jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think you mean XML instead of SOAP. A JSON version of a SOAP service would be a completely different API.

Except for consuming the API directly in a browser, there's little reason that XML should cause you pain.
Given HN propensity to bash corporations I'm surprised this is not seen as a way to double or triple profits :)
I'm not sure about that. Here in the UK we've gone with a 12 week gap precisely because it allows us to vaccinate more of the population more quickly.
I can't really blame you, a bad system rewards this kind of individualism, and individualism then feeds into a bad system. In a better world we would consider human beings not as decentralised entities but as one big connected mass, and fixing poverty would actually raise everyone up.
The mods of the cryptocurrency subreddit banned the mods of the nano subreddit from the cryptocurrency subreddit. The title is a blatant lie.

The nano community is known for spamming and shilling nano wholesale across the entire website. I personally do not think they should be banned from the cryptocurrency subreddit, but I am not a mod there. I do understand the reasoning behind it. The cryptocurrency subreddit is cancer, full of shills and pumpers and not accounts and nonsense, they're probably hoping to clean it up. This is not "mass censorship and manipulation". The nano subreddit is still there.
As far as I know it means “half in the bag”.
Yeah, I have it on an SSD and it took six seconds to load. (And I have run it before since the last reboot, but it was closed and probably purged from memory since then.)

Kinda reminds me, back in the day Microsoft would add a startup service that would preload Internet Explorer and Word (I think those two) into memory, because they started so slowly by default. Trying to get a leg up on the competition, I suppose, since obviously Firefox or what have you wasn't pulling similar tricks. I'd disable stuff like that in msconfig to get a faster boot time, but was always shocked by how slow Word would load after that.
Looks like you have a paid plan now, good for you! But $29.99/yr seems waaay to low. I would suggest making that the "personal use" tier and adding a third more expensive tier for businesses.
Germany has undergone a heroic transformation, absorbing East Germany and trying to modernize it. Considering that a quarter of the country was a complete basket case due to 60 years of Communist misrule, the miracle is how far Germany has managed to come in the last 18 years.
does this guy not know how to use type declarations?

[1,2,3,4,5] :: [Int]
problem solved!
In Soviet Russia, source open you?
If we want our life to go well, Epictetus says, we should,
rather than wanting events to conform to our desires, make
our desires conform to events; we should, in other words, want
events “to happen as they do happen.” - Taken from A guide to the good life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

I think this pretty much works for me now.
Whatever happened to Fairtutor (http://www.fairtutor.com/)?
Political discourse is in a sad state when it's okay to use the term "gang rape" when talking about a proposed increase in tax rates.
That's not the question though. The question wasn't "why don't liberals agree with a tax cut for the Rich" (the answer to that question is exactly your point). The question is "why would they be so angry that they'd turn on the most liberal President elected since Carter and perhaps FDR". Or "Why would this deal make people talk about challenging him in the Primary"

That anger isn't about reducing the already ballooning deficit. There's something more there (whether that "more" is to punish the rich is debatable)
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the stable version is capable of 3-way merges.

Glad to see they're working on implementing that feature, though.
Good idea: express complex concepts in simple forms that children understand: multicoloured alligators that die when they eat other alligators or alligator eggs and then the eggs that they previously laid hatch, resulting in alligators that are the same color as the...

Wait I'll start again...
What do you mean knights don't exist anymore? The UK definitely still has a knighthood...
Or simply "use the search function" in every thread that posted this question...
Good to know you see reading your mail as equivalent to executing people for their sexuality, interning hundreds of thousands in labor camps, and jailing all who dare oppose you. That definitely doesn't devalue the lives of all those people or reveal you as hysterically self-important.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7866834
That said, the saving grace for Tcl were things like Expect and Tk. I don't think I ever used it for anything else....
Sure, instagram is a giant django app running ontop of many postgres databases. But I was pointing out that Go can be used for very large codebases running high traffic sites.
I'm pretty late to the party here but there are some fascinating parallels between the USG's actions in the physical world, as in the digital one.

First to USG has made a concerted and successful attempts to place secret digital strongholds and black sites across the globe, including some 'behind the enemy lines' so to speak. In the physical world these are the equivalent to CIA black sites and safe houses, from which you can attack and spy on the enemy, feed in extra weaponry to partisans and rebels (similar to the CIA Benghazi compound, sorry 'consulate', sorry 'embassy'.

The NSA has all these smart dangerous and arguably immoral minds employed to defend the digital borders of the US. But in truth these minds are busier establishing secret pathways through the digital trenchlines in order to have a definive and effective advantage when the cyberwar comes (which of course they are actively encouraging to validate their position, historical actions and future funding).

At the same time they are making a concerted effort to make sure that the security protocols everyone uses are undermined and backdoored. In effect they are making sure that the digital nuclear weapons held by their enemies aren't going to get in the air when the time comes.

Through strong encryption we could make sure that we have the digital equivalent of mutually assured security, but as ever the US isn't interested in this, because the reality is that the military industrial compound aims to make billions of dollars from the industry.

In a world where all communications and hardware devices were secure, they wouldn't make any money. A secure, stable and safe world just isn't profitable.
I'd hesitate to call the solution to his problems "obvious" but it seems one obvious thing he should do is look for remote work, or at least work someplace with a lesser commute so that he can get 4 hours a day back from his commute.

He should take a less-challenging job, perhaps, and get his work done quickly so that he can have lots of time left over for his own pursuits. I've had jobs in the past where I was able to do this with some success.

The idea that your job should challenge you is, perhaps, BS.

For so many jobs, the "challenges" consist mainly of dealing with political forces and/or forcing yourself to do other things you may not necessarily care about.

I would guess only a tiny percentage of us have jobs that are truly fulfilling. And maybe that's fine. Maybe we should go back to the days where we just punched the clock, figuratively speaking, and ditch the idea of getting fulfillment from our jobs. It's hurting our ability to find fulfillment elsewhere.
Where's my goddamned space elevator?
Make that 5....
Your wishes have been fulfilled.
Sure! Which section would you like Peldi to go in?
It would be easy enough to get around a DNS ban. Especially since they can't stop people from using whatever name server they choose or mapping IPs locally themselves.
Indeed they are. Right before the issues began, I pushed a bad update to one of my Heroku apps, causing it to crash. A minute later I fixed the bug, re-pushed the git repo to Heroku... and nothing. I've been stuck with an error message on my website for hours. Unfortunate timing!
Gsmarena.com, click android on the left. Way more information.
What's wrong with self-hosting?
Yes! It's like those dumb people that rent out 5 floors of a 100 story building, instead of building their own SkyScraper. Then, horror of horrors, 2 of the 8 lifts breaks down for 12 hours.

Such idiots for paying rent, even though building SkyScrapers isn't their core business.
Why do you think Linux isn't the 0.0001% survived form?
It's not really about credibility, it's about status. Bad behavior -- and being this rude is bad behavior -- is much more tolerated in high status individuals, in every type of community. Just like (extreme example) how senators and Goldman Sachs CEOs can walk away with a slap on the wrist and a little bad press, where you or I would go straight to jail.

If it were just about the value of the information conveyed, people would do their own research when a person is "brutally honest" with them, and decide whether or not that information itself is credible.

The confusion lies in the fact that in a community like HN, that worships logic (and also success), those things that make you "credible" are what make you a high-status individual. That means even the statements those high status people make which are NOT credible themselves will be accepted, or only gently rebuffed. (Which is a big reason why you don't see much criticism of pg here, or when you do, it's very respectful, vs other authors, even when he writes something ridiculous.)
Quora says: "We'd point fingers, but we wouldn't be where we are today without EC2."
I was a little confused, thought there would be more about "in Japan" and less about "join a startup". Helpful confusion for your traffic, though. ;)
I don't think there's a local optima here. The gradient with respect to the individual characters always points you at the solution, from all states. Pathologically so, even. But it makes for a good learning problem since the problem space actually fits in human heads and you can clearly see what the GA is doing. When you fire a GA at a real problem you won't have that luxury.
I thought it was telling that they linked to an article where someone discusses the shortcomings of App Engine but just linked to the main Heroku site.

Sweeping everyone else under the same rug (or attempting to) just feels like a "we're complaining about your Azure platform's shortcomings, but hey, we can still be friends, see, we'll try to throw everyone else under the bus, too".
I think you'll find it won't work with images loaded from other domains.

There is a cross-domain data protection feature on Canvas.
Or, they can stop having fear of the NIH syndrome and embrace Google Android.

Nah, that will never happen.
Interesting. I was under the impression on that Kinect tech came out of MS research. Is this a spin-off?
> I seem to get this way more often in winter, so it seems like it could be something like Seasonal Affective Disorder (i.e. clinical depression), but I'm never depressed, just unable to convince myself to take any other path than the easiest one (e.g. fast food instead of home cooking, Short stories instead of novels, video games instead of hobby coding, organizing my computer rather than cleaning my house, etc.)

I would point out that things like SAD (and deficiencies in general like vitamin D) are not necessarily binary or even discrete states where you either suffer it or don't; you can have it in lesser or greater amounts. It's the diagnosis which is discrete - don't confuse the map with the territory.

Although I'm not sure SAD is your problem, you may just have general issues with 'akrasia'. You may find useful or enjoy some of the articles in http://lesswrong.com/tag/akrasia/ (such as http://lesswrong.com/lw/f1/beware_trivial_inconveniences/ or http://lesswrong.com/lw/fu/share_your_antiakrasia_tricks/ ).
Personally, I still hold out hope for cars that can (and are required to) drive themselves, at least on major roads. Get that figured out, and then we can talk about flying.
0%.
They didn't leave the mainstream channels because they weren't allowed to speak. They left the mainstream channels because truth was not compatible with their worldview.
And the worst they can do is choose to not do business with them...

Whereas you doing full KYC with most companies, who are by law also forced to determine who is a bad actor, doesn't scare you?
Don't forget the repealing of the fairness doctrine in 1987 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine)! People act like it's some big coincidence that polarized news really emerged in the US in the 90s....
That all sounds plausible, but I am skeptical that today is significantly different from other historical periods or nations that had/have similar tribalism. Look back far enough and you'll find rich stories of senators murdering each other. Sure, ancient Roman history, but relevant today. Many societies of the past have had our same divisions.

Rather than making conjectures about why today is different, it might be more helpful to investigate why some time periods weren't rife with tribalism.
> "The Governor also issued an executive order temporary closing the Department of Motor Vehicles for all in-office visits. Online transactions, including for license renewals, are still be available."

It seems a bit dated to even have in-office visits for things like driving license renewals. The UK equivalent, DVLA, closed all their office counters a few years back. Now everything is done online and by post.
Lagrangian mechanics is equivalent to Newtonian mechanics, but doesn't involve force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_mechanics

The idea of replacing a 'gravitational force' with spacetime curvature gave us General Relativity; extending this same idea to electromagnetism gives us Kaluza-Klein theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluza%E2%80%93Klein_theory

The current state of the art is Quantum Field Theory (of which the Standard Model is an example) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory

In QFT, "particles" and "forces" are emergent phenomena (waves of excitation in the underlying fields, and the couplings/interactions/symmetries of those fields). QFT tends to be modelled using Lagrangian mechanics too.
Oh god,

I remember some visionary people at a certain FANG org I worked at trying to reinvent HTML, but expressed as YAML.
"I probably _appear_ motivated but I'm just a neurotic who hates failing." I feel seen.
She made no mention of chipping in for gas or the up-keep of the vehicle. Sounds like she enjoys the pleasures of a "free ride" as much as the kids enjoyed handing them out.
I'm no expert, but I think you could just convert a database via function composition:

new_hash = (bcrypt new_work_factor) . old_hash -- new hashing function

new_hashed_passwords = map bcrypt old_hashed_passwords -- convert the old hashed passwords to new

Of course, this will fail horribly if (bcrypt new_work_factor) is somehow an inverse (or partial inverse) of old_hash. It could also fail horribly if (bcrypt new_work_factor) maps it's input into a low "rank" (sorry, I'm a mathematician, not a crypto expert) region of old_hash's domain.
iprelay too:

iprelay -b30000 8000:localhost:80
Yes you can. Resources vary according to a pricing matrix so you can set in your script to send APi calls based on those levels.

Kind regards,

Patrick Baillie
CEO
The best case scenario for cloud computing would be some sort of device that you could run on your home network that would provide services like email, web hosting, and file sharing. It would have to be painless to setup. Maybe it could backup heavily encrypted copies of your stuff onto off-site servers just in case. You could VPN/SSH into your cloud wherever you had an internet connection.

Unfortunately, I think such a device would STILL be too much work for the average computer user when all it takes is a couple seconds to make a dropbox account.
There is a major difference - a password is known by the host. Of course they salt and hash and use bcrypt to secure their storage of it, but ultimately, a password is a shared secret between you and the site.

A private key is fundamentally different - it is private. You never send it to anyone, ever. So it's safe to use just one, because nobody else will ever see it.

As you alluded to, the problem then becomes managing that key securely, and also generating & distributing keys for non-technically inclined users.
Choosing to let some company hold on to your data isn't exactly giving up freedom. You still have the freedom to not store it with them and you haven't given it up, but merely opted not to exercise it.
People get too hung up on languages. I want to solve problems, and I'll use the best tool for the job. I know Java, I know how to use Java to solve innumerable problems very effectively and efficiently, so I'll use Java.

So is Java the "best tool" for the job because it's the one you happen to know best?

I am just trying to understand the logic.

In my experience, when people say "best tool for the job", they have a set of very diverse jobs in mind.
and thank you in advance to anyone who responds!
It had been on the App Store for about a year.
I really like Ledger, an open-source command-line application for double-entry accounting. You can learn a lot about accounting in general just by reading the documentation and following the examples.

http://wiki.github.com/jwiegley/ledger/

It's available packaged in MacPorts, Ubuntu, and so on.
You caught me. It was this special day of the year I decided not to wear my suit and stop doing excel sheets for a second.

Here are some slides I created in a prior attempt to impersonate someone who's mental abilities are clearly above mine:

http://www.slideshare.net/evilhackerdude/building-great-stuf...

If you'd like to talk to the person I'm trying to impersonate, here's his Twitter:

http://twitter.com/evilhackerdude

I'd love to talk to you!
It could simply be that the author isn't actually anywhere near as famous as he wants to think he is.
In the tools category, I'm a big fan of http://freeagentcentral.com.
I was able to reduce memory of mysqld on a 256MB VPS from 5.2% to 2.9% by adding this to /etc/my.cnf

skip-bdb
skip-innodb

# default is 8M
key_buffer_size=4M
Not a very useful comparison at this time, since iOS 4 is about to change the email, multitasking etc. very soon.
Thank you. I'm actually not upset about the situation, I just found it an interesting enough situation to share.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. There was no downtime, and no slow access.

We went from our normal rate of 5k bookmark writes per day to over 5 million in a 24 hour period without going offline.

Hell, we didn't even get slow. Our median page load times stayed well under a third of a second. We had no advance notice of the announcement and had to handle the spike in traffic on the fly, on one server. Our competitors crashed, we stayed up.

I'm pretty proud of this and I think our users got their money's worth from Pinboard today.
No, Sweden was considered a country with a good healthcare system under the former socialist governments. But now that the capitalists are ruling Sweden and Denmark, the ship turned towards the US and UK systems. With its known problems.

Their healthcare system is now the 2nd worst in the EU. Social problems are rising right and left.
Who are "they" and where does it say that on the paper?
Thank you. The calculation is right. It is just wrong price labeling. Coal costs 66$ oil 27$ It is fixed now.
thanks for speaking up. this takes a lot of guts and I hope you get your colleagues attention. forcing a tool like this on employees is a betrayal of trust and could also have devastating effects on their motivation.
You're right, I missed that.

But that still leaves the ASCII tree diagram agreeing with the sentence "Phix has just five builtin data types:" while showing (and describing, in the following bullet point list) five data types that don't include "number" or a floating-point type.

So what's left is a minor but consistently repeated error in the doc, on the "Core Language" page.
I'm all for it. Remember that days when a fishing website hat a ad banner for a fishing related website - that's still targetet enough on my watch.
Git bash is better.
I'm guessing the whole "Hello, I know you husband just died but would you mind if we put his death in a educational TV series designed to encourage people to become doctors" just doesn't across as sensitive. Could they have found the family later? Maybe, I don't know if the TV crew had access to the patient's name and family contact information, it is possible they could not contact the family even if they wanted to.
I agree with @roboprog. Most software shops employ engineers who don't have exposure into UNIX tools. Only few hardcore engineers have exposure or interest learning UNIX tools. For majority of engineers it is just a job. They simply use the same tool for everything. And they tend to use the tools that seem to get them into well paying jobs. If hadoop can get them good paying jobs, they would like us "hadoop" for something in their current job, even if that job can performed by a set of CLI utils. I have seen 100s of resume builder projects in the my past experience.
Looks like they are all from r/splitdepthgifs. I ran across this concept on reddit earlier today, and I'm impressed. I feel like the 3D is more vivid than the 3D movies I've seen.

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/splitdepthgifs
If you believe in and want to invest in the SpaceX venture, you'd probably want to be investing in a basket of SpaceX related material suppliers.
That's an excellent question, and no, I don't think that we have historically expanded on it. It merits an explanation though -- and it strikes me that it may be worth explaining our engineering ethos in some detail. Would that be of interest? Perhaps I could use the SMF example as the motivating example of systems thinking...
Closed source Android port? I thought Android was open?
Your account is 311 days old so this applies:

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

Later.
I'm suggesting that the risk of terrorists blowing up your flight using a method that backscatter machines would prevent, but that previous procedures would not prevent, is indistinguishable from zero. You're trading your civil liberties in exchange for nothing. And that would be fine, except you're also trading my civil liberties in the process.
No, it would be more like the owner of the phone company saying you can't speak about certain things on the phone.
It was marginal, but it kicked in after around EUR 25K IIRC. There were only 2 rates. This was 2010.
The HN crowd is fascinated by simple but effective "hacks". This appears to be one.
I’m hearing the risk is very minimal though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBLVSxXcTuE&t=188 has a little more information and shows the UI in more detail.

It's three separate OLED screens beneath one gorilla glass surface.
> Propagating "Nothing" is not inherent to the Maybe data type, it's just a convenient behavior to have.

nitpick about this particular example: is there another lawful implementation of Monad for Maybe? i can't think of any, apart from the trivial

pure _ = Nothing
_ >>= _ = Nothing

(eyeballing the lawfulness, but it'll all be `Nothing` so all the equalities should hold, trivially :D)
Well, is it wrong?

And programmers seem more likely to spend their time indoors, and therefore more likely to be vitamin-D-deficient without supplementation.
Why do you need code generation for the prototypes? How would that help you solve the issue of having something to show before building?