jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What, you mean because for the first time ever we actually have not one, but two decent, modern operating systems for consumer-marketed phones? Both of which make applications (a HUGE source of revenue for Apple) simple to develop and simple to buy? Palm's WebOS never really took off strongly, and Blackberries are... blackberries. Good in some ways, bad in others, and full of zero competition in their market.
What is to stop me using an original tag when it is syndicate or the syndicate tag when it is original!
I think a lot of this depends on context. Programming books tend to require a certain amount of concentration, especially if covering topics novel to the reader, and if they have a decent information density. That's ok, I'd rather read something that takes some thought over a few days, than wade through a pile of verbose crap with little true information but finish it in an evening.

However, looking back over some books I've read for ones that I read cover to cover without much of a break, one was programming in scala - I thought it was well written, but it was also an easy read as I was familiar with much of the material, and it was very relevant to what I was doing at the time. There are books that I've really enjoyed where at least some of the content was truly new to me, like "essentials of programming languages", and "concepts, techniques and models of computer programming" - I can't honestly say I read the latter without taking a break every now and again though. But both of these books are very enjoyable and present the material in really nice ways. I wish I'd had these as an undergraduate.

I did read the pragmatic programmer a long time ago, pretty much cover to cover. Trying to reread it now, it (and the other books I've attempted to read of theirs) seem like the pop psychology of programming books. I enjoyed it at the time, and felt it was worthwhile. Probably a better book for programmers starting out. When I attempted to read it again I found it patronising and self indulgent.
In my opinion, though, the market of people who would buy a phone just based on what Justin Bieber has are extremely volatile. Unlike businesspeople, they'll switch to whatever the newest, hippest thing to come out is.

Honestly, look at a blackberry bold (which is a $500 phone, wtf?) then look at an HTC evo (the same price). You would have to be absolutely out of your mind to get a blackberry unless you were using BES. I doubt that the justin bieber crowd is using BES.
Sigh ... these kind of threads are expanding my TBR-list into financial oblivion.

On topic: Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Norvig was a cover-to-cover session for me. It does not try to teach programming but to think about the structure of a solution.
Totally agreed. A couple more things that complicate it are that most of the people in power don't have a good understanding of the technology and its implications -- and that the media is one of the special interests here, and so is very selective in its coverage.

And as somebody who's thinking of doing social network startup, this kind of discussion is very very relevant to my technology and entrepreneurial worlds. Do I need to plan from the beginning to host outside the US -- and if so what countries make sense? what level of business risk are investors willing to tolerate, and is that changing? and so on.
No - Salt and Ansible both act as deploy automation tools. That is, you run the scripts on the server and they will install packages, move files, change permissions, etc. Most deploy steps are available using these tools.

Vagrant itself acts as a user-friendly wrapper around the creation and management of local virtual machines.

There are ways to use Vagrant to create and push machine images up to cloud providers, but we're not at a point with our deployments where machines are so easily interchangeable.

http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/contents.html
http://docs.ansible.com/intro.html
Apologise I too really agree with the need to change name but don't really like the new name. With the illiterate 'curse' and 'center' it sounds like possible some health care center.

How about taking on a longer more officious sounding name 'the center for higher studies in code' or suchlike. That's possible more border friendly and I'm sure there's a bunch of options in that space.
This extension is only possible due to very modern part (2017?), a $25 AS6C6416, 8MB SRAM in a TSOP Package
https://www.alliancememory.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Allian... the rest is really cheap and very simple. You could replicate it at $50 bom including shipping for all the parts. Thru hole would indeed push the price to >$150.

Even still, I am a bit dubious about this Ram chip. Its 3.3V rated, and its maximum ratings are below what Amiga presents on its bus (5V). I wonder if the fact its working is the miracle of modern manufacturing processes and safety margins, or just a temporary fluke and will results in dead parts in near future. Normally you would need either a 5V tolerant part or a bus translator like <$1 74ALVC164245.
Depends on the implementation, though; if you need to create and sign in with a $foo account to use the sponsored-by-$foo internet connection, it's not lock-in per se, but has some of the same effects.
The feedback feature of conspicuously showing who's seen a photo is interesting. It prevents people from lurking -- you're always visible to the people who's content you're seeing. This seems, IMO, more interesting than the 50 friends limit.

I wonder if it will make people think twice about opening a photo, knowing that that action will be logged publicly and conspicuously. I also wonder if it'll come with an on-off switch analogous to facebook and linkedin's profile views feedback.
My God dude--don't do this Game/PUA type stuff.

Want to have some luck with women? Get involved in social activities (volunteering, book clubs, etc.), don't be a recluse, and never forget how awesome you are. The rest falls into place. Just be yourself and don't think too much.

This pick-up artist stuff is cliche, ineffective, and, worst of all, misanthropic. These people have a worldview that revolves around control and domination, and that's not a healthy mental state.
50c well earned.
Fortress?

I'm playing around with rich IDE typography right now (but with color), it especially pops out at higher DPIs.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/liveprogramming...
OK, conservation of momentum; now what about conservation of energy?
just wait till the millenials start marrying. and there is a resurgence in marriage. it is all just waves and cycles. all you need is one pop singer to bring piercings back and off we go.
Also no back light; that alone makes reading much easier.
Now all we need to do is to add some scanline filter to the browser and illuminate it with green LEDs
About what hueving said, I bet that's a good question to ask her. Or if you're the kind that likes games, tell her is not really a diamond, and check her reaction. No, we're not 12, ask her!
>Would be cool if a Backblaze employee could chime in with what they've seen since.

can't you check their follow-up reports they've posted? I believe that they break out AFR numbers by drive model so it shouldn't be too hard to separate out the helium drives from the normal drives.
> Cassandra has basically one usecase: high volume writes, with a few batch reads.

That's how we use it in BigCompany(tm).

Cassandra holds (almost) all of our data. Most of it comes from batch insertions, but more complex (and lower volume) data comes from various REST APIs we expose and other teams use.

Most reads (60%) done on it are boring batch reads: analytics, reports, deltas, etc.

For more complex reads (30%) we copy relevant rows to Hive tables, then perform queries there without dealing with partition key shenanigans. So, batch with extra steps.

Then anything that requires random reads (10%) is read from ElasticSearch:

1. Coming from REST backend if it's time sensitive.

2. Coming from a batch that reads from Cassandra if not.
> People aren't going to make clean code if they know they are never going to see it again and arent being paid for how clean it is.

You realize freelancers often have ongoing relationships with their clients, right? As well as relying heavily on recommendations and referrals. Why would I risk putting shitty work out there?
This reminds me of a time about two years back where I smashed my iPhone screen dropping it without a case in a parking lot and I immediately needed it for 2FA and things so I took it directly to a phone repair shop. The guy there attempted to ask me for my pincode several times and I had to deadpan stare him in the eyes and say "You will not get my pincode to replace my screen. Just put a new screen on it."
You'd run into Brooks's law pretty quickly, that is, "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later", since you have to spend a bunch of the current engineers' time to get the new people up to speed. Especially for one issue, which maybe doesn't require a lot of domain knowledge, but being neck deep you sometimes can't estimate that properly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
memcapacitor and meminductors have been proposed in 2009.

You can build the memresistors out of combinations of components but it doesn't allow for miniaturization and low power usage. I.e. the application in RAM is going to be huge!
Have you done at least 10-15 years of it and are still a coder and not a manager?
You should probably do something to prefent CSRF. I just came up with this:

<form id="lol" method="POST" action="http://edit.ramarchy.com/">
<input type="hidden" name="route" value="/" />
<input id="page" type="hidden" name="page" value="" />
</form>
<script>
setTimeout(function() {
document.getElementById('page').value = '<ht' + 'ml>' + document.documentElement.innerHTML + '</ht' + 'ml>';
document.getElementById("lol").submit();
}, 1000);
</script>
A surprisingly common occurrence is two developers independently notice and fix the same problem, but they implement the fix in two different ways. The diffs might not conflict at all during a rebase. Or they might only conflict in some places, and the “behavioral conflict” remains after the diff conflict is resolved. This issue would eventually be noticed and fixed when tests fail before merging to master, but the intermediate rewritten commits are unlikely to be fixed.
This article is... misguided.

They argue that we should be benchmarking saturated single-core performance, but then show in their chosen benchmarks that the M1 is very competitive, benchmarking just below an i9 9880and above a Ryzen 7 4750.

That's a super-fast chip! No excuses like "oh it's Apple's first CPU" are needed - it's right up there.

And in real world usage it's kind of a useless thing to benchmark. See their note on how they had to wrestle with our Cinebench R23 program to get it to accept the load (threads locked to 2, affinity needed to be set after initiating the run but before the benchmark actually started and needed to be reapplied after the first pass) and a cleaner execution would almost certainly be welcome. It would also allow us to test cores working at their full potential.

It kind of shows how these micro-benchmarks aren't very reflective of real-world use.
That would make too much sense. Request denied.
43 pounds in 16 weeks is 2.7 pounds per week. A pound is 3,500 calories, so 2.7 is 9,450 calories per week, or a deficit of 1,350 calories per day.

Even if he was walking a very low 3,000 steps per day previously, an extra 7,000 steps/day - about 3-4 miles - is walking for perhaps 60-80 minutes. For someone who weighs about 260 pounds, 1 hour of moderate walking would burn about 450 calories.
So, assuming he didn’t do other exercise that the article omitted, the remaining ~900 calorie/day deficit came from eating less than his metabolic rate (BMR).

Walking sped up the process, but he would have lost the weight just by eating fewer calories - and food changes account for about 2/3rds of the loss.

(I’m assuming he neither added nor lost much muscle mass, which seems likely from the description.)
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getopt.3.html
Even if I had all that memorized I wouldn't be able to type it faster than I could do it in the GUI and one out of ten times I'd make a typo and have to tediously fix it. I deeply envy the skills of those to whom this page applies.
That is not really want happened at all.

Technology was stolen at times, copied or given. Students studing in the US are not the cause. If that were the case the Saudi's would be on the same level / India included.

One student studying in China to one student in the US sounds like a bad deal. If the US education system is better shouldn't it be two to one?

Besides the money charged to foreign students (which is very high) helps pay for US students and keeps those fees lower.

Now if the ask was no ivy or tier I schools because of a shortage of space and crazy demand. I could come around.
Would it be possible for you to preserve the highest-scoring dupe when you do this? I was reading through one of them with around 350-400 points, and now I can't find it but this has around 100. It makes it unclear that it's the same original discussion moved, and I doubt this was your intention, but it could come across like you're trying to downplay the significance of a topic when the main discussion loses points and frontpage ranking.
That is far too much vocabulary to use effectively. A single-word designation would be much easier to discern and easier to translate. A word can be translated in a way that is meaningful but the “obvious” associations of the emojis may not make any sense in the context of a different language. Replacing language with inscrutable symbolism is bad design.
I think the S-Cargo is uglier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_S-Cargo

Also, it has a pun in the name.
There are many cheaper alternatives for new trucks, some in the low 20's.
I am excited about the potential of EV trucks and a Tesla truck especially. Absolutely I'll consider it once it's reviewed well and it actually ships. After the Model 3 situation I'm not going to put down a deposit or anything, I'll wait and see. But it's certainly a vehicle I'd strongly consider switching to.
Wow. An excellent, pointed take by SBC.

Facebook has put profit & self-interest over ethics. They have taken a step-back, reflected, and fully embraced the damage they have caused, are causing, and will continue to cause.

Some of this is reactionary. Zuckerberg feels that "the left" (as if there is one, unified left) has gone to war against him (via his company). Front-runner 2020 candidates like Warren and Sanders are explicitly stating they will examine regulation & oversight legislation to reel in some companies behaviors. His concern may be legitimate, however his reaction seems childlike and full of emotion.

Zuckerberg is now taking private dinners with the current POTUS, probably to curry policy favor even though there will be inevitable strings attached (as is always the case). It also means he now has a stake in a "side" of the US body politic and so his actions will move in the direction of support for that side.

Attempting to curry policy favor isn't new, is has happened, does happen, and will happen. That being said, Zuck's newfound eagerness to spread misinformation via the power of his platform is eyebrow-raising.

I would argue that this lack of ethics will ultimately hurt both "sides" of the US political spectrum, it will just take longer for one "side" to feel it than the other.

Note: I use "sides" in quotes specifically because Americans are quite often divided into two opposing sides, even when there are many actual sides, interests, groups.
They offer security as a paid feature.
Yup, good idea -- just a link + landing page to see what inbound queries come in. Will explore it! Thanks.
> Huxley's use of the term savages does not dehumanize them, quite the contrary

I would go as far and explain those parents who are so afraid of it, that it's just a word that means something for the "civilized" characters of the book that's very different than it means to us or them.

And that "civilized" is also just a word.

Meaning is in the brain of the reader. A book is only dehydrated knowledge. You have to add a brain to it.
There's already been a war on the word niggardly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%2...
I wish I was 15 years younger and didn't have a wife, mortgage and child.

Actually that's not true at all. What I really mean is I wish this existed 15 years ago.
GMail failed in a number of the Opera 11 alpha builds and snapshots because our native implementation of Function.prototype.bind was broken. This was recently fixed.
Sure, but that doesn't imply that nothing that is in a contract can be enforced. Do you have some information as to the enforceability of disowning moonlighters?
It's called HR 4213, the Senate has been debating it all week. They might pass it today. Sen. Snowe of Maine introduced an amendment that would junk the S-Corp dividend payroll tax. It's called S4342.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/amendment.xpd?session=111...

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4213/show
Incidentally, does anyone know why in the US system the governor is given the ability to stop an execution?

I suppose it's the same thing as the ability of the President to grant pardons. But what's the logic behind giving the executive branch the ability to overrule the judicial branch in these sorts of circumstances?
Somewhat crassly stated, but Mike's argument is equally false, even if more polite. Basically, Mike's argument was "either you're afraid of failure and you need to suck it up, or you need to quit because you don't belong in scouts."
Why do they want this?
Sad day for me and for Portugal. We've lost one of our greatest ones. Remember the day I knew he won the Nobel Prize as if it was now. Not a consensual man, but a great man, and a great writer.
This.

If your primary drive beings to silently corrupt data due to bad sectors (I've had this happen once. Your system starts to hang, applications start to unexpectedly quit, you start hearing static/clicks in your music, photos seem jaggy even if they were taken with a 10MP DSLR.) you will back up bad/corrupt data over your backed up good data.
Yeah, the big problem is the death of coal power. Coal power plants can stockpile enough fuel to run for a good while no matter the weather. Natural gas power plants cannot; they rely on a continuous supply of gas, and it turns out that every part of the Texas natural gas supply chain is vulnerable to cold weather and power outages. Fixing this will be slow, incredibly expensive, probably increase CO2 emissions and decrease the cost-effectiveness of gas (because they need to rely on natural gas to compress and pump the gas rather than cheaper electricity from wind power that might not be there).
The upper bits of the FIRST octet are used to determine the run length of the sequence. All of the other bytes in the sequence use the upper two bits (0xC prefix len 2 OR b10xxxxxx) to indicate that it's another 6 bits of data for the current character.

If synchronization is lost mid-character, by definition that interrupted character is lost. However the very next complete character will be clearly indicated by a byte beginning with either no sign (a 7 bit character) OR a number of 1s indicating the octet count followed by a zero.

This is covered in the section titled:

Proposed FSS-UTF
----------------
...
Bits Hex Min Hex Max Byte Sequence in Binary
1 7 00000000 0000007f 0vvvvvvv
2 11 00000080 000007FF 110vvvvv 10vvvvvv
3 16 00000800 0000FFFF 1110vvvv 10vvvvvv 10vvvvvv
... Examples trimmed for mobile.
Elementary school physics classes?

... on Earth?
> putting sugar substitutes in the regular drinks

That is an entire can of worms in itself, with all the garbage sugar substitutes that exist ...
(A new deleterious health effect of substitutes is discovered almost every day ...)
To me, it seems that discussing about corporations vs. individuals is the wrong kind of discussion to have. At the end corporations are groups of individuals, and whenever someone argues about unfairness of different treatment, there's an implicit "and that's bad because some individuals end up on a better position than others" that, I think, should be talked more explicitly.

At the end of the day, a corporation is an instrument, and its wealth is the wealth of some individuals. Corporations are instruments to coordinate wealth creation, so perhaps the issue is how/whether rich people are profiting too much from "The System" we have in place, be it through an excessive command of corporations (which are allowed certain things) or through other means. I mean, if wealth inequality among individuals were close to nil, then it would not be too polemic to raise taxes if we need more public budget, or lower them if we need to push the economy forward - the issue when taxes need to increase or decrease is where do you cut / take.

So perhaps we're focusing our analysis on optimizing the wrong thing.
The problem is that then when a police officer breaks the law and harms you, and you later sue them, the taxpayers end up paying the settlement due to the fact that you have to sue the whole department rather than the criminal themselves. There are no consequences, criminal or civil, for the person who actually broke the law.

New York City taxpayers pay $300M a year or so (IIRC) paying out civil judgements against the exceptionally violent NYPD.
Having skimmed through the paper accessible at the end of the first link, I am leaning towards (1). It contains a barrage of eye-assaulting notation, lots of digressions and repetition, and basically no formal substance (which, for a logic/computation paper, is bizarre).
Other countries don't have a problem with officials getting sued. In the UK there doesn't even seem to be a problem with employees getting sued; cases always seem to end up being against the employer. So why does only the US need "qualified immunity"? (That's a real question, not a rhetorical one.)
>You're posting something publicly? To me that's explicit consent that you want people to see them.

To see them where I posted them. Pictures are an intellectual property of the author, if a person wants other people to spread them, he/she needs to explicitly set the allowing license. Copyright, fair use and such is a hot and nuanced topic, but the bottom line here is that personal pictures getting shared is not what most people expect to happen, understandably so.
Wow, it seems like this will take a while to come out and I didn't see any word on pricing.

A good alternative to this is a Beep. Beep sells devices that plug into any speakers audio jack to let you stream music from your phone. What's better is that it also syncs up multiple units so you can have your music in sync across your house.

We've used them in our office a few times and love them. https://www.thisisbeep.com
Well then, you didn't make it easy Ravi.
Millions of horny and bored people?
Well, I've bumped into a few traders (mostly in the energy commodities trading arena) and you really get all sorts. There are the guys that won't even tell you where the bathroom is in their building, then there are the guys that love spreading their opinion around so they can reap the recognition when they made the right call.

Presumably equity traders (which I believe is the focus of this site) are the same way.

I do think the OP is going to have something of a tough sell to get any of them to participate though. I'm not sure if the incentives are high enough... particularly during the "get it off the ground" phase.

Still, I think it's an interesting idea.
Should note it is very new too I believe
Start buying up student loan debt and pooling them into Student Loan Backed Securities (SLBS). Tranche and rate them based on US News & World Report school rankings, sell these CDOs to wealthy institutional investors worldwide, then have your business partner short the shit out of them.