jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I feel like you’re getting defensive, although I wasn’t attacking you. If that’s how I came off, I apologize.

I mean, you implied that people with performance anxity are just fragile people who will break down when an outage occurs and that they are afraid to get out of their comfort zone and then they are applying for a six figures job, you tell me if that's attacking or not.

> Your 15 years experience doesn’t guarantee you’ll be happy or successful at Amazon, Google, or Facebook

Not sure what's your point here. I can assure you I would not be happy at those companies, but not sure what that has to do with anything?

> The cost of hiring the wrong person is exceedingly high

Yes, but the current process doesn't guarantee hiring the right person either. You can hire someone who is great at solving coding challenges and puzzles, but who is terrible at working in a team, testing code, reliability, whatever.

> Let’s look at the economics. This will not change unless it negatively affects businesses. And so far, it doesn’t.

That's just your guess/assumption. You don't know how it affects the business and neither those companies do. Until there is a research or some kind of data comparison your guess is as good as mine. And my guess is that it is bad for business. I know a lot of good programmers with a similar problem. Even in the quoted tweets you have Piotr Solnica and Ryan Bigg, one of the best rubyists out there. If missing out on people like them is not bad for business, I'm not sure what is.
I guess the part about overflow in the title primes most experienced developers to immediately think about a solution where the added numbers are restricted beforehand to avoid the overflow. From there the obvious answer is to halve them, which leaves the next problem when the numbers are odd.

If you're not aware that numbers can overflow (and you probably don't tend to think about that for every single + you type, I guess), then the proper solution is less obvious.
"one man stumbled drunk through the party, wearing a tablet displaying an NFT cat cartoon around his neck. He was grabbing strangers for stability and telling them how owning his Cool Cat “changed my life.” “Before this cat, I was a loser,” he said to anyone who would listen, “but now, because of this community, my life means something."

Not. Sustainable.
It looks like Cactus is no longer available on the Mac App Store. Any reason why you took it down as opposed to simply making it free there?
Why would someone want to use this instead of jekyll or similar?
Check out the book 'Flow' for one potential answer, or this TED Talk if you have less time: http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow?lan...
This essay has been pretty popular over the last year, as one can see from https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%09The+tyranny+of+structureless#!/... . It's definitely influenced my thinking on the topic.

I'll me a guess that the submitter saw it mentioned in http://third-bit.com/2015/01/05/cathedrals-bazaars-and-in-be... , which was linked to from HN about 11 hours ago, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8839338 .
Have you considered using Haxe [0] / OpenFL [1] considering that flash is less and less available platform?

[0] http://haxe.org/
[1] http://www.openfl.org/
The example is perfect. It isn't enough to change the software, you must also change the existing data, because with the rule change it is now wrong. Or you can take the advice and store your data in a form that doesn't become obsolete when the rules change.
I don't get your point.

So, because software developers make a decent living means they should just be happy with that, even though it doesn't compare to the value that they actually create?
But it arguably takes more data to encode an A - three lines, which means six endpoints, plus whatever signifies the command "draw a straight line." At minimum, that's seven pieces of data.

A C, however, can be drawn as half of a circle - one command to draw an arc, a center point, a radius, and the start and stop angles. Five pieces of data.

(This is assuming, of course, that computers prefer minimal amounts of data. If that's wrong, then the computer would obviously prefer B. You need more data to describe it.)
thank you! this was a very good comment.. I'll think about it more and see if I can come up with a solid plan.. anyhow, whatever people say here.. whether it will work or not.. I am going to build this thing
Oh, no offense taken. Thanks for pointing out other lisps, I should check them out for alternative ideas.
"Currently, Netflix uses a service called "Chaos Monkey" to simulate service failure. Basically, Chaos Monkey is a service that kills other services. We run this service because we want engineering teams to be used to a constant level of failure in the cloud. Services should automatically recover without any manual intervention. We don't however, simulate what happens when an entire AZ goes down and therefore we haven't engineered our systems to automatically deal with those sorts of failures. Internally we are having discussions about doing that and people are already starting to call this service "Chaos Gorilla"."

I am wondering how they could simulate the loss of an AZ. Any ideas?
I was on a team once at Apple with ~15 people on it. At one point, we found out the equivalent group at Microsoft had ~500 people.

Most people I've talked to who worked elsewhere are shocked at how small the teams at Apple are.
Actually, do forget it.
We just do the inverse. In a local_settings.py we import settings - then set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=path.to.local_settings
Awesome buddy thnx...
Wow. That's some of the worst reasoning I've seen in quite a while. And the most intrusive on-copy behavior I've ever seen.

>To preserve that which is most popular.

Because what's popular doesn't change quickly, and if we lost some Delicious data how would we know if something is popular or not?! OH THE HUMANITY!

>To preserve the system of classification, the taxonomy, the tags per URL.

What? How in the hell did they connect those two dots?

>Hopefully new things will be born.

Because... free old data will encourage them to make new features?

Migrate if you'll use the migrated service. Its success will be based off where Delicious goes, and if it re-gains traction, not your stagnant data.
But I do the null check all the time, and then skip the "Save", but have logic in the 'else' to do something like create an actual customer account.

The problem with the solution provided is that you get an exception, whether you can deal with it in the body or not. And unlike Lisp, you're going to unwind the stack at that point (or be in the catch). All in all, not happy with the proposed solution.
This post shows why anonymity on the internet is so important. Anonymous people don't have nothing to lose, and women and men that don't have nothing to lose are able to say the most brutal, socially unacceptable truths.
That's crappy infrastructure that's effectively inaccessible to most.

Good biking infrastructure is physically segregated infrastructure, which is less trivial to build (though still way cheaper and easier than infrastructure for cars).
> The issue is taking away even a tiny fraction of car space basically triggers some kind of political road rage.

How do you take "a tiny fraction" away from a street that has one lane in each direction to build a dedicated bike lane? Make it a one-way street and just kill traffic? It's not as simple as you make it out to be. Don't infer motivations, I don't own a car and ride my bike everywhere.

It's mostly a money issue, at least where I live. That part of the budget is spent on "climate managers" (for a city of 20k) instead of improving bike infrastructure.
The server being or not being secure is only important to the people who operate it. You can examine the client code and see that your messages are encrypted end to end. Signal's entire security model revolves around the idea that you don't need to trust the server.
Of immediate importance given the current state of the world: make sure you get your covid test within 3 days before boarding your flight (this is a CDC requirement for every inbound flight to the US and it may or may not have been brought up by your airline)

Other misc stuff:

- Look for international student groups/clubs in your campus; it's a great way to make friends, especially once things start opening up with the vaccination rollouts.

- Bring a stash of alfajors and other local goodies, you'll miss them soon enough.

- Be prepared to learn about the differences in spanish dialects from every country in south america :)
Are you sure? I mean, there's at least _2_ data points.
+ the route is safe enough or - better yet - there are dedicated bike lanes for most of the route
From your reply, I'm guessing snow isn't much of a factor where you live.
Calling everything "terrorism" reminds me of McCarthy and "communism" in the 50s.

I assume we'll grow out of it soon enough.
That's probably the most important thing to me. Also, docker will probably succeed in the enterprise world you, being a Linux based solution.
Italian is one of the most melodic languages in the world, but some words can be difficult to pronounce. A good way to practice diction is tongue twisters. These phrases work as a physical exercise for your tongue, lips, and cheeks. Here is a good selection of some tongue twisters: https://ivypanda.com/tongue-twisters-italian
Interesting stuff! I bet you coreboot guys could write some incredibly interesting blog posts with all the "secrets" you have learned. I really admire your work.
Isn't it ironic how they are used more than Lisp though? Maybe they don't implement that other, worse part?
There has been some debate regarding PG's "naughtiness" criteria for founders. Maybe irreverence would be a better word? To truly believe in their venture, founders need to have a certain irreverence for how things are done today or how the world is missing out on their idea.
Good point. Although a your grocery shopping data, for example, wouldn't be as hard to replace; shop at a new store for 2 months and you've probably purchased all the same stuff again.
Although someone already commented and I am late to the party on this one I have yet to see xbmc using tmdb not find a movie I was watching. Sure IMDB can be considered more "complete" but tmdb certainly has popular mainstream titles.
At 55 seconds he says the Toll Booth "has the time our son was born". This man achieved a work of art that is far from sad. It's very obvious that this has tons of sentimental value, but it is also a wonderful work of art. I hope I can achieve a long-term disciplined accomplishment like this in my lifetime (my children notwithstanding).
Who doesn't love Kevin Bacon! What a great project, this would applicable as an enhancement to projects like xbmc.
I tried to answer to a comment that was deleted, probably due to the form. Instead of deleting my answer, I want to share the reworded critics and my answers.

> Why not using Riak and adding an S3 API around it.

Riak was developed by a company named Basho that went bankrupt some years ago, the software is not developed anymore. In fact, we do no need to add an S3 API around Riak KV, Basho even released "Riak Cloud Storage"[0] that exactly does this: provide an S3 API on top of Riak KV architecture. We plan to release a comparison between Garage and Riak CS, Garage has some interesting features that Riak CS does not have! In practice, implementing an object store on top of a DynamoDB-like KV store is not that straightforward. For example, Exoscale, a cloud provider went this way for their first implementation of their KV store, Pithos[1], but rewrote it later as you need special logic to handle your chunks (they did not publish Pithos v2).

> Most apps don't have S3 support

We are maintaining in our documentation an "integration" section listing all the compatible applications. Garage already works with Matrix, Mastodon, Peertube, Nextcloud, Restic (an alternative to Borg), Hugo and Publii (a static site generator with a GUI). These applications are only a fraction of all existing applications, but our software is targeted at its users/hosters.

> A distributed system is not necessarily highly available

I will not fight on the wording: we come from an academic background where the term "distributed computing" has a specific meaning that may differ outside. In our field, we define models where we study systems made of processes that can crash. Depending on your algorithms and the properties you want, you can prove that your system will work despite some crashes. We want to build software on these academic foundations. This is also the reason we put "Standing on the shoulders of giants" on our front page and linking to research papers. To put it in a nutshell, one critic we address to other software is that sometimes they lack theoretical/academic foundations that lead to unexpected failures/more work to sysadmins. But on the theoretical point, Basho and Riak were exemplary and a model for us!

[0]: https://docs.riak.com/riak/cs/2.1.1/index.html
[1]: https://github.com/exoscale/pithos
Well, this is truly scary as I'm developing a bunch of physics animations using svg. I hope they don't do away with it.
Find a co-founder: http://fairsoftware.net/search-cofounder-web-developer

Unfortunately, no one is running the equivalent of the co-founders meetup in Colorado (http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Wanted-Meetup/), but you are welcome to start one if you want to. TechStars would indeed be a great anchor, but you don't have to ask permission to start such a meetup.
If your goal is to go to a prestigious school then I'm not so sure you're going to make it. The only way you're going to succeed in something that takes a lot of effort is if you find doing it fun! If you are not genuinely curious about the subject you're studying then it's not going to work.
So, you write and publish an article comparing two phones under non-ideal circumstances, let it air a couple hours, attract attention and then pull it - along with comments and a poll - because it was a comparison done under non-ideal circumstances that should be redone later?

Write a second article apologizing for the first one. Don't make the first article disappear.

This is seriously bad journalism.
I can definitely recommend the Dvorak layout. If you think Colemak will be even better then go for it!
The article that got pulled, retrieved by a forum poster in two parts:

http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2355928

http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2355929

Seems like one of the better reviews I've read, mostly pointing out that which is best depends on several factors such as where you live, what kind of apps you use etc.
Maybe they have some nice IP and few patents that Apple would like to use against the A4 or future chip designs.
I've been using the MiniCloud service for a few weeks during the beta (the service was then offered) and for a few days as a paying customer.

Well... everything is working pretty smoothly. I'm using their manager to upgrade/downgrade my host's RAM on a daily basis, as I'm using the cloud as a pre-production server for a webapp. The manager UI is quite ugly, to say the least, but sufficient to start/stop and upgrade/downgrade the virtual host.

I did not had to ask for help from the support team so I cannot offer any advice on them.
I wonder how long till it's rooted?
>but somehow we don't see outbreaks of uncontrolled public wanking

You're being disingenuous - all public computers where I am have some sort of filtering as to the websites you can view. Hence preventing those with low social inhibition (for whatever reason, horniness is strong driver) from seeking out porn in those places.
Thanks :) We're definitely working on optimizing things for the user end and keeping it minimal/simple is our top priority. If anyone can contribute in terms of optimizing the frontend loading/speed for "larger images" feel free to drop me at john@min.us
I feel like we've reached a 1.0 (beyond a MVP because it has features that aren't necessary but greatly improve the UX, oh buzzwords!).

Crate = drag-and-drop + slick interface + easy sharing system of crates or single files.

We're still hard at work on it (you can tell that the marketing site is quite lacking...) but I'd love all your feedback. Thanks!
I suppose it can only be better or be at least the same as with 4.1.

I'm wondering though, if this will be the last version iOS that supports the iPhone 3G.
But do they read tech questions? Is it worth their time trawling for random technical people there? Even for recruiters outside the San Francisco area?
So there's a site with the main purpose of maintaining a list of contacts and everything is as openly accessible as users want. Everything but contact information. That makes no sense to me at all.

There's that completely disingenuous argument that my contacts' privacy would somehow be violated if I could export my address book. But it was me who they entrusted with their contact info. If someone shares a phone number with me, it's for me to decide what to do with it, not for the phone company or the handset maker, so why is Facebook keeping my address book hostage?
Isn't the technical term "error"?
Very much the real deal-- costs $3. It also creates an entry in Newstand.

If you can't read French, you buy the English edition and tap the text to see a translation: http://i.imgur.com/ETunCZv.jpg

From what I understand, this magazine had a circulation of maybe 50,000 but with the most recent edition 3million didn't come close to meeting demand. This is a very creative solution.
> Copyright protection attaches to a work as soon as it is fixed in a tangible medium by an author. Undeveloped film is arguably not a tangible medium suitable for communication

Errm. No. In fact it is excellent for communication, seeing that it withstood being in its undeveloped state for decades and still preserves the original image. Registration, not development creates the copyrighted work.

You can abandon property just fine but you can't abandon copyright (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonment_%28legal%29#Abandon... ), (you can abandon a trademark by not defending it but that's different). You can actively sign something into the public domain but copyright infringement cases typically have a very important date attached to them: when you became aware of the infringement.

> Would you claim that all the "abandonware" games still belong to their original owners and deny people the right to use them as well?

Technically, yes.

And on top of that if your interpretation were true then someone else could claim copyright on these games now that they are 'abandoned'.

Which of course isn't true.
The article points out that the theory is based on perceived anomalies from the expected orbit of other dwarf bodies. The researchers have also not ruled out a few other causes for orbital differences, including capture or being nudged. The good part of all this (aside the poorly worded space.com headline) is that now the wonky orbit has been identified, it should be easier to correlate it (or not) to other bodies with further study.
And the third school believes that general intelligence is normatively-correct reasoning in some sufficiently rich (where Turing-complete is a lower bound on sufficiency) domain/class of possible-words/hypotheses.
Interestingly enough, PG also loves painting almost more than anything. He wrote a book about it called "Hackers and Painters". Extrapolate whatever you'd like from that fact.
Well, it is not me, it is some studies. But I'm sorry I can't google them right now.

But the evidence, not proof, it is this counter intuitive causal relationship that if you have more weight (or exercise more), you have more appetite. And altough sounds "easy" to eat less, it is not. Just like it is not easy to skip sleep. Your body want this... This explain a few decades of moral judgement of obese people just as being lazy, not having enough strong will and stuff. It is just that is not that easy to make people sustainably eat less calories for long periods of time. Not because of character, but because your body and mind have tricks that are stronger than any rationale.
On the whole I'd agree. When markdown is done right it's pretty awesome. However I'd still take BBcode over buggy half implemented markdown parsers like the one we have on HN. At least [i] is a less common token than * -- which leads to no end of edits when I've absent-mindedly emphasised something that should have been bullet pointed.

...but yes, I do agree that markdown is definitely better when it's done right.
> It's popular enough to double the square footage devoted to grills

Why would they need the vegan grills to be the same size as the meat grills, unless they’re selling the same number of them? And if they are, doing so seems a no-brainer.
Here's a 1990 Glass piece that's extremely melodic - not only that, but two melodic subjects are exposed then superimposed in a powerful counterpoint.

The first subject is exposed at 1:55, the second at 4:10, and both are in counterpoint around 5:10.

The bass, as you point out, also becomes quite melodic in the last minute, while providing harmony to the first subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyBqdTgnpNQ
http://electricsheep.org
Do you mean "persuasive precedent"?

If so, you're right that it's not binding. Higher courts can, and do, defer to lower courts — where the higher court concurs with the lower court's legal reasoning. But that requires the case to have appeared before an appellate court.

The reason for this is simple: trial courts consider questions of fact, while appellate courts consider questions of law.

Similarly, so-called "horizontal precedent" applies between peer appellate courts — and, again, isn't binding.

To my understanding, the only way this becomes more than informally precedential is if it's legitimately a "case of first impression" — and that would apply IFF this case is legitimately the first place this question of law was asked, and only until it's heard and ruled upon (or not taken up) by an appellate court.
Knowing some authors, I suspect this author didn't write: "Roman slaveowners were the first management theorists." Editors frequently write such things; and that statement sounds extremely unlikely. (Otherwise, I enjoyed this article.)
Yeah, it is very good. You can solve problems incrementally. Change a few params, add a few more constraints, and rerun using the previous result.
We actually did the webapp first (September 2014) - check it out! www.flixfindr.com
Look at Amazon Simple Pay. That's what we've been using in lieu of FPS for the past few years, the process is identical to PayPal with regards to the checkout experience and integration, and it doesn't seem to be discontinued (yet).
Even a really close up picture of a face will be seen as nudity. Trying to detect a body (or parts of a body) and determine how much skin is visible would probably be a better approach.

Also quite relevant is this site: http://www.yangsky.com/researches/physicallinguistics/PLUnde...
Besides a "breast detector/nipple detector" he also created a couple of weird detectors like a "cowgirl sex position detector" among others.
(The link is sfw, the individual detectors are not)
No, thank you though
I think the best solution for busy people would be a treadmill desk. As a student, I used to study while briskly walking on a treadmill, which meant that I only had to sacrifice driving time.
The EFF seems down? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www.eff.org/

I expect the EFF has a pretty reliable infrastructure considering their position on a lot of internet trends. Anyone have any speculation about this?
There isn't an official build yet, but the developers at webos-internals have a build you can use.

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/WebOS_Internals_PDK
Glad to hear it was a dose of awesome!
fluxbox had this 5 years ago