jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
OrientDB is snakeoil and anyone deploying it has not done their due diligence. The real world performance is very different to their claims and many features just don't work. Do yourself a favor and read through their bug tracker some time, you'll be scared.
There's also Chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/

and for Cygwin, apt-cyg https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg

and even cyg-fast https://github.com/lambdalice/cyg-fast
When people suggest teaching everyone in school to code, nobody (or at least nobody sensible) is suggesting that some large number of those people actually go into programming as a profession. Instead, it's because the basic critical thinking and problem solving skills required to solve even simple programming tasks can vastly benefit people in other walks of life.

Already, any real scientist will need to code in rudimentary ways as part of their job. A linguist will need to be comfortable with unix text processing tools and probably python. A physicist will know enough FORTRAN to write novel simulations using the vast swaths of mediocre FORTRAN code written by physicists before him. This level of working knowledge is the ideal; it's what the mediocre programmers already flooding the field maxed out on, and it would be just fine for them if they took advantage of it in a different field. A person in any field can benefit from knowing how to code (as is demonstrated by the wonderful generative art and generative writing produced by artists and novelists who can code).

Mathematics is mandatory in school not because high school graduates are going to go out and perform calculus daily while they make change for customers at McDonalds, but because (at least in theory) if they can learn to solve word problems they can learn to reason about things like state lotteries, ponzi schemes, and other tricks hidden out in the real world that prey on people who are unable to think clearly and deeply. Elementary programming experience teaches that kind of thinking far better than word problems do.

(There's one more utility for universal CS education, which is that it opens up the possibility of high-paying CS jobs to people with natural talents who are stuck in socioeconomic situations that prevent them from having adequate exposure to computers. This is relatively wide-spread, even in the united states -- poor black families without computers at home, living in areas where computer access through schools and libraries is heavily limited. By producing a system that expands exposure explicitly to those groups, because of scale, you almost guarantee creating the circumstances that produce a handful of really skilled people who would otherwise have never had the necessary early exposure and would have spent the rest of their lives working in an industry that didn't benefit from their genius.)
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This is the correct behavior. It's not like they're immutable strings, or even that the variable's guaranteed to be pointed at the same place on every iteration of the loop. (You could say that a sufficiently smart static analyzer should be able to do that...but that static analyzer better ask about that thread you're running over there...)

Compilers have a limit to how smart they can be, and that totally makes being smart about your stuff all the more important.
90% of the price is a CD isn't distribution and packaging - an album CD in HMV at £8 costs the same to distribute and package as a CD single for sale at HMV for £2.

The vast majority of cost of producing and selling a hit album is marketing, and that cost hasn't changed significantly for the labels, at least not yet.

It's quite possible that the economics of 10 cents per track might work out, but it'll be without the major labels marketing teams.

Whether that should bother anyone, that's the real question.
I work for a small non-profit radio station where we've got a couple of Ubuntu boxes (running 10.10, or whatever the latest version with standard GNOME 2 is). I've only done it because we recently expanded our volunteer base and didn't have XP licences to cover computers for every desk!

I've actually been really surprised at how well the volunteers have taken to using the machines, and how some even seem to prefer them to the tried-and-tested XP installation we've got on other computers in the building.

It helped that we were already using Chrome, Thunderbird and OpenOffice as our standard applications throughout the station - so when I installed the machines, I just stuck big, bold icons for each one on the desktop to make it obvious what to do. Audacity was a new one (we're using Adobe Audition on other machines) but people took to it reasonably well.

Comments I've received have been along the lines of "There's a lot less shit on the desktop than on those other [XP] computers," "It's easier to find what you're doing, and it seems a bit faster too," and so on. For some reason, our XP machines accumulate junk on the desktop, whereas the Ubuntu boxes stay relatively clean!

It works for a lot of our older, less experienced members who find it difficult to find, say, the Thunderbird icon among a pile of old documents and folders on the Windows desktop, or get confused when Start -> Email opens up an empty install of Outlook Express for some reason. It often feels like I spend more time helping people out when something's disappeared, they can't print, they can't find something on a Windows box than actually doing my job, so the Ubuntu machines have been a boost - they seem to just keep trooping on.

Of course, our users are simply booting the machine and opening up some standard applications that also run on Windows, and not going in and changing settings, or anything - I suspect that's where it would fall down in usability.

However, I've tried out recent pre-releases of Unity and GNOME 3 and found them pretty confusing, and I expect a lot of the users who've made positive comments to me about Ubuntu at work would too. It seems like a step backwards to me, with too many unclear mysterious icons, and bits of the UI whizzing on and off the screen while I try to work - and I'm sticking with the LTS at home, and not updating the work machines, either.
Personally I just rephrased it...

How do you get over the fear of working jobs like this for the rest of your life and not doing what you know your heart wants to do? Quit and start a startup.

Works great if you're me. Your results may differ.
Almost all the promising startups in Vienna move to London, either entirely or moving the HQ and maintaining only a development office back home. I wonder if hiring good developers is easier/cheaper in mainland Europe than in the tech centres where there seems to be a shortage right now.
I am sorry I deleted by mistake. The site seems to be up again but things like that happen when you are a startup. In general Greece is like a startup, no fixed procedures, formalities and so on and a high risk to fail :)
Read the article. Your comment makes no sense at all, the title is ironic.
A big problem is local storage provisioner for kubernetes is still not GA. I want to use an SSD attached to one master, and use that as storage for the other RPIs. Doing this is still undocumented/the Wild West.
Nice idea! Planning to make money through affiliate links?
When will get past the age of paranoia ?
but the regular Joe developer has caught on the fad and wants to add it to his repertoire, even though it's an overkill

There are very strong financial incentives for every individual developer and sysadmin to adopt Kubernetes, regardless of the impact it has on the organisation as a whole. In a sense this is engineering reaching the level of corporate maturity of the sales department who will optimise everything for their commission regardless of the organisations ability to deliver it at a profit, or even at all.
If you have downstream nodes which may have large amounts of latency in some scenarios, then you may need a huge thread pool.

If you add a huge thread pool, and then those downstreams don't have a large latency, then you end up accepting a huge amount of work and then are CPU starved.

So in order to correctly size your thread pool, you need to understand all your downstream latency, and adapt to it.

Compared to an async runtime, which just handles this scenario, it's very painful.

Even if you get this roughly right, the scheduler is very unhappy when you have lots of threads - it tends to make incorrect scheduling decisions.
I travel for work, sometimes for many hours accross many timezones; other times I'll only have to drive or fly for an hour or two. Regardless of the above, I've often felt that my sleep when I first get to a place only feels like it's about 60% effective.
It is possible that we'll never know. However, remember that we also recently have SARS, MERS, EBOLA, etc. This isn't some isolated event. We've made the world small, there is no where too remote. Some animal from the remotest village on earth can be sold on the street in NYC in two days. Who knows what ancient pathogens are being re-released from the permafrost? I fear this is the beginning of mother earth fighting back, not the end.
> I’m so jealous of people from good families. Like when I hear so and sos parents went to Yale so they did to.. here I am like: my dad sold drugs :/

I went to private school and my best friend's dad worked as a middle level exec at Phillip Morris, other than the fact they had far more financial security and that time he gave us that 'only idiots smoke' speech with details about how his Industry worked (incidentally years before Thank you for smking came out) I don't think they had much of anything you would call a relationship.

His son was more like an employee than a child, he would have new cleats every other football game but only because his father insisted that he scored the most touchdowns and 'make a name for himself for scholarship money' kind of arrangements. There wasn't anything I'd say I envied of his situation.

Another colleagues father was from a poor family but an amazing mechanic with engineering and fabrication leanings, some of his patents were bough by Yamaha and even did a few years at Raytheon. Of his 3 children, 2 became an account and a physician but both tried to commit suicide as did his wife due to horrible upbringing.

My childhood was marred with things more like your own than my friend's as I came from a working lower middle class so despite my parents sending me to private school to shield me from the realities at home they were still painfully real.

If I'm honest I much prefer being an autodidact that grew up on the Internet as I know that anything I want to learn is within my grasp and and that its likely a community of people who are dedicated to this is out there too if I really want to learn from.

I lost track of my friend when we went to separate highschools as his dad got relocated to the East Coast but I'd later find out from a mutual friend that he never really amounted to much, either. Why that was isn't clear, but I know for a fact he despised being his father's only son despite him being a well paid exec that managed 100s of people.

Your pain can be your guide for success if you learn to channel it and use it in your favour, which is why I'm now seeing it a gift despite all the drawbacks it had in my past. It also probably gave you a sense of empathy for children in similar situations that you may have ignored entirely had you not grown up in such a dysfunctional situation.

Sidenote: I was big fan of 'Malcolm in the Middle' in grade school but lost interest when I got to HS and forgot all about it until the pandemic and random youtube videos, so I've been watching some of the later seasons as they're new to me and I forgot how poignant that show was at highlighting some of the points of wealth inequality and the pernicious effects of wasting Human Capital and potential: particular in systems like Ivy Leagues.
Why would you use 6 month old rust?
> they're run like charities where there's basically no money for someone to pull out

In the United States, charities (501c3 non-profits) can indeed be run like businesses and there is "money to pull out". The non-profit status requires the organization to use all the money that it brings in, but it is free to use that money on paying high salaries to its management. Consequently, many non-profits become sinecures for their staff, a guaranteed source of a higher and more stable salary than they might find in some other job, and relatively little money is directed towards the charitable endeavours for which the money was ostensibly raised.
And Wittenham Clumps:

https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SU567924

in the news for discovery of Iron Age settlement:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/14/astonishing-...
Found Facebook’s GPT-3 bot
Don't take my rash words as a representation of others; they are not. The above was a resentful comment I made the mistake of posting, and I wouldn't endorse violence either irl.
Your kidding right? No company in their right mind is going to submit an application spec for their app to Apple before they have a releasable app. You don't give your unique product/idea away to someone with a vested interest in perhaps beating you to the punch with it. If Apple wasn't in the Mobile Apps business it might fly but they are in that business and giving them an application spec really wouldn't be wise.
Predicting a Jason nation rant on this hitting inboxes in 3, 2, 1...
I don't understand pride for consumer products.

Seems like being proud of a platform you had no involvement in is misplaced emotional banter.
From the article:

M^2 >= (J/M)^2 + Q^2

M is the mass of the black hole, J is its angular momentum, and Q is its charge. If the inequality is satisfied, that is it has sufficiently more mass than angular momentum and charge, then the black hole has an event horizon. However if the inequality is violated, either because of additional charge, or angular momentum, or both, then the black hole would have no event horizon and would exist as a naked singularity. This is generally regarded as a nonphysical solution-- large charged bodies tend not to exist in nature, and presumably any body that had sufficient angular momentum to push the black hole into violating the inequality would also have sufficient angular momentum to avoid falling into the back hole as well, but the authors of the paper have apparently devised some situation where the blackhole can be pushed into such a regime.
I wonder how this will affect Quora...
It would be great to see some people post their responses here on HN. I'm working on mine and will post when I am done...
Yeah, usually when I'm reading about something on distraction I read it more carefully just to try and prove to myself that it's not me their referring to.
2004 you mean.
I'm neither a free-speach maximalist, not a Trump supporter - on the contrary, I would say I'm pretty far left-wing. And that is exactly why I feel pretty ambivalent about this. Because what if next time there is a BLM demonstration in front of the Capitol, or for any other progessive issue? What if things get worse here, and we need a democracy movement / "peaceful revolution" like in east Europe? Then I might find myself on the other side of the ban.

I have the theory that we never really defeated fascism in western society. But mass media limited what you could say in public and so we kept a lid on it. Imagine someone disputing an election or calling for violence in the New York Times or on prime time TV. But with the internet and social media, this control function fell away. As a society we are realizing how problematic this can be and slowly reinstating the limitations that we had before the internet.

This silences the violent, the racist, and the extreme right-wing-nuts, but it can also silence progressive ideas and marginalized voices if we are not careful.

Right now we are moving to a situation where people like Trump cannot speak on the common public forum (putting the lid on them), but they can cause a lot of damage. I'd rather have the opposite situation, where they can rant as much as they want, but the society is so strong and principled that they cannot cause damage. But we are far from that, so I guess the pragmatic solution is to put the lid back on for now...
is that $100-500k number really right?
The NLP section too is worth looking into. [ http://nlp.stanford.edu ]
Thanks for the great advice all of you. Just sitting here, reading it all & following the links gave me a massive boost of confidence. I've started my outline, wrote my 'story' & will be practicing every day starting tomorrow. I just found out that the slides need to be in next week so while my anxiety levels have decreased, my stress levels have not. Fingers crossed.
I think they have a point. When I was unexperienced in the ways of technology and new to things, about 6 years ago probably (my time may be off), I tried Limewire because I saw it in a reputable print publication. (note: I was young at the time as I am currently a high school student)

I had tried to download some music with Walmart's new MP3 site, which was a mess. I could never get the 10 songs or so I downloaded and paid for to play on my Windows 98 PC, despite downloading what they recommended (I don't think the version of Windows Media Player they suggested worked on my PC). I still wanted music to play on my Sony CLIE (which couldn't play it either)... and my friend showed me a computer magazine talking about Limewire. It said something about it being safe and legal, as long as you didn't use it illegally. I didn't consider the implications so I downloaded it and tried it.. and quickly found a bunch of music. I actually owned a lot of it, but not all of it. The point is, I was underinformed and since there wasn't much of a warning in the magazine I considered reputable, I didn't think I was doing anything illegal.

When you look at the target audience of a simple magazine like PC Magazine, I see why the RIAA would be alarmed. I'm not saying this should be illegal to publish or that PC Magazine is necessarily at fault, but I don't think the RIAA is too far off-base either.
Advertising idea: Can you build a website that aggregates both display and text ads. Basically when searching for X all I would only see ads for X, not content pages.
What did he expect? He contacts the CEO, knowing that it's not going to be read by the CEO, but his support staff at best, and directly insults the support staff ("$12/hour Executive Relations college students")

They didn't even send him a form letter C&D, they just warned him that if he kept pestering the CEO of a major corporation with his personal issues, they would.

Judging by the name calling he does in the letter, I would guess the executive relations staff had already politely implied that he shouldn't be contacting them.

Never thought I'd be saying this, but: I'm siding with AT&T on this one.
> MP3 gets a bad rap because low bitrate mp3 does sound awful.

It's also the case that MP3 encoders got better over time, and if you're considering the sound of a 128kbps (or 96kbps) MP3 encoded by the Fraunhofer encoder you got from IRC in the late 90s; it's just not going to be good.
This is a bit of a random comment @dang, but it's always a bit of a shame when a long explanation gets posted and the comment that it is responding to dies or is downvoted for some reason or another. I've seen this happen a few times and am wondering if there is a possible fix?

I guess this is the risk one takes when responding to comments, but it feels like there might be a reasonable tradeoff/possible solution! :)
> You solely decided to migrate to K8s

A note: this person is different from the GP poster.
Fwiw I found dragon dictation software to be a godsend
Starting in around 2013 or so, I stopped using any kind of soap or cleaner on my body, with a couple of exceptions. I still wash my hands regularly, and I use a tiny little bit of fairly bland, unscented soap between my legs in the shower. Note that my head hair is quite long, naturally coming down to my mid/lower back.

How do I get my body/face clean in the shower? Very hot water and very vigorous scrubbing/rubbing.

After doing that for a week, my body odor virtually disappeared, even when I was hot and sweaty. While my overall skin and hair condition had always been ok, it improved noticeably.

I did this after reading a number of articles online about it and figured it would be worth trying.

As a bit of an experimental control, I didn't tell my wife that I was doing this. We do regularly brush and braid each other's hair. After about two weeks, she said that my hair was more full and healthy than it's ever been, and she also confirmed the body odor changes.

So this is anecdotal: it was useful for me, and might be useful to some others. However, given everything we're learning about microbiomes in and on the body, it seems to make a lot of sense.
Not when programming, but when doing most anything else.
Gun ownership in the US has gone down over the past ~30-40 years, but the number of guns per capita has gone up, which indicates that fewer people are buying guns but that those who do are buying more guns than they used to.
https://openclipart.org is (somewhat) back. I think this was better browsable and searchable in the past. At least there is some contents available.

These pages are really valuable.
Well, there is already Tensorflow.js [0].

[0]: https://www.tensorflow.org/js.
Sweet library!

I've also started a more broad collection of articles useful to entrepreneurs at http://founderswiki.com/

If you want to collaborate in some way I'd love to talk more - lukas@fittl.com
You're falling prey to the Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy:

http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html

That this is a link-baiting article is not part of my argument. It's a simple observation. The very title of his article is an insult to Apple users.

Did you read past the first sentence of my comment, to—oh, let me see—the second sentence of my comment, where I explain what my problem with his "argument"—i.e. series of insults—is?