jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You state child rearing as a solution to the existential problem and I think that is the wrong framing. Children give life meaning _for certain people_. There are many unhappy parents.
There's a type of bias in the dichotomy of those who have and don't have kids. No parent will badmouth their child knowing full well that they're committing to that for the life of their child. Complaining about having kids is an admission of a bad commitment that will pay double digit years. There is a (biologically driven) feeling of love you have for your children and it is overwhelming. It is juxtaposed by hardships of raising children. This puts most parents in the middle of the regret/contentment spectrum. These are the reasons why parents aren't straight with others about having kids.

> it's the hardest thing you'll ever do but it's so rewarding

To set it straight:

- It's hard and there is no certain link between hard work and the reward of happy and successful children

- I have seen great parents with the worst children; at 40, they are angry and broken humans drifting directionlessly; since birth they have been angry and a pain in their parents' collective asses; they are the reason for parents divorce and will likely cause their early death as they battle with drug addictions, low self esteem and abusive relationships - all self inflicted. Both parents blame themselves and have had other happy and successful kids.

- God forbid you have a disabled child; this just plain sucks. If you have multiple children they all resent the disabled child. This child will never become independent and their life is your responsibility forever

- It involves a lot of stress and not a lot of thanks. Most kids are not grateful and don't realize the magnitude and sustain of time/money/sacrifice/stress it took to keep them alive and provide for them.

- It strains your relationship with your partner. Some parents I know are divorced primarily because of life stress caused by children.

- It complicates your life in every way. Want to take a walk? Dinner with friends? Travel? All these things are harder with children. You're constantly weighing opportunity cost because your available time is even more bottlenecked.

Know why you're having children and if you can handle it!!! Make sure you will never give up on them - this is a path to broken children. Index on negative experiences about what it's like to have children.

If after all that you still want kids, go forth and procreate!
>Beach volleyball isn't something you should be watching at work, at least not in the kind of open office plan where everybody sees your screen.

Watching the olympics at lunchtime is commonplace and accepted in most workplaces.
Being a creep about it is not. It's almost always a pretty clear line between the two.

It only becomes sexualized by the behavior of the people watching - professional athletes competing for their country isn't something intrinsically inappropriate.
I honestly thought you had copied wordle. Well done on powering through. Finishing a project like this is an accomplishment in itself and the fact it is polished adds to it.
I would really appreciate if there would exist exactly _one_ formatter (without any options) per language.

It is way better to deal with ugly formatting as long as it is consistent than with discussions where to put a closing brace/bracket/paren.
A circle of radius 0 may not.
I gather these conditions are necessary but not sufficient. I would hate to place Hitler and the like under the last category.
Some things should not be commercialized.
Too bad HN doesn’t have double votes.

Also, self organization is an important feature of a complex system.
Notational Velocity preserves bold, italic, and strikethrough specifically in its otherwise plain-text editor. All other attributes characteristic of "rich-text" editors are normalized to the current style. The result is a styled editor without the annoyance of getting random unwanted paragraph/line spacing, colors, sizes, and kerning mixed in with your note.
Except for the mobile app, everything you want is right here: http://www.spaaze.com/
Thanks, 404 fixed.

Site isn't associated with domcomp, sources for data is provided at http://tld-list.com/sources
This is America. We make the sick and injured pay thousands of dollars through the innovation of high deductible health insurance (sometimes upfront!)
Here is my beautiful city : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlIBLQkxrbA

And this video isn't even crowded yet : during rush hour we have cross sections with 100+ cyclists per red-green-cycle.

Everybody just watches each other : pedestrians, cyclist and vehicles.
I'll correct you. :)

Code-wise, I'm only a minor contributor to CoffeeScript. I wouldn't be the right person to write a book on how the CoffeeScript compiler works. (Thankfully, some of those people agreed to be technical reviewers for the book.) But I have been an active participant in the language's community from early on.
Not in court, no. In court that is a huge difference, because Google is a company, Chrome is a product, and Google Analytics is a technology, and those are completely different things.

A good lawyer could quite successfully argue that all three being "Google" is not sufficient for the public to reasonably expect that "private browsing" means Google will still be monitoring you. And while Google would argue that its EULA no doubt contains a clause along those lines, the deception is still there, and can still be litigated (even if the verdict ends up being "this is deceptive and you must change this aspect of your product" without this particular thing, among many many others, requiring punitive measures)
I could be incorrect, but I think he means implement the feature on top of 1.6, not the system itself.

The web example would be getElementsByClassName:

function getElementsByClassName(node,classname) {
if (node.getElementsByClassName)
return node.getElementsByClassName(classname);
else {
// your custom function
}
}

(example from quirksmode.org)
Just FYI, clicking on a company name that has been removed, leads to a 403 error (e.g., Rogers).

Also, I sort of broke the site by passing a non-existing company name (e.g., http://www.groubalcsi.com/company/ted).
Apparently "Kickass" was actually a documentary.
Lovely! SF Bay, born and bred...
I think you only need to change the wording to clarify it:

'Lowest Satisfaction' => 'Most Disatisfied' or 'Highest Disatisfaction' or 'Most Complaints'

'Customer Satisfaction Index' => 'Customer Disatisfaction/Complaint Index'

'High scores are negative' => 'High scores indicate high disatisfaction' or 'Increasing scores indicate increasing disatisfaction'

High scores bad, low scores good.

Link 'high' and 'increasing' with 'bad' and 'disatisfied' a little more explicitly and consistently, since most people make the opposite association.
The benefit of these niche sites is the high level of quality. With Flickr, you'll need to sift through a lot of not so great photos.
>> But why do you need a specialized button that only does that? That's the part that makes no sense.

It -does- make sense if you take it as a way to introduce not a product ("specialized button") but a platform[1] for long overdue and much needed innovation that some very influential people have started to fund and promote[2]. It is not the only way to do it, but it is amazon's way to facilitate it and in the process get some market pioneering advantages. A company like amazon doesn't have the infrastructure to start building home appliances but it required little effort for them to contribute in a way that brings them great benefits. Smart move, amazon.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-replenishment-service
[2]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-future-of-food-delivery-1/...
You can upgrade every package on the system simply by running `pkg_add -u`. This has been the case since they were rewritten by Marc Espie for the 3.5 release in 2004.
Don't forget Huxley and Orwell.
> does the virus need to check in with the backend for every single file for unique keys?

As it's based on CryptoLocker, all the files would be encrypted with the same key. After CryptoLocker was busted by law enforcement, "Fox-IT and fellow firm FireEye introduced an online service which allows infected users to retrieve their private key by uploading a sample file, and then receive a decryption tool" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptolocker#Takedown_and_reco...)

edit: technically the files are encrypted with different keys but those keys are stored on the victim's machine and encrypted with a single key -- http://www.welivesecurity.com/2013/12/19/cryptolocker-2-0-ne...
Looks interesting, however the only reason JSON is generally used IMHO is because it's light and compatible. There is no reason to make the new language look like JS (a lame legacy language). It could look like YAML but still support JSON for legacy stuff.
Am I the only person who likes Yosemite? The interface is cleaner, spotlight isn't useless anymore, and messages now works with regular texts as well. Nothing is really broken from previous releases either...
http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10369/which-tools-an...
Is this youtube comment true?

"None of his ventures are profitable.

His net worth is a joke, and he has been bailed out on multiple occasions."
this is the essay i had in mind http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html
"...but there was a liability cap on spill damages."

I believe it is called "tort reform".
Almost forgot: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has written extensively about the "flow" state of mind that people seem to find particular satisfying and attractive.
It's not news, so I took the time-ago out to reduce clutter, though I could add it back if everyone wants it back.
I don't have a web site or a portfolio, but if you've got a spare invite I'd be interested in getting it

kyle.cronin@gmail.com

Thanks
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> console.log('hello', 'world')
hello world
undefined
>

:)
I think there’s an effect that isn’t well-recognised, but which is something along the lines of “working-from-home-in-the-pandemic-low-level-chronic-burnout”.

I see this a lot in many colleagues - everyone is just really tired, fed up, fighting to keep things on a level and just exist.

It’s a weird concept, as (from a personal perspective) pre-pandemic, working from home was always a pleasanter, stress-reducing choice. So I don’t think it’s purely related to the location - but there’s definitely something happening on a large scale related to how we’ve been working and existing over the past couple of years now.

Anyway, I wonder if this is what you’re describing? And if it is, then the ‘procrastination’ you describe maybe isn’t actually procrastination, but a natural (protective?) secondary reaction to something else going on in the background.

And if so, the correct response is probably to recognise and accept it, not beat yourself up for not being productive, and instead figure out what you need to do to recover and heal.
My first thought I’m reading this is "Ah, so us furries have natural superpowers".
Here's an article from around the time, "V is for Vaporware": https://christine.website/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23 (and discussion of that on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20258485)

I imagine things have improved since 2019, though.
It is very obvious that cryptocurrencies are an asset class, and can't be used as currencies. Not for the lack of trying either. There is an ongoing desparate attempt of trying to find a purpose for crypto (Web 3.0, NFTs) to justify investment into it, since you can't even buy or sell a pizza with them.
You have frontline and backline chemists as well. Some chemists needs to be able to talk to less technical jobs, but other chemists specializes on improving the process or other technical skills.

So it isn't laymen/specialists, you have many many layers with people dumbing it down a bit in every step. Telling the specialists at the bottom of those layers that they need to be able to talk to the top of the layers is just nonsense. You need to be able to talk to people who are less technical than you, and to people who are more technical than you, so the layer above and below you, but that is it. It can help to be able to bridge more layers, but it isn't that important.

The problem with programming is that almost all those layers have the same name: software engineer.
Ok, I'll try it out once more. Last I tried it a simple program I wrote using the ui toolkit was crashing for some issue I couldn't quite figure out. Maybe things have substantially improved since.
Definitely gross. But illegal? I think that is where the controversy lies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Musl...

"Castration: A fair proportion of male slaves were imported as eunuchs... in practice, emasculation was frequent"

(and yes, it did also carry a high rate of death.)
I'm having a hard time translating 150ms into something I understand right now which is Mbps. Can someone enlighten me?
It looks like it accurately reproduces the visual experience of bad newspaper printing on cheap paper.
It could work if IDEs ever get richer typography.

I experimented with a monochromatic color scheme for my F# projects. Basically, I wanted the code to look like a page from a beautifully typeset math book. It got pretty close, but for want of italics, which VS does not support.
The electrical power ($600/day vs $32/day), floor space (10,000 sq ft vs 400 sq ft), and cooling costs for those mainframes were less than those of distributed servers handling a comparable load. In addition, those mainframes required 80 percent less administration/labor (>25 people vs <5 people); “Mean Time Between Failure” measured in decades for mainframe vs months for other servers.

96 of the world’s top 100 banks, 23 of the 25 top US retailers, and 9 out of 10 of the world’s largest insurance companies run System z
Seventy-one percent of global Fortune 500 companies are System z clients
Nine out of the top 10 global life and health insurance providers process their high-volume transactions on a System z mainframe
Mainframes process roughly 30 billion business transactions per day, including most major credit card transactions and stock trades, money transfers, manufacturing processes, and ERP systems.

The new mainframe delivered in 2010 improved single system image performance by 60 percent, while keeping within the same energy envelope when compared to previous generations. And the newest mainframe which shipped in 2012 has up to 50 percent more total system capacity, as well as availability and security enhancements.

It uses 5.5 GHz hexa-core chips – hardly old technology. It is scalable to 120 cores with 3 terabytes of memory.

[1]

[1] http://www.share.org/p/bl/et/blogid=2&blogaid=234
Really? I've found Kraken's pretty hard to work with. They're inconsistent in some ways, like their currency pair names (sometimes "XXBTXZEUR", sometimes "XBTEUR"). Also, they are the only ones I've come across who don't just use plain old integers for ids - they have some weird scheme that has string ids formatted like O6W5EU-VY7YF-CS3XNP.

That said, they're better than say BTC-e and OKCoin :)
After a long day at work, I get home with my eyes "burned". I sit on the couch and the ceiling lamp hurts my eyes. I turn it off and can only stand the dim light. I think this monitor is perfect for people like me. (Recently started using f.lux, it's helping though)
“What Lies Beneath” could be anything. The subtitle would have worked much better for this submission:

> The internet is decaying all around us
If the CIA impersonated the shipping company, Iranians now already have that info, that the real company claims that it did no wrong. The government intervention is then not for Iranians, but to prevent the disclosure of the things the government did illegally.
We built the F8 app with parse, including push notifications

Take a look here: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/pushnotification...
Although does the standard model of countries/law stand up in the realm of the internet. Boundaries no longer exist in cyber-space, should 'cyber-law' evolve to take this into account?
Basically a pissed off judge - http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/16280/page1/
Since the changes/uploads of the files are just diff's of the existing files rather than full copies for each version, I can't imagine that the versioning would add too much to the author's rough estimations.
This is a review of a book about biohackers by a journalist. If you want a better take on it read Rob Carlson's Biology Is Technology, http://www.amazon.com/Biology-Technology-Promise-Business-En..., and his website http://www.synthesis.cc/ , including for example, Garage Biology in Silicon Valley from a year ago, http://www.synthesis.cc/2010/03/garage-biology-in-silicon-va....
Great article, really enjoyed it. I second the Talib connection.

But anyways... Does anyone else struggle with Substack's typeface, specifically it's width and spacing between characters? I'm a bit of a typeface nerd, and I genuinely like or enjoy most of our common fonts. Substack is the only site that I find the typeface to significantly affect the reading experience.
Being familiar with PDEs is useful even without knowing how to solve them.

Just the formulas alone teach you how physical quantities interact with one another and give you great insights on how the universe operates on a fundamental level.

Most people may not be using them at their everyday job, or at all for that matter, but knowing the core ones is just as enlightening if not more than having read major works in Philosophy.
>Sublime and TextMate offer convenience but only limited extensibility.

Sublime Text has a pretty decent API. I wonder in what aspects Atom's extensibility is going to be different/better.

I also think in the long term good code /reading/ features are as important if not more important than code writing features. That's why I stuck with Sublime Text, its project navigation features are fast and convenient even on very large projects that use multiple programming languages (I use it on mozilla-central and llvm).

Anyway, what a tease, I was expecting a download button :)
Honestly, the answer is people. Spend time talking to people who have these skills.
IRCs are a decent option, but if you can actually work with people it's way better.
Gross.

The moment that their new editor provides some piece of Github functionality that isn't exposed to an open API is the moment that we need to bail, en masse.

We've already killed Freshmeat and Sourceforge for turning lame, this shouldn't be hard.
Good catch. I really shouldn't have any more of a problem with a desktop app tracking me than I do a web app but for some reason I do. I guess because I can always use Disconnect in the browser and I can't with Atom. I guess the fact that it is open about it is a positive thing, though.
Yes I hope there will be some discussion around this!
You're absolutely right - an empty lot is not a floor, just the a point on the continuum.

It sounds like what everyone's dancing around is the concern that a TJs in that community would start the process of gentrification that would raise the cost of living and make it untenable for the current residents to continue living there.

Assuming that gentrification is a real problem (I have zero experience, so it's hard for me to judge): have you heard of any solutions to the issue besides rent control or "keeping out" the middle class?
Are you just using your money for copays/deductibles or does she not have any insurance at all? Will they stop treating her if you stop paying? Defer as long as possible and either work out a payment plan later or let the insurance company eat it down the road. I know many people who have been bankrupted paying off medical bills as they come but you should pay just enough to keep the treatments going. Let everything else ride then declare bankruptcy if any of it is in your name.
I received my CS degree from a liberal arts school[1] and think it was one of the best accidental/forced choices I made. I say forced because at the time I didn't have the money to go anywhere else.

[1] http://www.cofc.edu/about/
To be fair, the Indie has been completely missing from the conversation so far. Understandable that they want in.

Despicable, if they're using 'undisclosed sources' who are the UK spy services though.
No. I'm suggesting that the media manipulation is a negative. That Apple customers actually haven't caught onto this is yet another negative.

The modern world is amazingly capable of huge feats of fulfillment without demanding that the hordes line up for the cameras at 5am. That practice is a ridiculous anachronism.
I have added some documentation to WIKI:
http://code.google.com/p/elalang/wiki/ElaOverview1
http://code.google.com/p/elalang/wiki/GettingStarted
Your emoticon indicates you were joking, but in all seriousness, in the context of discussion about this article, Zed himself makes it a real issue.
That was 18 months ago, which means there's 3.5 years left of this experiment. If it's not making a profit by then, Ballmer will probably pull the plug on the project. Unless someone pulls the plug on Ballmer first.
great call, Jonnie. will add that disclaimer
What does being a public company mean?

Part of it is having to spend a large chunk of your profit on audits, which supposedly certify that your company is healthy and non fraud committing.

This certification was granted to Enron, Lehman Brothers, and many other companies that absolutely did not deserve it.

The S.E.C. should take this as an opportunity to learn something about what investors really want. It isn't regulation. Its profit and growth.
Oh yes, damn learning. That pesky little utterly useless thing. Heck burning for eternity in the fires of the underworld is preferable to having learning "inflicted" upon oneself.
which is likewise reprehensible.

is google going to wait until there's regular street fighting in cities across the nation before they change their surveillance behavior?
There are other problems with video for hearing people.

One example is WhatsApp providing an audio record button in the lower right corner of the screen. I always keep hitting the button by mistake. If I had a user script I would remove that button.

Another one is recording videos. If there were an embarrasing noise like a fart I would be obliviously send the video to someone hearing.
Selling data implies to me that in exchange for money they give actual data row by row to third parties.
I have no opinion on his computer legacy.

What I mean is that it’s not helpful to bash billionaires for sincere altruism and for investing in societally useful activities.

It can be helpful to bash government for shitty policies that don’t tax wealth properly or something like that.

It can also be helpful to bash billionaires that don’t carry their weight.

If you’re angry at the students that don’t show up to class, don’t yell at the ones that do.
Which of these data-streams do you most often find yourself looking at & using? Are there any that you have been surprised to find yourself using more than you expected?
Could you explain that comment of yours, please? I don't understand how it's saying what you claim it's saying.
I might be wrong, but I believe the fastest way is to seek to the end of file and that way you can get the total file size. Or use like fstat or something

Maybe scrolling is non trivial, but there is definitely a lot of room for optimizations. You could store large chunks in memory and populate them asynchronously with smaller chunks from file for example.

edit: I completely missed the point with the size, comex's answer is way better
The same way Google and Facebook picked up XMPP and ran with it?
Move 2 million dollars.
Are there any academic studies about how low carb diets and going to bed slightly hungry impact morning energy levels? This is consistent with my experience but my sample size is too small