just saved or made me money. I’ve some hands on but clearly not as much as you exhibit. Thanks.

Target audience: Sr SE, reporting to next level up and perhaps offering tradesoffs, or advising peers or reports working on those systems and need a refresher to give a complete answer to a question.
There's nothing about bullying in the article.

Hubris, and personality cults? Yes.
I think Heyerdahl's issue is that he approached it as South Americans travelling to Polynesia, instead of some of the most capable navigators the world has seen travelling to South America.

Some claim it was racism, but IIRC, he based it on prevailing winds and currents, which are west to east... except for during an ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) event, which were poorly understood, or even widely known of, at the time of Kontiki.

And there's some evidence of correlation between Polynesian westward migration, and ENSO events.
That won't work because '[' is an alias for test.
I don't understand the problem you are solving. Usually when this is the case it also means you don't really know what problem you are solving.

You haven't planned to reach out to people to sell your software so I guess you are targeting individual people, and not ceo or cto who don't have time.

So you have two problems, you have not figure out what is your target audience and who you are selling to

Take a paper and list real world use cases that are ideal for your product. It should take a few days. Figure out who has this kind of use case, among those people who is really wanting to improve the way they are solving it. And finally where they gather. Then go on popular saas website and try to understand how companies are positioning themselves. There are mostly two ways of communicating. Either you talk about your product either you talk about your vision.

The fact that people that you talk to don't get it doesn't mean they don't get it, it means you don't know how to explain what you do, whether or not you have a product won't make them change their mind about it. If you have trouble communicating the values you will also have trouble communicating the values on the website and throughout the product. So spend a few days thinking about the value, the use case. That's an iterative process especially if you have never done it before
I find it incredibly strange that people are talking about this vote as though the score is settled. It's literally the very first day - how can you possibly know the end result right now? Regardless of where you stand on the issue it makes absolutely no sense to make assumptions now.
I can live without the fingerprint reader.

It’s the lack of hibernate that really sucks. I got my 2013 MBA battery replaced. Leave it unplugged for 10 hours. 1% battery drop.

XPS 17 on Pop OS LTS with kernel 5.8. I have to shut down if I want battery left.
The link needs some TLC
Have you got any references for it, or is it a random guess?
Software that a commercial entity decides it would like to use under a closed sourced license - sure that's when a dual-license is applicable.

GPL software that a commercial entity releases their source code modifications - that's still GPL. You can't say commercial uses aren't allowed under the GPL.

Forking the codebase from before the license change? Yep, allowable under the GPL...

Seems like a lot of ranting/raving over hurt feelings...
Curious about this in snowflake (mentioned in slides):

https://github.com/twitter/snowflake/blob/master/src/main/sc...

def nextId(): Long = synchronized {
var timestamp = timeGen()

if (lastTimestamp > timestamp) {
log.warning("clock is moving backwards. Rejecting requests until %d.", lastTimestamp);
throw new InvalidSystemClock("Clock moved backwards. Refusing to generate id for %d milliseconds".format(lastTimestamp - timestamp));
}

Does that mean that the inability to tweet grinds to a halt if the system clock gets set back? That could be a problem whenever the server time is being sync'd with the time server and is running ahead (or if time server goes down/connection goes down- it happens), etc. I know there would be other issues too, but this seems a little fishy.
Many thanks!

This is definitely worth looking into! Any similar tool for Unix environment?
I don't know how you don't see the problem. Facebook is censoring.
> then it's much better to avoid having too big to fail firms.

If a company that is, say 10x the size of Goldman Sachs, is "too big to fail" and therefore too big to allow to exist, what does that tell us about the US govt?
Interesting recommendation. I had trouble telling (from index.html page) whether this was alt to QuickBooks, but since the features page includes "Integrate QuickBooks to eliminate data entry"... apparently it sits atop QB and bases it analysis on what you've entered. Bookmarked. Thanks for the lead.
In the age of autonomous UAVs, neural networks, and energy based non-lethal deterrents, it doesn't make sense that this would be unguarded. The same gear being used by the border patrol can be scaled to guard a train track.
With some circuits, you need to worry about current leak from one side of the board to the other. This eliminates that possibility.
It has nothing to do with privacy, it has to do with Facebook censoring messages. What if you couldn't send an email with a link to a questionable site? That wouldn't bother you at all?
I'm a PE Teacher and have built a loyal following of teachere who get everything I do - I love being able to bring products to life for them, and have spent hundreds of thousands doing it. So this approach has led to me ensuring I don't fail before I invest of bringing things to life. Once I validate it; me and my team are 100% behind it. Thanks for picking up the spelling errors, I truly appreciate it
This is amazing. Whoever did this is now on my list of total heroes...
The word "emacs" was a buzzkill

Let's see what Bell-Labs thinks :

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/emacs
The choice got harsher as time passed. When the Amish were founded, the outside society was very similar. People were very pious, most were farmers etc. But since the Amish form a time capsule of the 17th century, Rumspringa became more and more of a culture shock.
I think Atwood seriously understates the innovation behind Firesheep. The vulnerabilities are not new. Proof of concept code has been out there. It's all in the execution. Packaging an exploit as a voyeuristic game has made it rise to the top of securities discussions since it was released.
If you've got one of the first netbooks, the HD is unreplaceable flash.
VPN wise, they have a use but they are so shilled and overdone that you need to be very careful. Don't trust a single article about them.

Definitely use an ad blocker. UBlock Origin is by far the best.
Code. Sometimes under the influence.
Is mensa generally respected? I've always figured it was a pseudo-scam for intellectually competitive people, since one has to pay to take their test (and no sample tests are available.
Go to APCs website. They have a tool for this.

Or, find the wattage draw of all your equipment you want to ups, add it up and add 20-25% and find a unit with that VA rating, or the next highest.

Note that VA has nothing to do with runtime, VA ratings are just the wattage loads the UPS can handle for usually about 15-20 minutes.
Yeah it depends if you really can use cheap hardware with it or if they're just locking you into their own proprietary stuff, which as you say, could just get discontinued.
I'm so glad masks are socially acceptable now.
Firstly, widening the scope does not alter the fact that the failure of many does not excuse the failure of any one of them. Secondly, none of them failed as badly as Texas. Most importantly, many other areas of the country have solved the biggest problems that occurred in the Texas debacle, those solutions are well-known in the industry, and experts have been telling Texas for a long time that it is not properly prepared. And when politicians start saying things like the debacle being preferable to federal regulation, it absolutely is reasonable to ask whether Texas' failure to heed the warnings of experts was overly influenced by ideological concerns, and that question clearly belongs in the public dialogue.

As for calling this a "dishonest, cowardly act", that's the sort of rhetoric that most people give up after childhood. It is that, rather than the substantive issues that many knowledgeable people have been raising, which does not belong in public dialogue. You seem to be annoyed that this thread has demonstrated a complete failure of critical analysis on your part (a situation that your latest reply has done nothing to repair), but it is entirely of your own doing.
Hi,

all fine and dandy, yet there is no european version of your website (I guess?) nor any way for a european person to invest using your site, right?

If anyone knows about european alternatives to enombic, passiv or m1finance - please let me know.
Can anyone give specific examples of OS X backsliding in the feature department? The article he links to talks about having to tweak some settings, and not liking Messages... not really egregious issues in my book. I've been pretty satisfied with how it's progressed (and I'm far from a fanboy. There were times in my life when I was using Linux, Windows, and Mac OS on a daily basis.)

I can think of several features that have improved my productivity... mission control, handoff, updated notifications, the new spotlight to name a few. They also finally fixed multi-monitor support in 10.9 which was a huge deal for me.

I do feel far more productive in OS X than other OS's, but perhaps that's just familiarity at this point. I'm curious to hear what other people's major complaints are.
I can understand why someone is looking down on modern art.

Classic art doesn't need that much rationalization to be meaningful. I think that art isn't first of all a product of thought, but an expression of feelings. So the access to the art is by looking and feeling.

Modern art isn't per se meaningful, you can't understand it by just looking at it. There has to be a rational superstructure which creates the meaning for it. And some artist push too hard the creation of this superstructure. So that the explanations seem arbitrary.
Here is a description how it was done:

http://mrdoob.com/blog/post/695
Interesting, but how ugly!
It's definitely got an interesting UI, but I can't see myself actually using it during the tournament.

On a similar theme, the best ical world cup calendar I've found is here:

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/rp57smf89rsb1hgo09abvq1m...
Here's why I loathe SEO (the term and the industry):

It shouldn't exist. There's "good" and "bad" SEO. "Bad" SEO is snake oil, it's cheating, it's gaming the system for commercial purposes. It's a race to the bottom to see who can screw up their UX and the Internet in general the most to get the most clicks from Google. It's evil.

"Good" SEO, though, is nothing but common sense. Search engines emphasise good structure, semantics, accessibility and practises, and this is what "good" SEO takes advantage of. But good developers know if you're doing your job in the first place, there's no need for "good" SEO. That's why we don't like SEO; it's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. If you can somehow stealthily introduce good practises in the guise of SEO, then I guess that's good, but we cringe at the thought of having to label it like that to get acceptance.
Quantum computers are known to solve some problems faster than classical computers. For example, see Shor's Algoroithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shors_algorithm) for factorization, which finds factors of a number in polynomial time on a quantum computer. This alone is an enormous breakthrough.

The question is whether Quantum Computer can solve NP problems in Polynomial time, which no one knows yet.
Since scaling my life back and tackling startup debt I've really managed to scale down my outgoings. Furthermore I've simultaneously lost my lust for new tech and become the worst guy I know to buy presents for.

I don't really need a million dollars, but if I had it I'm fairly certain I'd get quite far with it.
The bearer of bad news about statistics, demographics, and what the rest of the country gets by happily on.
"The government says families in the top-third income bracket will spend $279,450 to raise a child born in 2005 through age 17 -- or about $16,000 a year."

The reason that the government figures are wrong is that, to quote Parenting, Inc. again, they don't include the cost of "maternity clothes, new home purchases and moving expenses, childbirth education and newborn classes, prenatal vitamins and extra fruits and vegetables, of Glider breastfeeding armchairs; of 'babymoon' vacations and bumblee-themed baby showers.

When the Wall Street Journal looked at the suspect government figures in an effort to make them somewhat realistic, it added costs such as sporting equipment and tutoring (which is no longer just for the wealthy-- the average income of a family seeking tutoring for a child is between $50,000 and $70,000) and came up with a total cost of raising a child to age seventeen that rangeed from $800,000 to 1.6 million."

To quote the WSJ directly, "We placed all these expenses on a spectrum, from those that parents and experts say are the most common, up to more unusual -- and costly -- frills. At the lowest end, our estimates came in at about $800,000 (in 2007 dollars) through the age of 17."

So the $800,000 figure is based on a survey of parents to figure out what they most commonly spend on various things.
Not to face bankruptcy if a major health problem arises? Not to worry about the cost of college for your children? To own a small home in NYC or SF? To afford competent legal representation if the need arises?

Surely this isn't the definition of "a dignified existence in the US", is it?
I really didn't understand the article. Can someone explain it?
So it must be really tiny. Seriously, this thing is doomed unless gets really, really cheap, and I don't think how it could be.
He didn't say that, he said that you don't need to live in Manhattan to have a dignified life.

Nobody contests that a million dollars can buy you a lot of very nice things. The point is that too many people spend too much time fretting about going to Thailand when they get a million dollars, while completely missing the fact that a trip to Thailand is maybe $1000. It's mostly a question of priorities, and if you make your whole life about getting a million dollars, guess what happens once you get there? You're likely to start obsessing about five million, rather than retire to that beach in Thailand.
I'd be worried if the carrier has this info. I bought the iPhone 4 from Apple, the micro SIM from vodafone, two separate unconnected transactions.
Ha! I win, then! I always get a frisson when somebody makes money in a way I thought of. (Bastards. I mean that in the nicest possible way.)
You may want to avoid using the word "sucks" in a professional context because there is a population of people for whom the word evokes the idea of oral sex. Try substituting "is not so good." This will have the added virtue of being super charming in your German accent.

edit: I usually don't bitch about being downmodded. But don't you guys know any old people? And know that old people tend to be in charge of things? In any event, you shouldn't rely upon business leaders of any age being ignorant of the language.

-http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sucks 5. Vulgar Slang To perform fellatio on.

-suck, Old English sucan, corresponding to Latine sugere "to suck." It's of imitative origin. Meaning "do fellatio" is first recorded 1928.

-Slang sense of "be contemptible" first attested 1971
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The question of why pathogens kill their hosts has been with me for at least 50 years. At last a cogent answer.
I'm not sure what the applications/market for this is or could be, but I love the idea. Everything that goes "micro" I love dearly.
Great work, looks very nice. Will give it a whirl when I get home.

In the meanwhile, I noticed that you support intellisense. What are the limitations to this? What patterns will get correctly picked up? I assume prototypal inheritance will work fine (of course), but will any of the BaseClass.extend()-style inheritance mechanisms that some frameworks seem to favour (e.g. Backbone) work?

While we're at it, is the static analysis tools you built for this public? I'd love to have a look at them.
"If rent-seeking accounts for an increasing fraction of economic activity (a big IF)"

Is this really a big IF? Software revenue is technically rent (since the cost of production is 0), and that's definitely growing as a fraction of economic activity.
The article called out specific things as being deficiencies in C++. It cited a lack of a Boolean type. Now C++ has bool. It cited lack of modules (name spaces). C++ now has this. It cited the lack of run-time type information. C++ now has RTTI.

But it sounds like you have a different list of "deficiencies" than the article...
Azure does actually have SSD options for both VMs and Storage Accounts now.
This is already a problem if you ever have to work with non-ASCII characters. Check out a URL to a page in the Japanese Wikipedia, for instance.
James' talk on how to debug anything was one of the best tech talks I saw this year http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3451-goruco-how-to-debug-any...