jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not a bad article, bit light on Rails though.

INTERESTING QUOTES: '... although there is no reason why fastcgi couldn’t be used ...' ~ except it's slower! ~ http://superjared.com/entry/quick-django-benching. '... here is no equivalent of a model-specific SQL refresh – something that could drop a specific model’s tables and regenerate the needed SQL automatically ...' ~ true, recognised & being corrected ~ http://www2.jeffcroft.com/blog/2006/jul/20/top-ten-things-suck-about-django.

SOME POINTS: Two things come to mind that are not mentioned. The first is hosts. What is the comparison between hosts? The second is how mature the language is. If I want to use python and I need a particular module that does 'fo '. it is probably out there somewhere (though it may be alpha or beta it will most likely out of date) unless you want to re-invent the wheel. I can't say the same for Rails. Ruby is just a younger language with less code mass.

QUESTIONS TO ASK: In the end what really matters is how good the idea & business is. There are plenty of Rail based companies I can think of making a go of it. The same applies to Python based companies. If you accept that technology is an amplifier of ideas, will using Rails or Django alone make a better choice? Is the difference between them compelling enough to make a difference? One area that could tip in Rails favour is "susinctness". But Django with it's python code base has more tools to choose from.
"I guess the pragmatic solution is to put the lid back on for now... "

I am not sure whether this solution is viable. People have drifted apart, there is a lot of general distrust in societies, I cannot see how this level of distrust can be mitigated.

Whoever is on the receiving end of the "lid", will try to find another way of communication. There is a strong desire in humans not to be silenced.

Without a desire to compare, my anecdote: I grew up in Communist Czechoslovakia; even though the state did its best to control communications among people, using outright force, they failed and everyone knew the latest gossip about the apparatchiks. Americans are probably not as competent in muzzling their opponents, plus openly disavowing the idea of free speech will make them internally unhappy. You yourself say that you'd rather have the opposite situation.
How do you get the other units/prefixes?

EDIT: Figured it out, just had to brew install gnu-units
> Yes. They are de facto fascists.

Jesus that's insane. No, no they are not. Do you not see the danger we're about to enter into? You're saying 70 million people are "de factor fascists" .. what the fuck does that even mean?!

Have you been out to a farm in Tennessee? Have you ever walked with a group of friends through the blue watering holes of Georgia? Have you broke bread and had dinner with them? I grew up in Tennessee. I will no condemn the views of 70 million people I do not know because the TV tells me they are "fascists," which is pretty much Orwellian DoubleSpeak and means absolutely nothing today.

You do not know these people. If you did, you would not say such things. You are trapped in a bubble where you are scared out of your mind, and that fear will help this republic fall and strip rights away from every human being in America and maybe even the world over the next four years.
> The SCOTUS claimed there was no standing in the Texas case, and didn't hear the merits.

Texas had no standing. They couldn't have standing. They alleged that Pennsylvania law violated Pennsylvania constitution. The people who decide whether or not that statement is true is the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which did decide that the alleged violation was not in fact a violation of the state constitution. Even federal courts, when they do hear allegations about state law, are required to give extreme deference to state supreme courts in their interpretation of the matter.

Texas has no more right to question Pennsylvania's conduct under Pennsylvania legal rules than Iran has to question US conduct under US legal rules. To not dismiss the case would be to say that the rule of the law is literally less important than people's feelings. Do you really want to live in a country that does not care about the rule of the law?
OK, to those who downvoted the parent: I understand the temptation to downvote everything someone says when you disagree strongly with them on some point, but there is nothing in the parent post that deserves your downvotes. Downvote the post; not the person.
Performance is not one thing, we have processors from so small they can almost not be seen to gigantic AI chips. RISC-V made some design choices and some people like some of them and some people don't like others, just like with anything else in the world.

Christopher Celio as part of his PhD did ISA comparison and found no way that RISC-V is systematically worse, in fact in many situations its better.

David A Patterson, Dave Ditzel and many other long time engineers in this space seem to really like it.

And btw, you could make a much longer The Good, The Bad, The Ugly list about ARM as well. By that definition no ISA is well designed.
"Another major milestone is toppled as Bitcoin price surpasses $40,000 in just the first week of 2021."
I don't think you read the post being discussed here.
The constant comparisons to a prison reflect the theoretical reality of leaving the country accurately, but poorly reflect the psychological perception of the issue by most citizens. The USSR was a vast, vast country, spanning 11 timezones horizontally as the Russian Federation does now. It contained 15 ethnically and culturally diverse republics, practically every far-northern, tundra, sub-tropical and tropical climactic region imaginable, and manifold examples of every kind of landscape and topography. In addition, travel to the Eastern European socialist republics was quite possible and routine for many people.

My point is, there was a lot to see inside the country. Were we technically "trapped" there? Absolutely. But to grok the actual significance of this, consider the single-digit percentage of Americans that hold foreign passports. Vanishingly few Americans have ever traveled outside the country, and a non-trivial number have never left their state or been beyond a neighbouring one.

So, while the fact that the borders were closed is important, and if that's your sole point, well, sure, but if you're likening it experientially to a prison, I think that's a little over the top. There were certain people who really wanted to leave and for whom that was undoubtably true. But as with most Americans, most Soviets were somewhere in the middle on that.

This is not an apologia or a whitewashing of the fact that our borders were closed, but an attempt to convey the human factor in a more nuanced, perceptive way.
The iPhone has a mode which disables WIFI, GPS and the phone network.

The phone is still operational for all other tasks which is ideal for when you are on an airplane.
I'd be interesting to look at these by category and/or business model.

* Sells advertising.

* Sells physical goods.

* Sells a software product.

* Sells a subscription to software.

... and so on and so forth.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. Demo your updated version and just tell everyone there's a new version pending approval. I doubt anyone is going to hold that against you.
Disables all of the radios in the phone, and thus stops incoming messages
Indeed, I checked Apple dev forums, and it must be the deployment target the parent is talking about. I was used to "built against" meaning Base SDK and really freaked out since my app is now waiting for review and I'm really time-sensitive now, unfortunately.
If you are using Django/Python, it might be useful to add *.pyc to your gitignore. These are compiled python files.

Also, if you're developing on a Mac, it would also be useful to add .DS_Store. It's an invisible file, and it just stores some properties of that directory,
Well, Twitter's actually bringing in decent revenue thanks to search deals. There's a general agreement that realtime search of tweets is useful, whether or not it's particularly monetizable.

And calling Facebook "hugely profitable" is a stretch.
Asked and answered:

http://blog.linode.com/2010/12/15/linode-100000-giveaway/#co...
I’m sure way more people would be wearing a mask if they had one. It’s going to be a common household item soon the way it already is in Asia.

The only reason I was able to get one is because I know people who live in China and already had boxes of them before COVID-19.
>Obviously playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 is nothing like ollying your skateboard let alone any of the other tricks.

Simulator racing is pretty different from Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. There's so much shit that you can buy to get you closer to the real deal. Not really so much the case with Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2.

https://youtu.be/o1V8QEAdGNM
Had to downvote your stated fact for breaking guidelines.
Also, if you compare the map of corona cases with population density maps of Germany you will see a strong correlation.
All outcomes aren’t similar, they are proportionately worse the more violent “class warfare” becomes. The best path forward is almost certainly (in my view) incremental cooperative progress towards a stronger social safety net. Nothing good is going to happen over night.
the video is private, can't open it
> I could imagine Apple eventually porting MacOS to iPads (and therefore to ARM)

There's not much to port. The underlying Darwin operating system is shared by all Apple products (AFAIK, excepting Airports for some weird reason). They would have to do a recompile and maybe make sure that nobody accidentally put architecture specific bugs into the finder or something stupid, but the grand difference between Apple's different operating systems is which graphical interface they put on and some amount of user space tooling. And honestly, I would be absolutely shocked if Apple doesn't have internal builds of the desktop-oriented "Mac OS" for ARM, probably as part of the usual CI pipeline.
Fair enough, but the military (an similar orgs, e.g. texas rangers) were using percussion mostly by then right? The big customers they list are the military.
Autism, being "on the spectrum" is very much about focus. It is permanent focus. A chronic pinching of awareness. You are stuck, focused. Bright and narrow. It is a different shape of human. It brings a strength and a weakness.

I speak from personal experience. I've been studying the subject my whole life. My family has much AS.

Also, the discipline of meditation sheds much light on it.
I don't think most people on HN realize this.
Do some research, make a short list of cars that you want (and can afford), have some range of quotes from various websites (I used to check truecar and KBB, not sure if it's still a good source). Then make a few phone calls to the dealers, press for prices (with the exact base model and add-ons you need). Any dealer who doesn't want to give a quote, you can walk away, or rather, end the phone call.

A few years back, it took me half a day researching and half a day visiting two dealers to get the car I wanted, at a reasonable price: I think it was in the 90% percentile cheaper in true car's range, even though I bought my car in SF bay area, which is supposedly more expensive than the average price.
If you want to freeze on ten years back, there's nothing stopping you from getting an old flip phone.

Or if you want to freeze on 8 years back, nobody will prevent you from buying a iPhone 2G.

It sounds like you are saying you won't do that because you don't want to be "left behind", so you'd like everyone else to stop moving forward to accommodate you. But that's their choice, just like using an iPhone 2G is your choice.

"We have too much progress, can everybody just slow down a bit here!?" - first world problems :)
"Due to extremely high demand, surge pricing is in effect. Your ride will now cost a 30-minute timeshare presentation, by a sales agent who'll be riding along with you."
If you read it from another source and remember anything else about deja vu, don't suppose you recall anything about this: I don't think I've experienced a pure deja vu since I was a child (so 10-15 years), but since then I do get - not frequently, but every now and then - what I call "double deja vu"s, i.e. instead of thinking I've seen/whatever something before, I think I've had deja vu of something before. So it feels like this is the 3rd time, not the 2nd.

Never found any information on or even many other people reporting this though.
I really started to get lost when he started talking about never wanting to leave his text editor, wanting to read his emails in Emacs, browse the web in Emacs, have slack and discord in Emacs, etc.

Serious question: Why?
Is it that hard to alt+tab? Especially, why would you want such distracting features inside your editor, while you are trying to focus and work?
Well, I guess you got what you wanted? And why would you want me to discredit myself? Are you threatened by my opinion? If you are then how are you going to learn to think differently, and if you can't think differently how can we trust your conclusion? You're just confirming your biases, pal, but pretending you're "morally righteous". So boorish, so tired, and so....Pathetic.

But can you "deny" something if it's not true? Isn't that confirming the untruth?

But was I denying it?

I'm saying the Western propaganda is overblown but it looks like there's there's suppression going on. I just don't think it's an "atrocity", I think terrorism is the atrocity, and I think what China is doing is the correct path. But I guess you're an apologist for Xinjiang terrorists, huh, pal?

It looks like the only one who's discredited is you for shamelessly misrepresenting me here. If you misrepresent me here, what do you do with any news article; just twist it to fit your agenda? Why should anyone listen to such a shameless misrepresenter?

Anyway, if you claim the Western media is telling the truth, and it's not just your belief, prove it to me. Or don't you have the conviction? Thanks, pal. XD

But we all get to pick our side, right? So pick yours. Apologist for China cracking down on terrorists, or apologist for "Islamic" terrorism. I know where I stand. Do you? Hahah. This is too easy, pal. Whatugot?

Quick, you better invoke another persona. Looks like that one's gonna run outta steam.
Here's the actual trial https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03866174
The 787 case is most fascinating in that while the bug is dead simple, a fix is not.

>Most importantly, the company's already working on an update that will patch the software vulnerability -- though there's no word on when its jets will receive it.

My search of DDG turned up nothing about a resolution. Anyone know?

I know what I would recommend, but marketing would not like it ;-)
One could consider Americans poisoned by something, considering that 40% of the American population is obese (not just overweight) and sperm count has declined 50% in developed countries over the past few decades.
Emacs turns disjoint environments, languages, and activities into a (mostly) streamlined system of workflows and idioms.

Explaining just how powerful that is to people who don't use Emacs is difficult. People need to sit with you for an hour or so and watch you work to truly appreciate just what that means.
Is this the same thing as the stem cell treatments offered by various clinics today?
Sure, and I guess it depends on your performance requirements. As someone who has built a virtual table implementation in the past, I would much rather deal with the performance issues and nitty gritty micro-optimizations than go anywhere near canvas or WebGL for table rendering. But then again, I don't think my standard for acceptable performance was as high as OP's; I wasn't shooting for a buttery smooth 60fps with no jank, but simply trying to get something usable that wasn't frustratingly slow. If you really do need the performance, sure, I concede that maybe canvas/WebGL is the only way to go, but you'd better be damn sure that you really need the performance before you enter that mess.
Definitely. I approached the set up mu4e + offlineimap over multiple accounts (including a GMail one) many times, and I've never been fully satisfied with it. I'd really want to get it to work flawlessly, so I'd love to be able to learn from your experience.
None of what I said conflicts with "focusing exclusively on products," but since you want more background information, here it is.

How did we keep a roof over our heads? The old fashioned way: working our asses off, saving, and with the cultivation of multiple income streams, as I mentioned above.

1. We did some consulting projects that we wouldn't have otherwise taken on, and saved the money. We raised our rates for a couple of these clients dramatically, because they absolutely required us, and the projects had tremendous time pressure.

2. My husband and I wrote and sell an ebook: http://jsrocks.com

3. We also developed a 1-day and 2-day variant of a JavaScript workshop, with a different angle than all others, and have given it twice times to individuals (selling tickets) and twice to corporations in 2010. We originally developed this course in Sept 09, and we've heavily revised and expanded it, but it's the same "product" we're taking around the world. Just like with the consulting, we saved the money. http://jsmasterclass.com

4. I'm teaching a course on how to bootstrap your first product to earn your first $1000 - http://yearofhustle.com. It's a 12-week course and the first round is just about over now. I tested the idea by doing a 3-hour teleconference call and selling tickets for $100 to start with, and the main feedback customers gave me was "MORE!" Then I... you guessed it... saved the money. (This one is just me and a friend, not with my husband.)

If things got bad, I would take on more consulting work, bust ass, and save again. Although I don't think I'll ever have to do that again, given the success of my or our various infoproducts/classes/training courses.

It's simple: I refuse to do anything but bootstrap. I will never take a penny in venture capital. I will never let the outside demands of another person screw with my career again.

I am also fully committed to doing whatever it takes to succeed, and that means being my own angel.

So when I decided those things, I sat my ass down and did my best to figure out how I could get money, fast, and with the least amount of effort.

I certainly won't fail because I believe, on some level, that there is something so special about me that I deserve to be able to work on just one thing and have my bills taken care of.

Enough information for you?

EDIT: By the way -- yes, I'm not doing it alone (and my husband is no slacker in the code department), but it's my grand plan. And, more importantly, this process is accelerating, because we're using the money earned/saved to pay a freelancer to help us develop our 2nd SaaS product, which will launch in September.

EDIT AGAIN: We launched Freckle in Dec 2008, by the way. We/I wrote the book in 2008/2009 (started selling as a beta in Jan 2009). We developed the course in Sept 09. All while heavily consulting.
When I was running the GM version is was very slow. This release seems tons faster.
Indeed. For those wanting to learn (a lot) more about this, with references to all the studies, check out Gary Taubes's book Good Calories, Bad Calories.
The scales use electrical current to measure your body's resistance and compute it based on your weight. Using a fat caliper where you take multiple points of measure tend to give more comparable measurements.
After your first paragraph I was about to suggest the Economist.

After your second one I'd recommend Le Monde diplomatique -- there's an English edition, too: http://mondediplo.com/ -- Well, it's not really a news aggregator; but it's without daily soap opera politics.
Check out the book series Art of Problem Solving.

Edit: There is also a book called Art and Craft of Problem Solving which is unrelated to this series but which is worth checking out too, despite the fact that it is not exactly what you are looking for.
I'd suggest not weighing yourself everyday, but every week at the same time of day. This is because each day your body weight varies from water weight lost and gained. So one day you may be a few lbs. more than usual, which can be discouraging.
Just like there are good and bad movies, there is good and bad work in literary criticism.
Despite their gender bias, knitting and needlework are very "hackery" activities. Won't burn calories though :-)
Yep. The simple method I've found to deal with this is to keep on weighing myself every day. I can eat all sorts of crap, as long as I keep weighing myself.

There's a lengthy period of time which I haven't typed in the data for where I just weighed myself every day. I still managed to keep the weight off when I did that. The minute I stopped weighing myself, though, the weight piled back on.

A daily ritual of stepping on a scale seems a small price to pay for not needing to worry about weight gain, though.
I can't wait for the next headline:

Posterous Reveals Radical New Feature: FRAMES!
>stop welfare

How does providing food and medical care for the poor negatively impact the environment?
None of the implications of this are explored. Such as that Twitter conversations would no longer be easily (for some values of easily) readable as such. Or that by having "Show More" links next to so many items, the user would constantly be made aware of (and thus anxious about) the fact that they are missing lots of information.
A couple disagreements:

We'd like a thank-you note right away.

Honestly, this level of formality would drive me bonkers and I would be more likely to think of the candidate as an overachiever type

Reference-checkers can call anyone you've worked for or who might know you, even if they aren't on the list you provide

This just seems rude and invasive. I'm all for due diligence but if you don't want to be stalked by your candidates, don't stalk them back

And I want to emphasize this one, as someone who has had multiple candidates come in over a half an hour early in the last month:

You can be too early to the interview.

Really. If you're that early, go for a walk. Find a coffee shop. Anything but interrupting the pre-arranged schedule and making everyone in the office uncomfortable while you sit in the waiting area that no one ever uses.
Welcome to how the majority of nations in the world operate.
Is that a threat? Point proven...
I like this part:

"Co-Founder: Within a few weeks of being out in SV we were introduced to the guys behind, YouOS. As fate would have it, one of the founders (Srini) was actually living in the building next to us and we started having informal hacking lessons where heÂ’d teach us how to hack... Once the three months were up he rejoined the YouOs guys to work on their new product, Project Wedding."

The synergies and group dynamics provided by Ycombinator is amazing. Best of luck to you.
Well, whats good for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary should be ok for Google.

http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/2015/3/at-the-flick-of-...
But if there are security holes in Virtualbox, wouldn’t they be exploitable by any OS, regardless of what language it was written in?
SNS is a push notification service, that focuses on various consumers outside the cloud. It can be used with web hooks (http endpoints) to publish the same message to various web servers. In that case it would guarantees at least once semantics (which means the message is delivered, but sometimes twice), but it does not guarantee FIFO.
I don't even know why that one got downvoted to oblivion.
Depends on how you look at it. Darwin is based on Mach with some monolithic BSD stuff linked in, I remember reading that Windows was fairly microkernelish but they've been pushing more things to kernel space.
Because nobody gets out of Vegas with all the money they came in with. ;)