jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If your goal is to learn those two languages, I'd instead pick a problem/domain you understand very well and then express the various aspects of that problem in both F# and JavaScript rather than implementing some aspects in F# and some aspects in JavaScript.

This will help you develop a better sense of how F# and JavaScript differ as languages, what ideas are natural in one but unnatural in another, the conventions and idioms around tackling certain problems, and so on.
Perl was a great language back at the 90's and early 2000 - it doesn't now.

Professional Perl programmers understood this coding error as a coding error at least in 2000, in my personal experience. If you squint, you can see it as a poorly designed interface in the CGI module (though I'm not sure how you would fix it), but your examples are passing untrusted, unvetted user input to sensitive code.

Professional programmers have understood that as bad practice for multiple decades.

Did all of those programmers and maintainers never read the tutorial for the language?

I'm certain if you went back in time and asked "What happens if a query string contains multiple parameters of the same name?" many people would look very confused, as if they'd never considered such a thing were possible. In other words, the answer to your question is "No, most web programmers neither read nor understood the documentation, because the state of web programming in those days was terrible."
> We had a few people who were less than enthusiastic about the open layout, and we tried to give them the space to break out when needed.

OK, so I believe that this is a good strategy - the ones that prefer more privacy, should get it, the ones that prefer the open space should get an open space.
TLDR: Oven to re-set the solder if any of the connections were temperamental. Holes for airflow.
You can't create art that way. (Well, you can, but it will be bad art.)

Also, the moderation is extremely weird in this particular HN story. I wouldn't take it personally.
> Plan9 C is a product of Thompson, Pike & Ritchie, you can't get more C than that, whatever your standards committee thinks.

Really?

That looks like an obvious contradiction. Call me a language descriptivist. If everyone else means something else by C, then the thing in question isn't C.
I had not noticed that but it is true! Does anyone know if the case acts as a good heatsink? I always assumed that was why they went with aluminium, other than it looking great.
Well, it's a virtual screen, you can rearrange the keys.
If you are able to convince others that you know the secret to become millionaire in 3 years, you can sell it to yours readers and do it real. You can bet that you will get 1 million in 3 years.
Web hosting is the closest thing to Perfect Competition, in the economic sense, that I've been able to find. I wouldn't go anywhere near the field. There may be some niches (cloud?) that haven't reached the level where there's no producer surplus, but cloud hosting isn't as straightforward as vanilla hosting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition
You are incorrect. The author of a letter retains the copyright to the contents. The recipient owns their copy, but cannot duplicate it without permission.
I think there have been numerous acquisitions of voice/speech-recognition startups by both Google and Apple (http://www.enterprisemobiletoday.com/news/article.php/387924...), because indeed it's very clear that it's going to be a thing of the future, with nlp.

And we're probably not much into it just because of how impenetrably tortuous it is. Almost everything related to it is variable -- culture is always evolving language, slangs die of usage over time, and there are accents to worry about. With all of these problems, there is the demand in tandem for progress in nlp areas to deal with -- where really some of the most difficult challenges lie ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing#Con... ). With all that said, I have my money down on Google. They seem to be doing a lot of work in areas where the variability of these tasks is required. Presently, the voice transcription feature on youtube seems fairly impressive, and I've noticed in the past google search's nlp abilities to be curiously good, certainly more far ahead than any other search engine today.
It seems as though you write the SQL in the nginx conf... Not sure if it's then somehow available elsewhere.
My main problem with this is he's dropping a platform that isn't a walled garden (the Mac) to protest walled gardens. By doing that he's making Apple more likely to abandon the one platform they have that isn't a walled garden in the future

It seems to me the better strategy would be to support the Mac until Apple tries to control Mac software development in the same way they do iOS development and then go to Linux. That way Apple can clearly see that people are rejecting the walled garden philosophy.
I've been wanting to start out on my own for a while, just to generate a little extra money

To be frank, that scares me. I want my webhost to live and breath hosting, not treat it as a side-project.
Except for in default configuration, with a user account that's passworded, there's this massive at-console exploit that requires no specialist knowledge other than very basic shell knowledge. cmd+s on boot.
> 'Nature follows from the basic mathematical assumptions.'

This statement is more treacherous than you give it credit for. If we understood all those mathematical assumptions, wouldn't that be the death of free will?

One might make the statement that mathematics is the act of discovering god's laws, but godel makes even that statement treacherous because he proves god's laws can never be consistent.

my understanding of the modern philisophical take on mathematics is that it's just the invention of useful tools for manipulating logical entities, which can seem rather pedestrian to the layman - but will never deter a true mathematician
Same as email accounts now; lose one, or it goes under, and you're in a world of pain because those handy "forgot password" links are tied to that. Moreover, most sites can't help you - the emails contain (usually) no information about you as a person.

All of which is only solved by alternate means of identification. ie, GMail lets you specify a cell phone, many other sites have pseudo-personal questions you have to guess to perform a reset without a password / email, etc. What reason is there that a site can't ask a series of questions to re-point an account to a new OpenID?

None of this is any different. At all. The only difference is in managing one OpenID vs widely varying logins on every site on the internet.
Mindfulness. It's also a pretty powerful tool to help lean into uncertainty while you strive to create something from nothing.
I suspect the chessboards and rule came from different generations. During the "Searching for Bobby Fischer" era, the beat cops would probably have gotten to know the regular chessplayers and used them as resources -- i.e., asking if they had noticed strangers in the neighborhood. Nowadays, not so much, apparently.
"antimatter seems to have disappeared" This is not very mysterious. If there was lots of antimatter lying about nearby, we could not be alive to see it. So, any antimatter must be a long way away or otherwise separated from us.
If you want to dispute the numbers, fine. But it's ridiculous to accuse Friedman of the same dishonesty as Bachmann.

First, he explicitly said he doesn't know the real cost of the trip, and explained how he arrived at his estimate. Second, his source is a lot more authoritative than Bachmann's: the GAO, a department of the U.S. government whose raison d'être is to monitor government spending, vs an unnamed Indian official cited by an Indian reporter. Third, he provides context that helps his readers understand the scale of the numbers being thrown around - are we really to believe that this trip is spending money faster than the war effort in Afghanistan? Do we really think Obama is spending 40 times as much as Clinton did for a similar trip?

Friedman may well be wrong, but I'll take his number over Bachmann's any day of the week.
God, but I hate XML, and sad to say, for the same reason a lot of people hate PHP.

I hate XML because it is so mis-used. People try to use it for EVERYTHING and you get these monstrous XML trees with legions of attributes, when what you're trying to send could comfortably expressed in "{success: true, message: 'Record deleted.'}".

I admit my ignorance, at least. I'm sure that were I properly shown well-used XML and these wonderful and vast tools that the competent XML worker has at their disposal, I'd be as happy to work with XML as I am to work with PHP.

That said, you won't ever catch me trying to write a 3D FPS in PHP, and I hope that if you ever DID catch me doing so, you'd give me the exact same fish-slapping that XML abusers deserve.
This reminds me of a class I didn't study well for. We where allowed one piece of computer paper for reference. I printed my friend's entire set of notes for the class using a VERY small font.

When I was done, he wanted a copy too :)
Think what the author meant is that XML allows documents where the structure is less predefined. It can be the markup that drives the interpretation. With a JSON payload, you need to know how the whole is structured to know how to use it, or build additional mechanisms over it.

Also XML brings other useful features like data types.
Love it, Well done. One thing: You can't (officially) get Netflix in Australia - I'm wondering how easy it would be to extend this to all films and then maybe make it call Couchpotato to add them to your Usenet search list?
So, a person with a tourist visa isn't able to do any work in their own hotel room, no matter what it is or for whom? Is it that they aren't supposed to do a service for anyone else (such as cook for a friend, or translate anything for a relative back home) or that they can't receive money? What if their company is generating passive income for them back home? Are they not supposed to access it? How are they supposed to pay for all the touristy stuff?

"Sorry sir. We noticed you were debugging your iPhone app in your hotel room, a version of which is being sold in the app store. You will now go to Thai Jail or be deported."
Substantial, not really. After a year or two, the salary you give up in return for equity will probably be more than the founder's initial stake, yet you will get 1% of 1% of any upside.
The problem is: This experiment was implemented over a region with 1.4 million people in it. Doing any larger sample size wouldn’t be helpful here.
12 hrs before __you__ knew anything happened at Bitstamp.
Absolutely. I was addressing the idea that Bitcoin is automatically decentralized, which is very much untrue for a significant number (though perhaps I was incorrect in saying "most" - I don't have those numbers, but neither does anyone else it would seem)
Geez, completely forgot about FILE_ID.DIZ. When seeing it, it instantly brought back heaps of memories!
Denthor, or Grant Smith, went on to build one of the world's first online casinos. He did this with his brother, Dean (I think), in the city of Durban, South Africa. They were tremendously successful and sold their business to a company called Microgaming, who are now the largest privately-owned gaming software company in the world.

Apparently Grant still works for Microgaming but does so for fun, as one of the conditions of the sale was a profit share in all future earnings. His brother Dean retired and is travelling the world.

So, sounds like Grant did OK :)
What sets the successful "creators" apart from the rest? Quality? Timing? Luck? Network?

In the world of independent comics, my experience is that it is all of these. Regularly put out decent stuff that you enjoy doing and the followers will slowly climb. Doing fan-art of popular stuff you like can give you boosts, but can also be a trap.

Being there at the right time helps, but you're not gonna be there at the right time with exactly what the moment demands without being there at the wrong time with a lot of okay work beforehand. Luck is the same - the more opportunities you have for long shots, the more likely it is for one of them to finally hit.

Good feedback comes from a mix of your peers and your fans. Share WIPs with both. Good feedback can also come from pros - in the world of comics for instance, you can go to a convention and get in line for a portfolio review, both at "major" publishers[1] and the occasional grizzled pro who just likes to give back to the community by doing this for anyone interested.

Networking comes largely from people who entered the same field at the same time as you and became some kind of friend. The ones you're always delighted to hook up with for a drink/hangout/bitch session with when you're at the same con are the ones who will be most likely to pass on any powerful connections they manage to make[2]. You should be happy to return the favor of course!

1: DC and Marvel and the like, who are actually pretty small fish when you compare their output to the massive amount of books moved in kid's-comics channels - I think my friend Dana recently said she sold more Phoebe and her Unicorn over the past year than Marvel sold across their entire line of comics
2: for instance, you can bet I'm gonna be asking Dana to have a look over the YA SF graphic novel I've been working on when it's done and see if there's anyone at her publisher she'd be willing to pass it on to!
See also actors, perhaps especially TV actors, etc. They're young. They're in an environment of people spending money lavishly. And, as you say, they really want to believe that they'll be the statistical anomaly who will have a long lucrative career.
The conclusion:

>Nuclear war is bad, and we should be very careful not to have one, but it is not as bad as it is often made out to be. Some of this is because the threat has routinely been exaggerated by anti-nuclear groups, and some of it is the result of arms control efforts over the past half-century, which have significantly reduced the potential human toll of a nuclear war

It’s odd to me that he blames exaggeration of nuclear weapons on anti-nuclear and anti-proliferation.

It would seem likely to me that the exaggeration is more due to pro-nuclear forces and nuclear state powers, with the aim of promoting peace through power and deterrence.
I am not as familiar with the state of the art; are there NN frameworks that export the NN model such that it can be run within WASM?
You're right(ish) - the async functions would not run in parallel. But sometimes that's either fine, or I don't want them to run in parallel.
Conservatives make up roughly 50% of the United States. Are you saying all conservatives are ‘fascists’, ‘racists’, ‘nazis’?
Don't be so sanctimonious. People also die from loneliness, isolation, lack of exercise, depression, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, malnutrition.

Do you even fucking realize how much our response to COVID has impacted food programs worldwide? How shutting down major economies has pushed our children back by _years_ of educational attainment?

People die from everything, for fucks sake. People die from TB, which inoculations against are way down this year. People die from lack of clean water, which financial assistance from developed nations has tanked this year.This is not even counting the delay in cancer treatment, heart treatment. Hospitals in my state were essentially shut down all Spring and Summer when we had incredibly low community spread. So the woman who is six months late for her mammogram, is her cancer less important than COVID?

When you say people die and it is a big deal, are you only concerned for well-off white people in developed nations? Because I do say you've turned a blind eye to all the death and famine around the world to suddenly be on your high horse when it comes to COVID.

Edit: I am sorry but I need to come back to this. Do you have any idea what these lockdowns are doing to mental health of teens and adults? Suicidal ideation is on the rise as is self-reported depression. So are you saying that those who kill themselves from despair and depression aren't as entitled to support to help _them_. We closed down a nation to support those at risk from COVID. What will we do to support those who are dying from other means, due to our response?
I've spent many hours reading Matt Might's website: http://matt.might.net/articles/
These are good strategies for speeding up Clojure code, and are great if you have a small handful of hotspots where performance really matter. However, if you constantly find yourself resorting to these strategies and you're in a team environment, I would recommend just writing everything in Java and slapping a Clojure wrapper on top.

The main problem is that some of these optimizations are very brittle in combination with one another and require a good deal of care to maintain their effectiveness. A person unfamiliar with your codebase who just marches in and starts writing idiomatic Clojure can inadvertently deoptimize large swaths of your codebase.

This is a problem that afflicts a lot of languages that have a wide variance in performance between idiomatic-but-slow and idiomatic-but-fast (or close to idiomatic) variants of the same code. Haskell is another good example of this, which is perhaps even more extreme in that very fast Haskell code can look perfectly idiomatic, but an otherwise innocent-looking change can crash everything to the ground.

That variance is always going to exist to some degree in every language, but if you find that you need to always or almost always be on the latter side of that divide to meet your performance targets, maintenance and knowledge transfer is going to be a huge pain. You might want to consider rewriting it in a different language that shifts the variance further down field so that you're back on the easy side of that divide for most of your codebase.
I like that take.

Britain: Brexit.

USA: Hold my beer!
It is, but this is one of the areas where synthetic fuels would be useful. Airplanes are another, since batteries are heavy and worse don’t get lighter as you use up the charge.

Apparently there is some research in synthetic natural gas, which is an unfortunate name.
i agree that voting is another oldster NIMBY legacy tactic, and soon they will be swept away
The US is very spread out in a lot of places and geographically diverse. Many local routes cover a very large area. Currently, these Grumman vehicles only make up 75% of the fleet. They also use vans, some electrics and in some areas they need 4x4 trucks and even boats.

Considering the extreme punishment these vehicles take, i think the investment is probably worth it. I remember reading about how much money they spent on these Grumman vehicles decades ago and being appalled. But here we are 20 years later and they are still using those same trucks.

The USPS is an order of magnitude larger than the swiss postal service. At some point it usually becomes just as cost effective to order a fleet of custom vehicles rather than off the shelf ones.
Wow ... once every 2nd year I try to add that basic feuture to my workflow IDEs but give up each time. The function signature is ofent not enough.

Tooling has really degraded.
There are fairly massive income gaps within white and black groups as well.

Nigerian Americans have on average 10 % higher incomes than whites.

EDIT: It is 5 per cent, not 10 per cent. I was mistaken. They have 10 % more than an average American household.

Czech Americans have on average 20 % higher incomes than generic whites.

Given that I am a Czech, are we silently running Czech supremacy in the U.S.?
Nah, it's 1) age and 2) height - none of which you can control.
Indeed, note it.
Can we please not do this here? I'm here for hacker news, not political articles posted for the purpose of instigating pissing contests.
Anyone else then? :)
What are you talking about? The topic is unit conversion, not datetime libraries.
A death is not a symbol? We’re you around for the protests this summer?
What peaceful discourse? In no universe are people coming together and breaking bread with racists and confederate sympathizers. You feel unheard because your ideas are toxic and unintegratable. Let it be split down the middle, because coming together is not happening.
No, although Scandinavia has its own history in invading and colonising other peoples, including the British.

The story is more nuanced than your "Briton who just happens to end up in Sweden" summary though.
I think so, too. Openness is more important. But I have to say that the physical security before the Capitol building was laughable. There is a video of three policemen trying to hold a makeshift barricade against more than 50 protesters. Obviously, they failed.

The bottom line is that the police appeared to be totally understaffed even though the protests had been announced for weeks and were entirely predictable.
> The people who invaded the capitol today, at least some, probably thought they were protecting democracy.

What they thought is irrelevant in a country that believes in the rule of law: they were attacking the highest institution of one branch of government with the express purpose of forcing them to overturn the legal result of the election and install their preferred president. This is an (attempted) insurrection, and there are no two ways around it.

Comparing this to an attack on a courthouse is patently absurd. Especially since the courthouse was not attacked for 'toppling the government' - I can't even imagine where you came up with that - but because it was known that arrested/kidnapped protesters had been held inside the courthouse building. In general, none of the BLM or Antifa protesters are interested in "toppling the government" - they are interested in "toppling" the police and in stopping the white nationalist fascists that police are openly supporting from taking over the country.
Can recommend the paper "A Reproducible Data Analysis Workflow with R Markdown, Git, Make, and Docker" by Peikert and Brandmaier [1], which shows a much more robust approach to reproducibility.

[1] https://psyarxiv.com/8xzqy/