jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks so much for this link, this is exactly the kind of analysis I was hoping for. Clearly this is all a bit FUD, and darcs which gets this right, is trying too hard. I wonder how fast the general merge algo that darcs is using to get this right is? <trollface>
I believe Tim Berners-Lee himself has said that he regrets introducing the "www." prefix. [citation needed]

Edit: he was, in fact, regretting the double slashes. Thanks for the correction.
I was incredibly excited for Chrome OS and got one of the free CR-48s from Google. I like the OS, but thought it was too slow to actually use. I web browse a little harder than most people, and the CR-48 regularly bogged down not only on flash, but on complex javascript like Google Docs. It was just too slow for me to be comfortable on it -- and at the time, my other computer was a laptop running Windows with a Pentium M 1.5 GHz.
Me, too! My whole family (wife + two young kids) started private tutoring about 6 months ago. What kind of resources are you finding helpful?
I'm using Preact now in building a widget to be used on third party sites. I didn't want the heft of react, but yet that is what I knew well. Enter Preact. It has been fantastic. I've basically used all my react knowledge without any of the weight of React. Kudos to the Preact team.
I tried setting up a web-interface and I think converse.js was the least bad. It was still not great; had some issues with group chat bookmarks (I guess there are two standards?) chat-secure and monal both were very marginally better IMO.
I don't work in this space anymore. Some I can't talk about but part of what I can talk about is still a pretty big problem, which is finding layer ordering, materials, thicknesses, etc of the shielding. You have problems like that neutrons are absorbed differently than protons, alpha particles, and beta particles (all those are charged). So you want to use thing like hydrocarbons for neutrons (read plastic) and you probably want to dope it. BUT there's a big problem that the energy level matters a lot. Gadolinium is known as having a good neutron cross section, but that is only for thermal neutrons and hot neutrons (as you'd find in space) don't see gadolinium differently from dense materials like titanium and aluminum (good for charged particles). So the problem is to layer, dope, etc. And to do that while accounting for secondary factors like that you can have materials become hot as exposed to radiation and then you also have to consider physical shielding. The solution space is extremely large and you search it by simulation.

As for getting electricity you can probably imagine that if you have two conductive plates that they will get charge levels across them and that's a capacitor. There are other ways to extract energy though and finding ways to do this is very helpful. But there is a theoretical limit to the energy and don't expect to replace solar panels unless you can capture those particles and use a nuclear process instead of an electromagnetic one.

If you're interested in this start searching for betavoltaics[0]. That uses the E&M process whereas an RTG uses a thermal process. There's nothing stopping you from using both though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device
The IPCC predictions on climate change and sea level rise are pretty accurate (albeit sometimes conservative).

Just look at this graph comparing the predictions from 1990 to the actual observations: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Cli...
Let people have fun for fuck sake.
I forgot about the operating systems - we did have that one too. It's split into two semesters, of which only the first is mandatory. We did all the synchronization techniques, page replacement, scheduling, memory management and general structure with assignments being coding on the Windows Research Kernel (which is surprisingly well written). I think the second semester talked more about file systems, but I didn't take that.

I agree that group projects can be really annoying, the main point seem to be the "random students". Over time (and projects) I found a group of people I could work and have fun with very well, so late night shifts weren't as annoying as they could otherwise have been.
Probably a 10-year diploma, if you ask Norvig?
Sounds horrible to me. Gender is either male of female. There is no gender called "Ada Lovelace" and no gender called "yes" (haha, you are such a funny guy..).

Now i'd like to search for all male people from germany with interests in IT. Oh what? Some of them wrote "male" some wrote "man" and what not? Wait, that doesn't work anymore?
I very much hope the freetext form is banned again..
If people want to express that they are funny or "special" they can do that in another textfield, like self description, but not in the gender textfield, that's just stupid and NOT well thought of.

Internationalization is another nightmare here. People will put the gender in their local language in that field. Great.
so, iam on ppc, will you provide 10.5 in the future?
I don't believe that this is intrinsically correct. Part of what makes I feel makes a game good or not is if the rules are consistent and can be extrapolated.

If every action is a special case, the game is frustrating to any player trying to build a mental model of the cause and effect relationships within the world.

Now on the other hand, the premise of a game and it's basic interactions may be enjoyable, or at least conceptually enjoyable, by themselves. There need not be the call for the player to accept the gestalt as it is.

Personally, I'd like to see an Angry Birds clone that made it a little easier to understand what's going to happen when you launch a game object in a particular way.
The numbers are even more telling when you factor in the other major projects as well. The numbers for the kernel in particular do a great job of showing which organizations are actually driving Linux to desktop adoption.
Odd. For me it's the exact opposite--any and all advice about how to grab the situation by the horns and take the initiative and approach girls, nothing ever worked out, but things did happen when I least expected them.
It's not negative at all. It is a credit to Linus as a creator. Linus made a great tool and the command line UI is enough for him. Gitbox just makes his creation accessible to others and everybody wins.
I got notified by this because I have a few old accounts, like, I set up a ton of accounts just because I needed to test something.

And actually, if anyone wants to own `@INeedToTest` (maybe a QA oriented account?) let me know :)
Just ran an update and got this:

==> Homebrew has enabled anonymous aggregate formulae and cask analytics.
Read the analytics documentation (and how to opt-out) here:
https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics

Opt-out analytics capture? A bit of a shame it's not opt-in.

The fix is to run:

brew analytics off
I know :) And that's cool, and that property is the base of my own programming language. I am also trying right now to find some explanation why it's cool based on some fundamental conclusions from theoretic computer science...

I just feel that when someone says that Lisp does not have syntax or that syntax is not important, it's plain wrong...
The idea of "let's show pictures directly in the terminal" is as old as terminals themselves.

It never works, because abstracting away from visual distraction is the very point of terminals in the first place.
This is what I understood: I think the software uses the GPS and camera orientation to calculate which way the sky moves relative to the lens. Then uses the camera's image stabilisation to track the sky, i.e. instead of moving the camera, move the sensor.
Did you work at my current company? Because that's Exactly what happens here.

Also, I'm so sorry you had to touch EDI, if you did.
Because they are anti-progress and anti-science. For every horrific story of "we didn't know the dangers involved until it was too late," there are dozens of other new technologies that give people "bad feelings" that lead to great advancements.

Just imagine if the anti-vaccine hysteria of today was present in the the past. Polio and small pox could still be rampant today.

Look at what the anti-nuclear power activists achieved during the 1970s - a greater reliance on fossil fuels for generating electricity.

Now today we are dealing with unfounded fears of GMOs. You and I can probably comfortably live with higher food prices, but millions around the world can not wait for 30 years of study "just in case."

And then you have fearmonging pushed for political reasons, such as this new opposition to building the Keystone pipeline, created to be a political wedge issue. The result? More oil transported by railcar, which uses more energy and causes more oil spills. The rail yard near me now had to expand into swamp on the Mississippi river[1] to accommodate for all the extra oil railcars.

[1] http://therippleeffectmn.blogspot.com/2014/11/wetland-versus...
I'm going to assume that IQ does measure general intelligence, since it is highly correlated with all sorts of positive life outcomes that seem to be associated with general intelligence.

Given this, I'm more inclined to draw the conclusion that rationality is not central to intelligence. Most real life problems don't reduce to a logically complex puzzle. As my kung fu teacher once said "fighting isn't like a game of chess". In general, real life problems involve a mix of hard logical constraints, and soft constraints that cannot be reasoned about, but rather rely on intuition.
The relegation to a niche of desktop computers at the hand of tablets and cell phones is supposed to evoke the death of Apple II at the hands of Mac?

This comparison is false in at least two dimensions: complete death versus relegation to a niche, and a product family versus a form factor. The Apple II brand was being replaced by a new generation of fundamentally similar and fundamentally more advanced products; its death was foreordained by Apple. The devices that will kill desktop computers don't exist yet, nobody is sure how deeply the desktop market will be eroded by tablets, and Apple shows no desire to abandon the Mac's share of the desktop market. What similarity are we supposed to observe here?
I disagree re LLC's: not only won't VC's invest in LLC's, but conversion to a C corp can be extremely complex and expensive. Indeed, it cost one of my clients about $15K to address tax issues relative to such conversion. In addition, issuing "stock options" is a nightmare with LLC's - not to mention the extraordinary complexity of operating agreements, with their complicated layer of partnership tax provisions.
Ah, it is iFart in a new disguise. Makes me wonder if I could get a variant of the Million Dollar Page to work again.
http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/336/articles/Volume%202/05...
.cl is for Chile.
"Wolfram did not follow Feynman's advice. Not only did he establish an institute but he also founded the company Wolfram Research, makers of the widely used Mathematica software system. Contrary to Feynman’s expectation Wolfram has been a successful CEO for many years. Within this environment he has managed to pursue ambitious directions in basic science, particularly through his 2002 book A New Kind of Science. He has also been happily married since the early 1990s."
That's very true - good point. I wonder what it would actually cost to make this much of a public statement if he spent the money directly that way - maybe it is comparable.
It's not a slight, I think lisp nerds at MIT were the very first people to use the word.
http://www.cyphort.com/isc-org-infected/

paragraph 2: > Angler Exploit Kit
Or, you know, have a super-critical "zone" which is accessible by people of the highest clearance in the company.

The One And Only Private Key Holding Server would be super-critical.

Also, back ups.

There's hardly any new lessons here - if anything at all.
So the 100,000 we're importing each year are all exceptional? Have we absolutely maxed the yield of that 100k? I don't think so.
Your point can not be emphasized enough.

In 2012, all 10 of the top 10 H1B employers were offshore outsourcing companies.
http://www.epi.org/blog/top-10-h1b-guestworker-offshore-outs...

In 2013, 50% of all H1B visas went to offshore outsourcers.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2489146/technology-law-...

It is difficult for me to not say anything disparaging about Graham's analsysis of the problem being just "a handful of consulting firms" when it is actually the primary use of H1B visas.
I don't know what you're talking about. The first part was the best part.
I think it could be made more legible by having a lowercase font instead. Most of us are accustomed to recognizing entire words by just the shape of them, but uppercase text doesn't provide much cues for such pattern-matching.
No no -- Jellyfish markets. That's how I roll.
Have you tried FilesDIRECT? It lets you send files up to 2GB, store up to 30GB (to start!), has tons of features and a 1 month free trial. I believe there's a 50% off sale going on too, but I'm not sure if it's still on...
To be fair, Swastika is considered very auspicious by Hindus.

Here in India, you'll see Swastikas everywhere.
Till I grew up and read about Nazis, I never even knew that there was anything negative about the symbol.
It's just a symmetric symbol and I don't see any reason for blocking that symbol.

The author might not agree with the political views of the Nazis but that is frankly not a reason to ban a symbol.
To use the author's words, no one in the educated world would consider the Swastika as a purely Nazi symbol. Then, why block it for people who have other sentiments attached?

PS: Personally, I don't have any affinity to the swastika or any other symbol. My point is that its just a symmetric shape. Some people have positive feelings, some have negative, others have none at all. As a service provider, your duty is to cater to consumers without letting your personal preference mix.
I am amused by his attempt to correct his info on the history but continuous to be belligerent. Note the symbol in question was the most pervasive religious symbol ever before it was adopted by a political party. If you beleve the cross was adapted from it then all the more respect. Of you remove one religious symbol than ban them all. I dot want to waste my time with this kind of thing but don't make it into am popularity contest. This should be about the game not ego.

PS thismis ome of the first web sites in months I could not read on my web pad due to bugs. What do you guys think this reveled?
I worked at Apple EMEIA for a year and, truth be told, the interview process there depends.

It depends on where you want to work. If it's in Cupertino I'm told it's a completely different story to the EMEIA office. Having worked there, I can vouch for there really being a culture of absolute secrecy. It's quite common for one team to not know what's going on in the other corner of the room with another team. Secrecy has gotten even more prevalent in the EMEIA office (the office being made up of project managers alone, it was formerly less secretive than Apple World Wide/Cupertino) since the Gizmodo iPhone 4 affair. As regards fear related to Apple's security paranoia? It was moreover regarded as an irritation.

Going back to the interview process at Apple EMEIA (I can't say for Apple WW), it depends entirely upon who interviews you, which team, for what role, and what level. There is no set pattern. There may be an NDA for the interview process, there may not. It depends on the role and the person you are seeing. I know some who've had only two interviews, some who've had nine. It depends.
a neutral button to undo upvotes would be nice.
Exactly. It's strip mining. Destroy the 'environment' with a relatively low yield.
I couldn't apply for one of these (though I really wanted one) because I'm not on the US, good to see them put to good use.
One trick is to not even try to learn everything. That makes programming seam insurmountable, and may actually slow you down. Instead, stay goal oriented, pick something to build, and learn how to build it, one step at a time. You will learn to program by solving one little problem after another.
Upvoted. Going off on wild goose chases will waste more of OP's energy, money, and time. Quacks like homeopaths thrive on the troubles of exactly the kind of people who have tried other cures and are desperate.
BestBuy iPads came with a yellow sticker limiting to 14 days, not 30.
Considering how Gizmodo basically stole the spotlight out of the new iPhone announcement

I don't get this. The sum total of Gizmodo's reports were that there's a new iPhone coming with a slightly different appearance. Well, duh. The actually interesting and not utterly predictable details like the 960x640 resolution were released by "legitimate" sources like John Gruber, but nobody seems to be outraged about that.
I think their original idea was great and could definitely have grown into a viable business given time. Looks like the VCs didn't want to wait for that to happen and now they have to do all this social network bullshit.
I wouldn't. Never, it would be a complete nightmare. I was just objecting to the sentence I quoted.
How did having no namespaces in these things not become a massive headache for everyone? That would be the absolute killer argument for me to immediately switch to a different language if somehow possible.
Given it spends around a third of its GDP on military activities, and is a thoroughly planned economy it seems a relatively straightforward inference to make.
Have it both ways, like motorsport. There are championships like Formula 1, where the 'equipment' is a huge factor, and the teams are competing on their tech. This has lead to many breakthroughs in car safety that have become standard in consumer vehicles.

On the other hand, there are many championships where all drivers must drive the exact same car, or the cars are heavily regulated in terms of power output. Here it's all about the raw skill of the driver.

There is room for both of these in running.
Where can I get this $2/month server?

The nice thing about client-side/end-to-end security is that the service provider matters less.

Also, $2/month is $2 more than many people would be willing to pay for private messaging, and I can't message people on a network they're not on, no matter how much I pay.
> Regulate how? What concrete solutions is the author suggesting?

A small group of activists could volunteer to be our ethical conscience. They prefer story telling and emotional appeal to logic, and being warriors all day long, are very tired of everyone else not understanding. And we can't understand unless we go through the same ideological retraining they have, so anything we do is by default failing to reach them. But since they know better, it should be their job anyway to give us the ethical approval. /s
Go just uses the Go build system, which is common to all Go projects, so... it assumes a common build system.

Some people do occasionally use Bazel or other build systems on top of the Go build system for complicated monorepos.
I'm curious of the long term effects.

Like you, I also think it's a disgrace. I had a friend who to me basically seemed like they didn't like dealing with kids, so just gave her daughter a tablet she was glued to at all times. I mean, young, I don't remember the age now but less than 2? She never made eye contact or any noise, just messing with the tablet. I can't help but think there's going to be a whole generation of socially broken kids. But, here's hoping I'm wrong.
Nrk in Norway has an amazing kids channel with no ads. Also on demand option with apps that can age restrict content.
This is fun and all, but also incredibly sad. My fiancée previously complained that I was staring at my phone too much (and she was absolutely right). So, I decided to minimise it. Remove all apps and notifications, and kept it in a corner of the kitchen instead of in my pocket.
Even though she has not increased her screen time, it is now obvious to me that SHE is staring to much into that screen. We are all phone junkies.
I am not sure I follow the logic. The new computation aligns with the experiment.

Why is it more likely for it to be wrong than the calculation that shows the theory deviating from experiment.
At least they didn't register a domain for it.
I used to write my site the same way, but I eventually got tired with inserting tags (and closing tags) in my text. Why type more than I need to (and possibly forgetting things) when Markdown can do it for me, and passes any embedded or customized HTML tags, too?
> In other words, whenever you hear about a CPU with a "massive amount of cores" -- think "could make a great GPU", or "could make a great GPU with the right adjustments" -- from this point forward!

Before doing that, though, they should research the difference between SIMD and MIMD. Multi-core CPUs are generally MIMD, and GPUs are always SIMD†.

† If someone knows of a MIMD GPU architecture, please share!
You didn't describe anything meritorious about Java.

You described the network effect of large companies converging on one language.
>when they are a occupying power with first and second rate citizens. If they did good they would help the Palestinians first or equally, not let them die off.

This is objectively untrue though
Lua has access to the filesystem, but you probably want the luafilesystem module for general scripting, it provides more POSIX and Windows-specific functionality.

As a general rule, the Lua standard library only includes what can be portably built on the C standard library. Instead of "batteries included", Lua is small and portable everywhere ("travel light"), and makes it easy to wrap other functionality via the C API. Sometimes that's a problem, but sometimes it's exactly what you want - say, when Python would be too big a dependency, Lua is an excellent option.

(No experience with MoonScript. I'm content with Lua's syntax. I much prefer it to Ruby's, for example.)
Well, that's your anecdote. My anecdote:

Health insurance went to zero. Back in 2001 there were copayments and my employer would deduct from my paycheck to purchase coverage.

Rent went to zero, or $266 if you count property tax. Back in 2001 my landlord made me pay $750 per month.

Education went to zero if you aren't fussy about your degree and aren't lazy. Dual-enrollment has become popular, letting students take college classes without paying. It's enough for a BA or BS degree. Suppose you insist on an engineering degree. Back in 2001 the cost was about $17,000 per year for me. Today it is about $16,000 per year for my son.

Meanwhile I'm paying about $48,000 per year for food, so I do care about that steak. Even the burger is $5 or $6 per pound, and the reasonable fish is $8 to $12 per pound.
Before backing up, generate an MD5 checksum file for all the files you are backing up. Then verify the backup by re-calculating and comparing the checksums on the DVD.

This way you can verify the disk at any point in the future.
I'm glad to see more governments willing to take a stand. Democracy and freedom aren't just given to us by default. It takes work to uphold.
My understanding is they are veeery careful around rolling out changes and deprecations. The cleverness is that there's a huge asymmetry in how fast Firefox can globally deploy updated shims vs how fast Google can change GA API.
> Dang actually considers the comment fading an absolutely essential feature:

All rulers like the tools helping them reign over their fiefdom.

edit: I actually do most of my HN reading through premii.com, so I ignore all the fading and all the stupid pagination.
"a British Army unit that uses social media to help fight wars. Twitter's head of editorial in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa Gordon MacMillan is a reservist for that unit. Twitter reviewed his Army role in 2019 and found no wrongdoing"