jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's a lot of pessimism for a fairly elegant solution to the fact that almost no R code has package versioning defined.

I think the major sales point here is:

> A nice feature of groundhog is that it makes 'retrofitting' existing code quite easy. If you come across a script that no longer works, you can change its library() statements for groundhog.library() ones, using as the groundhog.day the date the code was probably written (say when it was posted on the internet), and it may work again.

I don't know how good ratpack is now a days. I've never met an R application that uses it, but at my old work, we would take a dated snapshot of CRAN at the beginning of every new project. If we needed to update a package we could then "update CRAN" for that project. When productionising a project it would be frozen to a date in CRAN.
According to the author, Apple should have never developed the iPod, iPhone, or iPad....
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You have an opportunity to pick a license when you set up a Delicious account. Mine is set to CC-Atttribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike. I'm not sure what the default is.
Silverlight looks fundamentally different than any other product, except WPF.

Back when my company started using Silverlight, I was surprised to learn that none of my coworkers knew it was almost the same as Adobe Flex. I think this sort of ignorance about the greater world of programming is exactly what the original post is talking about.
I agree with you, but the pretentious tone of your comment distracts from your point.
I think a lot of people around here have bad memories from the last time it was acceptable to put "best viewed with <some browser>" on a web site.
I think they swapped my account onto the old servers Gabe was on, because whilst mine was fast when I read the article, suddenly it's very slow (as in, 30 seconds to send an email slow).

I'd love to use Google Apps for my business, all employees already have Android phones so from that point of view it's a great idea. Things like this are what is stopping me from actually doing it.

That and I don't know if I could stand to be parted from mutt.
I will donate all of my assets to this project if the name is changed to Reddit Monster Island.
As I just pointed out to someone else who quoted the exact same thing elsewhere on HN, that approach seemed to work out pretty well for Edison.
> One thing that annoys me most about Windows is that I have to use a mouse to manage windows. There are tiling window managers, but none of them can hold a candle to Xmonad. Even though Linux has fewer users, it has better software.

It's not XMonad by a long shot, but Windows 7 has much improved shortcuts for moving windows around and doing some basic tiling (left half/right half of a screen, as well as fullscreen and "normal" with the Win-arrows combinations)
I'm sure Edison was crying all the way to the bank over the labour he expended.
If you're interested in game theory and strategy and looking for a non-technical introduction, I'd heavily recommend the book Thinking Strategically by Dixit and Nalebuff ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393310353 ). I'd been exposed to a lot of the concepts before, but they hadn't completely clicked until reading their engaging examples.
We had some chickens last year (until the landlord dropped the boom on them.) We got some fertile eggs from a guy on craigslist and a few live chicks from a lady in Mill Valley, and raised them. It was a lot of work, and a lot of fun.

#1 take-away: Raising chickens is the art and science of chicken shit management.

If you can manage the shit (literally and emotionally) then it's a blast.

They poop. Everywhere. All the time.
It's not the road that isn't fit for purpose, it's the human body plus the modern automobile that's not fit for safely handling a crash at 80 mph.

Either build better humans, better automobiles, or slow down.
> But it's not like people are necessarily worse off by choosing to drive for Uber.

I'm reminded of the video of the Uber driver confronting Kalanick during a ride because the driver had been encouraged to buy a high end car by Uber in order to participate in Uber Black[0]. After he bought the car, Uber started lowering the rates on Uber Black, which resulted in less income for the drivers.

That guy sounded like he was worse off by choosing to drive for Uber and taking their own advice.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW50dnWVfGU
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I'd also like to be clear that I don't even consider the attorney the bad guy. Someone hired him to reek havoc and terror to get his way. The attorney is just doing what he's paid to do. It is the attorney's client that is pursuing justice or injustice.

Attorneys have gone through extra years of school at considerable expense, and endured grueling hours to pay their dues. They want to get paid for it. They don't usually care if they damage or ruin your life unjustly.

That's why people need to know how to stand up to them
Market saturation (everyone who wants to be on facebook is probably already on it) and excessive valuations (which assume the whole world will eventually be on it).
Maybe you could get away with describing it as a "calculator"?
I think this is the original article:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0802905
I think you've just hit on two schools of thought.

One school of thought is due unto others as you would have them due unto you. I believe PG once told a startup that they should pay back all other investors first. This is an example of this. PG didn't come out ahead, but maybe the startup founders got to save face. Reputation is more valuable than currency anyway.

The other school of though is that we are to make the world a better place (more fair and just). This view of the world justifies almost any end. This seems to be the approach that the Redditor took.
sorry, but I strongly disagree with your logic here. an auction is way different from a verbal agreement to buy something with no signed contract like in your best buy example.

what if your scenario was an auction for a high value item like a painting instead? would it be ok for her to back out then?
Kurosawa actually denied that it was inspried by King Lear, but rather the similarities were pointed out to him afterwards. It was based on some Japanese folk story about a king with 3 good sons, that he flipped to 3 bad sons.
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Betteridge's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...)

strikes again!
There are many types of observation we might define.

The most fundamental is whether we can write a program which halts in one case and doesn't in the other.

An alternative is whether we can write an if/then/else branch to distinguish between the two cases. Note that this is less general than the above, since we can always use an if/then/else to implement a halt/no-halt program, but we can't always go the other way (due to the Halting Problem). This definition is useful, since if/then/else can cause arbitrarily-large changes to a program's behaviour; whereas we can't "use" a difference which affect halting.

Another definition, which is more subjective, is whether we can do the above "reliably". For example, any optimisation that makes a program faster could be observed by a language which allows access to a clock. Whilst hackers and debuggers might find these useful, it's not the sort of thing that a "reasonable" programmer would do (i.e. code which relies on this sort of thing shouldn't pass code review). I'd probably count inspecting stack traces, or running a debugger on ourselves, in this category.

The messy subjectivness of the latter is why I like to limit the capabilities of what I'm developing with: I don't have to care about timing altering the behaviour of a program which can't access a clock.
I had two Amiga 1000s. It's one of several early computers I regret giving away.

I guess Amiga enthusiasts are an unusual bunch. If you note in the comments to this post, it devolves quickly into a discussion of mixed voltages on FPGAs.
To elaborate - if I am going to spend my money, I want to know who is benefiting from it.

In this campaign, some not specified contributor will have 2 times more (moral) influence than all smaller contributors combined.

Somebody will get its dose of feel good and I want to know who it is.
But the thing is that Haxe doesn't really solve anything else other than being good for flash games. So even if it is Turing Complete, there is no point in spending time learning it if you do not care about making flash games.

And last time I checked, Io was slower than CPython and offered nothing more than a little more ideological OO purity. It didn't have any killer feature.
Those are generally 2x to 5x slower than C.
Can you be more specific about the features we don't really need?
Using SPDY shows huge performance improvements in production.
Oddly, the "carsdirect.com" mentioned here has evolved into Internet Brands, a media behemoth that owns a whole bunch of forums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Brands
Because any online community where that attitude prevails degenerates into an echo-chamber.

Voting is meant to promote quality contributions and increase the overall quality of the site. A site where dissent is pushed out of site would be very dull.
The Blockchain is a ledger, BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file share service. Difficult comparison.
HyperDex provides scalable and high-performance transactions. While it is strongly (not eventually) consistent, the underlying technique we use to achieve atomicity of transactions is reminiscent of this approach.

On a related note, our experience is that a tightly implemented database can be much faster than a typical eventually consistent database. It would be great to see performance comparisons from TreodeDB.
What makes you think it's the OSHW community? If TI will work with you only if you're high vol then I could see a lot of smaller businesses seeing this tactic working against them too.
competition aside, do you think that Tesla will hold the same valuation if Elon Musk leaves or dies? If you think Tesla valuation is just Elon hype, that's just a huge risk by itself.
I can see I've been downvoted. I must have made a mistake. Bitcoin prices are actually tied to Elon Musk's rising wealth, not SpaceX launches.
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not really worth much imo. not even 10 searches a month according to ahrefs
This is Twitter recognizing that their content creators have power, and wanting to keep them on the platform.
Twitter has no interest in hosting only the free teaser content of someone's patron-only feed.
I think it is more like: 10+ servers OR 10+ developers. you can have 10+ services as a single developer ;)
That isn't much different from what I remember in 2001. SAP was in demand and people were billing £750 per day for that, even ordinary stuff was at least £300 per day.
What's wrong with gatekeeping?
I can relate to the point about feeling 'unheard' on Twitter.
It feels like the hierarchy of publishers and subscribers has already been established and there's nothing that can be done to change it.
IMO, the real purpose of Twitter today is to maintain the socio-economic order; obviously, Twitter Inc has opted to achieve that by tweaking their algorithms to pin down and lock-in the broadcast/consume hierarchy to reduce popularity churn as much as possible.
Who's "us" - you and your friends? please speak for yourself. I like Rails just fine.
Just to be clear: there is no mandated minimum salary by Swedish labour laws, so the government does not set a minimum wage.

The minimum salaries are set by the unions in negotiation with the government and employers' organisations.

In summary: minimum wage only exist in Sweden in connection to national unions, not directly to the government.
like a serverless function
Italy had 3,333 auto accident deaths in 2016 (the latest year I could find quickly). Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic...
Indirect layoffs are coming. For example, if you are working for a technology company that is servicing Halliburton, who just laid off 5,000 workers, then there's a chance that Halliburton might decide to cancel that fancy new React project they contracted out to you.

Now, if your company's main client is Halliburton, then layoffs are coming for you next, maybe.

Another question is like, how POS providers like Toast, Clover, Upserve etc stay in business when their main client base are closed right now potentially even forever?
I had just bought a sewing machine to learn to sew and make an outfit for Burning Man. Now I’m going to make face masks.
Do Japanese people living outside of Japan have an unusually low rate of hospitalization? Perhaps there is a genetic component.

Or perhaps it involves some differences in diet, or treatment.
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second time you claim Germany is "significantly more socialist" than the US.

how does one measure "socialism" exactly?
Likewise, it's a fallacy that all wealth is created and not controlled.
"What works for depression (and what doesn't)."

http://bluepages.anu.edu.au/treatments/what_works/
Reagan economics began the massive inflation of the US public debt and the decline of real wages for the middle class. The opionions of the public are extremely misinformed.
I don't think Clojure has much at all to do with Haskell other than the pure functional aspect. One is a dynamic lispy language, the other has a very rigid type system (note I said rigid, not cumbersome) that's pretty much the antithesis of a lisp...
A visit from Ballmer is not required. Russia is consistently rated as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. I think sometimes people who haven't lived in eastern Europe don't realize how pervasive corruption is. It's not just a few politicians at the top taking bribes - it's most of the civil service.

I can't think of any other country in the world (developed enough to have widespread IT) where it would be easier for MS to buy influence.
I do not understand the purpose of this post...

You're not spamming...this is just a picture of wikipedia's homepage...

Unless you've figured out how to inject malware into a PNG (I know that there were some ways of packing arbitrary code into JPGs about 6 years ago) and then get that past imgur's re-encode, this isn't malicious...

It's kindof related...sortof? What were you trying to say?
inflationary monetary policy

which other monetary policies you know of? inflation is the underpinning of monetarism - very little to do with Krugman or liberals.
I have a theory that as long as transmitting a piece of information is profitable it will be transmitted, 99% of the time. You can change the percentage but you can’t reduce it to 0.
That said, giving Teams as the reason, if you think you can do it without repercussions, would be a service to the profession.
I think he means you use a new address for each deposit.
I was never a US citizen, I never even set foot in the country. I can do the same with every other country (except one small African country) because they tax according to residency. I'm only a resident of Monaco.
In terms of language, Phoenix is a complete replacement for Rails for me. I feel more comfortable growing a functional codebase, and the BEAM means I don't have to worry about scaling as soon as I would with Rails. I think it's a good fit for when you want to do more with a small, experienced team.

I would reach for Rails when I'm concerned about finding developers (Elixir devs are fewer and more expensive, generally), or if there are Ruby libraries I want that aren't available in Elixir.
I find elixir and supporting libraries to be the best general web-dev experience of any language. Optional typing, first class documentation, ecto as a library for validations is far more successful at encouraging separation of concerns than I've seen in other CRUD webdev ecosystems.

The performance for typical stateless webapps is great, but honestly the thing I love is the amazing tooling and libraries. Elixir libraries are often very high quality.
I have seen protests against police violence and against coups, but none of them was framed as protest against global capitalism. They also had demands. If you perceive those as being about global capitalism, you was using odd information sources. Or you lie.

Maybe you socialize only with most hardcore communists, or only with hardcore right wing, but your perception is not based on reality.
They're not allowed to ask you/the dog to demonstrate though. Someone could just say yes or make something up. It's lying, but the business can't really do anything about it.

> Staff cannot ask about the person’s disability, require medical documentation, require a special identification card or training documentation for the dog, or ask that the dog demonstrate its ability to perform the work or task.

https://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm
I really fail to see how these laws should or could realistically apply to information that is published publicly.

It's reasonable to expect they have something to say about the expectations and rights that a user of a platform ought to be entitled to in their interaction with that platform. However it's rather another thing to follow that this permission should extend to anybody who legally can copy or retain that information under the tenants of fair use or first sale doctrine.

This is akin to saying that an author could reasonably "unpublish" an article or a book because they somehow retain the ability to control dissemination of every copy of thier work in perpetuity. That is an absolutely ludicrous notion.
This seems like a classic case of rules with high potential for selective enforcement which generally leads to unfair enforcement. It's fine as long as you don't somehow get on Github's bad side and if you do it's an instant reason to close your accounts.
Which is intentional- Amazon grew as a company, and we want companies to grow. Growing companies hire more people, and pay the people they hire more.
edit: This turned into a bit of a rant so putting a note here to say this isn’t personally ranting at the OP, just the standard of dialogue around this problem.

Saying “tax the rich” doesn’t make it happen.

It’s almost as if these politicians and celebrities that come along and vomit hashtags into their twitter feed are under the impression it’s never been done because no-one thought of it before.

Tax the rich how, exactly?

Lowering exemptions and allowances to raise duties is a tax on the working poor.

Raising income tax rates is a tax on the working middle class (we hear plans to do this all the time because fiscally conservative politicians believe their voters are too stupid to notice the difference between income and wealth).

If you want to “tax the rich” you need to tax actual wealth - and you need to figure out a way to do that which doesn’t cause capital flight. This has proven very difficult to do successfully.

So, we can either re-visit wealth inequality when we have unilaterally matched global tax rates with no loopholes a few centuries from now after the robots have completely taken over, or act like grown-ups, put some work in and figure out a solution.

Tweeting shallow nonsense like “tax the rich” without offering a plan while ignoring the massive complexity in taxing wealth in a global economy is a cynical ploy on the poor while laughing hysterically in the face of the working middle.
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Ancecdotal, but I remember when the original Kindle came out I thought exactly that. Who would want to pay more money just so you can buy a book when you're sitting at a park or coffee shop? Just give me a device I can tether to my computer and load in books like it's iTunes.

The beauty of the cell connection was that it got rid of all the pain of putting stuff on the device. My parents had no idea how to get music on an iPod, but they could easily click a buy button on Amazon.com and see their book on the Kindle within moments like it was magic.
>The real problem lies elsewhere: lack of opportunities if you don't go to top tier schools.

There are loads of blue collar skilled trades jobs which pay decent middle class wages. Those jobs are also not going to be sent anywhere. Not everyone needs to be a senior director.
Not malware, granted. Let's call it scumware, then.
> He will be remembered for missing mobile.

Wait, what? That's like saying RIM missed mobile. Microsoft was doing mobile years before Apple or Google ever entered the market[1].

My guess is that Microsoft and Ballmer's real-world experience in mobile actually constrained their imaginations. Their failure to see how mobile could be reinvented was due more to hubris than naivete.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Windows_...
I was so hoping that this was someone showing off their realtime Hacker News comments firehose page.
Greenwald: "The UK government is now leaking documents about itself"

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/23/uk-gove...
Short answer - no
That's awesome! I'll play around with it later.
I think I found my new hobby.
Downvotes can be accidental; incorrect downvotes are normally corrected pretty quickly; commenting on your downvotes is risky because that can attract more downvotes; downvoting for simple disagreement is acceptable on HN.
I agree.
Software is easy to work with because you can reboot. With manufacturing, you can not.

I heard a quote from someone discussing war.

When a war is about to break out
1) amateurs start talking about strategy.
2) Professional start talking about logistics.

Google can be a milti billion firm because they can go from 1 to 10 (in customer #, capacity) easily. With manufacturing, that's just physically impossible.

And physics doesn't lie.
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Oh snap. That is a whole different story.