jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When library versions start to cause issues: like V3.5 having a bug, so you need to roll back to V3.4... that's when ./configure && make starts to have issues.

Yeah, it happens with .so files, .dlls ("dll hell"), package managers and more. But that's where things like containers come in to help: "I tested Library Foo version V3.4 and that's what you get in the docker". No issues with Foo V3.5 or V3.6 causing issues... just get exactly what the developer tested on their box.

Be it a .dll, a .so, a #include library, some version of Python (2.7 with import six), some crazy version of a Ruby Gem that just won't work on Debian for some reason (but works on Red Hat)... etc. etc.
I’m doing the same with my kids. Cheers.
Thank you!
That's a good catch, our FAQ was slightly out of date, and the privacy policy is the most recent. I've updated the FAQ and apologize for that lack of total clarity.
We want to be as transparent as possible because our business plan is going to work around a paid tier and we have no intention of data exploitation.
Insight does send browsing data to servers to suggest extensions — we'd like to move this logic client side but right now the complexity around search extensions in particular requires server side logic and logging, similar to how even DuckDuckGo has to log.
This is a core value proposition of Insight and how it simplifies the browsing experience. However, you can turn off all communication with Insight servers in the settings if you'd like even more privacy. We want our users to be comfortable using Insight, so let me know if there's anything else that bothers you.
this could just as well be an executable that is started to handle that event?

Indeed, that's what FreeBSD does, with resolvconf(8).

The reason this is a daemon is ... because a process started from dhclient/slaacd/unwind couldn't directly write to /etc/resolv.conf?

I would say couldn't or shouldn't:

resolvconf manages resolv.conf(5) files from multiple sources, such as
DHCP and VPN clients. Traditionally, the host runs just one client and
that updates /etc/resolv.conf. More modern systems frequently have wired
and wireless interfaces and there is no guarantee both are on the same
network. With the advent of VPN and other types of networking daemons,
many things now contend for the contents of /etc/resolv.conf.

FreeBSD's resolvconf comes with a configuration file which tells it how to combine instructions from multiple sources.
I watch his 10 minute model videos every week. It is cathartic. I don't even follow his examples, I just watch.
>Edit: What I mean to say is, the good lawyers make the same good money, the vast majority of lawyers do not.

It's also not even about being a "good" lawyer. It is completely determined by your law school and GPA. The big firms won't even look at your resume if you're not from a top 10 school.
>>the females
>Gross.

This sort of phrasing/teminology is very common. Nobody is implying anything by it. I was surprised at first when I heard about it but it's probably because English is my second language and thinking of calling someone the equivalent in German would be very awkward. However, that's not the case in English. It's just a different language.
Apple makes money by you being trapped in the Apple ecosystem.

Everything in it is structured around forcing you to pay Apple for access to things you want. Microtransactions, apps etc. All of it must go through Apple and they must have a cut of everything.

You can say they're more honest because they're taking your money up front as opposed to facebook selling you to advertisers, but I don't think it's in Apple's customers' best interests to be milked like cows
But why would you want such a thing ?
Groupcache addresses a very narrow use-case of caching: immutable data. Key's in groupcache cannot be changed or deleted, which is what allows for some of the cool things it does like distributing keys to multiple nodes automatically and prevention of stampeding. It's useful for things like caching lots of small static files (which I believe is what google uses it for), but it's not useful as a db cache where things are constantly changing.

Just glancing at dbox's caching package it looks like a much more general cache, with deletes and sets and all of that. So the two aren't really comparable.
Not surprised. I remember having a conversation with a homeless panhandling ex-software engineer in front of the NYC Tower Records store (original one on 4th & B'way) almost 30 years ago. He claimed to make over $500/day panhandling and, from his style, I believed it.

Yes. He really either used to be a programmer or was faking it extremely well!
How many visitors do you get on the website?
Being able to manage 'big data' is quite impressive. Personally I'm a massive fan of dc.js http://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/ as this is this lets the end user play with data.
It seems like there are hundreds (or thousands) of other sites that do the same thing. What do you feel separates yours from the others?
Do you track your results? That would be a good thing to have on the site for marketing purposes. Also, ever consider writing a betfair bot to automatically bet on your tips through their API? How do you decide on bankroll in your tips? (this is an area that interests me)
Wait what? I thought major players like GMail, Microsoft etc. have some kinda "monopoly" on eMail because they are gatekeeping by using a strict white list.
Uneducated guess - the ability to quickly completely and utterly obliterating the pad would probably be a much more significant concern than space or weight.

After all, you don't want your cipher desk, OTP and all to be overrun by opfor just as you are encoding "we are being boarded!"
This is going to come off extremely cynical but this post intersects at 2 points that interest me. One being advice I would give to my former self, and the other is how I as a person fit into the business world.

The post makes a simple yet important observation:

> That business is measured by a very simple equation: revenues minus expenses equals profit.

For those of you starting out it may not be obvious to you that there are VERY well paid people whose sole job it is is to look at the expenses column and figure out ways to shrink it. With that in mind you should understand that if you work at a technology company YOU and your fellow developers are the biggest expense. Plan accordingly.
After reading a bit more, I don't think it's really that React-like, except for virtual DOM.

I wrote a tangentially related article today:

https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/youre-missing-the-point-of-r... (will be a series of posts, this is intro)
There are many one-to-many device models which can work. Shameless plug to what we're working on at onebillion:

https://onebillion.org.uk/oneclass
Same here. I'm surprised they haven't rebranded the line to try to shake the association (like Microsoft seems to be doing with IE).
What you say is certainly true when he is interviewing entertainers, but I do think the parent is correct: if he's got a serious guest on and they are discussing an issue Stewart cares about, he really lets them use the time effectively. He mostly stays out of the way and just helps them stay on topic.

Promoting his agenda through guests is his reward, I suppose, for stumbling through so many interviews with vapid celebrities.
If you believe an unbiased society would have ruled in favor of Ellen Pao, you could actually take this outcome as evidence for a general bias against women.
For building the platform content, sure. But how can then the coin have that amount of value the article talks about?
> However, everybody has family to visit on the other side of the country twice a year.

Relatively few people drive across the entire country twice per year. Many Americans do drive several hours to visit their family.

It takes basically one trip using a current long range EV (e.g., ~310 miles range) and modern HVDC charging to rid yourself of these concerns. A 9h (~500 mile) trip only requires about an hour of HVDC charging. You'll need to stop for 30 minutes anyway unless you're on some kind of cannonball run.
> A working day surrounded by kids undergoing painful treatments, particularly when you are the person prescribing those treatments, grinds down one's soul.

This is why psychopaths are overrepresented in such professions. I guess it makes it easier to cut into people, and to make dispassionate decisions.

edit: are the downvotes because you think I'm implying this is a bad thing? Am I wrong?
Well one thing is true, nuclear piles leave behind marks of their operation, some with half-lives measured in centuries. So if they did have a program and it was buried under Austria somewhere, then it could be easily 'proven' or not by the presence of those elements. It could kill an ill prepared film crew or exploratory group if they weren't equipped to detect and avoid nuclear hot spots.
I like the idea of a list like this, he's written so many essays at this point it'd be good to have a starting point to approach them. Perhaps to iron it out an Ask HN post would be in order? (though I wouldn't be surprised if that's already been done multiple times).

Off the top of my head I'd add Two Kinds of Judgement to the list, it's one of my favorites. I'd even go as far as to say the world would be a better place if all parents raised their kids with the advice in that essay.
I was referring to the choice of surface, not the desk design itself.
I have eliminated all unnecessary expenses. My health issues are still quite pricey and the past three months have been very ugly in that regard, which is a big part of why I am so stressed out about the whole thing. The debts I owe are a lot for me, given my current income and situation, but not a lot in the grand scheme of things (like compared to what my medical condition typically costs to treat using conventional approaches). It's very, very frustrating because I am saving gobs of money for other people in terms of taxes not spent on keeping me alive: I am a former military wife and could have kept my military medical benefits and had nearly "free" medical care at the expense of taxpayers. Doing the right thing is all coming out of my hide financially and it just feels like the universe is pissing on me. I could be rewarded for keeping my problems alive and not solving them but can't seem to catch a break for actually rolling up my sleeves and fixing sh*t.

It would make financial sense in the big picture -- not just for me, but for the national economy - if I could get some support so I can leave my job and work on this. Even if others with my condition don't get well, even if all they do is get less sick and need to be hospitalized less and need half as much medication, by my estimate the US is spending around $3 billion/year on medical care for roughly 30,000 people with my condition and most of that is covered by insurance, state aid, federal aid, charities and write-offs (when they can't pay their medical bills). And that doesn't begin to factor in disability payments and other forms of support that chronically ill and dying people often qualify for. But I know of no way to tap into that $3 billion and I know of no way to fund-raise to put myself in a position to work on this.

I think I need about $50,000 or so to resolve my financial issues, walk away from my job, and have some money in the bank to live on while making the transition to some kind of entrepreneurial income based on my various websites. I know there is "demand" for some of what I know and a couple of my websites have been around for several years (one of them is about 8 years old, another is over 5 years old and I have a couple of newer things). I don't know how to monetize it and, given the health issues in the family (I and my oldest both have CF), trying to put in the extra effort to achieve launch while working a full time job is proving to be too much.

Thank you for replying. I really didn't expect much (if any) help. I have figured out how to "cure" cystic fibrosis which most of the world says cannot be done. If resolving my financial problems were a simple matter, I imagine I would have done it by now. I'm not bad with money. I've just been doing "the impossible" and there are consequences for that.

Peace.
There's a lot of wisdom in this article. Some things that really needed to be said. But the perspective from which it's written isn't typical of those he means to advise, I think.

He talks about "building meaningful businesses that are both fun and economically rewarding". But the great majority of services businesses are not fun and not that profitable.

And those I know with "product envy" aren't generally motivated by "crazy valuations" and acquisitions. Rather, we have a burning desire to make our own mark and the best of our potential. Pouring our creativity into another person's vision is rewarding to a limited degree.
I practically grew up on edutainment when I was ~4-8 years old. My first computer games were Math Blaster, Gizmos&Gadgets, Treasure Mountain, Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, Outnumbered!, and Operation Neptune.

And even beyond the Super Solvers series, there were dozens of others like these, from the game I used to learn to type, to Carmen Sandiego. And beyond the outright edutainment games, most of the rest of my childhood was spent playing Simcity 2000, Age of Empires, and other similar games of the era. I even learned to "use the Internet" by playing Yahooligans' Cybersurfari. (Holy crap, does anyone remember THAT?! Practically lost to history at this point!)

I strongly suspect a good portion of my "intelligence" was actually acquired by exercising my brain in these ways when I very young, rather than due to school or genetics.

I also suspect that there's a whole generation of kids -- born around the same time during the heyday of edutainment (~1988-92) -- who had a similar experience.
The piece is extremely literal and precise. If you enjoyed it, you should date a mathematician.

If you didn't, well then in the first place, you probably are not reading Hacker News ;)
Assuming that they are distributed randomly

Well, this is what precisely needs to be proven. You cannot just assume that -- they're not distributed randomly in base 2, why they should be in base 10? They most likely are, but if you assume that, you are assuming the hypothesis.
If you are doing something important and useful well, where you are and what is going on around you doesn't matter much.

I imagine if you start turning over some rocks in Beijing you will find some interesting innovations. You live in a country with like a zillion people. Somebody over there has to be doing something with social that blows crap like facebook away.
in your dreams maybe :-)

(not to say that this wouldnt be a good thing)
Mindgeek has a very interesting corporate past. This FT article is the closest I’ve ever found to an investigation but honestly, it reads more like a really bad soap opera than an FT article:

https://financialpost.com/financial-times/the-secretive-worl...
Rails has a ton of high quality code available for it. It looks to me like Phoenix is certainly 'good enough' for a lot of tasks, but it just hasn't been around as long.

I'm looking for those use cases where someone picked Phoenix and it was just clearly a better tool than, say, Rails because of X, Y, and Z, despite maybe being inferior for one or two other things.
I've read Feynman's autobiography and at least half of the stuff in it reads like someone embellishing the story to make it more interesting.

There are parts where he goes totally /r/redpill that would get him in trouble today if he were still alive.
So 2 ideas, 1) make capital gains over $1 million a year taxed as regular income and 2) get rid of Stepped-Up cost basis from estate tax exemptions
Pressing a button is milliseconds, and can be done as a complete afterthought, while still doing your current task. Taking out your phone, navigating to a website and placing an order means you have to stop what you are doing, and do something else.

When the time to complete tasks changes by an order of magnitude - even going from seconds down to milliseconds - our behavior tends to change. We easily accept this notion with developer related tasks such as compiling and testing. I don't see a difference here.
I'm curious which versions of each type of banner did the best... (If I missed this in TFA, please let me know.)

To me, the first one I saw, where he is standing off to the right, wearing a black shirt, in what looks like some sort of industrial area, is the most effective.
600 million? Try 10x that. A top notch HD 5970 does 6 billion MD5 hashes/sec. The MD4 rate is roughly 25% faster.

http://golubev.com/gpuest.htm
Why use shortened links at all if no users have to type them? You've added the complete links now, but they're not clickable.
This is cool, though I still don't have a way to offer a correction to a piece of data. One of my local restaurants has the address wrong in Google Places and I've yet to find a way that I can help correct it.
The contrary view is that 'talent' doesn't actually matter. http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_07_22_a_talent.htm
"The Flea's Knees" is another great tiny font: http://typophile.com/node/61920
I just want to point out my own (different) experience with college. College was a life changing experience for me. I went there to learn and get as much out of it as possible. And I did! It definitely was not overrated for me.

So college might be suited for some people, and not others. But just because it doesn't suit some people, it doesn't mean that the statement 'College is overrated' is true per se.
Internet routing is supposed to be a distributed system alright, but most of the internet services (except China's) are not hosted in China. Wouldn't it be easy to add a policy to BGP that effectively blacklists (or gives a low priority) to routers in Chinese AS's?

I guess what would be difficult is to reach a consensus on adding the above route.. oh well.

Also relevant: http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2008/02/internet-routing-inse...
Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed on HN, and certainly not ones where the single purpose is political.

Just to be clear, minority views aren't the issue—it would be the same if the account was promoting majority views. HN is not a site for ideological or political or nationalistic battle—it's a site for intellectual curiosity, and it's not possible to have both of those things at the same time.

I've therefore banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You mean bug-compability?
Largest unless the Wilkes Land crater proves
real

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkes_Land_crater

A lot of the craters seem to match up with extinction events which is kind of relevant to the debates over the dangers of climate change - if all the major extinctions were huge astroids hitting then regular climate fluctuations are less worrying I guess.

I'm kind of fond of the Antipodes lava flow theories such as that an impact may have caused Hawaii:

http://www.rense.com/general12/created.htm
What I like about Meteor is its community, which is very active and diverse. Most people who use Meteor tend to have a deep fondness and attachment to the framework as opposed to other Javascript frameworks in which IMO are used for the sake of their performant, simplicity, scalability, etc. all the functionalities.

One thing is for sure--Meteor makes Javascript less ugly by letting us write synchronous code. And the "place the code whereever you like" approach really simplifies the coding experience and make it very enjoyable.
"like comments, but they automatically follow your code as it’s moved around in your program"

Wait, don't comments do that?

(edit: oh, they mean like forum comments, not like source-code comments?)
If you are very patient, you can try this:

http://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2015/02/27/2210#running-subli...
Atom is not that slow in practice... except the slow startup, for daily business it's fine - I'm using it with a full suite of linters and autocomplete plugins on the older MacBook Air and it's not laggy.
It actually has been active the past few months, but builds were only being released for the dev channel (requiring an ST2 license)
Tcl added this relatively recently. They use the "tailcall" command, which immediately replaces the stack frame of the current function with one for the new function. If I recall correctly, it doesn't do any checks for whether or not the call is actually a tail-call, so if you do something like

return [expr [tailcall foo] + 1]

the return and expr simply never get executed, producing incorrect results (which I guess is slightly better than a potential stack overflow, since even the most basic of tests will pick up on the missing +1).
Syscalls are slow. See my previous HN post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8961582
Yes, exactly this. Plus at least they're being up front an honest about where they place value in their life.

At the end of the day a lot of us are working as "brains for hire" I don't know why I'm supposed to invent some lie about how i'm so passionate for the product in order to have gainful employment.
Yep. She doesn't really care. She says nonsense stuff. Like I should get a different job. But we can't move, so my options are limited. I pay all the bills and would need to take a pay cut if I switched jobs, so we would have to at least sell the current house and move to an much smaller one.

Another good example is that she said I should keep my nice car and keep doing track days when she found out I was going to sell it. Well, were getting married and having a kid. With what money am I expected to do all this? It had to be sold for the budget to work.
Yeah, the "small company" aspect is pretty key here. Their requirements tend to be much more modest as they can't really afford to be moving fast and breaking things. So once you have a solid environment stood up, it is unlikely to change meaningfully for a while.

Think a job that requires maintaining a LAMP built in the mid 00s. Once you write scripts to install the product on a VM, get database backups automated, and set up alerting, you're basically done. Every once in a while, you do some security updates on VMs, maybe perform the migration from Ubuntu x.04LTS to x.04LTS once every few years.
Cosmic rays are, or rather were, the reason why manufactures avoid shipping high end cameras by plane, cosmic rays kill pixels in imaging sensors: https://youtu.be/98FZ8C6HneE?t=479

It's also the reason why all ISS footage has dead pixels on it.
Some social animals like dogs or dolphins might. But yeah, you’re actually right. Our overgrown sense of empathy is one of the best parts of humans and sets us apart from much of the living world.
they are happy. This is what they are.
Interesting.. it somewhat ties to what people are doing in programming languages with linear/affine types, representing resources that can be passed around but not duplicated.
Government contracts for development/consulting.
Well, you would need to install 20 copies of OSX if you have 20 apps installed, for one.

Also, for a regular app process, standard unix-level memory protection plus sandboxing should be enough. Regular apps have no use for the virtual ring0 privileges available in a "bare-metal" environment that such virtualization emulates.