jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>My hypothesis is: My hands are not working as fast as my mind!

They shouldn't have to. The typical number of lines a programmer writes in a day is so small, typing speed is not the issue. And the ideas/features implemented in a regular day are even less, even if you're Linus or Carmack.

If your mind is racing, it's probably just as a way to avoid doing the hard work (making even one idea concrete), rather than "too many ideas, too little time to type them". Ideas, after all, are a dime a dozen.
I would actually argue that "stuffing my face" with 2 A&W lettuce wrapped uncle burgers (sandwich only, no combo) is healthier than having one regular mama burger with fries, lots of ketchup and a half litre of coke (or whatever sugary drink you prefer).

(This is the keto vs. regular diet example from before and showcases exactly what I was saying. You attribute value to one particular diet, while I might have another, ideal, healthy diet in my mind. After said 2 uncle burgers I don't have to eat again for a _very_ long time. On keto I've gone without eating for a day easy without feeling hundry, while I'd want an early dinner after the other option mentioned for lunch because my stomach is aching for more food)
None of this really disagrees with anything I've actually asserted. I'm saying "just accept the viewpoint discrimination or leave" is really not an attitude that would be embraced by many. But hey, if you're willing to grant the possible reality of widespread viewpoint discrimination then I'm impressed.
I have no idea. But I heard it would be released this winter.
One thing I find a bit strange about this (as a Gumroad user) is that Gumroad employees don't seem to be granted @gumroad.com email addresses -- when I've needed to email their engineering staff or marketing staff I often get replies from someone's personal email address.

The fact that employees are using their personal email address to do Gumroad business makes me feel a bit uncertain about how securely my information / my customers' information is being stored.
At this rate, what service isn't going to deplatform Donald Trump?
"Hi Representative Foo, I have a presentation on the USB stick here I'd like to show you, mind if I plug it in?"

"I just need to download the presentation from my website, can I use your computer real quick?"

Do you really think an 80 year old anti-tech representative would even consider that a problem?

I'd have to assume the computers are already protected from that attack vector.

Edit: I'm getting a lot of downvotes without replies, which makes me thing people don't agree with this. I wonder, how many have actually worked in corporate IT security for a non-tech company with older employees? Because things like this definitely happen on a daily basis.

Case in point: Pelosi's screen was unlocked when that guy sat down, which was at least 20 minutes after she left. That means that not only does she not lock her screen when she gets up, but the screen saver doesn't even auto-lock after 20 minutes.
> Are there any popular old computers (Commodore, Amiga, Mac etc) that used a 5¼” drive?

Yes. Pretty much all PCs prior to the PS/2 era (so, the IBM PC, XT, and AT, and clones thereof, but not the PS/1, which, oddly, was later than the PS/2) came with them as internal drives (except the lower-end model of the PCjr). They were also common accessories to the Apple II/IIe/II+ computers (and I think the IIc, though I never saw either one of those in the wild).
They should ask BLM/Antifa for tips on how come when their protests are never a superspreader

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/black-lives-matter-pr...
Was there ever a generation where the "best minds" weren't trapped doing something seemingly mundane or pointless?

The amount of leisure time that western civilization enjoys today is only a very recent development (within ~100 years).
Eric Schmidt said in an interview once that once you have access to entire worlds knowledge governments would like to know who you are
Project Gitenberg: http://gitenberg.github.io
This isn't even right....

The correct call is to clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW...
In an organization that enables and embraces employee initiatives, I have found that eatting together greatly benefits me, the employee. Cross team socializing has led to many new initiatives that were profitable for the company and for me personally (promotions and raises came as a result).

Eating together can be accomplished through culture alone but providing food is probably easier and more successful.
Ganked - as in MMO style:

a) With Legal rules made against a majority of HFT processes (edited - pathways is probably a weird weft for HN)

b) With aggressive >contra algos employed to prevent certain HFT processes working

c) With bandwidth / latency stingrays employed

It's happening as we speak: a lot of players high up in the game are tired of HFTs.

Note: this is all rumor, and plausible deniability has been engaged.

You didn't hear it here, but it's gonna happen.
I've been thinking about the debate for a minute, and I have no idea where I stand. On the one hand, 2000 year old Egyptian burial masks are being destroyed. I'm pretty sure they're all "museum quality" (calling any 2000 year old piece of Egyptian history not "museum quality" is absurd - I've spent many a museum trip staring at pottery shards).

On the other hand, we've revealed masterpieces by removing a painting by someone unknown to find a painting by Da Vinci or the like.

Reading a text so old can teach us so so much. It can unlock long-lost languages, it can answer long-debated historical unknowns.

So I don't know. I wish they could just X-ray it like they do with Picassos and Van Goghs - non-destructively revealing amazing insights. But I guess that's not available here?
Excel is the bane of my existence.
I give a lot of speeches about how to preserve data precision.
However It seems to be largley in vain, as there is often a lot of back and forth when handling data between different groups, even programmers don't seem immune from screwing up a csv file with excel.
I'm pretty sure GHC will optimize that out since it's a pure function.
Not sure why they author immediately dismisses bresenham. It's fast, quality, and well known. I feel like if the post continued for another few logical steps of optimization that's exactly where he'd end up!
Bikes are unlikely to replace every use case, however for many people, they can replace a significant chunk of their travel.

In the USA, 60% of all vehicle trips were less than 6 miles - which is a perfectly cyclable distance for the majority of people. With pannier racks, it is completely feasible to cycle with groceries.

Weather and danger is for sure a problem, but better urban planning can make this much less of an issue. Provide incentives for employers to offer showers. The whole point of this article is that cycling is a great thing for carbon footprint so it deserves investment to fix the reasons why people feel unable to cycle.

Obviously push cycles are not a panacea. If you live somewhere very hilly, you might need an e-bike. If you live in the suburbs, you might cycle to a train station and continue your journey by train. If you live somewhere rural, you almost certainly still will need to own a car for part of your transport needs. But I cycled about ten thousand miles on my last £300 bicycle over a few years (now upgraded to an e-bike), which saved me a ton of money, improved my health and reduced congestion/pollution for everyone else.
I run gitea on a Raspberry Pi and it works ok, along with a couple of other contains + nomad/consul client, it's just me using it and I've had no problems.
Thank you for the effort! You might consider using the recipe schema [0] for better interoperability with other recipe managers.

[0] https://schema.org/Recipe
You know how many in the cycling movement view automobiles as being fast, dangerous, machines clogging up the roads? Many pedestrians view cyclists as a similar fast, dangerous (often rude and inconsiderate) presence on the sidewalk.
What do you do in winter? Or during rain?
>is completely infeasible for 6 months of the year in approximately 1/3 of the United States

Why? Because of winter? They make cold weather gear for cycling. You can even buy rechargeable, heated gloves. You can buy studded tires, as well.

I had a year-round, 10 mile, each way, commute for 19 years, in temperatures ranging from 0F to 100F. (Humidity, raising the Heat Index over 100, is far worse than the cold.)
Then I guess the UK never belonged in Europe after all.
Not insurmountable issues, in my experience:

- Your commute is sufficiently short (I managed a 30k round trip every day at my last job. Took about 45 minutes each way.)

- You have facilities to shower and dress at work (I was lucky enough to have this, but some people who don't use e-bikes to avoid arriving as a sweaty mess)

- You have sufficient time to shower and dress at work (Say 15 minutes? Is that really a major issue? Just think of all the time you're saving by exercising and commuting at the same time.)

- You don't have to bring kids or sizable cargo (I've got a kid's bike trailer and a kid's bike seat to take my kids to Kindergarten on the way to work)

- Weather is sufficiently good (I live in Germany. I get by. When there's deep fresh snow I don't cycle, the rest of the time it's fine.)

- You're sufficiently healthy (Cycling's a great way to get sufficiently healthy.)
Electric bikes mitigate some of your concerns.
Let me quote the standard then:

[intro.structure]
Clause 5 through Clause 15 describe the C++ programming language.
That description includes detailed syntactic specifications in a form described in 4.3.
For convenience, Annex A repeats all such syntactic specifications.

Clause 17 through Clause 32 and Annex D (the library clauses) describe the C++ standard library.
That description includes detailed descriptions of the entities and macros that constitute the library, in a form described in Clause 16.

it's pretty obvious from that than the library is seen as separate from the language - and yes, std:: could be entirely built-ins but as always that'd be under the as-if rule of optimization.

Else what would be the meaning of core language defects ? http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_active.html
Now you’re giving me ideas! Merry Christmas. ;)
I find that Intel makes quite a few great products and initiatives. They just don't market it as loudly as others.
The Intel NUC (http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html) is quite a versatile machine - smaller, better performance and value for money than mac minis, and more hacker friendly. It even has a cute unboxing experience (The box plays the intel jingle when you open it)

Then there are initiatives like the Intel Realsense cam (like Kinect), Edison, Moblin( which morphed into Meego and later Sailfish). Intel often doesn't get the credit it deserves - Contributing to open source and open standards, having intervened in the markets when someone (usually Apple or Microsoft) got too dominant or comfortable(That was what Meego, Ultrabooks, NUC was about). They certainly make the market more interesting.

I guess this one is aimed at Android TV, and meant to level the field for Microsoft and Linux-based systems.
Penny pays your invoices next day, but it's UK only. pennyfreedom.co.uk
> Simpler is easier than complex, right?

Well, no. Complexity has an obvious price but simplicity does too. You have to work for simplicity, even fight for it. Think of code; it just somehow becomes more complex. You have to work to pare it back to what's needed.

I can't think ATM of better examples (and you deserve some), but no, simplicity does not come easy.

A nice phrase I came across: "elegance is refusal".
Imagine the equivalent in another industry:

“Hello, Bank of America? There’s an ATM machine of yours that’s spitting out cocaine.

Yes, I understand that it’s probably not your cocaine and that’s not your business, but don’t you think you should maybe shut it down?”
Google are jointly liable for this service, so if you can't find a contact point, then you can email google with the service IP. They will more than happily point you on to the customer to avoid being taken to court.
Eh, my VW GTI has a section on towing in the manual that says, paraphrased: "Don't do this, also, this is how you do it" and any U-Haul rental place will (poorly) install a tow hitch for their small box trailers, even on compact cars
He constantly makes comparisons about his comedy and how much more of an experiment it was to showcase the "hidden prejudice" of people. The content of his speech are totally valid and agreeable and don't see why he cannot have an influence for discussing social problems. Actually comedians are of great help for ethical social concerns; for instance take a look at George Carlin.
So what happens when you get into an accident with this thing? Do you have to replace the entire body? Or does it just not properly crumple and you’ll just be dead or crippled so you won’t have to worry about it.
PostScript is a programming language that lets you describe how a page looks. (It's a real, Turing-complete programming language, and you can do things like print a fractal with a couple of lines of PostScript.) It was popular with high-end printers like the Apple LaserWriter, and it required a real CPU inside the printer in order to evaluate the PostScript and render it into an image of the appropriate resolution, which could then be printed. So it was completely out of the question for consumer-level printers like cheap inkjets. Today, of course, adding a real computer to a cheap inkjet is entirely doable (a $5 Pi Zero is far more powerful than the LaserWriter), but in the past you basically needed a driver that ran on your computer that converted a high-level document (e.g., a page from a word processor) to physical instructions for the printer.

CUPS is a program that implements the Internet Printing Protocol, basically a way to send, view, and cancel print jobs over an HTTP API. If you have a local printer connected with a parallel port, you can run CUPS and have other machines send to it. The other thing CUPS does is conversions: you can send a PDF to CUPS, and it will run the driver to convert it to whatever format the printer needs. So an application that talks to CUPS only needs to know how to generate PDFs. CUPS also supports talking to remote print servers, e.g., other CUPS servers, printers that natively speak IPP, or printers that speak some other protocol.

Google Cloud Print is a service which has the unusual property that printers connect to it, not vice versa. Therefore you can print a document to a Google Cloud Print printer without being on the same network, which IPP doesn't let you do. (For printers without direct GCP support, you'd need to leave a computer plugged into it and running, but some newer printers with built-in networking know how to talk to Google and let you register it to your Google account.)
Point well taken.

There are multiple dimensions to manufacturing efficiency, though, right? I have no appreciation for the cost of a couple dies and a machine for stamping versus the cost of a CNC break with one die, but it may play a part based on the number of units they think they will sell. (1,000? 10,000? 100,000?)
For template strings you can have a compiler or IDE plugin check the templates. For lit-html we have lit-analyzer, ts-lit-plugin, and lit-plugin (VS code) that do both general HTML linting and lit-html specific type-checking and syntax highlighting.
Considering 100% of the sales were online! why is that impressive?
I am so proud to be finally able to share the project we were working on for the last six months.
Developed by two fanatics for efficient electronics and high performance software, Exahome is the first intelligent home automation system that improves your comfort while saving energy and resources.
It is designed as an open ecosystem allowing everybody to extend it and build modules or extend the software via APIs.
We would love to read your feedback.
Rand rejected the Nietzchian ubermensch, favoring free and voluntary association. Fountainhead specifically references this with the downfall of Gail Wynand. The characters are idealized though, yeah.
I think the "yet" part is important, though...

And if you want enough irony to fill half of Williamsburg: I do own "The Road to Serfdom", haven't read it this far. (It is one of the few books I brought along to the US with me, so as soon as I manage to crawl through frickin' Blood Meridian, it's going to be next).
Or maybe its the ipodization of the web where you no longer
hop from web site to web site but suck the apps to your
browser as you like.
Harlan Ellison, who has a large book collection his own, on several occasions has said "What's the point of owning a library full of books you've read?"
Yeah, I'm sure there would be developers out there who put a month into a solid iphone app that wasn't just a gimmick and didn't see any results. Might be a different equation for paid apps but for free ones I think your money would be better spent developing small apps like this.
I own plenty of books I haven't read (yet). Don't you?
The user interface is hardly the most important part of EFI. The system interface is much more important. It includes the GUID partitioning scheme as a replacement for the antiquated MBR scheme and other such modernizations. Look at what the Linux kernel has to do to bootstrap itself on a machine using BIOS sometime (spoiler: it ain't pretty).
Don't get me wrong. I like Chomsky, but how is this new?
I keep trying to convince myself I should learn some HDL. Reconstructing a Lisp machine would be a nice project.

A fully functional Lisp machine with a USB keyboard and mouse to match would be the ultimate übergeek gift.

A small Alto would also be pretty neat. The vertical screen could be tricky.
You used 14 words to say what could've been said in 3 or 4.
My university offers "Shabat" keys, as some students religiously object to using the RFIDs on Shabat (Friday night through Saturday), due to it being electronic.
This is lean development at it's finest. Why build it if your target market doesn't care enough to discuss, submit and upvote?
The point of git is, that you do not need to do this. Just push.
Regardless of how huge technologically it was, whatever that means, it failed because it was slower and more expensive than contemporary x86 processors.
"probably the most ridiculous discussion on the planet right now."

HN is unlikely to ever earn that accolade...
http://www.reddit.com/r/dogtalk
So you think sexism is cool? There's at least one slide in that talk with a very demeaning picture of a scantily clad woman at 6:55. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gweDBQ-9LuQ#t=417
With a (sufficiently high) guaranteed income, there is no such thing as a "living wage." A "living wage" is $0. And it goes to everyone, so it's not as though the government is in fact "subsidizing" any business -- they pay the same amount of guaranteed income whether the minimum wage is $0 or $100, whether people are employed or unemployed.

A guaranteed income should absolutely reduce the minimum wage. That's one of its major benefits: redistributing wealth without distorting the market. And I wouldn't worry about the idea that any rich people (the people who presumably you're ultimately worried about subsidizing when you use the shorthand "subsidizing companies") are going to be unfairly benefited by this scheme: it's pretty massive wealth redistribution from the wealthy to everyone else.
Agreed about payola, although most of the avenues I've advertised through did not require anything other than a free copy of my app (game). Some wanted you to advertise through them, although it's a no-obligation deal.

But I like your comment about getting XBox to cover your app -- the XBox market probably isn't very saturated with iPhone apps, so his must have stood out well. Good idea, thanks :)
Funny how your tone and language just reinforces one's perceptions of you.
This person doesn't need medical advice from HN. What he needs is to keep seeing specialist doctors until he can find one that can diagnose him correctly

He's been doing that for 18 years, it's natural to try something different.
> how many orders of magnitude is developing for the web safer than developing for Windows?

Depends on the primary source of your visitors/customers. If that's Google (as is the case with many web companies) then they could introduce a service much like yours and direct people there instead.
Healthy Choice, Lean Cuisine

That's one of your first problems. Start eating real food. Look up the Paleolithic Diet and/or the Longevity Diet; also do some research on Dr. Shulze and his natural cleansing kits/programs (they've helped me and many other people I know).

EAT REAL FOOD
Some people have negative reactions to probiotic yogurts. It's better to take it slow.
And even if you can contest the denial, it can take days to months to get it back, meanwhile you’re shouldered with the burden of paying full price for your treatment with the _hope_ that they’ll reimburse you later.

My fiancée has cancer, and we regularly joke that dealing with insurance companies is worse than the actual stage 3 cancer she has. They constantly deny her coverage for medications she’s been on for years, they will randomly require new tests to make sure she still has cancer (megalolz), they’ll decide they don’t want to cover procedures just for fun until we call and argue with a representative for a few hours and then all of a sudden it’s a “billing mistake” that can be reversed.

It’s a racket, plain and simple. Medical care should never be tied to personal wealth, period.
I am teaching myself python/django. Started around January this year, released www.sgelections2011.com about 2 weeks ago. Bring it on :)

P.S I'm actually looking for a Django Jedi Master to take my under his wing for a bit. Think I got the basics down but lack a experienced eye to see that obvious mistakes I'm making. Thanks!
Curious about this as well, it would make sense to me for them to do this.
A motorcycle can be turned at speed two ways. Out-tracking is only one of those ways. (Leaning is the other)

However, it is the way that lets you take a deep set most quickly, and can help a lot with tight lines.

You may think that you are not out-tracking when you turn at freeway speeds, but remember the amount of necessary out-track decreases as speed increases.
> My opinion of Emacs being obsolete is one which I got from reading James Gosling, the author of the first Emacs that ran on Unix. I trust that he knows a thing or two on the matter and he didn't rest on his laurels after moving on. Besides, his description of Emacs matches the evidence of the senses.

So in other words, you have no direct experience with Emacs to compare it to whatever other programming environments you may or may not have used.

Thank you for wasting our time.
"Essentially, many of the same things that give gold value, give bitcoins value"

But gold is real, tangible. Bitcoins are... bits. Assume some kind of real social upheaval in the future. Computer networks, power grids collapse. Bitcoins will evaporate. Even paper currency will likely be worthless, as its value is not inherent. Or less apocalyptic, assume some clever person figures out how to hack bitcoins and counterfeit them easily. Poof, they are worthless.

Gold will always be gold.
Answering my own question:

http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/whats-new-in-my...

This appears to be a way to access InnoDB storage as a memcached-type key-value store using the memcached API. I didn't get that from the article.
Of course. My point is, the gyroscopic forces of a pair of 20lb wheels spinning at nearly 1,000rpm are not trivial. It takes a noticeable amount of force to make the bike respond quickly.