jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't get it. Is that yet another CORBA clone?

I think the CORBA clone currently in fashion is SOAP (or did we get something newer?). There probably are SOAP tools for Earlang, and you'll really get the possibility of using an heterogeneous system, like you said you'll want.

Yet, those things never work so well as people think they should. Keeping interoperability within a code-base is hard work, distributing it just makes it harder.
Let me be the first to link to Paul Graham here:

http://paulgraham.com/gap.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html
What makes this especially exciting for me is that >80% of those people are from the community (i.e. not dotCloud employees).
Did the size of the market more than double over the same time period, for reasons not caused by Microsoft? If so, it is not quite so praiseworthy to have doubled revenue.

GP: Talking about MSFT share prices instead of MSFT market cap makes the Market Economics Fairy cry. Even if you talk market cap, she wants to know about dividends and share repurchases, then adjust for inflation.
So I get that the title is pulled directly from the source article, but I don't like it; I thought it referred to a car getting left in the actual paid long-term parking lot for 3 years, not a car that had racked up 3 years worth of tickets in an employee lot.
Skype is about to pull in 2 billion in revenue. Surely there's some profit there.
You'll have to really connect the dots for me here, I guess I'm just not getting how the 6 month rule has anything to do with the meaning of "direct".
I'm reminded of Feynman playing with ants...
> truly we live in a gilded age of app development

Are you intentionally referring to a superficial positive veneer hiding serious, fundamental, and widespread problems [1] or are you meaning to refer to a "golden age" [2] instead of a "gilded" one?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_age

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age
Someone already wrote a Delicious scraper in Scrapy (Python): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2015680
Not HN, and annoyingly US-centric...
Grab the free version of Visual Studio (Express).
This is akin to say that you'd feel like you overpaid (or wouldn't hire) a programmer, given that he wrote a book on a subject that you could study and then use to implement the code.

A book can contain actionable advice, but it's still somewhat limited and generic. The value of a consultant lies in his ability to apply his knowledge to your specific requirements. It's a personalized service that no book can replace.

In fact, writing a book usually leads to more consultancy gigs and higher rates.
My interests: python, pylons, postgresql, c#, javascript, linux, startup
Back when I was working on the VS editor team, we had to worry about things like users opening multiple-gigabyte XML files in the editor, expecting text to immediately display, and for the little scroll nubbie to immediately size to the correct proportional size (the size of the nub is proportional to the number of lines displayed in the window versus the overall number of lines in the file, with some thresholding). And be able to start clicking immediately on the scroll bar, expand/collapse regions, etc.

It's a hard problem that requires pretty serious engineering, especially when your user expectations are that you should be at least as fast as emacs and vim, but also support all of your other features.

And yes, people open large files all the time. Log files; autogenerated "component configuration" babble; registry text dumps; debugging diagnostic output...
I'd love to see this on a game console. I imagine it would be fun having 2 or more people with Wii controllers improvising together on the same island.

The look of Isle of Tune reminds me of the artwork for the last David Byrne/Brian Eno album. Coincidence?
Is this a article flagged up because of its affiliation with tis owners and how they have changed in writing or do you really want us to see people who ove google and mac related products that much?
I kinda think like you, I find knowledgeable analysts too keen on forgetting disruption. I don't want to fantasize about potential scifi.. but simply a few discussions about potential research paths and then put some weight behind. There are way more money floating around on useless thing than required to do so for energy/climate solutions.
X is one variable and y is another. The correlation is, given x, how likely can we predict y.

So if x is IQ score, and y is income, and if there is a strong positive correlation, then given high IQ (x) we can confidently predict high income (y).

If there is no correlation between x and y, then given x, we cannot predict y.
I’m wondering if solarwinds will survive all of this. Must be crazy working there right now.
Well yeah.

Do you really think rioting and murder should have no consequences?
Maybe if kush was readily accessible to the adults who want it, there wouldn't be an unregulated black market where it can be "easily" purchased by children.
I'm not sure what aspect of the "mask wearing" you doubt, but I don't have much doubt in the germ theory of disease, and I've been suggesting wearing a mask since Feb, because it works against just about every communicable respiratory disease from bacteria to virus (or pollen or asbestos). I'd recommend eye protection for COVID as well, because the eyes (along with the lungs) appear to be a higher risk aerosol entry point than the stomach through the mouth.

Whether vitamin D has any effect is still very much unknown.
When do we get to vote on the lockdowns, democracy man?
Wait till you see the original homepod.
It doesn't matter who gets there first?

Are you serious? Accurate web search, didn't matter who got there first? Intuitive MP3 player with bundled music store, didn't matter who got there first?

It's amazing how many people who would otherwise chant "america, fuck yeah" become total pessimists when it comes to energy. Al Gore's totally beside the point.
It's funny the page has a banner at the top that is bigger than any purchased section...
Maybe it's just my bad luck then. Like I said, the servers have been good value for money, but as far as support is concerned I have had no joy.
That's correct, I'm using the previous model of Mac Mini (2.53GHz 4GB 320GB) and two great 20" samsung widescreens. I have to say it's a really awesome way to work!
Second Michael's opinion...
Some really good python libraries out there besides NumPy and SciPy.
Pandas comes to mind http://code.google.com/p/pandas/
Pretty good for data analysis.
Besides this, I think there was a talk on Python for the Finance world in this year's PyCon, possibly worth a look too...
Aside from giant slingshots, there was no known way of getting to the Moon and back in 1960.
I found the same for a lot of counties in Eastern states, and then tried counties that I know are small in the west and saw the same thing (only much larger distances between counties there).
There was a company I worked for, that is very very large, that was coming out with "new technology" that had hundreds of thousands of lines of C code just like this.

Most of the code was approximately 20 years old. The original architects are probably dead.

And so was that project in about a year and a half... so I quit. I'm much happier now.
Okay, so whoever lied about there being a contract (and anyone who authorizatied the lie) should be culpable.
Patients undergoing brain surgeries are routinely asked to volunteer for neuroscientific studies and they often do so. Terminally ill patients also donate their brain tissue for tons of studies more often than you would think. But the scope of experiments that one can do with them and the available multimodal data available from parallel studies in human cortex is extremely limited.

On the other hand, non-human primates are readily available in a controlled environment, can be used to generate huge amounts of data specific to a diverse set of tasks and experiments that you just can not do on the human patients.

The brain is a complex machine that is extremely hard to decipher just by studying a single species or one kind of experiments. The need for studies across species with a hundred different ways of collecting and analysing data is essential to first understand the mechnasims of the brain and only then (hopefully) be able to causally alter it for specific applications in medicine and so on.
Yes, totally agree. I was working on this. Then I thought why not ask HN what they think the most valuable path is going forward.
I think they would rather pay to not have this.
This is not a well-written article. i still do not understand why exactly ths middle class is contracting beyond "it's the virus", what consequences it will have, and how serious it is.

I do love that they considered more than just Europe and North America, but I wish they taught me anything.
On server and Android, and IoT. Sleep is enough for my laptop.

I hardly doubt you are kernel developer yet you "know better". Such people always do.
Saw this being referred to in the Neuralink discussion and I think this unfortunately went under the radar. I'm surprised that we've already gotten to successful testing in humans already.
This is difficult to say because pong involves moving components while the box stays still. In order to play pong the monkey must first estimate where the ball will go and then give the command to move the cursor. This indicates that Neuralink may be able to handle complex multitasking, i.e. you may be able to walk or drive and the system will still be able to decode you correctly.
That's why I switched from a German QWERTZ layout to US International.

Don't like the dead keys, but the shortcut confusion is worse.
That's basically what cheat.sh does. It's an editable wiki that contains common use cases (cheat sheets) and can be called directly from the command-line, e.g.:

curl cheat.sh/ffmpeg
curl cheat.sh/youtube-dl
curl cheat.sh/cd
curl cheat.sh/find

It gives quite a bit more than 3 use cases, but you could do:

curl -s cheat.sh/ffmpeg | head

For more details you can go to the site in a browser or use:

curl cheat.sh
curl cheat.sh/:help
Maybe... I'd rather do the time, and when I get out a millionaire then do the time and when I get out flat broke.
The theoretical maximum of HSPA is 7.2Mbit/sec not 1.5Mbit/sec.[0]

[0]: https://kenstechtips.com/index.php/download-speeds-2g-3g-and...
I can't see myself ever using this service, so I'm interested in what makes people want to. Would you be willing to share the sort of search queries that lead people to you?
Yes. SDRAM is just synchronous DRAM and I think the last asynchronous DRAM type in widespread usage was probably EDO DRAM from the early 1990's.

The first synchronous DRAM type was called SDRAM and that was followed by all of the DDR standards which still use a clock and are there synchronous in operation.
take a look at germany. they concentrate asocials in special places that are easy to control, clean, and in high traffic areas where they cannot harm lone passing-by pedestrians. win-win-win
It will be a monopoly once companies have gone bankrupt.

* If some future government wants to throw that investment in the bin, that's on them.*

No, that's on the taxpayers. Politicians never pay the cost.
I think the problem applies to non-PhDs students as well. I'm seeing a lot of interest from recent non-PhD grads in subjects other than CS wanting to steer their career toward data mining. My concern is that this re-focusing will probably lead them down paths that may leave them undistinguished relative to peers who stay within the more stable but less shiny domains where they're better prepared to succeed.

I saw the same thing happen in the late 1990s as everybody and his dog got into web design while it was hot. Few of those folks are doing that now, nor did that skill translate well into other roles since the skill set isn't fundamental to other careers.

I'm not sure ML is any different, especially deep learning, since few companies have anywhere near the necessary amount of data to successfully play that game and win.
Chromebooks can't be that far behind after this one.
That's really not cool. For a few ounces of grass, come onnn
> At this point, we've really nailed down

Have we really nailed it down?

Except within a certain faction of purists who want to purge science of anything that cannot be falsified in the short term, and outside of textbooks influenced by their opinions, I don't see any consensus on what constitutes the scientific method and what falls outside of it. How do we know that there won't be further "major modifications" over the next 100 years?

Modern people often suffer the illusion that they exist at the apex of history, and their proud claims of perfection just as often fail to stand the test of time.

> It took a long time simply because falsifiability wasn't an ingrained scientific process in the age of Copernicus.

No, it took a long time because the technology needed to falsify geocentrism simply did not exist until the mid-19th century. Likewise, we currently do not have the technology to test large parts of contemporary theoretical physics. In fact, it seems to be in the very nature of theoretical physics that its predictions are hard to test. I can't think of a single major advance in modern physics that took less than a decade to test conclusively.

> 500-year experiments should be very low on the list

I agree. But when it comes to highly abstract theories of cosmology, do we really need to compile a list of priorities at all? It's not as if string theorists and multiverse proponents are asking for funding to send probes to outer space. It's all armchair speculation at this point, and nobody's forcing anyone to believe anything.

If we as a society can afford to throw money at SF films and number-puzzle games with a high "geek factor", surely we can afford to let some professors engage in geeky speculation for a few more centuries? Because that's all I mean by "support to the best of our abilities". Just keep respecting them as fellow scientists whose conjectures unfortunately cannot be tested within their lifetime. Acknowledge that a small fraction of our scientific workforce needs to be engaged in such long-term projects, and take comfort in the fact that this fraction will always remain small.

Or have we become so insecure, narrow-minded, and obsessed with short-term ROI's that we cannot stand the sight of as-yet-unfalsified theories occupying the precious pages of our journals?
JBIG2 might be the best compression for bitmap images, but you probably never want to use its lossy mode for text images[0]

The fact that a single difference in a configuration bit (lossy/non-lossy) can introduce subtle and easy-to-miss errors (to the point that this went unnoticed by Xerox QA and thousands of their customers!) is an indication to me that while JBIG2 might be superior in terms of the compression it offers, it's not a solution I would use without very serious consideration and deliberation.

Just to make this more clear: if you borked the compression setting on jpeg, you get smeared images. If you bork the lossy/nonlossy flag on JBIG2, you get images that look great but may have a random letter or digit swapped for another.

[0] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_me...
I'm a fan of the idea of solar panels, but I'm skeptical.

First, I'd like to see numbers that show solar panels are less damaging to the environment. I suspect that they require significant energy to manufacture as well as cause pollution in the process. Let's see some numbers that show it saves far more than it costs, energy/pollution-wise.

I'd also like to see this supposed day (as soon as a year and a half from now, according to the article), when solar power suddenly becomes affordable. It sure wasn't one year ago and I'm pretty sure it's not, today. In fact, if you calculate the cost of materials and installation, you will often find that you don't start saving a dime until the warranty on the product has expired (around 20-25 years). Not to mention, the efficiency degrades over time, so I'm not sure what kind of performance you can expect when the warranty expires and it starts finally saving you cash.

I want it to happen. Trust me. I seriously considered it (although I don't think it's allowed in my city and I know that panels on your house are forbidden by many cities and many HOAs). When I realized that the tens of thousands of dollars I'd have to invest up front in it wouldn't start to pay off until I was almost retirement age, I decided I'd just stick with what I've already got. If things change drastically in a few years, I'll revisit the idea. Until then, I'm not going to let my bank account get caught up in the hype that only benefits the solar panel installer industry. I don't see how it's going to mature significantly in a whole two years.
Actually it's around $200 for a 100gig drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227...

But you can always have more than 1 hard drive. Buy a 500gig one for all your large file content and use the smaller one for the OS. Pretty much all SSDs come in laptop drive format so I don't know where this $800 number is coming from. They might have been $800 last year, but transistor prices drop pretty fast.

I have 2 drives in my macbook pro -- 120gig vertex 2 ssd, and a 500gig samsung "old style" hard drive.
Kudos to Wilson for taking a different. Right or wrong, it's impressive for someone to challenge orthodoxy twice in a lifetime.

Still, looking at the topic mathematically, it's hard for me to see the models as absolutely opposed.

A behavior of animal could to a degree enhance their kin's survival and enhance their groups' survival. I suspect the two models seen as opposed through the difficulty of modeling such a general selection process.
Every application I launch, launches in a fraction of the time. I don't like to leave every application I use (some of which are horrendous memory hogs, such as Illustrator and Photoshop) running perpetually, so having next to no load time is an amazing benefit.

Textmate is another excellent example. Search in project is completely usable with an SSD. I had temporarily switched to AckMate because of how unbearably this feature was, now it's instant again.

Booting faster is the least of my cares as my laptop is only rebooted when updates force me to.
Anything you deploy in the corporate world needs to be supported by a help desk for those who aren't geeks -- can you imagine the cost of supporting Google buzz?
Have you considered the possibility that maybe the author wasn't an American and he used 'honest Achmed' like an American would have used 'honest Joe' and a German 'honest Hans'?
This button isn't about saving time, it's about preventing the instances of not having something when you need it. The moment when you realize you need more of something is typically when you're using it. If you can literally just hit a button to order more, that's a significant change from having to do something else to order more.
Show me one source that proves that the trump supporters were “out for blood.”

The point of the protest was not to “take the capital by force.” That’s cartoonish and unrealistic. The point was to express disapproval of the election results. Where do you get your information from?

Sicknick died as a result of a blood clot in his brain. His death was not the direct result of any protestors actions.
What is "adjudication" and "presenting in court", then?
The Capitol Police seem to be a facade and don't stop crowds. Here's a different example from 2 years ago:

"@womensmarch just took the Capitol. Women, survivors, and allies walked straight past the police, climbed over barricades, and sat down on the Capitol steps."

https://twitter.com/EgSophie/status/1048634940169048064
It left him unscathed though, so it’s fine.
My experience of London:

- There's little difference, time-wise, between being located in a town on commuter rail, vs somewhere three connections away on the tube. If you're inside the M25 but outside the North / South Circular, you need to be very close to a station or you're practically worse off than someone living in a town on the railway.

- Motorcycles and scooters, and increasingly, electric bicycles, are the big hack. Free or cheap parking, mostly unaffected by traffic (filtering), not stuck when the trains are cancelled, not constrained by the sparseness of the rail and tube network as you get further from the centre.

Crossrail isn't open yet (due next year, but I wouldn't bet on it); Crossrail 2 is mothballed and probably won't be built for a few decades.

I live in a 120sqm 4 bed house with garden in Enfield, 40 minutes motorcycle commute from Clerkenwell, or 60-80 minutes by tube and train, depending on delays and timing (don't leave enough slack and you miss a connection). We used to live in a very small 60 sqm 3 bed house with garden in Bow, which was about 30 minutes from Clerkenwell. Mortgage now is £1500; rent (for over 10 years, nice landlord) used to be £1300. There's fewer food delivery options, and an Uber home is (or was) the preferred route after a night out, vs a night bus to Bow, but overall it's a higher quality of life.

Of course, with Brexit, I'm headed for Zurich.
Try here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NorthKoreaPics/

Avoid comments ,)
Exactly, this is misinformation.

The only time they request additional PII is for verification.

(As a security & privacy advocate with a job in the space, I dug into this last summer and again just before the January shutdown. It was never true just for signing up.)
Builders will build what they are allowed to build, and often what is zoned are variances for these massive structures with expensive parking structures and requirements like a mandatory 100sqft balcony for every single unit, and not piecemeal small lot apartments like what was built decades ago. Los Angeles in 1920 had a higher zoning capacity than it does today. I mean, it was a celebration when the city recently let you convert your garage into a tiny studio apartment (after a byzantine permitting process), in neighborhoods where 50 years ago homeowners were tearing down their single family home to be a landlord of a 6 unit dingbat apartment spanning the entire 90ft parcel, which is probably illegal today according to the zoning code.

If we loosen zoning code, builders would be able to turn a profit on a lot more types of housing and would be able to meet a lot more market demand. Instead, what they are able to make a profit on with the current review and permitting process is that bog standard 4 floor apartment above a subterranean parking lot with a balcony for each and every unit.
Since you are piggybacking on their system, you'd save on peripheral equipment costs and operating costs, too. The subsystems surrounding these cooling water systems are immense. They need river/lake access for water, giant pumps to feed the makeup water into the system, giant fans running all the time, and even larger pumps to circulate the cooling water after. There is a lot of nickel and dime complexity/cost in things like water purification. I'd be shocked if it only knocked 5% of the cost off.

Plus many facilities have surplus low pressure steam you could use to regenerate your fluid.
Just like OneSocialWeb, buddycloud started out using XMPP's built in event stream. We found that this quickly ran out of steam for scaling and was too constrained to build a really good social system. So we pivoted and the new channel servers that are being built are all independent from particular XMPP server implementations.

The channel approach runs as a separate server instead of trying to build everything into existing XMPP servers. Decoupling the channel server release cycle (almost daily) from the longer release cycle of XMPP servers speeds development.
I don't, but if you want to have the holiday theme, you could always set it manually to #BE2828.
I would argue that the present market is certainly not free, but that does not make a free (that is, unregulated) market impossible.