jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's fair enough, but seems to ignore the fact that there is still a tremendous need for efficiently serving static files, even in a javascript era. Images, CSS, Javascript, HTML all still need an efficient method of delivery, and I don't believe that Node.js can fill that role as well as is needed.

I don't see the LAMP stack going away. Parts of it may be substituted as new technologies become popular, but the concept is still sound.
> the Windows kernel is what allows the multiple versions to exist.

I don't think you know what the Windows kernel does. Multiple library versions have nothing to do with the kernel because 1) the kernel doesn't know anything about libraries, 2) the kernel doesn't do userspace binary loading (even for completely unmanaged code), and 3) the kernel does nothing at all with .NET.

Side-by-side deployment of binaries is actually completely separate from the functionality in .NET that allows multiple versions, which is the GAC (Global Assembly Cache); SxS binaries (which are used by unmanaged code) are completely separate, although they both reference their respective binaries via manifest files.
I like it a lot. I am working on something similar, but you definitely have a better distribution plan than I have. Good luck to ya!
I'd agree that they're still possibility of pulling it out.

The question is not can they, but will they.
In my experience, with SimpleTest in PHP and unittest2 in Python, assertEqual() seem to be the convention.

Indeed, in unittest2, both assertEquals() and assert_equal() both appear to be deprecated in favor of assertEqual().
Have you gone through the material thoroughly?
Take time to read 'em and also the files he uploaded on the drive. It makes sense. Also, check this out.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140513-do-glasses-weaken-y...
Thank you. It seems that people read the title of the post, skimmed through half of it, then rushed to post their opinion. Reminds me of an Ars Technica experiment I read about in Jeff Atwood's blog [1]:

"Ars Technica ran a little experiment in 2011. When they posted Guns at home more likely to be used stupidly than in self defense, embedded in the last sentence of the seventh paragraph of the article was this text:

If you have read this far, please mention Bananas in your comment below. We're pretty sure 90% of the respondants to this story won't even read it first.

The first person to do this is on page 3 of the resulting discussion, comment number 93."

[1] http://blog.codinghorror.com/because-reading-is-fundamental-...
Obligatory "let's enhance" video - http://youtu.be/Vxq9yj2pVWk.
> what good is panopticon if nobody is aware of it?

You can blackmail all those in positions of power (politicians , judges, etc) into doing what you want? Who cares what the rest of the population (those low-life sheep) think.

(This is what most likely goes on in their minds.)
FYI, you have reinvented the French Republican Calendar[1], only you missed out on decimal time (1 day is 10 hours, 1 hour is 100 minutes, 1 minute is 100 seconds; 1 second is 0.864 conventional seconds)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
"So are those countries that are lawless and violent that way because the citizens are just bad people?"

Look at the history of urban conflict -- it's virtually impossible even for a high-tech military actor like the USA to effectively police a dense urban area without incurring unacceptable civilian casualties that would further radicalize the population.

You can nuke a city, sure. That's easy. But policing a dense city of millions of people even with heavy surveillance and military force is damn hard.

If most people weren't basically good, we would indeed live in a lawless hellhole.
Even if you don't use iOS, you may wish to communicate (relatively) securely with those who do.
Have a look at:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1435450

I'm actually going the other way from low-latency pricing/trading to the startup world. And with that move I'm accepting that chances are I'll make less money at my startup than I could working in finance.

But money's less important than you think it is, it has diminishing returns. The difference between $30,000 and $50,000 can be a huge impact to the quality of your life, the difference between $180,000 and $200,000 is barely noticeable. Once you have enough money to live comfortably extra money essentially just means a bigger house or a nicer car, which in the overall scheme of things have fairly minimal impact on your happiness.

Also it can have other negative externalities, do you really want to be worried if the girl you started dating actually likes you or is just attracted by the fact you work for a prop fund ? - and I'm not kidding about this, on one online careers advice forum where I helped out (hence my background is somewhat public) I regularly got hit on by girls who are obviously interested in me because of my job (no that's not a good thing).

Basically what I'm saying is don't do it purely for the money, if it's what you're passionate about then do it, but if your passion lies elsewhere then follow it.
I don't think there is. I suggest: typhous
“Safe” and “known to be safe” aren’t the same thing.

Something can both not cause problems, but also be such that one cannot yet rule out with high confidence that it might.
> What sort of applications most excite you?

Outside of crypto, there are many areas within industries which require the sharing and use of data across multiple organizations, markets, and even intra-industry. Think of Healthcare and the multitude of data sources, processes, and interaction between parties. In areas like this, where multiple parties have many different roles and responsibilities in a shared business process, I think the opportunity for private blockchains is promising. I admit that these are niche use cases and the use of these type of applications has not taken off yet.

Do note that these types of applications are very different from the decentralized implementations seen in the crypto sphere. These are the private, permissioned models that people speak of.
1. If your stop duration is less than the frame rate of the camera, you will be logged as a violator.

2. Where is the camera expecting you to stop? If you stop before or after the point the camera is expecting, the camera will record you as driving through the stop.

3.To hopefully avoid a ticket, stop every three inches or so waiting five seconds each time.
I’ve been using this site and app for over an year, and love it! I wish it had more radio stations though!
Also there's a level of automation for model tuning (experiments) especially if this is an update to an existing model (you still need to do model validataion). For the initial model there's gonna be automation but a lot of time will be spent validating the model with business KPI, not just some model metric like accuracy. Databricks makes this automation and tracking pretty simple. You don't have to do this in notebooks. Once you're done with exploration, build out the pipeline in your "framework" and kick off jobs to execute it on databricks. Yes you can use ETL tools here to, I dunno, train every x hours...whatever
Swing has been the bane of my existence. At a previous company, we kept an entire team of un-fireable people who maintained the Java Swing client of our ancient desktop application. The code was littered with comments prophesying doom for anyone who would dare touch it. There were multiple magical invocations of static functions that did "initialization." The code had to compile under Java 6.

When I left that company, one of the places I interviewed was Liftoff. They asked what language I wanted for the pair-programming session. I chose Java.

They asked me to implement Tetris in Swing.
People who don't know what startup to startup
Finally on iOS ! Was wainting for this !
We had developer productivity with IE5. But it's also good to get innovation on browser platforms. Maybe it's possible that a single browser, today, would get all the love and continued development. But it seems more likely that without pressure to improve (even if it means improving runtime perf/memory usage) we could easily see stagnation.
It is pure jealousy
> there are (by most measures) no other democracies out there which have gone as long under peaceful rule of law as the US.

Are you taking the end of the US civil war as the starting point? If so, then Switzerland has a longer duration of peaceful rule of law.
You can just use warm tea bags on your eyes while resting in bed for 10-20 minutes 2x day. No more pink eye in less than 3 days. (at least it worked like charm for me)
> It can be hard to grasp occasionally, coming from a western mindset but for the vast majority within said countries, the entire reality they see and what they believe to be true is heavily distorted--in that, it is defined by the vision of the oligarchy and information is carefully controlled to produce a desired set of beliefs.

You are delusional if you believe the above doesnt apply to US and EU countries.
I was just using Github an hour ago and literally felt no difference in accessibility. Insanely good job Github.
I may be wrong, but I think that by saying rubber gasket the parent commenter had "Andromeda strain" in mind.

I meant RE though
I don't have a problem with people scratching an itch. This is how we practice our craft.
However, how is writing yet another NES emulator anything but conservative given the vast number of example and documentation to draw from? Sure, it's not as simple as writing yet another TODO list in yet another JavaScript framework, but it's not 'new'.
I see you voted for candidate 'B', you're fired.
So, basically, Novation's Launchpad app in the browser, only with a far better presets.

(Launchpad is originally Novation's controller for Ableton Live, and Maden (artist) got famous after a couple of youtube videos of him performing mashups with Launchpad got viral).
For anyone who has a midi controller available, it's a bit well hidden under 'Info'->'Tip: Got A Launchpad?' but apparently it supports the experimental Web MIDI API.
Opposition politics in Singapore? Welcome to hell.
Judging by some of blizzard's april fool's they put some of their prime talent there. Depends on the company I suppose.
That's really cool. You're saving money in 2 places:

1) not paying for SQS, Kinesis, or some other kind of queue to store the events.

2) not paying for a backend queue processor job to read the events from the queue and write them to S3/Redshift.

You still need a backend processor to do the Redshift copy commands, but this is much lighter weight and you'd never need to scale this process.

You'd also be paying some additional money for the S3 logging but probably pretty minimal.

Very cool!
Really? I'm right-handed, but don't have any trouble making any kind of key combinations at any speed with my left hand. Aren't most people (in tech, at least) ambidextrous when it comes to typing?
The first government to move their money onto a crypto us going to have massive control over their economy. Roll their own crypto, keep the keys that allow more money to be printed, have the ability to lock people out of their wallets on a whim? They could even extract taxation by running all the nodes and taking the transaction fees.
> Free for Apple to do as they please.

What other definition of free do you suggest?

The companies and employees they hired also had the freedom to reject the offers if they so chose. Freedom is consent.
I'm still convinced that Qanon is 4Chan in origin.

I imagine they enjoy messing with people at arms length, the would want their safe haven torn down with Parler.
Thanks for sharing - this is definitely on our radar!
> if it happens the rep will probably be laughed out of that courtroom right into a jail cell if they don't try to defect

The US does not jail representatives of enemy nations as a matter of course. There is a North Korean representative in New York (to the UN) and they are not being arrested and thrown in jail. As long as they follow the local laws, I expect that any other representative (like a hypothetical one that wants to sue for alleged copyright infringement) would be similarly protected by the law.
You aren't serious right? I mean there is a whole article on DeBeers (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...).
I'll take the second, as long as there are no hazards. I think the hacker community could build something usable.
A strong referral can get you hired even if you fail the interview.
People care so little that I've had to disable the "X is now on Signal" notifications because dozens of people I used to know (school, uni, hobbies) who aren't on the tech spectrum have been installing it.
They haven't uncovered who created bitcoin yet. While working with exchanges accounts can be linked to a person. The ability to do this at scale or find any person from any account isn't real.
Yeah. Because Nate Lawson has nothing better to do than try to poke holes in your Javascript crypto side project.
Or even filling out the job application.

I always say that the true test of being fluent in Japanese is not being able to read the newspaper or have a conversation. It's being able to read and fill out a government form while people are waiting in line behind you and a bureaucrat is waiting patiently in front of you.
There are some good questions, on there, but as you say, a lot of them read like "Front End Developer Trivial Pursuit".

For example, bad questions:

* How is responsive design different from adaptive design? - there's no formal definition of either. While it might prompt a discussion, it will probably just make the interviewee feel nervous, when you should be trying to get them to relax.

* Why is it called a Ternary expression, what does the word "Ternary" indicate? That's an etymology question. It might be interesting, but it gives no indication as to whether the person is a good developer or not.

* Explain how this works in JavaScript If you can do that effectively, you should probably be presenting and writing books on JavaScript.

Good questions are about opening up a conversation with the person. Why do they want to be a front end developer in your company? What would they be like to work with? Are they looking to specialise in a particular area of front end development, do design + coding, or front end with back end?

* If you could master one technology this year, what would it be? - I read that question last time I saw this link, and have used it a couple of times. It's nice because it tells you where someone wants to be. Think about how you'd react to answers like PHP, NodeCopter or SVG.

* What excites or interests you about coding? - it's open ended. If the interview can only say "I dunno", that tells you they're either not very communicative or not very interested in front end development.

* What tools do you use to test your code's performance? - I have worked with fantastic front end developers who were able to twist CSS and JS into doing anything, but the performance of their code was awful. They opened it in a browser, if it worked, they signed it off and left it for somebody else to speed it up. Depending on the role, that might be perfect, or you might be looking for the exact opposite. Either way, it's a good way of having that conversation with a prospective developer about what their opinion is.
I've written a few tutorials at https://nix.dev/, more to come in following months :)
Hence why Firefox fully implemented the privacy disaster known as the AudioContext API, which leaks sensitive information about your audio peripherals without your consent or notification, even on sites with no audio whatsoever.

It's abused almost exclusively by ad networks, including Google's DoubleClick on major sites like StackOverflow.

These new APIs are used almost entirely for fingerprinting, and this was implemented after the Chrome team claimed they would carefully consider the security ramifications of new APIs. I guess it doesn't matter if the business unit next door prints money as a result.
> the U.S., Japan and Germany have asked Taiwan and South Korea, the two key chip manufacturing economies, to help prioritize chips for the automotive industry, which is crucial to the world economy.

I sure hope those in automotive industry ( which is pretty much everyone except Toyota ) paid a healthy premium for it.
For some strange reason I have a GUI (nautilus), TUI (mc) and CLI (fish) at my disposal... but I do lots of file manipulation at CLI. Nothing will ever beat `massren` with the power of `vim`.

(But no kidding: somethings feels CLI very natural, sometimes feels GUI more natural for me.)
Both cowspiracy and seaspiracy, received a lot of critics and fact check by prominence professors.

"oversimplifies a complex issue", so why don't try to explain it to us? Instead of criticizing and discrediting real issues that we're going to face in a few years.

Ah, they're quoting multiple times professor X and study Y without links or reference...

I'm not a Netflix fan/users, but I saw those documentaries and I really appreciate the effort they're doing to open the eyes of a lot of people.
its 5 keystrokes away on a gui

ctrl+a shift+delete enter
I'm really nostalgic about the MiniDisc format. You've inspired me to check my loft to see if mine still works. Thing is, besides retro coolness, I can't think of any particular use cases that my mobile isn't better suited for.
So, just serve your "content" from a well-known ad server. That way, adblock will block it, and you get what you want.
It might be easier, but I wouldn't say that it's safer. Fake certificates leave a paper trail -- that's how hacked CAs have been discovered in the past.
Or we'll just come to accept that we know what the president elect's vagina looks like.

The trend seems to be towards people not caring about exposure. You can't blackmail someone who isn't embarrassed.

"Yeah, I ate a bunch of dicks on Saturday night and posted the photos. What? Like you've never done that."
Emacs autobackups (which are on by default) would have also helped here.
The article says that "privacy is a fundamental right".

Are you saying that anonymity is also a fundamental right?
Yep, won't be touching Atom.
This is a good argument, but, by now, the practical good of privacy is stone cold obvious. The same agencies that rob us of privacy engage in dirty tricks campaigns against dissidents. As if to prove this point in one neat package.
Not to mention it's a style choice I've struggled with back and forth for years. So simple, yet I can't decide which one to use.

To close or not to close...
If you want people to stop talking about it, don't keep writing articles about how you wish people would stop talking about it. The original post about Apple software falling short of the hardware seems unremarkable, I've heard that same sentiment from many Apple users. So it got blown way out of proportion for a day to fill the Internet News Hole and many people made silly extrapolations or inferences...what of it?
The actual paper is a little clearer than the blog:
http://papers.nber.org/tmp/80245-w20791.pdf

Basically, it says that although the income of the poorest has risen, their consumption has risen at a much lower rate (and significantly lower than the median) -- see figure 2 on pg 28.

Table 1.. says consumption (by those under 1.25/day) has increased from 0.73 to 0.88 over the past 30 years. So a 20% increase.

The main point seems to be that the poorest have increased their consumption at a lower rate than the median.. so therefore they're being 'left behind'.

But it seems to me that consumption would just be a lagging indicator of income...
I tested in 3.8, didn't seem to work

https://bugs.python.org/issue38906
Totally agree with this. A lot of details don’t make sense until you understand the big picture. Skim as much as you can, then (re)read that which helps get the next level of understanding, ... and repeat.

It’s time consuming, and can feel frustrating when you’re reading stuff you don’t understand, but you learn more in the long run (and understand how it fits into the bigger picture better).
You're not alone. YAML generally looks neat in small blocks. It quickly looks unwieldy when you have to do many nested blocks. JSON at least keeps the 'visual aids' even in a plaintext editor.
> this is a good thing, as the state has a monopoly on use of force

i disagree that its a good thing. The threat of a minor altercation from property owners helps maintain stability (emphasis on minor).

And the state having a monopoly on violence changes the dynamic of property, where the government can take whatever it wants from me (even my children) if they want to dream up a reason.
If I had to guess, they're taking the tone of the author for granted, as an authority on how they're supposed to feel about it.
It is shocking that the above comment is being downvoted, but not the comment it is responding to. Proficiency exams in specific subjects like Math/Biology/History/Literature etc are most certainly not IQ tests. Just because something rewards intelligence to some extent, doesn't make it an IQ test. Calling the GCSE History exam an IQ test would be like calling the YC application process an IQ test.
That's true, but git doesn't natively have a way to refer to a single diff. You can use a hash to refer to a commit, but that depends on the entire history up to that point. If you rebase a commit then the hash changes, even if the new commit is semantically the same.
SSDs have also been getting pretty fast, though.

I don't have lots of RAM (but rather on the low side for present day), but hibernation takes maybe 15 seconds on a SATA SSD.

Hibernation was definitely a lot slower 10 years ago on a desktop with less RAM and a slow spinning disk.
This crosses into personal attack. The site guidelines explicitly ask you not to use HN for cross-examination, and hauling someone's personal details into a different thread is particularly nasty. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do any more of this.
Indeed, a 100-Meg feedback resistor is mostly a capacitor. You could think of it as an integrator with DC bias control. This is probably the best article I've seen about transimpedance amplifiers:

https://electrooptical.net/static/oldsite/www/frontends/fron...
What else do you need running for this? I don't see anyone exposing "org.freedesktop.login1.Manager".

Or how does this get called?
That's wonderful. Those look a lot better than I imagined from how you described it. It must have been exciting to pull that out of the printer.
i you're lonely, just M-x theo ^M ^M ^M ...
7 hours is for the 13" MBA. I have 11".
There's a great applicable quote from Nikola Tesla here:
“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.”
In the end, it was a Very Bad Decision, as it gave Microsoft a critical leverage during the early Mac days when the Apple II was still the revenue driver at Apple.

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
What's really cool about this is that his stated purpose ("to remove all human characteristics from both my voice and my image") is fulfilled by his voice and the individual frames - but the way the shapes move is still very human. A lot more human than CGI animation is still doing, actually.

That's neat.
I had a thought regarding the radiation shielding issue I'm not sure how they calculated the mass but it seems to me if they focused on shielding the sleeping "pods" and allowed other common activities to be completed with these small areas so the crew could spend upwards of 80% of the trip in these tiny protected areas of the ship then they could greatly reduce the protection material needed...
Right. Sometimes.
By rolling it out to different segments of your data. Like a single city or category.