jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Maybe with some public accountability they can finally solve the issue of their servers “going down” every time there is a rush to sell.
Agreed, I personally view them as a bridge between the traditional brokerage model that more traditional investors can understand and use, and the crypto world that is looking to be separate from the traditional model.
It's A.W.E.S.O.M.E. - O from South Park! Bet we can expect to see a lot of Adam Sandler movies.
> if the average person puts 10k-15k on a car, it sounds like you only used it on a few little trips around the neighborhood.

The average mileage in the UK is 7k miles annually. Americans just drive too much.
I built a number of projects ranging from job listing sites to content sites/blogs. These sites are running mostly on auto, generating enough, through ads and sponsorships, to cover the misc expenses.

Thought about starting a SaaS or something that has more steady income but receiving payments is a hassle in my part of the world. No PayPal or Stripe available.
Seems like there's a probably reasonable trend of piling some other tool on top of the stack because dealing with underlying layers is hard. Like electron apps and docker images. Or just web browsers.

Kind of worrisome to abandon lower layers with their problems and build on top of them, but what can you do, but get good at jenga.
From personal experience in town meetings:

* City roads are narrow and don't have empty space just waiting to be painted green. Bike lanes will cost you parking spots or a car travel lane. This gets huge pushback.

* Dangerous drivers must be removed from roads. You can be hit, killed even, with video evidence and the driver may escape punishment entirely.

* Cities (or specifically NIMBY residents) must stop resisting increased density, mixed use, and useless parking minimums. Not everyone wants to live in a suburban development, miles from useful amenities.

* Bikes and alternative transportation are compliments and need to be developed together. Biking to transit hubs is huge. It's not just green paint wherever it fits.
What are you trying to imply? That you have an equivalently useful and featured kernel in a safe language? Do you have a similarly featured Bluetooth stack in a "memory managed" language? Why are all OSes wrong?

I apologize the readers for the rant but this whataboutism is so demeaning of the multitude of very inteligent people working in the field, and creates negative valued divides between the low level people and the userspace/web people with huge mutual distrust as shown in the parent and in mine.
superspreading is probably a mix of biology and behavior and we don't even know what the biology is.
$12 million a mile: Here’s how bike-lane costs shot sky high in Seattle

The larger and more ambitious the project the greater the costs. I imagine a massive upgrade would be even more expensive

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/12-...
As I recall it was 1-2 days, yeah.
I'm also an HMC alum working at Google (and Microsoft before that). HMC has a program called 'clinic' where students work on semester long projects for partner corporations. It was useful to get an idea of how a real project with industry works. Don't discount schools with programs like this.

Also -- +1 on internships. They were super valuable for me. For example the summer I spent in the theoretical physics dept at Fermilab helped me figure out what I didn't want to do :)
He is homophobic, so he is tryirng to make other people to be so too. And he is speaking as he is a father of all these political children....
His story shows that they kind of should, though. Domain knowledge is great and all, but there's no need to be stuck in something for an entire lifetime, you can learn new things.
I'm really not sure I agree; programming is necessarily an engineering discipline and by nature requires a far looser, fuzzier approach than maths; though there is of course a mathematical foundation to modern computers (the Turing Machine is named after a mathematician, after all), in general the highly formal essentially mathematical approach is something a programmer rarely has use for, though formal proofs of correctness are certainly useful in some areas of programming (and perhaps in the future will apply to far more.)

Ultimately we program for people rather than machines, I hardly think you can describe readability, maintainability and elegance as bullshit. You can just as well program a correct algorithm with one-letter variable names and horrible nested gotos, but I'm sure the guy who has to maintain that will hardly describe the difficulties with understanding and maintaining the code as bullshit.
Great post. There is research done at the MiT that also supports the fact that intelligent people (ppl with high iqs) find it difficult to make choices and stick to them even after having known which choice is most likely to benefit them the most.

Stability is hugely under rated these days.
Now fixed, clearly some googlers reading this thread ...
Read Nein! by Paddy Ashdown. Then use your imagination.
Have you got into any legal trouble from any of the companies?
Can you connect this concern to the actual industry of pollination? Have pollination services become harder to procure, or dramatically more expensive, in the last 10 years?
'You' being personified here, rather than the general you.

Straightforward tends to suggest we don't have to have a bunch of meetings about it, because the right person either has the knowledge or we know precisely where to get it.
I had the same experience. Not on VPN/Tor/anything. Before I even posted a single tweet I got blocked by a generic "our algorithms think you violated community guidelines" or something.
Just another Example of KilledbyGoogle

And one Reason (of many) why I will NEVER buy a Google Stadia Game or put anything mission critical on a Google Product /. Service
Seems the original leak has been taken down, anyone grab a mirror so I can see if any of my accounts have been compromised?
And lots of Americans in the 1970s weren't interested in dumping their gas guzzlers. But eventually, people have to adapt to a changing world.
E-6 is easier than K-14 but it's still a lot pickier than B&W. I want a color film that's as easy to process as B&W in a Rodinal stand dev.
The writer commented on how some of his best code was written away from the computer and how all of this fast reloading causes poor code to be written. I'm not sure if he would disagree with me, but I think a lot of it depends on the kind of person you are and the kind of problem you are solving. Some problems can't really be solved well iteratively (voice-recognition and DSP for example), while others can. Similarly some people work better iteratively while others do not.

I think it's similar to writing an essay in some ways. Some people sit down and think for a while, then write the essay in one sitting. They then make some minor grammar corrections and otherwise polish the essay before submitting it. Others (like me), sit down and write whatever comes to mind. Then they rewrite everything, and then they rewrite everything again, etc. Finally they have an essay that they are happy with, make some small polishing changes and submit it.

In the end, both approaches work fine for writing an essay, just like both approaches work fine for writing code. The key, when talking about speed and iterative development, is that the code isn't finished when you have something that appears to work. You have to go back through and rewrite things, refactor, add additional tests and clean the code up.
Exactly. Is there value in learning to code? Of course. Does learning to code mean you will be able to write quality software? Unfortunately no. Especially if you learned to code in a sort of crash course on web application development. To be honest I've forgotten 90% of what I learned in engineering school, but I feel the triple-variable calculus, statistics, circuit design and assembly language driver hacking somehow prepared me for solving rather tough and unfamiliar problems in the real world.

It's like music lessons - very beneficial in all kinds of tangential ways although very few students will become concert pianists.
How do you know those incidents were the "result of public housing?" Wicker Park is still a gentrifying neighborhood, and though it's less than it was in the 80s and 90s, still has a significant latino gang presence: http://patch.com/illinois/bucktown-wickerpark/chicago-gang-m... http://loyolamosaic.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/from-trouble-to.... In contrast, we had Section 8 buildings in Streeterville, and they didn't cause any trouble.

At the end of the day, you can't address urban poverty by creating ghettos. Such areas just become the breeding ground for the next generation of urban poor--kids who have no exposure to successful behaviors and attitudes, but do have a cultivated distrust of authority and social structure. It's not an "unfair" burden on residents. It's a burden that we have to bear in order to create integrated, successful communities.
FTA:

>One of the technologies the NSA uses for this feat is made by Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (‘PittPatt’), now owned by Google. We underestimate how much a company like Google is already part of the military industrial complex. I therefore can’t resist showing a new piece of Google technology: the military robot ‘WildCat’ made by Boston Dynamics which was bought by Google in December 2013.
Well put.

His post on the UGA website did not endanger anyone, did not incite riots or violence. It inconvenienced whoever had to fix it and it poked fun at the football team.

This would be like charging someone with grand larceny if they found a quarter on campus and put it in their pocket.
I have fairly large hands and long fingers, I've actually considered the iPhone 6 because of this. The normal iPhone always felt too small for me. I also have trouble finding gloves that fit right, the fingers are just too short.
If you're not sharing memory, why not just set up a local rest server?
> On the biology side, I got ridiculed for all the 'hand waving' that seems to happen with the math. Biologists want to see concrete experiments and results.

How interesting. Usually, it's the math folk who ridicule everyone else for being sloppy with their reasoning. For example, physics = hand-wavery :D
Upvoted this. I have many students who face the challenge of mathematics with relish and they learn a lot by struggling. I have others who look at math, think "I'm not the kind of person who does/can do this" (for a variety of reasons), and fade out. Struggling with the material only happens if you are relaxed enough, in some sense, to engage with the material. A good part of my job with some populations was persuading them that they could fruitfully struggle with the material. The fear of mathematics is surprisingly pervasive in the US, as is the fear of struggle and the fear of not "performing".
A lot of these sites, almost all of them, are pastebin-esque, including sourceforge.net/projects/phorkie/ which is a "PHP and Git based pastebin."

I noticed Pastebin getting a fair number of mentions in the news in connection with the Sony attack as a place for hackers to dump sensitive information publicly and easily.

My guess is this blacklist was assembled to mitigate such hacking damage on Indian targets, but it was assembled with some haste; and github and vimeo, I doubt, will remain blocked for too long.
The Risk Factors section could be tightened up. "Bitcoin lost over half its value in 2014"[1] would probably suffice.

[1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-23/and-2014s-w...
This is basically disrupting personal trainers. You wouldn't expect a distruptive technology to be a substitute for the real deal right away - it is just going to be a better alternative for those who couldn't afford a personal trainer, or who wouldn't admit how bad a shape they are in.

Using this technology you could have the computer motivate you for well you are doing, compete with other "players" or just yourself, etc.

As for the monetary aspect, there is always Beeminder. It has the advantages that you don't have to pay 100 usd if you actually show up.
Would this be a solution to the problem? -> Make mosquito nets that disintegrate when soaked in water.
It's back up for what it's worth .. confirmed with a couple of people .. was down for a couple of hours ..
He shouldn't have to learn something new. It's bad for business to tell potential users "You're just going to have to get used to our system".

Customers want a new tool/app/service to solve problems, not create new ones.
"Free of expense" doesn't exist. You're talking about transferring the expense onto people who do create wealth. Maybe it makes sense for people to have an inherent right to medical treatment or housing or something, but an inherent right to study feminism and religion at the $100,000 expense of others?

I mean, we already have subsidies for people who are actually good at the humanities--tenured professorships. Philosophy's probably worthwhile that society can afford to pay for philosophers--and at this rate, we're hiring more philosophers as a society than ever in history. But what's the gain for society in training far more philosophers than we can afford to employ, or in indulging the 80%+ of philosophy undergraduates who have little to no aptitude for the subject?

I won't even get into the bigger question, which is whether religious studies or women's studies are worthwhile for society to subsidize at all.
Sorry, but which topics in particular do you find lacking on Wikipedia or mathworld, for example?

The math and physics articles are generally pretty good, include derivations, background on the subject, and you can then click to learn about the personalities who discovered the idea. There are no problem sets, however.
the ability to learn is not the standard, it is the demonstrable ability to generate value (monetary and otherwise) that matters
When I click "Put it back in the gulf," the size of the oil spill shrinks. When I click "Put it in Portland, OR, USA," it grows again. I don't think that the map scale has changed, because slider doesn't move.

{edit} Is this just a by-product of mapping the surface of a sphere to a rectangle?
I don't understand why nobody has suggested http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcoidosis

It is not that common, but is is not that rare that the doctors shouldn't have picked it up. The thing is, although in most cases the disease is in most cases expressed in lung problems, it can actually affect all organs.
yes and,

Facebook is proving itself to be respectful of users. They're responding to the media and fixing issues intelligently. Also, on the divisive "Draw Mo" day Facebook showed maturity (by blocking content from being viewed by people would would get offended).

I suspect that much of this hate is part ignorance (about the nature of software development) and part jealousy. From my perspective it looks like Zuck is a great CEO. I'd work with a guy with that much passion any day.
Hardly bitter. Hardly "elderly." And I have tons of young entrepreneurs that I work with. Just because you disagree with my POV doesn't mean you have to try and launch a personal attack on me. What do you gain by this?
> On the other hand, sports, football in particular, are one of the biggest selling points of HDTV and the high resolution picture it provides.

Many consumers are not particularly aware of video quality beyond what advertising tells them. So long as the screen is big and they think it is HD (either because the settop box that they plugged in wrong says "HD" on it, or because marketing has told them that 720p is the bees knees, or whatever), then they are pretty happy.

Buffering is something that everyone notices immediately though. That would make or break this.
I would like to see an example of that...

http://blog.zx2c4.com/749 and http://bit.ly/T9CkqJ
The efuses are still part of hardware initialization, before one gets into the bootrom, so it's feasible to assume that this 500us is still "hardware" init, during which time it's typical for an MCU to be reading input from pins to know about voltage, clock, mode selector jumpers, etc.

And, the way all of those things work is by setting registers so that they're visible in the software either _still_ in a register, or mapped into the address space.

Edit: I checked your profile and see that you're an embedded engineer, so I must have missed some nuance in your question, because power glitching the boot sequence to mess with hardware init it a really popular vector for attacking embedded devices. Please feel free to disregard my reply.
Hashed _id's aren't the bottleneck. Disks are the bottleneck. MongoDB is seriously lacking in the compression department and bogs down our disks constantly.

Riak is not slow as long as you're not running your cluster on VPSs. At our scale Riak's performance has been significantly better than MongoDB's due to our heavy write load, and there are fewer issues with using big disks with somewhat larger seek times.
Again, he didn't put anyone in danger so stop saying he did.
Carbon capture is the dumbest and most expensive way to move forward. It would be cheaper to just turn every coal plant into a solar farm then it would be to capture the carbon out of the air so why even bother. Oh yeah, corporate interests.
I don't think there is a solution, PDF is with us for the foreseeable future. That doesn't mean I like it as a format or can't point out the problems with it.
After re-reading and self-reflecting, I do not agree. The original claim is about defining certain actions as intrinsically not side-effectful (no sounds can themselves be dangerous), but actions having side-effects cannot be considered in isolation of the physical and social circumstances they are embedded in, which can require restricting an action.

I think my reply really adequately responds to the core intent of the original comment.

I’d also like to point out that your reply is not helpful. Merely gainsaying something is not useful or informative.
I worked in basement for a while. It was great, cold in summer, warm in winter, very quiet. However location independence is much much better :-)
> to believe that we can come up with something better is a short time span is naive at best.

Humans have substantial differences from the rest of the nature. Recent example with COVID-19 vaccine, developed within months, shows speed of progress which focused approach can reach.

Forests are pretty good, and better than many naive options; just not guaranteed to be best available, if humanity would try harder to solve this crisis.
Ubiquiti is still pretty good for home usage. Their gear is the only one I have used so far that handles 10-15 active devices without breaking a sweat. Other APs I've tried fall apart pretty quickly at that number.
Take something like the design discipline Scott Wlaschin describes in this talk "Domain Modeling Made Functional"[1]. Combine it with a catalog of standard models like David Hay's "Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map"[2] which is like a Pattern Language for data models combined with a catalog covering most (enterprise) needs. Specify the binary formats with Erlang "bit syntax"[3]. Eh?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up7LcbGZFuo

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780120887989/data-model-...

[3] http://erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.html
It’s too bad it doesn’t have buttons for mouse clicks. I can’t do precise mousing when the touch pad is also the mouse button. Too bad so many laptops do this.
Brass? Type has traditionally been made of lead.
Twitter is a troll farm were the trolls don't know they are on a farm.

If you think you are just on there to get news then you have already been duped. "News" is the pretty wrapper on the candy bar full of razors.

No good comes from crowd rage on tap.
With wall street and other large players steadily moving into crypto, I don't suspect Coinbase will be able to continue to charge their high trading fees....and thus their margins will drop dramatically. Would be careful of jumping on this guy, and presuming it's success will fall in line as the latest on the tech IPO bandwangon
This is how the US continues to lose to Asia.
Not the person u are replying to
Can a hash not be calculated for the iou, does it have an identifier ?
The exchange can log those
Yep, CI like this is a catastrophe. Sourcehut's ad-hoc builds are really nice because you can test without pushing any changes. But sadly, Sourcehut CI is lacking in other areas.
Ugh. I'm a Canadian who is repelled by Rick Mercer's way of feeding Canadians' blind spots and prejudices back to them. His comedy is smug. He is not a truth-teller—he shows people what they want to see.

Canadian prejudice against Americans has little to do with Americans and much to do with ourselves. It's a national neurosis (at least among the educated classes) which we're mostly unaware of. It quickly becomes obvious to Americans who notice it, though. I've had many long conversations with American friends about this. Luckily for us, most Americans' feelings toward Canada are uncomplicated, friendly and warm, so they have no idea how far from reciprocated this is. It's also lucky for us that they think we're cute and don't take us seriously, because if they did they'd find a lot to be offended by.

The most curious aspect of Canadian prejudice against Americans is how openly and proudly we proclaim it, as if it could be nothing but endearing. This is a consequence of its being mostly unconscious.
This is exactly how you do it. Setting up a cron job to run every 30 minutes can be done like this: crontab -e and put this line in there 0,30 * * * * your_command or like 0/30 * * * * your_command. The second one works for me, I am on a mac.

Make sure the user who runs the job has permission to overwrite the file.
But then, google "creativity constraints" and see how many people talk about using constraints to foster creativity.
Surprised "Don't use real life metaphors in a web app" isn't one of them
My takeaways from this are:

1] MySQL supports more replication options, whereas PostgreSQL focuses on the ones that 95% of users will care about and does not implement the rest.

2] MySQL's replication has several failure modes that can lead to data loss or non-synchronization. For example, it is statement based by default, so any statement which includes a call to NOW() will return different results on master and slave. PostgreSQL also has failure modes, but the defaults are designed to minimize them -- e.g. it always uses WAL and data file rewrites to ensure that data is properly synced and consistent.

3] Due to points 1 & 2, if you aren't an expert and don't need the extra features offered by MySQL, you are probably better off with PostgreSQL.

4] 3rd party tools exist for both servers which close many of the feature gaps between them.

Could someone who is more knowledgeable than me tell me if this is a fair reading?
You might like to read this from Github Founder -

But it wasn't an overnight eureka, and it wasn't intentional.
I didn't just walk out of high school, pick up a Ruby book, meet Tom and PJ,
then launch the site GitHub.

Before GitHub came, in chronological order, Spyc, Ozimodo, my ozmm.org, tumblelog,
ftpd.rb, Choice, Err the Blog, acts_as_textiled, Cheat!, acts_as_cached, Mofo,
Subtlety, cache_fu, Sexy Migrations, Gibberish, nginx_config_generator,
fixture scenarios builder, Sake, Ambition, and Facebox.

And that's just the stuff I released.

Source: https://gist.github.com/6443

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=282158
I've been looking for something similar to this! Having just learned of Relational Algebra in class I've always wondered why we went with a more difficult to understand abstraction of SQL.
In the US typically its fireworks rather than bomb making material.