jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Having a config option is a good idea. I vote for changing the default behavior because Docker has so much growth potential left. Leaving the default as-is is problematic for the majority of people, both current and future. I think that breaking it is acceptable because a lot of the people who use Docker in production -- especially those that are expecting to be PID 1 -- are early adopters and will forgive you for the slight breakage.
Useful why? It's blocking stuff, that's great. I don't care how many things it blocks on a specific page. It make no difference to me while browsing. The little counter changing just looks like an annoying animated GIF in the corner of my browser.

I get that a subset of users would derive some pleasure at knowing how many things are blocked on every single website they visit or users who'd like to use it to troubleshoot a specific page that doesn't load when blocking is enabled (in which case having a quick right-click toggle to turn it on so users can use it to troubleshoot would be ideal), but I'd wager that most users do not. Users that want it on can turn it on. (cue subset of users responding that they either 1. enjoy seeing the count or 2. use it to troubleshoot the rare page that doesn't load as a result of blocking)
That would depend on the purpose of the dike... and who/what was downstream.

That said, see my profile for a description of "PDKL 95". There is a good chance I'd grab the jackhammer if it would somehow lead to a useful re-framing of the consensual hallucination.
> I do however think you should respect people for being truthful and open, which I did credit to him.

No, if that person's being an ass, there's no reason to respect them, period. Even if they are truthfully, openly being an ass. It's only because he is in a position of influence that he can afford being an ass in public and still be respected by some people.
The fact that anyone takes this argument seriously, let alone the supposedly hyper-rational, is baffling to me.
> 6) If you absolutely need to use static dispatch purely for ergonomics (and not because of the performance) then create two function - a dynamically dispatched private one which accepts a &dyn T and contains the actual functionality, and a public one which accepts impl T and is a one-line wrapper around the private one.

Would you really recommend this as common advice? It seems like not a good idea to me. If all you cared about was binary size and compilation speed, maybe, but not otherwise. Same with blanketly recommending use of &dyn T instead of <T>. There are other problems with dynamic dispatch in rust, namely it's kind of a pain if you need to `+ OtherTrait` with it.
In all seriousness, this could potentially be tried as attempted murder.
You can rent a VM with GPU for less than $1/ hr on GCP, AWS, or Azure
The wonderfully-titled (and wonderfully written) Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry covered some of the unique and hard to copy advantages specific to the Mongols. As you point out, logistics has as much to do with it as fighting tactics.

They're covered here in part 4 of a longer series, just scroll down a bit. https://acoup.blog/2020/02/28/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
Mac Mini $699 + iPod Touch $199 + iPhone Developer program $99/year = $997

$997 is a lot more than 25% of $2000
How's work at Mahalo going?
"that list (of deltas) would be dominated by Finance" was said by startingup.

pg said, in response to "the expected value (in money) of going to Wall Street is still quite a bit higher than that of a startup.", "in the Forbes 400 [...] at least that is not the case."
I'm sure I'm going to get flamed and/or down-modded for taking the contrarian postion on this. Shame on me for choosing to accept the challenge of being an adult in our modern society.

If you think that going to the bank, doing your laundry, and answering emails in a timely manner is some sort of accomplishment or difficult, then you need to take a look in the mirror and realize that you are looking at the problem. It's called "being responsible for yourself". Tough concept for many people apparently.

I'm 39, been married for 12 years, and have two kids. I choose to be responsible because my kids can't do their own laundry or buy their own groceries. These are 5 and 10 year-old kids, not adults. Am I perfectly organized? Not even close. But I don't sit here and justify my failures like the girl who writes that blog. Yoda was right: do or do not, kids. There is no try.

Before you get all mad, I understand there are people who have mental or physical illnesses that makes doing these everyday, routine chores difficult. These people have my sympathies and understanding. The rest of us have no excuse. Yes, I include myself in "the rest of us."

Yes, much of every day life is not fun. I don't particular enjoy being a responsible adult, but if the alternative is the kind of ranting, over-the-top situations in that blog post (and on that blog in general), I'll take being a responsible adult. Grocery shopping is hard? Responding to emails is hard?!? Going to the bank is hard?!?!? This person who lives on the internet cannot order groceries online, answer emails or pay their bills online? Oh, that's right, they can never be an adult. Because it's too hard or something. Okay, back to Facebook and rating pictures of cute kittens. I'm sure there is a "responsible adult" out there who "cleans up" after this person. Resenting it while doing it too, I'm sure.

Don't blame it on TV or the internet or the poor diet North Americans eat or the "bureaucracy involved in modern city life". Millions of other people are in the same circumstances or worse and somehow manage to rise above it all, and have fridges with food, clean clothes, and money in their bank account. And they do it all by themselves too.
Also, I'd observe that our machines have become more complicated. The complexity of the first car is nothing whatsoever next to the complexity of your cell phone. The more complicated our machines get, the more organic their behavior has been getting quite naturally. (Indeed, one of the most important things about building large systems is learning how to write code that works less "organically", lest the problems that organic machines tend to have overwhelm you, things like errant state propagation and such that cause weird, weird bugs five minutes after the trigger.)
I didn't even need to see the domain to know where this was coming from.
To me it's a statistical calculator with beautiful graphing capabilities. Once the question becomes difficult enough to consider it programming, it's time to pull up numpy.
Personally, I think people who think so ing pessimistic like you are THE degraders of the society. BTW, can you please stop the whole uninformed stream of junks about how glorious "the past" is? In the real past, people starved to death in "rich" countries (aka Western Europe, China, et al). In the real past, the number of literate people (at least in Western world) is abysmal. In the real past, there were no air conditioners, no heaters, no computers.

Oh, yes, in the past, people were in much better shape. They worked to death, you know.
> Threat of detention beyond the 9 hour window?

No, the threat of 2 years in jail.

"The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), Part III, activated by ministerial order in October 2007, requires persons to supply decrypted information and/or keys to government representatives. Failure to disclose carries a maximum penalty of two years in jail."(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Kingd...).

TrueCrypt is no escape if they have reasonable suspicion there is a hidden volume. And you will have to prove that there isn't one.
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Like nobody ever saw that coming...

"Sure, your privacy is important to us - but not to our liquidator, and not as important as maximising shareholder value, sorry..."

I expect 1060 West Addison St, Chicago, IL, 60613 is about to get a bunch more spam addressed to Elwood Blues. :-)
You cannot have it if the network is unreliable and systems fail. The network is unreliable and systems fail.
Post full details to HN and we hash it out.
I guarantee nothing, other than they look somewhat like English words :)
ED was higher than MD when I was there unless I'm remembering it backwards it was over a decade ago.

We had an ED who ran a few large projects and had 2 MD's under him(and above me).

Edit: Just did a bit of googling and it looks like I did have them backwards. Thanks for the correction.
I'm trying to dive into EmberCLI. I want to get into the whole the 'web via API' mindset and separate things into logical applications.

So I built my Rails 4 API, and Go API, and they're really really fast.

I'm also building my web client with EmberCLI. It's a blast so far as well. I really enjoy the benefits a framework like Ember brings to the table. Structure structure structure. 3 years from now, I want to know my way around the project.
Is that not what order-3 Markov model means? I mean, I will not lie. I skimmed the article and searched DDG/Wikipedia for "order 3 markov" and that article is what I got.

Granted, my statistical comp ling course was ages ago. Perhaps it is time to crack open that book, but neither the article or Wikipedia article cleared up for me if order 3 or variable order are different or what is implemented.
I don't download apps, and I make a point of never entering google account credentials into an Android phone. I don't trust Google, and I don't trust app developers; the whole ecosystem seems designed more to exploit than to serve the end-user. So I just use my phone for SMS, and for killing time browsing the web while I wait for a bus or whatever.
You know, he is not celebrated in places where he brought destruction with him. As in outlook on foreign army in more informed by pillaging then by glory.

That is how countries typically interpret history - from their point of view.
I would assume that it's because Apple has made a lot of people angry for different reasons.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few folks here who were frustrated by their iPhone app getting rejected or other such things.
Scala's DSLs are internal DSLs, made through the use of higher order functions, closures and implicit conversions. That's very different from external DSLs, written in a separate language (macros in C and C++). There are also DSLs that straddle the line e.g., C++ templates ("generic meta programming") and Lisp macros (application of Lisp but at a different stage, resulting in new s-exps). That's a big distinction.
Inventing good languages within other languages is a good thing. Just look a Rails. Inventing bad languages, well, bad code is always going to be bad. I disagree that Scala is not better than Java. Any language which adds additional mechanisms to make my life easier as a developer is a good thing.
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I don't have a 2010 but I do have a 2007 17" 2.33GHz C2D MBP and I get 3-4 hours.

The only problem is the old 17" batteries tend to warp and explode:

http://imgur.com/wmoTy.jpg
People should avoid the services of "cricKet": http://www.mycricket.com/

I am gonna be in the U.S. for only 6 weeks and decided to get a temporary phone service. I used it for 24 hours, made about a dozen calls and could hear nothing. Can't receive calls either. I can honestly say, this is not a phone service: a bell that chimes when you have an incoming call.
Have you considered joining forces with Lawrence Lessig for this? His Change Congress is a drastically different mechanism but the end results seem roughly similar.

Besides the Voltron aspect he is a recognized legal scholar and might quiet some of the "this could never work" arguments if he signs off on it.
what are your thoughts on the high cost of S3 vs. the cost of the infrastructure involved? Is your plan to just target customers for whom the premium doesn't matter? or do you plan on using your own infrastructure at some point?
> If you see a mistake is being made and can back up your opinion, you are treated with respect.

Are you treated with misrepect if you feel a mistake is being made, but you can't back it up ?

I believe students and young doctors should be pushed towards raising their concerns even if they can't back it up. From an external viewpoint I also believe progress can be made in that direction (I never worked in a hospital).
The future is that your _phone_ is the device that you can query directly. Some phones have barometers, thermometers, hygrometers, or UV sensors, etc. Our smartphones are becoming weather stations, and the future-proofing in your scenario where WU shuts down is merely to startup your own mesh-network of weather sensors.

My startup PressureNet aims to be the go-to platform for accessing/collecting dense atmosphere measurements: http://pressurenet.io/
I think thats a good move in the right direction, but the fact remains that startups are risky in general. Taxes + the exercise price of a slightly less risky startup (higher strike price) can unexpectedly add up to quite a bit of money for employees less familiar with stock options. It would be cool to find ways to diversify that risk or sell part of it to someone who is willing to take it on.
And another Krugmanism, in the early 2000's: "To fight this recession the Fed needs…soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. [So] Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble."

this guy has been on the wrong side of history so often I have no idea why anyone listens to him.
Exactly. I believe that HFTs are not just unfair but do not allow the market to fulfill it's basic premise as effectively.

The market is supposed to be fair and a level playing field for all those who can afford to buy stock, but the HFTs tilt the odds in favor of the select few.

When the odds are tilted in favour of a select few, it becomes a problem for all. The bond markets are far less regulated, thereby allowing Wall Street to profit massively from confusion and a lack of regulation - Wall Street makes most of it's profits on the bond market. The result is that insane toxic assets get sold, all because the industry can supposedly self-regulate. Result: global catastrophe. (See "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis for a great read on how Wall Street caused the financial crash of 2008).
> It seems weird that you use my first name in your comments. My name is not a secret, but I barely know who you are.

It's making me feel weird as well.
It seems like a cool idea. I remember when I was in high school applying for scholarships, there was a scholarship website that had something similar. I had to browse around their website looking for coins or something like that. When I found enough coins I got entered into a drawing for a scholarship. It was kind of fun, and probably could be generalized to other types of websites.
Being critical of HFTs doesnt make you a communist. It makes you a realist - as the commenter said, HFTs add no real wealth.
Life is short. Just ask your coworkers!

For the cold emails, nowadays I'd make it better, but back then roughly the below. This was one of the more long winded ones.

Hi **,

My name is Breck Yunits and I'm a 29 year old software engineer in San Francisco. I have long been a fan and beneficiary of your work, particularly of ***. **.

In hopes of providing better guidance for aspiring programmers, I am collecting quotes from accomplished programmers to the following question: how many hours have you spent practicing programming?

If you had the time to provide a back of the envelope estimate, I would greatly appreciate it! I will post the results to the public domain. If not, no problem, and thanks for reading.

Best regards,
Breck Yunits
Regardless what this bill says, any local government would still be bound by the US Constitution as required by the 14th amendment. It's not at all clear to me that an unelected local government would survive an equal protection challenge from the citizens of one of these innovation zones.
I think it's a selfish act to hire somebody just for the sake of that person being perfect for your organization.

Primarily, that person would not have ownership of anything for the immediate future.

Other companies may be perfect for this person and may actually have better work for him/her to do now.
Nice to see they reference an iPod instead of a Nexus One. Somehow I feel that if it was a Microsoft announcement, the company would reference Zunes.
Shouldn't I be able to counter this argument by asking you to cite a topic that Wikipedia covers poorly as a result of these policies?
1) I believe your "top 5 highest taxing states" is inaccurate. In 2000, at least, California ranked 19th in combined state + local tax burden according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which is decidedly middle of the pack. Pretending like we're the most highly taxed state in the country is deceptive and gives the impression that good governance (well, bad in our case) comes for free.

Note that though the ranking of 19th does factor in our larger economy, it doesn't account for the reality that more highly advanced economies require a better trained and more specialized bureaucracy. So just as we shouldn't be surprised when Sweden has a better compensated civil service than Namibia, all things being equal we should expect for California government to account for a larger portion of the economy than Mississippi's or Oklahoma's, instead of being in the middle of the pack.

2) The Economist is left-leaning? Heh.

3) Most technocrats, be they left or right, absolutely hate the 40% rule as well. As a Democrat, I'd gladly trade a repeal of Prop 98 for a repeal of Prop 13. Hell, I'd repeal Prop 98 just on its own.

Government by ballot box is terrible.
So she was goint to fail because she succeeded flawlessly on the assignment.
Side note: while trying to submit this, I've noticed that the submission form doesn't escape less-than signs automatically. I had to manually escape the entity.
The short version:
scaling horizontally means getting many more boxes
scaling vertically means getting a bigger box (replacing the one you have)
regarding the teaching thing, there's a book that wonderfully describes part of the process behind the "incremental learning", it's not a chess book btw.
The book is "The Art of Learning" of Josh Waitzkin.

Really wonderful and insightful book.
There's a small part about his vision in how to teach chess and in that part he also shares why he believes it's better to avoid the "learn all the rules than play" but instead to learn the rule incrementally by using actual pieces on the chess table in the most simple situations (2 or 3 pieces max).
Then increase the complexity by adding pieces.

Obviously I'm going by memory so I might be a little incorrect into the explanation, but if you love the subject of learning and the subject of chess, the book is worth a look (in fact I'd advise to read the book to almost anyone).
I was talking portable players, not cassette tapes specifically. There were various options for tape, and 8-track and the like before the Walkman, all of which were portable and played music but none in the way that made the Walkman take off, obviously.
Maybe sexual education should include computer security too. Now when many people have relations over the Internet. Just like you learn to protect yourself with condoms, you should also learn to protect yourself with strong passwords and encryption.
Or you could get ones that say "It was easy for me, so it should be easy for everyone"
But he doesn't mention a lot about alternatives. Of course we could try to avoid having a single solution for everything but if there is no better option right now then REST can and should be used.
If his point was to say that REST only works in some limited circumstances then he should have said what those were and, again, what other option we have for the other cases.
I still think REST works for a lot of things but you might want to add some extra tips or standards within an organization.
Who would be slaves then if not decades of mortgage or expensive rent? Nobody (with power) wants people to be too free and happy, because that won't make them work; only pressure will (physical in less advanced countries or economical in more so).
For all the understandable outrage, this seems like a genie that will be very hard to put back in the bottle.

What politician is going to risk canning a security protocol when there's a not-unreasonable chance of a civilian airplane being blown up in the next few years? Who wants to be the politician that has to explain, after several hundred people died, why they canned any device or protocol which may have helped stopped the attack, however remote the likelihood?

I'm not saying it's rational or appropriate, I'm saying it's politically untenable, regardless of the horror stories like the one posted.

Perhaps airlines should offer 'enhanced' or 'standard' security flights, and people can choose whether they fly on a plane where everyone has pat downs or scans, or whether they don't. At least that way there would be a choice...
It might even be the other way round. I have a (slightly) harder time teaching first-year students how to use the for loop in JavaScript than how to use anonymous functions in jQuery. I think it's a better match for how the brain works.
God do I hate sensationalism.