jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There is more to programming languages than static and dynamic type systems ( heck even the post removed type system as if the languages themselves are simply static or dynamic.. ) and there is plenty of range in between. It is a shame that this little war gets beaten on over and over again. Or rather it is a shame they get beaten on in the same way over and over again w/ very little new ever being added.
That makes sense to me. I don't think you need to have an intent to control territory. Nor do I think we stop an examine things to make sure of the purpose.
>We have never allowed US citizens or foreign citizens working in the US
to hack on crypto code

This is hilarious logic, because no other country could possibly want to have a backdoor, and the NSA/CIA couldn't possibly hire a foreign national working in another country.
Which is why OpenBSD does not come with any binary drivers.
Not really. I was not shocked. Were you shocked? If so, have you gotten all the sand out of your ears yet?
Back when I was contracting, I knew it was time to raise my rates if I hadn't been told I was too expensive recently.
I'm thinking, you know, there used to be complaints about vi being an operating system with a lousy text editor.

Oh, wait, that was emacs, wasn't it. Hmmmm.
I'll say that I dislike this, but I don't see anything illegal, or even unusual about this. This is absolutely politics as usual, and goes on every day in every country across the world. Every country lies to further their current interests.
True, I've only been doing contract for 2 years, and it's only been hourly. Nobody's been late on the first (or any) monthly payment, so I've never had to worry about it. I'm assuming the problem is more with project-based pay? Which I'm afraid to take on (for these very reasons...)
At least for the Christian ones, I believe it partly goes with the whole 'Thou shall not speak the Lord's name in vain' thing.

Most chinese swearing has to do with a) actual cursing (damn you!), b) penis and vaginas and c) insulting your parents. So basically the same as English once you strip out god/lord/christ.
You used the ASCII encoding for it, I presume? That's trivial to compress to 2/8 = 25%, or 5GB in your case.
Is the UI really slow to react for anybody else? Button clicks have a noticeable lag for me on Safari on iOS. I get the same thing on some other Wordle clones and archives, but not the main Wordle site.
The compiler can raise a warning about bad characters. It can't detect all problems, but it certainly can help with some.

It's not the type system, but many dynamic languages are interpreted instead of compiled.
Yes it could unfortunately. The solution repeated a number, making it almost impossible to guarantee a correct answer even if you had the majority down fairly early.
That's a good question, the first thing that came to my mind was someone cloning cards.
> No software decodes data by reading a stream byte-by-byte.

Maybe not in your bubble, but in my bubble this is the common case and highly optimized components using SIMD parsing is the exception.

By byte-by-byte, I presume you mean logically, not invoking a syscall for every byte. A parsing library is often handed a buffer to parse. If every layer had it's own buffering, you'd end up with too much data copying, which compounds and can spill your CPU caches in ways that microbenchmarks won't reflect, particularly in a streaming pipeline. So you stick to simpler, straight-forward code and data paths, unless and until you know a particular component is a bottleneck. I've had much better results optimizing globally first before optimizing locally. You can usually go back and optimize locally whenever you want, but optimizing globally is more often a one-shot deal as it typically requires non-local (i.e. cross-component) analysis and refactors, which nobody has time for.
> On the flipside, the usual argument around "simplicity" and "readability" is just code for "familiarity"

I found this resonating with my own thoughts towards LeetCode questions, which are at odds with most on HN. Unfamiliarity makes people dismiss them as requiring rote memorization, where's most of them are a matter of figuring out the nature of the problem space, and choosing the right data structure and algorithms
Let's say I have a 4+1 disk layout, and I do 100 data writes followed by an fsync.

Naively I would expect that to become 25 data writes per disk, and then the fsync would go to all disks.

That might be about 30 writes total, so I'd expect it to be at least 3x as fast as a single disk.

Where does that expectation break down?
ok, so did anyone manage to get either the curl or the wget method working?

`curl https://user:passwd@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/recent` works just fine.

`curl https://user:passwd@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all` does not.

Maybe a server-side problem?
> > ...allow them to form monopolies and starve SMBs?

> That is orthogonal, in fact SMBs would profit the most from reductions in corporate tax.

Is it possible that this is the root of the issue? Filing corporate taxes is 10x as complicated (and expensive) as even the more complicated end of personal returns. I've got 1099 income, sole-prop and LLC, schedule C, home office deductions, business car lease, backdoor Roth, business and personal itemized deductions, etc. I pay maybe $200/yr to my CPA for all the paperwork and filing, sometimes as much as $300.

In the past I was a partner in an S corp. We paid $5k+ every year for all the paperwork.

Reductions in corporate taxes would be beneficial to smaller shops for sure, but simplification might be the best thing for everyone. Corporate income is going to get taxed twice most of the time anyway (once at the corp, and again when it passes to someone as income) so there seems to be little need to incentivize anything other than reinvestment which already happens by it not getting taxed as income. A simple progressive tax structure based on profit with little that can be deducted outside of actual reinvestment would simplify things greatly.
https://start.me/p/Bnod2j/imported-bookmarks

Easier to view + has descriptions of each link ^
Others would use RubyMotion or similar.
I've been programming for 27 years, and IMHO, The Reward is what it's all about. If you get a charge from that, you're in good shape no matter how far "behind" in learning you are. (I put that word in quotes, because the field is so vast now, we are all behind, no matter how much we know.)

"I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more." --Alan Perlis
I've heard a lot of speculation, including the "someone else's house" explanation, but never anything definite. Are you certain about SDF Macross originating the term?

Also, Patton Oswalt's true sin here is grammatical, by pluralizing "otaku."
"Marketing like this doesn't get cheaper than $10."

Except for the fact that Game Stop is stupid and evil. They actually have a policy where they won't let you open up your game in the store after you purchase it for the purpose of exchanging it if it's scratched. Then again, most commercial games these days are designed for really dumb people, so it's not all that surprising.
Maybe it's a sign you're actually going to get a date soon?
I was kinda disappointed he's using special veterinary equipment. I was hoping to find out the sensor so I could make a UI for my dog.
Further illustration: In my area, I hear both "sub" and "hoagie" used to refer to different varieties of the sandwich. I'm not positive what the dividing line is, but it seems like hoagies are generally less healthful than subs.
I agree. As an outsider it seems odd to think that their best two markets are CEOs and teens. Kind of like the game "which one of these is not like the other". I think the common link is that both of these groups have a heavy emphasis on what I'll call "high availability communicating".

I can offer some more anecdotal evidence about the outrageous prices of SMS driving market behaviour... I was in NZ for a while when Vodafone (?) had a free text to other Vodafones in the weekend deal. _Nobody_ I knew had a Telecom (the main competitor) phone unless they actually worked for Telecom.

So we might say "okay, just specialise in texting"... but I think the other trend driving smartphones is convergence. I went looking to buy an iPhone the other day, but they are all sold out in my area. So instead, I bought an iPod Touch and am using a beat up old Nokia - but it annoys me that I need to carry two devices.

What the iPhone bought to the table (or rather, massively accelerated - since apps were available before but not in great demand) is convergence of things that we never would have actually carried around before - like a compass, barometer (weather forecast), pocket games etc.

Another example that comes to mind: when in London I used to carry a "Pocket A to Z" guide, which is basically a book that is a high level map of the city. It was my top priority purchase on arriving in the UK. Now though I would simply use an iPhone or Android phone instead.

And it is in this area of convergence that I think RIM is falling behind and their lack of vision and bad products (storm etc) are most telling.
While true, there is a much bigger point here that you're missing. What is the point of the App Store approval process if it's not inherently reliable to the developer who has spent countless hours bringing him/herself up to speed on the guidelines of the store?

And this isn't really a secret Easter egg, either. The supposed rigorous approval process should catch something this obvious, I would hope.
I sold a few hundred dollars of BCC with an email whose subject line was "Merry Christmas from Bingo Card Creator" It went to somewhere like 1,500 teachers who had previously expressed an interest in playing educational bingo and asked for a monthly email newsletter reminding them about activities they would probably like. The content is pretty predictable: it is almost Christmas, you're busy, here's something which takes one thing off your plate for only $29.95.

In what way is this abusing their confidence?

P.S. For folks who are curious about possible ways to address diverse customers without compromising one's very non-diverse principles:

http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=77a3e522d2bf02ea858d2316c...
Davos, just because of the people who are there. TED talks are like mind crack, it gives you a quick hit but fills your head with bad ideas.
I just don't understand why "freedom of religion" is a thing. Freedom of thought gathering/etc subsumes any religious freedom and makes it redundant. The only use of religious freedom is to provide strange exceptions to other rights and create conflict. It's as silly as having a "freedom to play boggle" or "freedom to be wrong about weather predictions".
Are ad impressions in emails only counted if the person accepts images?
Question is what can gold really buy you if society collapses. Yes more than someone who has paper money, but if the energy and transportation industries collapse we're all pretty screwed.
WebGL is so compelling and well-designed that it's only a matter of time. With Firefox plus Chrome having something like 50% penetration, and WebGL enabling the web to do things it simply couldn't before, Microsoft can't ignore it forever.

This will also put pressure on driver vendors to fix the desktop 3D situation too. Firefox an Chrome both have draconian rules that limit WebGL to "known safe" drivers. In a couple years I truly believe that everyone will want to play in the WebGL ecosystem.
As a data point, I run the most popular blog in a technical niche and on a total basis, run about $5-6 in display advertising (job ads come to more). E-mail, on the other hand, is a lot better.
Full-screen works. F11. You can also Alt+Tab to different windows (of Chrome).
This is awesome: I have seriously been searching for an explanation on this ever since I was a little kid and my dad bought me my first bike at about 3 years of age and immediately removed the training wheels.
"Productive investment means spending cash on something, like property, R&D, or plant and equipment. I don't see how this is the same as hoarding cash."

Exactly. No one actually hoards cash. Why would they? There is an enormous incentive to make idle money useful. But the greater point is: even if they do, so what? The money will be utilized at some point. That's what it's for. Why is it better used now than in the future? What is the 'correct' ratio of savings to immediate consumption? Given that you're unlikely to provide a convincing answer to this, wouldn't it be reasonable to let the owners of the money determine its allocation?

"There is a psychology that iPads, and to an even greater extent iPhones, are a short life time product. So their price in a couple of years does not matter. Buying one now will not prevent you from buying one at the cheaper price in a couple of years as well."

This is because the iPad's price falls and its quality increases. If each new iPad were twice the cost for the same performance, I don't think the lines at the Apple Store would get quite as long.
What part of music theory is applied to something to like this which makes all of the tones sounds very nice with each other?
Hi pbhjpbhj. Thanks for your review... I think that your site does not have any local files, at least for me it shows only remote JS and CSS. Let me know if i am wrong. Also try using www.alicious.com instead... i am having some issues with domain detection now.
>I don't see it as "they" are collecting the information.

This is an interesting distinction, that I don't really know where I stand. _They_ wrote the software, but it runs on a device _you_ choose to own and operate.

Allow me to as a few hypothetical questions, that I don't want to imply relate to this situation, but instead challenge some notions of who the actor is in their context: If I get a virus that encrypts my files and demands ransom, did I do it to myself? Do I run my website, or do I tell my hosting provider how to run it? If I have a device that uses TPM to make me completely unable to change, modify or understand what the code on it does, am I the one performing the actions of the software or is the writer? If I compute 2+2 serverside vs in javascript clientside, does that change who is doing the adding? If it is the owner of the device is the actor, what if the software is (unbeknownst to the user) stealing credit card numbers from the POS terminal it is installed on. Who is legally responsible then?

Software operates on its own, and can do so simultaneously for more than one party, with potentially conflicting interests. I think our shuffle to the cloud is going to run into some complex ownership, responsibility, liability and transparency questions soon, I'm interested to see how it all shakes out.
I really didn't understand floating point numbers until I wrote an app that displays the pieces and the equation[1]. It even shows the min increment to the next possible value. Sorry it's still iPad only. If more than 10 people ever download it I will take the time to make it universal.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/float-explorer/id928900898?m...
I believe recently it will lock your account for "suspicious activity" or something until you verify by adding a phone number.
Thank you jbail.jquery mobile is the mobile jquery library,nice.
Confusing downvote, I honestly can't see what could be disagreeable or controversial about this comment (particularly given it's inflammatory parent comment) but never mind!
> I don't have a tremendous amount of sympathy for any large company like Google, Oracle, Apple, Amazon, etc. who get sued for silly patent 'infringements' because they would do the same in a heartbeat. ALL software patents should be abolished.

Google would?
I also use Solarized light for coding. ;)
If you took the time to really check it out you would see there are many more themes to choose from.
I'm browsing this and I like it, combined with keyist's suggestion to use SQLite sample data from Firefox/Chrome.
Where can I find out more about the algorithms they use? Multi-agent systems? Any suggestions?
the dumb and the evil have always had a lot in common. It takes intelligence in many forms to recognize and practice virtue, to recognize the influence of the crowd over one's thinking and to resist knee jerk reactions and grudges
And you'll find that portrait of Che Guevara on high school and college campuses nationwide on the t-shirts of students who have no idea who he is.
So it sounds like it's a matter of testing out a variety of events to find the right ones.

What do you do to make it a game?

One friend suggested creating a character who enjoys whatever it is the event requires and pretending to be her (or even him). I haven't tried this yet, but will.

I also realized a few days ago that I'm seeing the crowd as me + everyone else, where "everyone else" is a single entity which knows a lot of things that I don't. I have to keep reminding myself that to any given person, I'm part of "everyone else".

These things help a little. The odd-one-out feeling comes from somewhere way down deep though, it (or whatever causes it) filters my words and behavior before they even get to my conscious mind. I don't think it's something anyone can just turn off, no matter how irrational it is. It can be quite frustrating. There must be ways to work around it though.
Invest in promising startups not Chinese Pizza Huts, goddammit!
This is very true.

As the founder of a company that's gone from just the co-founders working together to a small and growing team, one of the things I miss is that I can't expect the same level of sacrifice and commitment out of early employees as I did out of the founding team. It's not that we don't work hard to find motivated and talented hires, but it doesn't matter. I don't think it's possible to completely align the incentives -- if you're hiring smart, talented people you're probably fighting for them, and they know that if this company fails they'll just go work at Google or Facebook or one of the other places they turned down job offers. It's a subtle difference, but as a founder the company failing is an unthinkable, unspeakable horror. As an employee it's a pain, a little bit sad, and you'll have to spend some time finding a new job. Employees can afford to be rational and pragmatic about it, founders often can't.

As they say, "You'll never get as high as your first hit." Think of Apple when its only two employees were Jobs & Woz, or Microsoft when it was just Gates & Allen. Don't get me wrong, it's fun to grow and to work with people who are masters in their respective fields, but there's nothing quite like working on a team that's small and dedicated.

Scaling a team is hard -- especially when you don't really know how to do it. Not only is it hard as a co-founder to not "touch" every line of code that goes out, but your job turns to hiring and making sure the rowers (which you can't always be a part of) are turning the boat in the right direction. We try to keep the project management very minimal, but there's no way I'm aware of that you can get by without quick meetings people end up calling "scrums" (even though they're not) and relying way too much on a Trello board. At least not when you need everyone on exactly the same page and to be shipping product quickly. Maybe I'm not a good manager (I know I'm not in some aspects), but it's a lot harder to turn a bigger ship than the little inner tube we used to have. It's easy to see why startups can out-innovate and out-work huge companies. The irony is that if you do that well, you become a huge company. The startup circle of life, I suppose.
It's true we don't fund single founder startups but we're still interested to see exceptional applications even if it's just one person behind them. You can still get past the first stages of our screening process provided you have an appropriate idea and adequate experience. However, to successfully complete the entire process you need to have found a co-founder by the time this period (~1.5 months) ends. This is not the best case scenario but for exceptional ideas we're willing to consider it.
I could commit a bit of time to UI improvements. Is it on github?
My misunderstanding of the word then. I assumed it meant something more akin to "evil, malicious" but your definition says it does not. I'd agree then that your word is correct.

You're right in that expertise in getting contracts often has a tendency to displace expertise in IT. This has been a persistent problem in hiring. Contractors need to fill billets that come with mandatory requirements dictated by the government. Skilled individuals are often bypassed because they lack a certain certification (often unrelated to their work) or a certain parameter. In defense, security clearances can be an enormous barrier by limiting only those who possess a clearance as eligible. (There's an "insidious" effect whereby you must be on or joining a project that requires a clearance to get a clearance, and you cannot join a cleared project without a clearance.) Pay is often much lower than compared to the private sector when compared to the industry as a whole, but since the layout of the federal government is separate than what drives the private IT industry, it creates opportunities for many where a grassroots IT industry wouldn't otherwise exist.

There are good people who enter the environment and make positive change, but they are few. There are many more who work at a perfectly capable level and do the best they can, but would be considered underqualified for their role. This is an area where the Digital Service seems to me trying to make a difference, as government IT rarely attracts the IT elite.
It's good to finally see Microsoft step up on surveillance reform. Obama and Cameron's plan to mandate backdoors and outlaw end-to-end encryption will only hurt the tech industry in the long run. Here's hoping Microsoft puts their lobbyists where their blog post is.
I grew up in Stuttgart, where many of Glass' operas were performed. Akhnaten was amazing, I went back to see it many times but I never listened to the recording. I think those pieces were meant for live performances, the sets were stunning as well.
Erlang/Elixir - lightweight processes, pattern matching, flexible macro system
First of all, what? You don't use any timelines on a "real" animation project? Sure you do.

That Flash 11 demo wasn't made with Papervision. I was referring to Papervision.

FF4 is now. Flash 11 is beta, and tomorrow.