jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I tried similar approaches to the ones commented here but in the end none worked: delivery took longer plus quality suffered. I am not aware of your unforeseen circumstances but for me the solution was to plan the whole week and if I'm programming that's it, no interruptions except emergencies. I feel fine if I lose a day or a day an a half to 'unproductive tasks' if the rest of the week I was commiting like a maniac. I learned that 99% of emails, calls and IMs can wait for hours and that's fine; in fact, some communications expire if left unanswered for a few hours, no need to answer at all. After planning for weeks I learned to plan for months. I now know that I can do one big project every 4-6 mos and one small one ever 3-4 wks. The rest of my recipe is discipline, which I completely lack, so every now and then I need to reset the process. Normally the big projects are paying the bills while the small ones are what I call R&D (product ideas). Don't let one of those 'super good ideas' interrupt a work in progress until you've completed an MVP ready for testing/first couple of customers. Finally: if feasible hire help.
Well, it might be interesting to see whether there's a difference between cardiologists attending conferences (making patients feel like their cardiologist must be strongly committed to his/her specialty) vs. cardiologists who are away on vacation.
Back in 1999 I finally decided to toss my pile of PC Magazine and Computer Shopper issues. It felt like I was throwing away part of my soul. To this day I still have some regret over that decision.
It's unfortunate, but Google pretty much ignores most outside bug reports and a bot marks them obsolete automatically. Rather than improving things, the situation has actually gotten worse and worse over the years and they started adding tags to prevent people from commenting. Even if Google rarely fixed things the comments were often pretty good for working together with other developers to come up with work arounds.
it's next to impossible to get access to the SS7 network

Tobias claims the opposite in the video. He says you can easily rent access from a Carrier (e.g. Verizon) or buy a Femtocell[1][2].

Both approaches seem rather affordable ("hundreds of dollars").

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

[2] http://www.thinksmallcell.com/Examples/where-can-i-buy-a-fem...
I believe the Google TV platform uses 4.2.2 or earlier (i.e. 3.2) Those devices are still on the market, and it may technically be the manufacturers' responsibility to upgrade, but none of them have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_TV#Second_Generation
It's not easy, because there isn't really much of a vetting process on most ad networks; everything possible is automated.

You may not mind seeing that industry die, but until you start paying for visiting websites, you'll have to amend that to say "I don't mind seeing the internet die".
I heard a story on the radio years ago (Marketplace, IIRC) that pointed out that American fast food chains were popular in parts of Asia because of their cleanliness and relative high standards.

Still didn't prepare me to discover, while in China a short time later, that Pizza Hut aspires to fine dining and even offered escargot on the menu.
I wonder what MENSA thinks of it.
Absolutely - our job is to make developers happy and productive. Whenever we find a sweet tool that makes our lives easier, we're practically tripping over ourselves to share it with you

Our network team is working on some major goodies which should make you happy. Personally they bring tears to my eyes :)

In the meantime, my recommendation is to start with http. If you keep the RPC semantics simple, you can easily migrate to a different transport later. And you'll need HTTP to authenticate and encrypt at the boundaries anyway.
I've owned the 11.6" MBA for a couple of months now and it works great. It's portability is fantastic because I have to take it with me to several locations where I don't have a lot of work space. It's fast and the battery life is decent enough so that during the day I really don't require a power cord (but I don't go online much with it during the workday).
The only time I see it slow down a little is when I'm accessing my Yahoo email in Outlook.
Thank you for the advice, you were very lucky to get your domain, your experience isn't indeed a common one, but I'll try it, worse case could be the guy could rising the price just because of my interest.
Most of the time correct types of changes.
Interesting that I seem to be the only 17-inch fan here. I can see the attraction of an MBA, but I prefer having a screen big enough that I can do everything on it without an external monitor, and I don't mind lugging it around at all.
That's with an assumption that the data was anonymous - an assumption we don't know was true. Was there any account/customer number, IP addresses, naming scheme or similar in the graphs or file names ?
> To explain the troubling effect of strangers on the streets of city gray areas, I shall first point out, for purposes of analogy, the peculiarities of another and figurative kind of street - the corridors of high-rise public housing projects, those derivatives of Radiant City. The elevators and corridors of these projects are, in a sense, streets. They are streets piled up in the sky in order to eliminate streets on the ground and permit the ground to become deserted parks like the mall at Washington Houses where the tree was stolen.

Not only are these interior parts of the building streets in the sense that they serve the comings and goings of residents, most of whom may not know each other or recognize, necessarily, who is a resident and who is not. They are streets also in the sense of being accessible to the public. They have been designed in an imitation of upper-class standards for apartment living without upper-class cash for doormen and elevator men. Anyone at all can go into these buildings, unquestioned, and use the traveling street of the elevator and the sidewalks that are the corridors. These interior streets, although completely accessible to public use, are closed to public view and thus lack the checks and inhibitions exerted by eye-policed city streets.

From "The Death and Life of Great American Cities", Chapter 2: "The uses of sidewalks: safety", Jane Jacobs
So, is this actually a domain name (Can I take it and switch to another registrar, as an example), or is this just a subdomain? On a related note, do I actually own the domain?

I don't see any TOS/AUP, so if you object to my domain, is it going to be taken away?
The propulsion system from Earth to Mars could just be a scaled-up version of the systems we've been using to send probes to Mars for decades.

Yes, it would be wisest to send at least two trips, so that equipment can be ready for the crew when they arrive. (Especially if you're making return-trip fuel from local resources.)

Radiation is a problem for a manned mission to Mars, but I understand the numbers work out to less lifetime risk of cancer than smoking. (So send former smokers without any cigs and you've improved their expected lifespan.)

Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct and its descendants. Many of the problems have been solved, with an expected 10-year timeline.
Your description is a bit lacking - what does this do?
There is some middle ground of corporate lawyers and partners at smaller but relatively prosperous practices. But, yes, for the many it's making partner at a white shoe firm which tends to require attending one of a fairly small number of law schools and getting a prestigious clerkship--or you're running ads in the subway.

You do get supply demand corrections over time though. If you know you'll be making minimum wage if you didn't go to a top law school a lot of people would stop doing so.
Indeed! KSR has clearly had a change of thinking about terraforming since the Mars trilogy. I asked him about it at a reading he did from Red Moon, and he responded with the Antarctica analogy I described above.
> Someone in his position could do so many things on our little blue dot itself to help those in need

So all the hand-wringing about the inhospitality of Mars is just fluff, this is really the gist of the article. The "fault" of Musk is not that he is pushing humans to Mars but that he is not "helping those in need", whatever that means.

Are people like Bezos, Ellison, Cook, Zuckerberg, Page, Brin etc (arguably group who are more in position to help) really "helping those in need" so much more that Musk deserves to be singled out, just because he doesn't use his wealth buying frivolous tropical islands but is executing his vision (misguided or not)?
> I agree with your point, but many Asian countrys' pouplaces' attitudes to drugs are deeply influenced by the damage caused by British opium trade. It is more deeply rooted than a problem of education I think, unlike in the West.

Deep emotional pain is simultaneously (a) completely understandable and needs compassion, and (b) not the best tool base decisions on.

I think the real question is how can we shape the conversation to, well, be a conversation.

P.S. (At least to my experience with people from some Asian countries) the newer generation does not have that emotional connection, but they do repeat those same old (false) arguments, almost religiously.
That doesn’t pass the sniff test. Would you say that in general, you wouldn’t expect a difference in results if you sold Taylor swift albums to white suburban women in Iowa, versus black urban men in Atlanta?
> Let's build Dhall implementations for every major language

That sounds like fun, is there any effort underway for this? I'd be down to contribute.
I bet they leave early too and go pick up their kids.
Eh? In Northern Europe new petrol cars are sold with block heaters, the recommendation is to plug in the car when if gets to -10-15c.

Not only does it ensures your car can start but it also prevents damage to the engine.

This is how outside parking in Northern Europe during the winter looks like: https://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-78137918/stock-photo-blo...
>Would you also argue that when companies need additional funding during hard times or to expand, the employees should be forced by law to invest their own money into the company

What, you mean, like, bailouts? Because we do bailouts. Only difference is that, while the taxpayers pay, they see no return.
It is a liberal view but drugs as intoxicants is not necessarily any more “true” of a view... just a different one.
It's almost never worth paying for this kind of television. Both at VA Linux and every company I've worked at since has had bottom feeders trying to get us to buy access to such gems as 'buntings window' for ridiculous sums of money.

You're always better off just buying text ads. (disclaimer: work at google, loves text ads)
I'd be interested in the Debian one if it had useful info.
These 'publisher's interest oriented' rights need to be over soon. And I think they are - Creative Commons etc. are making them go off.

Now all we need is technology and startups that can do something in the field.
I just finished that course this semester, and I totally agree. Really, I think that's what most of my upper-level undergrad CS classes have been -- taking something which is a huge, magical black box and pulling it apart to the point where I can (and do) build one myself.
I see your point, but why would a startup wig out when they scale? Presumably, revenues would scale with demand, so I would be quite grateful that my provider allowed me to satisfy the demand quickly and reliably...
Concurrency does not necessary mean parallelism; you can have have threads interacting in a time-shared manner on the same processor.

Parallelism implies concurrency; a parallel program has threads of execution (which may not actually be shared-memory software threads) that are executing simultaneously.

The author's definition of parallelism is wrong - at least, it's different from the one myself and everyone else I know in the high performance computing and systems research community use. Many interesting problems are not embarrassingly parallel, and figuring out how, exactly, such problems can be solved efficiently in parallel is hard. (And efficiency is a solution requirement, since it's not worth the parallelization effort if you don't achieve it.)

I think the point the author is trying to arrive at is parallelism does not necessarily mean shared-state across threads. Which is true, and I share his sentiment that we should probably not reach for shared-state threads to solve our parallel problems.
>The "seaweed" coating is alginate, which prevents the immune system from attacking the foreign cells.

If the immune system can't get at it, wouldn't it be more prone to infection?
> If you would get partial marks for completing what you can, where is the upside in cheating in this scenario where the maximum you get is 50%, which you may get from your partially completed assignment.

There are two factors to utility: probability of getting caught, and the outcome of getting caught.

The problem is that the probability of getting caught, while substantial, is actually much lower than 50% in my experience. As a result the payoff differential has to be that much worse.

Let's revisit my example. In order for cheating not to be the smart thing to do, the expected grade for not cheating would have to be over 75!

And that's with a ridiculous 50% chance of being caught. Now if we lowered the probability of being caught to, say, 25%, the expected grade for not cheating would have to exceed 0.75 * 100 + 0.25 * (100/2) = 87.5.

It's a terrible, terrible policy.
Please don't do this here. You may not owe "these guys" better, but you owe this community better if you're posting to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Is it just so that buggy drivers/hardware don't cause so much trouble?

Yes, it's intended to reduce the impact of buggy drivers. A driver itself could have a transient bug that corrupts kernel memory of some other subsystem. Or an attacker can trick a vulnerable driver into performing a DMA transaction to a sensitive area of memory.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26285185
I find it more intuitive, and for a small number of iterations it's definitely faster.
I'm tired of these articles. Yes, everyone knows that by now. Bitcoin holders don't care about the lack of transaction throughput of Bitcoin. They don't care about the ability to use Bitcoin as a currency. They don't care about the energy inefficiency of PoW. It's time to move on and stop caring about Bitcoin instead of giving it more media attention.
> The mechanism for tracking users is already present. What more proof do you need?

Evidence that Apple uses it.

The mechanism relies on libraries which send user behavior from other app to Facebook. These are correlated by the ID.

The identifier is not the mechanism. The mechanism is Facebook’s library.

Apple has no such mechanism.

> You cannot toggle the Apple out of it

False.

There is a toggle for the entire feature.
Actually Joel did that too! Some visual-basic inspired language if I recall correctly.
You can't really blame someone who is explicitly there to basically do what they're told and learn as much as they can for a short period of time.
> It is, but I'm not sure it's for the reasons you are implying.

I'm curious now. Why is it poor form?

> Perhaps you don't, but phrasing it that way is a seriously tonedeaf way to signal it.

So you're saying they should have phrased the question differently - perhaps they did in fact do that.

But I think asking is perfectly legitimate.

Now I'm not implying you said this, but I feel like I should point something out anyways: Raising questions of morality is not poor form because it might make someone uncomfortable about what they're doing. That's kind of what morality is about. "How dare you make me think about the bloodstains on my money" is not exactly a form of indignation that'll get you people rallying in support.
At the moment: Yes! But only for a special case. We’re building a web app that gives a desktop app like experience and wysiwyg exports.
I really can't tell whether you find that to be surprisingly cheap or surprisingly expensive.
Could not easily find what version GWT is on now and OMG those showcases look like they are from previous century.
To avoid the pawn favoritism you could first select a category of piece, then a specific piece of that category and then finally select a legal move for the piece in question. I think this would be the most even handed way to make the game more entropic.
Stand on Zanzibar, Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Childhood's End, A Cantilce for St Leibowitz, The Stars My Destination, Midnight At The Well of Souls, Nine Princes in Amber, Halting State, Strnger In A Strange Land, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
Not if the other comment by... you... about it being served by an external CDN is correct.

HSTS could easily stop a CDN from picking up a bad version during a DNS hijack.
You pay for your car, your parking, your highway taxes, and your gas... only to have your view of the roadside covered by billboards.

The alternative? Pay for your software, too. There's no reason it should be free.
Fun fact, one of my banking app prevents me from launching it if I do not use a "certified" keyboard app. I had bad luck with any keyboard from F-Droid.
Let's see how things are once winter rolls over
I definitely use my guitar as therapy, too.

I think there are a few different kinds of creativity. (And there are a few different kinds of feeling down, and a few different kinds of happy, and we seriously can't conflate all of them together.)

My favorite creativity is when I'm well-rested, have been exercising, am clear-headed and have been in a few different environments. I see things that others miss, and I come up with sharp, clever, fun ideas. Creativity-as-play.

But there's also the kind of angry, frustrated creativity that happens out of limitations and pain. The kind Neil Gaiman was talking about in his talk "Make Good Art". Creativity-as-coping-mechanism.

I think it's kinda like, freedom-from and freedom-to. There's a playful kind of creativity (I enjoy), and a desperate kind of creativity (which I respect, but would prefer not to have to use).
Do you have kids? What do they use?
Redis and Postgres is all I need.

When I need scale, I switch to managed solution offered by one of the hyperclouds.
I'll go on a tangent and then converge and hope this will be useful.

The first book I have read after college was "How to Study in College" by Walter Pauk. After a bad experience, I wondered how I could have done it better and I wondered if there was a meta resource that would have helped me learn better.

I asked wondered if I could think about my own cognition, and if there was a discipline like that, something meta. I was amused when I finally discovered there was such a field named "metacognition". It was humbling. Duh! How could I not put it together as I literally described it with its name.

Some concepts I got into were long-term potentiation, memory, etc.

I have then read Cal Newport's book "How to be a Straight A" student. A bit late, but useful for the future.

I wanted to be able to think and solve problems better as I have noticed that even though I have the necessary skills, putting them together requires something more, a bigger picture. I found a book by Belikov called "General Methods for Sovling Physics Problems" which was really nice. Reading a formulation of what a physics problem was, what the general physics principles were, what it means to solve a problem, have helped me. One additional way to think of things is in term of feedback systems, control theory and instrumentation, which is my training in college. These help me see interactions between systems.

I then found John R. Hayes' "The Complete Problem Solver", which was a more general book. The concepts and definitions of that book are useful.

I have recently found another book "Cracked It!" which I haven't read yet, but from the authors' interviews, it does a good job of describing what I do at my job and how I help clients to increase success likelihood in projects. I'll get to reading it at some point because it seems interesting.

These are things I use to think about and solve problems. Success would be a consequence.
Mitigation and work around mean the same thing.
Good article, but it never addressed the question I had: who is this posturing for?

If this is for people external to the company -- the press, potential customers, or fake-it-till-you-make-it, then that's great. If this is for investors -- people who have put money in the company -- then that would be fraud, at least over here.

One of these can be really cool and show a lot of chutzpah. The other can be a sign that the investment-structuring process has serious flaws.

Kind of a key question.
It's pretty much a prerequisite.
Good luck being able to plan that, we tried to have two kids in two years but nature intervened; my wife became pregnant within two months of trying with our eldest and no matter what we tried it took four years for our second.
Yeah you're right, probably a touch too harsh. A better phrasing would be they should have reacted faster when they saw just how important URL shorteners were becoming.

Mind you, they were focused on eradicating the fail whale so even then the fault is due to other things being more important.
I am rooting for you to succeed. I know many people who are having a hard time monetizing their legit online ventures (in Nigeria). Maybe you can also go ahead and share your monetization 'secrets' with everyone
True open source doesn't make any restrictions on who can use it. If you say that neo-nazis or Israel or North Dakotans or Fox News or whatever can't use it, it is not open source software.

What are their actual goals in saying for-profit companies can't use it? Not wanting competition?
We'll never be able to exit now. Gulf oil and Afghan lithium. Screwed either way.

Is it just me, or is anyone else tired of perpetual war?
Excellent point re Wikipedia lobbying.

As to the anti-littering / "crying Indian" burden shift PR campaign, see Annie Leonard's article "Moving from Individual Change to Societal Change":

http://www.pfree.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Moving-fro...
I agree, and in addition, at early stages things like "sound design" don't even matter. You're busy understanding loops, try to interact with the file system, fetch stuff from the web, you're inevitably googling and copying a lot of bad code. Python 2 vs 3 doesn't matter at that point. PHP might even be the best choice here since you don't need to remember to import stuff, just start off with your code, all the functions are there.

Once you reach a point where you want to do more advanced stuff or just try out other languages you can still learn about include, import etc. and start to structure your code better by splitting it into compilation units, classes, modules, what not.
I hope this becomes more common in the long-term. Something needs to break playstore's grasp on android.
I don't understand callous contempful comments against Intel's manufacturing capabilities. There are incredible people making things possible fomr both sides in one of the most advanced manufacturing processes in the world. I've worked inside a fab and I can tell you that the industry is much more appreciative of each other's competitors than the outside fanboys

Where did you read contemptful? The OP was merely stating a fact that Intel has lost the manufacturing race big time which is hard to refute given TSMC's progress. Sitting on their asses is just a illustrative way of saying that.

It does not mean Intel people were stupid or they didn't appreciate their competing colleagues or that Intel would now be worthless. If anything it just makes more sense for a chip company to focus their efforts on designing chips and outsource manufacturing which basically is a separate business anyway -- unless they happen to have an edge also in that which Intel did have earlier.