jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> few proposals from feminists

This is ludicrous. Womens' rights activists have talked about this since the beginning and often. Women have been explicitly banned from almost all sports that are associated with men only for most of their existence. There have always been women who wanted to play. This is slowly, slowly changing, as activists continue to fight for it, tooth and nail. Their gains are quickly assimilated and forgotten.

It is not the case that sports would need to change. This is an old canard. Remember, all normal distributions have tails and pro-athletes, whatever their sex, are in those tails. Up until recently, women couldn't ski in the Olympic long jump because it was believe it would damage their reproductive systems. Wonder who was writing the rules?

http://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/2010/01/09/reproductive...
Smalltalk'ish!
They're real, unless all of their portfolio companies[1] and Bloomberg profiles[2] are also part of the satire. Hey, you never know, it's 2019.

[1]
https://collaborativeaggregates.com/about-collaborative-aggr...

https://colmeddev.com/about/

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/20346101
that's okay, but nothing about data collection and thing like this...
How are you going to manage bandwidth costs?

DigitalOcean are capped + 1cent/gb but your offering unlimited.... a few heavy streamers or torrents could ruin your monthly bill?
[Author of blog post here] Depends on what causes friction in your life, so YMMV. To me, if I have a bad network at home, and I constantly have to fiddle with a router and reboot it whenever the ISP deploys some changes, that's time I can spend on other things.
arbitrage of what? Sounds interesting
I believe the parent post is correct and mechanism used to link effects the licence.
You could have posted that when you found out instead of wondering whether you're the only one seeing it?
Or they are just quietly building businesses, rather than make flashy headlines.

You don't need to "advance humanity" - just creating a service or product to satisfy since other human's needs is a good enough goal.
Rounding rectangles is superfluous fluff, but it also is nice, and serves a purpose in the context of the whole design language they're using. I'm not against rounding rectangles and other such UI fluff in general. But I am against throwing away perfectly working controls, with all the ergonomy their offer, and replacing it with a half-broken, slower version of that control that only works if you use it in one particular way, but hey, it has rounded rectangles now.
>Optional gc is not something I've seen work in practice. Apple abandoned their attempt because of the difficulty getting gc'd and non-gc'd code to play together nicely. Rust has (and may again) offer something like optional GC, but it will operate at the value level rather than the program level and thus doesn't really solve the library problem.

Well, you could make 2 compilers for languages with the same syntax, and 2 sets of libraries (GC and no-GC) with mostly the same APIs, divergent only in whether they have GC or not.

For low level stuff you use "GCLESSLANG" (as a better C) and for the other stuff you use "GCLANG".

Otherwise the 99% of the syntax is the same, and the 2 langs are designed to easily call into one another. They could share most of the parser and compiler too.

This would basically give you the feel that you use one and the same language, switching between GC and no-GC version.

It's a money and resources thing, not some "cannot make this work" thing.
So did noscript.

I temporarily allowed the domain and it was well worth the click.
it is really good advices, and do some open-source projects at githup, sourceforge, or other open source sites, it will make you more competitive, especially have a long-term project of your own, sites like gun.io, will look for it.
The best part is you can't forEach or map an HTMLCollection object. You have to [].forEach.call it. lol
You couldn't possibly compare Gmail or Facebook with Whatsapp.

For many people, their Gmail id is their sole or primary id on the internet, used to identify them to scores of websites. It is their official online point of contact for various aspects of their online lives including their career, banking, social networking etc.

Facebook is their online social profile, which they spent thousands of hours curating.

Your Whatsapp id is merely your Phone no., (which was Whatsapp's main selling point). All interactions in Whatsapp are ephemeral in nature - Most people delete their conversations when their phone memory gets full. Compared to gmail and facebook, the switching costs are practically zero.
I'm sorry to come off as harsh, but I -- without any joke -- thought I would have better things to do with my time on this planet than deal with some scumbag's Perl 5 code. I don't think the solution to the "shitbrain writing Perl" problem is more Perl. Fuck that in the ass.

Well, you say, isn't that a problem in every language?

Perhaps. But I don't have to deal with it in every language. And every other language seems to have a type system that will let me know when something idiotic is being done, or exception handling, or "well, that pointer was null, so I'm done for the day" behavior that Perl doesn't have.

And as I've (sometimes reluctantly) given up on old relationships I'd invested a lot of time in as being not for me, or anyone for that matter, so is fucking Perl. It's not FOR ANYONE.
I think this is easier than you think. About 8 years ago I was working on a big project in Qt that was two parts -- one part a 3d rendering engine, one part an interactive web view. Having the two interoperate was surprisingly straightforward, and we could do all kinds of HTML/CSS layouts and use JavaScript hooks to call to the Qt classes. I can't imagine it's regressed much since then, though I'll admit it's been a while since I touched it.

PhoneGap provides this kind of experience for mobile.

The issue always ends up being performance -- running the JS runtimes in sandboxed webviews is always* slower than native code.
I think the issue here is that we have two opposing theses on how this works. I posit that the programming ecosystem is very much like any other ecosystem in that there is are many organisms within it, for a good reason. For example, looking at nature, you might ask yourself why biology hasn't converged on a single lifeform yet, and whether it's not simply an issue of having all the right genes and discarding those that are not so good. But that's obviously not how it works. There are niches and different strategies for solving different problems. There is no one genome that solves everything. And yes, every single codon is a decision that opens doors and closes others as well.

If I understood you correctly, your position is the inverse of that thesis. You argue that there is a base abstraction that should work equally well in every context, and that specialization could come in the form of optionals piled on top of the one true base. There is no mathematical reason why this should be unworkable, but a solution so far eludes both programmers and evolutionary processes alike. That doesn't mean you shouldn't go ahead and try solving it. It's a worthy project. If you believe you can come up with common denominators that cover all aspects of all previous languages, by all means: give it a try!
The only thing I can think of that might is Theater; acting or improv classes.

Actually I think you nailed it. For me it was both giving briefings to executives and leaders, which ended up driving me to have the confidence to try my hand at stand-up comedy. If you want to bathe in fire of getting over talking to people cold there is no better way.
Can you put in the installers to switch to the 3.x series ui vs the 4.x?
>Two titans of Silicon Valley, Facebook and Apple, are in a bitter fight that centers on the iPhone data of millions of people and whether companies should be able to track that data as easily as they do now.

While two titans of Silicon Valley are fighting for control over our data my question is how we protect our data from both of them.
Waiting patiently for HashiCorp! I tried through EquityZen but no luck.
Insight suggests extensions while you browse -- this helps the most useful extensions get discovered at the right time. To enable this, browsing information is sent to Insight servers. However, this is not ever stored in connection to your personal information (email, etc). Also, if you're still not sure, we let you disable all communications with Insight servers entirely in app settings.
If you have to understand what you read, you will avoid challenging books.

You will avoid experts writing for experts.

You will avoid books that are way over your head.

And if your reading has to be efficient, what you read will be ever more dumbed down.

Ever more a landscape of mowed lawns and two car garages.

Never a dark wilderness sky.

Never a smelly sidewalk crowd in harsh noon sun.

There's nothing wrong with the missionary position.

But the world is bigger.
> Fortunately the mpv player exists now

Fun fact: with mpv being based upon MPlayer, it's technically older than VLC.
This is true, but in practice on an iPhone the "default" music app didn't make a difference for me. I always had Spotify running (not necessarily playing, just the app open in the background) so when I pressed play it always played Spotify rather than Apple Music.
It's an adapted Bible quote. Genesis 11:6, about the tower of Babel.
It is interesting. I respect Al's long held stance not to do parodies without the artist's consent while acknowledging that he is legally within his rights to do so. But I also don't think it is really that surprising that Gaga would want to actually hear the song rather than just give the go ahead based on lyrics. Anyone who has been online for any amount of time knows that the written word comes off a lot different than spoken/sung. And it is actually not that surprising that she wouldn't consent, considering it is fairly harsh in calling the song a Madonna ripoff and calling her persona fake and manufactured simply to take money from her fans. It is a pretty big anomaly given Al's history, I can't recall anytime he has really gone after the artist he is parodying before.

Al is being a bit disingenuous with the whole "I respect the artist's wishes", but then releasing the song and banking on the Streisand effect to do its magic. You can call her out on screwing you over, but don't play like you don't know what you are doing.
If you only want to be a programmer, drop out. Anyone can learn how to program.

The unfortunate thing is that so many people believe that. As a result there is a saturation of poor programmers and weeding through the mess of poor programmers vs good/smart/intelligent/imaginative programmers is a pain in the ass.

Most people (not all) who hire, will weed out programmers who apply without a CS degree.

I am not saying a CS degree is better than 10 years experience.

I am saying you will have to deal with humans just like yourself who have their own perceptions and their own beliefs about what is or is not required to be hired.

So when you apply for that job and you don't have a CS degree or 10 years experience what do you have?

You have nothing to prove that you are the genius that you are.

Join an open source project if you are that eager to get your hands dirty.
To elaborate on this, nothing about ownership or borrowing has anything directly to do with heap or stack allocation. Allocation fits into the ownership and borrowing rules, not the other way around.
In some cases, people with no hope is used to execute wrong commands. As humanity, we have seen in the past military actions against people without weapons (killing them at times). I do not think the issue is them trying to do bad things, and maybe the point is we are living in a world where there are many more borderlines that are easily recruitable for some dollars.
FYI for anyone using discord - dont use the web client. Often users with web client can only be heard by certain people and vice versa.
The ocean freezing anywhere is irrelevant: the mass of water in the ocean stays the same regardless of its phase.

The problem discussed here is the Greenlad ice cap melting, which we can assume increases the mass of water in the ocean.

The nature of ice caps in both Greenland and Antarctica is that they are in deserts that go for years with zero precipitation. Ice accumulates steadily through what we can think of as layers of frost every morning over centuries until it covers entire continents kilometers deep. On the other hand, surface melt due to increased seasonal insolation usually doesn't result in much runoff: these are not glaciers that slowly flow out to sea, either.
It differs from a native app in that every time they change the JS code behind the website, you would not know. You could have thoroughly inspected the source, and then when you go to use it tomorrow, that one line of spyware could be inserted.

For native apps, you can install a particular version from source and not change it.
Fun about what exactly? If you mean farming to Upwork, not building is not fun for engineers. Building a business can be, but again, only if the product itself is fun to build. Who wants to work in a business where the core product is boring? I mean boring as in the fundamental product, not the industries, such as healthcare, construction, and so on, basically all but consumer tech.
Getting a reasonable return on their planes would hamper the case that "woe is us, we're helpless and need money", and yes, it's a common tactic, across many domains, to beg for help based on feigned helplessness.
One password unlocks your encrypted drives, another one destroys all data.
Authorities can look into your Google or Facebook anyway.
>In fact, I've come to realise just how appallingly bad most of us are at using our tools.

I don't disagree. I know developers who use Notepad to develop, which boggles the mind.

In fact, I don't know why I bothered posting. I'm enough of an outlier in keyboard performance that, even if I'm right, it proves nothing. I've had many developers' jaws hit the floor as they watch over my shoulder. I've even shocked vi and emacs users into no longer trying to convince me their ways were better.

Maybe I should teach a class on how to use a GUI efficiently.
In layman's:

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Moral of this story: Don't join the military for any reason whatsoever. And if you are drafted in, claim on your defense: "I would have been executed otherwise"
Working with FPGA's isn't the black-art that I thought it was.

http://www.fpga4fun.com/ is a nice site with stuff that novices can have a go at creating.

There's also a sister site (http://www.knjn.com/) where you get hold of inexpensive FPGAs for tinkering with.
Yeah. I could.

But do I want to create an app? Right now, many possible web applications could be done as just that.

Web applications. No need for an installation, no need to deal with approval issues, no dealing with people not upgrading either OS or app. Just a plain website.

Being forced into a local installation again is a huge hit against the open web.
Just don't bother supporting it. This will either force them to get their act together, or frustrate consumers who'll proceed to move to a better platform.
Not exactly relevant to the story, but this reminded me of something Aaron Sorkin wrote into the first series of The West Wing which has stuck with me since, and which I think is worthy of repeating even if the Chinese are banning English, rather than trying to make English the official language.

It's ludicrous to think that laws need to be created to help protect the language of Shakespeare.
Isn't it a .Net only platform? No native code?
Realistically, if the regime in the North fell (in whatever manner) the Korean peninsula would likely re-unite with the South taking the leadership position (much like German re-unification).
If it's anything like the other devices in that series it will be 32 bit UEFI, which not many distros have out of the box. You can certainly build 32 bit GRUB. http://askubuntu.com/questions/392719/32-bit-uefi-boot-suppo...
>There are no formal arguments against Church–Turing thesis.

do you mean "all computation that can be done, can be done using a Turing machine"? Or do you mean "no one has proven Church Turing wrong?"

If it's the second - yes, that's so. But so what?

If it's the first then many people in Quantum Computing community will be quite upset, P=BQP? You have proof?
"Humans today and tomorrow are mostly about curve fitting, not intelligence"

That would still makes sense
Ontario, Canada?

Or maybe it’s generally a midwestern North America thing?
days that start with a T, like tuesday, thursday, thaturday thunday, today, and tomorrow.
>For servers they care about price, performance, support and volume/availability

ARM servers are extremely awful at all of these. Most ARM servers perform poorly compared to x86 servers, they have less software support and they require you to cross compile or switch your development machines to ARM as well and finally actually getting an ARM server is incredibly difficult because almost no one offers them and even those providers who offer some ARM instances don't give you the same variety as with x86. The worst part is that switching to ARM involves extra costs for your expensive developers in exchange for hardware that probably was already too cheap to care about because RAM has a much bigger impact on server costs than the CPU.
If you thought of your people as cogs while you were a manager, you clearly weren't very good at it.
I don't recommend ProtonVPN - tried it and if you're torrenting they throttle you to 20Mbps. Shady past connection to NordVPN / Tesonet also a concern.
You could not "easily" become a billionaire by improving Wikipedia, which is the result of millions of hours of writing and editing. The fact is most low-hanging fruit has already been plucked, thus every scientific discovery relies upon more and more background knowledge. Yes, we do make innovations in explaining/teaching science more quickly to successive generations, but I doubt if we'll ever see a Newton or Darwin who can single-handedly, obsessively write and observe and calculate, by themselves, and then push science forward by leaps and bounds. The best research today is all done by teams, with experts on statistics, study design, clinicians, hardware experts - there are just so many niche fields that we MUST collaborate on extremely advanced work.
I've seen a lot of comments that misunderstand the DMCA. Many people seem fixated on this issue. Had I realized this would be the case I wouldn't have emphasized it as much.

It was an automatic email sent by mistake and was retracted by when discovered. It's certainly an issue worth mentioning and discussing but don't fixate on it.

Don't get me wrong, I was completely enraged when I received it but I think Dropbox has done well in addressing it.
We're just playing YouTube videos. YouTube is hosting all the content.
If you suddenly start sending a much larger volume of mail, it can get flagged as spam.
SkyMarshall said
Those will all teach you what not to do, which is just as, if not more important in investing and trading than what to do.

Anyone can notice the successful investment decisions after the fact: buying Apple Inc on March 6, 2009 at $83.50 or selling BP on January 19, 2010 at $62.30. No stock or mutual fund can beat the market, each year, over twenty years. Neither can you.

What you can do is not beat yourself. Within the nuts and bolts of a portfolio, some trades may cost you dearly in terms of capital gains tax. Lopsided distribution of your investments in too few asset classes will also wreck havoc. Avoid these mistakes and you can greatly improve your rate of return.

<another_shameless_plug> I run the investment website http://blog.realized-app.com and companion web app for getting these decisions right. </another_shameless_plug>
if this code was licensed with an open source license and he adhered to terms, this would be perfectly valid. You _can_ indeed copy such code and write whatever snarky comments you want about it.

But in this case this code is copyrighted and has no open source license clause:

"His response to my comments was that because I didn’t explicitly put a copyright notice in my code that he could use it however he wanted (which I’m pretty sure isn’t true)."

AFAIK copyright law says its not obligatory whether there is a copyright header or not, the work would be copyrighted either ways. Copyright is there the moment you create the work. So what he did was clearly illegal (and unethical).
this guy is incredibly hostile to the commenters.

if you read the whole thing, many from the Erlang community point out that he skews the benchmarks in favor of Python and then will...not...listen when they try to respectfully suggest changes to his tests. it's quite difficult to read all the way to the end but by the end it makes me proud of the Erlang community for the by-and-large mature and respectful way they deal with aggressive and prejudicial attacks.
Galvoju kitą savaitę, antradienį arba trečiadienį vakare.

Tik dunno dėl vietos. Alunamis, šnekutis..?
yeah, užskaitau. Apie kokią datą galvoji? Gal po visų švenčių?
Actually, C's string handling is very well-suited to this problem. (Which doesn't mean it is perfect - in fact, it's highly inconvenient for many tasks. Just not this one.)
This is so close to my heart. I first wrote programs in BASIC on a TRS-80 at the local Tandy store in 1978. I bought my own in 1979, then got frustrated with how slow it was. I hacked the machine, smashed the stack, wrote a Z80 command line interface, and then wrote a compiler for a limited subset of BASIC. (Hand-built recursive descent. I was planning to write a peep-hole optimiser (it desperately needed one) but never got the time).

Then I got my first "freelance" programming "contract" to write some stock prediction code. I still didn't have a clue, but my second project - still in 1979 - was a restaurant layout and waiter allocation program. It used what I now know to be simulated annealing to find good (not optimal) layouts for the restaurant given the sizes of parties that were book.

All in 16K RAM on a 1.77 MHz Z80 processor.

Why not write a simulator for a simple machine that goes into a full-screen window and emulate the simplistic language and graphics of the time? Most kids would blow it off with scorn and go back to their play-stations or whatever, but some would love it.

Which ones would become programmers? Shouldn't we encourage them?

Kids need sandboxes in which to build sand-castles and let their imaginations run wild. Can we build one for them?
I don't know if today's publicity would do it, but AirBnB is so great at PR that it is difficult to believe. (They also give out some great tips in their Founders at Work interviews. Watch them, guys.) I'd give them a better than 50% shot at getting covered in the New York Times for this -- again -- and that is a heck of a lot better than the "Pay us a $X0,000 retainer a month and, well, no promises" PR firms will get you.
It should be easy to check:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medical_specialties

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialty_(medicine)