jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The secret of exception sanity is a standard exception hierarchy, like Python's. Catching an exception class in Python also gets all its subclasses. "EnvironmentError" covers all I/O errors, network errors, and such, but doesn't cover internal program errors. New user-defined exceptions are added below the most appropriate part of the standard exception hierarchy. So Python usually doesn't have Java's exception hell.

You know, Java also has a standard exception hierarchy. However, whether in Java or Python, it usually makes sense for the exceptions of a library NOT to be part of the standard hierarchy. For instance, SQLAlchemy's exceptions all inherit from SQLAlchemyError. It's the same thing in Java.
Yes, that's the same impression I got skimming through the page for a domain.
The world would be a much sadder place if that was the case. I do not understand how the infrastructure that powers world trade, banking, public construction etc works. I am grateful that they are packaged into easily understandable interfaces so I can still benefit from them.

The power of technology is compounded when it can empower even non-technologists to use it. The more sophisticated tasks they can accomplish with it, the better.
You have your own local branches...
This is by design, these are called "stable pages".

In some circumstances, the kernel has to ensure that pages aren't modified between initiating and completing the writeback for that specific page.

Btrfs is a copy-on-write filesystem, so it ends up needing to use this guarantee more often than the others. This is something the btrfs developers are actively working on improving.

Here's a good article describing this in a bit more detail: https://lwn.net/Articles/442355/

EDIT: Fix a typo
Another load testing conversation from 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15733910
The only thing I backed on Kickstarter was a game called Trial by Trolley. I went whole hog and got the $65 edition.

Took so long to make it that by the time I finally got it, no one ever wanted to play it. Most of my friends end up playing totally different party games when we get together.

I also looked back a bunch of things I bookmarked to see what did and didn't get made - about 75% of the KSes I was interested in never got to funding status, or got funded, but eventually failed.
I'd say the difference is inventory costs.

Most box retail seems to clone high-sales-volume items.

Amazon can afford to clone the long tail, because they'll still make profits off it.
Funny you should mention Seattle as it is possible the worst city I have ever lived in with regards to infrastructure, both in terms of amount per capita and maintenance. Most of its white collar jobs are concentrated in one small area (in contrast to other regions which are more distributed) and it has the infrastructure of a much smaller city. The local government believes in only expanding transit infrastructure while leaving roads and bridges to rot, and so far their actions haven't improved travel times at all but they do certainly cost an enormous amount: the most recent ballot proposition allocated almost a billion dollars per mile of rail.

I've found this urban design has created isolated neighborhoods where people without cars refuse to travel more than a mile away from home. An example that comes to mind is friends living in Capitol Hill refusing to visit any restaurant in Fremont, a distance of around 3.5 miles with both locations being located directly on highly trafficked bus lines, but if offered a ride (in a car) they would come. For comparison, when in the car-centric cities I lived in, people were willing to travel anywhere in the metro area. Now this is just a few pieces of anecdotal evidence, and you may reply with examples of people who behave completely differently, but it's no better to assume that everyone hates driving and living less dense areas just because you personally dislike them. I prefer living in an area that doesn't hate cars with a passion, and I'm far from the only one who thinks so.
Also... you know, if it weren't for caffeine (mostly delivered via coffee!):

at least half of the work that America does on a daily basis -- wouldn't get done!

Which makes coffee/caffiene -- a vital National Security asset; a vital National Security interest! <g>

You know, vital for the defense of America!!! <g>

Like, if we're ever in a war -- if the enemy takes out our coffee supplies (and/or coffee supply lines!), then they've taken out at least half of the work that all of us do on a daily basis!

Like, if an enemy deprived the Pentagon of its coffee during a war or other time of national crisis -- then the Pentagon would only be working at half efficiency! <g>

And we can't have no half-efficient Pentagon! <g>

That's why the military -- should be used to protect all coffee assets, foreign and domestic! <g>

I mean, National Security is at stake! <g>

Disclaimer: All of the above was said for comedy purposes, and comedy purposes only! I hope you laughed, but if you didn't, then know that I meant absolutely no offense to anyone who works in the above establishments! And, we appreciate your service!
The costs of living in a high density city probably eat up more Capital than the costs of transit in one of these suburban cities.
Prompt: One self-improving self-optimizing misanthropic quine please
Joules is a unit of total computation, watts is a unit of computation rate. :P

Metawatt is a unit for rates of speculation, uninformed by multiplication, about AI energy usage.
Probably worth mentioning that's $24k MRR, not how much it costs...
Wikipedia defines the word as "any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, in particular the accepted beliefs of a church or religious organization".

You're presumably using a different definition, or else neither of your arguments make sense. Maybe you should say what you think the word means?
We worked really hard to give Iran that complex bug, now a democracy loving free market company is going to cure them of it?
Their enforcement of the Streisand Effect is quite impressive.
I wonder how much it would cost to start keeping an armed guard on every flight. That's what the Israelis used to do and it seemed like it worked fine for them (they might still do it, but it's been awhile since I've flown through Ben Gurion airport).

Actually, the Israeli security model seemed like it made much more sense with a lot less theater.

When you check-in, your bags are unpacked on a table and the contents are inspected with you standing there.

You pack your bag back up, they tape it with security tape and send it down the conveyor. The ticketing agent then does a short security interview with you regarding where you're going, did you pack your own bag, etc.

You get your tickets and go through the security screen - metal detectors, x-ray, perhaps additional screening if they suspect something. No genital grabbing, no pornoscans (although, my brother did get semi-strip searched once, due to telling a white lie and getting caught at security).

There's an additional interview with customs / immigration before you get to the gate, but that's mostly for passport control issues.
Read the book - The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham.
Yeah, this website is bad. But I agree with the comments that say it doesn't matter, because it doesn't. You are not Tazo's customer; Starbucks and other coffee shops are. Presumably nobody googles for tea and finds Tazo, instead they see it at other coffee shops, see it at trade shows, etc.

It Just Doesn't Matter. (Why have a website at all? No idea. They wanted one, did a bad job, didn't see it affect their sales, and just left it. Or something.)
I think the cradle goes for about $500. Add any iPod Touch and you're still under a grand for each device.

They have a very nice Cocoa API for the device as well. I've had a blast developing for it.

LightSpeed is actually an entire retail service stack which uses the Linea-Pro cradle for their mobile platform. Most of the cost is licensing their retail software. Your $1,000 quote is a bit off...

From the pricing page:

In order to purchase a Bundle including the
LightSpeed Mobile Hardware Kit, at least 2
user licenses need to be added to your order. [1]

So that's a baseline of $1,823. When you toggle on the "Mobile Hardware Kit" the price jumps by $549, which sounds about right for the hardware and setup.

I do contract iOS dev work, so feel free to ping me if you're looking into this sort of thing.

[1] http://www.xsilva.com/en/store.html
It is clear that there really is no iOS's mandatory code auditing. If there was, there would be no iOS apps that pose as one app but are actually an other (like emulators).

There is some auditing, but it isn't fool proof and for developers it is a huge pain in the butt.

And there are multiple ways to get code on an Android device, but by default only the play store is enabled. You need to go into settings and accept multiple warnings to sideload apps.
I had to give it a couple tries, but it loaded
I started doing database work in my mid-late 20s. 27. I had a certain girlfriend who didn't care for my itinerant lifestyle and the ups and downs of being a performer. She wanted me to get a "real" job. I've always been fond of technology, but never a hacker. I messed with a lot of hardware when I was a kid; worked for the hardware repair shop at university when I was in school. Did a lot of troubleshooting, but never any code. I read a couple of books about databases, built some toy applications, and completely lucked into a job with a market research company. They were desperate for someone who could query their db on the fly and work with MR people to do ad hoc reporting. So I did that. Later, I got more into the research aspect of the data I was working with, and moved to the analytics team. It was a good match.

Went back to school for statistics, stayed in the market research industry for a while but I got tired of grinding through stuff in databases all the time. I learned some Python for a couple of things, and now I'm at a payments processing company (not one of the big ones that sometimes get talked about here). Still fairly heavy on the DB end of things, but doing a lot of Python and C#. Python for AI on our transaction data--and anything else I can get away with using it for, C# for building reports of various different kinds. SQL Server for all the DBA needs.

I'm not looking to move jobs (this one is really too good to quit at this point in my career), but I am looking for part time python web dev work so I can get some experience there. That's where I want to be in 5 years, but I don't want to have to start over as a junior developer to get there. I've got plenty of free time, and I'd love to do 20-30 hours a week for a shop that could offer some mentoring to someone like me. And some cash. But the mentoring is more important.

Thanks for asking, by the way. I appreciate it.
The company exists because BH loves hip hop and invested in the first hip hop startup founded by Silicon Valley kids.
Its not that hard to implement some form of whitespace sensitive parsing, you need to maintain explicit state, essentially a stack and a number of combinators. See for example

https://github.com/purescript/purescript/blob/master/src/Lan...

The state is defined in
https://github.com/purescript/purescript/blob/master/src/Lan...

(its just the column number). I believe the whitespace rules for Haskell are somewhat subtle, but shouldn't be much harder.
Well, it's kind of uncanny how precisely that article addresses my misconceptions at the outset. Thanks for an awesome link (and the related k-CFA article at the bottom).
Snowden steered the conversation towards the US political establishment's _massive_ hypocrisy. At the time, the US was wagging their finger hard at Chinese tech companies, as if to say US tech companies would never stoop to the level of backdooring consumer hardware or spying on their users and handing that data over wholesale to government spies.

In addition to embarassing the American political establishment, Snowden revealed JTRIG; he revealed acts of industrial and political espionage; and he revealed the undermining of public cryptographic standards by government henchmen. This to me is the big one, and it's why it's so unlikely for Snowden to be a limited hangout.

Prior to Snowden, if you weren't being paranoid, you were just sticking your head in the sand. You would be exposing yourself to the risks of parallel construction, backdoors in hardware, sabotage of public cryptographic standards, and the manipulation of online discourse if Snowden hadn't given people like me the power to credibly parry critics who are all too quick to discredit with terms like "troll" and "conspiracy theorist".

Snowden showed James Clapper to be a criminal, too. And the IRS claiming its own electronic paper trail of criminality could be somehow "lost" in this age of pervasive surveillance lends credibility to the idea of there being a clear divide between those who are above the law, and the rest of us. The Rulers and the Ruled.
Telepathy exists, in the form of brain waves that can be measured and stimulated via electrodes.
Not sure what the word is, but I don't think its "corollary." Its the anti-corollary.
mmh

1. having a public repo of the official source code

2. hashing the executable you have on your phone

3. the repo publishes a hash of its compiled executable release

4. the repo approves or reject the binary, based on the decompiling of the application and its comparison with the original source code

5. your os cannot run code that is rejected, or will just warn the user

don't know if a digital signature could be used somewhere in there.

would be much simpler to let system download source code and compile it instead of an executable I guess, but that would require to have much lighter libraries...
Good idea. I'll add a GitHub field.
This has nothing to do with windows. Nothing prevents software installed in Linux (or Os X) from installing crap Firefox (or safari, or whatever) extensions.
Funny, but more suited to reddit.
Let this be a lesson in marketing to all of you...

As geeks, we'd tend to say "New and improved screen resolution: 300 DPI!". Which doesn't mean anything to 99% of the general population. But "retinal display", withs its attached explanation, now that's really something.

Words matter.
I was using SendGrid for email delivery and needed to upgrade the plan since I reached my limit. It should work now.
HD display and movies, 5MP camera, increased battery life, folders and multitasking, gyroscope... I have all this on the Nexus One and that is a 6 months old phone. I think this WWDC is signing the end of an era: jobs has lost his famous innovative advantage and now he is running behind. Android/HTC had these features in their last generation phones and with EVO coming out they are going to make the iPhone 4 obsolete already.
"I don't think I've removed any profiles. "

Oh I didn't mean to say you did. Maybe I removed it myself (from the original spreadsheet) I don't remember.

"I can look into this if you like."

Thanks for the offer but please don't bother. Not important at all.
I think I would have worded this differently:

It's possible that Manning's actions would cost lives. It's also possible that Manning's actions would save lives, perhaps by aborting pending military actions.

Actual metrics are impossible to calculate, but we should acknowledge that both possibilities exist.

I also think it's useful to consider that you can betray a nation or government, but net a positive for the world as a whole. Many people believe that the US government has overused classification of documents which could prove embarrassing to those in positions of power. Perhaps people like Manning act as a natural counterweight, ensuring that those in power never believe that their actions will remain secret for eternity; someday, some loudmouth kid might spew your secrets to the world.
Unfortunately for some fields it is difficult to do anything outside of a lab. And startups are not a good solution either with the incentive to make money fast that shift the incentives. I would be interested in knowing what other places you are thinking about.
afaik, it sponsors for L1 visa only. I need to become SDE2 first, and then after 1 more year with VP's approval, the transfer happens
It's got to be absolutely exhausting! Even when I have the context to understand, I have trouble keeping up with the ever growing list of things I'm expected to be upset about, let alone have time to visibly denounce each of them.
But this "guilty by association" has been going on just about forever. Even Jesus was socially condemned for being a friend of tax-collectors and sinners.
Well, lets say they don't know, but there's a chance of a lab leak. Why take the chance when you can use FUD to confuse the world and remove the downside risk (which is very large).
People thinking in the same line of you is why I think China is going to be the global leader in scientific discovery in a decade.

We've stagnated while they've organized their efforts for long term discovery and long term technical brilliance.

I guess time will tell if public or private sector research is the best possible solution.
Something like this + procmail (or similar) + GPT-3 would be neat to see.
Yeah, but it spills off onto the table top, which is effectively register space.
Is there anything beyond this list here https://support.spotify.com/us/article/understanding-my-data... ?
My experience is that these are the situations where you learn and grow the most. It might be horrible now, but think about boot camp (the real thing). It's horrible and miserable and you want to quit. But at the end you're stronger and (better) prepared for what might come.
Honest question. Is this act of terrorism? If not why?
Well you're not wrong about that. The word "design" and "designer" is vastly misunderstood by everyone, including many of the people who go around calling themselves "designers". It's like the problem the programming industry has with people applying to jobs, calling themselves "programmers", and who can't code the most basic things.

Except, that in the case of the designers, since the person giving the interview also does not know what design actually entails, they get hired.

The situation has led to actual designers inventing a new title to give themselves "UX", which I predict will also quickly get watered down to mean basically nothing.

It's kind of really sad. and frustrating.

Another problem is a real designer, calling themselves a designer, gets hired by an organisation that has the wrong idea about what a designer does, and so gets pigeonholed out of any important decision making processes, and only is allowed to be involved at the very end of the process.

A very good designer can get around this, but they often don't have much power in the organisation to do anything about this pigeonholing.
Interviews are not the same as celebrating your first 5 million dollar month and your CTO nudging you and saying this had be right or we are both looking for a new month

(I was in charge of running the system that produced the bills and I think the CTO might have reported to Vint at one point )
> And to be clear, it has nothing to do with recent allegations that a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy when using Gmail.

This claim has been a huge story about nothing. I think this has been proven false quite a few times over. Nilay Patel at The Verge has a great article about this.[1]

[1]http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/14/4621474/yes-gmail-users-ha...
The reason the san fran interview tends to focus on theoretical cs more so than other regions is because the plethora of berkeley and stanford grads in the area, who subconsciously prop the entirety of their ego on their college educations, and thus use it as a measuring stick for others, sometimes at the cost of a good, practical hire. I've seen job descriptions for FRONT END positions which list a cs degree as a 'must,' which is just absurd in today's day and age.
butterfly mode
It also allows you to share rig setup(I will add to the page), so you could share your pedal board setup. Everything that goes into creating your sound with a guitar or bass you can share. As room consideration I'm thinking this mostly for recording applications and think most people don't record too loud. But that's an interesting thought.
Its nice to see this getting some attention, great job Keith and Blake! I'm hoping to use Doozer in our infrastructure at some point in the future.
In my own (very imprecise) testing, Chrome seemed to freeze around 215k characters.

I found that my web server started throwing 413s after only about ~30k characters.
I've created over 1GB .psd files just in couple of weeks and my total usage is now around 40GB. So I guess lot of designers need the pro version if they want to use Dropbox.
Breaking into this market just requires plastering the internet with display ads, a TV ad or two, and a few deals that are too good to be true (think $20 amazon gift card for $10). It doesn't take a rocket scientist to get people to signup for email coupons. It takes cash to buy the ads, and with $36B, google has no shortage of that.
exactly, it specifically tests browsers execution

and that aside I dont think its anywhere near a good test for server side javascript either, server side js in particular its bottlenecks are mostly about shifting bits, pulling stuff down from the database or retrieving from the http socket, they usually do some string manipulation as well but its fairly minor compared to io
Original Post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2472089

I noticed this post on the frontpage and upvoted it. It was rising, and was suddenly gone. Anyone have an objective explanation?
I was responding to parfe not you.
I apologize if I misread your intent, you just don't really seem like a "fuck it, let them have their fun" kind of guy.

Anyway, I don't think that declaring bitcoin to be out of touch by the law would be any better an idea than saying that Idaho should do their own anarchist experiment. In both cases you have people who either do not buy into the ideology getting caught in the crossfire (as well as people who buy into the general idea but do not believe that the prerequisite conditions have been met, or do not believe that the required complementary technologies exist yet.)

You would at least need to give those people an opportunity to get the hell out of Dodge^W Idaho. Even then though you would be unjustly displacing those people. Imagine if you purchased a house in Idaho, only for the federal government to declare Idaho to be a lawless land set aside for all the 'sovereign citizens' to experiment with. You would not be to pleased.
Bad investment. For this kind of money you'd buy a japanese bidet, with buttons all in japanese, so that you are constantly entertained.
People aren't forced to do anything. They don't have to use content supported by ads, plenty of it isn't. And the biggest/best online ad networks offer controls, which nobody uses because vanishingly few people care.

Banning targeted advertising would be ridiculous. I'll say it: I love targeted ads. I'd much rather have usefully targeted ads than go back to the days of DoubleClick punch the monkey garbage, or "these beautiful twins" generic garbage. No targeted ads doesn't look like a blissful utopia of clean web pages, it looks like the existing web but all the ads are 10x more distracting and manipulative. We've been there, we know how it is. If you want a reminder just go to a news website in incognito mode and see what lowest common denominator dreck gets presented.

When I look around trying to find people supposedly harmed by targeted ads, I come up blank. I've never heard of this being a problem and I resent the constant efforts of "privacy justice warriors" to screw up the internet for everyone else. My internet experience is made far worse by invasive cookie banners than by ad cookies, if I had to pick which one to disappear with a wand there'd be no hesitation.