jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> there isn't some 'central' place as a resource for Javascript

That isn't true. All important parts of what we call "Java Script" are well-defined at central, publicly accessible places.

However, one needs to know that the standardized part of Java Script is called ECMAScript, whose current version (5th edition) is available at:

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm...

One also needs to know that the DOM API is not specified by ECMA but by the W3C:

http://www.w3.org/DOM/DOMTR

The DOM standard consists of 3 parts, all of which provide an appendix for ECMAScript:

http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/ecma-scri...

http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113/ecma...

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/ecma...

One might ask why all those JavaScript tutorials don't link to the standard, and why so many of them don't even mention the correct technical term "ECMAScript". No offense intended, but I guess they simply don't know any better. Although they ought to know.

For those who don't like to read technical standards, there are also nice secondary resources like the Mozilla Developer Network:

https://developer.mozilla.org/
So, they lose 4 cents every time a search is performed (2 B USD in loss, 4 B searches per month, or 50 B per year) but they will make up on the volume? Not to mention: they still use Overture to monetize search...
Sales tax for everything is 19%, corporate profit tax is 17%. There's a tax ladder for personal profit which goes from 0% to 40% on the highest tier, although very few people pay that.

Average pay for a software engineer is around USD 2.000-4.000 net monthly, with living expenses at around USD 1.500 monthly (including 1 bdrm apt in a nice neighborhood for USD 400 monthly rent).

A BigMac meal costs around USD 6, but you may also have a nice homemade-like lunch (a lot healthier) for around the same price.

Is not a bad place to live, nor really that expensive. Although Santiago is one of the most expensive cities in the region, but with the added bonus of security, stability, and low corruption[1], something rare for these latitudes.

[1] In 2010, Chile had almost the same Corruption Perception Index than the US: http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/...
Sorry, that was a bad comparison. I just wanted to compare Apple's most popular platform to Microsoft's. But you're right, the circumstances are different. Apples and Oranges, I know.
Um, "whatever Microsoft did" was so shady it's illegal. Apple may be heavy-handed in how they manage their platform, but they don't do anything to prevent consumers from using competing platforms.
I agree with you, but I still like people who can say just plainly "I don't know". This reminds me of PG's "How to Start a Startup" [1]:

"When nerds are unbearable it's usually because they're trying too hard to seem smart. But the smarter they are, the less pressure they feel to act smart. So as a rule you can recognize genuinely smart people by their ability to say things like 'I don't know,' 'Maybe you're right,' and 'I don't understand x well enough.'"

"This technique doesn't always work, because people can be influenced by their environment. In the MIT CS department, there seems to be a tradition of acting like a brusque know-it-all. I'm told it derives ultimately from Marvin Minsky, in the same way the classic airline pilot manner is said to derive from Chuck Yeager. Even genuinely smart people start to act this way there, so you have to make allowances."

"It helped us to have Robert Morris, who is one of the readiest to say 'I don't know' of anyone I've met. (At least, he was before he became a professor at MIT.) No one dared put on attitude around Robert, because he was obviously smarter than they were and yet had zero attitude himself."

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

EDIT: formating
Well, I didn't make it. :-)

pg -- in my anecdotal observation -- tends to like to use YC companies' technology where he can. It's a bit of promotion, and it saves him from doing the work himself -- while keeping HN as minimal/core-function as possible.

At the time Notifo was added, there were a bunch of threads. I think that, since that time, there's a bit of "you should be able to figure this out" involved.

What I provided was essentially a pointer to relevant search terms.

I agree, it's not the clearest thing in the world. Again, it's not my baby.

EDIT: I should add that I'm just not up to a lengthier explanation / set of instructions, right now. Old threads have some. So, I hope the bit of a reply that I could cobble together, helps.
Just curious Y not? I think they are great!
I hope you're kidding about the MD5 thing.

It should be feasible to hash a whole bunch of credit card numbers looking for a hash collision, especially when the first four digits depend only on the card type and the last one is a check digit or something. I'd have to look up the details, but that leaves me with just over a billion things to hash?

This is roughly the way password crackers work, incidentally. And why they keep telling people to use slow hashes, like bcrypt.
There are so many possible disconnections between the individual purchasing decisions of customers and the moves, dick or otherwise, which large businesses make, that I don't see how there is warrant to connect the one as a passing of any sort of judgement on the other at all.

For instance, a customer can love the output of a supply chain, and abhor some part (or the implications of some part) of that supply chain. This isn't at all like a thermometer measuring temperature here.
What power does this actually give MIT? I don't understand.
hrm, have another look. Up on my end.
and you are the one, to claim it was? Because nothing you wrote changed my mind on whether or not Assange did investigative journalism. Some journalists did use the documents that Assange released into the wild as a basis for their investigations, but that's not what Assange did
yeah, you make them an offer. I've negotiated several debts. Its easy, they usually make it clear what they are willing/able to do. I paid one at 30% and one at 50%.
Here is a good example as to why you might want to go to the US for cancer care.

"It's crazy that I live in Canada, but now I'm looking at having to sell my house for coverage of my medication."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-tale-of-2-...
Depends on video game and the parts of spreadsheets.

For an extreme example, Eve Online is a game that makes kids do feats in spreadsheets that set them up straight for careers in accounting and supply chain management.

But less extreme: if your game exposes numbers, spreadsheets are useful to play with them. If I knew more about Excel when I was 13, I'd probably retype unit stats from StarCraft into it and do the maths that I ended up doing in my head. Spreadsheets have plotting functions, which are a fun thing to play with. Also tracking my own magazines & CDs is something I remember doing as a kid - entirely doable in Excel, though in my case, this was my first exposure to Access and RDBMSes in general.

Also worth noting that a proper spreadsheet like Excel is in itself a functional reactive programming REPL. FRP is what you do when you play with formulas.
>Why don't you think the swine flu vaccine, which was much more rushed than the current COVID vaccine, was reasonably close to a worst case outcome? Or at least close enough to serve as an upper bound estimate for side effects from the COVID vaccine?

Because

1. the negative side-effects of a vaccine are not a function of its rushed-ness - just like the injuries you get when a car runs you over are not proportional to how quickly you ran into the road without looking both ways.
2. I don't believe there is a sensible "upper bound" for medical side-effects, apart from the obvious one (everyone dies). Even if there was, you could not think to have safely established it through a single example.

>we punish regulators only when something bad happens that we think they could have prevented, not when something good fails to happen that they could have enabled.

This is also a very retrospective view. How would you establish when a regulator "failed to enable" new medicine? How could you decide that an entity had enough information in advance to make a decision that is obvious in retrospect? How would that entity then prove its historical ignorance in its own defense? Moreover, in the case of a disaster, how would it argue that its predictions were justified and the opportunity cost was too great to institute rigorous checks?

These questions don't exist for the current system. A regulator that fails to catch some medical issue is not questioned on its intentions, but instead punished for simply not being rigorous enough. That cures are slow to roll out is just the price of safe medicine.
Ah, I see. I see it as an underspecified comment :). They didn't specify the price of their system, so it is hard to argue either way.
> But similarly, I can see some of these employers saying "Oh, you have a CS degree from Stanford? That's cool. How do you perform preorder traversal in a given binary tree? Whiteboard is over here."

I'm not sure why you're putting this out there like it's a bad thing. Surely, we want all candidates to be assessed against the same hiring standards and not give some people a pass because of the school they went to.
We also shouldn't forget the genocide of Circassians by Russian empire.

http://www.circassian-genocide.info/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing_of_Circassians...
Back in 2001 I did some consulting for CyberRebate, who were building exactly this. In return for running their proxy you'd earn reward points that you could cash in on their site. They imploded (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberRebate) before the product was launched.
Yes! Reporters usually don't get to write their own headlines.

(you can swap in "publications" without really changing what you meant, but I guess it's fair to not blame reporters)
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Klik n Play was the closest I found in the early 90s. It didn't do smooth scrolling tile sets, but could make some fun single screen games and pseudo moving effects.
To be a further pendant the "#" in his comment bothers me to no end. Can we not communicate effectively/eloquently without relying on social trends?
Easier, or at least easy, fun, less compatibility issues when you live in a pure js and json world on the front and backends, productive, good libraries, good built-in libraries, easy to deploy, productive.
"Erg mode" is pretty core to expectations for smart trainers now. It can also lead to a sort of "workout failure death spiral" -- you start to fail at your interval, and your pedal stroke slows down, so the resistance increases to meet your power target, and you slow down some more...

This can end up chasing you up the cassette if you don't get back on top of it, or you don't adjust the workout bias (ie, reduce the overall power targets to something you can hit).

but you really want this, at least for structured training. It may NOT be important if your goal is "spin at home."

(Someone downtopic seems to think drawing a distinction between "people who mostly ride outside fast in pacelines" and "people who mostly just like spin classes" is somehow snobbery, but I don't see it that way at all.)
Regarding Maven:
- how do you resolve artifacts (eg. are you using Aether)?
- are you supporting classifier and type for dependencies?
The value of a share of a stock for a typical investor is net present value of future cash flows, but the value of an entire company to one of its competitors can be something very different. As others in the thread have mentioned, the strategic value of removing a competitor can be significant.
>From visibility to app discovery, I feel that Apple has failed me.

As a consumer you've failed me. The store is full of useless apps, lazy clones, and fad garbage that does me no good. Write the next Dropbox and people will come pounding at your door. I'm really getting sick of all the Apple/Google bashing. We live in a time where you can trivially publish software to hundreds of millions people dying for new apps without a publisher, without cutting deals with dozens of stores, and little to no investment out of pocket.

What's so wonderful about your app? Go on, tell us. Why should it be the next success? Who exactly are you being wronged here other than the typical gen-y whining about not being a millionaire by 22.
This looks amazing, and pretty sure I'll be using it with my students.

Would be nice if it supported Python, as that's our preferred language, but JS will do.
I’d add one thing: understand your sales cycle.

I’ve worked with more than one company who tripped on these questions:

How many customers do you have to win to make “that” number?
What do you expect your close ratio to be?
Given your close ratio and sale cycle, how many prospects do you need to be engaged with at any give time?
How will you attract that many prospects in that time period?
I think more comparable examples might be:

The symbol for 1 in different orthographies, such as: 1 I ١ ― 𒐕 一 etc ...

The words for father/mother are often a bilabial and open syllable combination regardless of language family origin.

The point is that while the details of the languages (sign, oral, written) could be different, there are some human affinities that make provide commonality. Another meta-pattern might that common words in many languages are often monosyllabic, though this is less universal than the two examples I gave above AFAIK.
I currently work in finance (high frequency trading) and am honing my data science skills (I use pandas a lot for work, branching into pytorch and fastai), and as a hobby I'm working on a collaborative open-source fiction platform.

I'm down for new and existing projects.

Feel free to add me on Discord: Father Fox#2368

Or join the discord group directly (we're very friendly): https://discord.gg/fFqRkTM
Thank you for that.

So, contrary to my first comment, a strong enough solar flare will probably destroy the submarine cables -- unless the sea water shields them.
Unfortunately it is indeed used for non-ad scripts. For example, Hearthstone on iOS fails to render the login page if GTM is blocked at DNS.
> This portfolio was made when I was young and stupid. I do not recommend this for anyone and am slowly selling off my more risky positions [...] Do as I say, not as I do.
Really cool project. Just opened it up and gave it a shot. The ability to sketch is killer.

I'll comment on the repo as well, but would love to see the ability to drop in a standard image.
Yup. You can buy a house on margin if you like. With Interactive Brokers' rates as low as 0.75% for large balances it doesn't look like a terrible option vs. an adjustable rate mortgage, if your account balance is high enough that you're not risking a margin call.

If the house is an investment, the margin loan interest may even be tax deductible, without the 750k limit that the mortgage interest deduction has.
By that argument gcc isn't self hosting either because it uses various assembly syntaxes in its code that requires an assembler.
Day one, Trump's making up complete shit about having the biggest inauguration ever. Absolutely no shame, no backing down, no nuance: 100% pedal to the metal lying insanity, with no evidence, just ignoring every criticism, every fact in within 3000 miles. A complete piece of shit man, through & through, who brought lying & deceit to unfounded new levels in politics.

You have some shit to sling against Biden but I've never seen a single one of these claims made in the first place. I welcome politicians to be challenged, but these challenges have never surfaced, never become topics, where-as we spent weeks dealing with absolute bedlam mad-cap insanity at Trump endlessly not-ever-shutting-the-fuck-up about having the biggest inauguration. He was a master of abusive lying, deliberate, fake, ongoing, dis-proved lying, as a political act, to piss off decent ok truth-believing people. Biden has none of this. None of it.
This is the best analogy of modern biology that I've ever heard.

Just to add one bit of color commentary...

> but still have precious little ability to quickly interact with the biological systems under study (phenotype)

In case it's not obvious, part of the inability to interact 'quickly' is that organisms take their damned time to grow. Even E. coli will take about 20 minutes to double (under the best circumstances). Fruit flies take a few weeks. Mice? even longer. I suppose the field is ripe for some breakthrough to speed that up, but I don't know what it is.
And setting user cookies to HTTP only.
I would argue that your SCM tool should be less like a compiler that just needs to get out of your way and just do it's job how you expect it and more like a text editor. Do you use emacs or vim, which have learning curves but are powerful and help you ultimately do your job much better and more efficiently? Or do you use Notepad, which just edits text and who cares? I think most developers prefer Emacs or Vim or even an IDE. You invest time in a more complex tool so that you can be a better developer.

That being said, I think this will be useful for a lot of less-techy designers or copy-editors or QA people, etc. People who can just open stuff in Notepad because they don't need to craft code.
A good government wouldn't have listened to an insane clown like Congressman Ed Markey and within hours have ordered a stop in the use of Corexit without weighting the alternatives, which in this case was using no dispersant at all (due to the quantities required).

The EPA et. al. have considered Corexit to just fine, given the alternatives, for at least a couple of decades. That BP was correct to tell the EPA to sod off can be judged by how this manufactured controversy disappeared so quickly.
I am a quantitative analyst at a large asset management firm -- I focus on risk models and alpha-generating strategies. Though we have separate developer teams, my job requires considerable hacking.
I don't think what language you use to code an app really makes a difference in how killer your app is. Also this makes no sense because I'm pretty sure apple developers use objective-c, c and c++ to code their apps (look at their job descriptions.) They're pretty powerful languages. I'm pretty sure the operating system you're running was written with c. All the music you listen to was produced with an app written in c and c++. How is this going to prevent awesome apps from being created?
Dear Yanks,

Remember this? http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619

Regards,
Thirty people are more than enough to open a dev office. The real debate is US start-up managers don't want to live in India or China but want to hire foreign labor. We are essentially talking about a very narrow topic about a very small vocal complain-ey minority in one country who want to reframe the debate as helping the smart immigrants of the world.
I used to be shocked at the 9-to-5 programmers. Those who code during the day and go home and (egads!) do not code on side projects. The day of the company Halloween party was always the most jarring. All these 9-to-5 programmers would bring in their kids for the parade. For one afternoon, young, naive me saw that the true meaning of life is your impact on the world. These kids were the world for their parents.

Coming back to retraining, I think some of us in the bubble lose fact of how much dedication is involved to successfully learn something new and become productive. Retraining is hard and, more importantly, not everyone wants to willingly do it.
It's unfortunate that they're attacking Tor, but at least this type of attacks is being demonstrated now by someone presumably only out for lulz, rather than potentially by more malicious entities in the future.
It appears to come from much earlier than 2007. See for example: Cialdini, Robert B.; Wosinska, W.; Barett, D. W.; Gornik-Durose, M. (October 1999). "Compliance with a request in two cultures: The differential influence of social proof and commitment/consistency on collectivists and individualists". Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 25 (10): 1242–1253. doi:10.1177/0146167299258006

Robert Cialdini may be the one who is most associated with this phrase. A few other items which reference it are:

Cialdini, Robert B. (October 2001). "Harnessing the science of persuasion". Harvard Business Review 79 (9): 72–79.

Cialdini, Robert (1993). Influence (3rd ed.). New York: HarperCollins.

So, I suppose the real question is, why does Google trends show a beginning in 2007?

Edit: There appear to be a number of articles about Cialdini's book in 2007. It appears that there was a Washington Post article in 2007 that spurred the interest spike: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/pearls-befo...
Best satire is reality sometimes. I tried hard here, but many people do not see a problem (both itt* and irl). Old-fashioned business is really over.

* /s-like is not easy to feel in text, I know, but it is not there because the story is real and expressed as it is. That seems ubiquitous, as I hear more and more demand. Also, this entire subthread may be > 80% real-life satire, can’t tell for sure.
If you think of an oil rig[1] it's not hard to imagine it having a lot of sensors monitoring the state of the equipment needed to pump oil out of the well. The wells on land aren't as complicated because they don't need crew quarters or things to keep them afloat, but the oil drilling equipment is basically the same.

[1] Eg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Oil_plat...
Text: https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/ct...

Binary: https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cb...
Note that with the edit and continue appearing in VB he meant the immediate window in VB1, not the C++ feature. Also this didn't really appear with VB1, it most likely "appeared" with the first BASIC Bill Gates wrote (as far as Microsoft is concerned, BASIC had it before MS) as any number-based BASIC was able to both run and edit code at the same time and this was evolved to QuickBASIC/QBASIC's "immediate" pane at the bottom where you could run functions as soon as defined them in the editor and modify the program's code and state by pausing it and then this was passed on to VB1 though a dedicated window that remained there until VB6.
My wife's name is Aurelia and its really weird to see a web framework named this. Its like naming a framework: "Thomas".

Example:

Me: What tools/framework did you use to build the app?

You: Aurelia.

Me: Oh cool, I used Thomas.

You: Yeah, I thought about using Thomas, but stuck with Aurelia because it offered better features.
Gorilla != Guerilla
The relevance to the biz depends on where that revenue was going.

Suppose that $100M/year had been going into Craig Newmark's bank account and he had been contributing that money to charity on a regular basis.

Reducing that $100M to $30M would be irrelevant as far as Craigslist-the-company is concerned even though it would be a big hit to the charities.

Craigslist is believed to be owned by a couple of people plus EBay's 25%, so the above scenario is possible.
Yes, GPUs, not CPUs.
It's also a bad example of density for a major North American city. Toronto (4,334.4/km2) has lower pop. density than San Francisco (7,255.12/km2), and Boston (5,531.93/km2) and its nearest comparison is probably Chicago (4,573.98/km2).