jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Yet doing things like rebasing or merging pull requests properly

Rebasing is a smell of bad source code management. Merging pull requests is fine whether or not you are up to date. I don't know what you mean by 'properly'.
When do songs and poetry written in a particular language outlive their usefulness and purpose?
When I feel pity for an endangered language it's usually not because I want to read user manuals or order pizza, but because so many works of art will be lost.
What's up with node people packaging every function into a module? How can anyone think that a clean build needing to pull in a dozen thousand files and taking twenty minutes is a good thing?

Why have a, say, sha1 module instead of a general crypto one? I've seen at least one module that wasn't more than ten lines of actual code. It's packaging JSON and "tests" were far bigger. It was something trivial that should be in a stdlib.
Just my own observation from the comments over time:

tptacek and patio11 probably met here, both have Chicago connections, met in person and now have done business together.

tptacek and cperciva are both in the security/crypto world. Don't know where they met but get the impression that they would have some connections regardless of HN.

Not sure about any connections outside of HN with jacquesm.

The way I see it, the HN "elite" spend a fair amount of time here, build relationships based on similar interests here on HN (maybe eventually in real life) and then appear to everyone else as if they've always know each other.
When writing code, think of the people who will inherit it from you.
Ah, I see what you mean - I thought we were talking about the rotation lock for the phone itself.
How these Techcrunch guys now all are ranting about Yahoo. I really wonder how bad it really is and how much this whole thing is just subjective ranting.

I mean something feels really strange about it. Has AOL some trouble with Yahoo?
"A theory isn't completely abandoned just because of a single contradicting observation."

Uhhh, yes it is.
"Seth Godin is well known for giving glowing reviews to dozens of books in exchange for the same when he releases a new book. Again, this is brilliant marketing and there’s nothing wrong with it."

When marketing crosses the line into blatant lying, it's no longer brilliant and there definitely IS something wrong with it. Unless your selling "Get rich quick" dreams like the author of course.
Geez, do I really have to spell it out for you? Politicians have to somehow get a majority vote. Voting with dollars would only requires one rich person to support a company, it doesn't matter if no one else pays them a dime. It's sort of the extreme inverse intention of most campaign finance laws.
Oh, I quite agree, and that alone is one of the major reasons why I finally upgraded to a smartphone this year after resisting for so long.
JDateTime appears to be very minimal:

https://github.com/oblac/jodd/tree/master/jodd-core/src/main...

And to repeat some of the mistakes of the past, such as having the classes be mutable, and not separating zoned and unzoned times. It also contains some novel wackiness of its own: new instances of JDateTime take default values for some settings (time zone, whether date arithmetic should be clamped to valid dates, etc) from fields in the class JDateTimeDefault; but these fields are static, not final, and public, so any code in the JVM can change them, thus changing the behaviour of JDateTime objects created by completely unrelated code!

As of Java 8, there is a pretty comprehensive and well-designed date-time package in the JDK:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/package-...

That package was designed primarily by Stephen Colebourne, who designed Joda Time, and essentially constitutes the Joda Time: The Next Generation. I don't see any reason to use JDateTime over this.
For your Clinton Plan example, you might want to check out the Tangle JS framework for reactive documents. It allows readers to change a variable in a text and have other numbers change accordingly.

http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
There are catholics who don't conform with everything the Catholic Church says ? I'm shocked.
Bet $2000 that you're right :)
A majority of the income disparity is due to choice of field to work in - a personal choice. Primary education pays less than software development. The first is staffed primarily by women, the second men.

There are no laws or practices in place that make these choices mandatory, and men who enter education face as many cultural hurdles as women who enter tech - for the same reasons: their gender.

That said, even within an industry there is still a disparity, between 3-10%. This still needs to be fixed.
..and what a wonderful mistake it is... and like children it will grow and make the most amazing, unexpected things! :heart:
I have a system based on Markdown-formatted (along with some custom markup for metadata) recipes on Dropbox, and some Python code that generates a formatted (as in, nice looking, like a proper cookbook) PDF cookbook. I then print the cookbook, make my notes in it, and once it gets too greasy/scribbled on, I consolidate the notes into the Markdown files and re-print. Every time I add a new recipe to my regular 'rotation', I add it to this cookbook (along with some tweaks for my ingredient availability and equipment), to not let it become just a random stack of disjoint recipes. This way I grow a proper 'family cookbook' that I hope I can pass on to my kids when they move out. It's also somewhat integrated with a broader meal-planning system, think GTD for keeping yourself fed.

I think the main problem with 'recipe websites' is that people don't want 'recipe websites'. They want 'cookbook websites', i.e. some editorial oversight over recipe quality, some standardization in units, style of directions, have a picture with each recipe, etc. What am I going to do with 100k crappy half-asses notes on everything someone somewhere ever threw together in a kitchen somewhere? I'd much rather have 2000 quality recipes that I know I can rely on.
The coming sea change in electrifying transportation will include roads just as much as cars. Right now we are just barely off the bottom of the 'S' curve of transitioning from ICE to electric. But in about fifteen years we'll be near the middle of that curve and that's when we'll realize roads could be much better if the ICE cars where banned.
With only electric vehicles the air will cease to be continually poisoned by emissions and then roads and streets will start to move indoors. Covered roads will become practical with electric only vehicles and the majority of those e-vehicles will be a lot smaller than the current average ICE car because electric technologies make smaller vehicles much more practical. The current boom in e-bikes is just the beginning of a major trend to electric smaller vehicles.

A lot more quickly than you expect ICE vehicles will be restricted to the highways and periphery of towns and cities because they'll be too big, heavy and poisonous. In a word they'll become unsafe for urban transport and our cities will become much more healthy and livable.
> Ionos.com

That looks a lot like a server hosted by somebody else in a data center.

It's also way more hassle than almost all of my contacts would be willing to go through, and if only I self-host but they don't, it'll be Gmail all over. (Almost all emails go through Gmail because that's what at least one of the parties in an exchange is likely using.)

Point-to-point encryption is not enough for messaging in today's network topology.

> just use Telegram

No thanks, I'll continue using one actually spending some effort on not being able to read the messages their users send.

Fortunately most people in my country do. Ironically it's only a couple of people in my circle of friends worried about the privacy of said messenger switching to Telegram "because it's encrypted"...
I've not read ProfHewitt's argument, so I'm just looking at your summary.

If ◻P means "P is a proposition that is formally provable within some implicit formal system" (perhaps there should be a subscripted letter to show which formal system because there are an infinite number of them), then I don't understand what ◻◻UNP means, because ◻UNP is not a proposition of the implicit formal system.
> it has largely fallen to conservative media—Fox News, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, Townhall, and others—to cover this debacle. The mainstream media's silence makes it seem like the matter is some contentious, undecided political issue

Maybe it's because I'm a foreigner, but I can't fathom how can Fox News be exempted from the "mainstream media" classification in this kind of rhetoric, particularly when the main point the piece is trying make is that media should be held accountable for their lack of precision.
Claustrophobic as for being afraid closed space? Universe produces exactly opposite effect on me - head-spinning feeling of a tiny speck floating in the turbulent never-ending massive storm of gigantic proportions, at mercy of titanic forces all around. Kind of vertigo when standing on the edge of the roof of super-tall building, looking down, and barely seeing the ground below, and open air all around.

It is always a very humbling sensation, which is good. No place for arrogance when you are nothing and mean nothing from certain scale of things.
I am struggling trying to understand what your point is.

Let's assume that what you are citing is 100% accurate, and that he has not changed a bit in the last 14 years. What then? Should we simply assume that he deserves being treated this way and look away?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_and_flow saying pensions are money "held until later" is fiction. The "real"/material economy is mostly flows (most goods go bad), and most stock are correspondingly mere social constructs.
Unfortunately, they were calling out gamedevs:

Tweaking two functions to go from a load time of 6 minutes to less than two minutes is something any developer worth their salt should be able to do in a codebase like this equipped with a good profiler.

But, I fully agree with your assessment, for what it's worth.
The emergency exit plan for junior Republican congresspeople is to join a think tank. But(!), only if they tow the party line. It is so common that there is a name for it: wingnut welfare.

I don't think junior Democrats have such an avenue available to them, at least not to the same extent. Senior members of either party go on to join boards of big companies or become lobbyists.
Buffett only invests in businesses he likes or could come to like. The best example recently is his divesting of airlines as he realized he no longer loved the business.
Saw no mentions here of “Talkers”, the very early 90s precursor to Discord or Slack.

The early talkers were similar to MUDs with most of the complex game machinery stripped away, leaving just the communication level commands – hence the name "talker".

https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A1010106

Early Talkers included Cheeseplant’s House, Elsewhere, Surfers (ewtoo), Foothills, Tower, Resort. World, etc.

Some are still online, here: http://list.ewtoo.org/

I just tried one — login worked, last logged in April 2003. That means that site has been online ~30 years.
> This can only be fixed by making the role attractive to talented newcomers, avoiding the incongruous position where low quality elected representatives are paid a pittance to set the policies that are followed by council officers on 6 figure salaries.

Across the pond our politicians are less frugal when setting their own salaries. Their performance does not seem to be improved in proportion.
Limiting one card per mailing address or credit card? You're telling me this is hard?
Sounds like you're talking about the Fed specifically, and yeah, that is a big issue.

I'm talking more about congressional representatives.
Wow! Thank you for sharing!

I thought i knew something until I read this. Now I’m happy to admit my ignorance.

Fantastic tweet thread!
So you're saying "move fast and break stuff" isn't good for a platform pitch?
I also think a large part of it is animation, too. Large part of technology can seem magic-like in animation (especially Japanese style), but films and other media make it difficult (tech is too real). I grew up on Japanese animation, and the fights are much more fantastical than not. But action films of Hollywood portray more of what reality is like, which can seem less magic-like and just plain gruesome (even when it is romanticized).

I also think this is why Japanese animation, when they are translated into the more real, film territory, enter uncanny valley. Some things must remain magical in the form that they were conceived in.
WHO: https://news.yahoo.com/avoid-taking-ibuprofen-covid-19-sympt...

> Asked about the study, WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told reporters in Geneva the UN health agency's experts were "looking into this to give further guidance."

> "In the meantime, we recommend using rather paracetamol, and do not use ibuprofen as a self-medication. That's important," he said.

Paracetamol = acetaminophen: https://www.drugs.com/paracetamol.html
Somehow, I don't know why especially, I've come to enjoy JSX/TSX syntax with styled components. It just is simpler for my brains, I guess. To think of all just as custom components, with their logic included as a single component. Nice to see though that also people working at Polymer do see the benefits of only JS.

But having separate style-sheets, I don't know. I have done Vue with SASS etc, but the abstraction I felt was a bit too vague. At least our team got a little lazy and wrote massive style sheets with nested classes, and similarly we then ended up fitting too much HTML to the template.

With JSX/TSX I can keep myself from doing those mistakes, and just make small simple components, that do not go overboard with logic. Although I have to say performance-wise React is still very much pain in the ass to debug, and I can't say how many working days I have wasted on some dumb rendering bug, where the components would rerender constantly.

And it's way, way too hard to find those problems and I think this is the weak point of React. No one likes figuring out how to performance optimize a simple list. It should work straight out-of-the-box! I hope that Polymer team will try to make their framework a little better than React on this part.
Whose plan is that? My gov't has only told the citizens about their plan to shut things down, they haven't elaborated on what happens next. Just today we took the next step and made it a legal requirement that everyone stay at home. In our jurisdiction of just over 4 million people, we have 191 positive tests and 5 deaths. The number of new cases is already tiny, so how much lower do they have to go before we can switch to targeted interventions?
For free
That really didn't provide anything new IMHO. It doesn't even show examples.
Correct. Not my day. Should read the whole article, including the topic, before posting anything.
Apparently there is a colorblind synesthete somewhere who 'sees' colors (triggered by numbers) in his mind that he cannot see in the real world.
http://j.mp/9I6XwH
That's actually a pretty cool wheel design.
How about Objective-C gets a lot of its juice from Smalltalk. He seems to have a real lack of experience / understanding on what Objective-C actually is and how it has evolved in features and use (pre-Apple to now).

It just seems like a really bad article for Ars Technica. This line in particular makes no sense "Nevertheless, Mac developers and users are not panicking like they did in the Copland era about memory protection and preemptive multitasking.". Garbage Collection = Memory Protection ... what the?
Just to clarify, this article is about spotting CIA agents... no racist connotations.
Monty Hall problem explained wrong. There is no "probability" of Monty opening any "goat door". Monty KNOWS which doors contain goats,and always opens one of them. You have a better chance choosing the remaining door Monty "owns" because he had a 2-out-of-three chance to begin with (you chose randomly and uniformly). He still has that chance. No information was added when he opened a door, because he can ALWAYS open a goat door.
I thought modern mobile phones had locked-down DRM which prevents you being able to disassemble the app? You know, RSA-encrypted assembly code sent straight to a proprietary CPU with nobody outside Apple and the internal of the CPU able to read the app code.
Making Light (http://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/) is both civil and open to the non-paying public, and has no registration requirement. So it's possible to do it. In this case, they moderate, and they attract more literate people to start with.

Certainly no "flame war" there has gone any further than you might have over drinks with your friends if you'd had a bad day.

Anonymous posting is very important to me - I don't ever actually use it, but I like to know I could. I really don't like the idea of having to present photo ID to express an opinion.
Socialized health care is not the same as having money to pay for treatment. Some Canadians go to the US to get treated for cancer.

In Denmark there is also government healthcare, but some people, including politicians, still pay private hospitals for treatment.
Basically my sister uses Etsy.com a lot and wanted something that was free. I started building this in Mid April 2010 in Zope/Python. I know, I know. Dated technology.

Anyway if you see some ideas to make this site better, let me know.
Why not go for Prgmr or Linode or Slicehost? I don't know what kind of specs he needs, but my 256 meg VPS from Prgmr runs $8/month.
How could you expect anyone to pay for your product if you don’t do it yourself.

I find this particularly insightful. I think we tend to project our own perspectives onto other people and if someone personally doesn't pay for software it's difficult to believe that anyone would.

This is my principal challenge as I attempt to transition into an entrepreneur. I hate spending money and it's probably affecting the quality of the work I produce. I often opt to produce my own designs when I would probably be better off outsourcing that on something like 99 designs.

Old habits die hard but I am working on getting over it and articles like this one help a great deal.
10.2 as of now. No, the ranking algorithm treats every account the same.
I actually had an argument with my statistics professor about this...

The question she gave was basically this: 'The king has one sibling, what is the probability that it is a boy?'

I actually took an opposing view to her initially and then came back the next day saying that it is ambiguous and depends on what we assume about the king, but she wouldn't even agree with me on that.
It's fairly different; the OS is built on capabilities and exposing its system API via libc. By default applications get nothing. Resources are objects. IPC is done using a wire format called FIDL.
I'm holding out hope that ZIO can be the spring for scala. An opinionated framework is sorely needed for a language like Scala which has so many competing styles and libraries that don't naturally work together.
Secure should really be seen as a necessary component of correct security. I don’t see random() as part of security, and the problem is that people use it as such (that’s the failure of our profession as I see it). You wouldn’t want the default string equality operator to be constant time to prevent a possible timing attack, and in the same way I don’t think random() should be cryptographically secure by default. If you need secure random values, you are (should be) a domain-expert and should be selecting an appropriate cryptographically secure random generator from a security library, in the same way you would with a constant-time equality function.

I guess it's a matter of perspective over who random() is for. I see random() as for the programmers who don't know what kind of randomness they need, and don't need to know that because they just need something 'random' not something secure. I expect the domain-experts to know that it's not what they need. In my mind it's not that random() is not secure, it's that using it for something it's not intended for is insecure.
The pre ww1 world was probably too different from today to draw lessons applicable today and in any case there were recessions every few years back then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...

Gold tied assets hoarding caused the great depression.
No, electricity cannot be efficiently transferred over large distances or where there are no power lines with enough capacity. In certain places unused electricity is just lost.
Friends, supporters, paid work... an increasing number of sources as more and more crypto infrastructure comes online.
This could just be re-titled as "Sometimes people turn their brain off when interacting online". Is it shocking anymore that people openly say bigoted stuff "with their real name, alma mater and workplace all listed"? They do this on Facebook as well.

> In this story, straight from the weird world of LinkedIn, people use Skype in 2020, hiring managers give unsolicited feedback on performance at the end of an interview, and contracts are flourished and signed immediately.

This phrasing really left a sour taste. Perish forbid people use Skype for a job interview. What, they couldn't FaceTime? This man living in a one-room apartment with his family couldn't have the decency to have an iPhone or join the rest of the 21st century in installing Zoom?
There was a crisis, around the year 135 AD. That still does not make the zionist claim legitimate.
People in the military have the right, and legal duty, to refuse unlawful orders, including orders that violate the international laws of war.

So if they witness a crime, they should speak out. Manning did release evidence of several crimes leading up to and during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan:

The cheerful murder of Reuters journalists and later innocents who came to help by that helicopter crew

The purchase of child prostitutes for entertainment by Dyncorp

The illegal collection of DNA from UN officials and representatives (straight from Dr. Strangelove!)

etc.

Now as you say he also released a lot of other material, which wasn't directly related to any crime, so he should expect to be punished for that indiscriminate release, and it weakens his case, but I'd also expect some clemency given that the release was clearly in the public interest and revealed many unlawful orders and coverups.

I don't think he deserves 35 years for that, compared to the 6 months sentence of Sgt. Sabrina Harman who tortured and abused detainees, it seems disproportionate.
I have an MLB.tv subscription, and watch on my computer, iPad and TV (through the PS3 app). I have never had "buffering, crappy framerates and resolution, and all around frustration".
What's "reasonable" ?