jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Although I don't know C I really like this example as it's pretty much what happens when I start a new place as a Python dev. E.g. Hey, X, we need you to change the dates on this screen to show the timezone. - Queue me then having to drill down through the codebase to find and then fix the problem etc.

Only complaint would be the amount of time it may require to do in an interview.
That misrepresents my point. Most people strive to increase their fortune no matter whether it represents a large share of a company's total market value or not. If they have a large stake in one company compared to other investments, then that company represents a larger leverage for them to increase their fortune.
> From there since Free Software has only lost ground

No it has not.

I exclusively use Free Software outside my working life (for my sins, developing iOS software with Swift. A bit like Linux in 1997 - it mostly works)
> Twitter doesn't exist to make money

Shareholders will beg to differ.
> The price alone is mostly irrelevant for the buyer.

Sorry but wow. This is not the kind of comment I expect on HN, but rather from my uncle:

“We got this new Lexus, it’s only $500/month!”

“Yes, for 200 years”
Which is also irrelevant for most consumers.
> This means that for most people, the best time to buy a house is when interest rates are sky high since falling rates are easy to take advantage of in the future.

They can stay high or low for quite a long time...
A&A actually have a nice explanation on their wiki: https://support.aa.net.uk/Packet_Loss
1.75 GB isn't enough data to justify a hadoop solution. That data size fits easily in memory, and without doubt on a single system.

It depends on what you do with the data. If you are processing the data in 512KB chunks and each chunk takes a day to process (because expensive computation), you probably do want to spread the work over some cluster.
At that point, is it a sexist microagression anymore?

Further, what if the mansplainer's friends don't mind being "mansplained" to? At what point do accusations of mansplaining simply become nasty ridicule of those who take joy in knowledge of the world around them?
Generic -> robust. i... i dont know how to explain that. honestly i haven't thought about the necessity of explaining things like this. its... basic mathematics.
replying in case someone years from now reads this:

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Not only that but Perl 5 releases are now picking up and very good things are being backported from the Perl6 effort. There is a lot of talk on cleaning up internals and doing things that make P5 better over all. I am very excited over it all.
Well, I have been selling some parts, but mostly to other Reprappers. I'm looking for ways to develop something more extensive with it, but it's one of a stack of fabrication-related ideas I'd like to play with, each more attractive. The main problem is that printing is slow, and linear. You can't easily scale it. Some people are building botfarms, but even then their supply is linear, and limited by space.

Pop over on the #reprap channel on freenode and meet the rest of us if you want to know more.
NYTimes sometimes has a paywall, other times it doesn't...maybe the articles are free for a limited time. Usually you can get around the paywall by googling the article title and clicking on it in the results...they have to show Google the full page if they want it indexed.
You would be competing against people with GPU cluster. Plus, you only get a part of the limited bitcoin mining pie.
If a story becomes highly-ranked, it's almost certainly not behind a paywall, or it wouldn't become highly-ranked in the first place.

Maybe you're thinking of the NYT, where you register once for a free account (or just use a password from bugmenot.com)? Perhaps the WSJ, where the full text of everything is available from Google News?
These tools are great for looking at what's happening now if you're logged into the server.

They're complemented by monitoring products like:

Self hosted:

- Nagios (already mentioned in the post)

- Cacti / Munin

Hosted:

- http://www.serverdensity.com (tool my company produces)

- http://www.cloudkick.com (monitoring + cloud infrastructure management)

- http://www.scoutapp.com

these give you similar metrics plus various other things like alerting, graphs, mobile apps, etc.
You know, I'm all for practice, I'm all for hard work trumps talent etc.

But this is a really bad example. I promise i'm not trolling. I actually went to his archives and listened to his music. I hate to say this, but the guy can't sing. On top of that, the improvement from as he says his "early days" to the latest stuff (1999), is marginal.

I think his point still stands. He just uses a bad example.
You can also reduce costs and increase quality if you have low cost whole vegetables nearby (like Milk Pail in Mountain View) and if you like to cook the minutes spent in prep are a good break and time for discussion.
I don't see how you could possibly consider the catastrophic nature of the situation only in terms of financial cost and not environmental. No amount of money can bring back extinct species.
I have very little or no sympathy for BP and for their CEO or for their apologists.

However, I think it is unfair to attack a Swedish guy (who probably speaks English as a 3rd or 4th language) for saying "small people" when he probably intended to say something like "little guy" or "ordinary people"
I don't know but I imagine that the complexity of building said tunnel is much higher than the alternative that is currently being pursued - relief wells and the "bottom kill".

Building things in water is many many times more complicated than the same things not in water. Which is why deep sea drilling is so controversial to begin with.
I care more about my fellow man's skin than some extinct species. All other things being equal extinctions are bad, but in my world it's lower priority than the losses that humans face (at some level of conversion).

Anyway, if it makes you feel better, you can try to come up with an extinction's dollar value and add that in to your estimate. That sort of thing is perfectly valid. I suggest: "How much money would I pay (or advocate to be paid) to prevent this extinction?" Then do that for each extinction you believe is likely.
I think this has more practical use whereas Segway is like an expensive car. Show this to any caretaker looking after people with stroke, disabilities etc. I am sure they will find it useful. Think about how many falls this can prevent indoors? They probably need to cap the max speed for old people to their walking speed. A back rest will be nice.
Looks like a pretty cool system. One nitpick on the landing page: put some text or something below the video so that people have something to see while the video is loading. It's disconcerting arriving at a page and seeing nothing but the loader and navigation at the top.
A reasonable thing to do would be for them to call if your credit card expires to see if you accidentally let it slip without updating the info. If it was any other situation (e.g. the card was declined but still valid date-wise), I think how they handled it would be perfect.
Thanks, this is the comment I was expecting :) no that is bad.

My first plan is to be consistent, but I prefer to be more proactive, freelancing is new to me. I leave a job that even it was not interesting for me it was stable, with the certain that I'm capable to learn what is necessary to improve myself.

If I'm being to optimistic about the time it will take? probably, I think we all feel that the first days of a year put you in a revision state, and I want to start well.
To accept USD Stripe only requires a bank account denominated in US funds.

I can confirm this is the case. We're a Canadian company and we have a USD account within our RBC business account. A week after getting a charge processed through Stripe, the funds end up in the USD account.
You're talking about jumping into the pool in the middle or deep end, or climbing into a completely different pool. But you haven't ever been in a pool. And that's OK. My suggestion would be wade into the extreme shallow section of the pool at:

http://www.codecademy.com/learn

then click on the "learn to program in ruby" or maybe alternative.

In a couple days you'll have run thru all the free lessons and either have sworn off this programming stuff forever, or be ready to invest more than a couple hours in something a little more formal, like a semester long class or a whatever.

If you really hate the ruby class, obviously there's something wrong with you (no wait just kidding), seriously just try another language, maybe you're better off starting in python or the php class. Its like joining band class, if you hate the clarinet, that doesn't mean you can't be a excellent drummer.

Good Luck!

(also edited to add, its not totally off subject as you suggest. Just kind of appearing on the step of a bootcamp having never done anything is going to be more difficult than having "some" experience.)
I don't want to spend 8 hours interviewing for a job and not get it, right? so I try to get the likely dealbreakers out of the way up front.

Of course, it never works. You don't get to talk with the people that matter until you are in the interview, at which point, well, I haven't found a way to let them gracefully cut things off early, you know?

In this case, I had been working for a company that I owned most of for the last half-decade.

Also, I have pretty good Linux systems experience, but my experience with the latest applications is somewhat out of date.

I also told them what I thought I could get salary-wise; the exact number they found so shocking later on.
Additionally, you lose the nuances of language and body language, which often leads to misunderstandings.

I think I understand what you're saying, but I don't think that's reason to _not_ try to have decent discussions about politics when it relates to technology.

HN already has systems in place which make people pause before replying consecutively, which goes a long way to discouraging flame wars.

In any case, politics doesn't need to be about enforcing a point of view - it's about exploring options.

Net neutrality is almost completely political - should discussion about this be killed?

Copyright legislation is almost completely political - should this be killed too??

Limiting discussion to things which feel 'safe' isn't constructive imo.
I was actually discussing how outdated and old the 911 system is in America. It has been around in the same fashion for decades. I think there could be a lot of room for innovation to solve the problem by entrepreneurs, however I am not sure how much of the 911 system is tied up in government.
I'm not arguing that the posts are on topic. What I'm saying is that you have no control over the so called 'thoughtless upvoters'. If you start flagging. They will start flagging, even if it's just out of spite.

I'm not taking sides here, and throwing the rulebook at me isn't helping to solve the problem.

The filtering suggestions was the first example technological approach to solving the problem that popped into my head. I agree that there's a danger of fragmenting the community with that sort of change, but filtering out '-TSA' is hardly the equivalent of having a 'TSA sub-HN'.

Regardless of whether the filtering idea is good or not, I'd like to see more suggestions on how to fix the problem.
I think one of the major problems isn't that bad stuff gets voted up, but that good stuff doesn't.

The new page is sorted by time, which was fine when there were a hundred posts a day, but now during busy periods a new link is only on the new page for maybe 30 minutes.

Most of the votes a link on the new page gets seem to occur when the link is one of the top 5-10 links. So in practice a link has ten minutes to get votes or it dies. So it comes down to the handful of people who read the new page in those ten minutes (I posted a link the other day, it had ten click throughs while it was on the new page and 3 upvotes; 1 more upvote would have pushed it to the front page).

I think HN needs to switch the new page to a "rising new" page (like Reddit uses), where links that have upvotes get to stick around longer on the new page than links without upvotes.
the TSA posts are also potentially examples of "anything that good hackers would find interesting". the story about the guy not going through the scanners coming back into the country is a classic example of a hack. the excellent comment by 'aphyr on the radiation post was enormously technically interesting. etc. etc.

and they cover Twitter, Google, Facebook, etc. on TV news. they all seem to be popular on HN
I wouldn't be so sure that ELB's are actually failing whole IP addresses across availability zones. Given the current ELB architecture is heavily dependent on dynamic DNS resolution, I am pretty suspicious that they are using DNS for failover. The separate set of DNS servers specifically for elb.amazonaws.com and the 60 second TTLs on the CNAMEs they generate seem to indicate this. Of course, there is no documentation to either confirm, or deny this. Amazon simply states in vague terms that it's highly available, but doesn't state how it's designed, or even possible failure outcomes.
Your point of view doesn't baffle me, because you said this:

"Why shouldn't we be willing to debate and explore a subject in depth?"

Good question! I would be happy to debate and explore political ideas in depth. (That's why I hang around some politically- and economically-focused blogs, and I chat about politics with my friends, and I read the writing of experts.)

But how on earth can you call Hacker News posts about politics "debating" or "exploring a subject in depth?" They are the absolute opposite of depth! Pseudonymous, evanescent discussions, where you stick around for a few hours and a few comments at most; you have no commitment to defend your words or argue sincerely, and half of the commenters don't know what the other half said last week on the same topic. Could you possibly think of a worse format for "debating?"

At the very best I have ever seen, Hacker News debates are someone who sounds smart stating a reasonable-sounding position, and then someone else who sounds smart suggesting that there might be reasonable-sounding problems with the reasonable-sounding position. Then after a dozen posts about the position it's off the front page and forgotten. That is the nature of this medium. Usually, everyone just lines up behind their premeditated arguments and fires upvotes and downvotes at each other until they see another interesting post.

Places that are reasonable for debating and exploring a subject in depth: A small, focused community that's willing to build on their prior discussions over the course of months or years. Talking with friends with whom you have a shared, growing, and conscious context in common. Books, essays, and other long-form prose where you can present your whole position at once. NOT here. At least I've never seen it happen, and I don't see how it could.
There's a karma threshold to flag stories.

If we're going to "- TSA" filter the site, I'd be happy if 'pg just fired up a REPL and did that to news.arc.
I wonder how much of that is because of the asymmetry in time needed to produce quality content, vs. the time needed to consume that content.

I remember when I made "Diary of a Failed Startup" public. It shot to the top of HN, and the top comment was tptackek's "More posts like this, plz." But that one link was a year of accumulated startup lessons learned, experiences, and emotional reactions to things along my startup journey. And it fell off the HN front page in a day and a half. Just by the numbers, posts like that can only make a small portion of total links submitted.

The same thing when I submitted "Write yourself a Scheme in 48 hours". Shot to the top of Reddit and HN, stayed there for maybe a day. Took 3 months to write. Compare that with the volume of material that can be produced by a blogger who spends a couple hours on each post.

When a new social news site becomes popular, people immediately start submitting all the favorite links they remember from years past. But that's selecting the cream of the crop from the last 15 years of posts. Once the community reaches a steady-state, all of those posts have already been read before, and it takes a long time to produce new ones. Instead of becoming a selection of the best articles published over the last 15 years, it becomes a selection of the best articles published in the last day. The latter will naturally have far less quality than the former.

My personal solution has been to care less about consuming content and more about producing it as I've gotten older. This sorta sucks. Producing interesting content is a long, hard slog where you investigate lots of ideas that nobody wants to hear about before finding one that people do. Consuming it gives you the immediate satisfaction of thinking "Hey, I'm smarter than I was fifteen minutes ago." But ultimately, I'd rather be part of the solution than part of the problem.

(And the irony isn't lost among me that this comment is probably part of the problem, being dashed off in ten minutes or so.)
Replace CNBC with Bloomberg and I'd agree. I was forced to work in a small trading floor with CNBC on all day every for almost a year, and those people are absolute morons, spin doctors, and cheerleaders.

Basically they take John Madden/Dick Vitale announcing style (but not the substance) and apply it to market news. You might learn a few terms from them, but I'm convinced CNBC exists for no other reason than to lure the next marks and suckers into the market, intentionally misinform them, hype them up, and then get kickbacks from the sharks and traders who take their money.

Bloomberg is much higher quality.
i suggested this because i believe xmpp to be superior to irc.
Top post on hn with 0 comments; seems fitting given the topic.

edit: welp, this comment is now completely irrelevant.
Netflix was pretty famous for pushing the idea that employees respond to cash more than anything else and did a lot to promote this idea among hot tech companies and I absolutely believe this is the mindset many managers have.

I've got to say though even if people are obsessed with the bottom line when it comes to picking a job, I've got to think stuff like WFH also impacts retention in some way. For me I'm physically healthier under WFH which means just my ability to keep a job skews me towards WFH jobs even before we consider preference.
Yeah this is probably related to the 80/20 rule. I do it myself. I get 80% of the way through a project in 20% of the time, see the finish line and what is between it and myself, and kind of check out unless there's someone pushing me.

It makes sense that people see a library, notice the problems, start their own - then stop at the hard stuff. And people like yourself who might have the talent to fix it will also have the talent to work around it in much less time with far higher reliability by reusing something else.
So I should require a full investigation of every customer's finances before any purchase?

If you want to make the victim whole, that's what insurance is for.
Welp, I would normally suggest people use Signal.

Now, I guess I need to find a good Matrix ecosystem to join.
it’s also not necessarily fair to its investors

Maybe not fair. But they invested their money into a business whose business model is to rip off its customers. They could have invested in a thousand other businesses that actually produce something useful to the society, yet they chose to put their money into a business which removes clocks on its premises so people would stay longer and gamble more and lose more.

Casinos maybe legally good, but they are ethically/morally bad.

On a related note - I find it funny that I need to be an accredited investor to invest in a huge range of businesses, but I can just walk into a casino and gamble away all my money, even if I am a minimum wage earner. Never understood that part.
Unit tests rarely cover high-load concurrency scenarios.
I used to think unit test coverage was important, but I've found using the type system to make errors impossible is a much more effective way of lowering the defect rate.
Our office lease ends in a few months. Yet we’re looking at moving to a larger space to accommodate all the new hires. I don’t think this has as much to do with sunk cost as it does with increasing collaboration.
I had that experience, maybe they are more forgiving to IPs coming from certain countries or locations. IPs from my country tend to be treated as suspicious (not as bad as Tor but bad enough to be an annoyance) so as soon as I registered ok Twitter I got a notice about "suspicious activity" and about having to validate a phone number to be able to use the account. At that time (2015 I think, I don't have the account anymore) you could get around that by contacting support, explaining that you don't have a phone number and waiting a few days for them to manually unlock the account.

Edit: this happens with Google and Yandex as well, requiring phone number to sign up (Yandex can unlock you if you contact support). Microsoft isn't as bad and can work with just a secondary email instead of a phone number. Also the whole country is banned from downloading the Lynx web browser at https://lynx.invisible-island.net/
You could easily argue that any law enforcement officer who feels targeted or offended by that is admitting to being bigoted, prejudiced, and violent... Or at the very least knows their profession contains enough bigoted, prejudiced, and violent members that they're being tarred with the same brush, while presumably turning a blind eye to it all instead of outing the pigs from the inside.
> pure pandering to the fat majority

Please don't do this here.
Yeah, but that's for known formats.

If I said I have a buffer of 512 bytes and piped it through to some cli, that would be fine if it could tell me how many ints, chars, floats, doubles, compressed bits of data, CRC32s, UTF-8 strings, etc. it contained, but there's few utilities out there that will do that.
You're conflating things. When they say "transaction fees" here, they're referring to blockchain network fees (which they previously covered for users, before network congestion), not buy/sell fees, which they have always charged.
> once again basket allocation is lower than it should be for rent

No, rent and owner's equivalent rent make up a quarter of the inflation basket - just in exact proportion to their share of aggregate consumption expenditure in the US.

The San Francisco tech bro who spends 70% of his take-home on rent is not representative of the US population at large...
Will it be cheaper than a mac? If yes, you have my money as I can see it being used for the next 20 years (with upgrades).
The bits that aren't used don't correspond to printable characters :).
Definitely! It's on us to make the ecosystem work by building a large enough install base for other hardware developers to see a reason to come in. We're going to continue to develop modules ourselves until that point, and past that point too!
My pet theory is that all those bitcoins are lost forever, just Satoshi performance tuning the miner he'd hacked together with perl one night and letting it run for a few hours. Close terminal, poof, everything gone. Who cares, can mine more later. Bedtime!

(disclaimer, I know nothing about bitcoin, there's likely 100 reasons why this makes no technical sense)
I bought a wi-fi modem for my Commodore 64. It's everywhere, you just gotta poke around
this chart is missing the benefits of being labelled as as subject matter expert in the industry.
They've accrued up losses of $43M, $40M and $35M in the 3 preceding years. Funny how that's considered financially healthy in the world we're living right now.