jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Y'all saying "This is largely a solved problem" are in denial.

Also: You need to kill the standards committees that keep coming up with stuff like WSDL and SOAP. Pretty much anything based on XML and you should get out the pitchforks and torches.

Stop hurting yourselves.

I am speaking as an OS guy who also does embedded systems. We have our own pieces of hell to deal with (over-designed and under-implemented protocols in USB and networking, natch; also hardware engineers who like to take away components to save money).

The last time I looked at web development it was a steaming heap of vile, corrupted technologies that barely talked to each other. Maybe alien unicorns have descended and made everything fluffy and nice since I looked last. There /is/ hope. I mean, you deprecated BLINK tags.

Honestly, do the database people and the client people ever talk to each other? Do the people doing browsers ever talk to the people doing IDEs? Or is this like different tribes, and they are trying to screw each other over in some kind of zero-sum game?

Y'all are fooling yourselves if you think there's not a problem. Look at the number of frameworks; these things wouldn't exist unless something needed fixing. Last time I was in the bookstore it seemed like there a dozen linear feet of dead trees describing frameworks. God knows how many there are online.

I think you need an intervention.
Can't give you exact numbers, but it comes down to this: far less.
Sturgeon's Law, 90% of anything is crap.
There was a good thread on the gaming sub-reddit a few months ago comparing and contrasting the realitistic/fun points of games with lots of real soldiers weighing in (I can't find it at the moment). A younger brother of mine is an Army Ranger, and though he doesn't really game, a lot of his squad mates do, so he see's both sides. The games are getting pretty close according to him.
There's more money in stifling it than researching it.
Wikipedia is incomplete here, or flat out wrong, depending on how you interpret the article. Trademark doesn't exist solely to protect consumers, it has multiple functions, of which protecting consumers is one, and protecting companies against unfair competition is another. So your last sentence is incorrect - it does exist, amongst other reasons, to protect the owning companies.
NPM downloads in the last month:

Grunt: 812,465
Gulp: 448,694
But it's been 2015 since Monday![1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
The PDF from AT&T Labs for those of us without ACM digital library access:

http://www2.research.att.com/~yitzhak/publications/ddg-tr.pd...
It's obvious there's no such thing as "true quality". But I am willing to value certain types of quality more than others.

I'm just expressing one vote that I agree with some peoples' consensus, that a particular type of quality of HN has decreased; and it's a type of quality that I value.
So as long as it's just sterilisations and imprisonment and forced labor camps and just a few murders for organs it's hyperbole to call it a genocide?

I don't get the point. Yes, they haven't reached the point of murdering by the millions yet. But its still a very worrying development.

We know from history what happens when people are accused of being asocial and are sent to work camps. It's happened before, and people didn't believe it, and it took decades for people to fully realise what was going on.

I always wondered why nobody did anything against the concentration camps, the doctors who killed patients, the mass murders.

I think people were either choosing to not believe it, or they were watching in terror, helplessly, relieved that they were not yet victims themselves.
oh stop
Personally, I wouldn't be that skeptical. By its very nature CT as a foundational theory and is relevant to, and has at least in that sense indeed touched, all corners of mathematics. (Mathematicians had the same skepticism about Set Theory when it first appeared.) Especially the "theoretical" (pure) math. So, sure, "you can read the entire thing without it, with no real loss", but this only says something about the particular textbook and not the subject itself. I assure you, the actual loss, whether you realize it or not, will be very real. Books like Aluffi's Algebra: Chaper 0 have a very good reason behind them. Category Theory is the chapter zero of the modern understanding of mathematics (and not only).
> It is weird that this is your "last straw".

Why? Could you point me to some other straws I've missed?

> Most likely you haven't used Ubuntu for a very long time.

It's true that Ubuntu has not been my primary OS for a while, perhaps I should've been more clear.

I _am_ still using it on various laptops and servers (and have been meaning to switch back to it for daily use), which is why I'm annoyed at the prospect of having to deal with finding an alternative.
That would be unusual. I've had a .so for 10 years and although they did change the rules a few years ago it's just more expensive for non residents.

Also notion could just establish a local office if it was really necessary.
Yes, this sounds even worse. Letting the government decide which company has to pay is definitely not fair. The government could target some companies it does not like and let other pro-government companies out of this law. Honestly it looks as if this law was written directly by mass media lobbyists. It is unfortunate that this kind of anti-democratic regulation is being passed all over the world nowadays, it is as if corporate lobbying is stronger than the common interest.
If anything was off, a couple of the agents at SFO were too chipper at 6am

Probably because they were looking forward to seeing some hotties.
From an NPR blog entry:

By the way, you might be wondering: Can the average traveler standing in a security line tell the difference? Yes, a TSA spokesman says. The X-ray type is blue and has two walls. The millimeter-wave machine is grayish-white and is more cylindrical.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/11/12/131275949/protest...
This can be run from the commandline with:

gunicorn webapp

For example (if you have gunicorn installed).
hahah he left out "write blog posts about NoSql and Node.js" and "talk about how awsome your macbook pro is"
Try:

[].respond_to?(:exec, true) # => true

respond_to? doesn't include private methods by default but can be made to do so with the second argument. I didn't know this either till I just looked it up.

This made sense to me since I'd assume respond_to? would only yield true if it were possible to make the call without error. Yet, this logic does not hold true:

class X; def y; respond_to? :exec; end; end
X.new.y # => FALSE

So it seems it doesn't matter if the private method is callable or not, respond_to? won't give you a true for any private method, accessible in the current scope or not, unless you pass the extra flag.

(I'm not really writing all of this to give you an education, more to give me one. I was totally unaware of all this and found it interesting :-))
Anything from Phoronix should be taken with a grain of salt. This looks legit since it has a message from Linus praising the patch, but there have been several similar stories out of Phoronix that turn out to be hoaxes or misunderstandings.

That said, such a patch would be pretty rad.
I think you misunderstand Moore's law. It states nothing about speed, but about chip complexity (number of components in an integrated circuit). Moore's law has been following pretty closely since 1965 (and looks like we will maintain it until 2020 at least at this point).

What we have hit is is the max frequency the CPU can operate at. This is not something Moore claimed (as far as I'm aware). Physics got in the way when the transistors got so small that they can't operate any faster without causing problems.

EDIT: reddit discussion about MHz cap from 3 years ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/ngv50/why_have_c...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5672023
The point of refresh tokens is not to be more secure than access tokens, but to make some implementations more convenient.

- It's easier to change the format of short-lived access tokens, since you know there are no valid tokens hanging around after the expiry time. In contrast you may want refresh tokens to be valid for months or years.

- Every endpoint in your system must read access tokens, but only your authorization endpoint needs to read refresh tokens.

- In some cases it is acceptable to do checks only when verifying refresh tokens, e.g. checking for revocation only when refreshing the tokens, while access tokens are trusted implicitly while valid.

For a simple implementation you can just issue long-lived access tokens, use of refresh tokens is optional.
It will help the airline know where the bag is, and ideally get it back to you faster. At the moment they don't have simple ways to know that information, which is crazy.
So now we get to set WIP limits?
Initially there will be no additional cost for the basic level service. We might offer a premium version down the road. Still defining coverage but aiming to have a practical global coverage.
The battery's capacity is 10,000 milliamps per hour.
Yes, there are many hacks you can do to achieve a similar tracking ability. We want to provide a comprehensive solution in which the location tracking is just a part of it.
It's fixed in the latest beta.

http://www.imore.com/latest-os-x-10102-beta-kills-google-dis...
What comes to mind as the first thing that would happen as a result of this?

"Oh, ok. Do you know anyone who is?"

Certainly not anything like what you're suggesting.
They aren't remote code execution exploits as best as I can tell. But, it's a short leap from an exploitable root escalation to total compromise of a machine. Until these are patched, any executable you download and run could potentially be a dropper for much nastier stuff. You could combine one of these with the recently-disclosed Flash exploits, for example, and you have a drive-by root exploit ready for deployment via ad networks to millions of people.
It's marketing that 'Western' cooking has many cookwares. They need you to buy an egg beater even if a spoon/knife/fork works fine.

It's the same thing that Mother's Day is invented.
The product just works so much better than the rest in terms of the social mechanics + natural flow of user interaction. You could have asked the same thing of what does dropbox do that box.net, xdrive, (insert 10 million others),etc. do better? Dropbox just works so much better that once you experience it, you'll certainly agree.
I was an early user of Vark and I loved their product in the early days, but once the floodgates opened, I think the way it was used didn't logically scale. I was getting lots of random ims + unrelated questions.
Just yesterday, I ordered a new Mac mini (2.66-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; 2x2GB 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM; 500GB SATA-HDD) to replace my older Mac mini as main development machine.
> Continuing with the hypothetical, the species that will disappear would have prevented a global pandemic that wipes out all of humanity.

You've just changed the hypothesis in order to ridicule it. Playing a different game and saying "see? I won" is worthless. If you had stated that previously, I'm sure effectively everyone in the world would have agreed that a year's global output would be worth saving it - it also saves them.

Without that part of the hypothesis, there's the vanishingly-small chance that this could actually happen. As it could happen, it should be factored into any of the replies... but at what probability? Certainly not 100%. And as we are not yet extinct, but have been around for / caused the extinction of thousands of species...

Not that it can't happen, just that it would be an exceptionally unlikely occurrence, and should be treated as such. It's entirely possible that, on your next inhale, you'll die. Will you hold your breath until you die to prevent it?
Should be titled "Why You Should Adopt HTML5 Video Now." HTML5 includes a lot more than <video>.
If you wish to execute that bet on Long Bets I believe you need to submit the cash now to be held in escrow. Have a billion dollars? =)
2,500,000,000 barrels / 150,000 barrels per day / 365.25 days per year = 45.6308464522 years
Are those Markovian chains, or is someone actually writing that stuff?
Off the top of my head, the UK's symbol of a lion seems more menacing. I'd much prefer to face a large predatory bird than a lion.
In case anyone wonders: I tried if Google could solve its own captchas. It can, if each character is separated, but once they overlap, like they usually do, it doesn't work.
So does -1 + 1 = 0 here?

Is there some book that proves this?
new hampshire vs massachusetts
I would say in our capitalistic system you should have an inherent distrust of your communications channels. Google is reading your Gmail, Facebook is tracking the amount of time you spend looking at any image on its services, many third parties are trying to reverse your identity as you browse. All to sell or otherwise monetize your data.

There are many bad actors out there government and commercial.
I wish articles would be more specific about the loads and use cases under which the new Macs shine versus are not much better than the old Intel macs.

I thought the main strengths distinguishing the performance of the M1 were the idle power chips that saved a lot of energy, and the shared CPU/GPU memory. For loads running flat out all the time and emphasizing GPU, the difference is not as great, I thought?

Apple is still selling Macbooks with Intel inside. That cannot be just stupidity, right?
Couldn’t a code formatter solve your issue?
> Snow Leopard was something of a feature freeze to make up for deficiencies with Leopard.

Could that be an indication that users don't really want new features in their OS?
Many business problems are relatively straightforward challenges of execution where experience in a nearby industry and no vested interest in the specific path chosen are qualifying and worthwhile attributes to bring to the table.

Would it be ideal if the senior management of a business that was struggling had all the abilities and dispassionate perspective to lead the company out of their doldrums? Sure. Does the fact that they’re struggling suggest something is missing? Probably. Can a firm like McKinsey help them navigate out? The payoff times chance of success seems very much worth the cost and risk.

I’ve argued to use McKinsey for a pricing project by saying “I’d pay $500K just for someone to come in, evaluate, and tell us truthfully that what we were doing was perfectly optimal and we shouldn’t change a thing. That’s about the worst case scenario here.”
> I have in fact had to deal with exactly this problem in Hypothesis internals.

Hah, wonderful. It's a great example of how this type of testing can really dig out odd bugs. Once you've tried property based testing, I think you never really trust things quite the same :)

> The bug aryx is talking about though actually illustrates an amusing feature of Hypothesis, which is that the code in it is just weird enough that it tends to do unexpected things that trigger bugs which have nothing to do with the properties being tested

Nice :)

Thanks for releasing this library, it's great to see more work being done in this area. There are usually a few random testing libraries floating about but adding things like minimisation (and I'm still reading through the templating & other new stuff) really makes it stand out.

The API testing example in particular actually comes at a perfect time for me, so it'll definitely be getting some use.
It might not be necessary to scrap anything since this data was finally released as OpenData last year: https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/legi-codes-lois-et-regl...
:) I used to go to Tropical Islands every weekend when I was sleeping in a van in Berlin. It's an amazing place from an engineering point of view. And the spa is the best I've ever been to.
Actually, Tokyo is so huge that "suburb" could mean anything from Shibuya, to the second largest city in Japan (Yokohama). It all depends on what we mean by "Tokyo":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Tokyo_Area#Various_def...
Saw this bug on a security researcher's tweet couple of weeks ago: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Dec/110

Today found a great write up about how to exploit it here: http://www.breakingpointsystems.com/community/blog/ie-vulner...

I have no idea what any of it means. If anyone has any good links that teaches newbie concepts to these things, please do share. Thanks.
Not odd at all. There's probably a slight difference in the number of LACK tables built vs these prints…
Ah, but drug dealers and prostitutes don't necessarily make good money! Stephen Levitt (Freakonomics) has some papers on this subject:

http://www.streetgangs.com/academic/gangfinance.pdf
http://economics.uchicago.edu/pdf/Prostitution%205.pdf
What's wrong with singletons in general and why would an object could not assume single responsibility (consider an UIApplication singleton on iOS)? I thought, contrary to what you stated, they solve the issue of global variables rather than introducing new ones.

That class extends SPL ArrayObject class which provides array-like access syntax (operators). It does not mean it has to act like an in-memory array, it could read data from disk, session, database or whatever. Delegating this kind of functionality to a single array would simply not work without further abstraction.
> Even now that there won't be any more php4 releases, there are STILL projects targeting PHP4. There are STILL webhosts only providing support for PHP4. More than 5 years after PHP5 came out

The fact that PHP broke many websites when going from PHP3 to PHP4, then at each PHP4 minor release is probably largely responsible for this conservatism.
I am still not sure what the author means by 'big company.' I have worked at Fortune 100 companies and the intelligence of the IT staff is nothing to brag about from a technical standpoint. In fact most 'big companies' are political quicksand for high throughput individuals.

That said, economies of scale are a wonder to behold. When you think of how little each person outputs per day yet how much money the corporation still makes and how much each executive still skims. It makes me think there must be brilliance somewhere in the organization chart to make it all work.
> MuskCoin is required in payment for cargo capacity on Earth-to-Mars shipping, or for purchasing real estate on Mars. It has a floating terrestrial exchange rate: the idea is that it's used for mediating interplanetary exchanges.

That sounds like the currency in Artemis by Andy Weir (of The Martian fame) which used "slugs" as a currency on Luna:

> “It’s short for soft-landed grams. S-L-G. Slug. One slug gets one gram of cargo delivered from Earth to Artemis, courtesy of KSC.” “It’s technically not a currency,” Trond said from the credenza. “We’re not a country; we can’t have a currency. Slugs are pre-purchased service credit from KSC. You pay dollars, euros, yen, whatever, and in exchange you get a mass allowance for shipment to Artemis. You don’t have to use it all at once, so they keep track of your balance.” ... “It ended up being a handy unit for trade. So KSC is functioning as a bank. You’d never get away with that on Earth, but this isn’t Earth.”
That's interesting. Their Boulder office contacted me earlier this year about an interview, and I felt it would have been a pointless exercise since they'd fallen so far behind their competition (iTunes/Apple, Spotify, Grooveshark) that innovation and quality would take a back seat to revenue. Having just left a job at MapQuest (which is well on a similar advertising-driven downward spiral), I just declined and haven't heard anything further.

Glad to hear an anecdote that confirms I made the right read on that.
I don't OP is the author, I've been using this for years.
it's not about paying a premium (they're referring users to the same tickets at the same prices). It's being about the site that consumers bookmark.
Unfortunately, yes. I still use it as my main shell everywhere, but it has debilitating bugs that aren't getting fixed (such as fish freezing when logging in to another tty). I wish someone knew enough about it to pick it up...
If women decide not to do Computer Science because they don't like their male peers, I think you're right that there is a more fundamental problem: they probably didn't want to do Computer Science that much in the first place. I would never let my classmates determine my career path. Anyone who tries to argue that is a fraud.

It really is no more complicated than this: do what you love, and fuck everyone else.

I mean it when I say I would love to see more female programmers. But it doesn't help anyone by trying to argue it's all the boys' fault there are no women in tech.

If more women were interested in esoteric technical subjects like computer programming or engineering, they would do them. It's that simple. It just so happens there are more guys who are interested in these things.
The product and the stability of the feature definition.
Source?

edit: I'm not disagreeing, just asking for more information, why the downvotes :/
Is headhunting someone based on their gender (or race, or religion) really something companies should be pursuing, rather then simply looking for merit?
I'm assuming it's too soon to tell in terms of hard numbers. However, empirically and from personal experience, the last 5-6 flights I've booked in the last couple of months have all been through hipmunk, and what I learnt is that:

Hipmunk has replaced Kayak for me (I only booked through Kayak before, it was the most convenient and easiest to use at the time)

Even though Kayak can show me the lowest prices, in Hipmunk I've booked flights that were not necessarily the cheapest (as I did in Kayak) but the least agonizing, by a price difference of about $50 saved myself 2 hours of agony.

I do pay a premium for nice presentation and design in this case.
It's not a syllabus for a training program, it's a list of resources you might need at different times, as a refresher or supplement for areas where you're weaker than in other areas.
I think it's more likely that people downvote your comment because it adds nothing but heat to the discussion.
This is also how I've experienced primary elections in the US: people voting for who they think other people will vote for.
understanding the expected value of your financial game is important

understanding that the distinction between “gambling” and “this other respected thing” is purely cultural is even more important

you are facing people, around the world, who do not need to rationalize a difference for any cultural, personal, religious, legal or future legal reason. even their community does not care

yet you do, you are already disadvantaged by spending any cycles on this
Is it?

I would agree with you that 99% of advertising may be compromised, but it isn’t clear to me that it’s inherent.

If I say “I will be paid $5 if I tell you about the positive experience I have had with product X, would you like to hear about it?”, what is unethical about that?

Can you elaborate on your logic?
> Nobody over-promises (or under-promises for that matter) when the meaning of units and prefixes are clear.

This sounds like a lame excuse for fraud.

Megabytes had a very specific meaning. Afterwards, for any random reason, that definition was turned upside down to mean about 5% less, and a terabyte to mean 10% less.

If you're going to buy a HD and you end up finding out it provides 100MB or 200MB less than advertised, you'd righteously feel defrauded.
> Product lock-in is a real thing, but this has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Many people install Chrome on the Desktop because it allows them to sync with their mobile Android devices. Yes, you can install Firefox on your phone too, but fewest people do that.
Anyone who has an MBA and puts it in their title is asking for it. I mean really, who does that? Not anyone with an MBA from anywhere worthwhile...