jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've read a lot of books and I've never found any that were good beyond the basics of a language. It's been much, much more instructive to do work on code bases that are already managing the complexity.

Find an open source project on the web that has the kind of complexity you want and start digging through the code. Better yet, start fixing bugs. It'll force you to wrap your head about how they did things. With enough of that, you'll even figure out why they did it, and that's as much as anyone else can teach you.
A form of copyright on a collection of facts. In the U.S., the famous "telephone books aren't copyrightable" case (Feist v. Rural) held that mere compilations of facts aren't copyrightable, because they aren't a creative work, and copyright is intended to protect only original, creative works. Collections with some degree of creativity in the selection and arrangement might count, but an alphabetical listing of all people in an area code with their phone numbers was held not to possess any creativity.

Other countries have more of a "sweat of the brow" view of copyright, that it's intended to protect any work that took effort to produce, so even a compilation of mere facts could be copyrightable, if it took a lot of effort to compile them. The EU now has a separate pseudo-copyright for databases that wouldn't otherwise be copyrightable (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_Directive).

The main people pushing that are, as you might guess, those who have amassed a lot of data that isn't protected by normal copyright. For example, stock-ticker data is not copyrightable (it's just a mechanical listing of facts), and the companies that make a lot of money licensing it aren't happy about that.
Programming books are usually a chore for me to read through. I usually lose focus within 10 or so minutes. That said, there are a few exceptions:

* _Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby[1]
* The Tao of Programming[2]

[1]: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/

[2]: http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html

Why's guide has enough non-text/geeky humor to keep me reading. And, it's mostly pictures! You're learning, but it doesn't 'feel' like you're learning.

The Tao of Programming flows differently than other books, which blast you with information. Instead of telling you stuff directly, it is anecdotal. Rather than didactic, it's like a parable.
Someone talking about the kinect said that most all facial recognition algorithms require the face to be level horizontally; if the face is tilted at an angle then it doesn't work. not sure if true but interesting observation.
When I stumble upon an interesting topic in HN it generally has: 25% importance the link, 75% importance the comments. To be honest, when I read the comments I feel a bit dumb because of the high level of the commenters.
Nice. But does not scale.
I didn't realize it was 100% client side. If so it's not an issue then, apologies.
How could I have better put So at the limit, it could?

I meant to talk about what some hypothetical future system could do (which I think was a reasonable context given the comment I replied to), not to characterize current systems.
There are plenty of people who have "closed the drawbridge behind them once inside." They don't want to help, or think that you should figure it out yourself or should already know the answer etc.... They forget that they were newbs once too.
i.e. crunch time, followed by actual R&R/downtime?
You say that you "respect [me] and [my] time" but also that you're only interested in helping me on your own terms and at your leisure, even if I'm completely blocked. And you say that if I'm completely blocked then I'm not contributing anything. Sorry, but it sounds like you don't respect anybody or their time if it doesn't help you.

You must be very good at your specific tasks because it sounds like you are not very good at your job (which includes "teamwork," "mentoring," and "problem solving"), at least if you behave the way you're saying you behave.
Cookies and JWTs are not alternatives to each other. You can store a JWT in a cookie.
On the bike paths as well? That's very progressive of Canada. We don't do that effectively here in Massachusetts.
There are hardly any active commuting cyclists in most cities, so no. Anyone who speaks up is outnumbered 50x by motorists who feel extremely entitled to never have to see a bike.
Mostly broadcast contribution and networking. Take the London Marathon in October, nice simple job given it's covid with 6 outgoing video circuits to national and international - some via satellite, some via dual-fibre - 4 incoming circuits, about 16 bidirectional audio channels, wifi across the compound.

Most of it is sitting at home making sure everything runs fine -- today I was looking into a supposedly resilient SRT connection that's dropping every few days - incoming packets from two different suppliers stop at the same millisecond, but the far end (not mine) insist they are coming from two different devices (which I can't believe)
i was one of those devs quoted in the article. it felt weird. i still SUPER appreciate the headphones tho and feel bad that whoever ran this campaign now has egg on their face in part due to me. considered deleting my post but now its kind of an object lesson in marketing for better or worse.
> Yes but the converse is also true, claiming that something is being done as an unfair punishment, as an argument against it.

No, in this particular case, it can only be claimed if there be no law against it.

The principle is quite simple: no man can be punished for any act that was not illegal when he committed it, no matter the act.

No matter how unfair the punishment, if it were indeed legal as he committed the act, the argument cannot be raised.

> In this case, it's also worth noting that most of the monarchy's private assets are vast amounts of property and land, of which they are the landlords. The state seizing and administering this property for the benefit of the country, rather than to perpetually enrich this elite, is a public good.

Perhaps it is, and the same argument can be made for seizing the property of the very rich, but this is entirely unrelated.

The difference is that a new law can be passed that the rich should surrender their property, and if they not do so, then they commit a crime, at the time it is so written in the law books.

Likewise, the former monarchs can be punished for being unwilling to surrender their power if ever the law change, and it no longer permit them to monarch; — they simply cannot be punished for their time as monarch when this was still legal, under this scheme.

> Rather than taking this to be a punishment on the royals, consider it an anti-punishment on the people afflicted by their predatory rent-seeking behaviour.

The argument was about their exile, not their assets being seized.

Their assets can easily be seized without any retroactive application of the law.

Of course, if the new law target only the former monarchs, and not every similarly wealthy man, then it goes against the other human right of fair justice and æquality before the law.
But doesn’t GH Actions have terrible uptime? Shouldn’t your uptime monitor itself have good uptime?
You should store TZ info in the "Europe/Brussels" form, rather than "CET" or "UTC-1" which aren't easy to use anyway.

If a foreign army invades Belgium and changes its timezone, Europe/Brussels will get updated.
PeaZip also has similar functionality.
What does a line length of 80 have to do with punch cards?

My understanding is that 80 was originally chosen because that was the standard number of columns on a terminal. It has been continued to be used because it happens to be roughly just under half the width of a typical 16:9 or 16:10 monitor at normal font sizes, making it ideal for window snapping and side-by-side diffs.

I have to review code in other languages all the time which follow a style guide that defines a maximum line length of 120 or 160. It's a huge pain having to scroll left and right all the time. But I'm not about to replace my perfectly good 16:10 monitors with ultrawides.
Personally I have my keyboard on my lap so having a full-size keyboard is rather inconvenient.

But I think this video is an excellent introduction on the reasoning why tiny keyboards are popular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKGXZ1ReU54
someone else's server
You would expect some sort of anti-trust investigation to start (at least in Europe) but there has been nothing...
Scala is nice for doing things with Spark compared to say, Java, but I really think that Kotlin can do just as well. The only advantage Scala has with Spark is the syntactic sugar. Once there is an API for Kotlin (beyond the preview version), I will be dropping Scala like a bad habit. Kotlin is also concise, has better IntelliJ support, less "implicit magic", and better Java interop.

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-spark-api
Absolutely, they deserve the greatest respect for that.
A security flaw in IE5 support for this feature:

http://web.cip.com.br/flaviovs/sec/favicon/index.html

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS99-01...
phrases differ by two letters

Shit and salt differ by two letters as well. I don't see how that's relevant.
It was big before too
> call “Stay Indoors” as “Shelter in Place”

This piece of this story is utterly fascinating to me right now. It's like half the population has a completely different interpretation of the phrase shelter-in-place. I feel like it's entirely too vague and has led to a situation where, in my neck of the woods in Orange county, CA, people are using the ambiguous language to justify going about their daily lives. Where, to me, the order is very clear: stay in or near your home. The beach isn't in or near my home. It isn't in or near the majority of our homes. And neither is the dog park, or the county or state parks, or the national forest near us, etc.. And, yet, on social media, it's very easy to find people complaining about how surprised they were when they went to the beach, or where ever, and it was totally packed with people. It's making me question my sanity that we can have such wildly different interpretations of this situation.
They look terrible, in fact. This is no way to typeset equations. (For example, variables should be set in italics.)
If you got it you might as well flaunt it.
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Define space company. You want to launch things? Hitch a ride on OP (other people's) rockets?
Seems dumb.... I though reporting e-girls to the IRS was the most effective play if you're prudish?
> Photos courtesy Rochelle DiRe

I take you are not Mrs DiRe.
Google Maps shows it correctly with bridge borders.

Apple Maps does not.
Erm,

the average results are off for Serbia. Our regulatory body for electronic communications does mandatory speed and quality testing for 4G networks of all 3 cell providers, and the results:

http://benchmark.ratel.rs/public/lp2018/src/measurement-scop...

Show that the maximum speed is 90 Mb/s and minimum speed is ~40-50 Mb/s. This is a chart for big cities, however, here are real-life some results:

https://imgur.com/a/LUyJlME
I really respect REI for closing their doors on Black Friday. https://www.rei.com/opt-outside
Is there a lot of recreational properties managed by the government in India?
The only time I went there O mostly stayed at guest houses and hotels.
ok if you're interested, send me an email at jkwon.work on gmail.com and i'll send an invite out for people who don't have facebook accounts.
You can get more writes than the number of ops/second of your disk by abandoning B-Trees for TokuDB. (I don't work for them. I'm just a fanboy).
I love the concept here but wish it were a standard built into webpages: anyone care to build such a thing <a chat room that exists at the bottom of a story AND that lets you reference specific lines in a story... this way you could, say ask "is this really correct?" to which someone could respond with the wiki link/etc
Usually if something is easy, fast and worry free to get to that kind of wage, which is very comfortable living in the vast majority of locations, there are probably many people attempting to do said thing.

Really you need to leverage some kind of skills to go after something either outside the low hanging fruit, or create something that people wouldn't have considered to have a good enough market. Of course there is an element of luck, if you can make some apps and get them to take off, the mobile ad market seems to be like the early web advertising at the moment, probably returning above the mark. Something like this for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1870960
Previously posted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539538 (68 comments)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=951095 (1 comment)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514955 (1 comment)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=492615 (0 comments)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408 (0 comments)
FYI the t-mobile people told me that too, but I went ahead and ordered it and it was just fine. Of course this was right before they retired the online sales... I got it for $199 + a regular contract...
I don't mind you telling people to end lines with semicolons.

I'd mind it if you told people that omitting semicolons causes cancer. (Or bugs.)

--
EDIT:

I just looked up your book to the point where you make this recommendation. You don't threaten any catastrophes, which is good. I disagree with the "complex and weird" conclusion, but it's certainly a valid decision to leave them out of the book if you'd rather not go into it.

My opinion of you: Not Evil. <3
The fastest route would be an iPad app. Make an ABC book for kids about animals, or fruits, or things, with big pics and nice visuals. Kids love them, parents love them, instant winner.
> Gasses and odors of any type shouldn’t be able to work their way back into a building via the sewer pipes.

I don't see any claims in the article that the odors entered the building via the sewer pipes. What makes you think that was the path that the odors followed? It could have just as easily been through an open window, or the pipe work could have been near an HVAC intake for the building.
That would be more true if domestic labor was on a more even playing field with global competitors. As it stands, domestic labor is expensive: not just because of wages and benefits, but also health and safety regulations, legal liabilities, etc.

I'm not saying we necessarily need to roll back those protections, but it's worth mentioning out that as the cost of hiring domestic labor in developed countries go up, companies begin to off-shore labor as soon as they are able.

My point is that we already don't have "free trade". The question is whether tariffs are a good way to balance the scales between domestic and foreign labor.
It's a native macOS app you need to install, other operating systems and a web client will follow!
> where false positives happen often and are explained away with lesser screening

Can you offer an alternative scenario of how you would have reacted if you were one of the officers?
canvas can better handle drawing thing which involve tons of objects, as you're working with pixels instead of DOM elements. here's an example of canvas being used for parallel coordinates: http://bl.ocks.org/syntagmatic/2420080
Every time I hear how much Lasik surgery has improved, I'm gladder I haven't let those damned lasers anywhere near my eyes. :-)

For the hackernews spin, this trick works for software too - I learned it at my first job, where each client had a different stack and we had to evaluate lots of enterprisey vendors: look at the improvements. The same thing that makes vendors tell you their software will make you toast and find you dates makes them unable to resist crowing about the improvements from version to version. If you're choosing between two identical-looking products, go with the one whose recent release notes have things like "Fix problems when mixing Russian and Right-to-left scripts on EBCDIC systems" rather than, "Now includes support for backups!"
We just fled from SF to Berkeley and haven't looked back.
A year ago HN lost its mind after full screen Mario was shutdown. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6703002
With all the "we care about you" emails being flung around because the current happenings, it's motivated me to work on implementing "single click" blocking of burner addresses for my mail forwarding service - https://kopi.cloud
> [Obama] said he believes Silicon Valley companies also want to solve the problem. “They’re patriots.”

He's right that they're patriots, but he's wrong about the problem they're trying to solve. They're fighting different terrorists. Terrorists hiding in government.
That's largely why I said "theoretical computer science."
You describe pretty well here just one reason why economists study markets: They tell us what people actually value, and how much, not just what they claim to value. It turns out, there can be a large disparity between the two.

Most people would say they place a high value on human life, but we don't know how true that is until we see what costs they're willing to incur in the name of helping others.
It's one of the easiest windows installs you can do.
The new thing I read there was the use of old abandoned mine shafts, providing up to 1km of vertical distance with a 5000 tonne mass. There are a lot of abandoned mine shafts. Does it work?
I have read and still read a lot of science fiction, literature (both ancient and modern).

I have tried to read Gene Wolfe several times.
I must confess that all I obtained from his works was a sense of profound ennui.

I am prepared to admit that the fault is likely to be entirely mine, considering how many people admire Mr Wolfe's writing.
Not the case with SSD.
> Because a system where companies maximize profits and government punishes unethical behavior according to the rule of law is a cornerstone of liberal society that many highly respected thinkers advocated for since the start of the Age of Enlightenment.

It's frankly unworkable to outsource morality and ethics to the government, even if you allow extreme surveillance and control. The law is there to catch serious cases where personal ethics and morality have failed. Yeah, that contradicts the DRY principle [1], but life isn't a software system.

Also, IIRC, the idea that the "system" is one were "companies [merely] maximize profits" within legal limits set by the government is a rather recent but false view [2]. The Age of Enlightenment didn't start in the 1970s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself

[2] This seems to give a decent summary: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Stout_C...
> In general, he wants the end (no "bad" speech) but doesn't provide a clear picture of the means to get there. This is common.

The MPAA example is a perfect and very clear example. Lots of publishers have gone through the same thing: regulate yourself or be regulated by the people.
Wait, is that right?

I thought your definition of immoral there is correct. But I thought that "gray area" means a person has morals, but the goodness of the topic is tricky to decide, while "amoral" just means the person doesn't even have a "right and wrong" scale, or doesn't care.
Care to share a source on this?
Try changing v4 to v3 in the URL.
"Sometime my sister, she show her vazhin to my brother Bilo and say 'You will never get this you will never get it la la la la la la.' He behind his cage. He cries, he cries and everybody laughs. She goes "You never get this." But one time he break cage and he 'get this' and then we all laugh. High five!"

eyeroll yeah, real biting satire.
Really makes me reflect on society's ills and totally wasn't just a thinly-veiled excuse for racist frat boys to laugh at brown muslims amidst a backdrop of endless illegal wars on muslim countries.
Ah so effectively none of the Hev photons reach the ground. I see the papers include the "Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes" data. I wouldn't have expected imaging to be practical because cherenkov is kind of scattering, but they seem to be able to triangulate individual collisions. Thanks for the correction.
you are right, it was a secret.
I started building my website where I share some of my work, and this is my first article.

I explain in detail how an image can be inserted in a Mandelbrot/Julia set.

Again, sorry for my English.
One interesting idea: the College Board could add in a class of problems requiring a particular novel, non-obvious approach that are effectively poison pills. Students who take the SAT prep courses are drilled on how to answer them, while students who take the test naively are bound to answer them incorrectly. It doesn't affect the actual score reported to the student. But when the score is reported to universities, a shadow score that represents likelihood that the student received extensive prep is also reported, which gives that kind of context.
Taleb is a smart man, but considering he thinks carbs are "bad" for you, it's a classical case of someone who thinks being a master in one domain makes him a master in another completely-unrelated domain.

His nutritional theories are asinine.
Actually, that 17% doesn't mean that robots will replace firefighters -- it just means there will be 17% less need for human firefighters. This could take a number of forms -- we've already seen some of them, such as better electrical codes that have reduced the number of electrical fires.

Another recent trend is residential sprinkler systems. Now imagine a smart sprinkler, with thermal imaging cameras that can pinpoint the source of a fire before it spreads. Then activate a directed jet spray to that source, and you have a whole building fire that has been avoided.

Or, lets say if 17% of fires are caused by space heaters. What if the heaters were equipped with a thermal imaging sensor, so that it cuts power to itself if an object in front of it gets too close to ignition temperature?