jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The end of this article describes a "future situation" that is actually the current situation exactly:

"Students with means of their own will have the option of attending a four-year institution and obtaining all the benefits that come with it. Poorer students will obtain their postsecondary education from MOOCs and their credentials through badges."

How is this any different than what exists right now? The availability of student loans allows low-income students to attend college but brings with it a lot of the ills of MOOCs. Low completion rates being the most common example.
I agree with your comments 100%. Not sure why my comment got down voted but I would just like to see some benchmarks... Rust would be another interesting benchmark.
Anyone can watch the Citizenfour stream? Overload? Or cutting us out?
https://get.docker.com/ does this too. Though I feel like they do a much better job than Adobe, when I download Flash from http and don't know what the installer does.
Some customers do seem to suck all of the pleasure out of doing business, I'm dealing with a large pharmaceutical company at the moment and am getting pretty close to walking away.
I agree. This sounds ominous:

>Statistical education. This is currently optional

The data world is going to be an interesting place in the near future, filled with people running statistical tests they don't truly understand, and drawing spurious conclusions. But, I guess it already works that way in some fields.
Agreed. There is a limit but you can't dismiss the upgrade option as infeasible.
I can feel my IQ dropping at a steady rate when I program for long stretches of time.
I'm a bit conflicted, because I see pros/cons both ways, but I think I'm ready to go back to the office.

My main reason is because I've felt that I end up working more when I work from home, because most people take the time saved in the commute and put it towards work. And ramping up people on the team, mentoring, coordinating with others for project ideas, planning, goals, progress, and all form of collaboration is more tedious and less efficient.
RIP. It was a strong contender for a while before Kube matured.
That is also true as well. I guess my point is I want balance views. I dont want a one sided opinion pieces.
This already happens with existing compression algorithms. Certain vowel sounds get collapsed, so someone will say, for example, "66" and it will come out on the other side as "6". Very annoying because you can't exactly coach a layperson on how to talk "the right way" to not trigger this vowel collapse.
I was more responding the the "zombie OS" comment then the profits idea. I think I basically agree.

>For instance the zombie OS Android has great value to Apple because if it didn't exist then antitrust regulators would be at Apple's throat
No, it's not telling us that.

The antibody tests are designed with high specificity for particular antibodies, this study went out of their way to look for any reactivity.
I think the argument goes like this: If you think anyone can be incapable of consent at any time, you probably think that because sometimes people's brains are not able to figure out what they really want. If you think that sometimes people's brains can't figure out what they want, then you probably think that irrational behavior is a good sign of that. If you think that irrational behavior is a good sign of incapacity to consent, then you probably think that spending tens of thousands on mobile games is evidence of the incapacity to consent to do that.

You're welcome to get off that line at any point, but you'd have to pick one of the steps, and they all seem reasonable.

I'm not 100% sure how the following quote applies, but it seems like it's relevant somehow:

"Sure there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy."
> the concern being that rust hasn’t made the problem easier, it just moved it around.

This is largely the point of Rust, though. Rust takes problems that used to manifest at runtime and causes them to manifest at compile-time, shortening the feedback loop drastically. It also takes problems that used to manifest all over the codebase and roots their causes in the leaf nodes of the program that are making use of `unsafe` blocks. Moving around the problem turns out to be a valuable way of addressing the problem, without ignoring any of the essential complexity or making anything fundamentally impossible.
Have you seen these numbers ?

https://www.slavevoyages.org/assessment/estimates?selected_t...

(Edit spelling )
But if there is nothing but black holes, the particles end up falling back in. Take that, Hawking!
We're looking to move and we're absolutely limiting our options to places we think won't burn down and will have water 30 years from now.
Compared to other works, this is a simple and flexible approach. The construct is based on string so it should be easy to get started. No need to deal with complex AST structures. The macro scripts is type-checked and generated code can be type-checked in separate step. This seems the sweet spot between flexibility and simplicity.

Just released v1 (semver will be followed :)
Please don't make comments like this or be personally rude on Hacker News. Even when you're sure you're right, it harms the site for everyone. That's why it's against the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
I think WalMart is pretty focused on free ship-to-store. This doesn't appeal to me at all since I live in a big city and going to a suburban Walmart would be a big production. It makes a certain amount of sense for my parents since there's a Walmart neighborhood market five minutes from their house. It eliminates one risk of online purchases (package sitting on your doorstep) but introduces the inconvenience of parking and getting your product from the store's customer service department.
I agree - I've just made a simple promise pledge, as a ceremony to commit to not using C/C++ for new projects: http://www.flourish.org/promise/
Github should definetely have more Emojis!

Emojis make everything a little bit fun.
Interesting that he's using OpenBSD as the teaching system. A more practical book might focus on Linux but I suppose it makes more sense to focus on a BSD if focused on Unix "purity".
Yes, my statements might be superficial, but since when is Android a programming language? How many developers with 9 years experience with RoR or Ruby can you think of, besides David Heinemeier Hansson and Yukihiro Matsumoto?
Looking at intel history it's funny how the iAPX 432 was huge technologically but failed to the interim 8086 which invaded the market with pragmatism, similar to Apple's Lisa and Macintosh.
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And of course the new smart system will enable parking enforcers to give you a ticket more quickly and efficiently as they will certainly have devices in their cars that indicate immediately when any meter in the neighborhood expires while a car is still parked there. I suspect this is the major motivation.
I agree. For a situation this serious, you really should update your post with more thorough details. Also, I noticed earlier you eat a lot of processed meals (but the healthier ones). Really, if you haven't tried purely basic healthy eating and exercise and monitoring the results daily, not to be rude, but one has to wonder how hard you're trying.
I did not think of this. I'll have to brush up my profile first, then ping them. Thanks.
Yeah we've been freaking out about this. We have our app used in the classroom, and have had several sessions disrupted because of this. Needless to say our customers were pissed.

We're in the process of doing an emergency move over to EC2 because of these issues. That being said, I must admit that this is a really decent response on Google's part. Unfortunately the problems go deeper than just these latest problems with datastore.
what I assume is highly attractive to the airlines and consequently their customers

You have to be certain that it is highly attractive...enough for them to pay you money for it. You're also going to face a huge hurdle with bureaucracy and proprietary technology (if it's an app).

I worked for a hotel marketing company a few years back, and we had a proprietary booking engine that connected in house reservation systems with web-based ones. There was a team that went around just building code on top of each hotel chain's proprietary software that would tie into our system.

I had a similar idea for a comparison shopping app back in 1999 where I would compare prices between different brick-and-mortar stores and allow people to shop online for a list of items, and show them on a map the fewest stores with all of the items at the cheapest price, or the cheapest price, regardless of the number of stores, or the shortest drive with the lowest price. That never got off the ground because there is no easy way to get all of the stores to give you an up to date XML feed of their current inventory and prices. Not in 1999 anyway...maybe it could be done now, but I'm not so sure. My idea was that I would start with a website in 1999, and maybe in 10 years we would have mobile technology that could take advantage of the backend data. I was right about the technology part.

I'm not sure what your idea involves, but I would try contacting a few airlines to see if it really does solve a problem, and if so, how many more does it create?
Slow down there P.C. police. Ricer is a term for people who tackily modify japanese imports.
True. But it's not nearly so asymmetrical as most people seem to believe. Most interviewers aren't great at interviewing and know it. They're usually open – surprisingly open – to changes that will help them conduct a more reliable interview.
IMO, it's because they're abstract enough to be completely opaque to someone who doesn't understand the concept of them, but ridiculously simple once you do. Also, if you're doing a lot of front-end/javascript work you're bound to have run into them, even if you don't realize what they actually are at the time. For me it was just one of those "a-ha" moments where you realize there's an easier/better way to do something. And if the interviewee doesn't know about them before the interview, hopefully s/he has learned something from the interview (I learn a lot from interviews just from looking up all the stuff I didn't know).
Julian, keep this stuff up. I think others should know about your impressive Codepen examples as well:

http://codepen.io/juliangarnier

Check out the Hartwig chess set (playable too!) and the solar system demo.
> Is Google forbidden from integrating signons for all future companies it acquires?

Forbidden, yes; held hostage by their users for all the free platforms they provide in exchange for all the theoretical dollars they generate in page views
This is an ok start, but really there's a whole chain of people including the President who need to be replaced in order to stop the NSA from gathering the world's largest blackmail treasure trove.
I very much doubt that he will serve the full 35 years, two aspects being that today it is political and down the line mentalities (govermental and people) change, slowly and generaly for the better.

Think of somebody who was in the German army during WWII and tried to kill Hitler and failed. In Germany he violeted the law and would be tried and found guilty and punished with more years than Manning. Manning did not kill or try to kill people and his motivations show no intent of that happening and the opposite in that he was trying to prevent unlawful killing by his actions however right or wrong they were. In the Allies eye's though somebody trying to kill Hitler during the war would be a hero and prasied and on balance not so many years later even the german army as a whole would agree that it was the right thing to do at the time, even if not judged as such.

So whats the issue, well it is about milatary or goverments keeping secrets that show them going aginst what is moraly right in the peoples eye's in part. This is why such secrets are classified for a time and then released, albiet some redactions refering to other documents that are more sensitive and have a longer release delay imposed upon them. But most makes the surface in your lifetime, Manning in his part experdited some aspects and the one that we all know and remember would be the helicopter shooting the wrong people, sadly we do not know if those people had been under on the build up to that event, that was not released from what I know. They may of been on tripple shifts or just lost a friend in a similiar situation, everybody is different and humans do make mistakes, some wrong, some very wrong and should not be made. But that is another matter

The point I'm trying to highlight is that in say 5 years, 10..15..... would the mentalities of those future times stand by this judgement. Yes it is right to send a message, but over time that message reaches home and people get cases reviewed or paroled, but I just feel he will not serve that full 35 year term, but that wont change tomorrow or soon.
If anything the longer this matter and topic is in the news then the longer the time will be that he is released early, that's how I see it.
I trust Google to come up with clever integrations in the future. The OP does not. I think it's his loss.
Ron Paul is an anarcho-capitalist?
Immediately following the demo is the 'options' section where it shows you have full control of this.
excerpts: https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/B9wZDbZu...

popular media coverage: "The Surprising Discovery About Those Colonialist, Proselytizing Missionaries: They didn't set out to change history. But one modern scholar's research shows they did just that." http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/january-february/wo...
This seems the norm for tech companies and more restrictive privacy policies. GDPR was originally announced in 2012, in 2016 it was adopted by the EC. After that member states had two years to adopt it into law, after which enforcement would start.

Most companies didn't bother doing anything about it until 2018, and even today a lot of non-EU companies restrict or block access to EU customers, saying it's too hard to only use personal data for purposes they have been given permission for.
Yes,oddly I love it I Rust, it is probably a favourite feature, but I am not really excited about it in Python.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch06-02-match.html
> These businesses must overcome the ingrained purchasing habits of hospital systems, medical supply distributors and state governments.

I’m guessing this is the real crux of the problem. They’re trying to sell to some of the most glacial organizations on planet.

The bigger the organization, the slower it moves. Purchasing cycles can take anywhere from 6 months to YEARS if you’re talking big business or government.

This is also why B2B and B2G are such lucrative markets to be in.

Having a bunch of lazy, stumbling giants with basically unlimited money as your clients is the holy grail. Once they’ve been sold, they literally CANNOT stop buying from you if even they wanted to. It’d be a year before they could even get another supplier approved! Talk about low churn.
You could try to memorize it. I don't have a good answer. Whole novels have been written about the hiding of secrets.

Password manager doesn't really help in principle, as you again need the password for the password manager.

One thing I am looking into is Shamir's Secret Sharing to split a secret into multiple parts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing
- You can have a website that takes payments without putting the infrastructure online. Take what you get from the human meter reader, put it in a database.

The real negative impact of meter reading isn’t the lack of the online billing, it’s that the water company might not be able to bill as often and might have to sometimes bill on estimates, so people can get saddled with surprise bills

- I don’t believe the two are actually related but if I believed that setting up a payment website required introducing huge security vulnerabilities, I’d rather mail a check. And I hate mailing checks.

- As for the sellers viewing the water companies as their customers: I agree; that makes sense. But the water companies are public utilities and if they’re putting their own convenience over the safety of residents, it should be addressed with regulation.
In this particular example, this is not an ignorant bad question. It's a self-QA by an experienced developer.
Very cool!

In fact, you are almost doing TDD, but missing the final step: Refactor Mercilessly

http://c2.com/xp/RefactorMercilessly.html

TDD directly helps you with interface design, that is how the pieces fit together. It helps you indirectly with the design of your implementations, because it enables this merciless refactoring.

"you write tests to model the problem then you write code to pass the tests"

Exactly! And once you have the code that passes the tests, and have written enough of it to have somewhat decent coverage for the problem-space, you can then refactor the implementation.

That is where you can go wild with your ideas, because you are only making changes to code that is already working and protected by a test-suite.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78806/refactor-mercilessly-or-build-one-to-throw-away#78844

For me this splitting of the very difficult programming tasks into 3 distinct and much simpler steps is the beauty of TDD:

1. Figure out the problem (write a spec as executable tests)

2. Make it work (just write trivial code to get the tests green)

3. Refactor (go wild with your design ideas, make sure tests stay green)
> Hustler spokesman Arthur Sando told the Journal, “We assume, at this point, that staff members are either reading it or tossing it.”

Hah, safe to assume Mr. Sando is not British ( https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tossing )
I'm confused, it says

> We did this by opening the popular apps one-by-one and noting down the time
A brand in the UK called Clarence Court started producing a range of eggs (maybe a decade ago?) that have an intensely orange yolk [1] and this became a real differentiator, in some ways an indicator of quality. I know when an egg is Clarence Court in a restaurant for instance (and have confirmed numerous times). They are also delicious eating.

The effect is so profound that supermarket own brands have now also started producing similarly richly-orange-yolked eggs.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAe_TN_WsAAyQ9-.jpg:large
How exactly does "the brain" generating the biggest cliche movie show dream it can help someone survive?

And what is the difference between "the brain" and the person watching the movie show?
which major operating systems are missing? I would indeed call Linux, Mac and Windows the "major" operation systems. You've got most use-cases covered. Surely there are exceptions, but these are the popular options.
Heli Attack 3 was dope. So were the nitrome games. And of course Club Penguin and Runescape.
Here are the summarized V features for anyone who dislikes salestalk:

- small binaries and fast compilation
- cross-platform support
- cross-compilation
- cross-platform drawing library (GDI+/Cocoa Drawing, OpenGL)
- native GUI toolkits (V-UI)
- value types
- auto-free engine that adds necessary free() commands
- C transpilation (both ways, allegedly emits human-readable C)
- C foreign function interface ("V can call C Code and any language with C-interop can call V Code")
- hot-code reloading (not mentioned how, but probably dynamic library hot swapping)
- package manager
- autoformatter
- profiler
- documentation-from-source generator
- V-to-JavaScript/WASM transpilation
- built-in testing framework
- built-in web framework (vweb)
- ORM ("you can just write V instead of SQL while interacting with databases")

Some tools in pure V:

Vinix - An open-source Operating System that can already run GCC, Bash, V etc.
Volt - A 300Kb native desktop client for Slack, Discord, Skype, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, and more. (only supports MacOS at the moment)
VSQL - A single-file SQL database written in pure V with no dependencies.
Gitly - Open-source light and fast alternative to GitHub/GitLab, written entirely in V.
Vorum - Right now it's a very basic forum/blogging software, but in the future, it will be a full-featured light alternative to Discourse. The V forum runs on Vorum.
Vgram - A bot library for Telegram Bot API.
That'll help if the tape doesn't want to leave the substrate. Not so much if the substrate would rather split apart than release the tape!

(To be clear, these tables are very low quality.)
J. Kenji López-Alt has a bit in his Food Lab book where he explores the effect of yolk colour on taste. Paraphrasing, the takeaway is that people generally perceive redder/deeper yolks as more flavoursome, but if you remove this factor (with food colouring, say), then people can't tell the difference. He summarises this in a twitter thread: [1]

[1]: https://nitter.net/kenjilopezalt/status/1176542696724320256
I wasn't aware that the red/orange leaves of autmns had their color due to caroten !
Hmm sounds like a compiler
What town was that in? I used to live in Jersey City and every other block in my neighborhood was listed because of hexavalent chromium contamination.
Git e.g. solves that by addressing via content hash. Which is more or less inevitable for non-hierarchical storage, since that's one of the few ways you can disambiguate.
It's a terrible idea that just causes all sorts of intro l interop problems. Web development, for instance, is a mess because of all the various attempts to interpret stuff in some way, versus just failing.
After using Hipmunk and ITA Matrix, I won't go back to using Orbitz or Expedia for searching fares. They're still convenient for actually booking things, but that's it.

I've lately had to book some flights between SFO and IAD on very short notice, and with Hipmunk for searching and Orbitz for booking, I can go from deciding that I should get a plane ticket to having it ordered in 10 minutes. For more complex searches, though, ITA Matrix still beats Hipmunk.
Fair, but there have to be some diminishing returns there. If there had been two 9/11 style events in short succession, would we have gone to twice as many wars?
>at 19, I think I was passed the main formative period.

Not in the slightest. That doesn't happen until 25. :)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1411647...
This is why I hate the whole "starve the beast" idea. Even Cato Institute (which I disagree with on so many issues) agrees that starve the beast was a resounding failure. If we want to cut federal spending, we need to cut federal spending. We can't cut income and hope that this cuts spending. http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/po...

Of course, in reality, nobody is a real conservative. Everybody only wants to cut spending on things they disagree with but I doubt there's anyone who will advocate spending cuts across the board, even if they benefit from such spending (and therefore the spending cut would hurt them).