jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
yes, they seem to be using the Power 7 architecture by IBM , which is quite energy efficient compared to most other architectures, and also they are planning to use UPC(Unified Parallel C) or similar languages for applications running on the system, that a good step towards better usability. But that does not matter as a super computer is always(mostly) used by a small group of highly qualified scientists.
I think it's his most important work. I really identify with the Little Coder's Predicament: I was that exact kid, playing around with BASIC when I was 7, making little games. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that.
It's interesting to compare the treatment of Albert "soupnazi" Gonzales in phrack, http://phrack.com/issues.html?issue=67&id=3#article, vs. the treatment in the NYT article, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/magazine/14Hacker-t.html?p... which was also linked here recently.
I'm super excited about this:

> This is useful for packaging up an app using something like warbler, rawr, or as a .app using MacRuby

This can only help make developing desktop apps with Ruby easier.
Not preemptive, it's slow as hell to link a paypal account to your bank account and few people use credit cards because of the ridiculous interest rates.

I've been through this a lot before a couple of freelancer jobs filled my paypal account.
Thanks for finding it. I thought HN doesn't allow duplicate submissions from the exact same URL. Weird.
I would probably use asterisk and cellular fso/fsx interfaces (Ethernet sip gateways with gsm air interfaces on the otter side) to keep mobile calling costs down. In most countries calking mobile to mobile is cheaper than land to mobile. Optionally one per gsm network, it all depends on call volume.
searchyc.com found this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=975917
Notice I said "space" and not "website." A pamphlet is to public physical space as a website is to online virtual space.
Is it shitty?
For, like, 3 years.
>ML has allowed computers to generate realistic images that humans cannot discern

I've yet to see a deep fake that's even remotely indiscernible from the real thing.
The cab/bed ratio is off IMO, should have a bigger bed to look more truck-like regardless of the future styling.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum
Should be safer with self-driving versus human-driven pedestrian crushers (SUVs)
That (or something like that) does tend to the accepted definition of DevOps! The problem is that it's a rather abstract definition, and there isn't a lot of consensus on how to apply it.
Yeah, like how 'gay' can mean 'homosexual' in some contexts instead of 'happy'.
When the sample size is that small, it's possible that there were just one or two dudes doing most of the robberies. If they decided to move, call it quits, or went to jail, that could be an alternative explanation to the drop. I think you'd have to implement the experiment over a region to make it accurate if N is so low.
So it's about ethics in cartoon journalism?
My MacBook Air is running 10.8 Mountain Lion. I regularly receive security updates (including the pushed NTP fix), as well as application updates like Safari and iTunes, and 3rd party updates for apps like Chrome, Firefox, MS Office for Mac, Evernote, DropBox, Coda, etc.

I don't know what the "official" lifespan of 10.8 is, but it has every appearance of being fully supported by Apple today. And yes, it is very stable.
A quick glance at that article seems its just whats called the Paleo Strawman: it talks about the Paleo name (and how it is connected to the Paleolithic era), but doesn't actually discuss the diet at all and just says "oh, Paleo is wrong because eating what we ate over 10 thousand years ago isn't appropriate for us today", even though the Paleo diet does not say that.

The Paleo diet is about reducing inflammation, reducing toxins, and reducing anti-nutrients. The majority of the three of those comes from refined sugars, grains, seed oils, and legumes. What it DOESN'T do is blindly say "oh, our pre-agricultural ancestors ate that so it must be the best thing ever" because that has no place in Paleo as it is not scientific.

The article proves that Karl S. Kruszelnicki (I've never heard of him before) has no interest in doing research into what he is writing about, because he does not mention any of what I just said in his article.
> I would assume that the people working in there must be passionate about urban spaces and would've read Jacobs

That's honestly something of a silly assumption. You'll find that a lot of entirely qualified and legitimate experts in a given field will not have read well-known books in their field: their expertise is very often the consequence of sheer experience. It's the rest of us, who can't rely on experience for know-how, who turn first to books or are recommended books.

In the case of urban planning, it is a damn shame, because Jacobs' work constructively criticizes a lot of received wisdom that such experts are simply passing down without much modification. But generally speaking, it's not really a huge problem.
Great writeup! I've been trying to dig a little deeper into the x86 boot process for some time now. Does anyone have recommendations for similar walkthroughs for the bootstrap processes and BIOS/UEFI firmware (Coreboot, for example)?
I just want to add something I forgot to mention. I've also learnt that isolation is generally something best avoided while depressed. It may feel counter intuitive when you are in that state of mind but I've had a spontaneous lift from depression on multiple occasions when I have been in social situations. To withdraw is not a good idea.
Philosophy and science aren't opposed. Philosophy is conjecture about fields in which we don't know enough to have a science, yet. This is not a dig at philosophy; it's important to keep searching for answers so that we do get enough evidence to build a science.
floating -> pointing to an old resource

apex record -> alias for 'A' record (DNS parlance)

So a 'floating apex record' is an A-record pointing to an old IP.
Roundup is used at tiny quantities. Yes 15 times as much is used, but that is still much less than a liter per hectare. And roundup strongly binds to dirt where nothing can get it until it degrades in about half a year. It degrades into common elements in the soil so it isn't making any difference.
These days if I feel any sort of respiratory illness coming on I head straight to bed and get my head under the covers. The secret is to create a 'cave' or pocket of air by using a pole or prop to hold the duvet or comforter up like a little tent. Experience does seem to bear out that lungs prefer moist, warm air.
> (and for many good reasons you shouldn't)

Could you elaborate on this? I'd say repl based interactive programming is one of julia's greatest strengths, and avoiding the repl is probably setting yourself up for pain.

That said, if you do find yourself running lots of scripts and paying this penalty all the time, I'd suggest https://github.com/dmolina/DaemonMode.jl as a great way around these pains.
I grew up in an era where running your own servers was just generally accepted practice.

It's been fascinating watching how dramatically that viewpoint has shifted over the years to the point where it is now a novel idea to do so.
To me, it matters in the following way:

I still know more people who trust the NYT than who flat out don't trust it. Even among those who have grown slightly weary (and wary) of it, there's still a weight to the brand name they just can't shake off. It's been the paper of record for their entire lives. So, if someone's only exposure to Alexander is him being called a racist in the gray lady, it unfortunately makes it harder to get them to read his fascinating, thoughtful, sometimes atonal, occasionally dubious, always worth thinking about articles.
Well, god sent us the xlookup function, to replace vlookup and hlookup. Honestly appreciate that change more than any other excel-specific change.
They disabled buying because they need to put up collateral on buys, not on sells (on sells you just pledge the shares you hold). They increased collateral because if a bunch of people buy and go bust by the time settlement time hits (because of GME price collapse) then dtcc would be on a huge hook.
that's quite silly - leaving your family is a very questionable deal, you grandparents or parents basically wither away without seeing their children and grandchildren.

The visa laws make you a second-class citizen (well non- citizen, really) and ensure that you cannot spend much time with them - there is a maximum limit on the number of days you can spend out of the country. Also usually they mean you cannot bring your grandparents. Hell, UK home office basically killed a woman because they denied entry to UK to her sister for an organ transplant.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/leukaemia-pa...

You have to have relatives and friends that can look after your family, because every now and then they need help and you are not there to help them.

For many folks who have half-decent life at home, the trouble is not worth it. I have many friends from eastern Europe who have come to UK to study and went back.

Lastly, why is FAANG the ultimate benchmark? Some people develop safety and life-critical systems, land rovers on mars, etc. I hold them in higher regard.
Trying to follow your train of thought here: do you think his first principles are in favor of the subjugation of humans based on immutable characteristics?

And does his support of Malaria prevention based on a utilitarian calculation that it'll help save the most lives (including more black lives) therefore prove he is in favor of subjugating black people based on their race?
Automation destroys far more jobs than free trade. If anything we should ban automation.
Presumably he's a "professional troll" because he's paid to go onto Web sites and post pro-Russian comments with the idea to make such views appear more common than they actually are.
Could it be the "50 Cent Army" just got better ?
They learned from their mistakes, and are becoming more subversive ?
Assertions such as those in the first paragraph are offensive -- as though we introverts weren't real or normal humans. I don't know from first-hand experience, but as bad as solitary sounds, being confined with other people sounds even worse, given how my brain is wired.
Hm .... is it really true that
aardvarkstasteawesome
would really take a quadrillion years to find? Since that's 3 different words, wouldn't a dictionary attack catch that one pretty fast?

Disclaimer: I've never, to my knowledge, eaten an aardvark.
Also, this is not my password anywhere.
Every evening commute I dream of this as the tall SUVs and pickups beam their headlights of death into my fully dark adapted eyes. I was thinking windshield, but sunglasses might work too.
Reading this makes me lose all faith in business, startups, and humanity in general. 5 years later and they aren't profitable, aren't stable, and aren't really innovating anymore. It's like they're dying to become the pets.com of the late 2000's
To the people who are worried about giving up their password, who cares if he gets them? Are passwords really even that worthwhile without being able to tie them to some account on some site?

Let's say that one of my passwords is n0TMyR34lP4sSw0rD, and I enter that into the site. So what? Now you have to guess my username on a site that I might have an account on. Not to mention weeding through all the garbage from people entering in random passwords just to see what the results are.

I understand that being proactive about security is a good thing, but I really think the potential of this being successfully used maliciously is fairly non-existent.
Toilet paper, condoms and bin bags are another couple of things I recommend adding to your list of things not to scrimp on.
While not exactly what you asked, here's a Kauffman study (http://www.kauffman.org/research-and-policy/the-coming-entre...) about average age of an entrepreneur. I don't have a source, but I read another study which showed majority of companies were started by 30+; this would merit the assumption that most companies are started by people who worked at other companies, including large corporations.

This rings true since working for other companies allows you to build a network and find out where the pain points are in different industries.
re SETBIT, I was thinking "cool, redis is now also a bloom filter server!" . Then I realized I've been out of the loop for a while and probably you already implemented commands for that :)
No, I'm aware of the theory, I'm just not at all convinced it actually works out anything like this in practice - particularly once the extra costs of carrying the same line artificially twice are factored in. Oh well - they know their business but it still sounds fishy to me!
It depends on what you value.

The problem with being at a really large company is that it can be extremely difficult to find any kind of self-worth. You have to try and chase it but there will be so much red tape at every doorway that you'll have to find some other way around it. You may be in a huge department. You may be doing stuff that is only seen internally. You'll spend time hacking to rebuild something crappy to prove it's value. You're wedged into a system (slowly). The processes are already set. You'll learn a fair amount of things, but nowhere near what you'd probably learn at an energetic startup or doing your own thing.

The absolute best thing will be the people. You'll meet some outstanding folks... Potentially the kind that want to start something different.

It will be interesting for the first 6 months to a year, and then you'll become pretty bored. Unless you just don't care and you're riding the wave.

That self-worth thing is a pretty big deal. The majority of people enjoy being 'comfortable.' Finding the comfort that just pays the bills. That's great. That's where big companies shine. I'd rather chill on the edge being a leader revolving around building something new. But it took me joining a large company to learn that.

So, really, just follow you're heart. You'll learn. Nobody can argue that being a bad thing.
Would it be more humane to cut an animal's throat while it was conscious, or unconscious? That's all I'm asking. If that's considered a gotcha question, then we've probably reached an impasse...
Tonight I finally extracted this from a project I'm working on.

I'm not really sure how to describe what it does. In the readme I have "Higml is a terse format for converting an input hash to an output hash." If anyone could take a look and tell me what you think of the project I'd appreciate it. Is the documentation helpful? Is it clear when "higml" would be useful?

Thanks
Syntax highlighting is not available everywhere, e.g. in black-and-white print.
The Zinc paper is one of my all time implementation papers, right up there with Dybvig's thesis, Rabbit and Orbit papers on Scheme, Reppy's thesis on Concurrent ML, and SPJ's Tagless paper.

The Zinc Experiment is Leroy at his best; compiler hacking lore meets programming language research (no hand-waving past performance issues, with a critical eye towards foundations.)
Twitter uses XMPP and now even diaspora is also looking into to adopting XMPP.

Again may not be enough to call it 'the meat' :P
> People in wheelchairs aren't there because they choose to be.

Is religion a choice?

I ask because some religions forbid conversions "out", a few with rather serious penalties. Since most adherents of those religions are entered into them by their parents (that is, without their consent) ....
I can't imagine being able to visually distinguish products in a grocery store selling these pared-down brands.
> selecting users that best fit into the forum culture.

Yeah, we select users who can stay on topic and who can contain anger and resolve conflicts like adults (or rather, like decent human beings; we did have teenage users). Not a tough ask, and neither outrageous nor outlandish for a topical forum.
I named my farm pigs, and still knew that they were food.

Now later in life I have more qualms about eating pork. Pigs are smarter than dogs, and every bit as affectionate. Cows are pretty stupid. These days I feel like killing an animal over a certain intelligence is bad.

Computers... I have a computer that is my Home Theater PC that has only ever been upgraded. I don't think there is a part from the original AMD K5 90 in 1997 that I ran, but probably a few screws. I would upgrade a mother board and keep the vid card and hard disks. Or swap a Network card. Keep the hard drives, or a Raid controller. It would have likely been cheaper to start over a few of the time, but there is a sentimental attachment to the machine you took in to battle in Quake, raced in NFS, quested through WoW with, and had "Hot Coffee" with in GTA. That stayed up with you when you were building software, or helped with your taxes.
Thanks for the comment. Can you believe I submitted this to Hacker News with a broken sign up button?

Should be fixed now and take you to http://reports.funnelplus.com/login#reg_form

Would you mind retrying? :)
Thank you and good luck.
Some advice that I heard awhile back that I'm glad I followed is to devote different percentages of your learning budget towards technologies with different half-lives.

Stuff that has an incredibly long half life like SQL/Database internals, or OS fundamentals, networking fundamentals, CS fundamentals will serve you well basically your whole career. So even a little bit of time dedicated to these over the long run is time pretty well invested.

A larger portion of learning goes on to the treadmill of technological churn, but that's either stuff you are learning now in order to get your next job working with it or are learning now as a result of getting a job that gave you the opportunity to work with it.

The middle ground is getting deeply familiar with libraries/frameworks that have a medium term half life. Usually that's some form of data access.
Uncapped fees that can be raised arbitrarily.

The few other types this happened, it has resulted in exorbitant prices across the board.
This doesn't change the fact that the title is misleading.
The last ruby project that I worked on laughed at static analysis tools before pitching them into halting problems. You have to execute ruby code just to assemble the classes, it's quite resistant to static analysis unless you artificially restrict yourself to a subset of the language.

If you're going to limit yourself to the statically checkable part of the language then you might as well just use a language that was designed for it. The fundamental feature of dynamic languages is variations on the theme of self-modifying code - behaviour is determined at runtime. This feature is not normally considered compatible with static analysis, because you have to execute an unbounded amount of the program to find out what it does.

The important thing about static type checking on languages like ocaml is that it can be both "sound" and "complete" - any type error is an error in your program, and a program that type checks cannot go wrong according to the constraints of the type system. In order to make this possible, we have a body of theory on how to design type systems that are constrained just enough to be checkable while still expressing everything you want them to say.
They're not going to get safe harbor if they've got the ability to block and monetize--that's not common carrier and they are exerting control.

"Common carrier" is an ISP term, it doesn't apply here anyway.

Google won't be liable as long as they (1) aren't aware of the infringing videos and (2) take them down after receiving a DMCA complaint. I don't see how their ability to block them changes this - it's pretty established that these services are not required to proactively monitor their content.

After you have to file some number of the things over time, it should be considered a willful infringement by the service if it is collecting money.

That would kill any user content service that has ads, not only Youtube. How exactly do you propose they'd do such a thing? ContentID is far from infallible, and many sites can't even afford to build such a technology - in fact, if you required automated takedown based on content recognition, you'd only be strengthening Youtube's position.

Instead, Google gets to have it both ways: it gets to extract money while sitting behind the DMCA as a shield.

And the phone service gets to charge money when criminals place calls to conspire to commit crimes. So what?

By the way, I agree that this move is pretty shitty by Google. No argument there.
I'm not ashamed to say that was my first thought when I saw the article.
The $150 price tag is for the watchless version. The version with the watch will have an MSRP of $500.
If the authors have genuinely copied CSS and icons (I haven't checked) then I would expect Trello Inc. to pursue the authors for copyright infringement (justifiably).

The point is to be very precise with the criticism. Is the work stolen (protected by copyright law) or is it just a convincing clone?
If you want to see a completely original UI with not a single thing "borrowed" from elsewhere, my 5yr old has some drawings to show you.

This specific case takes it too far, there's no doubt about that. But you can be sure that the Trello designer was heavily influenced by those that came before him. UI designers spend half their time looking at UI's designed by others to see what works and what doesn't.

In fact, more often than not, UI design should be copied. You don't design a completely different light switch just because you want to be original. Function before form.
Right, but why block any characters at all? Blocking spaces is harder than blocking nothing is what I meant.
Well, Mac is a mature product line. True it might not be at the cutting edge of Apple's business but it is a highly profitable income stream for Apple. So it is not going anywhere.

I suppose there is a possibility of iPad cannibalising MacBook sales, but its pretty much apples and oranges.

That said, I cant help thinking that they might do some kind of Apple desktop app store where they can keep 30% of the app revenue, but give developers access to a well integrated distribution channel.
Heh I'm trying to find one of those one in a thousanders.
I had the same experience, didn't help much at all
I love your story on this. Someone should write/compile a book of stories like this for every stupid "Best Practice" in programming and web design.
From YC speech: "I think I had about 15 employees by then."
Hm, yeah, this might actually be part of it. It would make me sad if a customer service rep could read my password to me, personally, but I suppose a lot of people probably like that.
You're not too far off it though. The people I know in back office roles at GS tend to have a better work-life balance than most other people I know.
jwz has nicknamed this the CADT model, for "cascade of attention-deficit teenagers".

(edit: _jal beat me to it.)

Few things are as infuriating as taking the time to write a great bug report just for it to be ignored or autoclosed.
Work from home has been detrimental to my mental health.
Yeah if I had a better flat/house it would have been much better than commuting to the office but not everyone can afford this luxury.
Because not many people use it. I don't think many people have the desire to save a whole web page. For other unseen you can probably just get away with taking a screenshot, sending the tab / sharing the link, or using an archiving site to save it for later.
This is it! Thank you