jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> the stakes are too high to want to trust your assets to arbitrary turing-complete code.

Does it matter whether the language is turing-complete or not? you're trusting a contract, not the PL used to write the contract, and the contract can be very simple (and formally verified, if the PL has a formal semantics).
Accusing me of entitlement knowing nothing about me, the way I use YouTube, or what a good value proposition for it looks like to me is not civil. Civil questions wouldn't go off on tangents asking if I feel entitled to various things.
It's not a "detail" if it's pretty much the only reason to post or read the story in the first place.
If someone on my team was writing a web app and spending time meddling around with transactions outside of whatever abstraction layer we were using on top of the DB without an incredibly good reason, we'd definitely be having a coaching moment, and if it continued, I'd likely help them find a role with another org where they might be a better fit.

Any quality database abstraction provides fairly simple means to perform transactions.
This is a good article about structural interfaces which makes some positive points. I don’t have a rebuttal per se, but the testing part of this article is an interesting side topic.

In the specific example given for the given product, a real life developer would write all the code to get the UI up and running, test it works, and probably just ship it.

What do you need to write tests for? Well: there’s nothing wrong with writing tests and a better developer would include at least some testing with their new product feature. They’ll certainly want to know if their product breaks in production, and to be alerted automatically, detecting any regressions.

If you write a test around the backend code with a test double / mock / fake for the backend, then indeed it will be the case that when you break the code that interacts with the “backend”, your test dashboard will alert you with “BackendTest FAILED”. But goodness me it’s a lot of work to make the code testable like that: work to rethink the code into a testable form, and more importantly cognitive load on the next person who comes along as has to read your now not-so-simple backend fetching logic. The linked article certainly shows how to reduce the impact of making the code testable, but you’d still have to make the mock, which is effort as well as more lines of code to go wrong.

A much better tool in this sort of situation is an integration test. It mirrors what you do as a developer when you first write the code, for starters. And if your real life backend is sufficiently stable such that the integration test is reliable, or can at least be ignored when the backend is in a known-broke state, then an integration test combined with hygienic version control is a much better way of isolating regressions to particular diffs.

There are a lot of assumptions needed to make this work — linear commit history, good testing tools, developers making focused and logical commits which change one thing at a time — but having that kind of infrastructure and culture is far more beneficial to an organization anyway, with the bonus that you don’t need to write complex code that is clouded with test infrastructure wizardry mixed in with the business logic.
Most days I turn the music on and start programming 0830 or 0900. I'll probably check new music releases while programming. Take short breaks to faff around on Internet.

1100 is probably dogs's first walk for 20 minutes.

Stop programming for an hour at 1300 for lunch - probably watch something.

Might listen to a podcast while I continue programming until about 1800; at this point take dogs out again but for a longer walk.

Might do more programming, work on a set, study something technical - usually sound orientated these days - or make dinner if it's my turn.

Eat dinner 2100 and go to bed at 2200.

Unless this is the Monday after our monthly sunday electronica evening; in which case I'm probably annihilated for the rest of the day.

Edit: In the UK
You seem to not understand the notion of expected value.

If the strike price is a concern, it could probably be negotiated down. I had the impression the they have generally gone down anyway.
Collective rights management is one of the charter missions of the RIAA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_rights_management
The problem with schemes like this, is that they show premeditated intent to destroy evidence. I hear that courts don't like that. Maybe there wouldn't be evidence that specifically unplugging the headphones is what caused the drive to self destruct. But a good forensic security analyst should be able to show that the system was intentionally destroyed.

If you can come up with a plan for plausible deniability when it comes to, say, permanently deleting the keys for an encrypted drive, then that's worth way more than the deadman's switch is on its own.
I don't mind you asking! I wish I could be of more help. I've had the same "freelance boss" for the past 6 years. I've worked on a dozen different projects with him; some were his own ideas, but most were for his various clients. I met him through a friend who also worked freelance at the time. This was back when iOS development was in huge demand, everyone thought they had the killer app idea.

He was more than happy to hire a 17-year-old programmer for about $25/hr. I now charge about $120/hr.

I have no clue how he gets most of his clients. I suppose I'm in a privileged position.
You are probably right. I would be pleased to be directed to some good sources about cryptography.
All Youtube does is stream video over the internet. Your argument isn't that convincing.
- Games are "fire and forget". That means technical debt
is very different. It is bad at the start of a 3 year
cycle, but at the end it is totally ok.

There is also a big difference between AAA, online, mobile, social, casual, etc. f2p games for example are expected to live & be actively supported/updated for many years if successful.

Clash of Clans was released 2.5 years ago and will likely continue to get active support for many more years. FarmVille was released almost 5 years ago. WoW more than 10, for a different kind of game that also isn't fire and forget.

They get a lot of flack for other reasons but engineering wise companies like zynga get a lot of stuff right.
I see this was posted before, but didn't seem to get nearly the attention it deserves, so decided to repost.
> campaign finance reform

WTF? Can we discuss capacities of out dear leader and our allmighty twoparty at least?
You're right, definitely best to give the benefit of the doubt.
It's really easy to "honestly" assess willingness to pay, actually.

If you paid for it, you were willing to pay at least the asked amount. In a "pay what you want" scheme, your willingness to pay is something between infinity and what you wind up paying. If you don't buy a thing, your willingness to pay is something below the price being asked.

There's no magic. It's an immediately available revealed-preference system - you either pay or you don't. I won't disagree that the availability of a free, well-functioning, DRM-free, easily available alternative reduces people's willingness to pay for locked-in, degraded, or even available-but-overpriced alternatives. That said, we live in a world where the piracy alternative exists, whether people like it or not.

Adjust your business model accordingly. Valve is making a killing selling software via Steam.
Rust is a fantastic attempt at reinventing C++. It works really well. I've been writing production code in it for the last few years and it's an utter delight to use.

I maybe break out rust-gdb once a year. My code has fewer bugs than ever, thanks to extensive use of the high-quality modeling tools (types and lifetimes) provided by the language. My main project for the last year has had a grand total of one logic bug that was caught after release.

It also has an inclusive community: at the last RustConf, half the speakers were nonbinary and/or transgender. I fit both those criteria and feel more welcome in the Rust community than in that of any other language, meaning that I can do my best work in Rust.
But raising money might also cause the stock to go up, right? More investment signals confidence and planned growth. More people may want to buy in.

Issuing new shares is not always a good move and sometimes it might cause investors to lose money and percentage ownership, but sometimes it might be a good move and result in investors gaining money (though still getting their ownership diluted).
If I understand correctly this went on for some years. I still find it hard to comprehend how it went undetected for so long. But it did happen so it’s clearly possible
Exactly that: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/sandboxing.html

There's also (I believe experimental) support for using Docker as a sandbox backend. That ends up being useful if you're using the remote build execution support: you can run a build locally in exactly the same environment it will run on a build farm.
According to https://www.california.com/sausalitos-floating-homes-and-hou... from 2019:

> ...the cost of docking, water, garbage, sewer, and parking. In total, residents typically spend around $1,100 on these expenses, with additional budgets for other amenities like cable and Internet [which may be more expensive than normal?] Given the smaller house payments, however, these fees become less burdensome.
Same. It's extremely concerning. Where's the transparency? If the backend has been compromised and turned into a honeypot, how would we know?
because the decision is not based purely on safety, but all the other things politicians need to consider and balance, such as the local economy. but i agree with you that i prefer safety to be the top priority and wait a few more months to get the immunity high enough for the virus's r0 factor to go below 1.
Same here, 31 years. I'm 43 and started in around 1989-1990 at age 12. I didn't know anyone who had ever even attempted to program a computer, so I was completely on my own. I have a good grasp now but remain humbled by the craft (coding every day). Nearly everyone I know now is either where I was twenty years ago or insanely elitist.
Still on my own.

I have many authors to thank.
At the risk of hijacking the thread, are you still doing any work on RubyMotion? I always thought RubyMotion was interesting because of how it provided seamless access to the host platform APIs and was even built atop the host platforms' object models. I might have even used it for a product about 5 years ago, if it had supported Windows as a target platform (though I'm not sure how that would have worked).
Yea, there's a reason the Nazi's never tried invading...

Today, every able male has an an assault rifle and is required to maintain their marksmanship - which is a national past-time with +200m ranges in most towns.

There are hidden underground airfields, people trained/armed to blow up tunnels at a moments notice.

Add to that crazy terrain, weather, a homogeneous/close-knit population, a distributes governance structure, etc. - you get the one of the most defendable country's EVER!
Yes, I know that a monoid and a monad are two different terms, there's no confusion.

However, despite monoids being relatively simple, my first introduction to monoids was this...

http://gettingsharper.de/2015/03/03/understanding-monoids-us...

... which I didn't find beginner friendly. YMMV.
Reducing alerts is way more important than my idea, I totally agree with that.
I would rate this as a simple-use tablet, not to be used for complex tasks like development with 20 apps open. So if you need it for office apps, email, web surfing, and then a few simple-use apps, you're going to be okay. And the SD slot allows you to add 64gb more space. It's pretty much a student machine. Not Pro.

If you're a Pro, then buy a Pro or get a MacBook Pro and VM Windows.

But as just a tablet, this is _close_ to a great deal (I think they can do better and probably will drop the price by the holidays).
That's the heart of the problem: privacy is at odds with 'perfect safety' and 'convenience'.
You're making assumptions about what people are wearing around the house that are by no means universal.
I would venture to say this is an April fools joke
It seems like there've been a crop of small sites trying to build in a "public domain stock photography" niche (http://www.pexels.com/, https://stocksnap.io/, and https://unsplash.com/ to name a few). I wonder if this will kill them off. :-/

Right now http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons (where I usually head to look for creative commons photos) lists zero public domain images.
Let's wait and see. Besides, whore or not, the world is a better place due to wikileaks.
Well they are demanding money that doesn't belong to them, and they threaten you with physical violence or death if you refuse to comply. I don't even think "rude" is a proper description for that type of behavior. I consider it extortion.
Our app is free. We do have plans to add advertising later on - but not for several months at least.

All costs are out of my pocket (and Sandaruwan's and Parinda's)

Note that $50 is a LOT when bootstrapping from Sri Lanka - my salary as a Doctor (which is much higher than that of the general population) was only $400 / month - with most of that getting burnt up in living costs.
Oh, I use syncbackSE already for backups. I didn't even think of them for syncing. Thanks!
Even if copyright was hypothetically abolished, it doesn't make this "intellectual dishonesty" any less intellectually dishonest. In that case, it would be up to the school to penalize that - which is exactly what happens most of the time anyway.

The existence of the patent system encourages people to commit such "intellectual dishonesty" by providing a monopolistic and monetary incentive for doing it. There's a difference between a system that is abused, and a system that's fundamentally asking for such abuse.
> Facebook's instant personalization is the most interesting piece of web infrastructure since, well, advent of the web itself.

i haven't had a single instant personalization "moment" since it launched. mostly i'm just reminded to log out of facebook when i see my name on some random website.
We need USPTO to somehow bear consequences for the harm they're doing to the industry. Reviewed applications are counted towards the "production" of an examiner but approvals later overturned by a court are not counted against them. As long as they only have incentive to rubber-stamp basically anything or risk dismissal, that's what they'll do.
Larry seems to be channelling the ghost of Lee Van Cleef.
Cracked.com had a fairly informative article on the "fun vs compulsion" debate.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-gam...
^
an alternative: www.antler.co
that's true, but the way you paint it sounds like there is no web of trust or reputation IRL and that its all shady ad-hoc meetings. buying smack off of a random stranger is junkie behavior. considering the estimated size of the black drug market, there is no way most drug users fit into this category. most drug users must be functional for the market to be that big. ergo the most likely scenario does not take place in a dark alley among strangers.
Yeah, but I have the sneaking suspicion that the countries which have "committed" to meeting these goals, may not actually in fact be cutting their emissions any better than the rest. Seeing some country vs. country data on that, would help.

Also, looking at which countries _are_ having the most success (if any), would help to show which strategies work better than others (e.g. the nuclear debate).
The US definitely had journalism before it was founded.
Thank you, for your kind words and encouragement!

We feel this technology can be extended to many other tests––another test we are currently working on addresses/monitors CKD (chronic kidney disease).

Currently, the CKD test is being used in a clinical trial in partnership with Kaiser Permanente (more on that here: https://www.scanwellhealth.com/chronic-kidney-disease-study.
Good point. Why is everyone so unhappy when the economy is supposedly doing sooo well.
IIRC, TI-Planet has a lot of those, as well as emulators.
Should be almost irrelevant if the mentioned recording with the director is still around.

Just play that on the evening news every day until Amazon pays full death benefits and punitive fines to the Terry family.

Oh yeah, and arraign the director on criminal conspiracy charges. And the governor too.
Not a single word about encryption on the front page. If this wants to be your most private social network for your close ones, it better step up. I/we chose Signal.
"No amount of tree planting..." is a strong statement. Not "we won't do enough", but "No amount..." will work? I find that hard to imagine. Is there a reason you say this?
A culture that is accepting of failure is a good thing on balance, I think, but failure does have consequences beyond the personal ones of having to dust yourself off and steel yourself to try again. A Silicon Valley company I worked for "failed" by going bankrupt as a means to wriggle out of their various debts, only to be reborn phoenix like in a new guise.
Some of these debts were to banks and investors who no doubt half expect any given investment to fail, but others were to people like office fitters who were left in the hole for many thousands of dollars. I doubt that they move in circles so accepting of failure..
And plugin is no longer officially maintained :(
Design Pattern on PHP and Ruby
When they also vandalize a church? Um yes. Yes we do.
Just to be clear, this isn't in the article. So if you're trying to paraphrase, you did a really poor job.

Also, people in warzones deserve a helping hand to make them feel normal. It's not in conflict currently. Yes the blockade is bad, but technology is the type of startup that it effects the least.

Also providing humanity to Gaza does not exclude one from trying to bring Israel to court for its war crimes. The latter is just much, much, harder.
a clean and simple approach to the problem, +1
To some degree it is because (1) they had an even longer lead time and (2) they pissed even more away.
Wow, that was pretty much Fortnite. Silly swag and dances and chats. Very prescient game, that Severy Running, a decade in advance.
A Chicago neighborhood has this:

> The Oak Park order is in effect until April 3, which means local schools will be closed a week longer than the governor has commanded. While the order states that violations can result in a misdemeanor criminal charge, Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb said the goal is not to place people in jail, but rather to use the ordinance to explain the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I-uzFm... (google cache due to paywall)
> That skin can lead to some curious behaviors. His lab has found that when a drop of gallium-indium alloy sits in a strong alkali solution, applying voltage causes the skin to form around the drop. The skin acts as one of the world’s most effective surfactants—chemicals that alter the drop’s surface tension—by turning the drop’s spherical shape into a snowflake-like fractal pattern.

Links to this paper (there's an image): Oxidation-Mediated Fingering in Liquid Metals

Collin B. Eaker, David C. Hight, John D. O'Regan, Michael D. Dickey, Karen E. Daniels
(Submitted on 8 Mar 2017)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03011
This is one of those uncomfortable truths that require introspection to be resolved and that's in very short supply.
Here's my and Andrew on a guided backpacking trip. I'm the guy that has the upper body.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsG1T0_lwpl/
To be totally honest, the article those comments were in response to was an ad hominem directed at many of our users. It's one thing to ask if someone's going to leave in 6 months. But it's another thing to ask if someone is a job hopper.

I think a point can be made that we should have risen above his ad hominems, but don't complain about an argument you started.
There is a demand for this kind of thing outside of just high-school. I'm not in a position to go back to high-school or university, but I'd like (and would pay) to be able to "study along" with other people on a course/textbook.

(This is partly a lazyweb request - if this exists, someone tell me where!)
My father-in-law is an MD and he told me he was taught: "an un-common diagnosis is un-commonly correct"
It's not like Aaron was treated much better by Reddit leadership... his profile was just higher before and after that experience.
it's possible in germanys zalando. I always do this.
To open a batch you should have an equal amount of people already queued up for the shot. If at the end there are still unused shots for whatever reason I would give the doctor in charge full authority to use those however they see fit as long as they are not selling them for money or other benefits.

Sadly the US has now a system where everyone with any responsibilities has zero authority and everyone with authority has zero accountability.
You're giving Paypal and Robinhood too much credit. It wouldn't surprise anyone if they both consider themselves "too big to fail" and do not have sufficient crypto to cover themselves. It's easy to imagine the meetings where someone "important" says "That will never happen, end of discussion." and then it turns out they they're wrong and they get bailed out (or not).
Are these fuse limitations or fuse-overlayfs limitations ?
“Fuck you, you little smegma gargling toe jam peddler.” <- Not toxic. It’s just an insult plain and simple.

It’s not about feelings at all. One is about them as a person the other is about their work.

It’s more “shut-up unless you can pass this arbitrary list of qualifications I just made up.”

To newbie/outsider there is no way to evaluate these claims. Are they valid or should I just blow them off?

So they just quit.
The community.
Forever.
Those bathroom hand dryers do spread bacteria around at an alarming rate: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-bacterial-horror-of-...
The DA who brought the case, Kim Ogg, is an elected official. Top Google result for her name is this campaign page: https://www.kim-ogg.com/. Further down the list is a news article about threatening employees with performance reviews to appear at a food drive for her political benefit.

Had the judge not thrown out this case, she'd have another feather in her cap, another headline for the website: "Kim Ogg puts nepotistic, racist, embezzling doctor behind bars!" Doesn't need to be honest, just needs to sound good.
I haven't been keeping track anymore with Windows 10 but it feels like at least once a month the system forcefully reboots. It's mostly hands free in terms of the update process but it is very disruptive.

Back in the day with Windows 7 and not being forced to update I've had 6 month+ uptimes and things ran very well.
> Should also note that MasterCard crypto transactions almost certainly won’t be settled on the blockchain. Not with $8 Bitcoin transaction fees.

They could easily settle merchant balances on the blockchain. An $8 fee is nothing compared to the revenue of a merchant.

Assuming e.g. a 1.5% credit card fee, a merchant pays $8 in fees when receiving ~$500 in payments.
Through refactoring Linux has been transformed to be a real time kernel using the linux-rt patch set. The patch set is aggressive and big and only slowly making way upstream.

Still it proves that yes, refactoring can work. Real-time is one of those super-duper invasive features. So if it works for real-time we should be able to refactor in other features.
It would be sort of ironic if the explanation for the whole kerfuffle is that they fill the balls with hot air.
Loaf of bread? Grind the wheat using a hand mill or mortar/pestle, mix ingredients, knead, rise, bake. Doing it all low tech, takes about two hours of work: price at least $14.50 per loaf on labor alone.