jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why is startup time relevant if you're doing backend server stuff? It's pretty much the ideal use case for Java.

Java 7? meh. If you like chasing new shiny things all day, sure.

Javascript is a great language, no doubt, but for me, it lacks a lot of the things Java does so well to ensure that things don't break, finding bugs easy, etc etc

Why are so programmers so fashion conscious though? Do we write programs to solve problems, or do we write programs to be fashionable.

If we write to solve problems, then use Java5. Use BASIC. Who cares if it solves the problem well. If you write to be fashionable, then sure, use <NEW SHINY THING THAT REINVENTS THE WHEEL BUT ISN'T UP TO MUCH YET>. People will marvel over your great fashion sense, but will it solve the problem even as well as a less fashionable approach?

The amount of man hours wasted on reinventing the wheel in programming languages is staggering. So much time spent making a saw with a more comfortable handle that doesn't cut as well.
I bet FB Workplace went down too heh [1]

[1] https://workplace.com
> So a part of a standard which maps color to specific brightness levels is pretty much irrelevant outside of the unrealistic case of a perfect calibrated monitor in a perfect environment. Which does exist. But again is for most internet users unrealistic.

If you modify the brightness in software, you can also tonemap it properly and retain the contrast easily.
At that size of a company there's usually blast radius restrictions and per-role permissions. I don't expect anyone has enough rights to "delete Facebook" on their own.
That’s not a terrible model
How does it stay up as much as it does :)
Unless it's something bleeding edge or a a high churn JS stack, almost nothing should be out of date in just 1-2 years.
wow, they hold seller's data hostage?
Brittanica also had much more than Wikipedia. And Unix could do much more than Linux.

This is how great open source begins.
Yes. What exactly is being 'developed'? When the institutions using this phrase are regressive, it is not only a misnomer but an excuse.
Hm, in my case, I followed a very boring/the right way of doing things,
For example : try getting the book "the Linux programming interface" it s very handy and explains pretty much everything u de want to know about anything in a Linux operation system, it lists and explains the POSIX interface made for you to use in you C code , with example, which surprisingly, u get to find similar interfaces/system calls/library functions that you can use in python to do the same thing.

For regular expressions, watching a small video which explains how they work is definitely more productive, but if you could find some time to spare , try checking how compilers are made, / what constitutes a language (language theory), and automata, it definitely has some math in it , but it s worth it, it gives you an extra mental image , which helps you get a better understanding of where you stand and what you can do. Since apparently regex is also a language, which helps you describe chunks of an other languages and it also has some limitations to be aware of.
> I'm quite curious how LibraryThing has managed to keep going despite such a tiny userbase

LT got traction significantly earlier than GR (or Anobii, which is big in some countries). In fact, they could have gone hockey-stick, but basically chose not to - they kept it somewhat exclusive and expensive, àla Apple, while GR went free. It always felt like LT was a lifestyle business and GR was a VC-style business (I don't know if this perception actually matched their financials). When the chips are down, you need very little to keep going what is essentially an online book database, if you don't go chasing growth metrics.
The CDC lumps deaths by pneumonia into its influenza estimates. Presumably epidemiologists would do the same here and just miss the distinction from actual influenza deaths.
Because it's hard to know if he's joking since he constantly peddles conspiracy theories like birtherism and keeps company with people like alex jones who are serious about things like sandy hook never happening.
Awesome. I love LibraryThing. It's one of my inspirations for creating rate.house.
y'all are right it's not the point, but here is the hn exclusive closure: https://s3.amazonaws.com/4rk/screen-shot-2020-03-21-20.12.13...
One of the other big issues hitting during this crisis beyond simple availability of ventilation machines is the number of nurses and doctors available to monitor and care for patients when they have to go to the ICU. Ideally the machine would be both cheap and easy to produce and require less qualified monitoring.

If we get way more machines but those machines require a lot of intensive monitoring we could wind up with plenty of machines but not making any progress on the fatality rate.
First link to a web game in my life that .... works on mobile! Well done.
Hi UnoriginalGuy, We appreciate the feedback. Can you contact me at mdick@microsoft.com? I would like to follow up with you regarding your concerns with ReSharper. Thanks .
"Its death was a natural one, and the immediate cause has been categorised as shock," Sabah State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Christine Liew is quoted as saying.

The cause of the death is categorized as "shock", it is hard to not feel the potential for self-reflective sadness here whereby the cause of shock could be dramatically extrapolated to be shock for the violence of humanity and whatever their desires were that warranted killing these rhinoceroses and not protecting and coexisting with them.
That problem is microscopic compared to the problems you would invite.

Bad at math.
This is from January: https://newsroom.mastercard.com/2019/01/16/free-trials-witho...

Also, it only applies to physical products.
This is common practice in some parts of Vietnam and Thailand...minus the "safely" part.
Drugs, Terrorism, Patriotism, Whistleblowers, Feminism.
There is or was a patch on the University of Denver's University Hall, said to derive from a long-ago football rivalry with Colorado School of Mines. Students of mining engineering learn to handle dynamite, you see. Nobody was injured and nobody that I know of ever charged. Things were taken more calmly 100 years ago.
127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com
127.0.0.1 reddit.com

etc.
Another option would be to store the keys in a TPM, though there are some downsides to that as well. Here's one page that details such a process: http://www.lorier.net/docs/tpm
Varnish also supports custom cache keys via the VCL function `vcl_hash` as documented in https://www.varnish-software.com/static/book/VCL_functions.h...

I couldn't (quickly) find documentation on how to get the value of a specific cookie, but the server could send a user ID in a header or something Varnish can easily access to be used in the above function.
I just started learning Clojure, so I don't really understand this article very well. Is Clojure significantly different from other LISPs (e.g. Racket)?
It's not clear that this is the end of the charges.
I encountered _the exact same thing_. I immediately closed the game after that.
Ergh, sorry, that's a mis-paste from another thread I was talking on, not an assertion of mine.

I agree, Bitcoin is not a bank, that makes comparing its energy footprint to the banking system totally pointless.
I had a similar experience, except that the IRS was missing cost basis info entirely and so they thought I should pay a huge amout, and so I had to send them the info.
They were very nice about it though.
I do see some value in Clubhouse. My spouse has been using it to hold open conferences with other professors, but they're seeding the room with a number of pre screened academics, their grad students, postdocs, etc. Then it's open for those that want to drop it.

It's nothing you couldn't have done with Ventrilo way back in the early 2000s, but I guess CH has a brand and people just browsing. It also seems inevitable though that their kind of content will remain a minority and it comes down to if CH will offer you the discover tools you need to weed through all the crap to find the discussion room on the topic you personally give a shit about.

Also apparently a bunch of top ranked academics got to hear me curse bilingually because my spouse was talking and rolled into the kitchen right as the drain hose came off the garbage disposal and dumped dirty water on my face. Loving the new garbage disposal though.
Do e-ink tablets even have music-worthy sound capability? Even at $1600 Gvido has no speaker!??
I have one, and the cloud service is actually completely replaceable if you want. Since the device is running linux you can compile to arm7 and just run a sync cron to whatever server you want if you don't like their cloud service.

Edit:
I think people may have the impression this is like Android where the process is "ok, first reboot, hold all the buttons but not that one button and then unlock root, then flash the rom with a custom version of the OS from this sketchy site and ... bam! You're in control now"

Actually it's like: sign into wifi on the device. It's now running an ssh server available on your network. The password to log in as root is in the settings. You can ssh in right then and write a bash script to do what you want.
I ran a Nomad cluster a few years ago and the documentation wasn't great for solving problems. I ran into some issues with several cluster nodes, and wasn't able to properly troubleshoot.

I guess this an ecosystem problem, but in general I find Hashcorp documentation (SRE/Ops/Admin specific) lacking.
An Android device rooted with Magisk can easily be reconfigured with the Bromite System Webview module. This replaces standard Chrome Webview in all www access cases not specifically handled by the user's browser. It is the logical step to fully replace Chrome with Bromite.
Majority of the difference between consumption and generation is imported. ERCOT is operating at 52,000MW right now, with 37,600 of it being generated on-grid.
When last I used the Unity shell, it was clearly not ready for prime time. I'll spend some time later today, cross my fingers, and discover if that has changed or not. There's much more in a new release than just that, but the supposedly-cleaned up Unity will probably get most of the press.

Some concerns aside, I respect a lot of the chutzpah that Canonical is showing: Unity, Wayland, trying to force KDE/GNOME to work together on a notification API. They want to see the Linux desktop improve, and even if people fight against them and they lose, to me it feels better than the inertia of the status quo. Stasis gets no one anywhere.
This is a must read!

Every company I have worked at with legacy sites to port/maintain have yet to allocate any resources to this problem. No matter how often I suggest it. Now we have a great reference for our bosses and selling to clients of the importance of it.
I think that's just static text addressed to IE users, not a dynamic message based on your browser. I saw it (and messages about slow internet and iPads) on Firefox too.
And yet, if 9$ is your food budget, they are the same.
Both the launcher and the dash are awesome. Takes very little time to get used to.
Already downloading.
It's remembered. (I have been running it since beta 2 on my work computer.)
I tried the AirPush demo and found that it actually plays the notification sound when displaying the ad.

If that's happening at random times when I'm not using your app...that's really, really terrible. It's spam, plain and simple. These are unsolicited messages that happen to be sent directly rather than via email.
It remembers. My laptop can't run Unity so I've been running the beta in classic mode, only needed to select it once.
by well off you mean 11% of the population? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Krankenversicherung

You can choose to take private insurance if you make more than 60k EUR ;)
That is not the "American way". That is the way certain areas behave as they try to fight urbanization, but is not the way most areas behave.
Somewhat-related book quote:

> Van Atta was no more than five years younger than Leo. Leo suppressed profound irritation—he wasn't this paper-shuffler's ninety-year-old retired Sunday school teacher, damn it. He was a working engineer, hands-on, and not afraid to get them dirty, either. His technical work was as close to perfection as his relentless conscientiousness could push it, his safety record spoke for itself... He let his anger go with a sigh. Wasn't it always so? He'd seen dozens of subordinates forge ahead, often men he'd trained himself. Yeah, and trust Van Atta to make it seem a weakness and not a point of pride.

--"Falling Free", by L.M. Bujold
Little consumer wireline but substantial wireline overall. NN is an extremely positive thing for Sprints network planning/design, as they are building capacity over intelligence. Source: I stare at Sprints network maps every day.
> "we're looking for people who are passionate about [thing that literally no-one has ever been passionate about]"

Relevant satire clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz2-49q6DOI
I wonder if there is a significant difference in the drivers who choose Car2Go. The first time I saw a Car2Go vehicle was in Portland, when I had to react because the driver did something foolish. I remember doing a double take to see if someone was training a new driver, and being surprised to see the carshare logo and a middle-aged driver behind the wheel. I figured it was a one-off... until a week later when I had a similar experience with a different Car2Go vehicle... and then a couple weeks later with a third.

I can't recall ever having an issue with other car share drivers, but I pay extra attention whenever I spot a Car2Go and make sure to give them a wide berth.
I watched 1000+ hours of animé (which is an amazing pastime btw) and I am now effectively conversationally fluent in Japanese (I had a 6 hour date with a native Japanese girl almost entirely in Japanese, and it was the first time I spoke to a Japanese person). However, having no formal education in Japanese whatsoever, I can only dare to talk in casual contexts as I may make cultural errors (wrong level of respect or mixing dialect) and also cannot read or write.

Consuming media in general and enjoying it is a great way to learn a language (Bollywood movies, k-dramas, animé, j-pop, French movies are well known language learning sources) for conversational experience - just keep consuming till you reach that point where the subtitles are less and less relevant
Is this how Quora is trying to create revenue? Doesn't seem like it's going to get them very far.
That's not the first time they've done this:

http://www.wired.com/2008/03/hackers-publish/
Most fonts are created with quadratic Bezier curves, I think.
Chumpy looks interesting (feel like I should have known about it before now)..but I find the choice between battery+cheaper vs stereo unfortunate. I'd consider a Chumpy One + Stereo (at a higher price)..but as-is, I feel the available options lacking.
Corporate/home firewall may be blocking that?
Actually, wikipedia makes it sound as though it is more socialized in India, compared with the USA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_India which makes sense given the historical British influence.

However, I think this sort of innovation was way more likely to occur in a developing country, regardless of if the individual or the tax payer is picking up the bill. It is a case of simple market forces as hinted in the article by:

On returning to India in 1989, Dr. Shetty performed the first neonatal heart surgery in the country on a 9-day-old baby. He also confronted the reality that almost none of the patients who came to him could pay the $2,400 cost of open-heart surgery.

"When I told patients the cost, they would disappear. They literally didn't even ask about lowering the price," he says.
How would the dropbox client encrypt the files if only you knew the shared secret? You have to give the client your shared secret, and then we're back to where we began.
Publishers are actually starting to format their ebooks, which yes will make it cost more than a paperback while ebooks remain a secondary release. Not only are formatters having to learn how to correctly format for multiple devices, but they're also having to deal with changeable formats and font sizes.

So yes, its going to cost more when formatted properly over a read-as-is format where it only needs to be formatted properly to fit the page.

ebooks if they were to be released like a book would only lose 20% of the face price of the book if companies like Amazon are willing to pass up the distributor costs and the publishers are truly not needing the publishing costs.

However 40% of book prices belong to the retailer. Between 10-15% belong to the Author for writing the book. The remaining 25-30% belong to the publisher to pay all those pesky inconveniences like editors and proof readers, etc. that actually make books readable to millions and not wholly illiterate dribble.

Assuming ebooks remain nothing but a parasite on the industry, you might assume a 10-20% discount off of face price unless the retailer offers discounts, which is what a lot of big booksellers do like Chapters/Indigo/Cole here in Canada.
I didn't even bring up C++ - the article did, dlubarov commented about it, and you asserted that C++ references and Java references were the same. That's where I joined - to correct your fallacy.

Perhaps it really is simple, and you are afraid to admit that maybe you didn't get a simple concept either, until your eyes were opened by the very posts you spend walls of text refuting. I know it is not a pleasant feeling, but it's acceptable to own up to it. No amount of text or thesaurus consultation will fix your mistake.

Or, if that's too much pride for you to abandon, then you can continue to stand behind your original claim that references in C++ and Java are the same for this discussion (or any other - but I posit that there is no discussion, except for maybe "the word reference in both phrases has the same spelling"), then I feel for you. I really do.

Good day!
IMHO, the biggest benefit from playing games like SimCity is the practical introduction to systems thinking: the obvious solution may not be the obvious solution. I often wonder if these games are giving this generation an intuitive grasp of systems dynamics that older generations simply don't get.

The meta-game of effective systems design is fascinating in its own right, because the skills learned apply to real-world systems as well.

I wonder if anyone has tried modeling the problem specific to the game using something like trueworld?
http://www.true-world.com/htm/en/index.html
+1 for 'More or Less'. I am a regular listener.
As for the book, I believe the correct title is "The Norm Chronicles".
an example would be useful
How on earth can you think that spending 40x as much money is just as bad?
Always worrying when someones working on a similar thing to you. Or validating..
Where am I "stipulating" browser support? I'm saying it could be easier with browser support. Easy enough to the point where people would prefer it, causing everything to support it instead of the anemic few we have now.

This is one of those areas where people improving security frequently seem to fail to comprehend human behavior. For OpenID to gain critical mass, the average person has to be able to use it simply and correctly enough that they will make the switch. And that implies incredible simplicity. OpenID has the capability, but it seems implementers go out of their way to make the process anything but simple, so people get confused and leave for a lock-in solution like Facebook that has a single button to press.

You get people to improve their habits by being easier than their old habits, not by telling them their old habits are dangerous and look, here's a better option. If that worked, people wouldn't be drinking and smoking so much.
Yes, It has been discontinued. The questions don't appear to be dated, so It's not possible to tell how long ago the tip was posted.

http://www.google.com/goog411/index.html
The reason to quit is to open your mind to other opportunities. It's easier to keep plodding along at something mediocre than to quit and force yourself to find something awesome to do instead.
Here's an experiment you can try: write a program that renders a font to a high res grid, then refits vector data to that data, then publish a bunch of proprietary fonts redone using your program (documenting your approach carefully) and see how long it takes to get sued.
I have to disagree. I dont mind serendipity. Its a great way to meet new people and network. I think this is a great idea to accomplish that.
"XML deals remarkably well with the full richness of unstructured data."

What? No, it doesn't. XML has even more structure than JSON does. Unless you're using it improperly, and the you're negating all the advantages that XML was supposed to bring.

It wasn't for 'mixed content'. It was for system interoperability.

The advantage that XML brings over JSON is that you can have an external document that you can use to validate any XML you're sending or receiving. You can guarantee it's formatted correctly. JSON provides no such guarantee.

Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.
Since it sounds like they legally trademarked their app's name and brand then it's best to get an attorney involved and not wait around for Apple.

Competition and copycats exist - users have an appetite for new stuff and quality apps. Apps can be disposable - the average user has something like 64 apps on their device.

So the trick now is to make the app far better than the copycats and to get it back up on the charts.
It strikes me as dangerous that developers seem to think that Apple (or Google) have a role in resolving disputes with 3rd parties. It seems odd to me that your attorney is focusing on Apple. I did a quick trademark search at the USPTO and at WIPO and I see no applications or registrations--that's a basic tool with which you can use to lever 3rd parties, including Apple.
And here is TJ Holowaychuk's response to Zyp's article:
http://tjholowaychuk.com/post/698591492/connect-vs-jsgi
Well distributed transactions in some mission-critical enterprise setting isn't what REST is all about, not even close. If people are really making that mistake fair play to you.

I would hope that the majority of us out there using REST have a sense of perspective about it though. It's about providing services as part of the open web in a loosely coupled, organic, discoverable fashion based on standardised media types. And also about implementing lightweight APIs which observe the semantics of HTTP rather than layering stuff on top of it.

This kind of stuff is a great fit for a lot of APIs which face the open web, or which are used by clients without hard, business-critical constraints on reliability and transactionality. The semantics of HTTP obviously weren't designed for that stuff, although they do contain some features which go part-way towards helping, which is perhaps what sets some people on a slippery slope.
Unless you have significant equity, you need to immediately negotiate higher pay or leave.

* $500/week is ridiculous. You are way underpaid.

* There is no upside for you:

* Say the company is successful and starts generating a lot of revenue: you'll have to crawl your way from $500/week to a decent salary. New employees will immediately make more than you.

* If the company is sold, the founder gets rich and you get nothing.

You've accomplished significant milestones: you've taken a product from idea to production, and you are now managing a team. Play this up in your next interviews, you've earned it. Get yourself a better position with better pay, in line with the skills you've honed and proven over the last year.

Btw, I've founded 3 startups so I'm very familiar with what it's like to pay people little. In every case the counter to the low pay was significant equity - if the startup makes it, you get a share of the prize. If you're not getting equity, you're getting used, plain and simple.