jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Even without FTL, if civs can travel across stars, they should have already colonized the galaxy.

Imagine a civ arising 50 million years ago (a majority of the other stars in the Milky Way are billions of years older than the Sun). It takes 50,000 years to become interplanetary, and then 1000 years later it's ready to launch a mission to the nearest neighbor, 8 light years away. It travels at 0.02c and then arrives 400 years later. After 2000 years it has colonized that system enough that it has local resources to repeat the process.

The galaxy is 100,000 light years across, so that allows a spread from one edge to the other in 30 million years, which is long ago for us. Forming closer to the center and allowing for the mixing of star systems with galactic rotation would shrink that number.

Wormholes or warp drive would actually explain the Fermi paradox for me: since the other civs are used to their stars that are older and hotter, and they only pay attention to the prime real estate. But limited to the speed of light, a civ will spread by filling each nook and cranny it can live in.
Quorn tastes pretty good, though in my opinion it's over flavored and it doesn't taste like meat and doesn't have the texture of meat either. I'm sure most people would be able to taste the difference in a spaghetti bolognese. The thing is though, it doesn't have to be like meat, it just needs to taste good and have good texture.
Hulu has been showing me this stupid commercial during almost every show I've watched for almost a month, and that line bugs me every time!

Don't forget the ending, "Do not take Stelara if you are allergic to Stelara or any of its ingredients."
From the beginning of the post:

"One puzzling thing I notice about debating immigration is how certain people often are that strictly restricting immigration is the right policy."

He's talking about people who support significant controls on immigration, which is the current policy and the direction which some people want to move further in.

Lee's not just addressing people who want to end immigration. The substantive argument he's making is that significant controls on immigration are bad.
As simple as that question seems, I'm sorta unsure how to answer it. Cotton was a boom crop that had huge demand in the textile mills. Tobacco preceded it, and for all I know, with tobacco farming, slavery would have ended on its own. Tobacco is much higher-skill than cotton, and that could easily have led to a much gentler slope out of slavery.

It's all a tangled mess of counterfactuals. The aristocrats in the South were definitely riding the tiger, and could not afford to compromise on the Peculiar Institution.
I'm really enjoying 7 concurrency models in 7 weeks. I'm about 2/3 through it. It has covered examples in Java, Clojure, and Elixir so far. As someone trying to learn a functional language (Clojure), I've found it to be a great introduction to the concurrency benefits of functional programming.
> I'm a junior developer who just got out of college

Welcome to life. You will find that the world doesn't work the way it's described in books or from the mouths of someone with grey hair.
This is just a blogspam reference to the dailydot.com article, which was previously posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8801380
Regarding the first article, they discovered 9331 studies that studied the impact of practice on performance, and narrowed it down to 157 studies based on their criteria. The breakdown in terms of genre, number of studies, total number of participants, and % of variance in performance capable of being explained by deliberate practice was:

Music 28 1,259: 21%

Games 11 1,291: 26%

Sports 60 2,633: 18%

Professions 7 321: 1%

Education 51 5631: 4%

So not programmers specifically. I didn't read the paper very thoroughly and examine their methodology (perhaps their criteria were such that they were allowed to cherrypick results), but it seems to me that the professions category seems to suffer from particularly low sample size.

It's important to note that under deliberate practice, they did not include starting age. To explain the other ~80% of variance, they proposed starting age, general intelligence and working memory capacity. Pm me if you would like to see the article.
I was just looking at CodeCanyon. Have you done it? can you give me a little more detail on how it works?
God: The Ultimate Imperative.
You do know that there's more than one hardware platform for routers, right?
You have succeeded in making the "people" are special argument twice. I think that sort of underlines my point. Human supremacist arguments are not convincing to me.
It is not only a distraction, but pushing a non-viable technology reduces the credibility of everybody that is trying to solve the problem with technology.
Agreed, too often security people are incentivised to make a massive fuss over tiny issues, and then often don't seem to understand that security is just one of many requirements needing to balanced
Youtube seems heavily biased towards things I’ve viewed most recently on the homepage. I actually like Youtube’s recommendations more than any other website, especially the similar videos section on video pages themselves. It seems to recommend genuinely related videos and usually ones with a certain base level of ‘quality’. It’s good at things like picking out dates in the video title and listing other videos for that date/event.
How do you arrive to the 1.6€/TB/month?

In your link the cheapest option is 76€, with an 82€ setup fee.

EDIT - I see it now, had read 4 TB for the cheapest option, but it is actually 40 TB !!

Too much for my typical home user needs, though :-)
You're jumping to conclusions when you're associating a syntax tree based program representation with the forced use of a mouse or cumbersome navigation for editing. Nothing could be further from the truth. A completely usable and fast keyboard based editing method for such a program representation is entirely possible. The only downside is that it's harder to create a minimal working version of such a tool compared to a text editor.
The Visual Studio .net (c# in particular) debugging experience has always been excellent in my opinion. One great plus for a managed language. I guess that the closer you get to the metal the more difficult it is for a debugger to do its magical things and hence the poor experience for c++ devs.
https://nyc.nyc, so good they domain named it twice...
Yes, I did. At the age of 42!

Funny you should ask. I posted about my experience in a recent thread a few weeks back.

Search for my user name here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21299546
Which also has the original HN discussions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2673271

and links to +1000 day old threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578706

yet those space invaders still haunt me.
In an interview last year with the creator, Alex Tew, Jason Calacanis guessed $50-75k and it sounded like that was a little low.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYTJXiyyytQ#t=227
This is a bit pedantic, but Git isn't an acronym (or all-caps).
Summary:

First: "There’s of course more to choosing a blogging service than mere availability, but it’s one factor, and now you have some actual numbers so you don’t have to guess."

Second: In order of least downtime:
1. Blogger
2. WordPress.com
3. Typepad
4. Posterous
5. Tumblr
Cool:

erlang:unique_integer([monotonic])

I wish this was a more common API function. Being able to do ordering without having to think about time and concurrency is really nice (I know x86 has an interlocked increment that you could just use on an arbitrary global variable, but that means that you're not safe across crashes).
According to Twitter's public statement, Trump's rule violation was incitement of violence, not "advocating for the abolition of his own government."

The Ayatollah has repeatedly tweeted in support of the violent destruction of the state of Israel. If that's not incitement of violence, I don't know what is.
Respectfully, we disagree on what discourse means.
Mastodon posts are toots
It's a common C macro idiom, that makes a multi-statment macro behave like a single statement. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/154136/do-while-and-if-el...
That’s not it at all. If you have iMessage in your phone it’s completely tied to Apple whole data gathering context because your phone is made by Apple.

I understand what you’re saying. If the App is only collecting certain amount of information on its own, then they should only list that right? ... But that’s unfair with the rest of the vendors because they are forced to list everything they track, while iMessage obscures it by saying “the app doesn’t collect anything”...yet the phone is and iMessage is the default messaging system for iOS.

I’m a loyal Apple user but this is anti-competitive behavior. As much as I love Apple’s privacy focus, it seems that they’re using it as a proxy to unfairly compete with other companies and claim that they only care about the end’s user privacy, which is clearly not true.

Apple does and will use your data to push Apple products. They should be transparent about that.
Is this a fucking joke? I'm done with defending Obama. Bradley Manning gets 35 years, no mercy. People responsible for trillions in debt and 100k+ dead or injured don't even get investigated.
Obama is naive if he thinks this will prevent a future GOP administration from hauling his ass into court like they did with Clinton. The GOP will go after him for crimes committed with drones if it is politically advantageous.
The real point to them being elective luxuries is that the would-be consumer can actually walk away entirely. You needn't get lazik from anyone. The same can't be said of many/most medical procedures.

You can't research the market and just skip getting a knee replacement altogether, the way you could with lazik. To say nothing of more serious problems.
People are reading too much into raises given after a good financial year.
I think both - a better work environment (less structure & management) & the stock options - plus a new professional challenge attracts them away
Actually, what you are missing is the subtext of my original message. I have to go now and tend to my startup, but if you want to email me directly I'll respond when I can
Disagree.

Some people are leaving to Facebook to get rich, so by offering them more money, Google is setting up appropriate incentives for them to stay.

Fight fire with fire!
It is such great news! For some of us that are too busy, our first port of call for news is HN and although I agree with you this is possibly not for HN, this calls for an exception - as I know of no-one in the HN community that has not been looking forward for her release.
Please post and invite. I am sure many of us would like to try it.
There's more to the cost than just the power. Don't forget the manpower and hardware costs for disk/RAM/chassis swaps and so on when they break, bandwidth, the fact the space it is occupying in the rack could be filled with a much more expensive server (assuming rack space/power is limited.) Also, the small amount it contributes to the demands of overall resources such as admin staff, monitoring systems, systems administrators etc.
Well, I was probably an unusual case. Very interested in math, very bad at learning from teachers, and earning a bit of disposable income. I ended up spending about $50 one term on math learning software that turned out to be total crap, so spending that on something that worked wouldn't have been out of the question.
A few hours ago, I made plans with my best friend to meet up Saturday and get some work done.
You may be jesting, but I actually think you have a pretty good point.

People think that starting a business looks like this:
1. Come up with an idea
2. Build a product or service
3. Sell the product or service

When, in reality, it often looks like this:
1. See what you can sell (and sell it if you can)
2. Build it
Hmmm:

Dual Xeon 2.4,
1GB RAM,

Ok the ram is a little under-generous but can you point me to where I can get a dual Xeon 2.4 (=8 core) server for $40/month?
The Planet is one of the biggest players in dedicated server market.
I came here to ask if anyone remembered DabbleDB. When I first saw the demo I thought that thing would change the world.

Isn't that the kind of thing the OP is asking for?
(ugh, right? How last century)

Its not really about a "last century" thing, "last century" most apps need not multiple front-ends like today, unless you are 100% you won't need multiple front-ends, doing a json api from the start simplifies things a lot.
It also ha the benefit of making citizens act better as well. The article said it's basically a win, win situation. The only people that would be against this are corrupt cops and their overlords (i.e. Bloomberg).
It seems that after a government deploys mass surveillance, mass censorship comes "natural" after that, probably because they start finding out what their citizens are really doing, and they don't like it. So they want to "fix it" by controlling what they can watch or do. They just can't help themselves.

We need more decentralized surveillance and censorship-resistant systems. It seems to be the only way to stop this. "Democracies" don't seem enough to stop this at the political level these days. It's just too easy for the governments or parliaments to pass orders or laws such as these, and it's much harder to mass mobilize against each one of them.
> I don't want poop on the streets.

I doubt Samsung fab employees are going to do that. I don't get the relevance of this to our discussion.

> More recently in UK over 100 people burned to death because a massive skyscraper was built with violations of fire safety, and then plasteres with more flamable material.

Again, this is irrelevant. A parking lot, just by existing is not a fire risk. And even if it does pose some fire risk, putting solar panels and the required electrical equipment on the parking lot will only increase that risk.

> Do these entities not benefit from not having the building they manage burn to the ground?

No, they don't. Ask the owners of that skyscraper. What's your point again?
How do you get the script to save the json file?
I think the swift boat stuff alone puts him firmly in the camp of 'people who have shown themselves not to be trustworthy with the facts'.
I think that part of his point was that in this case, intelligent people tried to design unstable bikes, and failed. Even their unstable bikes were stable. He's doing the obvious equating of Intelligent Designer and God. And since "God created the Universe", he made the universe like stable bikes.
I empathize with this point (I even up voted) but I don't entirely agree.

I want to say that we should have some grand unified abstraction for describing web applications but that doesn't represent reality outside of web development. We're still living in a world with multiple OSs (never mind the browser war).

The technology world isn't isn't unified.

if it truly were, would we be able to express solutions to arbitrary problems?

Such a unified solution as you hope for would implicitly prevent the flexibility that allows for technological advancement. Ruby on Rails "golden path" approach is actually a good example of this. Development is easier following the path. Deviate and it gets tricky quickly. But at least it's possible to deviate.

I believe the solution you posit would result in a black box approach to development with only one right way if even one at all. Deviation from the intended use of such a tool would likely be impossible.
wasn't this backbone.js ? the TODO example is the same one !!
Why do you think he's using the term incorrectly? He just means that, with git, the order in which you apply patches matters. In a scenario where people are distributing patches and applying them as they receive them, this implies a lack of eventual consistency.
You're right, I wanted to keep this one short and simple. I have been thinking about writing an article about calculating image similarity, instead of just finding differences between two versions. Stay tuned! :)
Hang on, I'm not saying I don't care about standard terminology - I'm saying I care a lot more about the bijective property than the isomorphic property.
I don't like the idea of everything now being centralised under the control of Instagram/Facebook/Zuckerberg, but the concept of giving the control away from the paparazzi and their invasive up skirt photography and back to the people they harass is a pretty nice switch.

There's something to be said about the desire for celebrity news being better satiated with a direct line to the person rather than a third party tabloid. I guess fake news and outrage based clickbate is now the modern incarnation of the tabloid trying to shift copies with celeb photos and gossip.
A C++ LGPL implementation of this has been as been developed as part of last year Inkscape GSoC and is available as a standalone library: https://launchpad.net/libdepixelize

It will be released in the next Inkscape major version, expected soon :)
I've read, though I can't remember where, that a number of languages were under consideration.

But the Android team mostly came from Danger, and Danger used Java. So the Android team had considerable experience designing a Java VM for a device with very limited resources. Although Android never shipped on such a device, the design target was 200Mhz CPU, no GPU, and, IIRC, 128 or 256MB RAM. That's luxurious compared to a Danger Hiptop, which IIRC had only 32MB.

If you look at how many VM instances get started when an Android boots, it's pretty amazing that it doesn't take 15 minutes.

Also it enabled them to piggyback on a very mature toolchain by translating from Java bytecode to Dalvik bytecode as the last thing before packaging an app. At the time, XCode had nothing like the linting and refactoring Eclipse had. If they had a similar toolchain for Danger, that would be another reason to stick to Java.
I don't send all my traffic through AdSense, some go to other services, which give me less profits with less rules. I have a CPM around $2. depending on the ads platform. AdSense is definitely the best one for me.

I started with AdSense 3 months ago and I'm still afraid of being banned and lose all my revenue. I don't explicitly violate any terms, but it is not original content and can easily be framed as doorway pages.
I don't think High School is so great. I hated it more than I can possibly express, and I went to one of the best public High Schools in the country.

I dropped out and only regret it ~every other Thursday, and then only because I think I would have enjoyed college, if I had picked the right one. And then only because I would have possibly enjoyed the friends and networking benefits.

I strongly feel, based on observation and anecdotal evidence, that traditional school encourages people to need guidance their whole lives. If the social and networking benefit can be replaced, anyone who can self-direct learning is better off without the classroom structure. That goes double for people of above average intelligence, and should be logarithmically more true in this day of infinite internet information. Obviously this doesn't apply to accredited professions.

This doesn't mean being self-taught is so great either. Mentors are everything. But High School isn't typically a bastion of real, useful, mentorship.
Facebook and Google could write the book on passive aggressiveness.
fyi there may be laws that regulate how many people may live in a single residence. i know there are in my part of the world.
Your fifth comment on the site should contribute more than that.
If you want to save face get a test to see if you are the father. If you are, then abortion might be something to consider.
I know that some window managers are capable of it. Though I use Macs primarily, so I want Apple to fix it. :) Realistically though, cross-platform products like Firefox would need Windows and all Unix/Linux window managers to handle this too, in order to completely avoid home-grown code to mimic tabs.
Also useful for storing parse results:

"<a href='blah'>"

gets modified during parsing to become:

"<a\0href\0'blah\0>"

Your parse tree result result can then just contain pointers to "a\0", "href\0", and "blah\0" rather than doing any copying.
Have you considered moving to Israel and joining a kibbutz?
I don't know why Google is lumped together with Apple in this, because they do ask for permission.
Currently it is one year. Based on how active you are your account will be automatically renewed. If you just register it for parked domain or just you are blocking it you need to pay.
I like Ocaml for these reasons. It's actually a very simple language and has the C-like elegance. If you already know a few programming languages and can "think functionally", you can pick it up in about a week.

C's major win, in its time, was context-independence: people could drop into a 200,000-line C project and have a good idea of what the code they're looking at is doing. And if C code has been written well, it's not hard to look further if needed. This is not really possible when metaprogramming features like self-modifying code and insane macros are pulled out. Lisp is great in the right hands, but I've seen undisciplined "rock star" programmers produce write-only code in it and that's ugly.

Ocaml also has this context-independence, but it has most of the power of a language like Lisp, it's statically typed and functional, but it's pretty much the minimally complex language that has that power. It loses on libraries, but as far as the language itself goes, it's one of the best languages out there.
The study very strangely excluded the Linux kernel, but included other 3rd party open source components --- including dbus and the bluetooth stack, to which Nokia has made contributions.

If they had included the kernel, Nokia would have vanished into the noise. If they had not included any 3rd party external components, then Nokia wouldn't have shown up either. In other words, the statistics are they way they are only because of a very strange choice of what to count and what not to count. Did someone chose them just so they could make a sensationalistic headline and grab web hits? You decide...
Is it really that different in silicon valley? The article states 1% as a laughably low number, but doesn't zuckerberg own nearly as much of facebook as all other employees combined?

http://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-major-Facebook-shareholders...
Why does any if this matter, bubble or not? The tech community has spent an inordinate amount of time discussing it. What I see is a lot of companies building businesses the right way -- customers first. If the funding dies down, which it will one way or the other, these companies who have put customers first and will be able to survive. As for the knock-offs and clones, well, if they go away will anyone care?
Context: http://people.csail.mit.edu/vgod/fun-projects.shtml
Link to an example of a simple organism simulation, based on that organism's nervous system. I have never seen one.
Still there.

Also Gundam. The whole franchise was initially a way to promote model kit :D
> I don't see Bill Gates attributing reading to his success at all.

He did many many times.

"Every book teaches me something new or helps me see things differently. I was lucky to have parents who encouraged me to read. Reading fuels a sense of curiosity about the world, which I think helped drive me forward in my career and in the work that I do now with my foundation."

https://time.com/4786837/bill-gates-books-reading/
Are you having a bad day?

I am talking about a homelab, a single server at home, for home use. It's much safer now, with Docker compose, because I understand it and I wrote the core exposed part's configuration, the Caddyfile, myself, manually. I know exactly what's exposed, and it's exactly right the way it is!

The remaining risk comes from the services themselves having security holes, but k8s has that very same risk.