jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Scala is becoming much more popular in enterprise and large scale environments.

Mostly because us developers who are working there know that companies like Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare etc. are using it and doing so incredibly successfully. And often frameworks like Play2, Storm, Finagle etc are perfect for our requirements.
Man, I've lately seen so many posts criticizing Go. They must have done something pretty well with it. It's sad that I see more posts criticizing Go than posts talking positively about it.
Holoparasites are, so far, virtually impossible. See rafflesia, for instance. Haustorium's one hell of an organ - most likely how this orchid extracts nutrients from the mycelium.
The sad part is all these denials do is heighten my awareness of political double-speak.

Of course no one is trying to "listen in on people's email". You don't listen to emails. Says nothing that people's emails aren't being read, scanned, or indexed. But I'm sure I agree with the President that nobody is "listening" to them.

I thought at one point my cynicism couldn't possibly get any worse...
Europe will now use the same procedure as the the US never leaving less than two in the cockpit. Too late for the Germanwing passengers but at least they are implementing it after the fact.
Not true (technically). When you add an integer to a char, you get an integer. (If you add a floating point number, the result is such as well.)

You can, of course, use the integer you got like a char (after all, C's char is a small integer type) to get your gibberish. You can also use a floating point number as a char, because C has lax implicit conversions.
You can be depressive or mentally ill without wanting to harm yourself or anyone else. Let's not blame the murder of 149 people on depression. The question really is, how to protect against malicious pilots?
> You'll notice that the child custody/support and alimony system are grotesquely biased against men

This is probably the exact reason why so many of my male American friends in the tech industry seem unhappy and depressed in their marriages. I'm guessing they want to leave, but don't want to get sued by their lower-earning spouse for half of everything they have earned so far.

There really should be a "Do this, not that" guide for people entering marriage in the US to protect their wealth from possible divorce theft by spouses who have "become accustomed to" a certain lifestyle and want to try and coast on your money for as long as possible. (In fact, if people here have gone through such experiences, I would love to hear their suggestions).

Chris Rock puts it crudely but truly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAmeW8bq08k

This is when women have a similar experience (notice the resulting sympathy from the audience): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xCXuvdAywg
"Mr Cook's base salaray" I always wonder how sites like the bbc still miss spelling errors.

Good for him though.
He is not even a company representative! He's some random environmentalist who wanted to talk about golden rice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore_%28environmentali...

It's sickening what passes on as journalism today.
I think mostly the industry is to blame here. We could have had a universal secure 2fa ages ago. I hope that with the advent of smart watches, 2fa could become more sexy, and hence could get more attention from the industry.
The most important point the author is missing is code readability - being forced to write opinionated code is one thing. Having a chance to read somebody elses code (or your own code 3 months later) and avoiding eternal debate on code formatting is priceless. Programming is not about being able to outsmart others, in particular not in a large-scale project.
Try and draw me a line between scaremongering and being realistic about forecasts?
I don't know, but based on what I've heard I hope I never have occasion to find out. ;)
"I don't really count a degree in communication or womens studies as a college degree." FTFY
More realistically, Orion (well, we can save that for responding to alien invasions) and laser launch. The latter is something we ought to be able to do today (the former's Environmental Impact Statement would be ... problematical :-).
I'm only getting that on levels 10 and 48. 9 and below seem to work.
Makes perfect sense to me. That will have additional advantages as it will allow the Times to weed out a lot of fluff pieces about who tweeted what.
Guessing they tested before the live shot, which worked, but weakened the glass. Though the back window gives too, so maybe not.
Those numbers aren't too far off. That's making a decision on every auction at 1M QPS, which is most of what is worth listening to in RTB globally. Most of those decisions won't actually involve much ML though, it'll be straight targeting rules matching and checking whether there is any budget.

The actual attribution shouldn't be on 80B though. It's pointless analysing requests you didn't buy. There might be some value in using that data in ML to feed into a pricing algorithm, but it would be marginal and I doubt cost/benefit would ever stack up. it would technically be in breach of pretty much every SSP contract I've seen (although everyone does it).
I not only have an ethical issue with what you just said, I also question the wisdom in disclosing your illegal activities on a public forum.
I found a novel solution by accident to this. I moved to a new area but kept my old number. 99% of my spam calls are from my phone’s area code. If you are not a contact and a number comes up from that area code, it is spam. If it is my new area code, it is a person or business trying to reach me.

You could likely get a far off area coded number.
I just hope it's not some type of horrible system, where you're expected to go into the office but wear a mask all day.

The conspiracy theorist in me believes this is more about stimulating the local economy around tech jobs then actual productivity. Millions of people essentially work in support roles in cafes or bars that cater to office workers. Even auto mechanics will eventually start to lose work as less people need to drive.

My dream life would be working from home forever, but with the freedom to go to a coffee shop and not have to wear a mask.
Absolute. Wealth is power. Power is not having to worry about your safety and security. When you have so much money that you’re not answerable to anyone, you don’t worry about paying the bills or the mortgage, you can really speak your mind and spend your money in ways that others simply cannot. That is true power, imo.
Two Scoops of Django is probably one of the absolute best books to read on Django. I would read that before looking for anything else.
In that specific case, you probably want to roll up that time-series data as it gets older, while keeping the full dataset in a flat file system for data science etc if you need it.

You probably never need a millisecond-granularity data point from 6 months ago in your database.
> If you ever need something to happen as a response to an event which is not a web request, Django makes this difficult and ugly.

You are a bit vague but this is where message/task queues (e.g. Celery + a broker) come into play. Celery integrates with Django quite nicely.
> It's a very new library, so it shouldn't have 15 years of legacy cruft in it.

If they made it by copy-pasting one last time, it certainly could.
also there is open source
https://www.taiga.io
-1 for banning anything.

Hacker News is democratic. Things that get voted up do well. Things that are not voted up don't make the front page. By banning stuff, you'd be censoring the people on HN who think that certain sites and links are worth reading. You're as much saying that you don't like other HN readers' opinions than the links they post.

Considering this story is at 147 votes and counting, there are quite a few people who clearly thought it was worth checking out. Stop trying to silence their opinions.
https://github.com/michiel-unhosted/unhosted
> Why can't I just sell a game to people who won't use it to build bots? That seems like a reasonable thing to want.

Why can't I only sell books to white people and not to libraries or people whose skin color I dislike? That seems like a reasonable thing to want.

Some "contracts" aren't and shouldn't be enforceable. Blizzard may be better off if they and Congress create laws that prevent individuals from using internet services in any way the internet service doesn't like, but society is worse off.
After having written the thesis and thought about that stuff for another few weeks, my résumé would be:

- Use asynchronous I/O to maximize single-node speed (twisted should be a good choice for python). It might be strange in the beginning, but it usually makes up for it, especially with languages that aren't good at threading (ruby, python, ...).

- Redis is awesome! Fast, functional, beautiful :)

- Riak seems to be a great distributed datastore if you really have to scale over multiple nodes.

- Solr or Sphinx are just better optimized than most datastores when it comes to fulltext-search

- Take a day to look at graph databases (I'm still not 100% sure if I could have used one for my use cases)
I'd like to meet Chicago HN folks. The evenings of the 27th through the 29th work for me.
Pretty cool, the only thing I can think of is letting the user know when the form isn't submitted, and telling them what the app will do once it's back online.
I have no idea where to begin with the decryption, but I like this guy's style.
There's accelerometer support in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari (at least mobile Opera and Safari) now. It's only a matter of time until we have useable APIs for NFC, camera, etc. I'm wondering when there's going to be a browser USB API. I can think of some things I'd like to do with that.
Sounds good. I bought the full article and I'm even more convinced about exercising before breakfast.
Last year it looked obvious that we were heading to streaming of on-demand digital video as the primary means of delivery. Although that may still be where we are heading, I see dark clouds in our future.

The "TV vs. On-Demand" comparison (if that was what Mr. Graham was referring) is less an issue now. I propose that what few saw then as a problem, is a looming one now. In other words, it's not so much "TV vs. Streaming/On-demand/digital/or whatever." It's that the old players, "TV", are now positioning (and are by far in the lead) to control the digital streaming of video from the internet.

Huge, deep pocket, long established trades, corporations, and/or markets are not supposed to gain control of emerging trades and markets. That is for new business to handle, and by which new business come into their own. (by advantage of being more lean, fast, knowledgeable about new tech/markets, better in-tune, etc) So that eventually the greatest of those new business's themselves become dinosaurs and are so replaced. This way business, knowledge, and technology progress.

Not to say that a "dinosaur" could not have this effect. Just less likely, and the likelihood I suspect will mathematically decay over time. (as the corporation becomes larger and less agile)
> Rent increases will be replaced with wait lists.

That is basically what happened when I lived in Switzerland. Places were let at reasonable prices, but there was so much competition for supply that your best bet was to find something overpriced.
> 2. RMS is not obviously asking for any understanding nor promising to be better.

You can't apologize once there is a mixture of 10% truth and 90% defamation.

The libelous press will then print that the target has apologized for 100%, and therefore has validated the libel.
> RMS has publicly described himself as autistic

Oh, has he? Last I heard he actually rejected that. When did he openly call himself autistic?
https://twitter.com/dbmoore/status/1379197531284926464?s=21
Contextualise (https://contextualise.dev/), a semantic graph-based application to help you organise your own knowledge, projects, etc. It is the basis of all my projects (both personal and professional).
> I find git-annex to become a bit unwieldy at around 20k to 30k files

Oh well there goes my plan to use it for the 500 million files we have in cloud storage!
Heavy meditation practice helps a lot with all other points if you have the time.

Progresses are VERY slow but steady (even slower given the lack of will power), but quality of life improves dramatically over years. I even stopped micro-dosing because I didn't need it anymore.

The sooner you start, the better, given the time scale. You don't change something that deep in a few weeks, and you may slack off, give up or back track many times.

I'll advice Vipassana because I have experience with it, it's light on the religious aspects and you have centers to teach it pretty much every where. Anyway, don't try on your own, it's even harder alone.
Please read his email again and think about if what you said is really true. It’s quoted in this article: https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/09/13/free-software-icon-rich...
Reminder that a blanket statement that RMS is autistic is contradicted by RMS himself: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2551458/asperger-s-oxy...
I know what a cookie is and never really cared. Seems like a fair trade for a wealth of entertainment and knowledge that 30 years ago would cost considerable amounts to obtain. An ad for board games because I Googled board games doesn't make me feel like I sold my soul to the devil, like some seem to believe.

I hate the cookie pop-ups with a passion, its done nothing but discourage visiting new sites, which is awful for the internet. It pushes you to use sites you already know of (which are generally quite big).
> I’m probably missing part of the background here, I’m new to the controversy. Did some kind of mystery arise around the true identity of the author?

Not really.

Originally, the blog was pseudonymous. It was the first and middle name of the author, which he did because he's a psychiatrist who didn't want someone Googling his real name and finding his blog (for various professional and personal reasons).

But it wasn't exactly hidden super well - I found out his full name kind of by accident while googling for some random info about him, it would take most people a few minutes to find his name I imagine. This was ok by him because he mostly wanted to protect the reverse direction - someone googling his full name and finding his blog, not the other direction of someone finding his blog and discovering his full name (mostly - not exclusively).

In any case, after a year of "arranging his life" to allow him to do so, as he puts it, he is now publishing under his full name.
Adults just want their children out from home so they can "work in peace". No-one really cares about what the want: not the parents, not the schools, and definitely not the the board of education
Why? The advantage of having a single Rust compiler is that there is almost never any reason to use an old one. There are some cases where I can see that using a pinned compiler version would be important: if you are doing mission-critical embedded or financial programming and need a verified compiler. But none of those apply to game development.
You can add a constraint solver on top of it. So when e.g. C changes, you solve for A and B. You then update the state of A, B, C and redraw. This kind of interaction can be handled by a separate library which is not necessarily part of a GUI system.
Immediate mode is great, but it can be hard to implement nice custom event handling on top of it. For example, say you have a collection of buttons. You want to be able to click on one button (the button highlights), drag onto another button (that button highlights and the first button unhighlights), and release on that second button to trigger its action. This is a real issue I ran into while building an immediate-mode UI... I found it hard to implement an interaction like this without a reified "layout" that I could query as the mouse moved around.
“My childhood was marred with things more like your own than my friend's as I came from a working lower middle class so despite my parents sending me to private school to shield me from the realities”

My mom used to smoke crack in front of me when we were about the same age. Poor people do not have a monopoly on being shitty parents but let’s stay on topic here: the school system is necessary for the lower classes.
Anecdotally, all my over-educated friends who tried to take up teaching (after something else) gave up. Citing this reason, and sometimes the level of bureaucracy.
My question on dark mode is, will it become a standard feature across most apps, or will it be seen as a craze that faded away as quickly as it came? It seems amazingly useful to me, but I've spoken to people who can't stand it.
My point exactly. I showed this to a couple of my non-tech friends and they couldn't quite understand why we'd spend hours looking at what seemed like "work stuff"
I've received international payments before from clients using Paypal, Moneybookers and Western Union as well as direct bank transfer.

Mostly, the direct bank transfer was the easiest. I paid $30 as a transaction charge.

Paypal is not supported in my country so that money is stuck in paypal and i can only use it online. But Moneybookers supports bank transfers and it is much easier to deal with in my country.

This is all relative of course. Larger companies for example will already have a process in place for bank transfers, while smaller ones or individuals will prefer something like Paypal.
Like dispersant.
the sun on the moon, the sun on the moon
the sun on the moon makes a mighty nice light
the sun on the moon my man,
ooo, bow wow wow, honk your horn

I know that song too, we should be friends. :)
I know a company that was outsourcing work to Argentina and was not entirely happy with said work. But they had a lot of knowledge sunk there.

Argentina decided to respond to the downturn by bringing in legislation that would make the cost of firing people even higher. That fact pushed the US company to fire the Argentina employees right away rather than waiting for it to get more expensive.

Unintended consequences and all that.
GDB 7.1 is a great improvement over previous versions and has a lot of the features LLDB intends to have - better C++ support, better thread debugging, more accurate backtraces, and a Python scripting API - as well as some features that aren't on the LLDB roadmap yet, like tracepoints for debugging time-sensitive code and multi-program debugging. You should check it out if you're unhappy with an older version.
Yeah, I have trouble believing that there is good research supporting this assertion.

I think that the author meant to distinguish between someone who is 1 in 100 and someone who is 1 in 10,000.

My problem here is that I suspect that it's stupid to use 7th grade SAT math scores to make this distinction. In fact, I doubt that any standardized test can make that distinction - I suspect that they top out around the 99%ile (actually, an 800/800 on the GRE math was only about 96%ile when I took it).

When a test is tedious, irritating, and consists primarily of solving simple geometry and algebra problems and choosing answers from a multiple choice menu, and when the difference between 99.9%ile and 98.7%ile is a couple of missed answers, I suspect you're measuring noise.n I'm not saying the tests are useless, they're probably pretty good. But to identify why the few great mathematical minds come from one group or another? Seriously?

The only real way to measure this kind of talent is to provide opportunities to learn, step back, wait 20 years, and see what they've done.

As for the gender question, well I guess I'm just begging the question with my "opportunity to learn" statement, because the whole question is whether this imbalance is in itself strong evidence of differing opportunities for men and women.

How do you measure something that is obscure and present in only a miniscule fraction of the population? Our indicators can tell us who is 1/100, maybe kinda. This whole approach is fubar.
Vitalik is extremely smart, but even people that are 10 times less smart than Vitalik can create a crypto project ...
I'd say closures are one of the fundamental concepts of computer science. They're described in the introduction to chapter 2 of SICP, "Building Abstractions with Data".

SOLID sounds nice but I don't think I've ever seen anyone adhere to it religiously. Easy exercise: take any Java program, and imagine the spec changed the width of integers it needs to support, from 32-bit to some other size. How many files would you need to touch to make this change? Clearly, no class in the program has the Single Responsibility of this. The first letter of SOLID is already violated.
Have you tried writing a web app in Java/Go/Rust vs. Python in the past year?
No I actually did mean indigenous peoples who often moved seasonally.

But you're right. Especially for a dry climate like the Southwest, there are a lot of construction/architectural techniques--especially for standalone dwellings--that can go a long way towards eliminating/reducing the need for A/C.

In general, climate control is also just more of an expectation these days for many people. I live in an old farmhouse in central Mass where you get maybe a couple of really hot spells over the course of a summer. And additional fairly hot/humid days.

I have a small window unit I sometimes put in but a lot of people almost can't believe I don't have whole house A/C which I would consider largely unnecessary.
m-pesa fits virtually none of what the parent said about cryptocurrency.
"The relativistic versions of MOND" are just adding fields to General Relativity. Thus making them relativistic theories.

Famaey and McGaugh §7. https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3960

Consequently the rest of your last paragraph is incorrect.

"we need dark matter to explain any theory of gravity"

No. MOND is a theory of gravitation, but it's not relativistic, and it does not work at scales larger than that of galaxies (it is notably wrong with respect to the peculiar motions of galaxies in massive clusters, and a residual mass term must be added ibid. §6.6.4 : essentially, MOND still needs dark matter at galaxy cluster scales, even if it were to correctly describe all the individual galaxies in the massive cluster).

Additionally, General Relativity does not require dark matter any more than Newton's F=ma requires dark matter. The issue is that General Relativity's G=T like F=ma does not tell you about the initial trajectories, you plug those in by hand. If you start with the trajectories learned by observing galaxies (as Vera Rubin did), you can work out a stress-energy tensor that satisfies those trajectories -- and the majority of it has to be electromagnetically-uncharged, interacting very weakly or even only gravitationally (i.e., they can't clump or diffuse on the scales of mere millions of years), and slow-moving. If neutrinos weren't so inclined to zip around at speeds very close to that of light, they'd fit nearly perfectly; unfortunately, we're left trying to find the microscopic details of the unknown parts of the stress-energy tensor. Milgrom's MONDian approach to Rubin's discoveries that the orbits of "surface" stars are non-Keplerian was to turn "a" in F=ma into a function that depends on the radial distance from a galaxy's core; the function was found empirically, comparable to how the stress-energy distribution was found. However, it's the dependence on a coordinate distance that makes this approach non-relativistic.

(For terseness, in the paragraph above I've discarded some factors, set the constants c and G to unity, and omitted the greek-letter indices on the stress-energy and Einstein tensors (T resp. G). In the MOND context, F=ma is more appropriately written as in the first paragraph of §6 of Famaey & McGaugh.)
Indeed. I always swear when I forget to add -Pinterest to my queries.
Yeah, for me and anyone I know who tracks it, out conversion rate (without referrals, which convert much better) is 100 applications to 1 offer.