jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is there anywhere in the country where AT&T's network is actually better than Verizon? As much as I love my smartphone (incredible) its best feature is a reliable network with great coverage. Forgive me if I sound like an ad but I live in the heart of the city of San Diego and my friends on AT&T have spotty coverage right here in the heart of a metropolis.
Why is it more secure? Because it is less error prone?
Great UI design. It's whimsical and fun without sacrificing intuitiveness and overall usability; not an easy balance to strike.
Not so different from a Titan IV heavy lift. One difference: Falcon boosters are liquid fuel. They are copies of the 1st stage.
I am curious about what it takes to get PR on Techcrunch.com for a new startup.
It is a proxy or how good you are at other development tasks. I think it's a bad proxy. Mostly because I've read and studied CLRS at school. And I don't use the fun parts much in the wild. I'm also not expected to be able to recall things that you can look up.

One 'slightly' shameful things I noted about myself reading that list of system design interview questions is that I actually don't use most of those systems or know their features well enough. Other than YT of course.

I feel like the simpler interview process would be to just take a person and do a hand wavy system design interview. Then if they pass, hire em on probation for 2 months and slam them with work. They get paid, you maybe get a feel for them.

They sink or swim. You keep em' or toss em' away at the end of the two months.
In my view, yes, when the party being dominated or abused has massive power itself. This isn't about a small entity being abused by a large entity no matter how much you seem to want it framed as such. It's two incomprehensibly massive and powerful entities going at at with one losing due to its own actions.

edit: This is the only view I see that allows the losing entity to learn from the experience and avoid it in the future. Any other view just results in the same thing happening again in the future.
I feel like I'm out of touch with current western culture, I honestly feel like I'm becoming an old fart at the age of 30.

Everything is becoming increasingly infantile. Everything has to be fun and cool. I'm wondering where is this trend coming from. Is this some sort of a social response to how terrible and bleak reality seems to be? Or maybe it's because we actually treat majority of people like little children. If one looks how the current enterprises work, the person within them have very limited decision making power and access to information. In a way that reminds me of a quote from interview with Erich Fromm[1]: "It is true that one has to think first and then to act -but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.".

Any other ideas? Or maybe it's actually not happening at all, and it's only me who's not getting it.

[1]: https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll...

PS: OP, I don't mean that as criticism of your product, I think it correctly identifies and addresses the need. It's the why is it even a need part I'm curious about.
It has both / for division with the usual precedence and | for very tight-binding division, for use in fractions. So 1/6 cup parses as 1/(6 cup) but 1|6 cup parses as (1/6) cup.
It's pretty disgusting to access creators' content for free while blocking their attempts to monetize it.
Or Sahara desert, Soviet union, ATM machine, CD disc, chai tea...

Think my favorite is The Los Angeles Angels - the the angels angels
Well, if you want to go that route, you'd need to count all the energy spent to build computers of all kind since the 50s, and also all the energy spent to sustain the lives of people working on AI. And, well, all the millions of years spent in the evolutionary pipeline before these people where born ;)
Part of the reason many niche markets exist is due to a need for domain knowledge, be it about the product itself, or the particular community you are servicing. I would argue that most niche players have either or both of these attributes, which allows them to hold their ground against would-be competitors.

If domain knowledge is the main barrier to entry, the competitive advantage is not the fact that it's a niche, but the fact that you know something that your competitors don't about that niche.
Ah, this makes filtering people out even eaiser. Time to auto-delete *@facebook.com
Yes, unless there is a billing problem with your account, someone is causing a problem with your account, etc. As an Amazon S3 and AWS user I would say they are fairly reliable overall - nowhere near super-reliable!
You can also check out the Palo Alto Hacker House, http://www.facebook.com/hackerhouse
If their problem is lack of earning capability, that needs to be addressed through education and job creation.

What's the point of creating more jobs if they don't give you benefits or the wages are still fairly low?
yeah... I looked up heaven's gate earlier.

I'm talking about a "do your own thing" place to eat, sleep, and code. not any sort of weird cult.
It can be useful to have a large address space, even if you don't have enough hardware to actually populate the whole thing.

For example, you might split the address space into smaller sections (executable, read only, read/write, shared, etc) which immediately cuts down the space you have. Or you might decide that your method for allocating space is to pick a random part of the address space, and check if it is taken (or perhaps something slightly cleverer). In this case, you will get better performance if there aren't as many collisions.
They still have the "other e-mail service" option, I imagine they just moved the functionality to there.
I think the op mentioned that the investor wants a majority stake. Otherwise, I agree assuming that you know your co-founder well enough that s/he dose not collude with the investor to oust you.
HN is going in the shitter these days. Negative karma for posting an on-topic suggestion. Well, it was fun while it lasted.
The bottom line is that if the company is a solid proof of success, no matter how hard the storm hits it, it will survive the hurricane and reap more harvest than ever. If the company lacks solid foundation, and poorly executes, then it will be wiped out by the rain, resulting in “liquidation”. The biggest difference the bubble makes is putting more players into the game, providing more opportunities for entrepreneurs to create something outstanding that the world can benefit from.

Economists might argue that these poor investments will greatly affect the economy; after all there is a trickledown effect in every financial sector. But Keynes boom-and-bust cycle is not just some theory that can be eliminated with caution. The roots of the boom-and-bust cycle engraved within human nature, and unless we alter the behaviors of all the participants in the economy, and wipe out the concept of greed, preventing this cycle is almost impossible. Thus instead of preventing such cycle, why not let the true entrepreneurs take their innovation to the next level with the boost from the market, and give them the opportunity to change the world, and turn it into a better place? If the bubble can harness more innovation for the world, why is it a bad thing?

(this is the final passage from my blog @ http://milogao.tumblr.com/)
FooBarWidget got a good point though.

When two blocks are explictly tied into a parent-child relationship, it gives the allocator valuable locality information. It is another matter that halloc separates allocation and block binding steps, so the relationship information is not available at the allocation time, and so it cannot utilize these locality hints.
Just read the reappeared sourcecode (assuming it works as advertised): The hash is an SHA256 of pure 4MB blocks in the input file. They add no message type information which could prevent mixups between Dropbox-deduplication hashes and hashes computed for other purposes.

The following dropship file was assembled using only shasum, ls and vi:

{"blocks": ["f3f754a5dcd93f271ad013a5ee84f495a36da84f152e0a1fec4646345b0c10d6"], "name": "ostseestrand.jpg", "size": 514779}

Could someone who has never shared files with me verify that it indeed produces a picture of a beach?
The OP is right on all counts. I live in New Delhi and often work freelance (Python/iOS work). What I've found is:

- Indian companies rarely pay well. I feel lucky if I can convince someone to pay me $12/hr.

- Most have unreasonable qualification criteria. Why do you want a degree when I have references and real world experience?

- A large number of them will treat people who went to "lesser" colleges differently from those who went to one of the IITs.

- I've never received a payment on time. On the other hand, my friends who have done contract work for American firms got paid on time.

This has been my experience. Of course, YMMV.
these guys are smart, they're probably going to use social media,social buys,etc to gain leverage over existing indie distribution channels.

I also smell a partnership with a big gun (like Xbox Live Arcade)
Indeed, it started out as a debugging tool. Weighing in at 2800 lines, it's going the way of irb, giving you a lot of functionality you may never use. For a more modular irb alternative, see http://github.com/cldwalker/ripl. To attach to live running processes, see https://github.com/ileitch/hijack
Maybe different economic benefits to keeping them different. FB is always about the money.
How did they put a 9-acre park on the roof?
It seems that it's not obvious they had a real plan for success. If you are still figuring things out spreading that across platforms will just make you slower.

I have done Android apps for companies who did not have product market fit and it just ends up in having two apps that don't have product market fit.
So how about its speed? Internet Explorer on mobile and other devices (like Xbox) has always had horrifically bad canvas performance, rendering the majority of HTML5 games unplayable on those devices. Will Spartan be addressing that in any way?
If you get there, I'll be interested to see your org get to 20+ people and if you can keep all your rules. No more than 2 mandatory meetings a year seems tough to me. The limits on flex time seem tough as well, especially for leaders. Sometimes your team is going to want to actually talk to you.
You know it is wrong, because it misleads users. UI is not about technical accuracy, it is about what users do.
I'm sorry, I should have posted more clearly. Yes, you will reduce film scratches (and Newton rings and glass scratches) if you wet mount. You will only reduce Newton rings and glass scratches if you use an Imacon/Hasselblad since there is no glass to scratch or produce Newton rings. So, yes, I do think that a wet mounted drum scan will still get you the best quality.
I think that many researchers, given that they're very smart people, know the real value of their work. But even if they know it's not very good, they keep doing it, because, what else are they going to do? After all, it's a comfortable life.

In other words, not everybody is doing great research work, and they know it.
People who sleep 9+ hours a day--is this continuous sleep? I find it really hard to sleep for more than 7 hours without waking up and then forcing myself back to sleep.
In the USA, today (4th Thursday of November) is Thanksgiving.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving
AFAIK stevia isn't genetically modified at all. It's banned because of the sugar lobby.
Yes yes, and paying for your groceries is more expensive than shoplifting too, can we please not have the discussion where people pretend that stealing stuff is just as good as buying it? Most people are law-abiding citizens.
Single page:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/your-busin...
The close button is way too small, and difficult to use from a tablet.
we hear pretty consistently though that yc invests in people, no their ideas.
The link appears broken. Here's one that should work:
http://hseeberger.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/introduction-to-c...
What are you using as users, uniques?
> Lots of features that just don't carry their weight (operator overloading).

Operator overloading is crucial for things like graphics and bignums—basically, heavy math operations over anything that isn't a primitive.
I'm seeing a decent amount of complaints in this thread about this list not having X, Y, or Z item in it. Yes the comments are good but why not also attempt to edit the list on Wikipedia to include the thing you know it lacks?
I expect nothing from you
Some of those things have a floor - LEGO basically never goes under $10 or so a pound even used, so if you can get unopened sets for that price or so, you’re basically guaranteed to make money someday.

Probably not worth it as an investment however - I’ve done it and sure some of the sets I was able to sell for much more but many just sit there.
> Nazism is fascism plus violent xenophobia of specific, ie. of "superiority", kind, like "master race" in case of Hitler or "master nation" in case of Russia.

Ancient Romans believed they were a “master race/nation”. As the quote I provided demonstrates, they believed that “inferior” foreign nations - such as Thracians, Illyrians, Macedonians, Syrians - were “born for slavery”. That is exactly the same as what the Nazis believed, there is no significant difference between ancient Roman and Nazi beliefs on this topic, except for the identity of the “superior race”.

> Roman Empire wasn't a fascist state, thus it was also not a nazist state.

You realise what the etymology of “fascist” is? It comes from Latin “fasces”, which is a special type of axe which was used in the Roman Republic and Empire as a symbol of state power. The Italian fascists adopted the same symbol, and the word, because they saw what they were doing as taking Italy back to the past glory of the Roman Empire. So ancient Rome was the original fascist state which 20th century fascists adopted as their model.
I love it. Just a little enhanced and I would use it regularly.

My primary problem with it seems like you can't move a wall after its placed. Deleting and redrawing instead isn't the biggest deal breaker if it's basically a seamless operation.

As a stopgap I would recommend adding keyboard shortcuts for your tools. If I could 1,2,3,4 to activate those buttons or even Q, W, E, R it would I'd probably have used this for a few hours tonight, haha.

Great work, I think this is a waypoint on the path to a really useful tool, thank you for sharing it.
I so deeply wish for a set of benchmarks that accepted only idiomatic, standard code that a slightly above average developer would plausibly write.

Pretty much every set of benchmarks out there is ruined by monstrous unrealistic code that squeezes out 5% more performance than actually well written code.

As a side note, one flaw of TechEmpower benchmarks is that to my knowledge they use the original "wrk" tool, which only supports HTTP 1.0 and is sensitive to "coordinated omission" [0]. This means it ends up being biased in favor of web frameworks that implement specific optimizations or have specific behaviors that aren't actually useful in a production context.

[0] https://github.com/giltene/wrk2
I'll bet that's what the original fixers thought, too. :-)
"which has been huge" is the key. Businesses typically grow, mature then decline. Microsoft's revenues had stopped growing. The very basis (PC) of their core franchines (Windows and Office) is in decline. It looks like a business that is past its prime.

Can Microsoft reverse this? It's hard for them, because they are so successful. Most other successes look small: e.g. their incredible and profitable xbox business isn't in the same league. To rejuvenate themselves would be like Google coming up with a better business than adwords, or xerox a better business than copiers. It's like Apple TV: a wild success for anyone else, but for a long time, a "hobby" for Apple.

BTW: Apple's rejuvenation, and creating several new categories, is incredibly unusual.

Can Microsoft maintain constant revenues? Windows still has a huge amount of software for it, and businesses rely on it. They also rely on Office. Phones and tablets have not really began to displace these business roles. Microsoft has made Office for them anyway; and it also has Windows for tablet (on Intel). These won't displace current phones/tablets - but they will enable businesses to keep using their software and Office.

Of course, there is an opportunity for new ways to serve businesses, using mobile devices, that will make the old Windows software obsolete. This is how Windows could die. Office might be harder to kill.
Mountain View ;)
The containers for the standard library are indeed at the link you provided. Those are traditionally referred to as STL containers. No?
Intel's done custom packaging, though, like the first-generation MacBook Air getting a smaller BGA package that wasn't available to other OEMs until the next generation processor.
> It's that we in tech know we have to choose between what's best for the vast, vast majority of people and what's convenient for a tiny handful.

Except you almost always opt for the convenience of the handful. Early in the life of a company run by savant programmer types, that tiny handful is the engineering team.

As the corporation evolves, the privilege shifts to the lawyers.
Well, I think that 802.11 is not that bad. Conceptually, the way it schedules packet transmissions over time turns out to be quite efficient (at least in WLANs scenarios), even though this efficiency is somewhat reduced with newer and faster PHY layers (packets transmission being faster, the time spent in backoff to avoid collisions increases the overhead).

From an engineering point of view, my personal opinion is that the fact that 802.11 operates in a completely decentralized way is probably more desirable than having a more complicated solution that would require AP-to-AP communication but would most likely provide only marginal gains (several researchers have shown the close-to-optimal nature of purely decentralized CSMA-style scheduling).
In case of spectrum assignment, it can benefit from AP-to-AP communication, especially if you want or need to enforce particular optimization criteria, such as maximizing throughput or fairness (I've personally experimented with that kind of algorithms as well). But often the overall gain does not justify the extra complexity.
Actually it is deeper than that. It's really teaching you how to see... (and then draw what you see).
Thank you, what is interesting about 2.2 is that we discovered that also operations against the plain old strings can enhance a lot the power of Redis.

For instance GETBIT/SETBIT will turn strings into a large bitmap. While GETRANGE/SETRANGE makes users able to use strings as arrays for fixed length data.

I think there will be big use cases for this new commands, as it is possible to store a lot of data in little space, with O(1) random access.
There are "rules of thumb" which nice people have put together, but they are just a starting point. If you follow the rules pedantically or even closely, the results won't be good. They're just hints to get you going. It's not about obeying rules, it's about how it looks.

The book I referenced is a great resource in explaining why this is true. Part of the brain sees things symbolically, so that when someone is drawing a face for instance, they don't draw what they see as the eye, instead they substitute a symbol in its place. To the person drawing this might look OK, but to other people it looks like a kid drew it. To get good at drawing, you have to shutdown that symbolic part of the brain, and just draw what you see, not what you think you see.
Defense & prosecution aren't on a search for truth, they are on a search to make the best possible case for & against you, respectively. That's their role in the system. Law enforcement (officers, investigators) I would hope to be on the search for truth.
If Songkick went out of business why does the songkick.com domain work and have the same Songkick branding as it used to?
I hope I did not come across as that out of touch.

The reality is, most people barely can meet their basic needs. If you hate that as much as I do, then vote for politicians that care about wealth inequality.
In December of 2019 it would be hard for everyone since COVID would ramp up, business shut down, and hiring freezes were in affect. It didn’t matter the degree you had.
What advice could one give that wasn't dangerous?
What that means is that if you're writing the system you want someone to do 'right' -- you better provide lots of good examples in the docs.

A 'good' example is one that you've actually tested for real to make sure it works, that follows the intended principles for the system in question, that meets actual use cases developers using it will have, etc.

A significant amount of software is released without good docs -- examples being just one part of good docs. So of course developers copy from the examples they can find.
I'm not doing anything with Task Queue at the moment. I'm using the Lucene implementation from Compass (and I've used it elsewhere too), so I am familiar with it.

From memory, I think Compass had a unique problem with the 30 second limit because it would try and re-sync the non-Lucene data with the Lucene indexes (I can't remember what the trigger was for this).

I had quite a lot of issues with Compass-GAE - my impression was that it wasn't really production ready. However, I did notice that Google is using it for their ThoughSite example app, so maybe it has improved.
This British study calls it roughly a break-even, mostly depending on the energy spent on drying the diapers.

http://publications.environment-agency.gov.uk/pdf/SCHO0808BO...
What kind of reassurance do developers get that this policy will not change yet again in the future?
Please replace the URL with the permalink (http://prog21.dadgum.com/70.html), as it currently points to the home page.
Can you elaborate on what exactly bothers you?
It's the Obama administration claiming this right, not the military. It's the CIA that has been accused of torture prisons (and it was Al Gore who had no problem with rendition), not the military. And the Congress really should provide explicit guidance on what is and is not torture, rather than ducking responsibility so that the military can do its job.

I can see dumping the gun camera footage. It may have been principled. The government, after all, chose to ignore what looked to me like an eminently fair FOIA request from Reuters, so it kind of deserved to get p0wned by the Annie Lennox lookalike who runs wikileaks. But a lot of the rest of it just seems like a kid throwing his fellow soldiers under a bus, weakening his country, and being a punk. I'd have done the same thing Lamo did, once I knew the extent of what Manning had done.
I guess I'm too used to the more bureaucratic forms of literature, I barely noticed his literary style. But the substance of his post, beneath the tedium, is worth paying attention to. If twitter follows through with their plan to require client applications to report back whenever someone clicks on a link passed through twitter; I would find it to be a less compelling platform.
In a country twice the size of Germany plus another bit of countryside in Pakistan the same size. If the Taliban were able to be 100% contained within the borders of Afghanistan they would have been utterly smashed and destroyed as a movement of any consequence years ago.
Wayland has been around, I think, at least 3 years before Mir's announcement, though. It's had plenty of time to evolve naturally without any fixed corporate goals necessitating them to act fast.
Think of the date on a written publication not as the publication date, but a version number. This is the "January 26, 2015" version. The version number just happens to look like a date, but it isn't. Much like Windows 95. :)