jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I totally agree with you, but this is a chicken-and-egg problem. Unless someone starts demanding such standards, the challenge will always be there.

Letting the administration be the pioneer in this front is sensible both morally and practically. Morally because the administration should be pushing for the greater good for all citizens, and practically because people/companies can not just "choose another provider and sidestep the issue".

Once nearly everyone is forced to have processes in place to interface with the administration using open standard formats, small companies looking to do business will have a much easier time asking for these formats too.
Wow! I just discovered this on the Scala mailing list and...
Mind Blown!

Wondering why this hasn't been upvoted more!
I play table tennis, and thus have quite a bit exposure to small, cheap balls. I can't confirm your observation.
Typo: the landing page says "Spine is a lightwork framework"
Only because of the horrid sports journalism in the US that reads like a police blotter. I follow some Euro-soccer and was amazed at the difference in quality and breadth of the writing.
Yes they are small companies, but they are companies none the less. They reply to emails in the royal we, they have business names etc. I much prefer when I email a person.
Gah. "sudo make me a sandwich" returns actual results.

There has to be a few easer eggs.
Currently when you access the MSN homepage from any browser - including IE9 itself, it recommends both an upgrade to IE8 as well as an upgrade to IE9. Link goes to screenshot of current homepage.
Nope, mine, see this comment from two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2452759 . Boom, I win ;)

Joking aside, I could have sweared I had seen this on HN a while ago... I cannot seem to find it, so I guess it might have been on twitter / buzz.

When I posted this link, I was not trying to make fun of Larry or anything like that. It was just an inspirational example of a startup founder working on his project, during the early years of the web, working on a new platform.
I'm just shocked that something that uses a Google search API survived for more than 2 years.
Puts us in the top 15 with the usual suspects. United Kingdom was a surprising one for me though, would not have expected it to be better than say Finland or the Netherlands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...
London and Tokyo are two of the worlds top financial centers - I don't think this has much to do with general internet access and everything to do with trading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_centre

[NB The article makes this pretty clear]
http://grammarist.com/usage/dampen-damper-dampener/

So you're correct -- I remember reading articles about suspension (ie: bicycle shocks) where they talked about the damping adjustments, and went through pains to differentiate between "damping" (ie: damping the rebound effect of the suspension spring) versus "dampening" (to make something damp (ie: wet))... but I guess "dampening" works all ways... I thought it was an annoying common-ish mistake, and here I am in error...

Edit: more etymology -- http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/67497/is-it-dampi...
It's also worth quoting the famous business aphorism:
"Production - Sales = Scrap"

In your case, production is worth 3 times what you quoted the middleman (because the end customer was willing to pay it), what you got was scrap value, and the difference between your price and the end-customer price is the value the middleman created by selling well.
TL;DR: Learn to sell!!! :-)
They better do something meaningful. AMZN investors are not impressed lately. Some of them waited for an year to be break-even :) But that's different story...
It's the other way around. ES6 needs to support loading ES5 content. They can't make 'generator' a keyword because it was a perfectly fine variable name in ES5.
I do remember it! I feel like having bugs in my code that is only run 20% of the time is not an acceptable amount of bugs.

Like, seriously guys, I'm sure we can all come up with some kind of degenerate case where 80% of the code is in exception-handling or some other really, really, really rarely called piece of code, and feel okay with not testing that. But that's hardly the ordinary scenario.

And, for example, in the messaging code I've recently been writing, it certainly is the case that some of the code is exercised a lot more than others. For example, reads are done an order of magnitude more than writes, and writes are done an order of magnitude more than deletes.

But that doesn't make me feel okay about bugs in my delete code. It's a whole feature. It needs to work.
Hi, this is currently an Alpha version of the codesearch, lots of features are missing and the index is not 100% up to date.
I build this as a replacement of code.google.com

If you have any ideas let me know!
The negativity might be warranted because we are actually running out of time with the climate emergency. It's a pessimism rooted in something very real and something very terrifying.

So sorry if I seem a bit negative. I'm going to work on my garden as soon as it warms and enjoy my family.

P.S.

It's not academia that has conservative views, but the workplaces most people here occupy as they crush any radical idea quickly and efficiently.
These userspace runners seem pretty revolutionary, especially their ability to catch syscalls. As I understand it, this is what WINE is trying to add to Linux (so that they can correctly emulate Windows calls for some DRM/anti-cheat).

This is very, very, cool stuff. It positions Fuschia as approximate to a lingua franca OS.
> It's too easy for a bad actor to artificially create "leftover" doses to give to friends and family

How? If X people made appointments in a day, then exactly X vaccines should be distributed for that day. Leftover vaccines will only be distributed after all those appointments are over, so it is impossible for any of the X people(assuming they arrived on time) to lose their vaccine.
Off the top of my head three are a few places that do this: REI, Norse Projects, End Clothing, Mr. Porter, adidas, and a few others. It should be more common though. I wonder if it used to be harder to know at search time if you were OOS on a particular UPC.
This could be a fun control mechanism for a game too. The idea which popped into my head was "pulling down" on the screen to initiate a ball rolling from the left of the screen into the divot you're making, then letting go so that the surface the ball is rolling on springs back up, sending the ball flying.
Dare to commit to not using C or C++ for your next 8bit AVR project?
Sorry. "name : type" comes from Pascal, and the Modula/Ada/Oberon family of languages continue it. Now that type expressions have become so complex, it's better to have a syntax where you know a type expression is expected. C/C++ struggle with this; they have to know which names are types just to parse. This is a pain for tools which try to parse C/C++ without reading all the include files. C originally had only built-in type names and "struct". "typedef" came later, and made the syntax context-dependent.
Brothers Karamozov...I should really get back into reading that.
Thanks for that link, I'll delete the post then.
I don't see overclocking being approved without incredibly tactful speaking
38 Games but half of those are away. With significant less space and revenue split. I am not sure where the cheapest Juventus Ticket of €136 came from. As it is more like the expensive ticket during a derby. With away ticket as low as €30 and €50 for Home Ticket. Seasonal Ticket starts as low as €650.

Basically the €215 Million is off by an order of magnitude.

The majority of revenue for Football teams actually comes from TV revenue, sponsorhsip and Mech. Most if not all EUR and UK Football teams generally keep the ticket price as low as possible to encourage people going in to watch the Game.

>If hundreds of millions per year.......

With Player transfer going at €100+ Million, I am not surprised. Although with Football, so far the game has proven money can buy you the best team ( whatever that means ) but not the trophies. Which still keep it somewhat exciting.
As I wrote in another comment, portable identities are a matrix spec change I'm quite excited about: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/neilalexander/...

Start on a server, but your real identity is attached to a cryptographic key, not an e-mail-like identifier. That would allow you to move around, and maybe one day get rid of domain names altogether (using something like yggdrasil or tor to host and connect servers, for instance).
It's Tradewars 2002. Sorry to be pedantic, but I can't let my childhood memories erode any faster than they already are by accepting that. :)
I've written a few specific python apps where optimization at this level was worth contemplating in a couple spots after profiling (basically, tight loops). That said, replacing the algorithm has usually been a much smarter play.
http://public-dns.tk/nameserver/in.html are better
I do similar things - DD, system repair (though I am usually much further up the stack to include product, organizational, and business structure issues), etc. Unfortunately it is often on a favor basis rather than paid.

I've been tempted several times to form the League of Extraordinary Gentlepersons or something similar. You broke it, we fix it.
Java also has arrays. And on heap/off heap RAM allocation.

We deploy all our services as uberjars, we have a single Amazon AMI with JDK 8 installed. It's pretty frictionless. It goes from a simple Gradle project, to a single jar on S3, and pulled from S3 by our AMI. Automatically launches via an upstart script.

I'll give you less RAM usage for sure. But when I'm launching a whole VM for a service anyways, I don't care that much. I tend to lean toward Go when I want a low-footprint coprocess for another service, or other small apps.
A package manager is generally not part of the language per se and should not be part of the language, but rather be part of the tooling ecosystem around it. Don't get me wrong. A de facto package manager is extremely important for any major language - and it's high time someone in the C++ community builds and promotes one. It just doesn't belong in the spec.
Pretty much. In particular, Boost is already packaged and available for clean dependency management on all Linux distros. And on Windows, you're almost always looking at shipping a statically build binary (or one with the DLLs packaged) anyway, so an external package manager would provide little value anyway.

Really the existence of language-specific package management might be considered the bug, and not the feature. In all cases I've dealt with, the OS packaging is superior anyway.
We can boring as well. Just change the background to black and disable the ability of making any changes.

This is the point actually. If "boring" is your video call vibe, go for it. It's still an expression.
So... is this legal? I guess it depends on where you incorporate the company?
The white buttons are a play queue of the last 4 messages I sent. When a new message arrives the corresponding button blinks.
Well that is the cleverness of most trump statements, toe the line, give a nod to your side, but also retain deniability. If you don't start interpreting, you get into a trap in which you will be outfoxed by anyone who can toe lines enough to not blatantly incriminate themselves.

As for BLM, personally I was never very sympathetic to the portions of protests/riots that caused violence.
Yes. In the nineties.
In regards to the health insurance thing, there is a good middle option. I'm not affiliated but I use Savvy (https://www.gosavvy.com/).

They take advantage of a law that just started in 2020 that lets a company owner offer tax free insurance payments without having a health plan.

Basically you set a budget, and then the employee chooses any health plan they want from any provider and pays with tax free money. If they spend more than your budget it just comes out of their paycheck, so you could theoretically set the budget to $0 and at least let them have tax free health care payments.
I worked for a very large company you would all know, not tech, where deadlines are the start of any project, even before the details are more than vague ideas, meetings happen every day on multiple projects the same team has to work on overlapping, and full time is a dream (hint its a lot more). Living the dream.
Myself and just about everyone I know uses iMessage. Why is there still such a need for a third party messaging app?
What do you think of the Xbox 360 "E 74" issue and how Microsoft handled it?
Pokerstars client does not use dns at startup at all. It uses one of the ips you can see in trace.ini. (not sure how it obtains those ones however) Wouldn't expect other clients to be worse. They're going to be ok.
I'm located in Hungary.

Pokerstars.com works, Fulltiltpoker.com works, UB.com gives me an FBI page.
If you actually read the document, you would see that the document includes provisions for a court system under the very correct assumption that some people would read the document and come to different conclusions about just what the document means.

Ever played a board game and had people disagreed on what the rules said. If you play games of any complexity, it happens all the time. Life is considerably more difficult than any game.
Probably just hasn't propagated yet.
One advantage of gibberish passwords like "b923F$5mvA" is that if someone looks at your fingers while typing them, he'll have a hard time figuring them out from your keypresses, whereas if you typed "this is fun", it would be much easier.

Ditto for when someone has a visual glimpse of your password which is only a few seconds long. (e.g. someone looked at your laptop screen while you got an email with your password from an irresponsible website.)
I've always suspected that Lisp is write-only. For example, it fails the squint test, which I wrote about here: http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/the_language_squint...

Being write-only would explain why there are so few collaborative Lisp projects.

And I don't particularly buy the thesis of this essay that there are few collaborative Lisp projects because it's possible to do anything with a single person. You can always find sufficiently difficult problems that would require a team. Projects in Lisp should be putting projects in other languages to shame. I think there's something about Lisp that makes collaboration too difficult, and I suspect it's the expressiveness itself.
You can choose to l33tify different combinations of letters in the password. passw0rd may be in the dictionary, but is p4ssword, or pa$$word? Patrick's point is that there are combinatorially many different ways that you can 133t!fy a password, so they don't really help in dictionary attacks.
It's kinda cool to see a link to 2+2 at the top of HN, sucks that it has to be for this though...
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I'm a student of computer science and mathematics with one year of experience writing software in a professional setting, currently looking for internships or a part-time position. I've been passionate about programming and theory for over ten years, reading open source code and regularly writing programs / libraries for personal and academic use - Which I hope would translate to needing little to no hand-holding in your team. Should you think it useful, I have accumulated quite a bit of experience with administering Unix systems as well.

Looking for any position where I get to solve difficult problems - I tend to enjoy those.
> But HN is a tiny minority. It is barely a drop in the ocean.

It is, although the comments aren't HN readers talking about themselves—the comments are HN readers talking about what comic book readership in their country looks like. To pick a random example, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8898345. Pay attention to what the author is saying: not "I read X", but "the best selling comic in Norway for decades was Donald Duck", "The best selling French-language comic is usually Spirou".

> You have to realize that this is afterall a business - the fact that there are very few comics that do portray what you're talking about disagrees with your "tremendous evidence".

The fact that there are very few comics in the US. There are very many such comic books outside of the US, and they sell well. My point is, the way the US comic book market looks is not inevitable; instead it's a result of many years of poor decisions by the US comic book publishers to appeal to a single niche.

Or to turn your phrase back on you: it's a business for comic producers all over the world. However, elsewhere they have found success selling to audiences that US comic book producers have long neglected. I know given how popular US cultural products are, it's easy to assume that things outside the US look just like things inside the US, but that's not always the case. HN has an international readership; check out what they say to see what things are like in other countries.
Also a great game with the same theme from 2011: Pragmatica

http://www.wearehive.com/games/pragmatica/
Does reading a thousand lifestyle on the web count for being worth your time?
That's really cool! Thanks for the response!
Like you I have removed almost everything "Desk Top Environment" recently and have been enjoying the increased resources I get. I similarly hate that everything is getting intertwined so much that it is hard to actually pick and choose applications without taking a huge amount of cruft with it.

Having said that, if you look at the list of people working on Wayland it is quite impressive. As it contains a good number of core X windows developers, you would be hard pressed to argue that they don't understand the trade-offs that they are introducing. And while I haven't had time to play with it in any real depth, I've looked at Mutter's API and it is quite nice. Finally, I've actually tried Wayland (with Gnome and on top of Mutter by itself) and while there were still some problems at the time (about 3 months ago), I was actually able to get a full day's work done without much complaint. In fact, it is snappy and responsive and it mostly works.

I like exporting my X displays through ssh, so I really don't know if I will use Wayland seriously any time soon, but I think it is a good prospect for people who aren't me. I like the fact that this update from the Gnome guys shows that they are thinking, "Hey maybe not everybody will dump X. Let's try to find a place where we can showcase Wayland with the least inconvenience to conservative people".

IMHO, this kind of development is nothing but good. The real question is if Red Hat will take a less heavy hand in deployment of this as opposed to other "Let's reinvent the world" projects. As an option, I'm extremely happy to have it. If it gets wrapped up in everything so that I can't use any popular software without it, then I will be unhappy. But so far I see no signs of that.
>A lot of people miss the fact that literature is about teaching moral lessons. If you read books about novel writing, you'll see that some recommend that you start with a premise - which is a moral point you want to make.

I'd argue that science fiction is more focused on teaching a moral lesson than any other genre.
Take your pick (probably a combination of the below):

1) it is more popular then what they are using, developing or have skills for

1a) they use language x which does something different that they feel PHP sucks because the lack of it.

2) they got stuck using it and prefer language y instead.

3) They really aren’t all that good programmers and rely on pre-implemented security features to save their butts, and PHP doesn’t meet their dependencies

4) they are invested-in or represent language/platform x and PHP is a compelling contender.

5) they prefer to argue instead of fostering as accessible/usable alternatives for for one reason or another

Just as COBOL, FORTRAN, Visual BASIC, Perl, etc. are reviled by some, they still get jobs done. In some respects it may suck, others it's just fine partly based on intended application and/or coding skill.

If PHP was so bad in all the respects argued, there would be a much more compelling alternative, but it isn't all that bad, and actually quite useful... and popular.
Definitely. If it's to be taken at face value, where is one dead person? "Died from sitting." Seriously?

I haven't seen a single shred of hard evidence of these FUD claims by the standing desk "cool kids" that are telling us "you're holding it wrong" and that we should do it their way "or it will kill you." C'mon. Trendiness maximus.
(1) Careteam & services coordination platform for elderly living in full care homes, assisted living homes or in 'virtual' care at home.

(2) Exploratory platform looking into 'cross silo' team coordination workflows and data sharing for healthcare workers and social services based on HL7 FHIR for preventive healthcare and post-intervention at home recovery care.

Both of these initiatives started long before COVID-19 was in the dictionary.
I don't think Android allows coronavirus apps either. If this were for Android it would be likely barred from the play store.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=covid-19&c=apps

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=coronavirus&c=apps

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This is something that I’ve felt is going to become very hot - some way of ensuring that documentation never goes stale. In the same vein as tests needing to pass before merging a commit, ensuring documentation is up to date when commiting. Looking forward to hearing more!
http://archive.is/5Lj1N
its relevant depending on how long the test takes and what she died of.
Yes, that’s a possibility and currently many monoclonal antibodies are produced that way (basically all drugs ending in “-mab”). However the process is costly and current capacities are not sufficient to supply a whole population regularly with antibodies which is why we still use some older drugs for certain diseases (think MTX for rheumatoid arthritis) and reserve monoclonal antibodies for treatment-resistant cases. I hope that it’ll be possible to protect high risk HCW and ICU patients through antibodies and thereby bring down Covid’s mortality soonish but we still need to buy some time until then and work on a vaccine to protect the population long-term.
Right now what we need to do is stay at home and invest in medical care and drug development but with emphasis on the staying at home part because it’s the necessary condition for everything else to work.
This is a really off the wall idea that might actually work. Can anybody get this idea some lift? Definitely a way for Boeing to get some desperately needed good PR.