jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Notice the part where the TSA randomly pulls him off a plane to give him an extra pat-down. Even if the government believes Marlinspike is somehow involved in the Wikileaks controversy, and even if you think the government is fully justified in aggressively pursuing the Wikileakers, that doesn't justify the kind of petty harassment you see here. There's absolutely no reason to think Marlinspike or anyone else allegedly affiliated with Wikileaks would try to hijack or blow up an airplane. This is simply the government abusing its discretion to harass someone it doesn't like. And it's not limited to border security. American citizens on domestic flights are subject to the same sort of harassment, with no meaningful process to determine why you're being harassed or contest the basis for the harassment. It might not be as bad as McCarthyism, but it's flatly inconsistent with the Constitution.
I measure stability by how well something works, not by how many releases it has had. MySQL replication is getting better, but it does still have major problems. Sure, it's good enough to power huge sites (we use it here as well), but it's frustrating to deal with. Fortunately it's being used by web 2.0 companies and not banks, so generally if a slave is corrupted and returns weird results, customers aren't going to be too upset and in a lot of cases might not even notice, but it's still an annoying problem to deal with. I wonder how many more releases it's going to take for them to get it solid.
This unproductive argument is exactly what's wrong with your Pickett's Charge case against the ethics of insurance as oppposed to "cost pooling". People who disagree with your slippery slope argument will just put you on their own slippery slope; pretty soon you'll be arguing that yes, it's only fair for us to be buying everyone's kids X360's.

There are plenty of pragmatic problems in the current system to address arguments to. The solutions to those problems will improve people's lives without requiring anyone to adopt new political ideologies.
Didn't Heroku have something like this a while back?
This article completely fails to demonstrate that Fake Work exists in any meaningful quantity. I could just as easily have written an article titled "Phlogiston is Destroying America".

How do you distinguish Fake Work from Real Work? There are some plausible tests presented, but they all concern a lack of understanding about the nature of the work on the worker's part. This lack of understanding is lamentable, but it does not mean that the work is Fake. For all of these questions below, it's easy to imagine a ditch-digger asking them, even assuming the ditch-digger is doing Real Work:

> How is this even productive?

> Is this really what they are having me do?

> What is the purpose of this?

> I can’t believe how inefficient this is! There has to be a better way.

A lot of work sucks. If it were pleasant, you probably wouldn't require a salary to do it. Also, there are a lot of tasks that are easily questioned at a micro- or individual level, but that make sense as policy at an organizational level.

This article is pure fluff, offering feel-good "insight" but nothing concrete in terms of identifying real problems or solutions. I can certainly acknowledge that "busywork" or "Fake Work" exists, but I am not convinced it is a major problem at a national level.
Can you back your claims up? In particular, say, the Trans-Siberian railroad? Its construction began in 1891, two decades before the formation of the USSR [1].

While certainly prisoners were used in its construction, saying that it was "built with slave labor" is somewhat disingenuous. Perhaps you are saying that parts of it were built using prisoners, who were not paid for their services? If so, that is certainly the case.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway#Construc...
So perhaps a badly written individual server doesn't scale (neither does an individual Apache instance).

Google manages to scale XMPP to support each of their Gmail users. Is that big enough?

Nokia runs all of the Ovi account on a Tigase-based backend. That's quite a few users.

And all these disperate networks federate into a massive <cough>"web-scale"</cough> cloud of XMPP federation.

So as someone building massively scaled components on XMPP, it scales!
This is more accurately reductivism/reductionism, there is no requirement for there to be "less" when dealing with minimalism and that was never the goal of artists who followed that school.
Here's a silly send-up of his writing style:
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/95q1/jpreviews.html
The story of what happened to BYTE in 1998, from Jerry Pournelle's point of view:

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/slowchange/fiasco.html

And from the perspective of Tom R. Halfhill, BYTE Magazine senior editor:

http://www.halfhill.com/bytefaq.html
Simple answer, to guarantee fuck you money.

Long answer, most startups will never be Facebook, Google or Twitter. Hence the economically rational founders believe it is better to hold cash than stock in the company. If the founders aren't rational economic actors then any reason will do. This is where passion, and emotion come into play. You will never sell because you aren't a rational economic actor. (It's ok, almost no one is)

You mention selling a compnay when it is not making a profit. Selling a company when it is not making a profit is a really good way to get a crap valuation, the point is to sell the company of the apex of belief in its future to produce profit. A company that is shown to have apex'd is not one that most people want to invest in. You're going to have to sell at that point to a 'corporate raider'.

Ideally, you want to sell when investors think the growth curve is going to keep on going but it has actually reached a plateau, and you are selling on a multiple of expected profit in the future.

Thats pretty much why startups sell. Not all startups are built from passion, some are built to flip.
Every service has it's own local mail server (postfix). It can be preconfigured to act as a relay for other mail services like sendgrid or google mail.
As I understand it, these are actual employees of Alfred. No different from any other person you let into your home to do work.
I think your comment had enough respect/content not to warrant a downvote. Sorry to see the haters out today, comrade. Rust and Go seem to have the potential for some overlap. But it seems Rust will be successful as a lower level systems language while Go may be easier to maintain when building highly concurrent, networked applications.
The safeguards and the thoroughness of the trials are there for a reason. The necessary evil of it is that it takes time to be thorough, it takes time to be safe.
Baidu == Chinese Government
Depends on where you look! < $500 feels very affordable. No experience with this desk in particular though.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S19022530/
Unless you can make the case that risking commercial relations with the current largest economy in the world over these attacks makes sense... I would say never.
Every year they also tell us how they are getting rid of coal, or how they got rid of it already wishing the city. Every single year, it is the same story, actually.

Who cares about counterfeiting, I just want clean air.
When I built my standup desk, I paired it with an elevated chair that resembles a saddle for horseback-riding[1]. The hip position is adjustable and IF the monitors are at the right height, the back is straight even though the chair has no back support.

With that setup, I could switch between sitting and standing, while keeping a straight back.

[1] http://www.wayfair.com/Office-Star-Products-Height-Adjustabl...
+1 for tramp mode. Nice to have all local .emacs configurations/modes available. Not that I endorse editing on production servers ...
The article mixes a few things. CO2 emissions are climate change relevant, but for pollution in Beijing there are other emissions from these coal power plants responsible. Modern coal power plant have much lower emissions in general, but not for CO2. Probably the coal power plants are so old, that it is not effective to modernize them with modern filtering systems, higher efficiency, etc.
Then you have the moral police complaining that the government is promoting drug usage.
Come on. Use common sense. Ask people around you whether they consider their government as a democracy. And Wikipedia can range from inaccurate to outright wrong about China. Use it as an academic reference and only believe what you actually see when it comes to the real-word stuff.

It's normal for China to have problems, including problems with elections. But denying the existence of problems is hardly a good way to fix it.
It’s a quote from the beer drinking postal worker character of the 70’s American TV Show “Cheers”…
Can you provide insight on the claim in the article that Netflix encrypts to a secret Intel key? Versus Intel exposing a "protected" API that allows a way to get a (signed?) public key from the ME or something, which Netflix then uses to encrypt the stream?
No, its not a "debated" piece of history. It happened and there is an overwhelming body of proof.
SSI... Dunno why but that rings a bell... Strategic Simulation Inc.
The OP could have made their point more subtly, but I'm not sure either of the points you've made necessarily disagree with the argument they were making

$150k isn't astronomical in San Francisco (because rents have inflated to match the salaries) but startup employees who are prudent and don't have dependents will likely save money faster than comparable roles in most if not all other parts of the world. And a substantial proportion of the companies in the Bay Area don't generate revenue in excess of what they pay their programmers; many never will, even if they are blessed with unusually productive programmers

The potential profitability of a startup is even more difficult to gauge than the difficulty of a programming role, and the fondness of VCs for disbursing their money in the Bay Area is probably more to do with the distribution of potential acquirers than the distribution of productive programmers.
But isn't that efficiency directly depending of the system itself? I mean the performance of the dynamo which would create the electricity when the weight goes down
It is not official and does not say otherwise (neither do I).

We are using similar layout (albeit we just need cmd and internal directories for most of our project) and it works perfectly.

Anyway - this is not Rails or any other framework were the developer may be dependent on project structure. I just shared a possible option.

>It's a terrible

Why though?

PS: I just realized it has golang-standards in its path. Okay, this part can actually be misleading.
I have not yet finished reading the doc but the Introduction shows that its syntax is really clear, definitely not a classic Lisp
Shows in great details Indira Gandhi was a real Ironlady who brought Sikkim into democratic fold removing the monarchy.

Much better than the current headline and marketing driven administration in present day India, plunging India down the rabbit hole of spiralling economic decline and for the sake of elections and power creating a divided India with Hindu agenda (appeasing majority).
Another open source tool that does something similar is https://k6.io/ which I have been using recently. Tests are written in JS and you can define thresholds such as % errors, P95 and P99 response time for specific request components e.g. blocking, receiving, waiting, etc. There is also a SaaS product connected to it for doing tests from locations around the world.
Well, I'm sure the Soviets printed quite a few. :) Actually, the role of the Soviet political officer (zampolit) was by then subordinated to the commanding officer -- political officers were expected to function as field officers (pilots, artillery officers, and so on), in addition to political education, morale-raising, and individual counseling. They also had specific authority over Communist Party members within units, who basically operated something like senior NCOs. In practice, I think, the zampolit system operated relatively smoothly -- the Red Army was never able to get rid of the political officers (Zhukov tried, and even he couldn't do it!), but they were able to effectively defang the position by being orthodox Communists themselves, and by insisting that political education not compromise practical competency.
Consumers are themselves the product as usual.
>that it backfired, ultimately leading to profitability.

On what planet can the act of becoming profitable be considered a "backfire"?
The main difference is that the logic in template files is the guest here while the markup is the host. We're used to include presentation info in <style> tags and code in <script> tags. So, it is not really a great deal of change to include template language within our content even though I still prefer logic-less or minimal logic template languages over full blown ones to avoid turning web pages into a whole mess.

But the problem with React is they are not being honest with marketing their technology. They claim that their approach to blending everything together as "separation of concerns " and some of their evangelists had even the nerve to claim that their approach is the only true way to best practices and that we have been doing it wrong all this time. So, it turned from product evangelism to pure propaganda for them.

If they were forthcoming about it from the get go "Hey guys, we know that violates SoC but you guys we'll make up in terms of productivity gains and speed what you will give up in maintenance and readability" but instead they keep pushing their propaganda and people seem to eat it up.
Honestly steam as much a social network as a games platform at this point and that's what gives them the data, and we've see. How Apple and googles multiple attempts at social platforms have panned out.
Perhaps they're special cases, but I've visited cemeteries of people who died in the 1600s and 1700s in Boston, Plymouth and Salem, Massachusetts. You'll find two cemeteries almost across the street from each other in Boston, right in the center of the city. They're tourist attractions, both for the now-obsolete grave decorations, and for some of the famous people who are buried or at least commemorated there. For instance, you can see markers for people who died in the Boston Massacre in 1770 in the Old Granary Burying Ground; needless to say, it's named for a building which used to stand nearby. King's Chapel Burying Ground, just down the street, has a bonus historical feature - a ventilation shaft for the subway, which I think dates to roughly 1900.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granary_Burying_Ground
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Chapel_Burying_Ground
It's only curious if you think Zed is honestly trying to figure out the truth, rather that "prove" he's right. That assumption is clearly shown to be wrong by this comment thread.
>It would actually promote bad behavior.

Can you elaborate on that?
I met a "prohobo" once. Chatted with him at a coffee shop. He was living in a squat, had 4G/LTE Internet, and a solar panel for his electronics. Rode Greyhound and/or the rails around the country (the latter, he said, is hard to get away with these days). Said he also occasionally stayed in hotels when he needed to freshen up and get a better nights reset for a while.

I think he made a living doing contract web programming, routed his money to an electronic bank account.
The postcard collection [1] is definitely the part of the site I enjoyed most!

[1] https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/gallery/
We're talking about 1991, when Apple was pretty solid in their niche, and if you wanted to talk other more interesting computers, i.e. someone else's money:

- the SGI Indigo was released
- the Symbolics XL1200 was a year old, and the MacIvory III was released
- the Sparcstation 2 (SunOS!) was a year old

University departments were already throwing away old LMI lisp machines.

The really big deal was when everyone bought a Windows 95 machine to get on the internet with AOL about five years later.
> Bitcoin could never replace a national currency.

That is the most grandiose goal a new monetary technology could possibly have. It doesn't need to replace a national currency to be useful/valuable to users.
I hope not. For one thing, Bluetooth consumes less battery.

Also, when the topic of Bluetooth comes up, many people complain that they have Bluetooth issues. Sadly, some manufacturers do not care about interoperability. Maybe I'm just lucky but I don't even recall when I would've had issues with Bluetooth. I use several devices practically every day (car, headphones, speakers).
Here is maybe a better explainer on how it actually works: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2021/02/26/what-is-...
There are 2000 iterations of that particular Art Block project, each of which is unique. There are not 2000 copies of that iteration.
The decision making points seem to be known:

* Google kills projects at an increasing rate, the warning may be days

* Google has in the past destroyed quality images in their care

* If you don't pay you have only yourself to blame
Why would this cause the bubble to burst? Btc doesn't require the difficulty to be this high to function.

"The fact is, it's not really used much in the legal economy now. Yes, one rich person sells it to another, but that's not a final use. And without that it really doesn't have a long-term future."

Sentences like this make me think the author is clueless. That could be said of any neutral storage of value, like gold.

Btc is super convenient compared to gold, and transacting with it can't be easily shut down by anyone. Seems like that is all btc needs to be. It could be more maybe, but that is hardly a requirement for it to be successful.
I feel like there's a problem with the data - it shows that, for example, Mystic River has an RT rating of 37% [1], while the actual page has 87% [2], and the IMDB link [3] is broken since the correct URL is [4]

[1] http://imgur.com/M8xYf1G
[2] http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mystic_river/
[3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2427555/
[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327056/

Edit: After reload I got the correct data. Weird!
There are frequencies that reflect from skin but not beards.

I suffer from paranoia myself. I've been thinking for more than twenty-five years about how to handle this and the only thing I can come up with is that we must make our control systems good or devolve into some nightmare scenario.
I would not want terrorists personally honored by such a distinction. Seems like something they'd aim for.
Do you want this to escalate? This would be a bad time to start making martyrs out of these people.
>How the heck did " " get in there?

Something like

(E(t)-P).(E(t)-P)

where E is the ellipse and P is the point.

>Is there a reason not to use the cubic formula in this situation?

Numerical stability in edge cases, which will occur for code exercised as extensively as Parasolid's.

I guess you could a Bernstein version of the cubic formula, though I've not seen one derived in the wild. It would be nice to have as well as Bernstein quartic formula. The Bernstein quadratic is easy.
You need to know what's in the Java libraries if you want to write to the Java libraries. If your code is all self contained, then you don't. So - open a Swing JFrame and you need to know where that is in the API and how to call it.
My use of the word "general" was more a joke than the scope of my intent. I meant "general" in the sense of "general relativity", meaning that I’ve proposed relationships among concepts that are often understood to be unrelated. Specifically, I wanted to debunk the notions that one of these tools is categorically better than the others or that any one of them should subsume the others.
Nomad already has a first-party driver for podman, doesn't that do it?
Sure and Oracle Forms, Designer and APEX, Hypercard, VB GUIs, Django admin forms, Rails default forms etc etc. All code eventually and I saw some horrendous stuff in Oracle forms in the 90s
Mind sharing tracks/playlist (available in Spotify or Youtube) to a total stranger to Chick Corea?
Irq accounting depends on architecture and code usage, e.g. like some kind of barrier (serializing) before the RDTSC.

on newer x86_64 the accounting code is around 100-200 cycles, so not a big deal, interrupt return and exit code is more than that (save context, load new context etc.).

The RDTSC and fence timings (Latency, Reciprocal throughput) [0]:

AMD Zen 1
SFENCE 4 ~20
LFENCE 1 0.25
MFENCE 7 ~70
RDTSC 37 36
AMD Zen 2
SFENCE 1 1
LFENCE 1 11
MFENCE 7 ~78
RDTSC 37 37
AMD Zen 3
SFENCE 1 1
LFENCE 1 10
MFENCE 6 ~60
RDTSC 44 36

Intel Haswell
LFENCE 2 4
MFENCE 3 33
SFENCE 2 5
RDTSC 15 24
Intel Broadwell
LFENCE 2 4
MFENCE 3 33
SFENCE 2 6
RDTSC 15 24
Intel Skylake
LFENCE 2 4
MFENCE 4 33
SFENCE 2 6
RDTSC 20 25
Intel Skylake-X
LFENCE 2 4
MFENCE 4 33
SFENCE 2 6
RDTSC 20 25
Intel Coffee Lake
LFENCE 2 4
MFENCE 4 33
SFENCE 2 6
RDTSC 20 25

[0] https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
Response time (i.e. pen touch to pixel appearing) on the latest generation of e-ink devices is literally imperceptible, though I believe they've had to cut a few minor corners to get it to that level.
Germany already learned English. There is approximately no-one in Germany under 30-40 who doesn't speak a little English.
Interesting, any recommendations for companies selling insurance for this? Affordable insurance for small companies?
I agree! In my case, I additionally use NoScript as well with both the mobile and desktop browsers. It's such a great experience.
Most people use "make" w/ a salary, so like "I make $80k/year" is your salary before any taxes, benefit costs, etc. It's ambiguous when it comes to a business but, on an internet forum that's fine. If you want to be specific you can use ARR and the like.

Edit: It's also totally cool to ask for a clarification, e.g. "huh do you mean total annual revenue or this is your annual salary from your business?"
> As instructed and directed by Mayor Wilson Goode.

Do you have a source?

While taking responsibility, he always claimed he wasn't part of planning the specifics. FWIW I'm skeptical.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/10/when-i...
"The Internet is an incredibly harsh and toxic place, always has been"

Refreshing to read this, compared to the "it was all so much better before"
Also, in my experience, learning english to do bussiness with other european who also learn english mainly for bussiness purposes gives a different kind of language then learning english for everyday use.
see also "euro english"[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English
Revenue is $125m this quarter, about 50% over last year. P/S is around 60, which might be too high to many people and therefore the correction.
It's mostly second hand commentary.

HN is an outlier in that people have even heard of D, for some perspective.
Check out Rectangle. It meets 90% of my use cases as someone that prefers the way Windows handles windows.

https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
> ...increase the tax on capital gains...

How about proportionally? Stock trading apps now make it easy enough for Joe 6 pack to invest in the market at any income level. I could see a x% higher tax if you're buying 10,000 shares of Amazon, but it seems to me like putting < $1,000 in the market a month should be somewhat painless.
Why are people so offended by syntax? So many people complain about parentheses or names like car and cdr. Is it the programming equivalent of being shallow or judging by appearance?

When I first started learning scheme I was much more challenged by the rest of the cognitive assault - tail recursion is "free", call/cc or continuations, the shift to thinking in "higher order" mode, macros, being able to effectively define your own syntax.