jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Most of the logic resides in the memory controller, and the extra bits for the checksum reside in DRAM.

You need a little logic in the OS to report correction and uncorrectable events.
The problem with .deb and .rpm is that their spec file format is horrendous. I've packaged multiple RPMs and every time I have to do it is a complete PITA, lots of quirks, macros, flags, etc.

The official docs are like a deep man page and do not have simple use cases, like, create a pkg for a binary

or create a pkg for a binary with systemd

or how to distribute a pkg of .so

IMO if the .deb and .rpm maintainers invested some time in modernizing their official pages with lots of quick starts and guides it would bring a lot of developers to their side.

(And in this specific case they needed more than Linux support)
Yep, it's old news. https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/25/whatsapp-to-share-user-dat...
Instructions unclear, now stuck using 209.216.230.240.
I had paid for at least one year (just $1), may be two (don't remember exactly). I would be glad to pay more, but Facebook played a big game and now we're all stuck with it because at least in India WhatsApp is almost a necessity.
you also spend ~450 million on capitol police alone...
Clearing a FANG interview. It does take months to prepare for even if you are a master.
33, by last count[0]. This will drive out the last set of speculators only to herald in a slew of new ones. Speculation has determined the price for the last 2+ years and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. The problem is that the value of bitcoin is not fundamentally tied to anything except the cost of maintaining the network, and it's clear at this point that hashpower responds to speculation, not the other way around. I'm curious to see how some of the new cryptos perform, like Nubits and Bitshares, which have a split between the crypto commodity, subject to wild fluctuations in price, and a crypto currency which is pegged to e.g. the dollar, at least in theory. The problem is, as usual, the network effect with bitcoin - nothing is likely to supplant it without some big real-world demand. If it can't find any real use case other than black market transactions, we can easily count on another 33 deaths ahead.

[0] http://bitcoinobituaries.com/
So it seems. So the selling point is actually ease, not privacy. I guess it's not that interesting to me after all. But it obviously still has its applications.
I'm not sure why you wouldn't want to provide names or links here. I'm sure if HN users want to spam we're resourceful enough to figure it out for ourselves and for those of us who don't care to spam it would be helpful to see what we're up against.
Research? Fundamental research? Not much of that done these days, and probably not by people with an undergraduate degree only. Even PhD's have a difficult time finding research jobs. Research is mostly done in universities. The great far horizon industrial research labs (Bell Labs, IBM Research, and so forth) either do not exist any more or have been redirected to short-term development support.

Graduate school is a good next step. Either continuing study of a hard science or moving to computer science with an eye of working at the boundary of computer science and real science.
I think all infrastructure is a startup barrier.

Shared offices are great, but one thing that would be of real interest is a startup technology package that provides a range of tech to a startup:

Full IT Services - from silicon valley to support startups from around the country, a package that includes:

Hosting, servers, bandwidth, support etc.
I like the way the jQuery build system works. Basically you order your js files from the base up. So functionality that is used more commonly by other files is lower in the stack (i.e. loaded first). If you organize your code so that dependencies are contained, this also has the benefit that if your app doesn't need particular sections of code, you can remove the ones highest in the chain without adverse side effects.
This was the one YC W11 company that didn't present at Demo Day because of a no-shop clause.
I purchase my electricity for my apartment from the spot market in texas. (Griddy is the SF company).
Yesterday, cost was $240. For 1 day.
Most days cost $2 to $4.

Griddy actual sent out an e-mail and a text that said, "go to another supplier, this weekend is going to cost you a bundle".
Absolutely! Policy should be set by Ouija board.
The overnight lending rate in 2007 was 5.5%. If that was the cheapest possible you could ever borrow money for even the shortest term, 6% for a long-term bond is downright cheap.
I wonder how much of it is basically a fashion issue? It is increasingly unusual to see new road bikes near me that are basic tubular constructions, to the point it feels like part of the design is simply showing that they're heavily design influenced carbon composite.

Note: I'm personally excluding modern carbon bars here, because I find the lovely sculpted wings far more comfortable when compared to old-style bent tubes :)
> If it's useful, then you have two conflicting data points -- market timing doesn't work, and we're at the top of a big bubble.

Market timing does not work over the long-term, and even if we are at the top of the bubble, you can't know we're at the top, but more importantly: it doesn't matter.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...

> If it does, then yes you should expect to recoup the money eventually from buying at the top (though, if you bought at the top in 1929, you had to wait until the 1950s to get back to even).

And what would your returns if you kept doing DCA every paycheque from the 1929 top, on the ride all the way done, and then little by little through the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s?

Turns out, not horrifically:

> I wanted to show how market conditions can affect the end results of an investor who periodically invests in the stock market over time. Leaving aside taxes, costs, inflation, etc., I ran the numbers by decade going back to the 1930s to see how much money an investor would have ended up with by investing $10,000 each year on a monthly basis (or $833/month) in the S&P 500.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/04/the-luck-of-the-dra...

Especially if you have some bonds to rebalance with:

> For instance, investors earned a real 2% average annual return on their equity investments during the 1930s, according to Ibbotson Associates, a market research firm. But they pocketed a real 7.1% on their government bonds and 2.7% on short-term Treasury bills. Yet during the 1950s investors earned a real average annual return of 16.8% on stocks, while losing 2.2% on bonds and 0.3% on bills.

* https://www.marketplace.org/2009/01/05/history-rewards-stalw...

Bonds and rebalancing also would have saved a portfolio with the S&P 500 in the 2000s:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2010/12/17/the-lost-de...
Visual BASIC is even older than Delphi and was the benchmark for low/no code app development. We called them RAD tools, "rapid application development". If you really wanna go back, hypercard on Macintosh was kinda the original that inspired them all (and even inspired the web we have today).
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts".

- Richard Feynman [1]

The problem trusting the "Science" has is that the moment we anoint an institution of people as the holders of truth, we diminish lower-case "science", which is the activity useful for determining truth in an objective way.

[1] http://www.feynman.com/science/what-is-science/
>> That concludes that this bubble will continue as long as interest rate remains near zero.

Yeah, I think that is the generally accepted understanding of what's happening right now especially with additional stimulus / QE methods.

Think you are already seeing equity escape into other asset classes in commodities and cryptocurrency, too.
Follow the money.

What % of spam sites are wrapped in AdSense? Greater than 5%? Greater than 50%?

For all Google's talk of content quality, they are clearly willing to make some concessions with who they have as business partners and the type of "content" they are willing to fund.
I agree that it would much more even if your load is consistent and heavy, but if it gets too heavy you run in a lot of problems with EC2.

If you max out one instance, you would need to add another instance and as a result of that you would need a third instance as a load balancer.
So if we take the numbers from the example I gave above and assume your instance maxes out add 100k requests and you get 110k request your cost would go from $72 to $216 ($72 for the load balancer and 2* $72 for the web/application server). That is 3x more but only an increase in traffic by 10% Of course the same math applies to your database server.

GAE pricing scales linear no matter how big you are and you never have to worry about maxing it out. Of course you have some trade off's because of that, but that is what the article was about.

I guess it's a question how you define heavy traffic. I've read somewhere that Zynga runs 10,000 EC2, at that scale adding another instance wouldn't have a huge impact, but I think if you have less than 15-20 instances (which is still huge) you're cheaper off with GAE.

(Even though it sounds like I'm affiliated to GAE I'm not, I'm going to use EC2 because of the trade off's mention in the original article)
I used to share a flat with one when I was at University - he used to do things like hand out leaflets in the morning with pictures of partly butchered animals as we prepared breakfast.

Apart from those idiosyncrasies he was quite a pleasant chap - I had to respect him when he received some extremely painful medical treatment and he refused an anesthetic because it might have been tested on animals.
I should have, it was pre-caffeine manoeuvre; mea culpa.
That comment sorta makes me cringe for choice of branding, as sometimes when anyone who talks bad about someone with a "very popular SEO book" people will assume that it is me.

I would just like to clarify that I have never had a customer paying 5 figures a month that was unhappy with what they got from me. ;)

Also agree with you that spammy links can work better than what one would think if they attended Google's sermons about quality links. Though typically from a risk profile it is better to mix and match so whatever your promoting doesn't stick out as an outlier & get whacked at some point.
I am not sure the West has the will to enforce it - certainly judging by recent events in Afghanistan where there seems to be a limited amount of support for the USA.

The deciding factor might be China's position on the matter. It provides quite a bit of support for North Korea and whether the USA would want to get dragged into a conflict that might escalate beyond the Korean peninsula remains to be seen.

Having said that I don't think there is a significant risk of serious conflict since it is in China's long term interest to keep some form of low-level conflict with the USA or its allies going in the area, if only to further its territorial ambitions with the Spratly Islands, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands and other parts of the South China Sea which apparently has significant old reserves.
It's also worth noting that there is no (public) API support for AirPlay video.

At this point I suspect that video over AirPlay isn't mature enough yet for general purpose use so they focused on the two places where it's most useful and required least work. Photo Library uses a custom controller for video playback, and Safari would open up AirPlay to all manner of h.264 streams with a huge variety of encoding variations.

The question is whether we'll see better AirPlay support anytime soon. It seems like it would only come with a major update (e.g. not 4.2.2), but Apple have never delivered a x.3 release of iOS and we're starting to get into the window where they need things to announce for WWDC / iPhone 5.

It's also conceivable that any iPad2 release prior to June could actually ship with 4.2. All of its likely hardware features (back/front camera, retina display, gyroscope) are already supported.
I did my lonely venture in java.
I think the main problem of java for startups is that it's uncool. They're trying to rationalize, but they are wrong, you avoid wearing a tie to express that you're not a number, I don't know why you wouldn't avoid java as a statement that you're not an IBM consultant.

When I started my project, I tried ruby, but after 2 months of fighting, I just went back to java.
But somehow I'm gifted, I never did java at bigco, I did it at another (desktop) startup before and have a critical eye on the java current trends. I don't use Spring and all the famous bigco frameworks, I use a simple setup (PicoStuff, jetty, Webworks).

But in think most "objective arguments agains java in a startup" are plain wrong. The real problem of java is that all people know about it is eclipse and spring and the EJB2.

edit: BTW, today I do PHP, and we're integrating with drupal, and what I see in drupal is far worse than the EJB spec. It's tangled and static so you can't test anything in isolation, and there is no spec. The core code is really difficult to read because everything is passing maps of string around.
Careful, "ethical messaging" may not mean what you think it means.
> Well, at the very minimum, the recent firings/resignations certainly seem... correlated to him.

You mean: directly attributed to him and Megan Kacholia.
I've read large portions of these books and... I found this site a bit more "insiteful" if not as comprehensive:http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ .

This guy does fsharp consulting but there is a WEALTH of good information in the series he has posted.
Not even the same things. I love React, use it everyday, however from a denotional semantic standpoint it is impure.

view m0 = r0

view (m1 = handler e0 m0) = r1

view (m2 = handler e1 m1) = r2

This is the essence of MVC. Mathematically pure and beautiful.

React and Flux are so close to this conceptually, but fall far short of it in actuality.

View is a function of state. State is an argument to view, and should not be mated to view in any other way except as a function call argument to the view - point free preferably.

If you look at the source code of React, there is an important object called Transaction. Transaction is basically AOP. AOP is not needed in JavaScript! Transaction reinvents functional composition. That is why things like Mercury, Mithrill, and Cycle are better,smaller, easier to read and reason about.

I love React, but it is a gateway to an even brighter future. Rejoice that the days of blind monkeys (myself included) writing UI code is coming to an end.
You keep repeating this but have you actually tried to distribute binary software for Linux? In what way has "fragmentation" made that harder?
You say 200 hp, website says 200 kW. Which is it?

The specs do look fantastic.
Impressive that it works well with my native language Malayalam. However, it would be nice to notify the user that adding a profile picture is required to sign up. My girlfriend who is non-tech savvy was confused + stuck at the page.
We were never against private banks giving loans or private exchanges facilitating exchange.

We wanted bitcoin because govt control of money results in:

(1) new $ is unfairly distributed,
(2) manipulation of $ to force consumer spending,
(3) use of $ to fund wars and other govt programs,
(4) threats of war are used to sustain $'s status as reserve currency,
(5) absence of any innovation in $

and bitcoin addresses these problems, while being censorship-resistant. BTC has been a great success for sending remittance payments, providing a store of value in countries with hyperinflation, and spurring innovation in the financial sector.
Do they get banned from Reddit too this time?
For GCP, it depends. GCP doesn't have a Nitro competitor, but they offer Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). TPUs are more of a competitor to nVidia chips, but they are still custom silicon in the sense of the GP comment.

GCP, AWS, and Azure seem to all be diverging in their specialization. GCP is focusing more on AI/ML/Big Data offerings while AWS is more security-aware, and Azure is more hybrid-cloud focused.
I love DigitalOcean and would prefer to build my new project on their platform. Unfortunately, the one and only thing that is keeping me from doing so is their support. It's great, don't get me wrong. Whenever I've contacted them I've gotten helpful responses.

However, for this particular project I feel like it is important to be able to get a human on a phone when I need support. If they offered that, I'd move away from AWS in a heartbeat.
Simpsons FTW
Wi-Fi for home use was pretty well solved with AC nearly a decade ago now. The newer solutions focus on high desisty busness (local data need or call center/auditorium density) and newer direct high bandwidth device<->device connectivity.
What makes it non-trivial? I'd love to see a standard laptop frame that all the SBC manufacturers could throw their board in.

I imagine their could be vendor-specific expansion cards for SBC's, like one that is just an HDMI extension which only works with the vendors SBC and doesn't use USB-c. Maybe vendors could implement one "framework" compatible expansion port and provide several of their own expansion cards that only implement SBC features, and plug directly into the SBC instead of generic usb-c.
I don't think your categories work very well (even absent politicking, is a bill to raise teachers' salaries an educational, financial or social bill?). The rest of your scheme is complicated but seems to work as designed.

That said, a big advantage of the currently popular party-based systems is that it ensures at least a minimum of coherent policy-making - a party that votes for both more spending and tax cuts can at least be called on it. I didn't follow it closely, but I've seen suggestions that California's experiments with direct democracy have at least partly caused financial troubles.
I sketched a process for how this could work in a blog comment: http://www.drmaciver.com/2011/04/a-perfect-voting-system/com...
The brief tutorial that appears after you finish creating a Github repository is the quick and easy way to get it up on Github. Install git, create a github repo, then follow that tutorial and you're up and running.
CLisp, for example, is not a functional language in the sense of ML language or Haskell.

CLisp is a multi-paradigm language. You can use it in a OOP or a functional style. You can even use its OO features in a functional way and viceversa. E.g Objects are poor's people closures. [1]

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent
I agree completely, but you've not argued convincingly for this one being a more broken system. The current one is guaranteed unfair, this one is expected-fair even if the unfairness may be geographically concentrated.
4 per location is still a lot of hirings. Not to mention if each of the 50,000 cost $10,000 yearly in salary, the cost to McDonalds is 500 mil.
The website by Julius O Smith noted above is a goldmine for a lot of theoretically grounded but practical descriptions of many algorithms. Then, you have http://www.musicdsp.org which has a lot of code snippets, + the ML is frequented by some of the most gifted programmers in the area of music softwares.

I have noticed that papers by Jon Dattorro are now online: Jon Dattorro is the guy behind a lot of ensoniq and lexicon stuff, and he knows a lot about both practical and theoretical aspects (look for "Jon Dattorro aes" for his seris in the journal of AES).
Honestly, the title is very sensasionalistic.

It tries to make it sound like you tried to enforce patents on a Dropbox clone or something, while the truth is that the software was a parasitic service incapable of existing without Dropbox itself.

To me that last part makes irrelevant that the software was OSS or not.
This article scares me. My mediocre programming skills will never be able to handle Lisp. Damn.
show me a compact that can take 3 car seats and have isofix mounts for all 3 of them.
Carrying a sheet of plywood/drywall was a criteria for the first minivan?
Whoa, freaky. My 9-3 was rear ended by an Avalanche. Luckily no one was hurt and insurance didn't total my car somehow.
DNN is a heap. My God, is it a codebase trainwreck. Apologies to any DNN devs that may be HNers, but holy cow is that an example of how serpentine code gets when you try to be all things to all people without a strong planning phase.
And for bonus points, although I haven't verified, he's probably measuring total energy content of that oil, not the amount we can successfully harness using mechanical means.
We are talking about performance optimization here; which means 'what will work faster' over conventional approaches. Every time the scripting engine doesn't find a variable in the local scope, it starts searching for it upwards until it reaches global namespace. And this, my friend, costs CPU cycles. Now consider this out-of-scope variable being used in a loop. Closure is a power JavaScript has given us to use it wisely; and not to misuse.
No I just think the average consumer is defined by the (mathematical) mode of consumer tastes. Like mainstream TV, it is designed for the most common individual which is a pretty bland person with terrible taste... but it’s a shrinking population.

In past generations the mode was likely also the majority
I probably wouldn't even call it blame. Certainly if HPE isn't doing a full firmware audit (which I don't expect them to do), there's no way to run into this issue until it shows up in life testing. The manufacturer/supplier would be in the best position to encounter these types of issues first.
"Hey Steve, I noticed you're meeting with Bob and Janet tomorrow on foo. I'm working on foo-sec and could use more details on foo; mind if I sit in?"

Google's corporate culture is to make it as easy as possible to have that happen.
I believe that was more or less his point.
2^16 would be still rather too small, 65536 hours is not impossible duration.
"Shut down factories on Earth" is not a winning political slogan, especially with blue collar workers and their families. If activists dismiss incremental changes to deal with global warming, they will likely get no changes.
does your operating system not wipe out /tmp and /var/run on startup?
Yeah, I don't really use twitter either. Don't need another time vampire.

I see from the owner's comment on here that its not required, please update the site to reflect this. Maybe put a space for "other profile url" so I could perhaps link to my presence here for example.

Other service owners, please take note!
Not nearly as silly as it sounds. Feral hogs in the south can top out at 400-800 pounds (though this is by no means the average) and are quite clever, and sometimes aggressive. I'm not sure if there have been confirmed fatal attacks on humans, but they do carry brucellosis.
Don't forget C++. Being older, it accumulated more cruft.
> Of course it did, Google is making that decision a reality.

It was already hyped up and rapidly gaining popularity for Android devs prior to Google endorsing it. That's why Google endorsed it.

> On the JVM, Kotlin doesn't matter, it is just another language that pretends to be Java when compiled to Java Virtual Machine bytecode.

I mean sure, but this applies to replacing Java elsewhere too.
"Conditional on being hospitalized for any reason" gives you an exceptionally useless number. There are many conditions that would give you a usable risk number, but not that one.

Just for the obvious extreme example, if I say 0.01% of total hospitalizations are young people with ebola, that doesn't let you conclude anything about whether catching ebola is "quite low risk" for that group.
Ouch, that is a horrible way to postpone retirement. It’s still hard to comprehend how that much money was stolen without any suspicion of any kind and over such a long period of time.