jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Algorithmic run time is "time complexity." There are many different types of complexity which we can measure in some sense, including space complexity, energy complexity, circuit complexity, and architectural complexity.

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

I agree with you that there seems to be no foolproof way to measure the overall "software complexity" of a piece of software. There are a lot of methods proposed, but none is provably optimal or even all that useful it seems. Search "Evaluating Software Complexity Measures" by Elaine Weyuker for a somewhat dated paper discussing the topic. I would be very interested if anyone had any recommended resources on the current state-of-the-art regarding software complexity measures.

Seems to me the only way to measure complexity absolutely would be some sort of extension of the minimum description length principle -- what is the shortest way we could write the specification for the entire machine + software that runs on it. Of course this seems completely infeasible for any real world task.
Little more than that. $7 with a reserved instance maybe. I'd say $10-11, but sub-$10 with a reserved instance (including the initial buy-in).
Is it really "killing" IRC or just replacing it in a few cases aimed at non-technical people?

There are no real statistics offered up in this article to back up the author's claim, just a handful of anecdotes of people switching to Slack.
The fine print has always been that it's 2 days from Amazon's ship date and not from your order date.
I love this simple, HTML-only style website. Any chance you can recommmend a super-simple WYSIWYG way to make a site like this (for a layman who knows basic HTML but would rather not mess with it)?
> To say IV users and gay men were "generally deemed to be sinners" who didn't deserve to be cured is a vast exaggeration. Certainly there were and are people who think this way, but the general population, both lay and medical, certainly didn't.

This just is not true. The sidelining of AIDS as someone else’s problem is well documented in Randy Shilts’ book. People were still making jokes about AIDS in 1983 when people had been dying for several years. Ronald Reagan, President throughout this whole time, did not publicly acknowledge AIDS until 1987.
They didn't stop testing. However the "zero new cases" reports are misleading. Various reports showed that there are a few positive testing results in Wuhan each day, but because they are asymptomatic, they are not being considered as "case".

On the positive side, it shows that Wuhan now have enough testing capacity to test almost every single one who walked in a hospital even they are seeking medical help for completely different issues.
I don’t want to look like promotional, but recently a professor used an Osmo reflector (https://twitter.com/romps/status/1237617042338897921?s=12) to project class notes and it caught on with teachers.

A team worked through the weekend and released a free app to make this super easy (https://twitter.com/PlayOsmo/status/1241152565083090947).

While the base + reflector is not free, if you already have an Osmo game at home, you can reuse that.
If this was true, other countries in Europe would have started showing cases earlier.
The article is about F1 so that’s the benchmark people are using. Other types of races have their own specific issues. NASCAR for example has lower absolute peak physical demands, but longer races turn into a much larger test of both physical and mental endurance.

Given say 3 years to prepare I suspect many could make the jump, but it’s likely well below half.
Doable without a degree? Any god resources or pointers?

Thanks in advance
I block ads not just for convenience but also for privacy reasons. It would be foolish to give validated billing details to an entity I don’t trust to begin with.

If you want to support creators consider Patreon. It’s not perfect (it’s got ReCaptcha and Facebook crap embedded in the page but they can be blocked) but still better than handing over your personal details to Google on a silver platter.
Isaac Asimov is another.
The OP's startup is www.startupli.st, which is collaborating with betacandy
Just like a carpenter, your tools are worth their weight in gold.

So yes. I believe the Mac Book Pro is worth it's price.
> A lot of startups have ambitious goals and very hard technical challenges and you can't compete with a team made up of 99% remote workers. I see no evidence that this has ever been successfully done.

MySQL was a 1B company and built with a remote team:

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/03/07/1826212/former...
California law requires that you be paid every two weeks.
I certainly hope I will not be convicted of a felony for clicking on a screenshot.
Yields didn't really increase that much, there's a limiting factor where more and more of the energy released simply radiates out into space, and that's somewhere around 1MT as I recall.

A serious, concrete underground "hideout" will save you from anything but a really close hit; I can look up numbers if you want, but I maybe remember a good metric is 1MT and one mile of separation, requiring a less intense shelter. And a large fraction of the population can get by with much less, carpet bombing suburbia and exurbia was never going to happen, especially due to counterforce requirements and the Soviets believing that MAD was profoundly immoral and never buying into it.
So self employed people in Germany cannot set up their own company and pay the social security tax that way and build up an entitlement to benefits?

Would take me less than a week to do that in the UK for a PLC.
Or one $1bn+ company, a few decent successes, and dozens of corpses.
I really don't want to image what those groupies would be like.
Or you could just wear "iPad-Compatible Clothing"...

http://www.scottevest.com/company/ipad.shtml

(Scroll down and check out the picture of Woz with his iPad in his iPad-compatible jacket. Hilarious.)
If you use something enough, and truly want to understand it, then I assume you know all about some programmers, and that enough others are like you that these people can be considered famous.

It also seems laughable to think that those programmers who are considered famous do not benefit from it in the industry.

Off the top of my head:
John Resig
Matz
Steve Yegges
Shawn Hargreaves
_why

And assuming you have been to one conference, or dug a little bit deeper, I am sure you know much of the core team and library teams around a technology too.

I am not sure what qualifies someone as famous, but I would be surprised if these people did not qualify given the right fields.

Just because you don't know about them doesnt mean thousands of other people don't.
Almost everything is (potentially) linked against WebKit (At least judging by how broken my system when a rogue rogue flash plugin broke webkit.). Certainly Finder, for example. It could just get away with enforcing log off/log on again, but if multiple users are logged in it is probably simpler just to restart. "Ignoring at their own peril" will almost certainly result in horrible crashes.
You can always just go down the UnsafeCell/pointers way and will still be safer than C++ as the borrow checker still works for inside unsafe, and that the few places where a memory error can lurk will be highlighted by unsafe blocks.
It's definitely still the best mayonnaise-themed database out there.
You could probably just drop moves that are below a certain threshold after every k games.
Amazon is at fault to Heroku. However, Heroku isn't talking to Amazon here, they are talking to their customers. Heroku is at fault to those customers. In turn, those customers are at fault to their users. Heroku can't pass the buck to Amazon, and those customers can't pass the buck to Heroku for their downtime (They can, but it's still their responsibility).
My argument is that primary through high school education has value outside of getting the educated into college. I'm.. Unsure why you're not sure you believe that.
If you do better in a classroom setting, pursuing the CS degree is probably worth it. Check with the school and see if you can pursue the CS as a MS rather than a BS, this may require a number of undergraduate classes to fulfill delinquencies. With an Econ degree, I expect you are already good at research and analysis.

I went back to school for an EE degree (and it has been worth it) since credentials are needed in certain areas of the EE realm. And the credential is definitely a benefit that trumped the costs associated with pursuing another UG degree.

An e-book that may be of interest is "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist."
I don't know. Doesn't OS X only keep apps in the Dock if they are (assuming bottom Dock):

* Dragged to the left from their original "spawn" position on the right.

* Explicitly set to "Keep in Dock" through the context menu.

Otherwise, the app will disappear from the Dock once it has quit.

The only app I know off the top of my head to install onto the Dock explicitly during installation is Microsoft Office.
Isn't that what you're doing anyways when you use a DCVS? Granted, I use mercurial. It has two components on your side, your working directory, and the actual repo. Committing moves changes from your working directory, and saves them to a branch on your local repo. Then you get the local repo to push that change to a remote one.

In essence, "committing" then is the act of pushing your changes to your local repo. Or you could, you know, just look at the changes on disk if really required.
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1rl7bq/could_s...
> But bolting SQL onto a KV store, even a really good one, isn't trivial to do.

Sure, but isn't that basically what everyone does? All of the relational databases I know use ordered key-value storage engines. FoundationDB is the same, except it's distributed.

The point is to use FDB as a foundation. I heard how one of the FDB founders replaced SQLite's B-tree storage engine with FoundationDB, which turned SQLite into a distributed SQL database. It's much more difficult to make something like that if you had to tackle the hard distributed systems problems.

(I interned for FoundationDB a couple of years ago.)
Scroll the slider to the left and we are HUGE.
How were VCs able to do any of this? Did you sell them a majority?
Oh, it makes me so happy to see this. I have to cringe whenever I hear or see "Dunning-Kruger" these days.
Given the price that Angie's List is trading at - $370m market cap on $315m in sales - I'm surprised someone like Amazon doesn't just acquire them to jump start a business like this.
'off the top' means revenues, not profits. Profit sharing opens you up to all kinds of creative accounting reducing the profits (or even turning them into a loss) to the point where you're not getting anything.

That's why they say: "profit points are for suckers".

See also: hollywood accounting.
> Qualify "bloody".

Bloody as in decades of civil wars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Sturlungs

> Whatever bullshit objection

No need for ad hominems, let your arguments speak.

> like small population or they are "backwards" subsistence farmers is irrelevant to the fact that civil order was maintained by polycentric law for 3 centuries.

Both subsistence farming (e.g. means of production that are by definition not exhibiting division of labor) and an extremly low population density mean that both communication and coordination between people are orders of magnitude smaller than in complex and dense societies. That's pretty much consensus both in macro economics and in sociology.

> Could it work today? Your type won't even allow the experiment

I'm an empirical scientist, so not exactly opposed to experimentation. Has it occured to you that "my type" simply isn't persuaded by your argument?
"Despite the best efforts of the companies", why the H1B salaries have to be lower?
How good the phone support is is orthogonal to whether Microsoft will buy/kill your line of business.
Use case: Due to moving countries, I've recently dumped my powerhouse desktop ( http://blog.codinghorror.com/building-a-pc-part-vii-rebootin... ), and am laptoping around various places; a lifestyle I will probably continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

There are few, if any, performant laptops, that could get even close to the sort of performance I've used to using that machine. However, as long as deployment time is <~3 minutes, I don't necessarily need it to be a laptop; but can settle a middle road in some variations of these.
File cabinets are the perfect analogy, it is exactly the metaphor used by file systems.

From a UX perspective, most users don't care about the features of a modern file system. They never bother using symbolic links, the hierarchy only goes one level deep if that. It isn't about technology but about people, what works for them? Think like a UX designer and not a programmer to solve this problem.

I didn't think databases were the answer either. And I haven't seen a tagging system that is worthy of replacing a user facing file system yet (no one has allowed tagging of tags yet).
He might indeed be doing alright if he had taken a little more interest in science.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8841347/Steve-Jo...

I wonder how many years of his life that wasted?
Conceptual simplicity. Newtonian celestial mechanics does not make any new predictions that Copernican mechanics does not (at least before space travel is viable), but it sure is much nicer to work with.
I am waiting for 3.0 in HomeBrew! Thanks for the awesome work, mozjpeg has saved me a fair amount of network bandwidth.
Dan Harmon, creator of Community and some other great stuff, refers to this as a "Story Circle":

http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Super_...

He's become somewhat famous for this, having produced several "how-to" videos of varying levels of seriousness about sitcom writing. His writers on Community have even slipped references to this into the background of episodes, where set decorations (e.g., drawings on the study room whiteboard) sometimes subtly acknowledge which part of a character's story circle a scene depicts.
If a theory is mathematically elegant, I would consider that evidence for the theory. For example, the ability to explain the exact gauge groups and representations that comprise the Standard Model, or the masses of the elementary particles. In fact, I would say that a theory that could do this would be "tested" because it is a historical accident that we discovered the gauge groups/masses before the theory.

As far as I understand it, string theory once promised to do precisely this. String theory was considered promising because it had no vertex factors in its Feynman diagram. Because there were only strings, you only needed to know the free space propagator for a patch of string. However, as I understand it, string theory then turned out to be have more possible parameters, and this original promise was lost.

The kind of elegance that the author seems to be talking about is conceptual elegance, and I also reject this as evidence. For example, invoking the anthropic principal plus multiple universes to explain the parameters of the Standard Model. To me this is no more compelling than the Christian "grand unified theory" that unifies ethics, numinous awe, and the existence of the universe.
Indeed. And some never learn, otherwise DRM would have been dead by now.
Not an expert but here is what I do:

1. Dropbox for all the read-only ( Images, PDFs, Books, important papers).

2. I use IFTTT to autobackup a specific folder (very imp one) from Dropbox to Box.

3. Something I need to edit, like spreadship or docs. GoogleDrive works very well.

4. I keep most important files on atleast two services.

5. IFTTT works great to collect data automaticaly.

Edit: Goodlooking line breaks inserted.
Randall's comment is simultaneously correct and misleading on a particular point. A laptop battery may have quite a bit of energy density, but that's not entirely relevant, as he points out in the next sentence. The speed at which the energy is released is far, far more important.

I provided that remark just so I could repeat this awesome factoid: a stick of butter has more energy than a stick of dynamite.
> If I'm going to give my code away, it's because I want people to use it and share it, and letting downstream devs take my work and close it up for private gain would suck - especially since they're not obligated to share any of their private profits with me.

There are several reasons to give away code. It's perfectly reasonable to want people to share improvements with you, in which case the GPL is the right choice. But it's also reasonable to just not care what happens to the code after you send it off, in which case the GPL is likely to be as much a burden on you as on downstream programmers. Using Stallman's terminology, the GPL prevents people from boarding your code, but it also prevents them from using it with incompatible open source licenses (say, licenses with an advertising clause or a choice of law clause) without special permission. I just don't get all that worked up over whether somebody wants to use the Apache license version 1.1.
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That sounds like a philosophy of RoR, not Ruby. How would adopting RubySpec help with that?
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I don't see anyone excusing it – only discounting the supposition that it was intentional.

The only reason this is particularly newsworthy is that it's a .gov service connected to a contentious political issue – I mean, my health insurance company uses the same DoubleClick tracking service and I doubt I could even get a reporter to call me back if I tried to peddle some conspiracy theory about it.
The same guy did Mario Bros for Atari 2600

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/229153-a-better-mario-bros-...

demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joYIDR4CMu0
If hunter gather society was so perfect why did we ever change?
Dammit that is a ridiculous statement.

No aging -> people still get sick occasionally -> it costs money to fix them -> it had better cost less than they earn between sicknesses, else they die

Or, at the moment healthcare is O(1), based on a lifespan of N, but if the lifespan is extended radically, it will become O(N). So, if eliminating ageing causes N to tend to infinity, then I suppose healthcare costs will also tend to infinity. But then so will the accommodation costs, food costs, toothbrush costs, internet access... Healthcare looks like capex at the moment; if we lived much longer it'll look more like a variable cost.
Please explain. The average medical expenses of a 30 year old are vastly lower than for an 80 year old, and a successful cure for aging would give you the health of a 30 year old indefinitely.
This is an incredibly pessimistic view of electronic payment.
Cards are so convenient. Tap and go, no fiddling round with change, no grimey coins filling your pockets, and the ability to pay remotely.
Even the "benefits" of cash you mentioned, like no charge-back, are a disadvantage if you are actually in a situation where you got scammed or similar.
There is Armbian for the RaspberryPi now? Last time I checked RasPi was explicitly excluded because of non free Broadcom binary blob.
>One of the ways to help make computer science respectable is to show that is deeply rooted in history, not just a short-lived phenomenon. Therefore it is natural to turn to the earliest surviving documents which deal with computation, and to study how people approached the subject nearly 4000 years ago.

Interesting.
the SQLite documentation is incredible. the dev team is so thoughtful and reflective, and shares not only the code/application, but their understanding.

As popular as it is, it's still underrated.
How do the real life businesses know that? If I explicitly tell them, that's fine. If they know it through some nefarious collection I would have a problem with that.
Sometime around pets dot com, back in the late 90s.
Why not use encrypted Jabber like Russian Mob? If they are safe with XMPP, I feel safe too.
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At this point, Microsoft has pulled the plug on so many of its products & services over the years that developers and users are cautiously avoiding everything it puts out. Even if it's good.

From Zune (iPod competitor), to Kin, to Origami (small touchscreen laptop), to Games for Windows Live (steam competitor), to Live.com (google competitor v1), Bing.com (google compeititor v2), Expo (craigslist competitor), whats-it-called? (twitter competitor for natural disasters), Expression, Silverlight (flash competitor), Windows Live Spaces (wordpress competitor), Windows Phone...

Microsoft loves to start things, then leaves them to rot.

The Micro-Cycle:

1) See someone make money. Get starry eyed.

2) Rush into industry with product.

3) Let product/service rot.

4) Sunset product/service.
Now, from the people who brought you "9/11 was an inside job", we have "The Sony hack was an inside job".
Here is info on the author Cullen Roche (http://seekingalpha.com/author/cullen-roche), and here is a discussion of the article on Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/credit-suisse-america-is-not-...).

The Credit Suisse research report may not be public.
Dat landing page tho
I sent a request too. Not answer yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Most people here are ideologically committed to western concepts of freedom. It doesn't matter how good the results are as long as things aren't done their way.
Can you elaborate on this? What are the specific positives of cycling Modiafinil, instead irregular single use?
If you have an oracle, you don't need to know the net specs.

An oracle, here, would be any version of the system that you can query against repeatedly without suffering too much of a penalty.
Yes, I also usually only read the comments. Only if I'm convinced (by the discussion) that the link is worthwhile, will I click on it.