jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
aha, another shortscreener! You're the first other I've met.
http://tryruby.org

http://tryhaskell.org

http://try-clojure.org
Hell yeah, thanks. That's my new homepage now.
Recommended only if you also read/skim the comments.
I thought this was going to be a reference to the Martin Niemöller quote, but the ending doesn't fit with the spirit of that citation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

In any case, well put.
My friend was complaining about the background today. She said she couldn't get rid of it. She was even going to upload an 800x600 white image.

I've never seen the background image and I can't even get it to appear or find a setting for it anywhere. (???)

It's kind of like how my Google News was all weird for like 4 days, and then went back to normal. I do understand a/b testing, but it's strange being an unwitting, unwilling guinea pig for something I use every day like G News.
And the line between those two careers continues to blur.
> What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women?

Alternative theory: Society is failing our boys.
Can flash do this?
http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/

Answer: Yes. But if you can do it natively in the browser, why bother with flash!
I disagree. SSE makes one design easier. If that's great, great. If not, not. But per-unit SSE is ships more slowly because it doesn't allow for easy batching.
Can someone explain this to me like I'm an 8 year old?
> We might need to have multiple ARM builds for its microarchitectures.

Nitpick: it is by definition not needed to have different build for different microarchitectures (except maybe for performance). If the same code doesn't work on different chips, it's because they have different ('versions of') instruction set architectures.

Edit: nevermind, on rereading, you were already complaining about that. You should probably stick scare-quotes on "'need'", though.
That's called a web browser and a web app.

And then there wouldn't be anything to hog-up 1/3 of a GiB on every customer's phone, and it would always be up-to-date. Just don't ever lose internet access.
No, it's also substantially different between certain cities and regions in the CONUS. Otherwise that might be viable.
I think the point jschwartzi was trying to make is that Do Not Track paired with legislation requiring companies to honor it could be a reasonable solution.
Then websites would be able to tell if you were browsing with incognito on. Isn't that itself a privacy issue?
Chartio manages to make dashboards easy by removing all the proprietary layers and extra UI steps to get to the point.

I am not talking about easy as point and click (although I know they are selling that too).

Easy for me was to allowing me to focus 99% of my attention on writing the SQL query.

Superset has a similar philosophy but is in need of a UX overhaul. It also lacks some seemingly small but very important features that Chartio has. Mainly because in superset the operations are done in python on the already retrieved result.
Sorry, wasn't meant as a criticism, just as an explanation because people were assuming magic...

Taking on bare-metal is a significant job much greater than your original task and you may be better targeting something like buildroot instead, after all what is the Linux kernel but a hardware abstraction layer.
You could implement a rough version of this as a subreddit.
Let's be honest, though. Apple ignoring Flash on iOS did help move the whole web ecosystem away from Flash.
Some of these services log what you are doing, but some even offer to not log anything that you do! So you are 100% hidden from the world via their servers. There are Top of VPNs, to find a decent one check out http://vpnwebsites.com/top-10-vpn-providers/.
Yes, I've seen the banners myself. Asking users directly for money means you're not worried about what advertisers, or other investors, will think about the content on your site. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5L1CR0CEAEN78C.jpg <- Sorry for the text-in-a-picture but the original thread is dead.
That's the generally accepted wisdom, I think.

At my previous employer, we (usually) received a 3-4% raise per year. I was technically a state government employee, so this usually dependent upon budgets, the political climate, etc.

The largest raise I ever received (without changing jobs) was because I told my boss and H.R. that I was offered and going to accept a different position in a different department in a different city. I was offered a $10k/year salary raise along with a change in how my position was classified (which provided more benefits, including a pretty substantial increase in the company's contribution to my retirement plan).

(I should note, though, that this was right at the same time as our annual "performance reviews" were going on and upper management was quite pleased with me that year for saving them six figures in a lawsuit from another employee. I suspect they might have not tried as hard to keep me if it weren't for that.)
If no one allowed small-startup technology into production, then the industry stagnation would be tremendous, so I disagree that is the issue. However, once you do rely on a small-startup database, it better be closed source, so I disagree: the issue is the closed-source part, not the small-startup part.
I was in Tokyo recently and had a chance to speak to some friends about this. Many of false claims and lack of transparency by the Japanese government are driven by the fact that affected areas around Fukushima are heavy tourist areas.

Combined with lack of growth in exports, over which their economy is already expected to be heading into a crisis in the next few years, the impact of a long-term reduction in tourism has potentially serious national implications.
I thought 3tap get around the IP block by scraping the google cache?
ha ha nice one. With lots of free time and nothing much to do I thought I might as well build something that people can use until ghost comes around.
What's up with all the technical issues and outages lately? Has there been an increase or is it because we're paying more attention to it?
I don't think/hope this helps/hurts them. But I hope Chelsea gets what she wants.
And a PR stunt might not be the worst idea considering her position.
nice read.
Developers often go for big companies as they are getting excellent compensations but given the nature of a startup(i'm talking abt true startup- solving real problems), developers may be attracted.
Most of the good developers believe in solving hardcore problems. So you as a startup can provide them that. You cannot(unless you are heavily funded) compete with big companies on salary criteria.
There are quite a few games I wouldn't mind seeing my kid get hooked on.

If raising a chess champion is a good thing, I can't imagine that raising a starcraft champion is a bad thing.
Dubious claim. There is no single argument against eating meat. I know vegetarians who abstain from eating meat on grounds ranging from waste of biomass resources to "I don't like the taste." It's a multifaceted belief system.

Within the group, you'll likely find a small subset that actually thinks meat is akin to human murder, but that takes a leap of logic that many vegetarians aren't willing to take when there are so many other perfectly reasonable reasons to choose the vegetarian lifestyle.
Your characterization of this as cheap and cheesy-looking fills me with happiness at living in a world prosperous enough that even cheap furniture can be so decent-looking.

(Kudos to the OP, by the way. It really is a cool desk.)
Service and product companies typically have a different mind-set. Service-based businesses typically do more waterfall-style development. Product-based companies do more agile development. Service-based businesses build what the customer asked for. Product-based businesses build what the customers will ask for.

While some service companies have made the transition, I think it is a very different focus and mindset. While some companies like 37signals have made transition, it is not easy for many.
Why so? Explaining why would be more interesting than baseless snark. The OP seems to me like a very good analysis of a topic on a lot of people's minds lately.
This RSA video shows some reasons why the current education systems (not only US') has the problems it has: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
This post is wonderful! Surprisingly straightforward, well-written, and with just the right amount of charm. I think it will ring true to anyone who's spent a lot of time around mathematicians.

Oh, and this is hilarious:

What is the difference between an extroverted mathematician and an introverted one? The extroverted one looks at your shoes, rather than at his own shoes.

It's unfair to single that quote out, though, because this isn't a joke article.
In TS this would be flipped:

type Person = {
name: string;
age: number;
}

type SomeFieldsMissing = Partial<Person>;
type AllFieldsRequired = Required<Person>; // No real change in this case

Where Partial and Required are defined like:

type Partial<T> = { [P in keyof T]?: T[P] | undefined; }

type Required<T> = { [P in keyof T]-?: T[P]; }

What would you think of something like this ("mapped types")? They can get fairly powerful: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/mapped-types....
There is either existential nihilism or there is God. And God may be the more horrific of the two. (Or the unknown unknown third option may yet still be worse, who knows? The calculation of it being better just leads back to God, so the construction collapses back into two poles.)
Wasn't there also an Oberon book (not mentioned on this page), describing the design of the language and OS? I remember seeing it in the university library 25 years ago.
> You've made the assumption that all Chinese people speak one language,

No I didn’t. I cited the fact that Chinese is the largest natively spoken language in the world, by an order of magnitude.
I didnt follow.
I'm really happy that this finally landed. Unfortunately the limitations of the MVP are severe.

For example you can't use associated constant as generic arguments, preventing constructions like this:

trait HashFunction {
const OUTPUT_SIZE: usize;
fn hash(input: &[u8]) -> [u8; Self::OUTPUT_SIZE];
}
How dare you bring logic and reason into a discussion about social issues on hacker news.

/sarcasm
Hrm. But... that isn't limited to the 'west'. For one the 'fatkins-diet' is popular in other areas than 'the west' too.
For another being exposed to toxins in the environment is actually more likely elsewhere. At least nowadays.

Maybe one should call it 'reckless industrialisation', or something. But it is no 'western' phenomenon anymore.
I worked at EA for eight years and have worked at Google for the past ten. Google and the GMail team most certainly understand how to write performance critical code. Your favorite game would take 10 seconds to load and run at 2FPS too if it had to be pushed over the Internet every time it started up and run inside any of a few only mostly-compatible VMs for a dynamically-typed scripting language never designed for anything more important than making buttons light up when you hover over them.

You're correct that optimized code is generally harder to maintain. Optimization often requires punching through abstraction layers or calcifying certain constraints or assumptions in the code.
For fun! I've been tinkering with it for a while, and I feel like it's a fairly accessible way for developer-types to be a little artistic.

There are also concepts in Blender (like the whole node system) that might inspire some creative solutions in your day-to-day programming. Also, if you're at all inclined to try make video games, you can make your own 3d models. It pairs nicely with Unity or Unreal for a relatively low-barrier-to-entry to build something small and fun.
I inherit my parents genes. I inherit my fathers disposition and many of his attitudes. I inherit from my parents to know what it means to be cared for. Loved. Believed in. Supported.

Of all the things I will inherit, money is the least of the advantages I'll get. Indeed it's the money spent before inheriting that has the biggest impact for most people. I think inheritance is the wrong battle to fight, it rarely impacts opportunity or environment which are so formative.
People forget that before Snowden the story was how bad the US's cyber intelligence was compared to China, etc.
In general, HN tries to emphasize content, not personalities. So this was a clear case for reverting to the article title, even though you're right that jacquesm is the only reason why people here (including me!) would find it interesting.

It sometime happens that a story makes it to the front page because of some bait that was added to the title (in this case, to add social interest where intellectual interest was lacking), whereupon a moderator removes the bait from the title. This is not a bad pattern if you think about it. It's ok for the front page to have a few such stories, but they shouldn't dominate it. And once a story makes the front page, it should stand on its own.
It's down for the count, but when it gets back up everyone should run this piece of java (requires you to import java.awt.Robot):

try{
Robot robot = new Robot();
while(true){
for(float t=0; t<1000; t++){
robot.mouseMove(200+(int)(150*Math.cos(2*Math.PI*(t/1000))), 400+(int)(50*Math.sin(2*Math.PI*(t/500))));
robot.delay(1);
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {}

We would all be infinitely tracing the infinity symbol.
One belief that wasn't mentioned is the idea of phlogiston. It's the idea that flammable material contains a substance called phlogiston and that the escaping of that substance is equivalent to burning. This believe was held for around a hundred years, from the end of the seventeenth century until the end of the eighteenth century

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory
One particularly good use case for App Engine is a simple back end for thick client applications that do most of their heavy lifting on the client side.

I'm working on a moderately sized app that uses a fairly complex range of data, but I only have a few tables with a few columns each in the datastore. All the relational complexity of the schema is tucked away in blob fields and handled on the client. Besides greatly streamlining the back end code, it also cuts down on cpu cycles drastically by dumping most work to the user's machine, thereby saving lots of money.

I'm using this approach with a Flex UI, but it applies just as well to javascript.
> We've also developed our own Django-like templating system for Java

Any chance you could list viable alternatives, please? (I'm considering GAE/Java). Thanks for this interesting thread.
With respect to insularity: what's up with your use of 'lionhearted, 'pg and the like? I always thought the use of @user by Twitter people was both insular and annoying...
Another reason not mentioned is that you are giving your API credibility and testing it by using the API in your own product.
You get to consider the different things that customers might want to do with your API and consider the strategic effects of including features x over feature y.
When we say virtual reality, there is this implicit expectation (at least in my mind) that its an always ON experience. The Video here did show some of that too but I think scoping it to specific tasks at least initially would be very powerful. So you don't wear these bulky, dorky glasses/headsets all day long but only when you need to do specific things. And then you return to your normal life.

In the early days of computer, the usage was like that...very task oriented. When you are done you go back to your non-digital life. It's only when the technology and public perception changes, you start carrying PCs in your pocket all day long like we are doing today.
Heroku has had experimental Node.js support for awhile[1], but it's still just that, experimental[2].

[1] http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/4/28/node_js_support_ex...

[2] http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/9/20/an_update_on_herok...
I can't seem to pick out the argument that you're making here, other than that it begins with an assertion that no one who "really" understands economics can dispute it.

I'm going to guess out loud at it, and hopefully somebody will jump in and help me.

1) In the case of goods or services with minimal marginal costs and large fixed costs in proportion to total costs, you are expected to pay for them.

2) If you don't pay for them you are breaking the law.

Therefore, the argument that if marginal cost is zero on some digital good, then [something number 1] isn't stealing is completely irrelevant to [something number 2].

I'm sure that "something number 1" (referred to as "it") is related to free riding, due to a shared metaphor, and I'm going to assume that it is "a use of that good or service without paying," again due to the metaphor, where a single person took a single train ride without paying.

Does "something number 2" = "whether a use of that good or service is illegal or not"? Because that seems to me to be setting up as a straw man a question that no one is asking, then begging the question with an answer that is identical to your second premise.
Context.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/tea-party-climat...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Pro...
"Unlike Wikileaks, Openleaks will not publish or verify material; leaving that role to newspapers"

What's the point then? If the leaks aren't verified, then they are just rumors.
Assuming you're not trolling, Flash is quite capable of doing this.
Normally I regret using inflammatory language, but in this case I think it invokes the fervor I have seen in most every defense of strong AI I have ever read. Personally I am not a proponent of strong AI. Proponents have, however, built a strong case that tends to put opponents in the position of having to prove a negative.
Fair enough. It just sort of seemed like a very entitled approach all around.
> I'm not sure how my brain would react to non-delimited forms (ie, the implicit pairs).

You probably wouldn't like it. ;) Seriously though, I think what we're used to plays a tremendous role in our preference here.

> I also don't know how Emacs handles the indentation for these

For Arc, anyway, the indentation algorithm is constantly making mistakes. I always hesitate to auto-indent a region because I know I'll have to go through and manually fix things. But I'm not sure this is the language's fault - the Emacs mode probably just needs to be smarter.
This still doesn't make sense to me. There's a pretty efficient market in construction and kitchen jobs. There are frictions associated with changing jobs, but they seems a lot smaller than those with most white-collar jobs. So why not look for a different kitchen to work in, or a different foreman to work for?
Read the article, do some blast physics Googling (especially for kinetic and EMP cones). If you are in EMP range (which applies to H-Bombs and N-Bombs mostly, the later you're very unlikely to see in a terrorist attack, just too damn difficult to build), then you are probably screwed anyway.

In the case you survive that, don't leave the car.. and pray!
On the other hand, does any casual reader of the Economist really know if articles about China's military capabilities are accurate or not?
Thanks, it was our first significant foray into non-flash web animation. I'm really pleased with the result.
Thanks (to jrockway too), that's something new I learned today!
Install Opera 11, visit intranet page, get prompted for password.

Search NTLM in config, it's got one option which is enabled.

(That Chrome for business blog post yesterday got me to retry Chrome which supports NTLM automatically by default).

Close opera, uninstall. Uninstall prompts that it crashed while editing preferences (it didn't) and offers to send a crash report.

I wonder if I could get a job as a software tester? I always hit bizarro behaviour just trying to use software normally.
Turning 32 this year.
Honest question: What does “scaling horizontally” and “scaling vertically” mean? I assume that “scaling” means “do more/less work of the same kind in the same amount of time”.
This is interesting.

But I have a question about scientific papers in general, that perhaps somebody here can answer. Why don't papers have a big timestamp on the first page? I always have to do a small investigation to find out when a paper was published/accepted approximately.

Also, I'm wondering why there is no public online discussion forum for scientific papers in general. I would have expected that google-scholar would have filled this gap by now.
There is some info on this page about the various annual expenses for a Hong Kong company. These include at least (i) virtual office, (ii) accounts preparation and (iii) accounts audit. You could do (ii) yourself but you need to pay someone to do (i) and (iii), unless you live in Hong Kong and are a Hong Kong registered auditor.
I'm not saying the following is 100% water tight, but hopefully it can show how such seemingly different theories can reconcile:

A society where child labour is almost as valuable as adult labour and you can have your 10 year olds help around the shop/farm/whatever as cheap labour. This is a poor society.

Then you have a different type of society where educated people go to offices or handle expensive machinery at factories, and children can't help around supporting the household. The jobs they can perform add too little value to bother, and their time is better invested in education. This is a rich society.

I think it is fair to say that fertility as a reaction to immediate changes in the economy of those two societies are different.
A monitor like this would be the end-all-be-all for my
scientific workflow woes. The paper du jour on the e-ink and the journal and ipython on what I call "the lightbulb" (read: TFT).

I have already been fantasising about and doing
a spot of research into building one on my own by using an
Arduino (I wouldn't need as high a refresh rate as this little marvel) and one of PervasiveDisplays'[0].

I gave up convinced there was no sane way to actually
connect this contraption to my laptop, and the USB solutions
mentioned below do not instill hope.

[0] http://www.pervasivedisplays.com/

They seem to be doing a bit of open-source advocacy, too:
http://repaper.org
Or gut a Model 100 and put a linux box in there?
(semi-offtopic) Isn't there some kind of glass slab that turns any light emitting display into a color e-ink like display? Isn't there a theoretical model at least?
I was thinking more of how M&P employees are treated by indigenous emploeyers.

Check out workplace on stack exchange for examples of some of the issues Bonds and reliving letters are two examples.
There have been several cases where courts ruled that copying an entire work was fair use. Substantiality is only one of the considerations. For example, in Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation, the court ruled that even though they had copied the entire work, it was OK because that's how much they needed to copy for their intended (otherwise legitimate, commercial, and transformative) use.
I stand by every comment I’ve made.

I’m not the least bit surprised.

Yes, my attack is personal, in the sense that it’s aimed directly at you and your reckless disregard for people’s lives. You’re spreading dangerous and false ideas in the face of a global pandemic, ideas that will cost tens of millions of lives if people take them seriously. There’s no reason anyone should listen to you, since you have no expertise, you’ve been wrong about everything all along, and you continue to disagree with the experts, as you have all along.

But like you said, you stand by every statement you’ve made.
On a side note : airbnb must be really happy to have all the profit, but no risk right now.