jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Obliged to respond, even if this is from two years ago, as a lot of our work is in Erlang... 1) is completely wrong; Erlang doesn't have anything to do with Prolog, and the syntax is actually pretty straightforward. 2) is for the most part true, though the bigger problem is finding one library that solves your problem (rather than choosing from two or more). 3) is mostly true (there are plenty of Erlang charlatans; try hiring for an Erlang position and see what manner of Erlang programmers you find). 4) is completely false; large (100K to 1M+ SLoC) Erlang codebases are manageable. 5) could be a good point, but might be said about any language; in the end, results speak for themselves. 6) might be a valid concern, but for the most part, Erlang code is behind the web layer, and some other application relays the requests to the back-end.7) is pretty much irrelevant.

At the end of the day, if you're happy with the results you're getting with Erlang (and you can get great results), who cares if the rest of the world thinks Erlang has no fashion sense? Erlang is still beautiful.
You might be right, but none of that speaks against the urgency of doing it, or explains why people don't see it.
Any particular reason for dedicated databases? Is it just the IO?
Suggest you to have a look at LimeJS (free & opensource). http://www.limejs.com
Comic-Sans Physics cannot be taken seriously.
I just need you to be available between noon and 5pm.
I don't have that much need for a screenshot tool but I am always so happy when I see excellent open source linux softwares.
Let's say we get a signal. Then what?

Even if we do find a signal, there is no payoff. The money is better invested elsewhere, then, once we are better able to capitalize upon a signal being found, then, we should invest in finding one. Right now, its premature.
What is your monthly Comcast bill AND what is your upload/download bandwidth?
> Economists like to talk about "utility" and the common good with their theories, but they tend to only measure money

Yeah, that's the problem. The economic notion of value weights according to wealth while the moral notion of value does not. It's absolutely scandalous that we let economists conflate the two.

Feed a starving kid in Africa? Zero economic value. The kid doesn't have money. Figure out how to merge together a bunch of megacorps to build a monopoly, raise prices, reduce quality, and make the lives of millions strictly worse? The market will ejaculate capital all over your value-creating endeavor.
I think there are many definitions of High Art here. This Is How You Lose The Time War is something I'd recommend also, to compare and contrast what is considered emotionally vivid, beautiful prose, and challenging literature in science fiction now compared to Gene Wolfe. It's super fascinating to see how some things have changed in its definition of the pinnacle of the art and how others have stayed the same.
Agreed with Le Guin, I love the Earthsea books, which are more than simple fantasy and have a beautiful spiritual and philosophical quality.
Yes indexing is a pain, even with an SSD depending on project size, but its worth the wait.
But then they'll develop their own economy, banks, and an economic crisis of their own.

http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/news/2007/08/virtu...
It's no standard because apple developers extended Webkit with some additional tags but noone else. That's what makes it so sad. Even more sad is that they misuse the words HTML, CSS3, JS and standard to convince you of the oh-so-open world of Apple. MS did that for years and every web developer pays for that today. But somehow now it's ok..
You don't see how having to install Safari for Apples vision of the internet is the same vision that MS had when building their crappy extensions to the standard?
Researchers, even researchers in some CS fields, frequently only do a little programming - the thinking behind it is often much harder than the actual implementation they do to test something.

So imagine being identified with a part of your job that is actually only an inconsequential sliver of it.
Actually, transform is in the CSS3 working spec[0]. Until the standard reaches the "Candidate Recommendation" stage, the W3C encourages browser vendors to use prefixes (-webkit, -moz, etc).

DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha, on the other hand, wouldn't be part of CSS3, and uses its own specific syntax.

[0]: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms/#transform-property
Of course, the inverse has gone on for years. I remember a kid of 21 or so many years ago saying that he had supposed that women who wore makeup weren't very intelligent. I thought his amusing since a) it was essentially a class prejudice, and b) I doubted a young nerd's ability to distinguish makeup lightly applied.
Some great new (HN) neighbors?
Discussed here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=606842

Email PG directly.
I didn't click on the sub-page to view the explanation, and I personally think most of your visitors don't as well.
Well, there are still things to be uncertain about that aren't useless trivia, factoids, or urban legends. Hopefully the new BS free era will trickle down to the lower classes, gradually eroding their ignorance and prejudices, at least about one-liner facts.
Don't feel low. A mob of angry citizens storming the capital, happens all over the world and has lead to democratic reform in many a nation.
Thank you! This was the well-informed answer that I was hoping for!
There is a hidden principle-agent problem where the original company's intent gets distorted to align with broader corporate objectives.

The total market the acquired company could have penetrated never gets developed and fundamentally they decide to take an exit now for less risk and more cash early for what could have been a stronger contribution for the economy on the whole via a well-exploited niche.

A mundane example would be how the developers behind Firewatch were acqui-hired by Valve. They had a well-developed following and a hotly anticipated second product, an original single-player IP, somewhat rare nowadays. Half the team dissolved to work on Steam and the rest funneled themselves into Half-Life: Alyx. The new game was delisted from development.
Ya we work in our underwear!
It's better for advertisers.
Again, models of group selection have been refuted time and time again.

Group selection may still be true, but there's neither persuasive evidence nor persuasive models for that. It's merely an assertion. Which is my point. We don't know. All these theories are just building castles on sand.

Obviously there are limits to human cooperation. And of course there are innumerable concordances between what we see in society (i.e. "tribal politics") and various group selection theories. But without an anchor in genetics these theories are dangerously close to--if not patently--political or religious beliefs.

To reiterate, there is no established genetic model that links individual sexual selection pressures to group evolution, in the sense that evolution can select for group traits without a pathway where the genes advantage each individual, and do so incrementally as the gene spreads. (Because genes don't magically appear all at once in the entire group, and even they did you're still left with the stability problem because you also need to explain--at an individualized sexual selection pressure level--how cheaters are suppressed.) Group selection models are merely based on the tautological presumption that genetic sexual selection acts at the level of groups.

Furthermore, there's no reason to believe group selection must be true in order for human altruism to have emerged. That is, it's not the only option. Though the alternatives (e.g. Joseph Jordania's theories for the emergence of articulated speech, which also explains the emergence of empathy--two birds, one stone) haven't been shown with concrete evidence either. Though at the very least they get extra points for working with selfish gene theory, rather than in seeming contravention of it.

So without knowing the precise genetic dynamics of altruism (neither how it emerged nor how it persists, which isn't necessarily the same question), we can't make any strong claims about its contours, limitations, potentiality, etc, beyond hand-wavey inferences from observation, which are highly susceptible to our own prejudices.
If the side project that the author built went nowhere means exactly that Naval was right: the author tried to build it without any concrete end user to serve perfectly. It didn't even achieve the product-market fit of 1 user (himself)
It may have been 4 years! I'm pretty sure the R5900 deal was just done when I joined in December '95, and the PS2 wasn't announced until 1999.
Twitter is the counterfeit of Jaiku and should be closed for the benefit of all the humanity.
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Clearly .. tons of people spend more than that on gears of way less value (think GPUs for leisure purposes only).

Have a tiny online donation setup and you could get full sponsorship or half easily.
He calls strained yogurt Greek yogurt. Perhaps that is why??
Mastery in Software engineering is the ability to conceive and design a program or app in ones mind and then build it and have it work flawlessly. In my experience when a company wanted something done they set up a small team offsite with little corporate oversite. This is why small startups drive innovation. Simplicity is genius and is often seen by users as magic.
SoulCycle basically collapsed and is just starting to come back from the brink: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22195549/soulcycle-decline-reo...

Its success was mostly due to its novelty and exclusivity. After a while, copycats and their push for growth did them in.

Peloton is the same. They are first to market and have cultivated a level of exclusivity, but there is nothing unique about them that other businesses can’t copy over time (it’s already happening — most exercise companies now have their own Peloclones).
I would say it's a matter of intent, and of capability.

Intent, in that the organization, and the people making it up, genuinely seek to find truth and publish it, rather than seeking to push one agenda or another regardless of the facts.

And capability, in that they can, in fact, do the research and possibly fieldwork necessary to get truths that are interesting enough to be worth publishing, as opposed to just reposting stories someone else researched, whatever their truth value.

Having the intent described above but not the capability makes you something of an aggregator. Having neither capability nor intent makes you, more or less, a partisan blogger.

Having the capability to be journalistic but the intent to push an agenda regardless of the truth makes you an incredibly dangerous propaganda outfit.
> >>Trump was just Hindenburg

> Hindenburg represented the complete collapse and end of the entire airship industry

Wrong Hindenburg I think, although this one crashed and burned just as badly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg

I'm not sure who's supposed to be whom in this analogy, maybe that some other Republican is supposed to be Hitler?

Oh and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laches_(equity) ; no comment on whether that's actually relevant or what happened.

Edit: so this is fun, https://twitter.com/Elaijuh/status/1347205394393927697 Trump campaign lawyer throws him under the bus "“client has used the lawyer’s services to perpetrate a crime and the client insists upon taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant”"
Can confirm that fetchmail is garbage. Found bugs, reported them, no fix. Wrote my own tool instead. Such is life in open source.
Yeah its super useful. Although the detection of it is not perfect. Sometimes you end up inserting a space (:
Wind, UV light from the sun, wearing a mask—these all help, but it’s never 100%. From the research I’ve seen, it’s 20 to 1 safer. But as the virus becomes more transmissible, as well as different outdoor environments, the risk can fluctuate. Be careful. Mental health is important, but so is your physical health. Keep distance on your walks, and choose outdoor areas with a lot of air circulation.
This doesn't seem so much about UUCP vs fetchmail as about cathedral vs bazaar style of development. In hindsight, it's clear that both of these work, for better or worse, with each having its own disadvantages and benefits.
These are all really good points. I do wonder though, is there any combination of parts that will make even the simplest computer last 100 years? (With proper maintenance, ideally not replacing parts that can't be produced for the next 100 years)

I'm defining a computer here as an electronic CPU with some sort of I/O, both user I/O and peripherals.

I'm reminded of something like a Commodore 64. I've been able to get one working after 30 years of it sitting on a shelf before, although many suffer from burst capacitors, bad chips, oxidation of circuits/pin connectors, etc.

I wonder if you could take the idea of a simple, self contained system like the C64, but use ultra reliable, beefy industrial components, like from computer systems in manufacturing factories. Maybe throw a few redundant components the computer can silently switch over to if the first component goes bad.
'Objectively pretty tame'? That's a pretty rich. It's only 'tame' because of the police treated these (mostly white) protestors with kid gloves, and because the barricaded doors allowed a safe retreat of the congresspeople. Your portrayal of the shooting of a woman actively trying to smash into the floor of the senate with the senators and VPOTUS inside as equatable to police brutality is laughable. These people were trying (fruitlessly) to stage a violent subversion of democracy and openly threatened the highest elected officials in the nation.
This argument is silly. The next step after stealth is clearly unmanned. To suggest that we need crappy piloted 4.5G fighters to save on costs is nuts. Everyone knows the future is unmanned drones that can takeout SAM sites.

Unmanned also solves the cost problem, as about 70% of the cost is excessive engineering, maintenance, and manufacturing techniques to keep the pilot alive.
I thought this was going to be about Ronco, as in Ron Popeil's infomercial products company.
> And if somebody steals your coin, you can go through courts and banks to get it back.

If somebody steals your crypto and you know her/his identity, you can still go through courts to get it back (provided you are paying your taxes; which you can pay today in crypto in some jurisdictions).

Now, before you tell me: but most of the time when someone steals your crypto you don't know who is it. Well: you need better IT security/know-how (same as when people were starting to use the internet on the late-80s or 90s).

PS: Cryptocurrency is not about not paying taxes. In fact I think taxes would be easier to collect if every merchant implemented this payment system.
Thanks for your feedback. Yea, I don't know how to make it more obvious the red squares are balls at the beginning. Let me know if you have any CSS/design chops here and can suggest an implementation.

I added the restart button and high score saving. The undo is going to require significant rework since instead of just updating ball positions I would have to track history. I will consider it if I rewrite the game for performance reasons.
Try https://archivebinge.com/

I don’t know if it works with gocomics.com, but it is designed for exactly the purpose you described.
I think your premise is flawed. Generalists are not "dabblers". They are professionals just as much as specialists are. Either you have a very odd (and incorrect) view of how software development is done, or you're presenting a straw man that doesn't have anything to do with the article's premise.

I find most specialists useless when it comes to architecting and building a full system, and often when they are a part of a team, focused on their specialty, they build in a way that is difficult to fit into the whole.

Obviously there are good things, too: my knowledge of things like data science and graphics is limited; if a part of a project called for deep knowledge in those areas, I'd be happy to have a specialist on the team. But unless they are more of the "T-shaped" type the article talks about, they need a lot of hand-holding when it comes to anything outside their domain.

Generalists bridge that gap, and handle necessary concerns that most specialists don't even consider, let alone know how to handle.

(Full disclosure: I consider myself a generalist, though at times I have ended up diving deep into particular areas when projects have required it.)
If I want extra money I’ll do it for 1X not 2X. Not sure why you think it would be twice as much. When automation took that job, I’d find something else.

Providing potatoes to people is some real low hanging fruit. In fact it seems like a great thing to pair with UBI.
Lookup Google's Spanner. It's a distributed transactional SQL database with whatever consistency levels you are interested in

Disclaimer- Google employee who is heavily using Spanner
probably because most "use of bash" in practice rapidly reduces to "use of a subset of the unix toolset" which doesn't exist in the same environment, so -- just the bash shell itself on its own -- would be like a fish out of water.
You mean Not Banksy the pretend street artist, or Not Not Banksy the pretend commercial street artist, or Mr. Brainwash?
The main speech engine is English. Due to the large amount of open data available for English model training, even if you have a strong accent, you'll probably get better command accuracy by tweaking Englishy commands rather than trying to use a lower accuracy engine for your native language. (By Englishy I do mean you can say a non-existent or non-English word, ask the engine what it heard, and map that semi-phonetic result to a command.)

It's extremely customizable, there's plumbing in the open source config repo for programming language specific commands and adding support for new text editors and such. There is a dictation mode. The current public English engine isn't the best for dictation yet, but it supports switching engine between command/dictation mode.

There's an online WebSpeech dictation-only engine in the beta which has extremely good dictation accuracy for most languages, as well as vosk in the beta for offline dictation (vosk has e.g. a decent German model).

The Stenomask is one option for using voice control in an office environment where you don't want to make noise.
they seemed to have increased salaries during last year - i guess in response to falling ruble - various Russian sources were putting it at ~30K a year ago :)

Not surprising that the major amount of propaganda is directed onto domestic sites. And, yes, clear visible double standards applied by the major powers in the world do make that propaganda work much more successful.
While the network effects are there, I do think messaging networks are less durable than social media networks, because you can take your contact list with you across networks.
"then it's just another store of value"

I agree with this if the Jewellery in question is pure gold 21k and the like. Diamonds however, i do not believe to be a store of value.

Ever try selling a diamond back after a few years? I doubt you would get back the price you paid for it.

Gold however, can be easily sold back. Dealers will pay you at the going rate of Gold per gram, or maybe at a slight discount.

"I think a diamond can be damaged, but it cannot be "used". In fact, documenting the history of a diamond (a neat business idea) can only possibly enhance the stone's value."

Interesting idea, think it may have some value for people who want unique stories to tell.
Commenting as an uninvolved bystander:
your entire reply sounds like corporate-speak to me, and it's offputting. I get that you're trying to state your intent, and perhaps English isn't your native language, but it's deterring me from looking further into Berbix.
Also, your second claim really just seems to be a lock-in, not a user-friendly positioning.
I don't think declarative architecture and kubernetes are mutually exclusive. Seems like you could write a declarative file (terraform, cloudformation, etc.) that deploys a dockerized app to a kubernetes cluster in AWS.
Intel's patented a variation on the Karatsuba algorithm. It hasn't simply patented 'multiplying two numbers' as stated!

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsuba_algorithm
It was clear that the updated version would perform better since the old one really had no clear next step but it's surprising that the overall impact was 60% increase in leads, not just proceeding to the next page.
In this case I believe so. I was doing nothing more than recovering text messages and phone call logs so that they could be printed. The police had already seen and witnessed the information directly on the devices, but had asked if they could be printed to make it easier to include them in a file (i.e. they actually requested my friend do this if she had the means as it would be preferable to hand-transcribing this information)
Seriously, you think an industry should be outlawed because they use adverts in a way that annoys you? That's actually amazing.

Don't get me wrong, if you don't care about it, don't sign, but don't ask to sign against poker unless you have a genuine reason for thinking it should be banned.
There are free riders and they are in balance with altruism.

I saw footage when some squirrels (or monkeys) ware picking up something tasty out of the shallow water. They had to be careful because there might have been predators in the water.

If individual spotted predator they yelled and whole pack ran to the trees.

But occasionally weaker individuals yelled even when there was no predator to drive away stronger individuals to get some food himself.

So they altruistically warned each other but there was free-rider in who occasionally abused the altruistic system for personal gain. He couldn't do that too much because other individuals would notice and kick his butt. So altruism and free-riding in nature can be in balance and still give obvious advantage in cooperation.
I did the same with my late-2008 MBP. First time I don't feel that I need to upgrade 2 and a half years later. Hell, it's the first time I didn't want to upgrade after that long.
Friendly reminder: the magic words for dealing with the police are "I do not consent to a search. Am I free to leave?" It's just business: you never need a reason to ask for more money in a negotiation and you never need a reason to avoid waiving your Constitutional rights.

If they need your iPhone address book they can get a search warrant. (Our historical understand is that they do need a reason for asking for that sort of thing, and that your papers and effects enjoy a strong presumption of privacy.)
design definitely matters. There is the emotional part of design - does it evoke the right emotions just by the way it looks. Then there is the usability part of design. Usability is all about speed

There are other areas, but these are the key ones:

1) learnability -how fast can a first time (new) user figure out how to accomplish the primary tasks
2) efficiency - how fast can a repeat user accomplish the primary tasks
3) memorability - how fast can a user regain proficiency after a period of time

Core to this is understanding the primary tasks. Design is absolutely critical when you think about the essence of it as speed
On the other hand, the original page is very uninteresting and a standard CMS page. Any change at all would have increased conversions I think. The starting point was pretty bad to start off with.