jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Gender discrimination and prejudice are absolutely terrible (I feel I have to say this before I'm accused of discrimination). But the article doesn't say if she was actually the one at the helm of the ship, and it also doesn't explain why it would be bad to hold the captain of that ship responsible for the disaster (regardless of gender).
Come on, you cannot infer that the author has "very limited experience with shells" from an incomplete (early!) implementation. Read the rest of the thread anyway, you'll understand that you are mistaken very fast.

I agree that a fallback website when JS is disabled (with complete relevant content) would be good (progressive enhancement), with a hint that one may want to try enabling Javascript for fun.
> If companies reinvest the money into their businesses, that's good.

This is a bit of a side issue, but if a company really does reinvest the money into its business, in most cases that reinvestment will be spent on things that are deductible as a business expense, so that portion of revenue won't be profit and not subject to corporate income tax. That's one reason Amazon pays close to zero corporate income tax: they book very little in profit, since they reinvest most of the their revenue into qualifying business expenses to expand the business.
Not convinced Kindle sales have been wiped out.
Your best bet would be to get an existing contributor to post for you, then you ask to get added as the Maker (green M icon) & get permissions to comment.

Do you know anyone that likes your app and has posted before?
I'm still in my 20's, but I do need at least 5-6h of sleep to perform well the next day. Powernaps like i0nutzb suggests work for me too, but I wonder, are you anywhere near productive on any day between 8am en 11am? If not, wouldn't your employer understand you arriving later, if that means you're able to work more productively the rest of the day?
Considering that it appears to disproportionally target women, labeling it "misogyny" seems completely fair, whatever underlying mental disorder they suffer from.
Argh, please, no.

Over time I know the term 'native' has been used for many things, but I'm pretty sure the most recent peak in usage started with the iPhone SDK, where it meant 'apps which aren't based on a web browser'. Since then, I've wanted _so much_ for web technologies to become the best platform for making apps, but the hard truth is, they're not. With 16 years more web experience than iOS, I'd still rather shoot myself than use web technologies to make an app with the same UX quality, maintainability, and development time I can achieve natively.

I'm pretty sure the native vs hybrid argument has been settled - for now, though I'm always keen to see new developments.

Seeing software vendors and articles like this pushing to use the term native to describe _the very thing which is not native_ seems a little sad and desperate at best, and an attempt to confuse at worst.
Also, yes: 2G1C. (That was supposed to be art, right?)
And if the specs change after the code was written (as usually happens in real life), who's code would have been easier to update? There is a reason experienced people may put more effort in to certain areas they junior programmers, they will have an idea what is likely to change and when.
Depending on the instance that you have provisioned, you have anywhere from 1 to 4 ephemeral (local) disks available to your instance.

They are typically available as /dev/sd[bcde]

In centOS, implementing a RAID-0 block device across 2 ephemeral disks that is present on an m1.large instance can be done via the following:

mdadm --create /dev/md0 --metadata=1.1 --level=0 --quiet --run -c 256 -n 2 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc

You'll then need to format the block device with your fs of choice. Then mount it from there.
Sorry, I'm trying to take them as quick as I can, but the camera on my phone is slow. :)

Anyway, me neither - mostly people that look like they're trying it out by taking a picture of whatever's nearest.
Days? The current existing version can tow 7 tons from LEO to LLO in 6 months, so I don't think we'll get to Mars in days.
"The problem is, while pg outwardly disapproved of our actions, we know he secretly loves founders that push the limits!"

You know what, though: the response function around the limit is not a smooth bell curve; it drops sharply below the x axis as you go past the peak.
I strongly believe one of the most positive aspects of EC2 was that it demonstrated a beautiful philosophy that a node and their disks should not be relied upon to always be around and pushed it into the mainstream.

Even for people who didn't use EC2 the existence of the platform caused more people to rethink their architectures to try to rely less on Important Nodes.

EBS is a step back from that philosophy and it's a point worth noting.

One of the great things this post does is enumerates some of the underlying reasons why relying on EBS will inevitably lead to more failures and in ways that are harder and harder to diagnose.
Agree that it's likely the endgame for human manufacturing in most cases. Humans will probably remain in specialized niche cases, but they'll be where either human dexterity or flexibility is still faster/cheaper than deploying robots.

Eventually humans won't be manufacturing. As the Chinese/Indian/etc standard of living increases they'll also be using robots like this. Specialization continues its upward trend. Cities will thrive or fail based on what they are able to specialize in.

Social nets, declining population, and possibly new economic models will have to step in where manual labor was previously able to fill the employment gap.
I'd be really interested in hearing how Sales of this framework either A) Are going currently or B) How they go eventually (if you are just launching this).

I've developed some nice components and libraries for iOS and I'm just wondering how successful one can be selling these. I'd love to hear more about this aspect.
THIS. Akamai is using technology designed in 1998. I wish they would work with opendns to fix it.
Trying to use a tool like iostat against a shared, network provided block device to figure out what your level of service your database is getting from the filesystem below it is an exercise in frustration that will get you nowhere.

This may be true under Solaris. Since 2.5 Linux has had /proc/diskstats and an iostat that shows the average i/o request latency (await) for a disk, network or otherwise. For EBS it's 40ms or less on a good day. On a bad day it's 500ms or more if your i/o requests get serviced at all.
Besides the added complexity of assembling components together in LEO, placing any mass into low Earth orbit is really inconsistent with putting it into a trans Mars trajectory and adds a giant extra delta-V penalty. It's a much different orbital inclination, plus there's the added energy loss of circularizing a trajectory into low-Earth orbit and later boosting out into a hyperbolic escape trajectory. As far as I understand it, it would be faster and cheaper to develop a true heavy lift launcher.
it should, if I'm understanding you correctly. which org and repo are you looking at?
Any investment ideas stem from this? Where's a safe place for one's money? It seems as though the price of gold has more or less adjusted for this already. Right now I've got a bunch stashed in Inflation Protected T-Bills...
I think the humble mostly refers to the games/apps inside the bundles. They might be indie hits, but they aren't mainstream. That's the way I took it at least.
https://github.com/documentcloud
This is another component of the emerging "economic/currency wars"...

"Oil Not Priced in Dollars by 2018?: Some oil producing countries and big buyers are hatching a plan to move away from pricing oil in dollars—a potential blow to the greenback's prestige" (http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/oct2009/gb2009...)
What makes it a "race" if the US can just halve it's dollar value tomorrow by simply printing money? Isn't the value arbitrarily set by the feds using inflation and supply?
The total ammount of BTC is fixed and so at some point it won't be worth it to allocate any more computing resources to it.

Even right now, I doubt you can just grab a high end GPU and get cranking for a profit, unless you manage to steal electricity or steal access into a computer you don't own.
If you read it in context, they're saying that Anonymous is affiliated with 4chan, not with the hackers:

> The hackers suggested they had chosen Gawker out of

> spite. They said Gawker writers had been critical of the

> online message board 4chan, a chaotic group that mounts

> attacks on Web sites and individuals.

>

> An affiliated group, Anonymous, gained attention last

> week for apparently taking down Web sites like

> MasterCard’s in a show of support for WikiLeaks, the

> organization that facilitated the release of secret State

> Department cables.
> For doing data compression has anyone ever heard about using these techniques to generate other things besides 3D game levels?

These techniques are routinely used in the demoscene for making 4Kb/64Kb intros. In this kind of intros almost everything is generated procedurally, not only meshes, but also textures and sound.

If you are interested you can watch one of these examples:

- Elevated (4K intro)
Binary: http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=%2Fparties%2F2009%2Fbreak...
Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YWMGuh15nE

- .kkrieger (96K game)
Binary: http://kk.kema.at/files/kkrieger-beta.zip
Gameplay video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5U4hEzZzaE
I'm disinclined to trust Gnosis' word for it, but they say they don't have access anymore: http://www.mediaite.com/online/exclusive-gawker-hacker-gnosi...

If the servers are still compromised, I don't think they'd have stopped with a dump full of hashes and a few posts on Gawker. My guess is that the intrusion was discovered while they were doing the dump, which is why it's incomplete.
Here, the simplest language that works:

$ 'Hello World!'

@ 10
$ 'Hello world'

@ 1:10 as i
$ i*i

? 2>1 $ 'Two is greater than one'
| $ 'No it is not'

# fact(n)
? n<2 -> n | -> fact(n) * n

$ fact(5)

If you can guess its basic constructs then you are already proficient in it. As in python, white space is important.
Cool writeup!

This is apparently because some versions of Windows don't understand shared locks

Which versions? It seems even the Windows 95 had FILE_SHARE_READ and FILE_SHARE_WRITE which are effectively shared locks (it just didn't have the FILE_SHARE_DELETE)
Can you explain (3)? Isn't it enough to check whether you're on the right domain before logging in? Or is this to prevent logging in at an IDN URL that looks like the real URL?
Unfortunately he probably missed a more business oriented partner at times. Very interesting read.
We already have that data.

The debated question is how many times said money continues to circulate.
I'm unsure how something that is unreleased can be "backed by an active community".
Google Ariane 501. Enjoy.
IIRC it's mostly bog-standard. Most of their modifications are either simply changing the branding, changing the i18n files, or adding custom software. That said, it would probably be quite fun to send GPL-compliance requests for source code, I almost want to try :)
Moderna received WARP funding though, I think they definitely were on the list of most promising vaccines. There were 6 most promising western vaccines: Biontech, Moderna, J&J, Oxford, Novavax and Sanofi. It was clear they were the ones needing preemptive production. Sanofi didn't play out, but others are doing ok.
Some cryptocurrencies also use PoS natively, and have been for years
For the English words used in Dutch, do you use Dutch pronunciation, even if the word is spelled the same?

We all know how Dutch people like to pronounce their Gs :)
Java basically has the same thing:

Quick Google gives: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1515811
I like that mapping
There is a great video on youtube that explains how it all works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MXYZh1jcs

He gets into the explanation of how the tracker software works about 8min 30seconds in.

Typically though if you got a cracked game at that time it would have the crackers group name and there would be a little graphical demo and some tracker music.
Apparently that's the official British Army term. The unofficial term is FISH, which stands for Fighting In Someone's House.
Hey looks like we both worked there! Break everything and be paralyzed, that was our motto.
The article is about gamers also...

The jump to F1 and even NASCAR is ridiculous...

Again, SCCA is a 50,000 member organization. NASA is another large racing org.

You should imagine that most NASCAR racers are not racing for the first time when they first enter a stock car, things like Spec Miata and even competitive go-karting are not any less “real” racing, to say otherwise is gatekeeping.
Forbes: Coronavirus Patient Dodged A Bullet With Hydroxychloroquine.

Mar 22, 2020,01:43pm EDT

"Two scientists at major university centers reviewed the French trial for me. They agreed, separately, that while the study is preliminary, small, and not without flaws, its findings were strong enough, given the drugs’ known safety records, to guide treatment decisions in a crisis.

“Despite the limitations of this study, in the absence of any effective treatment, in this urgent situation, this Plaquenil and Azithromycin combination therapy should be given to patients with COVID-19 as a treatment option,” Ying Zhang, a professor of microbiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote in an email. “For now, there is no time to wait."

Brian Fallon, a research scientist and clinical trials investigator at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, agreed on the study’s overall merit despite the patients who dropped out. After analyzing the data and counting all six dropouts as treatment failures, he said the overall rate of improvement was still statistically significant for the entire group, though not for the hydroxychloroquine group alone."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marybethpfeiffer/2020/03/22/one...
> When you document how something behaves in any particular case programmers are going to use it, especially in a case like this where the behavior is actually useful.

This is true and also the reason of the extraordinary warning and the years-long phase-out.

The old count is not really a sharp-shooter, however once we got accustomed to it, we all have our habits.

I only once needed it, IIRC:

function good_old_count(mixed $mixed): int
{
return (is_array($mixed) || ($mixed instanceof Countable))
? count($mixed)
: ( (int) ( null !== $mixed ) )
;
}
How is this a "hack"? If anything, not using CRLF line endings is the hack, because it means you can't just send the file straight to a terminal: the line endings have to be translated by something on the way to the terminal for it to display properly.
That’s per adult in the household is it not?
Facebook is not irreplaceable, since there are alternatives to all of Facebook's features:

> i) Business pages that are easy to create and maintain for small, local business owners

Business directories such as Yelp and Google Maps (Google Business Profile) allow businesses to maintain an online presence comparable to a Facebook page.

Business owners can also build websites without needing advanced technical skills with WordPress.com, Squarespace, or Wix. This takes more work than a directory listing, but designing a site with these tools isn't much harder than making a slide presentation.

> ii) Facebook events for listing information and keeping in touch with registered attendees, as well as event discovery for users

Meetup and Eventbrite do what Facebook events do. Mobilizon is a decentralized FOSS alternative. These other sites already exist, so people would already need a search engine to discover events across all of them.

Users migrating to these sites would need to learn how to use them, but I don't think using something like Eventbrite is significantly harder than using Facebook.

> iii) The importance for certain creators hosting their content and connecting with their user base on Instagram (assuming that would be also cancelled, as it is owned by Meta)

Instagram users would migrate to other social media platforms like Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, and Reddit. Professional photographers would also use photo hosting sites like Smugmug/Flickr or 500px to showcase their photos. Pixelfed is the fediverse equivalent to Instagram.

> iv) Controversial due to the privacy implications, but a lot of companies rely on paying for Facebook advertisements to survive (which is driving why Meta is valued so highly on the stock market).

Brands and advertisers follow their target market. Whichever social media platforms the Facebook and Instagram users migrate to, the brands would use to advertise.

Facebook closing down would inconvenience its users in the short term, but the affected users would adapt by switching to alternatives. The people who don't know about these alternatives would know about them as soon as Facebook leaves, since these services would be publicized by the media and by former Facebook users.
In case of count this is more likely not because of a different web but the changes we can see for stdClass, arrays and the object model.

And give peace a chance, it is not always love on first sight when something unexpected happens.
Briton is the correct demonym for a citizen of the United Kingdom[0]. Britons is the preferred way to speak about all residents of the British Isles without having to use a qualifier, e.g. British people, People of Britain.

Compare Finland, Denmark, Scotland.

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectival_and_demony...
[1] I'm a British Citizen
Your thought is a good idea because it follows the principle: if you want to be in any kind of business: incorporate the darn thing!
It's not like code in other languages isn't indented.
Isn't there a StackExchange site for this where you'll get a better and it will better help others in the future with the same question?
What's the actual data structure behind this? Is it something like the blist[1] (i.e., counted b+ tree)?

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/blist/

EDIT: Nvm, the article actually links to the implementation and it seems to be an order statistics 2-3 tree: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-368.18/Collecti...
"Maker" is a trademark, a business meme, a customer movement, a manufactured lifestyle, a social branding strategy, invented and run by O'Reilly Media.

It's not evil and corrupt, like Oracle, but it's not grass roots and organic, like the Occupy movement.

http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler

http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/01/why-we-spun-out-maker-media...
I'm really amused that he is currently listed as a mentor for 500 Startups. I wonder how good his advice has been?
I completely agree. I find her writing very straightforward to understand.
In a world structured like that, it sounds like there would be good business opportunity in developing software and services that run on a general computing device.
Did this jump out at anyone?

> he praised the creation of a holiday dedicated to the Second World War: “Victory Day of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.”

Is explicitly calling out Japan (or other countries) typical for contemporary Chinese propaganda? From my understanding, relations between China and Japan are not exactly friendly, but this seems a step towards inoculating the population with a villain-like image of Japan (if it does not exist already). What with praising Putin vis-a-vis Ukraine, territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and Japan's increasing offensive military capability, I hope this isn't setting the stage for a horrific showdown in the future.
The appeal is the libraries, like numpy, scipy,matplotlib tensorflow, qiskit the quality and the ease to use them. Basically python became what TCL dreamt of becoming (ok, don't kill me).
It's interesting you posted this, then about a day afterwards Luminex was announced [1] [2]. I'm not familiar with the term of art "latency stingray", and it doesn't turn up in a Google, can you please point me to a page about it?

I'm confused about your assertion "a lot of players high up..."; GS is quite high up there, and they're very active in HFT, as are many others, so that seems at odds with your assertion that powerful players are "tired of HFTs" (unless they are playing only to essentially defend their more strategic interests). Any more powerful than them, and I'm thinking executive political participants, but I'm hard-pressed to think of any of them who could actually put something actionable into place would care about HFTs. Unless the volatility induced by HFTs during certain market scenarios is presenting a problematic obstacle for achieving specific nation-state strategic goals, I can't see how national-level political actors would involve themselves with clamping down on HFT activity?

Anyways, fascinating food for thought, thanks for bringing this up.

[1] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/money-managers-led-by-fidel...

[2] Paywalled: http://www.wsj.com/articles/money-managers-led-by-fidelity-c...
I don’t disagree with or dislike the article, but I feel the author could have included some examples of what he considers programming, and what he considers hard, as he listed quite extensively the things he doesn’t consider programming or hard.
> they don't care about my company at all

So why is Google this way? They already have a terrible reputation for their non-existent support. Never thought they'd treat actual companies this way though. It makes no sense...
Just write plain text files people in notepad.
> all I have is 140 characters

Well actually we've had 280 characters since 2017. Talk about progress!
I'm unconvinced. It's not even possible to whitelist websites for their current "Enhanced Tracking Protection" feature[1]. This smells like another case of over engineering stuff that people never asked for while ignoring what your users ask for.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432644
> It was also pushes the boundaries of what aircraft were capable of

Are capable of.

The SR-71 remains a marvel and it's unlikely that we could build something better today with the same design constraints. Which is part of why the successors to the SR-71 removed the on-board pilot (UAV) or the ability to lift-off without aid (satellites).
Are you taking about the word "Defense" in Oshkosh Defense? Yeah, this isn't a military vehicle. It's a van, not some sort of modified Humvee or anything.

Oshkosh makes lots of vehicles and some civilian kit like fire trucks, air compressors, etc. They saw the opportunity and designed a van to fulfill the specs. Granted, bidding on government projects is likely in their comfort zone, but I would assume they won fair and square unless there was reason to believe otherwise.

The other two finalists weren't major car companies either, at least not in the US. Workhorse is a very small firm with just over 100 employees total, and Karsan is Turkish company I don't know much about.

The Renault Kangoo is probably too small for emerging USPS needs, though the existing postal vehicles are almost as small as the Renault. The USPS's core business is shifting to package delivery, instead of letter mail. E-commerce has changed the mix. They're the preferred shipping carrier for packages in the US, being generally less expensive than UPS, which is in turn less expensive than FedEx. Packages are bulky.

Also, I think it's irrational for outsiders (e.g. you and I and anyone not involved in the decision) to have strong opinions about the vehicle the USPS selects as the result of its contract and bidding process, much less make some sort of political inference from it. Most things aren't political. Mail delivery van procurement is rarely going to present a genuine opportunity for political insight beyond the usual mundane government procurement issues.