jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was such a huge skeptic prior to upgrading. I was in the "why should I care about boot times; I never reboot" camp. Then I started thinking about whether or not I could use fast application boot times, but I rationalized that away with 4 GB of RAM and the fact that I pretty much leave all my important apps running all the time.

Then the Crucial RealSSD C300 (256 GB) went on sale prior to xmas 2010, and my girlfriend ordered one for me surreptitiously, after overhearing conversations between me and a friend about SSD performance.

As it turns out, I was completely wrong to be skeptical. The differences should have been crystal clear to me. Think of the difference between using your iPhone/iPad/Android and your computer. Notice how everything on your phone occurs nearly instantly. Most of us don't even consider it, because these devices never came with slow magnetic platter drives. Even with minimal (by desktop standards) RAM and absolutely anemic CPU power, these devices manage a level of responsiveness that makes them disappear in to the background as we use the software. An SSD brings this experience to your desktop. The performance difference is present in everything that you do, not just launching applications.
I think Hollywood has caught on to this idea :)
Could be. Assume it is so. There's such a thing as low-hanging fruit. These web sites were flaunting the law in the most public way possible in this age of technology. And it only took paperwork to stop it.
This is very cool. I've been kicking around a similar approach to feed data into a recommendation engine: collect job listings, filter against a list of stop words, then see if ones with similar words turn out to be similar jobs.

One of the problems with this approach is (in my country at least) the heavy industry presence of recruitment firms means every job is listed up to four times: once by the employer, and once by each firm competing to find the hire.
What are Tim Cook's credentials here? Did he say anything that hasn't been said by others? Is his take novel or particularly developed?

This is an incredibly complex issue. As a left-leaning person who wants to see discrimination eradicated, but as a person who also wants to see it eradicated without it being the purview of some constellation of legal obligations, I recognize deep rooted conflicts.

Take for example the ACLU's (IMO correct) defense of Neo Nazi groups to march in solidarity. This is the type of freedom that our country is based on. It's not something I personally affirm, but I have to defend the right on principle.

Tom Cook talks up one side of the issue. His credentials have nothing to do with the topic. If we were in a critical thinking class we would recognize this as a cut and clear case of an appeal from authority.

Can we get something more substantive?
Why would the lack of efficiency suddenly disappear if these tasks were brought in house? Jesus, the VA system in in house and look at that mess.
>It's clear to me what my code needs to do, however there are a myriad of environmental factors that can fuck up what my simple code needs to do. For instance, a common thing that I need to do is to look up one Active Directory property based on another. Depending on the environment, I may have access to that property using the logged-in user's credentials, or I may need to use a special service account set of credentials in my application, defined in a database or an app/web.config.

Some stuff you test in unit tests, other you do functional testing for. What you describe is probably higher level than unit tests.

>At some point, an over-zealous administrator can disable the rights for the account that my application is using inside a client organization. Then I end up on the phone for an hour or more, figuring out why an account that used to work no longer does, and getting my clients to raise a change request with the admins that broke our application in the first place to put things back.

So? That's orthogonal to your app. You test that your app works if the rights are working OK, and you test what it shows to the user if the rights are not OK.

Other than that, obviously you cannot ensure it works without things it needs to have, nor do you need to test each and every externally dependent failure mode (e.g. user wiped out his hard drive).
Judging by one of the forks, it may not make much of a difference in real-world usage:

http://jsperf.com/jquery-each-vs-quickeach/9
You really opened my eyes to all the possibilities, not just with surveys, but with forms, estimate inputs, invoice sign offs...
The last paragraph is by far the most profound thing in the article.
I think this is a somewhat interesting idea. I got bored and quit before finishing one of the example problems though...

If you're looking for a co-founder, maybe you could try open sourcing your project on GitHub, and then re-submitting your request along with a link to the code. That's the first thing I would want to look at.
You can unflag after you've mistakenly flagged something, so it doesn't matter.

More importantly, this is where to put feature requests:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
You can read it for yourself: http://www.pdavis.nl/Legis_07.htm

Slavery was not considered a "horror" at the time, it was considered "injust" and it was seen as equally "injust" to take away a right society had given someone and not compensate them.

It's interesting that they also say "expedient". To me that means they felt their economy would continue just fine without the slaves. And they were freeing them as a sort of "eh, why not".

Remember these slave holders were not people on the fringes of society, they were ordinary people. Society did not consider what they did to be evil, so why would that same society punish them?

You have to look at people's actions through the lens of their own life, not the lens of yours. Well, you can look at them through your own lens, but that only lets you condemn the result, not the people, and not the actions.
ngx_pagespeed would be another way of serving WebP to supporting browsers and JPEG to others.
Income tax is a mess in this country. We should just get rid of it and tax people based upon spending.
I assumed the same thing from that response.

Does the cluster just remain in a read-only mode during that time? Maybe someone else knows.
Being vauge really doesn't help, but alas... I'm not a lawyer, but:

- You need to be in compliance with COPPA, which means you don't collect info from children under the age of thirteen without parental consent

- Your terms of service should protect you from whatever bad things happen if your groceries get lost

- You don't have to store anything else unless you're dealing with financially related things (banking, stocks, etc)
> If we are in fact, trying, to rehabilitate criminals into society

Apart from superficial lip service I don't think we are trying to rehabilitate anyone. It is plain and simple punishment.
Does anyone know if the screen is only configured via their app?
One thing to keep in mind before starting any finance project is the efficient market hypothesis. In order for you to make a profit relative to the market, you must by definition be better at modeling than everyone else. (There are certain caveats in terms of liquidity and leverage, but the general theme is correct).

I'll only note that beating everyone else is quite challenging, especially when you are competing against very well funded trading firms.

EDIT: Slight fix of wording as suggested by comment below.
I do. When you buy on the street that person was barely able to come up with 170/220 for an O. They sell for 10 dollars a gram to reach 280. They lose weight in sticks and water. They need to end up selling you a .7 for them to make 80/100. Some add water / some use really cheap weed.

Once you find a dealer who buys 500/1000 dollars worth (to make that 100% markup) they don't stand on a corner because those people get robbed / arrested. But they expect customers to buy larger amounts.
I learned a lot reading this writeup, thanks for posting!
The money doesn't come from thin air. If SoftBank paid it out, the shareholders lose out even more so.
Inefficient Linux cadvisor implementation causes unexpected latency. Also this affects buzzword compatible technologies.
If you're not old enough to tell what Nixon was really like, then you don't have that comparison. You wouldn't suspect it was a fake without being told.

However, there are some clear give-a-ways that may or may not stick around, priming at least myself into identifying a deep fake from not: His movements do not line up with the way muscles work in the human body. In a single direction it works, but how he bounces back would cause a lot of neck strain, so no one would do that.
Things are changing rapidly now (including the climate). Buckle up.
Sure, I understand the complexity of implement rich text editors / WYSIWYG. However, when implementing and deploying something like this, you usually put it behind a feature toggle (so, if you have a "text editor" component, you start by extracting old text editor into something like "raw text editor" which "text editor" uses by default. Now you can add "rich text editor" to the "text editor" component, but only if the feature flag is activated) so you can toggle it back/forth as needed.
There are no good guys among the main players, but the people who are not the main players mostly benefited. Workers got higher wages due to the infusion of cash into the demand side of the labor market from Softbank and KSA. The knowledge worker industry benefited from increased competition in the office space market. A few property owners benefited from selling their properties to a conman with virtually unlimited buying power. Now lawyers are benefiting and probably the personal security industry as well.

Sure, the people who chose to work for WeWork now have worthless equity, but that's always a risk when working for a startup, and they knew that going in.
It doesn't matter if it is stupid simple, it shouldn't be necessary in the first place.
http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/

YAPC is a lot of fun. While Perl specific there are always talks about other stacks/languages.
Sorry about that. I see now that I responded to the wrong person.
These comments tend to be very amusing.

So a scam is the only thing a person can "fall for". You can't fall for an interesting trick, eh?
The PDB format is an agreed-upon format that most fields don't have the luxury of using. And its implicit units keep it from being significantly more useful - outside of its own particular field. But you are correct, it has units - and that is a HUGE advantage over nearly any other scientific data format.

If the PDB format really had explicit units you could start to use it in other fields, easily - without knowing anything about the format itself. But again, PDB is an example of a well-codified format.

It'd be great if every figure/table you saw in a paper had an associated <.xsciformat> which was united (interesting that I meant unit-ed, but that's exactly what it would do - it would unite). That way you could download files from a gel-shift assay and directly and computationally compare the data with the diffusion data from a microscopy assay, and utilize pHs estimated from PDB files, or any other such really interesting co-interactions with the raw data itself. Right now this kind of co-linking of data across disparate fields is impossible. And I think much of it could be clarified if the user couldn't print out a graph/dataset that didn't have units - implicit or otherwise.
I think it's absurd to defend the violent nature in which these funds are acquired, regardless of the outcome. The end does not justify the means.
Surely laughing when your child falls over leads to them enjoying others misfortunes
Emacs is so fantastic, I just want it to have a UI that can compete with VS Code and IntelliJ.

I also understand that its UI limitations are also part of its strength, as being fundamentally text-based results in a consistent UX no matter what esoteric modes you activate.

I wonder if there's a middle ground; say, by allowing for frames & windows to have "chrome" that can take up some space on their edges and allow drawing widgets via GTK or Cairo and plumbing input events back into Lisp. Then we can have stuff like sidebars, status areas, code lenses, etc. that behave like modern editors, and people that don't like it can just leave the "chrome" option disabled.
I wonder where this puts crypto's such as Bitcoin Cash (BCH), whose main benefit is having a faster and cheaper network? Is the final card Bitcoin has to play, the fact that it has the brand awareness to hide its faults behind the MasterCard/Visa network?
To clarify, I was indeed talking about understanding the culture, and it is the culture itself that invokes a reaction of nausea. Engagement metrics, Medium-style "lessons learned" posts, growth hacking, hustle porn, the word "influencer" taken at face value, "storytelling", hashtag optimization, "adding value" etc. I live in the real world and I accept and understand that this stuff makes money and that it's not gonna change any time soon but the economic reality of it does not lessen the feeling of postmodern horror. I know there are plenty of genuine conversations about real, non-marketing projects interspersed around this but the general culture is disturbing on a profound level.
Hey there. This looks interesting. It looks like you're enumerating IAM managed policies. How do you handle inline policies? That seems like it'd be a blindspot if you're just enumerating the policies the account.
> When you bail out irresponsibly over-leveraged and nearly bankrupted banks and corporations, and pay for those bailouts with tax-payer money, you steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Or, you know, the Fed is not authorized to deal directly with individuals via the Federal Reserve Act. The Fed's job is monetary and financial stability through credit markets. That's the tools that it has, and it uses them when needed.

If you want to help individuals through taxes/redistribution, social programs, etc, then that's government spending which is controlled by Congress.

It's not the Fed's fault that politicians in the House of Representatives and/or Senate do not wish to pass legislation that authorizes these types of things.
I wish they'd tested this DIY air filter instead. They made a 20" cube, where one face is a box fan, and four faces are filters. Brilliant:

https://www.thisoldhouse.com/green-home/22231148/diy-air-fil...

It should have a much higher CADR than the single filter version at lower backpressure. That means less noise and more energy efficiency.
This looks interesting. I've tried mindfulness and meditation on and off for over a decade (mostly mindfulness) and struggle as much now to keep focus and not drift into continuing internal conversations as I did when I started.

Recently I have realised I have many Attention Deficit Disorder traits, and likely have ADD.

What's your experience of meditation and people with ADD? How does the practice change for them, and what works best?
I'm very interested in all those things, but I clearly lack a trajectory for learning them. Is there a reference I could read or a 'name' for that domain? How does one become educated on these things?

So far I've grabbed knowledge by reading paper on operating systems (and misunderstanding 80% of their content), reading man pages, reading Tanenbaum's textbooks, etc. But still I don't feel like I know or understand.

They say a lack of words for things render one blinds of their ignorance. Sometimes it's also that you just don't know what needs to be learnt.
Aren't those GET requests?
It's a transition time. They're making the right choices. It's unfortunate that the transition from the current state to the new state is painful.

Ultimately, do you agree with the direction, and can you forgive them for the missteps?

I mean, how many times was "re-install Microsoft Windows, and all of your applications" the only option?

I get that it's painful for some people, and I don't mean to diminish that. But my God, this guy wasted an entire afternoon on configuring his free service.</sarcasm>
This may come as a bit of a shock, but it doesn't seem to be working in IE.
> * reducing baggage waiting time by increasing the walking time to the baggage carousels.

That seems to be the approach that Heathrow uses.
My theory is that the best programmers are not spitting out too much code fast. They are the ones who thought of how to build the best app.

The best "building builder" is not the person who can lay bricks the fastest, but the one who can produce an awesome looking and very functional building.

I wonder what the "10x" ratio is for people like Paul Alen, or Marc Andreessen, or Dan Bricklin, or Dave Cutler, or Andries Brouwer, or Miguel de Icaza, or Bill Gates, or Tom Lane, or Markus Persson, or Linus Torvalds, or Bjarne Stroustrop, or Matsumoto, or (a personal hero) Grady Booch.

Maybe someone who has actually worked with some of these giants can tell us whether my theory holds any water at all.
No, he was trying to invalidate, or could have chosen his words better. By saying his one experience makes the telephony bug reported by so many users to be "not aa common thing", he has (purposefully or carelessly) stated that his experience outweighs the multitudes who knew enough to go to that site to report the bug, and the folks at XDA who found a fix that works for many.
Looks like cool material, and the Internet Archive has a lot of interesting data besides games worth checking out.

On an unrelated note, that notebook picture in the article is very nice! Anybody know of where to get such a unique book?

EDIT: Found it, from http://www.geekware.ca/floppy-notebook-c-61/floppy-disk-note... Which apparently specializes in recycling electronic waste into products. Good to see the reuse of old software and hardware in this article. :)
Oh yeah, and I have a Tinney signed print of the robot coming out of the eggshell. I also have the magazine.
Is there an easy way for me to decrypt what password Gawker had for me? I was unable to login with my account for over a year, but I'd like to see what password they have on file for me so I know whether I need to change it elsewhere.

I realize asking this also is asking for an instruction manual for malice with whatever is decrypted. I just don't know how to determine how exposed my email address leaves me.
Bend, thanks for your response. Clearly you missed the meaning of my satirical tone in my post. For that, I apologize. I was simply trying to evoke a response from the reader so that my post was not overlooked among the hundreds of posts. In that regard, I achieved my goal.

I value greatly degrees from top universities, especially MIT and Stanford. I do understand the difficulty of HTML and CSS, and I am envious of the technical geniuses that are able to build applications using them. My point was that it takes more than excellent programming knowledge to build a useful application for users, AND turn it into a successful business venture. Many programmers are great at building apps, but may not know how to build a successful business from it (Or, they may know exactly how).

I am not stating my idea is great, as I have not pitched it to programmers or users yet. I appreciate your advice on building the app myself though. Another reader suggested a similar idea, and I believe it is a good course of action.

I hope I have conveyed that the tone in my post was merely to illicit a response from readers, and was not intended to trivialize degrees or technical abilities.
Our focus is on giving control a developer needs: how do I install language-specific packages? How do run my tests? How do I pass settings to my app? How do I run that custom build command?

We don't offer root access. But we're working on customization tools that will make you forget you ever had to ssh into a server directly.

As for pricing: we're already charging a few test customers, and will expand paid plans to all beta users very soon.
You mean they can't do things like slander competitors, disrupt supply chains through strategic purchases, strong arm vendors, and a whole host of other non-product based tactics that do nothing to show out the best product based choice?

edit: And I mean that's not getting into any of the ones that are currently illegal due to regulation. Ever heard of trusts?
As a CS student in Guatemala in the 80s, Byte was like news from the cutting edge of technology. We used to get like 5-10 copies for the only store that sold them, and they went fast. I had to literally keep up with their shipping schedule in order to get my copy.

I've missed the deep technical articles, and fighting with my PC Magazine-reading friends about the superiority of our magazine.

Just recently, I was wrestling with the idea of discarding my old Byte magazines, but I really couldn't throw them away, some of the articles are still very good to read. I still have the Byte CD-ROM, wonder if it would still work?
This is perfectly logical, assuming the patients were aware of the placebo effect. I wonder what the results would be if some patients were given real medication while being told it was placebo.
As an intern, you usually work for free or for subpar money, and expect to be taught the basics of the job and some good fundamentals. The fact this intern lacked the security knowledge any mom and pop company employee should have suggests the company simply wanted free labour from them.
Nuts to that, I'll take the million please.

A million bucks, moderately levered and invested in rental property = cash flow for life. You won't live rich, but you'll sure cover your health insurance and some travel budget.
I wouldn't worry about this too much. Google does a good job when it comes to spotting the difference between you and these guys.

As far as serving junk content to that IP, its a waste of time. As your blog gets more popular you'll start getting more and more people ripping your content. The time you spend trying to beat these guys is better used elsewhere.

My advice, get a few high quality links going to your domain, this will come naturally over time. It will really let the search engines know which domain is the authority and which domains are just stealing content.
Am I the only one wondering how can I hook up with the advertisers paying for this data?
That's a Wordpress plugin called "WP Greet Box" [1] and this message is only shown to users coming from HN, not everyone. Also, you'll be happy to know that I get grief for it every time one of my posts lands on the homepage :)

I understand your concern, but it's really just a reminder to vote the article up if you enjoyed it. I frequently read good articles and then forget to vote them up because something else catches my attention. I really doubt anyone is swayed to upvote an article they didn't think worthy because of this message. Just the opposite: some hacker types get worked up because they seem to be allergic to promotion of any kind, and thus won't upvote the article, even though they would have otherwise. But I'm betting that the balance of people who upvote because they liked the article AND because they were reminded outweighs the anti-promotion crowd. Either way, I don't think it's a big deal. Sorry if it offended you.

1. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-greet-box/
"This is America son," he told me, "We help each other out."

To whomever this old couple are: thank you! If we could all remember that, where ever we are, this world would be a much nicer place.
I think you may have gotten ahead of yourself in your explanation, but to be clear, it's the "with" statement that causes the line iteration that then feeds into set(f). To say that "set(f) uses f as an iterator" might imply to some that set() is causing the iteration, which isn't true.

ETA: See raymondh's post below.
Google didn't invent page rank, they stole the whole thing in 1996 from a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two kids at stanford. Have they even seen a dime of money since then?

GOOGLE IS MONSTERS!! rabble rabble rabble.