jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you don’t understand how statements in JavaScript are terminated, then you just don’t know JavaScript very well, and shouldn’t write JavaScript programs professionally without supervision

You obviously do care to such an extent that you're saying that we shouldn't even be programming without you looking over our shoulder.
Use an exploit on caprica to gain root access: +10%

I wonder if this offer stands from semester to semester, and therefore if he seeded an exploit (or several, given how the extra credit reads) or whether the whole thing is just more of his light-hearted style.

But I definitely agree: that course looks great.
It is easy for the comparison to come out either way depending on personal preferences because the specs are pretty close.

I did the exact same assessment as you 4 months ago and bought the MBA 13" because a) I cared about the high-res screen more than the processor speed, and b) I only expect it to last 2 years so 4GB RAM is enough (insofar as you can ever have enough RAM.)
If it's a valid notice, they have to take some action to stop infringement. It seems they should verify beforehand, but I'm sure they don't want to dedicate resources to that, so the easy thing for them to do is to lock or block access to the content and put the burden on the end-user.
Does the fact that engineers have to eat change the nature of engineering fundamentally if the way they are able to eat changes?
Yahoo is dead.

I don't know how they can do a meaningful recovery. Sure - they probably have enough cash to stay alive for a while - but if I were yahoo, I would be focusing on investing in every single startup in the valley in an effort to own some % of future innovation, which they have lost.

I cant see anything revolutionary occurring with their web property - their IP is mostly uninteresting and I cant imagine a large % of their staff being of too much interest to FB or Goog. I am sure there are some top devs there that would do well to migrate out - but for the majority of their staff, they must have few options.

Seriously - Yahoo could do well just becoming a very prolific investor in everything happening around them, rather than thinking a new haircut and convertable will alleviate their mid-life crisis.
After conferring with some folks, I will now say that the odds of this being true are virtually nill.

This might not be helpful for people here, but the best advice I can give is to "consider the source" (Greg Perry).
Businesses where Amazon is already dominant, or at least well-established, yes. Amazon also consistently promotes their own first-party sales above third-party sales. Many of those third-party sellers also have other outlets for selling their product.

I'm not sure your analogy stands up.
Any news on steam for Linux?
So if the speed of light was slowing down, since everything else seems to obey the same unknown rule, would we even know it? It would be impossible to measure the change right?
I am building my first web app and learning Ruby on Rails as I go, so I literally have Aha moments every single day. When I get something to work (that I've never done before) I literally jump up and down. The feeling of seeing an idea come to life is just unexplainable!
Fountain codes?
Bit of an exaggeration in the title: the article talks about feedback loops from covering 20% of the Sahara in solar panels - for reference thats 1,840,000 square kilometres, twice the size of Texas. A 1 km2 solar plant costs about $400 million US, making the total cost of a solar plant that large $736 trillion, almost 10x the world GDP.
I benchmarked it, and AES-CTR is faster than `random()` on a machine with AES-NI.

That's my main point: It does _not_ seem to be meaningfully more expensive to use cryptographic randomness. Yes, you could build a faster non-cryptographic PRNG, but that's not what is done by the default library.
Go to the facts. Journalists check facts all the time. Most reporting is always inaccurate to insiders, so don't blindly trust what is said by anyone.
This one is being called an aftershock of the 2011 large earthquake. Not sure if that makes much difference in what happens next, though...
Do we apply the same logic to the 737MAX?
What does the rest of the team do?
Not to mention that in real life, there is probably a minimum bet.
Unix domain sockets are comparably performant to shared memory without the need for semaphores and locks. Of course, it only works on single node deployments. UDP/TCP based protocols are usable on multi-node deployments.
Bang on.

1. Backend Engineer = Rails

2. Front End Engineer = Vue

3. Infra Engineer/Devops = AWS

...and with a security background.

...and all 3 at an expert level.

I've worked with a lot of bright and capable people over the years but I can't think of anyone matching this level of expertise.

If I had to guess; did the project grow organically for a few years where the original developer learned all of the skills as they went and now this person left?
Then I'd say you're in a very small, shrinking minority.

Outlook is garbage. Office is slow due to feature float that people don't even use. There's a reason Google Documents doesn't have mail mergers and the crap Word does - no one uses it.
The parable of tigers in the grass might demonstrate a selective pressure towards caution, but doesn’t demonstrate any benefit towards ascribing agency to natural phenomenon.

The agency of the entity which caused the rustling is somewhat irrelevant for the hunters. The important belief for their survival is that this rustling entity is dangerous. If they hold this belief but attribute the behaviour of the entity to randomness, they’ll do just as well.
if you freeze up in interviews, are you also going to freeze up in developer meetings?

Are you really saying that your developer meetings are as high-stakes as job interviews?
In the screenshots on the site, I saw an 'from esp32 import *' which might mean it's an ESP32? The photo of the circuit board however clearly shows an SiFive chip so i'm a little unsure to be honest!
You could make it a short take-home assignment where the code doesn't get used by the interviewing company and the assignment is short enough that the interviewee doesn't feel like they need to get paid for it. It would basically be the same as doing it in-person but removes the added stress of the over-the-shoulder scrutiny, leading to a more realistic scenario where a developer has resources such as Google and Stack Overflow at their disposal.

In my engineering days, a company I interviewed for had me prototype some stuff in SolidWorks but gave me the courtesy of working alone. I just had to tell them when I was done. Even this was much more preferable to an in-person on-the-spot tech interview. I got an offer for that job, but if I had to perform the same task with someone watching, I don't think it would have gone as well.
As far as I know they are using ScriptCraft which is a Mod for CraftBukkit and CanaryMod which lets you create mods in Javascript. [disclosure: I maintain ScriptCraft] https://github.com/walterhiggins/ScriptCraft/
The goal of blocking the ability for someone to post text documents online is so far removed from reality. It makes no sense at all. The only thing it accomplishes is to make India appear even more incompetent.
I like the fact that the there is an explicit disclosure at the end.

Also this:
“Of course, moderate amounts of red meat can be a source of good nutrition for young people. We hope that our work will eventually lead the way to practical solutions for this catch-22.”

I think this is important. What amount of red meat is OK to consume? Its really hard to get people to stop eating what they've developed a taste for. But limitation would be a much more achievable strategy.
And the response there is just as lame:

"The Home Minister today asked the state government to install CCTVs in all key places in the city."

And they're going to ask restaurants to close at 1am on New Year's... As if that'd accomplish anything.
It sounds like our instance types will end up being a bit different. Right now we don't need to send the hit instance back with the differential geometry since it doesn't tell us anything extra but later we'll attach different materials and lights to instances of the same geometry and will then need access to the hit instance so we can compute the material properties.

Sending the instance to the geometry to fill it out in the struct is a good idea, if Rust had default parameter support I'd do this and have the instance's intersect just default to None and pass itself to the geometry's intersect. Then the functions would have the same signature and we could mark the case of a None instance in geometry as unreachable.
That's what I got out of the episode, too. And when you look into it there is quite a bit of truth to it. At least in the US, the vast majority of our currency only exists in electronic formats.
You do have to keep in mind that they're not a perfect model, though. For example, the "has been known to cause cancer in laboratory animals" label that used to be required on saccharin-containing products was removed after it turned out to be related to some unique characteristics of rodents' urinary tracts
The pricing backlash is fascinating to me, because it appears that it's not that Twilio is overpriced but more that OpenVBX is appealing to consumers/prosumers that Twilio wasn't really reaching before.

So now I'm curious what's next: Does Twilio go after a non-b2b market? They could add a $X/mo unlimited usage plan with whatever caveats they need to make it financially affordable, or they could ignore the market and chase the simpler, more lucrative b2b side they're already good at.
Richard Dawkins, in (iirc) The Selfish Gene proposed that if we really wanted to increase the average lifespan of humans beyond what it is now (we're on the high side of longevity compared to even other primates) then the way to do it would be if people were only allowed have children progressively later in life with each generation. It may be that we're doing this on our own naturally. I myself am the product of several generations who had children late in life, and it does seem like people in my family age more slowly.
This seems disingenuous. While it certainly sucks that something which was once completely free to you now costs money or comes with several strings attached, it's hardly unfair or dishonest. What you had for free continues to be free, forever. That's the nature of open source. You could fork that code base and continue to improve it, or start your own project around it.

Sencha decided they couldn't build a sustainable business by continuing to not charge people for their hard work, a reasonable and dare I say responsible decision. People who are making money off their work now have the choice to financially support that work, rather than simply seeing it die completely, which is what would have otherwise happened.
Whether an ad is illegal is something that Google would need to determine.
This brings back memories of the microwave lab in school which held the donated network analyzers ($$$) and was behind a keycard door within another lab that was behind its own keycard door.

Still amazed that someone was able to come up with this tool
The actual odds are not really that important as what you really care about is not the odds that that specific odd thing happen but how many odd things happen given enough time.

One of the more amusing examples was Ripley(sp?) from the 3rd Alien movie does a long distance one handed backward basketball shot that they were going to use CGI on. The funny thing is watching the movie you see very honest surprised emotions which seem almost to believable.

However, the actress actually made the shot during the take which is why all the actors have a much more believable WTF expression than normal. The only thing out of place is the actress expression where she must have been trying really hard not to blow the take.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOrTfA8QZyI 4:35

Anyway, my point was if she missed then nobody would have thought it odd. They were not going to try again until it happened, but once it did happen they wanted to use that 'good luck'. It’s sort of the best take effect, walk around and take 1,000 pictures and the chances are something unusual happens in that shot. The odds of that specific unusual thing happening are not high, but the odds of some unusual thing happening is.
topcolor is the color of HN's menu bar, it can be changed in the settings (click on the username in the "top bar").

also, you can check https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors as the list of most popular topcolors.
I fear this lady is a bunny boiler.
Nostalgia might be a consistent phenomenon, but surely what we are nostalgia about changes. A 20 year old likely never experienced Windows 3.11 in the first place. That would likely make them view emulating it more of a novelty exercise than a nostalgic one, which anecdotally is a weaker and shorter lived motivator.
> Should renters not have the opportunity to buy a home?

there should not be societal subsidies for people wanting to buy their home.

If rents are not growing at a rate that's higher than wage growth, then it is stable and thus acceptable. Owning a home is a privilege, not a right. Thus, the CPI calculations correctly only includes rental costs, and not ownership.
Cloudflare is the "unlimited storage" of the CDN world. They are giving away investors money today with the hopes that down the road they can... something something.

In 3-8 years activist investors are going to realize that Cloudflare is the man-in-the-middle data collection point for a percentage of the internet and that a merger with $adnetwork would produce a money printing machine. A handful of "good guys" in engineering and management will be powerless to stop it when the time comes.
Could someone explain this? How is it used, why does it take a vector as input, where do the magic numbers come from, etc.
Sounds good, perhaps a language that needs a revisit.
Thanks for the reply Steve! Have been enjoying your works / content :D.
> Literally everybody grasps this. This the most widely accepted mainstream narrative about the economy right now on the internet.

Heck, much of it (the parts that aren't confusing the Fed with other repairs of government) has been echoed by Fed board members and other (in the minority, at the time) government decision makers. Overreliance on the Fed and top-down monetary policy to do the economic job for which fiscal policy is better suited has been a recurring, mainstream criticism for years.
Do you have a link to a preprint that is readable without a suscription?
On that link you posted, they updated and said they sunset the program because it didn't work.
I believe that violates App Store policies.
Excellent, an area I am really interested in. Thank you for sharing.
Nice app.

Features to consider: 1) F2 for editing cell contents 2) tab behavior like Excel where pressing tab on last column wraps to the next line+first column 3) C-; to enter current date.

I did get this error when trying to save or save as on Linux.

https://i.imgur.com/0VmWKGw.png

I was using file name: "New Table". I did not enter a file extension. I'm not sure what extension TablePad uses.
My city (Sydney, Aus) has recently been rolling out cameras specifically to catch drivers using phones and other devices. These are not speed or red-light cameras -- their only purpose is to determine if a driver has both hands on the wheel and it not distracted by electronic devices.

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/09/phone-detecting-camera...
Not really whataboutism if you’re trying to choose between companies as a consumer.
if you're interested in pricing of securities, QuantLib is amazing.
Is it a secondary concern, though? As a startup, uptake is as vital as oxygen
> state-level or national problems

Sincere question: Why does San Francisco seem to be the only one with those news stories (not NYC, LA, Chicago, Miami, etc.)?
Black Pudding or Blood Sausage is a complete unknown in the US. Liver is reviled. Gizzards are occasionally sold in restaurants as an appetizer, fried. We don't need the offal from our animals because we can just buy a plastic jug of broth from the store.
Oops, thanks for picking that up. I usually try and proofread my posts, but I missed that.
Meanwhile they allow hundreds of relatively high power RF transmitters (passengers' phones) onboard. I call humbug.
There are a lot of basic mistakes.

1. Concorde was on the verge of being replaced by a more efficient Model B version, which was quieter and cheaper to run. That was on the drawing board in the 1970s. Model C, D, E versions would have been cheaper and even more cost effective.

2. Concorde was actually killed by anticompetitive US politics. The story is too complex to detail here, but it's not a mystery in the aerospace biz.

3. If Stross thinks bizjets kill airliners, what's to stop the development of a hypersonic bizjet to give buyers the best of all possible worlds, and also provide the ultimate status symbol for those who care about such things?

4. Trrrrism? This part can be ignored, because the argument is silly.

5. Energy cost remains an issue. But if you're in the (literally) stratospheric biz set, you're not going to care about that.

6. Telepresence may kill some of the market, because I'm guessing 15 years from now it's going to be impressively immersive. But for some applications, including highly secure negotiations and ultra-speedy courier services, there's still no substitute for being there.

So in fact there's a perfectly viable, if innovative, business case, and the technology is looking at least potentially feasible.

I wouldn't be surprised to see these services running before 2030.
Awesome, and works properly in Firefox 3.6 :)
Read about patio11. He made a webapp to make bingo cards online.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/
I'm amused that CMU listed two pronunciations but neither was that native Pittsburgh pronunciation, which is the same as 'fur' on a dog.
Great stuff. I was just arguing on the ErlangCamp mailing list that the gen_fsm behaviour is great! I just sent this out to everyone.
Twitter stalled for a quite a long time when they were struggling to scale, it's not necessarily a bad problem to have.

Also, it sounds like development was going on, improving architecture for scale and fixing bugs.

I've heard several people rave about rapportive so whatever they are doing is obviously working.
Page titles are the only reason that made me dislike Tabs-on-top.
Don't see the point. Unsubscribing is generally faster than going through the motions of setting up a filter. It's also much more polite. I reserve filters or "mark as spam" for only the stuff with a missing or malfunctioning unsubscription option.
I respect putting in writing for all to see your predictions for the future on a controversial topic. Not easy to do.

However there are a large number of companies lumped in together which sort makes this a hard metric to measure definitively. The logic seems to follow in the following way:

"A lot of people believe there's a bubble." -> "Those people believe all new techy companies are part of this bubble." -> "Those people think all new techy companies are overvalued."

I don't think that that logic is accurate. I think it's totally possible for somebody to believe (as I do) that a large number of tech companies are overvalued (Pinterest), while simultaneously believing that there are some that are not (SpaceX). So predicting that that entire group will exceed $200B in value in five years is making a broader argument that some tech companies that have already exhibited an unambiguous amount of success will continue that trend in the next five years. But what if four of those companies go belly-up or drop in value by 50%, while one outlier becomes the next Google? Is the argument correct? Technically speaking, yes. But I think in that case the overall point would be proven wrong.

Ultimately I think the entire "bubble" conversation centers on the argument of whether private tech companies that are < 5-10 years old who's primary product is a captive audience of users is overvalued when a single group of VC's choose to value them in the 9-10 figures. It isn't bubble in the dot-com/real estate sense that actually has a meaningful negative impact on the economy, but more or less a disagreement on whether that value would be proven on a public market after a meaningful amount of time.
That was the first thing I thought when I saw this stat posted a little while ago. "Fine, the stat sounds impressive, but there's a lot of other stats that other countries do more of in the last few years than in the 20th Century".

For example, anyone could write a dramatic headline declaring that we've created more computer chips in the last X months than in the 20th century. That doesn't mean much.

In short, this feel like some sort of crappy statistic handpicked to make China look bad, when in fact it's the whole world that's using a lot more concrete, not just China!
https://airtable.com/ is exactly what you are looking for
> I don't think DNSChain is a feasible project.

If you want to prevent MITM attacks, it's one of the only options available to you (probably the only realistic option):

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain/blob/master/docs/Compa...

> However, we can reduce the scope of the problem, and just focus on forcing certificates to be public. [1]

DNSChain/Blockchains already provide certificate transparency (publicly auditable log of certs issued), and they do a far better job of it than Certificate Transparency.
Isn't this the usual way technology proceeds? Betamax vs VHS, etc...
You'd only need infinite energy. Easy peasy.
I don't quite understand the huge level of hype around Slack. We use hipchat, which has it's own foibles, and recently tried out Slack at the insistence of one dev who wanted the IRC integration. It was a failure, and the only dev who liked it was the IRC fan, and they were connecting with IRSSI, not the Slack client. I had to set up Slack, and it's true that it's very smooth and easy to set up. Everything around the core feature is beautiful and frictionless.

But the core feature is not good. The chat window is awful, with huge amounts of whitespace between comments and overlarge profile icons. Low information density, one of the lowest I've seen for a chat program. Switching to a compact view improved things, but only a little - but now all the comments start at different points depending on the length of a user's name, making it irritating to follow a conversation as each chat line is not locked to a given position. We found that despite its other shortcomings, we had better quality communication on Hipchat than Slack.

I did notice on their site that they're not marketing to existing chat users. They have video testimonials from people who've never used chat before - what they're lionising in those videos is actually "having chat functionality", not "having Slack in particular". If you're not used to chat, I can see that the above problems wouldn't stand out.

Certainly they above criticisms aren't fundamental flaws, and they can be fixed with some layout design. I did try a couple of user layouts that fixed the craziness, but they had their own problems.
You copy the nimbase.h file along with the nimcache/*.c files. That's it. The compiler doesn't do it because it's a waste of time/space copying a file which you most likely can include from somewhere else, and it's not a generated file.
I love country music. More so than other genres I've listened to, country music has such a range. It can be upbeat and cheery, pump you up, change your mood, sooth your soul, provide empathy, be simple & complex...It speaks to me, no matter what mood I'm in or what's going on in my life. I'm sure others feel the same way about whatever music they listen to, but for me, it's country.

If you listen to it long enough, someone has sung about whatever exact, or almost exact, experience you have gone through. I like that.