jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes! I had Archon II as a kid and loved it. I remember that playing against the AI was a very different game than playing against another person, as the AI could do things during the fights with perfect aim and split-second reflexes that made it very overpowered with certain units that another human had a hard time using well. But it's strategy wasn't as good, so I could outplay it on the board enough to get a win, especially after I figured out which units I could use effectively against the AI.
Possibly. The press keep pushing South Korea as a better alternative, but to be honest I'm not sure even the South Korean government believes their model is sustainable or viable. New clusters of cases that have escaped contact tracing keep popping up no matter what they do and are causing concern, folks are starting to worry about an autumn second wave there, and I don't think their testing has been as extensive as media reports have implied in important areas like nursing homes and hospitals. (There was a 75-person cluster at a nursing home in Daegu, probably the most heavily tested city in all South Korea, that they only discovered some time around Thursday.)
That is annoying, but if you really want to know, I suspect it's almost certainly 8GB.
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HCQ is already the recommended treatment for certain cases in many countries, including the US. Here is a super interesting conference call from UCSF: https://youtu.be/bt-BzEve46Y?t=3194
> any other restriction on the freedom of movement and freedom of assembly

People abusing these freedoms in spite of lockdowns are what's going to kill hundreds of thousands of people in the coming days.
Guidance from the Federal Department of Education...

>To be clear: ensuring compliance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), † Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504), and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act should not prevent any school from offering educational programs through distance instruction.

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/frontpage/faq/rr/...
The UK key worker list is detailed here. It's not particularly clear: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-0156-0?error=cook...
> People keep banging on about who dies. That's not the point.

That's 100% the point. If you know who they are you can isolate them.

> Herd immunity hasn't worked. It's been a catastrophic failure that's flooded hospitals with very ill people.

I assume that you know many people with Polio then?
This is in the class of "demoware", projects that are easy to program fancy demos for but are very difficult to bring to production status. (See also: "fully visual programming".) It's only really interesting if they escape from that. We'll have to wait and see.
Please note that my comment may be biased. I'm one of the developers of Priority Matrix (http://www.appfluence.com), a product using the Covey method, which competes somewhat with GTD.

From my personal experience and those in working with our customers, I think individuals can be divided into at least 3 distinct groups. If you've ever taken the Meyer Briggs test, you may notice that the 4th letter is P for Perceiving or J for Judging. I want to break the J's into 2 subsets (B and C).

The three groups, in my opinion, are:
A) Perceiving, people in this group are not interested in general organization unless necessary. GTD will not work well for these individuals.
B) People in this group must plan out the specific details of their work. Knowing the purpose of what they have to do next gives them peace and comfort. GTD and/or Pomodoro work well for these individuals.
C) People in this group are interested in planning, but only for important things. The general approach to prioritization and categorization is sufficient to keep the person sane, but there's no necessary investments into detailed planning. I think the Covey method works well for these individuals.

To go back to your original question, do you think you are in A, B, or C? I think that group A individuals who try GTD will see the planning work for a while, but will quickly become frustrated as they get a lot of things done, but they don't feel like they get IMPORTANT things done. GTD looks at tasks from an altitude-like levels: "10,000 ft view" vs "50,000 ft view" etc. For perceiving individuals, the 0-10,000 ft level can be frustrating. But for many Judging people, I certainly think that this detailed planning provides clarity.
Mobs don't always bring justice, but I have trouble feeling bad when they do. I mean, so far this mob has a better record than the legal system does in bringing copyright claims to a reasonable conclusion, so it's not as though there's a bulletproof alternative.
I know he made a little "bait" comment but at least he admits the simple inability for python to seriously host DSLs. If you look at any python port of a DSL (sinatra clone, cucumber clone, whatever) it's just simply ugly. It's STILL python code.
Yeah I realize their is net benefits there.

Out of interest, I wonder how much money Google actually makes from mobile Safari usage? Ie, if you took away Google search + Admob integration into the iPhone, how much benefit would they still have? (Even worse, replace it with Bing search, so that most searches the user does on their phone see Bings in-search advertisements)

Would be interesting to see the stats on how advertising goes in mobile optimized websites, and just how likely a user is to click on an ad-link while using their phone browser. I know my mobile browsing is either reading stuff, or looking up information I want to see, then getting out, whereas on a PC I'm more likely to wander around the internet earning money for Google.
While it would be neat to give the power of programming to everyone, I'm not convinced coding in a natural language would necessarily be better/easier than writing code in Ruby or Lisp or Python.

Sure, you eliminate the first big hurdle in programming, but learning the syntax of programming language is usually one of the easier parts of software development.
For what it's worth, the person who wrote that was not the real Judith--someone created a fake Facebook account and made several posts like (and including) this one.
Totally agreed. We will get much better at this in the future. Unfortunately 2/3 of the funding team (me included) are english-second-language.
I've survived, and even succeeded (by some, maybe most, measures) through my first year of full-time freelance web development.

I have some clients, who came onboard very early on in my professional and personal development as a freelance dev, and who are still being billed at their original rates. I notified these clients at the beginning of November that I am working to bring all rates "on par" across the board.

Even clients who are currently receiving the benefit of your older, lower rates will agree to the economics of paying a competitive price for the same quality of service that you provide to your highest paying clients. The dialog that began in November has proven fruitful in terms of developing a strategy to get all of my current, ongoing clients to agree to the new rate structure.

Bottom line: Have too much work, or too many "potential clients" hounding you for proposals? Raise your rates. Want to keep your clients? Give them notice well ahead of time, then raise your rates.
I guess that's an accidental part of word based OCR rather than a deliberate spellcheck, I noticed it correct the name "Keysource" to "ecruosyeR"
I agree with your latter point, but nowadays a lot of freelancers rarely or never meet their clients (especially if they're overseas).

That said, I'd still put e-mail as a better medium for this than the phone. Even if you worded it just right, it's awkward for the client too because it's not exactly something to celebrate but nor do they want to look cheap. E-mail provides the right level of formality for contractual/pricing discussions, IMHO at least.
I lurk there here and there for a few months and I can assure you that you are wrong. Unless you classify puppies, jokes and lolcats as such.
I just think it is weird to ask people for money when there are other people(companies) willing to give them money.
A javascript version of Nem-ID is planned for release in 2014 [1].

[1]: http://www.nets.eu/dk-da/Produkter/Sikkerhed/NemID-tjenesteu...
I went to a bootcamp called refactorU and got hired out of the gate. To be fair I already had coding experiences and just needed some validation and networks. It took about a month to get a job that I'm happy with!
Another vote for Telegram here. I tried to get at least the core group of family/friends on Signal or Wire and to their credit they tried but it never stuck. They loved Telegram so much that we now have the entire extended family/friends on it.
It's not, because nothing in the article is true. Get a grip kid.
Nope. Not a lawyer but I doubt it at all.
Rail works fine overseas. The US automobile industry bought up and intentionally destroyed our passenger rail networks.

Antitrust law should have been used to prevent it, but it wasn’t, and now the damage has been done.
> All I see is law enforcement opening a gate.

That is literally letting them in. They didn't stand their position. They literally walked backwards and let the crowd in.
It sounds made up.
For me, the worst is:

> [1, 2] + [3, 4] // returns "1,23,4"

Due to muscle memory from Python, it’s very easy to mess it up.
European user here - I got the notification today so... I guess it does?
Agree. But Jet Brains is arguably more of a household name than VMWare.
What? I'm not a PERL programmer - I used it a bit before it grew OO features, roughly at the same time I used Turbo Pascal, so really long ago. Yet, in these examples: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1037312/how-do-i-create-a... I see no boilerplate you speak of. If you look at this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1037312/how-do-i-create-a... answer you'll see comparison to C++, which isn't exactly in the favour of the latter in terms of conciseness.

And then, even if it was true and you really needed to "add public methods to EXPORT variable" that's no different than modern JavaScript, right? That's how modules work in JS. Having to "return" something at the end of a module is a requirement in Lua, too - again, it's just how the module system works.

Anyway, I don't know PERL, but knowing many other languages I find your claims suspicious. It reads as if you were a recent Java convert who tries to rationalize his decision to leave PERL or something like that.
I also second this recommendation. I read this book 5 or 6 years ago and it has not left from my recommendation list [1] since then!

[1] http://pablo.rauzy.name/miscellaneous.html#books
>most would quite like to improve relations, for instance Cuba and Iran.

The ones that don't like to improve the relations generally get hung up on unstable countries developing atomic bombs.
When I'm developing a website, if I have a time to do things the right way, I'm doing my best to present to user a usable website both without CSS and JS. Good semantic markup usually provides good user interface. And, as crawlers usually don't like JS, making non-JS version helps them to crawl the site anyway.
Oh, probably more. How much does human interest cost? This has captured quite a few people's attention, especially considering it's catching people not in mathematics.
Gah, no way. I downloaded this app. This is exactly the type of app kids play with and press the ads in constantly.
Good catch; as I commented in an earlier outsourcing thread today (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1418199), for many companies this is just a cheaper way to fail and that does have value of a sort.
you make it sound like a good thing.
If it isn't, it is in any case a great sentence. Thank you.
This sentence from the post doesn't quite mean what was intended:

We decided to introduce trademarks on the “Node.js” and the “Node logo” in order to ensure that people or organisations who are not investing in the Node community misrepresent, or create confusion about the role of themselves or their products with Node.

(Throwing in another negative – "...to ensure that people or organizations who are not investing... can't misrepresent.." – would be a quick fix at the cost of introducing a double-negative. But I'd suggest a more radical simplification: "...in order to prevent anyone from misrepresenting their role with Node.")
I believe the orionvm cloud would qualify as "good or even average disk performance" (http://orionvm.com.au/blog/3rd-Party-Performance-Benchmarks/ Benched by cloudharmony.com), as they are 60% faster than a dedicated server with 4 * 15k SAS disks.

Disclaimer: I'm a director at orionvm.
> As a reducio ad absurdum, suppose that Amazon was secretive beyond all dreams of a CIA director, but never ever failed. Would people care about their communications strategy?

This is not the same. No one cares about active communication, when things go as expected. However, failure/unexpected outcomes are supposed to be communicated properly.

> The updates probably have a lawerly feel because when the engineers are asked for a status update by management, they get a "piss off, we're working on it, don't bug me".

The relationship between a boss and an employee is different than a customer and a company. More so, A boss asking for update, is not the same analogy as company providing an update.

When I(an employee, and most of my coworkers) work on some bug fix, makes things inconvenient others (including my bosses), I try to communicate the status of the issue and progress with my efforts actively, even if they dont ask for it, because this is what I believe is the professional thing to do.
Apologies if my tone of voice turned you off. I am getting fatigued with this thread. I feel like the distinction being seized here is minor, bordering on pedantic.
I've sent in my internship application to them.
fingers crossed
In an e-commerce business, fraud is the main risk and also the main problem to solve. Especially in a company that is essentially printing money.
Another applied math grad here. Our intro numerical course was taught in Matlab since it made it a lot easier to focus on stuff like numerical stability and complexity without getting stuck in the details of teaching people C. Everybody who ever uses a computer to do any sort of math needs to know about concepts like stability, truncation, accuracy and precision, not everybody needs to know C or Fortran. It seems unnecessary to me to tie the learning of the one to the learning of the other

It wasn't before the intermediate courses that Fortran (77 and 95),C and assembly where taught. And even there Matlab was used to illustrate most higher level concepts.
The plugin is open source: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/static-html-outpu...

And all that it does is simply "spider" the site and save the pages to HTML.

You could get the exact same effect using curl or wget, we just use the plugin so that my non-technical employees can effectively click a button, get the zip file, and send it to someone who's got access to do the deployment.
I expect the hype generated by a pirated movie is reverse correlation to the movie's budget -- a blockbuster is already marketed to the nth degree, so additional hype from a bittorrent release is probably not going to make much impact. On the other hand, bittorrent releases of small budget movies can make a film's popularity explode[1].

[1] http://torrentfreak.com/producer-thanks-pirates-for-stealing...
The softly stated allegation is that Wikileaks can use their knowledge of Tor weaknesses to SNOOP and extract traffic not directed at them. At least, that's what I understood.
No, it could be the case that someone is unhappy whenever they're working. For someone like that, the best job is one that pays a lot for a small amount of work. The lower the pay rate, the worse the job.

I think that's a meaningful interpretation. In fact, I think this situation is pretty common among people in the world.
Except that the most popular car is the most stolen because it is the one physically most available to thieves. Digitally, almost all these movies have the same availability. The only thing the data shows are what movies are popular among people who download pirated films. It also might imply that there is a market between the $20 BluRay and the $0 download.
European startups could benefit from angel financing through mass-syndication involving angels from both sides of the Atlantic, and into some extent vice-versa.

What do you think? Would it be possible, interesting? Let the discussion flow here or on http://periferi.co
I'd tell you a joke about udp but you might not get it.
> the whole concept of classified information breaks down pretty quickly if you start saying it's okay for people to exercise their own judgement

As it should. If something requires to be classified to work then it doesn't work.
It has nothing to do with being illegal. That's just not the name of the city. Why would someone call San Francisco St-Francis on any sign, since nobody would know what it refers to?
There's no pro team with several hundred miles of me. I know why blackouts exist, and they make sense to a degree in larger cities/areas near a team. However, if we're going to be honest, they have no problems selling tickets to games people actually want to go to. Assuming I had a more flexible work schedule, I would try to go to a few Steelers games (Which would, basically, force me to fly there...I wouldn't relish the drive).

I don't even care about not getting all the games for every team, let me pick a set of teams (say 3-6) and get all their games live. Hell, I'll even take a pick of two teams for live streaming. I already subscribe to NFL network's streaming service for game replays, but there are some games -- like for the teams I support -- that I want live.
You make it sound like they could demand that I access the encrypted content on a random third party and put me in jail for not coming up with mathematical break through needed to decrypted the data without the passphrase.

I doubt the law is that strict. Do you know what level of suspicion or proof for the court to apply jail time?
"person" doesn't have a formal mathematical definition. "computer" does, and anything simulating our universe must be at least as powerful as a computer, since our universe contains computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine
> Woah hold on - you're firing people for getting things wrong in meetings?

Wrong outcomes for meetings have business consequences, which can include people losing their jobs. That's not necessarily "people getting fired for getting things wrong in meetings" -- indeed it generally shouldn't be that except in rather extreme cases of "getting things wrong" -- but it still means that people's jobs are on the line in the meeting and that there is extreme pressure not to make mistakes. Not because your boss will fire you because they don't like your answer, but because the market will punish your company -- potentially cost you and your coworkers their jobs -- if the market doesn't like the outcome of the meeting.
> most boats are tsunami-proof

When the bow is pointed into the wave (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVRx7iWE0VM at about 1:38)
What are the fixes for this kind of failure scenario? (Bad CEO, and bad board)?

IMO, a previous employer was in this scenario. The CEO was not effective, and the board didn't replace him because of a combination of apathy and personal relationships.

Is it up to the shareholders to stir up the board?
"Personal Branding" is one of my least favorite buzzwords. (Right up there with "synergy.")

If you replace every instance with "Reputation," you get the very same advice plus some.
I'd like to know how much money is invested in this.

Since inception the DHS has been a huge money pit of questionable efficacy. This level of incompetence smells like corruption to me.

40 Billion dollars in funding for 2010. http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/

Realizing the costs associated with TSA security theater are frustrating. We all fund it.
I have a vision of a bunch of officials in ill-fitting uniforms giving passengers the Larry David Stare.
I was just suggesting that you change the messaging a bit.

"Free Websites" is a lot different from "Pay What You Want"
I'm an information dependent (not an addict). It's important to distinguish between dependency and addiction[1]. For example, a diabetic is dependent on insulin. It would be stupid to call a diabetic an insulin addict. In the same respect, I'm dependent on information because guess what? I'm a knowledge worker. Knowing things is my job.

[1] http://health.discovery.com/centers/pain/medicine/med_addict...
I think that the Chinese case is more extreme, but this is not without precedent here...

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/police-twitter-riots...
I don't know of any American companies that pay employees to eat lunch. 9-5, I think is just an American colloquialism at this point. If you get an hour for lunch, then it's really 9-6.
Heh -- Justin is the guy who coined "luck surface area" and apparently thinks no one knows it. I had answered a question in another thread about who made it up, and someone followed that up with "see Justin? they are paying attention" -- so I thought I'd be funny and repeat that.
The part about Cassandra and replication is wrong. One can configure replication factor to be 3 and still make writes with consistency level one - which means the other 2 writes will happen async and won't block the client.

The part about write ahead logger is also useless and cassandra also does that. it's called commit log in cassandra.

It gave me the impression that the author really doesn't understand cassandra.

As for the decision of facebook to not use cassandra - i guess it has more to do with maintaining data hotspots or Map reduce like computation on the data than replication and
scaling factors. Even though cassandra has key cache and map reduce from version 0.6 they are still not very mature.
Who should they "reflect" the attack back at? Baidu, who seem to be a victim of HTTP hijacking in this case? Or the Chinese government? If the latter, then where exactly do you focus the counter-attack?
They have full cooperation and it is definitely not just GSM.