jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why do they always locate in places that have these screwed-up housing markets.

Large corporations don't care about housing market issues, and the prestige of locating in a brand-name city is worth the (slightly) higher salaries that they have to pay.

That said, I've heard good things about Boulder, and it seems like an excellent place to live, but it's not exactly a brand-name city (and I sure as hell can't see why it would be so expensive to live in a place that's not land-constrained like Manhattan.) It's not Manhattan or DC or Boston or Chicago. It's not even San Francisco (in terms of brand-name; I am sure it's a better place to live than SF).
I know you said you write on a personal / private blog of your own to improve but if you ever wanted another person to look things over and help you work through some of the trickier parts of learning the language I'd love to help out!
For what it's worth, I believe the original specifications for 9mm NATO involve a higher pressure than standard commercial 9mm (effectively +P, i.e., probably not something to fire a C&R WWI Luger, but again not quite a .357 magnum).
It's incredible how much flack this thing is getting...especially for its appearance. Clearly gone are the days when designers believed that form followed function. This vehicle was designed to maneuver closely around other objects like mailboxes, maximize cargo capacity, and keep the driver safe. The low hood gives the driver better visibility at the edge of the vehicle while still offering a crumple zone. I can't find any specs on the interior, but I'm betting cargo capacity has been improved...especially for larger packages, which is much more of USPS's delivery bulk in this decade.

Everything about this seems thoughtfully engineered, but clearly our design sensibilities these days are more oriented towards golden ratios than functionality.
I actually laughed. Thank you.
Certainly there’s a lot of credit due to “lessons learned” - but they key part is that the main lesson learned was to prioritize spot change flexibility over a “pluggable” model of extensibility enforced with a type system design and rigidity. Any smaller scale tactical improvements in code structure paled in comparison to that core property.
Maybe they should just add that option for all videos.
But all these companies need a government that does compete with them the moment they stop innovating and start rent seeking, it's really best for them.
How would they plan to fight against other high maneuverability aircraft without comparable or better aircraft? There is definitely a goal of going unmanned at some point in the future in order to save lives, but the job still needs to be done today.
binoculars cant go too far, the diameter is too small to allow enough light to be concentrated into your eye.
With binoculars, u can look at the moon. boring.
with a telescope, well u can see the planets live and take amazing photos
This isn't an argument for privatization, but the proposal from the OP are not the same as full an open free market. You still have the USPS responsible for ensuring delivery to the long-tail routes. That just gets bid out (probably at a higher cost that delivery occurs for today). These are the kinds of bids companies like Halliburton take.

I'm not in favor of this approach, either we have a really free market (with some limited regulation for things like anti-fraud) or you have the government manage the service. These public-private partnerships just seem to be grift programs write large. Let's not push for more corporatism. If there is already a private market, then sure, have the government bid for private contracts within that market. Otherwise you have companies whose full-time roles is figure out how to squeeze more money out of government, and they lobby hard to do so, often with much success (at filching taxpayers)
Should note that this is from (2011), guess it's not an issue as this is a testimonial which is timeless. Michael writes many *BSD flavored books, but my favorite book that every OpenSSH user should have is his "SSH Mastery" book.

http://www.amazon.com/SSH-Mastery-OpenSSH-PuTTY-Tunnels/dp/1...
What stops Britain from calling them all in and paying them off at current interest rates?
We're using Unicorn

Updated the stack page http://stackshare.io/instacart/instacart/
Twitter has confirmed an issue:

http://status.twitter.com/post/106461837558/sign-in-issue
This is brilliant, thanks for the suggestion!
What's preventing people from making dense, mixed-zoning walkable cities with good public transit like NYC elsewhere? Why it a requirement that cities have their commercial areas mostly separate from the residential areas?
I don't understand this as a defense. Either a) they inflated them under (roughly) the same conditions as the Colts and the disparity in the pressures of the teams' balls is due to the fact that they were intentionally underinflated originally, or b) they were, as you say, inflated to the correct pressure under different conditions and drifted away from the regulation pressure due to a change in temperature. Either way, the balls were underinflated at game time. Scenario a is worse, of course, but even in scenario b, you have to wonder why they didn't correct the pressure. (Quarterbacks are surely able to detect the lower pressure, and pretty much everyone -- particularly professional QBs, I would think -- is aware that pressure drops with the temperature).

And in any case, at best this is a possible explanation for the underinflation. There is no evidence that the explanation you give is true, or even likely, since it rests on totally unsupported assumptions about the conditions under which the teams inflated their balls.
I agree. Thank goodness they're not mutually exclusive!

I happen to be a Go fan, and thankful testing is well supported in the language and tooling. After having worked heavily in both compiled and dynamic software environments, I do like having compile-time checks on stupid things like typos. All my love to Python, which we use heavily, but my, what some compilation-like tooling would save me. (Nim has really caught my eye recently.)

Although after having been spoiled with the static analyzer in Objective-C, probably a contender for my all time favorite language (take from that what you will) I do miss it in Go.
If you're going to downvote, please say why.

I don't think I ever denied that there are technical fields where coming to a conclusion takes time. Should I be apologizing for my use of "most"? The only point I was trying to make was that "guaranteeing your interpretations are correct" is not a constraint (see my response to lumberjack). As a result, being able to form correct conclusions is possible as a non-expert. Is this a surprising statement to anyone?

tjradcliffe's post reads essentially as "non-experts are so unaware/ignorant that they form naive beliefs such as yours". What a constructive comment! Maybe I should just shut up and listen to the experts!
That's us! Thanks for the kind words :)
Mm, ya, those make sense. On Android, Lastpass is getting better at autofilling into native apps, but it's still not foolproof. Getting better though!
We've set up openid+oauth with Google Apps Marketplace, and the solution there is very elegant. Users from their google apps gmail interface can select an app from "more" and get automatically logged in to our web app. (using extended cl-openid for google app domains and cl-oauth)
I honestly doubt there can be one. A system has to favor one or the other, as giving both equal access opens it to all possible abuse from both sides, rather than just one.

As to the customer service issues, if they're having a problem on your site, they're having a problem on every site if they're using OpenID, because their ID has changed everywhere. It's far easier to diagnose the problem there, as it lies wholly (and provably) with their provider, and not with you.

More of a headache for you, potentially, people are nuts when they don't get what they want. But at least you have a provable "out" and they have a single place to go for a solution (if there can be one).
I find that exercise (particularly yoga) and Loving-Kindness meditation dramatically improve my ability to concentrate and be mindful.

The benefits of exercise and yoga seem obvious, so...

Loving-Kindness, or metta, meditation is essentially the cultivation of a positive emotional state. In the Buddhist tradition, it's spoken of as a tool for developing compassion. To get started, you can use a happy memory, the smiling face of a loved one, or a mantra such as "may I be happy" to generate the feeling. I find it also helps to focus on the region around my heart, to imagine my breath coming into my heart and filing it with joy. Once you get rolling, you can shift focus to the feeling itself to amplify it.

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/loving-kindness.htm
This is why a factual digital ontology corresponding to the real world would be so valuable as opposed to us fallible human beings.
If you want a language with a JSON-like syntax, consider using JavaScript. (If you want a language with a uniform syntax, that's easy to parse, choose some form of Scheme or Forth.)
I doubt this would get you far in practice. Many spammers are sophisticated enough to know that they should disguise their accounts.

For example: if you buy likes on Facebook, the likebots won't just like your page and other spammers, but will also like many innoculous pages as well (Coke, Obama, "Facebook Needs a Dislike Button!1!", etc.)
It would be quite the coincidence if the vulnerabilities we traded exactly matched each other in terms of risk.
I'd love to hear from somebody who knows better, but my understanding is that the legal aspects of look-and-feel ripoffs have never been settled in court.

In one sense, that doesn't matter. Trello has way more time and money, so I'm sure they can sue the LibreBoard people with enough vigor that the LibreBoard folks will decide it's much easier to come up with their own look. Whether or not LibreBoard could eventually win the suit is irrelevant if they can't afford to go the distance in court.

Of course, it probably doesn't look great for Trello to sue a couple of random dudes, so I could see them letting it go. Or perhaps just calling them up and talking developer-to-developer about how this makes them feel as creators and asking LibreBoard to do their own work.
It is a blatant imitation[1]. At the same time, the design is incredibly refined, so there's only so much room to move away from without making sacrifices solely for the sake of differentiation.

EDIT: [1] According to a comment below, it's a straight-up copy of the CSS. That goes well beyond "blatant imitation."
You're right that everyone defines spam differently and that you can't give spam a singular objective definition across the board nor was that my intention with what I wrote above. What I did try to say was that every community has a policy of what they define as spam and it's not uncommon for most to share the common view (at least communities I've been apart of) that self promotion is and can be viewed as spam.

Using Twitter as a counter example doesn't fit here because as a company they don't share that view but apparently the subreddit you reference in your original post does
See also: • Edward Bernays, "Public Relations" (1945) [1]

• "Century of the Self", BBC documentary by Adam Curtis [2].

[1] https://archive.org/details/publicrelationse00bernrich

[2] https://vimeo.com/85948693
Heh, ironically the reason I couldn't get into programming when I was younger is that the only programming book in my local library was COBOL; and the compiler CD had been stolen.

Cobol itself is pretty evil to learn and not comparable to most c-like languages. I think the fact that it was so intimidating set me back about 10y on learning programming as I always just assumed it was too hard.
This press release seems believable, so I think it's a kind of PR failure and it will be out soon. But I'll stick with https://www.apple.com/pr/ for the official word.
Agreed on the "lack of declared types" thing. While I'm exceptionally fast writing new Python code, reading other people's Python code is a different story - particularly, if they are new to Python.

While there are a lot of concurrency options to not get you in trouble with the GIL, it is annoying that there is no canonical way or pythonic way of doing it. I saw people using things like monkey patching, which made my jaw drop. I had to implement Websockets recently and was totally confused as to the right way of doing it. I ended up evaluating NodeJS and Go for this function, and went with Go.

Overall ... I love Python. It is perfect for small projects. For larger codebases (3KLOC+), I am slightly skeptical. It can be done but developers need to have quality code and strong test coverage.
> The guy isn't saying what they are doing is bad

But he kinda is...

> Such groups “are doing more damage than good; I want the world to hear it,”
My problem with "the right to be comfortable" is that it gives creates lopsided debates. One side can be argued everywhere, whereas the other, the offensive one, can only be argued very carefully in the right places.

The solution, as I see it, is to disallow the inoffensive side too. For instance if there were a forum, that didn't allow attacks on whole classes of people, then it is best if they don't allow defenses either.
“But they should move away from disease-specific funding into health-system strengthening.”

Disease-specific funding goes to research organisations. Health-strengthening funding goes to politicians. Given the history and current state of corruption in many of these client countries, giving them money to strengthen the health system is a very bad idea.
I am working on an online indie appstore for indie developers.
Haskell is born out of academia and PL research so it has a great ability to add extensions to the language.

If you have a concept PL feature it is probably easiest to create a prototype in Haskell.

A handy guide to its [extensions](https://limperg.de/ghc-extensions/)

Not much practical purpose for most people but nonetheless a useful feature.
Does this mean we are in a bubble? How can I find these companies 50% down from their all time high?
You know what's really funny? If it really was about three specific women, as you say, then misogyny is automatically ruled out. What is it? Hate of three "specific" women? Or is it hate of all women? Hahaha, you lot are your own worst enemy. BTW we just disagree with them but apparently that is hate these days.
> Since nobody knows how to reliably ship secure commercial software, liability will mostly have the effect of making it difficult to start new software businesses.

Do you literally mean "nobody" here? As in if I wanted to hire you to put a team together to reliably ship secure commercial software, you couldn't do it either?

I think we have, as an industry, tacitly agreed that it's better to ship cheap, insecure software than it is to ship expensive, secure software. A lot of the innovation in software has occurred specifically because it is so inexpensive.

It seems clear to me that, so far, this tradeoff has been a net benefit, but at some point we may want to trade the inexpensiveness and innovation for some security, particularly has we start to put software into more things that can kill and maim us.
Was your use of REST/HATEOAS mostly internal to your company or dev team?

I ask because I rolled out a REST/HATEOAS api for a multi-org project and got zero uptake on the HATEOAS aspect of responses. The devs hardcoded URL resource links and totally ignored any links in responses . . .

After that experience, I am always interested to hear about more successful REST/HATEOAS projects.
I agree with this idea and think it should extend to personal fines like speeding tickets, but I can see large companies offshoring illegal work to small contracting companies or shell corporations.
I really hate the long videos. Facebook tells you that you'll get better results if you make them long (seriously?). So people make these unnaturally long videos with lots of vapid footage, generating needless entropy.
That's because you need to know the format to know how to interpret it. Otherwise the best you can really do is use a hex editor.

Or are you suggesting a tool that lets you easily specify the binary format? I'm pretty sure there are some that exist.
Where have you tried it? If you're really curious, I'd recommend a weekend retreat as a good way to give you a taste of what the benefits are. Practicing on your own is fine, once you know what you're doing, but until you do, it's much easier to get instruction in person and practice with a group.
Well, Silverlight claims to give me the ability to write client-side Ruby and Python, but the last time I tried Moonlight it consistently crashed Firefox...
I can't help but notice this tends to paint 'ordinary' people as somewhat sad and deficient. Imagine the story was written in the same manner, but in praise of physical coordination/agility instead, and you can see what I mean. Perhaps it is an understandable reaction to the historical under-appreciation of imagination in society and educational environments. But I'm not sure how much sense it makes for a child that doesn't face this environment or is more practically minded. It does look pretty cool though.
Dogfooding also tends to help you create better products.
That's the trouble with exciting phrases like "This seems to violate the second law of thermodynamics". It is known that Maxwell's demon does not violate anything, and the article does explain this later. But that's not quite the point.

I think this is a better explanation of the experiment:
http://blog.joerg.heber.name/2010/11/14/the-demon-is-out-of-...

It's direct empirical support for the idea that "there is energy in information", and it demonstrates how even supposedly tried-and-trusted science is still subject to empirical validation.
At least they were honest instead of guessing.

AT&T has a database of the line rate/quality that the last person who had service was able to achieve.

That doesn't mean it's accurate though. Quality can have gone down due to rotted shielding, new sources of interference, etc.
Wonder if the old NN/g results for eye tracking still hold up: http://www.useit.com/eyetracking/.
Viral diseases most definitely can be cured with current research techniques. If anything, they present a much easier target than cancer or other end-of-life diseases, because viruses are comparatively simple little infectious agents and comprise the sole cause of the disease, so a cure only needs to attack one thing. Their genome is on the order of a few thousand base pairs, usually only 10-100 genes. You should check out all the new antiviral drugs that have been developed over the last decade, it is really the product of the new age of genome-level research. [1] The main problem in developing antiviral drugs is toxicity, because viruses co-opt certain parts of the cell and have proteins that are usually similar to normal human genes, and you have to find treatments that only target the viral activity. For example, the first commercially successful antiviral [2] targets reverse transcriptase, which performs a function that normal human cells never do (transcribe RNA -> DNA).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral_drug

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acyclovir
When I first read the BSD Unix source code and realized in a way that I had not before that the kernel which ran my C programs was itself just another C program, compiled with the same kind of C compiler, debuggable with the same kind of debugger (in many cases).
The work described here isn't something that would be classified FOUO, or likely even just "secret". This would be at a minimum TS or most likely SCI. As such, you don't just sign an NDA to do work on a project like this - you go through an extensive background check process, get interviewed, and sign a bunch of paperwork that lasts the rest of your life regarding the criminal penalties of disclosure (at least until the underlying project goes through the declassification process).

To use the term "NDA" in such a context belies a general ignorance of how projects like this work in the government intelligence field. I suspect a hoax.
There is a rational debate to be had about the relative merits of the two architectures and programming ecosystems; this isn't it.

1) A GPU "core" is loosely defined. Those "512 CUDA cores" are 16 streaming multiprocessors with 32-wide SIMT.

2) Big parts of GF100/110's SMs are double-clocked; most of the rest of the chip runs at 750MHz (for the clock rates in your example).

3) 5.5 Gigabits per second per data pin (faster than GF100/110). 256 data pins (fewer). 176 Gigabytes per second per chip (close).

4) OpenCL. There are and have been others, but OpenCL is probably ATI's bet for general purpose programming. You could say it's inferior to CUDA (and I'd agree), but to act like it doesn't exist cheapens the debate.

This does speak to the immense power of marketing though; it's easy to lay down such a thicket of buzzwords that you can spin a product any way you want.
1] Set up a reminder saying "Read EmacsWiki" in gCal for a specific time every day. Have it send you an SMS.

2] When you get the reminder, spend 10 minutes reading http://www.emacswiki.org/ Find just one thing that interests you.

3] Make a point of using that one thing at least a couple of times over the course of the day.

If you want to learn all the keyboard commands, spend your first few days (re-(re-(re-)))reading the basic keylists.

It will start to stick in less time than you think, and you'll have fun doing it.
Then it would be classified as terrorism.
To the rate at ipv6 is installing we are still nowhere today, we have been there for more than 5 years, and we could still be there 5 years from now. I have read several times that it ipv6 had been designed non backward compatible, so I suppose there was a backward compatible way to design it. It seems that it would be possible to use 0 0 0 0 prefix as a special case for ipv6 and truncate it for ipv4.

I suppose there is a reason that prevent that because this is way too much of an evidence, so someone certainly has though about it : what's prevent us to do that ?
I don't hang out on HN much. Can I post to show HN?
I commented on this elsewhere, but this didn't break my zoom at all — although I did have to bump it up to around 200% to start seeing increases. You could argue this is inconvenient, but not quite broken.
It's worse. Insubordination is a jail-able crime in the military, think about that; telling someone no, or simply showing disrespect whether on or off duty to the wrong person can land you in jail. The military life is a different world with vastly different crimes and rules than the civilian world. You can misbehave in public off base while off duty and still get demoted at work (pay cut) because of your behavior. Your law is the UCMJ, not the law civilians follow.
Personally, I find it amusing and useful (there are plenty of benefits of it in all spheres - https://ivypanda.com/essays/the-benefits-of-electronic-votin...), but no electronic system is impossible to hack, so it could be used wrongly, which is a pity.
We're at the point where we're more worried about NSA then a random attacker, as we should be.
Thanks. Since your second link works while http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=https:... doesn't, and neither is an original source anyhow, we've swapped the URLs.
Advertisers generally run surveys to gauge the effectiveness of branding campaigns, not adwords campaigns. Pay for performance ads (like adwords) are much easier to validate than what people buy on big properties for branding purposes.