jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Both. China is a country of 1.4 billion people, they're detaining hundreds of thousands of people for no good reason in Xinjiang, they execute or imprison political enemies and are building artificial islands in the South China Sea in order to turn international waters into Chinese sovereign waters. The scale of that place will blow your mind. A single city like Guangzhou has 50% more people than the entire Bay Area .

You really think a single VC company that plays no critical role in national security is even on their radar?
Except, progress isn't guaranteed by the march of time.

Take something more objective than fine art, like Roman Concrete [1]. To this day the Pantheon is the largest freestanding dome in the world because of the concrete's disproportionately good durability and longevity. It puts modern mass produced concrete to shame.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete
There is a fair-sized (417 entries) list over here:

https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/
> Become an angel investor, since they are getting a much better deal, I might as well join them.

I think yeah. Dan Luu was also getting at this on twitter.
Downvoting because you're not adding any info besides 'laravel bad.' I am interested in your experiences, but "I hate it" isn't useful by itself.
IMO farmers markets would disappear if they stopped using cash. It's basically synonym for tax avoidance sprinkled with some fraudulent claims how your honey cures everything.
TechEmpower appears[0] to be using Laravel 8.70, which was released about 3 months ago. Much less than 7 years ago.

The numbers there don't paint an encouraging picture either, but I'm happy to concede that performance isn't everything... it just doesn't matter for some applications. But, numbers like these are pretty appalling to me. (And yes, I feel the same way about Rails.)

[0]: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
This is all discussed in "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser. I'm not sure if that specific story is available for free online somewhere, but it's hardly an isolated incident of terrible security within the nuclear arms community. The book bounces between two narratives, the first being an in depth look at a specific accident where a rocket exploded in it's silo, the second being a broader overview of the command and control structure around nuclear tech spanning from the plutonium spheres used by scientists in the manhattan project, all the way up to 80's era MAD policy and ICBMs on 24/7 alert.

Another one of my favorites from that book was the EOD tech that put a ready-to-rumble teller-ulam thermonuclear device into the bed of his pick-up truck, drove it off the base, dismantled it in order to show off to a girl, then reassembled and returned it. Although, I can't personally verify the source of that story.
This is totally true I'm not sure where the down votes come from. HN seems to really hate bitcoin.
Bash installed? Huh? Why Bash exactly? I feel mentioning jails or containers here would be more on point.

Maybe because of this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_%28software_bug%29
>It's ready. And if that leads you to the question of "well what about crappy old versions of IE?", well there's another interview question for you.

So what is the other interview question?

I really haven't dove into flex box because I am stuck supporting IE 9 on both of my projects. If I were to try and implement it on one of these projects it would be a wasted effort when 90% of my users are still using IE 9 on their corporate Dells.

How do you learn and develop new skills if your stuck supporting older browsers?
Bitcoins can't be stolen. Period. A different thing is that you may suck at protecting your operating system.
How is it relevant that it's an image or something else? If it's good, users vote it and it gets on the front page. If it doesn't belong here as you're suggesting, it can be flagged.
Perhaps it's because those pictures and videos are taken in the night, or in the day in a very bright sky?

Also, they are often far away so zoom level is set on max.
Why don’t you approach engineers the same way?

If the "learn to code" movement doesn't flop, it won't be a sellers market. Problem solved!
Because Red Hat, despite being open-source software, does not release its binaries as compiled, and there are several key features (such as RedHat Network for Redhat corporately-supported yum repos, to name one) that means you can take the source and compile the core product that (CentOS and SL), but there are parts that are not released. That is from my understanding.

You might not argue RHN is the feature, but what I understand from sysadmins the RHN subscription is one of the key features, in addition to a few others.

So, it is not the same level as Nginx Plus, but you must be kidding me if you believe RedHat is 100% open-source.

There SRPMS are open source because they have to be, not altruism.
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/duckduckgoblekko...
1 - Yes, its ok to charge for dev costs && keep the resultant product for your own use and to white-label to another.

2 - Its ok to do the "powered-by" thing. Best to add it and then put a config option for the customer to turn it off fairly easily.

3 - What to charge? Well if you have no idea what the wallet size of your customer is, charge about 2/3 of what you think it would cost him to write it from scratch (what it might cost him, not you) and then provide for hourly/daily rates for consulting work for mods and support.
This "original purpose" ("charter" perhaps?) is new to me, is it written down anywhere? Don't communities evolve? Aren't they supposed to?

Or are people perhaps bemoaning the current state of HN just like so many old folks complaining that everything is going downhill and "it's not as good as it was in my day?"
That's mostly my views as well, yeah. There are a couple (narrow) weird cases with IRV, too... but IRV is unquestionably a tremendous improvement over FPTP.
I never mentioned value investing (not sure what it means), only intrinsic value.

Dividend growth of S&P easily beats inflation. Share buybacks are similar to dividends. If you have 100 shares, you can sell few shares to the company and treat it as a dividend.
Next week: SolarWinds board blames CEO for password leak
The Deep History of Ourselves is a book that goes from single cell to consciousnesses. Here is a review:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02475-x
it's not surprising given that "entity component system" is synonymous with "thing behaviour environment". It's using the most meaningless generic terms possible. It's like when companies use a tagline like "using innovative practices to deliver results for our clients".
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Browser_Toolb...

The Browser Toolbox is the normal DOM inspector, just extended to the whole user interface. If you open the print preview, then open the Browser Toolbox, you can inspect the preview and edit styles just like any other document.

Also, @media print {} works fine, I just tested it. But I'm not sure how that relates to the original question.
This resonates with many things from 80’s, 90’s and even well into 2000’s.

There has been a severe erosion since then. From car dashboards to web design, software apps to online communities - it’s an erosion on all fronts.

Fuck everything after 2010. It sucks. Fight me.
Can you give an example of a message system for game dev? Do you mean something similar to message passing in Erlang?
And any EU citizen is free to not do business with a company outside the EU.

Do you think the EU laws should apply to people selling things to EU citizens while they are on vacation in other parts of the world? If someone from Germany travels to Brazil and buys something from a store, are they required to abide by EU rules?

If someone from the EU leaves the EU digitally to buy something in another country, it isn't up to the seller to enforce EU rules.

Unless you have an entity (either yourself or your business) under EU jurisdiction, you don't have to follow their rules.
It did. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone
This CEO needs to go, he apparently has zero experience in crisis management. He has signaled to all of his employees that yes he will throw them under the bus. He has signaled to his customers that there is not enough oversight on operations. As such he has now lost all credibility.

It's a shame really, to blow a totally manageable crisis where solar winds could emerge stronger as a result.
For comparability, most people use the Penn Treebank-III WSJ data. Sections 03-06 are test, the remaining sections are train/dev.

Most methods are based on some sort of simple feature templates and machine learning, so they should generalize relatively well to a wide variety of languages, IMO.
I disagree. I believe that beings that are capable of feeling pain shouldn't.
Enterprise salesmen.

Real capitalistic business deals are made on the golf course or at an expensive dinner paid by somebody else. Why target the users when you can target their bosses. Convince a corporate CEO to switch to Slack and you suddenly have thousands of users.

As much as we like to dream about it, the world does not run on merit. And politics can bury amazing products while proliferating shit. Read about Tesla, Turing and all the other guys that pulled us out of the mud. Innovation doesn't bring success. Being a ruthless greedy salesman does.
> I suppose I could see the "most up to date" argument, but Intel looks like it has the most complete commercial compiler at the moment for C++11.

Except that some of the features are only available on UNIX based OS. So you cannot use them if you are after portable code.

If an ANSI C++ feature is currently OS specific on a multi-platform compiler, on my manual it isn't supported.

> But certainly, the next most complete support for C++11 in a commercial compiler might just be from Oracle Solaris Studio

Interesting. I wasn't aware of it.

The last time I spend coding on Solaris was around 2011.

> Notably, Oracle Solaris Studio is also one of the few compilers to include full C99 support.

Even as C++ fanboy, I do concede it is to be expected that a UNIX vendor does support the latest C standards.

After all, it is because of UNIX that we got C and I don't see it being re-written into something else.

There I would like that at least they support "Bounds-checking interfaces (Annex K)" from C11, which is optional.
I realize this is just grandstanding by congress, but it feels like there are more important things to be working on right now.
The way Google smears leap seconds seems very practical. I can't think of a time when I needed better than 1/86400 sec accuracy/precision. Being off by a second would be very noticeable. If you want/care, use a call that doesn't smear as that's the rarer requirement.
Good points. Though if you've picked up computing from almost the ground up (soldering, hardware hacking, low-level programming, of which I did only a little however), there's that experience when sitting in front of an overwhelming, notebook-melting IDE where you say to yourself "I don't need all those arbitrary abstractions; I've got a pretty good understanding of what I want to achieve, thank you very much" and realize the cognitive overhead can become a net-negative compared to the perceived problems that modern IDEs are attempting to solve. Matter of taste, of course.

As to XML, matched end-element tags (if that's what you mean) actually were a simplification compared to SGML from which XML was derived/subset. In SGML, you can omit/infer end-element tags or can type "</>" to make SGML auto-close the most recent element. I agree the verbose-ness of XML looks especially redundant since it's always the most recent element you have to close anyway whereas SGML (in principle, at least) has overlapping ("concurrent") markup. And I can assure you that around 1998 we had 32bit color monitors and IDEs didn't look all that different from today ;)

But back to the topic, I believe a lot of material has simply vanished from the 'net, or isn't accessible through search engines anymore.
"2. AWFUL OFFICE SPACE Not providing an environment that nurtures productivity Open o ce setups report 62% more sick days Fix: Re-think the open o ce layout"

Or maybe allow partial remote work. I think I have called in sick 1 time in the last 5 years because I couldn't get out of bed. Other than that work from home makes it much easier for employees to not have to take days off for things.
none of them. decentralization (like centralization) is a tendency to an asymptotic pole, not a category a given system can either be in or out of. to put it another way, decentralization exists, but decentralized does not, except as an abstract ideal.

it may be that decentralization doesn't exist at all in its own right, but is best understood as a temporary phase between centralizing regimes.
gxti seems to have been mildly aware of this, but I just set up ssh at home on 2222. So thanks for pointing this out.
Applications on iOS aren't allowed to touch storage outside of their own data store or the photo roll. Some developers used to backdoor around this by passing data via the photo roll, but Apple started denying app approval for this a while back.
Ah, but switch the question around and you have grubers point: Why wouldnt you have an Android version too...

It's the iOS exclusivity that is interesting. iOS has exclusive apps that should be able to run on Android. The reverse isn't as much the case.
Yeah, I don't get the interest in this answer. It's neat-but-useless.
Huh, I don't see what they're seeing in the icon.

Excel 2011, at least, has been a revelation compared to 2008. I'd go as far as to say it's some of the best mouse-driven software I've ever used.

What good is Word these days? A spreadsheet can help you think. With a couple clicks you can have some pretty good data visualization going. All Word does is obfuscate your writing with red underlines under your technical terms, and Calibri.
You say "iPhone users tend not to know a whole lot about how the phone works deep inside, and whether by necessity or curiosity, Android users do."

I don't think that is true. Most Android users have no idea how their phone works inside. They are not techies, they are just smartphone users. Most people have no idea what a computer does inside. Don't think that all Android users are techies because many on HN are.
The prime multiplication is a pretty bad solution. It's actually O(n log n) rather than O(n), since you have to use some form of big integer, and multiplying a size-n number by a constant is O(log n). It is also needlessly complicated.
0 and $ go to the beginning/end of line without entering insert mode

You might find ^ more useful than 0 for indented code as it takes you to the beginning of the text on the line (like the regexp).
> The technique is called hypertexture, officially because it is texture in a higher dimension, but actually because the word sounds like "hypertexture"

i'd love to know what this means.
ConnectBot has saved my bacon on more than one occasion!
People really need to learn the difference between ordinal, cardinal, and nominal numbers... And what 'semantics' are.
We may discover that the act of passionate conquering makes men feel that much more closer to "God". The "Immigrant Song" exemplifies the hellish glory of war, to me personally.

"And now you better stop, and rebuild all of your ruins. For peace and trust can win the day, despite all of your losing" [Know now, our conquered subjects, that we are your virtuous overlords, so let peace be with you hereafter. We will install our heaven here, for you and with you. Now, come with us.]
I applied to a few startups for positions that asked for ~5 years experience right out of school.

My email usually consisted of asking if they would consider someone of lesser experience (perhaps as a half-year trial) with pay of course commensurate with experience. Some companies seemed very receptive to the concept.

Also: EVERYONE I interviewed for was far more impressed with personal projects than academic credentials

I got very far with one Boston startup, where they debated internally whether taking me or holding out for someone older would be a better idea, but I eventually took a different offer instead (from a small-company, but not a startup)
> All those grandmasters could be doing amazing things for the human race

I'm not so sure chess masters would necessarily be good at other things like say physics as they would have to have a passion in that to even become remotely viable for race saving. Grandmasters likely have been playing and practicing and have been absolutely absorbed in chess for many years in order to achieve their status, but I don't know if it would be as easy for someone who thinks chess to become absorbed in something like medicine or aeronautics or other such things.

Edit: if you have a subscription to the new yorker this was a pretty good article on what a single grandmaster is like http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/03/21/110321fa_fact_... [PAYWALL]
Exactly, if we continue to allow our governments to pull this stuff, soon enough we WILL be in the same boat.
Depends. Local storage is also not perfectly available. If the network is reliable, you can probably get availability high enough that the system feels "close enough" to how local storage feels. Today's networks aren't that reliable, but someday there may be enough redundancy and bandwidth for this to happen.
Yeah, this is a nice improvement. You can see it in detail with a tool like Slowcop (the identical resources loading):
http://slowcop.com/reports/4db4dd3e728daf5e96000007/reddit-c...
"Show me the picture you took of me on the street. It's mine, after all." How is this transparently foolish demand different from the one in the article?
I'm not looking at NASA's progress at all here. I'm sure SpaceX can accomplish a lot in that time frame, but saying they'll definitely be on Mars then is simply wishful thinking. Lift capacity is not the sole limiting factor.
Fixed. I am usually against long titles, but if the community prefer a more specific, albeit longer, title, so be it.
serious question: how does this work for something like Facebook? Things like Facebook and Twitter don't work well in a decentralised fashion (Does Lady Gaga need to be able to deal with 4 million concurrent connections for all her followers?).
hello pgeorgi - you are a mine of information on this stuff. thanks for taking hte time to explain all of it!

can you tell me if the odroid c1 is a good bet?

http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/12/10/hardkernel-odroid-c1-...

The company will provide images for Ubuntu 14.04 or Android 4.4 KitKat with Linux 3.10. I think other people can port os's to it.

I think it's going to be my next computer!
Thought I would weigh in as I have a personal interest and history with fasting.

I once fasted for 25 days on nothing but water. I biked to class and work daily during the fast. After a couple days, hunger cravings disappeared. After two weeks I began to gain a mental clarity that I had not encountered before. I would get a head rush when I stood up too quickly after about 15'r days, but this was remedied by taking a deep breath beforehand. You begin to see and think of things differently when you find that you have given up an activity like eating that is so fundamental to human existence. I lost about 30 pounds (196-166) but almost immediately gained 15 back when I started eating again. I still remember how amazing a strawberry tasted the first time I ate after 25 days. I found a new appreciation for all types of foods I had never enjoyed before Infasted. It was a monumental experience in my life.

There are some commenters claiming different things about fasting, but the body is a miraculous thing and it can go quite some time without food. I plan to complete a 40 day fast along the lines of the Pythagoreans, Buddha, Jesus, and the ancient Egyptian Schools.

I do not, however, recommend this for everyone. An average person should have no problems with a prolonged fast, but there are no guarantees that you do not have some dormant medical issue. I went about my fast rather naively with no medical supervision, and though I had no negative consequences, I can not recommend my actions to others for obvious reasons. I am merely sharing my personal experience.

In a more relevant note to the article, I have found that fasting always makes me recover from an illness more quickly. If I have a cold or any other trivial illness I always fast and recover fairly quickly, again N=1. But I did come to the conclusions of this idea after extensive research into the benefits of fasting.
I have an ASUS with Nvidia Optimus, and once I installed Bumblebee the hybrid graphics work fine.
Doesn't Rusts linear type system ensure the latter?
It would be awesome if youtube's computerphile did a series on this subject. Most professors for this channel are from University of Nottingham.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile
I don't understand the essence of this movement, by all standards it is the mobile lobby who should be to blame.

Killing Flash is like killing the Concorde Airplane, it just means it is too advanced for its time.

Everyone who knows anything about Flash and HTML5 knows that in terms of CPU resources HTML5 is still far far far FAR behind on what the Flash plugin can do... yes, even now.

HTML5: http://themaninblue.com/experiment/AnimationBenchmark/html/

Flash: http://themaninblue.com/experiment/AnimationBenchmark/flash/
Agree that this is nothing new. Manipulation of people through misinformation has been the rule for a long time. What do you think religion is? Manipulation of people through misinformation to coerce people into behavior which benefits society.
This is nonsense. I encourage you to reword your post or delete it. I saw another tweet with a picture of the "attack" and it was like 8 people milling about.

edit: I've also read that the doors were opened to any protestors. There is no attack.
Politics aren't unaddressed. There have been plenty of political threads this year, and every year. At the same time, political flames will take over the site completely if allowed to, so we can't allow them to. This is a hard problem.

If you or anyone want to know how we think about that problem, there are a lot of past explanations at these links:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Of course, there is still a lot of volume going by rail (more than in the past, even)... but relatively speaking, air and truck traffic have taken over a larger share of the total.

https://www.bts.gov/archive/publications/freight_in_america/...

It just would have been nice to see our freight needs prioritize safety and environmental friendliness, but we've prioritized speed instead.
But I do not think it will run on Windows 98

It needs the Unicode APIs
True.

Wouldn't more lines of code give someone more chance to slip in backdoors?
Yeah, totally agreed. But if you read these comments, they seem to be in total amazement about the performance gap and not acknowledging how much of an advantage being a fab generation ahead is.

Customers don't care, but discussion of the merits of the chip should be more nuanced about this.

It also implies that the gap won't exist for very long, as AMD will move onto 5nm soon
He lives in the US currently, right?

That being the case, I can think of a number of reasons to say no.
Respectfully disagree. I don't think you can.

People are reading a website like this because they are looking for confirmation of what they already feel must be true.
I don't; that's a side issue about me personally (the actual reason being that that film production, which is the field I'm in, is generally insured by the producer so I don't have significant liability).

The question I'm asking, though, is why S corporation owners should not pay the same payroll taxes as anyone else. It's not like they don't get to deduct normal business expenses or necessarily create more economic value.