jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Depends on what you mean by "important." You noted yourself that "life got easier" once the language you used introduced generics.

Generics can drastically reduce the time required to implement features because less time is spent on re-implementing (nearly) identical algorithms for different data structures and more on simply using them to write something that works.

The cost paid for this is usually in the form of minor efficiency hits because data-specific efficiencies aren't exploited.

Also, consider me complaining about C's lack of generics. It is in fact the primary reason I prefer C++. If C had robust generics with reasonable syntax I'd strongly consider using it instead of C++.
I think you missed a '0' there. And not all applications are created equal, some really do have more business logic and systems requirements than others. 100K visitors on one machine is usually doable, 200K as well if the website isn't all that complex and the interactions between users aren't all that complex. Above that you're (usually, not always) going to see some clustering.

If it is just static content then you should be able to saturate your uplink from one single machine.

The 10K number applied to the whole setup, and that's now comfortably served from one box (as it should be). It could probably handle 10 times that number now without too much in terms of additional tuning (if any), above that it might require more work.
Ridiculously simple and wordy. Exactly the stuff the computer should do for me.
We know it's a ton of questions, and not all of them are very important. But the goal here is to separate those who are truly motivated from those who will come in and just lurk, self promote or scout.

I'm sorry if you think we have some hidden agenda, which is certainly not the case as screening the applications is an extreme amount of work. The way the application is set up we will also have a lot less applications being submitted, which is a nice side effect as we already have hundreds waiting.
It's very passive aggressive but it seemed to work, he said that and 10 minutes later half my comments on this page dropped from +4 to -4.
Definitely talk to your doctor.

It's not true to claim that there is no solid evidence suggesting that AA is not effective. There is a lot of shitty evidence both supporting and discrediting 12 step programs, and the author of the linked article has found plenty of shitty science to wave his hand at. Look through the dates of the studies referenced - 1967, 1981, 1985, 1996. The most recent paper there is almost 20 years old, with the exception of Project MATCH (2006), which the author appears to have not read very closely.

The Project MATCH paper which the author above dismisses as "showing everyone does the same with or without AA" actually shows that "12-step treatment had more than double the number of patients who were continuously abstinent at one year after treatment and about one third more at three years after treatment." That does not strike me as being "the same". The latter interpretation of the results comes from Harvard Medical School professors, the former from some random anonymous dick on the internet.

An article on the topic from the aforementioned Harvard Medical School professors (who are addressing a particularly well known "debunker" of AA, who also coincidentally has his own method he is trying to sell) can be read here - http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/04/defense-12-step-addicti.... It references many recent, randomized, controlled studies that directly contradict the assertion that AA has no effect.

My own personal experience is that AA, when stripped down, is very strongly reminiscent of CBT (which I have also been on the receiving end of), mixed in with a strong social support network. I also have seen that AA in practice varies wildly from place to place, so my own experience is likely not the same one that you'd have in the Bible Belt or elsewhere.

If you're struggling, by all means check out a meeting AND talk to your doctor. If you hate AA, don't go anymore.

I tried and failed repeatedly to get sober on my own and with medical treatment for about 8 years, from 26 to 34. Since I have started going to AA, I have been sober for the longest period of time since I was legal to drink (19).

If I had read that smug, halfassed article you posted, I probably wouldn't have gone, and I probably would be either drunk or quite possibly dead, given my intake and behaviour. Addiction is no joke. If you don't know what you're talking about, keep your ignorance to yourself.
> 'Not extension' of an existing invention.

This doesn't exist. What was the last wholly new invention? Maybe the wheel or the stylus?

What I'd argue was the greatest invention of the 2000s, the iPhone, was built on the shoulders of research done by others for decades prior in a variety of fields.
Ok I am gonna be really open minded that we get into YC Summer 2018 :)
> Attracting and retaining users isn't hard.

Have you tried? It is hard, especially in a saturated market with plenty of choices. For mass media (TV, news, social), the scarcity relationship is reversed: you're effectively competing for the user's time and attention. Almost zero-sum, especially when considering the allocation of advertising dollars.

Additionally, the barrier of entry is low, since anyone can make a Twitter clone in 20 lines of Ruby on Rails. So you'd be trying to carve out a niche in social, fighting against network effects and the dozen other college dropouts working on the same idea, while hoping Facebook won't decide to implement your differentiating feature. That's not easy.

> Attracting and retaining users that will pay you is hard.

For purely discretionary purchases, yes. This is what makes the success of eg, Viber all the more remarkable. They made a $900 million business by selling electronic stickers. Anyone can sell stupid stickers, but it takes sheer execution to get $900 million for it. Not easy at all.

Since it's so difficult to get paying users in social, you can hedge by relying on a (slightly) less elastic source of revenue: selling those eyeballs and clicks to advertisers. But the traffic needs to be high and consistent for a scalable operation. And again, you're back to square one. Not so easy.
Already an active submission on it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25683727), maybe the threads could just get merged?
>The price of a USDT is 1 dollar. They give out new USDT for $1 a piece.

If this were the case, Tether would be back by cash. But it isn't: they claim it's backed by cash, cash-equivalents and receivables from loans, including loans to affiliated entities (or some similar language).

So, for example: they could create 1M USDT and immediately loan it to their associated crypto-hedge-fund (for zero interest). The hedge-fund promises to repay that loan in USD (creating 'reserves' for USDT), and immediately places buy orders for Bitcoin; generating demand for Bitcoin that will raise the price.
I agree that USDT is fishy and it may be behind a large percentage of the gains in BTC and the other coins.

However, there is also another possible explanation. When investors want to buy BTC they first to go Binance and ask for USDT in exchange for USD. Binance creates new USDT for them. Then they use the USDT to buy BTC (reverse causality). Just saying it's possible, but I believe Jacob Oracle to be right.
No I was thinking of modern filesystem compression solutions. They offer relatively poor compression ratios, but computationally efficient decompression.
https://twitter.com/NiamhSweeneyNYC/status/13471854630571171...
>does not have a "killer app" and is 99.99% used for speculation

You could argue speculation is the killer app. I'm not a fan but it's hard to deny it's a huge business and some people seem to like it. Kind of like Las Vegas in a way.
With reserved instances I'm not even sure it is more money. It is more money if you just spin up on-demands all of the time.
Not quite understand question. If you asking how do handle secret phrase, its used to decrypt user object, that comes from server when you login
> Atheism too speaks of something that can't be measured: the certain non-existence of the thing every human culture has sensed, longed for, believed in some form or another since the beginning of humanity.

Not at all. It simply states that our desire for something isn't sufficient evidence for its existence.

For example: I really want ice cream. Therefore I have ice cream. If you assert that I do not have ice cream you're clearly wrong because I really want ice cream.

> The theories include those of super-intelligent life beyond our measure, which really isn't that far intellectually from the idea of God.

Morally and ontologically it is. Or we can just call the tallest building in the city God.

> these men's insights into and pioneering in their scientific fields were driven by philosophical commitments to the divine origin of the universe

They were. And Soviet scientists were driven by a commitment to the revolution.

The constant in religion and philosophy and science and commerce and art is human beings and their psychology.
Definitely. Culture is not trivial to get right, and the period of rapid growth when companies often mishire HR people is exactly when it is most needed.

I could see hiring a low level HR person in more of a clerical role and then hiring a community builder or evangelist or whatever to focus on culture.
New Year's Eve was also an odd choice for starting a last call.
I have never left a job because of my Boss - not matter how good your Boss like King Canute is you cannot turn back the tides
I don't mean to cherrypick, but to address your main point:
I did not leave my last job because of my boss, to the contrary, he was one of the most motivational/mentor figures I'd ever had, bar none. (To the point that I actually really regret leaving.)

I left because I was told that due to it being academia, I was hard capped at essentially <2% yearly raises unless I swapped jobs out and back, and holding myself to a hilariously low academic salary this early in my career was going to really set me back financially in the long run.
That's odd. My number is in the leak, but it doesn't check on this website.
In my little corner of Germany, the Nürnberg (Nuremberg) metro area, the Nürnberg city library (Stadtsbibliothek) charges about 10 EUR/year for a library card, and Volksbücherei Fürth is 18 EUR/yr for adults, with various discounts for students and public assistance recipients - the latter is a foundation.

But a card for the Erlangen-Nürnberg Universitätsbibliothek, and if you're willing to wait for delivery, every other academic library in Bavaria, was something on the order of 5 EUR, and required absolutely no connection with the university other than having an address in the area.
I did that in DB2 or Oracle (or both, don’t remember - it was 15 years ago and the project used both) because I needed millisecond time resolution and the database date time field did not support milliseconds.

Among the option of storing (date field, millisecond field) and (date as iso8601 text field with millisecond without time zone) I chose the latter, and I can’t tell for sure but it was almost surely the better choice.
I don't understand why this has reached HN frontpage, sorry.
There are thousand of weird, demoscene, experimental sites and this one in particular is dull. Dull, dull, dull, dull, dull (as a monty python's reference)
My understanding is that they used to "follow" that by making someone check a box saying the uploader was CPOE compliant.

The "secondary producer" (anyone who "publishes, reproduces, or reissues") has had limited enforcement and is what would cover Pornhub.

More recently they have changed to collecting legal identification of anyone doing an upload at least.
> Their office suite continues to be the greatest digital productivity tool since the calculator.

MS Office is only as successful as it is because of the 1990-2010 Windows monopoly.
So you think they were already declining ten years ago, and still are? Amazon's market cap has gone up by a factor of 20 in that time.
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cac...
If A_n is a sequence of sets bounded by these square like curves, then m(A_n) -> pi, where m is a Lebesgue measure. Each set is clearly measurable, since it is closed in Euclidean topology, and thus Borel. You can prove this sequence converges by seeing that each A_n is enclosed in some circle of diameter 1+e for some e, and, as n -> \infty, e -> 0.

Thus, argumentation from area will not work here.
Yea I'm in a niche, I see an opportunity and feel that I have the connections to bring publishers and advertisers together and create my own (small) network, but not sure how to set it up (the technology side). I'm thinking about doing an invite only type of network and focus on the targeted advertising advantage.
all of the UEs tested exhibited total loss of LTE communication for more than 12 hours after being subjected to the attack.

Ouch. Thankfully we're not yet a wireless data monoculture.
Hyper-threading (along with some forms of speculative execution which become subject to side channel attacks) is another example of a performance enabling technology with unforeseen security vulnerabilities which are nowadays required to be disabled.

With the death of Moore's law [1], it's not too surprising that newer CPUs (or at least x86 ones) are still recoiling from Spectre and Meltdown et al.

[1] https://youtu.be/MtrZJ4UqSn8?t=1327
Surely it would be scarier if they were forced to broadcast his message no matter what?
No, it's scary that the president has chosen some private company's dumpster fire of a web site to address the nation.
All but 1 of the states that have paperless machines were won by Trump. None of the "contested" states have paperless machines. So while I agree that every state should have paper trails, the argument is irrelevant in for this specific election discussion.
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We are working on something fancier here, but it's tricky to get right so we haven't released it yet.

To be clear: if you're going to share a google account, you should create a new empty google account to do it, and should assume everyone in your family is an admin.

Please let me know if you found something on our site that isn't clear about that.
Oh yah, that makes a lot of sense. /s IF you succeed, you get upside bounded at +20%, but you still have full downside risk. And of course, most things in bio R&D don't work.

Also, re: your other hyperbole point-- this test system is neat and fills a small gap in testing capabilities. It does not have the ability to "save millions of lives" but could be a nice tool among many to help slow things down. It doesn't scale well, so it's not how you'll do most tests, but there are scenarios where having a close-to-immediate result noticeably helps.

> Show me another breakthrough in the past 100 years that could save millions of lives ...

The past century is littered with thousands of examples of technologies that have contributed in this or bigger ways. The Rosch and Abbott machines are going to be the workhorses here, not the Cepheid ones.
Pretty cool indeed. Screencast tells a lot:
http://vimeo.com/16976280
Extensive prior discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1569559
Agree with you on Python, but until universities stop using Java as their teaching language it would be doing high schoolers a disservice to teach them anything else. I can't imagine spending any time on Scheme since they're so unlikely to get it in college.
I think that "most everything is a file" is a core UNIX feature. "Everything is a file" really comes from Plan 9: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs (see Design Concepts, /net, and /proc)
A nice little Hosts file/Manager could also do the trick. Can't wait for the new era of darknets; not that the old one has disappeared.

If the hosts file manager could also work as a dyndns type utility, then servers could change IPs at random and the user would be none the wiser.
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I'm going to mostly ignore your claims that intellectual property protection are required for innovation, and just mention these: quicksort, most network protocols, loads of page replacement algorithms, tons of programming languages and implementations, etc.

I disagree with your claim that intellectual property laws are a continuum and that a reasonable balance can to be found. When it comes to digital software/media, any intellectual property protection at all boils down to authorizing the ownership of an integer. I don't mean this metaphorically or rhetorically, I mean that a patent/copyright/etc. on a piece of software or a digital media file is quite literally a claim of ownership of a natural number.

If someone else wants simply to distribute a list of the natural numbers in order, they would legally have to omit the numbers which represented patented/copyrighted works. You might brush off this argument by saying "that's silly, since the numbers representing a song or operating system would be so large that it's highly unlikely for anyone to accidentally stumble on such a number." That's not good enough for me. People have constructed (discovered) proofs of concept of several illegal numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
I found his article to be very informative, well-written, and I'm glad he took the time to write it.

It's interesting to note the criticisms that he has gotten -- but not surprising. Most developers that I have met share the same trait; they take things personally. When you talk to someone who has spent years of his life learning Linux (or Windows, or C++, or whatever) and then you make a comparison against that, the developer will feel like you personally insulted him. He feels that you are invalidating all of the knowledge that he has painstakingly acquired. We should all, as a group, move beyond this behavior and seek to have healthier and more neutral debates on these things. I have the same bad habit so I'm not pointing fingers here -- just a commentary. We should all thank people like the OP for sharing their knowledge with us.
too slow, quiksilver or alfred ftw
I don't really know a lot of spices. For a while I put a lot of spices on everything then got bored with all of them. If something needs it I buy a premixed package in stead of the laundry list of separate things.

Now I just go by what a person likes and doesn't. Those often end up rather similar to others.

"will eat anything" is a fun category. These are people you can serve blue cheese, olives, liver, tongue, slugs, insects, brains, placenta (I'm joking)

Interesting article, thanks.
The expenses involved in the response to the pandemic aren't in any state's budget. All the states are going to petition the federal government for aid and the Fed is going to print money to cover it. In other words, we're all going to pay for it through inflation. Honestly, that's probably not the worst outcome, but there's no way any individual state, high tax rate or not, was going to be in a position to respond to a severe pandemic like this.
you can calculate the necessary herd immunity by taking the natural R0:
1-(1/R0)
with R0 of 2.4 that would be about 58%
China is in the process of lifting its lockdown right now. The total number of active cases is 5K out of a total of 81K. They are starting to let the healthy out of quarantine, re-opening tourist attractions and getting back to work.
Let me make sure I have my timeline right.

For years experts have warned that another SARS-like virus is going to come out of China, due to their animal husbandry practices and culture of eating certain animals.

Then this disease appears, and China initially tries to suppress news of it. They deny it's an issue. Wasting valuable time and allowing it spread unchecked to the rest of the world.

Then, about three months ago they lock down Wuhan to contain it (an area with millions of people I think?) This means, based on this Twitter thread, that residents can't even walk outside. So, like being incarcerated?

And, people's wages are getting paid still, but as loans they'll owe when this is all over. So, like debt?

What boggles my mind is all the positive news coverage of this. Why are people fawning over this?
If you suspect they won't pay outstanding bills, what makes you think they'll pay severance and health benefits in a downturn?
Oh yeah, it'll be a bad cold. You may well have it now. By no means am I suggesting people run out there and hug the nearest stranger they see, but what I am suggesting, is they not panic. The numbers are in their favor. This could have been much, much worse.
Thanks! I made a policy to stop commenting on our roadmap, but I know someone internally is tinkering with a cellular coverage layer and it might get shipped someday ;)
Churches have closed during other pandemics. Maybe use those incidents as examples so they know it is ok to close down while also not feeling like they're showing a lack of faith. When I checked the webpage of the Catholic diocese I'm located it, it mentioned that Catholics have been released from their obligation to attend mass and this has happened before. Hopefully other churches will have the same attitude.
Hey Jeff, this is awesome. Ansible for DevOps was my bible for a long time - I wasn’t aware the k8s book was even in the works! I’ll definitely be taking you up on that.
Site Catalyst:
http://www.omniture.com/en/products/online_analytics/sitecat...
It's not free though. :/
Ok, smart guys. Imagine Monty didn't have any "probability" of opening a "goat door": he just opens the 1st one (or only one if he only holds 1). It doesn't change anything about the problem; but that fake math quits working.
One exception, noted by the Journal's editorial page, was the first Ghostbusters movie.
I wrote a post about something very similar around a year ago that might be interesting to you. http://www.maximise.dk/blog/2009/01/getting-product-pricing-...
I'm not trying to be overly harsh or offensive here and I'm heading to a new year's party so I'm not going to write another wall of text, and I don't think any further replies are going to be particularly productive anyway since your mind seems to be made up, but I will say that stating opinions strongly doesn't make them true.

Do a search for research on "avatar eye-gaze" and look at the developments in consumer gaze tracking technology by Tobii and others if you want to understand why I and others are optimistic about VR telepresence.

As for your objections on resolution, while 8K 60Hz 4:2:2 8-bit clocks in at about 32Gb/s, 2x4K would fit comfortable under the HDMI 2.0 spec. 4K alone btw gets you to to 20 pixels/degree arc-density at 110 degree HFOV, which is perfectly cromulent for all kinds of use-cases, but as an expert on such matters, I'm sure you are fully aware of all of this already.