jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The opposite being what? That things aren't awesome? Sure, the world has troubles, people struggle, and the world also has majesty and joy - that's acknowledging what's around you. But how we approach the world, that's entirely in our hands. Who wouldn't want to unlock their boundless enthusiasm, energy, and creativity? Three cheers to anyone who can. Let them inspire the rest of us, for whom it doesn't come easily.
"Maybe once out of every thousand flights or something."

So what gives you or anyone else the right to play God? Have you missed the point about these scanners being a health concern as much as flying is?
This makes me wish I wasn't already a Rails dev so I could have the pleasure of learning from scratch with this series. Anything Gregg Pollack screencasts is worth absorbing.

His initial http://www.youtube.com/user/envyads#p/u (with Jason Seifer) practically invented rails evangelism. Then his many videos on Scaling Rails (http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails), Rails 3 (http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts/rails3), and other topics (http://envycasts.com/) are awesome, informative and entertaining. And no, I'm not paid to say this :).
I guess it wouldn't be much more code in C.
Functional programming is a great tool to have in your programming language (that's why I really enjoy writing Python, Lua or C#), but from my point of view it's just not practical as the main paradigm for a game dev language.
You may laugh, but there is actually research showing people are motivated by recognition more than money. Sure, you need so much money to live. But really we want to be recognized by our peers.

Dan Ariely has a short podcast titled "Why peer recognition is worth more than monetary compensation" where he talked with economist Bruno Frey. He has a number of papers on motivating people with awards and prizes.

http://www.bsfrey.ch/articles.html#f
As a Libertarian, I think I should at least attempt to exempt myself from what I consider 'Reddit Libertarians', which are really more 'Ultra-Libertarians' or 'Anarcho-Libertarians' than Libertarians proper.

Ron Paul is a good example of a Libertarian, though he often parties Republican, in that he wants to liberate power from the Federal government and relinquish it back to states, generally speaking.

From what I've seen, many Redditarians just want the government to give up all their power, and just not have it anymore, uhhhh, for great justice.

Edit: I really wanted to use the word "Redditarian" after I thought of it.
This is my left eye: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/381493/photo.jpg I say "green" when people ask me, and they're greenish, but there must be a better name. Anyway, I sympathize with people who don't know their eye color.

Isn't there a webservice that maps colors to names? I vaguely recall an XKCD project.
Recently NSW government and DataNSW sponsored a hack day where the government provided tonnes of new data for the development of apps, including live city bus location.

This particular dataset was very popular, and many of the participants chose to spend their time building apps about buses.

The next day the state repealed access to the data with no plans for it's future availability, thereby wasting the time of the event organisers and participants.
I asked Cullen Roche (http://pragcap.com/), and this is what he said:

"China's USD reserves are a function of their trade surplus with the USA. If they don't want to accumulate USD then they should allow their currency to rise and start consuming more goods domestically while producing fewer goods for the USA. But they don't want to do that because they have a growth target to meet and their export growth to the USA plays a large role in that target. So, their accumulation of reserves and US tsys is a function of their desire to export goods and services to the USA. If they want lower growth then they can stop accumulating USD's. But that isn't going to happen unless they find growth elsewhere...Being the largest economy in the world means they will remain a huge exporter to the USA."
I can't remember faces, but I do okay at matching faces to names.
Wow, great innovation. I look forward to seeing pinned maps that are actually useful.

I'm sure Apple are going to steal this eventually, though. :)
Good point. It's not hard to imagine social media to have evolved out of web based email clients.

If instead of facebook we had all Facebook's features gradually added to Gmail (If you sent a Googler back 5-6 years in a time machine, that might be what we'd get), I don't think it would seem odd that it should be an island.
I hope you have some statistics that show that "else" clauses are associated with a higher rate of bugs.

I've heard the advice (p291 Code Complete 2) is to put the most commonly executed code-path (i.e. the one that occurs if all guards are passed) at the top of your function, and the fails below. However I've also heard the advice "fail fast". I suppose that a compromise could be to separate your functions into safe and unsafe versions, with the former containing the guards and if appropriate, calling the latter. This could be worked into the pimpl idiom quite well.

There are obviously cases where the "else" statement is the best option.

To sum up, complexity of code is often a trade-off, and it's rarely well-defined anyway.
Unless the blur tool is randomised then it may yield to the same tactic, no?
I sometimes wear a pocket watch. Bought a nice antique 30s piece from a bazaar in Istanbul.

I'd be more interested in something like the iPod Nano that could be used as a pocket watch. But that means it ought to be rounder.
Twice a year. A club I was in in university pooled their allowances to buy me a watch as a going away present (this is when we all assumed I would leave Japan permanently, like most study abroad students). We have two reunions a year.
About 90% as we develop directly on servers on the internet ;-)
I wonder what would happen if you changed your measure from "professional programmers" to "professionals who spend a significant amount of time programming". I know where I work a minority of the people who have to write some code to get their job done have "programmer" or something similar in their title.
Tried posting a couple times, it didn't work.
Giving it about 3 weeks until it's overrun by spammers.
New homes (at least where I live) all have TechShield (or similar) radiant barrier installed for energy efficiency. It's basically siding or insulation covered with a thin layer of foil. It's effective enough as a Faraday cage that some of my friends with new homes can't get a cell signal in their home. I wonder if this will be enough to thwart the casual eavesdropper.
Even if FLAC was required for "high-fidelity" -- it's not -- a 20mb track and assuming the track is at a super short length of 60 seconds is going at ~341kbps. YouTube is already pumping bits faster than that at 360p [0], so that really doesn't seem like a hard part of the equation, and surely the market for this is not looking to capture an audience smaller than YouTube's.

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171
Here's the problem: I don't want another music service. I want all my favorite artists on one music service. There is literally no reason for them to not be other than various forms of greed.

Garth Brooks created his own music streaming service because the people behind the album don't get enough attention. Taylor Swift doesn't put her music on Spotify because she can make more money on iTunes. Jay Z creates a streaming service to put out higher quality music files at a higher price. The result? I don't listen to their music even though I really want to (I know Jay Z is still on Spotify).

Hey Taylor, this isn't 2005, where I would buy a bunch of MP3s from anywhere and put them on my iPod. I don't store music locally, hardly anyone does. Apple doesn't even make a large-disk iPod anymore. Likewise, how many people are going to be willing to subscribe to multiple music sources like they do Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon?

You have a problem with Spotify? Work with them. Let's ask Sony how they fared coming up with Crackle instead of using Netflix.
my server is back.
If there were no facts in dispute, and so all that we needed was for someone to say what the law says the outcome is given the set of facts, then a judge would be all you would need. Heck, you could skip the judge and just have law students handle it.

The problem is that usually there are facts in dispute. Someone has to listen to witnesses telling conflicting stories, and decide which are telling the truth and which are not. That's what the jury is for.
Raise a big stink in the local media and any internet channel you can think of. You might not have a legal leg to stand on but at least you can shame them with publicly available information.

Or just move on and accept this as a lesson learned.
It's unfortunate he didn't beat them to the punch and patent it himself putting him in control. Not sure what he's trying to achieve out of all this and it may seem a bit cliche to say consult an attorney but that is probably what he should do that this point to see what his options are if he wishes to recoup anything out of this (and I don't mean just money aka rights, etc)...
Or, a black person.

If the test is based on skin colours, what happens with different tones?
Do you think there is any other type of potentially offensive content that could be filtered in this way?
Yeah, so publish it. Publish it here right now.
I took linear algebra after college (I hold a non-technical bachelors) through a local community college.

3blue1brown is what made linear algebra really click for me. My professor also gave us some jupyter notebooks to play around with that really helped. Unfortunately he developed these himself and I don't believe they are publicly accessible.

I also purchased 'Coding the Matrix' by Philip N. Klein, which gave me another perspective on Linear Algebra. I primarily used it as an additional reference. I've been meaning to do a front to back reading of the text, but haven't gotten around to it yet. It's got some pretty decent exercises.
All spite towards NVidia is completely deserved for many many reasons.
The challenge with switching is all the custom VBA code and Excel stuff people have come to rely on.
>there is value in memorization as a precursor to true understanding, you can't have understanding without association

In math, there is something called the Moore method, where the professor sits back and has the students invent everything on the spot. The students are discouraged from reading books or even talking to each other outside of class. Apparently this works, and if so it's strong evidence that you can have understanding without any memorization at all, and even without teaching as it is commonly known.
Another option is OnlyOffice + Nexcloud. We have installed it for quite a few customers at https://ba.net/private-cloud-office
eg https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/wirtschaft/mieten-koennten-we...
Tax code artificially makes for "terrible geographic selections". You aren't very far from "Well of course you got raped, look at what you're wearing" logic.
(I didn't mod it down, but..)

I don't think anyone looks at the dial-up business as one thats going to do anything but shrink year over year. Any growth for AOL is going to come out of something thats not as an ISP for dial-up. Content farming consistent with AOL's DNA that makes money and, in theory, is way to see some growth.

Looking at that chart is confusing to me because I can't tell why sometimes their Platform business kills it, and other times its a loser. That seems to be the business to focus on.
I hope they can find a model like how Django (Python) has its own foundation to support it. With Gradle being defacto build tool for Android ecosystem and companies like Netflix using it, it feels like they would have no problem with finding a new home/raising-fund for future.

I have been using Groovy and Grails for less than a year now and love it so far.
This is http://get.quickkeyapp.com/ (I replied) and they raised 330k USD
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/27/quick-key-the-quiz-scanning...
How would you know what use the information is being put to?
"Dragging one's feet" isn't a crime.
Storing secrets is fundamentally imperfect ("it's not a secret if someone [or something] else knows it"). This article calls for aid in the form of standards other than PCI-DSS, and those standards do actually exist. NIST 800-53 and 800-130 to name a couple; the EU has others in different industry flavors.

Now, I'm not going to defend these govt. standards as up-to-date or comprehensive. But they're a good philosophical reference for how to manage keys/secrets. Some COTS technologies (which I won't advertise here) try to automate/enforce strong key management for infra, but are typically only affordable for enterprise deployments.
I think it was a good thing, as it helped to increase public attention over Yosemite's problems and thus puts more pressure on Apple.
You're right, but consider this: they managed to rid themselves of Python's GIL by not using Python. If they can actually reap the benefits of parallelism, it means a lot for scalability.
It's not on the list. The least expensive metros range from $0.50/sqft to $0.65/sqft and Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI is $0.94/sqft. That metro area is larger than just the city of Detroit itself though, which is probably what you're curious about?
Can you add the podcast on iTunes? it would be great for the synchronization with my phone. Or could you at least name the downloaded file with the # of the episode? Thank you! I am going to listen to the fist ep tomorrow in the train.
> which makes less contention for the probably huge conref file

We're planning on splitting up the conref files by section. So for example, we'd get a separate conref file for Pages, one for UI stuff, one for Enterprise, etc. My only compliant with partials is that it's one piece of content per file, but it's a trade-off vs one file with several conrefs (gotta CTRL-F for that text you want to change).
Do you tend to build the blog from scratch, or do you build it in conjunction with new services you're interested in?

e.g is it "Build your own Jekyll" in Ruby and then "Build your own Next.js" in JavaScript, or more like "Build a new blog with Svelte + Contentful", then swap out the Contentful and try Sanity?
No, I hit a level of hyper focus when lifting. It's an activity that requires a significant amount of awareness and focus on what's happening right at that moment. So it works very well for me. I'm sure some people find it mind numbing but watching my weight totals grow over time is a great motivating factor for me to focus each session.
Interesting to see this here. I got some internet coaching from Jordan when he was still affiliated with Starting Strength. I'm curious, if you don't mind, how did you find Barbell Medicine?
I WFH and can have pretty much any setup I want, and I prefer dark on light background. Certain colors are harder for the eye to see (blue is a big offender) and yet, we have UI designers putting blue on a black background. So, I use a lighter color background, dark-ish font color and I have a 15% brown tint on my glasses. Ahhh.. comfort.

So, I agree, it's cool to be comfortable.
Outside of a FAANG I doubt it. Maybe something stock trading related. Considering the income for most software engineers is very far from 350K even if that is the limit for how much you can make you are still doing a lot better than most ever will.

Just for reference here in Canada the average income for sofware developers is around 70k CAD which is maybe 55k USD.

What is it in particular that you find 'dreary' to think you have maxed out your earning potential doing the same type of job you are doing now? Do you enjoy doing what you are doing?
Don't jinx the rest of us with a Kelvin prediction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Kel...

http://rinkworks.com/said/predictions.shtml
My main focus has been on the compiler and language server so far. Next up is a tool for generating foreign function definitions. This tool will make it easier to work with 3rd party libraries. Once ready, I'm planning on writing some examples, such as perhaps a small OpenGL program to demonstrate this functionality. Hopefully that will encourage users to give Muon a try for their own projects!
Thanks for the completely uninformed prognostication on my future income! I will definitely not keep it in mind.
Objectively, your vision is a subjective thing. The default is dark on light. After trying the opposite some people decide they like it better. Are they wrong? Maybe they feel better, and the demand for configuration over color and hue in UI is a normal response.
A "guideline" to a perfect landing page? That's just wrong. If I could define a perfect landing page, it would be the one which sticks out the most!
Crafting it after one guideline just ensures that it will look like all the websites already out there.
> they're idiots

The idiots are still laughing all the way to the bank.

> So; ethical theft?

No, copyright infringement.
All the rows look slanted to me.
It would also be trivial for them to ad, as several third-party builds support it and a couple patches have been offered over the years. It's almost certain there's a business/policy reason they don't want to support it.

Sharing a PC's wired connection via ad-hoc WiFi is still a pretty common use case. Mesh networking for communication in emergencies would be an awesome use case, but it depends on a lot of people using it for most of its benefit, and the installation procedure starts with "first, root your phone".
I use compiz to take screenshots.
No, seriously! The built-in screenshot plugin is great for quickly taking screenshot of regions.

Heck, I even set it up in a way that it saves the screenshots to a subfolder in my Dropbox's Public folder with a random name, and then copy the (shortened) url to my clipboard. (Well... No, the plugin cannot do all this, but it can invoke an user-specified script.)

This results in truly fast screenshot sharing. I can create a screenshot with a public url on my clipboard in a 1 second.
I don't like that I get redirected to the Japanese landing page when I follow that link.
The main reason for the secret ballot is to prevent vote buying. With the secret ballot, there's a low incentive to buy someone's vote, because there's no way to make sure they held up their side of the deal. Under your plan, candidates could offer a big multiple of the cash prize to the voter whose ballot was selected, if they win.
I'm not sure if they do have the technology. Most Comcast boxes (Motorola, Scientific Atlanta) are only decoding MPEG2 digital streams, I believe.

It would be quite expensive to roll out to all existing customers a DOCSIS Roku box with a QAM tuner. All the RF stuff makes it more expensive to produce, design, and maintain.

Someone else with more knowledge of CATV infrastructure and equipment could please clarify.
those interested in this will probably also be interested in the publications of Julius O. Smith https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pubs.html.
Indefinitely in this case means without a definite end date. Sony hasn't announced a date to bring it back online, therefore it is shut down indefinitely.
This is exactly why PC gaming isn't dead.

What I don't understand is why online gaming is huge for the one American console maker, but lags so far behind with the two Japanese manufacturers when for years and years we are told how wired Asia is. The Wii is too casual and Sony just doesn't get it? Seems odd. Meanwhile, Microsoft is making $1 billion / year on their Live service.
How so?

If it's only been 5 months, and there is a 1 year cliff, I don't see where the issue is. On top of that, he would only have the right to exercise (purchase) options if he wanted to, and you would have no immediate obligation to buy him out of anything at all.
True, I'm bad at it - but I'm pretty good at copying stuff. My article originally highlighted a lot of problems and issues with all of the flappy clones that were coming out (I took that out 'cause I'm trying to not be negative on teh internets. Man, that's hard)

It was really in the clones that I noticed the flaws: Some are very well done and polished but were not fun... too easy and boring, or too hard and annoying.

When I started doing my "exact clone" I saw why - for such a simmmple idea it's very hard to balance. That's why I think the original author deserves more credit than he got. I personally would never call him a plagiarist and thinks he deserved every cent he made.
sounds very similar to this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23665490 which was shut down.
I don't know if this is a "thing" nationwide. But hiring/renting goats is a fairly common thing in the Seattle area as they will eat back large amounts of difficult to remove brush.

They are particularly useful here because there are large amounts of protected "wetland" scattered throughout the area. This means you aren't legally allowed to bring in heavy machinery to modify the landscape. You are though, allowed to have animals do it for you.
I didn't know about it so I'm glad it was
Upside: At least they used a different name.

On other occasions, they just hijack the name. Like they did with dstat.
> a lone kindling would not ignite the bricks

again, far before a fire reaches a point where it's widespread the heat of the gasses created by a small fire are already 4x what these bricks can stand before the binder involves melt.

So long before you're worried about thermal mass, there would be nothing holding these bricks together and you have a mass of loose sand and melted plastic.

You could paint it with intumescent paint but I doubt it would be effective given the low melting temperature, and would probably end up costing as much or more as the brick.
If we go into theology, then the nature is just a playground and the human body is just a complicated mechanism that a soul attaches to temporarily.
That's a reasonable interpretation, but then why is Zed lashing out at OP's original article? I've read through it and it's a reasonable argument that many people in crypto have been making for years.

"you don't know anything, you haven't even independently audited OpenSSL for free before it was cool" is not a reasonable response to "there's a problem with woo crackpots trying to gain credibility within crypto", but it is a reasonable (if needlessly inflammatory, but we are talking about Zed) response to "nobody should write crypto except experts like me", which is a common misinterpretation of "don't roll your own crypto". Hence why I suspect it was just a kneejerk reaction to a misinterpretation of the article.
Was personally hoping for a noise-normalized version of the test, as well since I'd imagine most people aren't going to keep an air purifier running on high, and the low setting may not deliver the requisite airflow.
Yes to both, if you can do it at STP. Superconductors make practical many things which are otherwise extremely expensive or just plain impossible.
>The only thing that matters is if there are more or less poor people, and how poor are those people compared to similar percentiles in the past.

People who are beating the drum about inequality are arguing this; isn't this what the elephant chart shows? For the American middle and working class they are as poor, if not poorer than their contemporaries in the 60s.

The plain argument is that productivity growth has exploded since the 70s, but wage growth has stagnated. People are producing more but being paid less; that might not be outright theft but I think people are beginning to understand that something isn't right.
Dude, the whole thread started with a comment about Samsung trying to pay no property taxes.