jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
More data would be nice to have. In lieu of that, I enjoyed Scott Adams' verdict on gender bias: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/114055529676/my-verdict-on-gend...
I think my favorite example of a PR campaign along these lines came from the propaganda master himself, Edward Bernays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom
"Accomplished or arrived at without delay; prompt"
Also the chat pop-up with a fake message, "Let me know how I can help!" Do people actually interact with those?
Aesthetically speaking, it's a truck version of a DeLorean... which is growing on me the more I look at it.

Also, I don't know how they think they're going to get away with that tailgate design in the US. I love it, but the government doesn't allow brakelights to be on a moveable piece of bodywork (even though they have redundant lights under it). It's the same reason the back of the Ferrari California was so ugly... Ferrari learned this fact too late in the development process:

https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/heres-hilarious-story-fe...
Or, like reputable review sites, you could just not accept sponsorships from vendors.
The bigger issue is where does it actually take off from, and how long would it take you to get to the departure site?
Ryan, or Susan? I like that Ryan is a composite of many Turkers, but don't see why he should be played only by men. In fact I bet women would be better overall at text-flirting with other women.
No one in the IF world would claim that games "must be pure text".
Isn't vfork() 11 years deprecated?
Heck, the revival has already happened (at least compared to a decade ago). There was a long article in the New York Times the other month about Twine, for example.
Ugh. :(
are you counting Java libs? then that ordering comes as no surprise.
"The peak production under NUMMI was only 400k cars/year, so they'd have to get an additional 25% utilization out of the facility. "

Or open a second factory.
People blame lobbying for everything, but this is really how companies influence politicians. "We have 10,000 employees in your state. It would be a shame if anything happened to them."
This is dead accurate. I'm a huge fan of Sublime, but their API/documentation is an atrocity. As much as I love my current Sublime setup, if there were an editor with a well documented API for writing custom plugins I would switch in an instant.
Well, my GitHub is public (and was probably convincing enough), and everyone but me at the company was asked to code during the interviews - there was evidence on the TV from someone who coded for an interview that morning even. I was found from a local AngularJS meetup, and someone at the company was trying to gently prod me towards interviewing with them over the course of months...which wasn't so much of an interview process as seeing whether I was interested, since they clearly wanted me for my expertise.
Regarding durability, the article says

> Instead of using chemical coatings they used lasers to etch a nanostructure on the metal itself. It will not wear off, like current less effective methods.
Interesting story; thanks for posting that.
> there was also a magazine that would come every month with program listing that I would type up and then try to modify

That wasn't 3-2-1 Contact magazine by any chance, was it? Because I remember typing the BASIC games they published into our computer.
Your "Image JSON Schema" section isn't a JSON Schema - it's an example JSON plus a set of textual descriptions only readable by humans. Versioned machine-readable JSON Schema is the way to go for specs. This is a great guide to get started: http://spacetelescope.github.io/understanding-json-schema/
Good tutorial. Setting up the whole stack can be tricky. If you wouldn't mind doing a `bundle exec gem list guard vcr rspec rails` etc to show the major gem versions that were used in the post. When docs like this go stale, it can be confusing.
This is very interesting! I will have look into this more. Two quick comments:

How does this compare to Arvados (http://arvados.org)?

You might be interested in the common workflow language effort which among other goals is developing a multi-vendor standard for wrapping analysis tools using Docker (https://github.com/common-workflow-language/common-workflow-...)
The best results I've had so far are:

- TouchArcade Forums (You can create a thread for your game)

- Make a Facebook page for your game, just do it. You don't have to post personal stuff on your page if you have reasons to dislike FB.

- Twitter has lots of indie game activities like #screenshotsaturday, #indiedev and #gamedev. Start following indy developers -- just follow a few and twitter will suggest more -- and soon you will have lots of quick feedback. If you post screenshots and vines or gifs, you will probably get people offering to test it for you.

- Go to starbucks and offer to buy people a coffee if they check out your game and give you feedback. I haven't actually done this at starbucks, but I'll ask people on transit sometimes if I see them playing a mobile game and they're usually happy to try it.

If you're willing to shell out a few bucks, http://www.usertesting.com/ is really useful.

As far as "how do I get a lot of people to try my game without buying ads", well, good luck, if you figure it out let me know. :)
Only a #2 Robertson (square)? Have these people ever been to Canada? #1 is much, much more common (since they'll be on the head of most wood screws)
Well, apparently they reimplemented all the logic by their own, they just copied the visual from Trello, with a single CSS appropriation. They shouldn't have copied the CSS, but they can still "uncopy" it and write their own styles.
I'm another Googler out of the Seattle office (individual contributor on Compute Engine) -- I work roughly a 9am - 5pm schedule, sticking to the ~40 hours/week pretty religiously. I will occasionally triage email outside the office from my phone, but I almost never respond to it. My laptop by and large doesn't leave the bag it came home in. I cannot for the life of me ditch the habit of actually taking it home most days, though.
Other approach: use enums as union types. From https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...:

enum Barcode {
case UPCA(Int, Int, Int, Int)
case QRCode(String)
}

This can be read as:

“Define an enumeration type called Barcode, which can take either a value of UPCA with an associated value of type (Int, Int, Int, Int), or a value of QRCode with an associated value of type String.”

So, you can do

enum ResultOrError {
case Result(ReturnValue)
case Error(int,String)
}

Unfortunately, enums and generics do not mix, AFAIK, so it looks clumsy.

I think the reason for the special syntax of '?.' is that the designers think it is a very common case, at least in Swift programs.

And yes, I would like to see a better syntax for that, too. A generalization of C's short-hand 'if'

flag ? trueExpression : falseExpression;

For switch statements would be cool.
Nobody is under any obligation to provide infrastructure, but not providing infrastructure is different from trying to stop providers.

People are of course free to try and stop neutral providers. They are also free to lobby for a government that will censor them.
I suspect the life-support technologies developed in the pursuit of Mars colonization will be extremely useful tools in the earthbound struggle for survival whether or not such colonies are actually successful.
I personally lost internet access as a result of this update. It was horrible; one day my internet just randomly stopped working. I used my phone to ask for help on Reddit (obviously couldn't use my computer), and it took two days for me to figure out what was going on. Honestly made me despise systemd and lose a lot of faith on Fedora. Why the fuck is my init system doing DNS resolution? Probably the stupidest design decision I've ever encountered in my ten years running Linux. Also, making this invisible change without giving less technically savvy users instructions on how to recover if things go wrong is messed up.
Just tested.

> Power cycle device.

'Apple Verification. Enter the password for "<email>" in Settings.'

> Tap 'Not Now'

'Apple Verification. Enter the password for "<email>" in Settings.'

> Tap 'Not Now'

'Apple Verification. Enter the password for "<email>" in Settings.'

> Tap 'Not Now'

'Apple Verification. Enter the password for "<email>" in Settings.'

> Tap 'Not Now'
I used to carry one until the TSA era.

Urban knife crime has resulted in certain areas having "stop and search" for knives, usually targeted on the suspicions or prejudices of the officers doing the search.
Not that I know of, but I'm assuming a disproportionate number of software engineers at top-tier companies working in West Coast US metro areas.
Strangely there is always lots of talk about “profit sharing” and not “profit and loss sharing”. And I’ve never had to sign a business loan guarantee as an employee, but I’ve done so as a business owner.
By this logic, there's no point to anything.
Look for the donut tutorial
SpaceX received billions of VC money on top of government contracts while Ariane and Co. got government contracts and government funding. So no, SpaceX is not bootstrapped. We also don't know for sure as SpaceX is privately held and not publishing financial reports. The one leak back up to 2017 wasn't that stellar.
Phoronix posted some compilation benchmarks: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-linu...

And golem.de (link in german, see table at the end of the page): https://www.golem.de/news/threadripper-3970x-3960x-im-test-a...
I wonder why they don't shift to using non-paint markers like a plaster or something at that point. The advantage of paint seems throughly lost overall.
Expect max around 430W...
This is all I am doing to serve images:

https://gist.github.com/4lejandrito/6d4f903e0a692b87344e8600...

The resize function only resizes the first time and uses a cached version of the image after that.

I checked the server and the CPU is not too high so I think it must be HTTP as parent pointed out.
Something about this doesn't make sense to me.

I take it for granted that the staff at Uber would do anything not to lose the license. I am sure that, for 17 months, they've been investing heavily in security systems, ID verification etc. They must have followed up on every complaint. If I were them, I would have just manually followed everything that the Cabs do till I had a technology in place.

It also seems that the city is making some effort to give them space to improve: 15 months, then 2 months.

So then why didn't the gap close in time? Is this because the technology platform was so massive that turning it just took more time? Or is there something about the details that I can't see?

Edit: I start with the assumption that both Uber and the City are trying to do their best, and don't ascribe nefarious intent to anyone.
Did you even read my comment before replying to it?
I just assumed s/he was a Cockney.
Yet another relatively new definition format: http://raml.org/
Among other things a master splits the I/O code and core logic code.
Really? He would seem to be the king of all whales. His extremes draw people to the platform. No doubt countless seniors only ever installed the app so that they could follow trump. Like it or not, he draws in new users.
I wish companies like Google would systematically over-bid NSA offers to make it even harder for them to recruit.
Thanks Callum, looking forward to giving preact a go!
From that link: "you must download a tool known as Crouton, which will allow Ubuntu to run on top of Chrome OS"

No, I don't want to run Ubuntu on top of of Chrome OS; I want to completely wipe out Chrome.
According to a little googling [1] mustard gas breaks down in water (although slower in salt water) and doesn't bioconcentrate as well.

1: https://books.google.com/books?id=G8O4KUEyIXAC&pg=PA35&lpg=P...
I think they have potential, they are very clunky right now. But they have most of the same features at the Microsoft ones. It was really cool to "touch" a 3d object.
Can emacs soft-wrap at a set column size without doing so in the middle of a word? When I last tried to get into it I couldn't get it to do this, and that put me off my meal.
wasd also works
Nice screenname (fellow Virginian). I think if they're going to mention learning the languages of the web you want to first whet their appetite with HTML, CSS, and JS and then break them into backend coding. HTML,CSS,JS are somewhat of a package deal where as python is really something that you'd learn after you learn those. I think it's fair to leave it out for the beginner learning about how websites are built.
You likely have a skill set that they need immediately.

Trust me when I tell you this - hiring is an impersonal process, and part of 'making the sale' includes emotional tactics if the opportunity presents itself, and the other side is so inclined.

Hiring is also self serving and strictly business; contrary to any sentiment expressed during an interview. An employer sees a way to profit from what you provide, plain and simple, and thats why they are hiring you.

If you are going to succeed it is best to learn early on you alone maintain your long term priorities in the hiring process and as an employee; no one else will do that for you with the exception of maybe a highly trusted friend.

If it helps try to think about it this way; if a new applicant showed up today with the same skills as you have and was willing to work for less, they would have no hesitation in telling you that you were not a good 'fit' (industry lingo for we don't want you and we aren't telling you why). You have to keep the same mindset; if an employer comes along with a better offer, you would be shooting yourself in the foot if you didn't take it.

It's not all rainbows and unicorns, but on the other hand it's also not all cutthroat and competition. It's about finding a position that benefits both parties in meeting their goals.

TL;DR don't feel bad about telling them no.
HTTPS used by at least 90% of all websites because SSL certificates will be free. We have 364 days and 5 simple steps [1] to achieve that.

[1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oRXJUIttqQxuxmjj2tgYjj09...
ColorForth?
The Apple watch will be too thick, too heavy, too expensive ,screen too small, battery runtime too low, real usecases questionable and won't sell well after an initial surge of sales to the Apple fanboy, tech-affine, first-mover crowd.

The second iteration will blow it out of the water though.
Marking them as obsolete doesn't hide them; nor stop them being reopened if they're deemed worthwhile!
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Our stack is mostly Python backed by Cassandra, Elastic Search and Postgres. We'd like you to know a bit of everything and a lot about something.

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Every time someone makes the claim that downtime should be a warning sign about going with a PaaS provider (or, indeed, an IaaS provider, or in some cases, people even make this claim about going with someone else's Data Center) - I always respond:
"And why do you believe that you would do any better?"

Every environment I've been involved in as an operations professional for the last 15 years has experienced downtime regardless of how much we invested in staging, testing, change control procedures, redundancy and ITIL methodology.

While it is true that there are some environments in the world that experience no, or close to no downtime (The NYSE, google.com, the Space Shuttle) - it's usually not worth the investments those organizations make in ensuring 100% uptime.

I'm more interested in seeing what the monitoring methodology is, what the response protocols are, and what the reported downtime has been over the last year has been, than I am about getting too concerned about the occasional outage.
It's been on-and-off for the past few hours.. It's up right now (for me, anyway).
Of course, any nation is able to produce any kind of individual.

I'm a great believer in cultural traits, and I think they are normal. We are not all identical, and we are not all totally randomly different. We all share some cultural background from the country we grew up in, in varying degrees, and it does not prevent any individual from having any specific ability.

Yet, I was wrong to try to correlate a specific behavior of a specific person to his/her culture. That's where my logic was flawed.

If anyone wants more insight on cultural differences, I really recommend "When Cultures Collide" from Richard Lewis, it's a great book.
One could consider PyLine to be the Python equivalent to Pipeable Ruby:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/437932-pyline-a-grep-lik...

Or funcpy:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/funcpy
I dont see EBS as a very PaaS type service. It is a virtualised network storage volume with snapshotting, just what you might expect from an IaaS provider. Clearly it is one of the more complex parts of the Amazom infrastructure though (other providers dont provide anything similar). If you dont use EBS many applications would have to implement a lot of its functionality themselves, and I suspect this would lead to some data loss instead, when drives fail or instances fail leaving drives unavailable.

You can avoid EBS if you use local drives and s3, it is just difficult to run a database like this if it was not built that way.
I thought you could snapshot drives across regions and bring those EBS drives up under new instances in new regions?

I have not used it all in detail yet so I don't know the practicality of this method.

I think I will stick to my co-location costings I am doing for the time being. There is only one person to rely on when it all goes wrong then!

Good luck getting it sorted, i know I wouldn't appreciate being up at 3am sorting it though
I bought my first music on Bandcamp a couple of days ago (they had a day when 100% of sales went to the artists). That seems like one of the best ways to support artists while still having a cloud-hosted library.
Offhand thought reading yet another argument that this will be okay because it's going to cull the herd of the weak and unworthy. Is that we don't have some much a problem with old, sick and frail people as we do smug arrogant people.
You can read Mawson's own account, in his own words, here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6137/6137-h/6137-h.htm

"The Benzine Hut" is a phrase that haunts me sometimes.
Yeah it’s true and when America does wake up to global warming, it’ll be a juggernaut on so many fronts. I genuinely believe that when America decides to act on global warming there will be zero room for negotiation by others.

It’s not in America’s short term interest though so this won’t happen any time soon.
I've never seen ads on the lockscreen- and pre-installed crapware has been with us forever. I'm on home edition- it came with the laptop (toshiba satellite, for completeness)
IIRC, I was a teenager when AIDS came out. It was not classified as a global pandemic.

It's quite hard to catch and was mostly limited in the US to IV drug users and gay men. It became a human rights issue because both of those populations were generally deemed to be sinners and people tended to not care if they died.

The fight was not just against the disease itself. It was very much against prejudice and the threat of draconian measures aimed at specific populations.

Non drug using heterosexual populations in the US mostly didn't care. It was largely deemed to be irrelevant if you weren't one of the "sinners" that most folks wished would drop dead anyway because we're so loving and Christian and all that.

I don't think we've ever had a global pandemic in my life. SARS was the closest and it was mostly in Asia, IIRC.
Rust still has some room to improve over C++ here. Because it knows up-front which operations generic code can use on its type parameters, it can do things like "polymorphization": https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/69749

This means the compiler will automatically detect how much duplication is actually needed ahead of time, eliminating the need for after-the-fact identical code folding. (This should also drastically reduce compile times for some programs!)

And it could go even further than that. For example, some code could be duplicated based only on the size+alignment of its parameters (C#-style generics without a JIT). The analysis could be finer-grained than per-function, sharing parts of a function across instantiations (kind of like outlining).

With the detection happening this early in the pipeline, the compiler could even tell the user about it and guide them toward techniques that reduce the amount of duplication. (A different language could go further, of course.)
It's significantly more expensive if you listen to a wide range of music. Buying albums, or even just individual songs, can very quickly surpass the $10/month you pay for Spotify. Maybe that's worth it to you, but I can't blame most people for just paying for a subscription.
I agree that depression is an overused word and wish your wife the best.

However, the article absolutely does not say that depression is "just not wanting to get off the couch". It specifically states that this is referred to as sickness behaviour, not depression, and the very next paragraph contrasts them as distinct but superficially similar.
It's great that they are splitting the RPython docs out from the PyPy ones.

One thing I found lacking while writing a simple BrainFuck interpreter in RPython is lack of documentation on the best practices with regards to speed. Should I use classes, namedtuples or even just tuples to pass data around? Using a list seemed to slow things down a lot in some places but not others etc.

Apart from that I highly recommend people give PyPy a go if you're going to be writing an interpreter.
Thanks for your answer. Maybe my use of the word repercussions was a bit strong - I don't know much about attitudes there and I am asking out of curiosity, not as a challenge etc. In any case, it sounds like the general population are empathetic, and there would be little or no prejudice from your peers etc. These are small, but good things. So... if there were no risks of collaboration for Gazans, I assume there would be a lot more positive interaction between everyone?
"These things are changing,"

There is still no end to end story for dev on Linux/Mac with MS backed tools (Mono is not .NET).

"and I think that will be the end (finally) of Java."

just day after Google will take C# as main dev lang for Android...

IMHO It's more likely that Dart will become new Android's main lang.
It was widely praised for that. Everywhere! Enthusiastically! Just because you talked to some people who are obviously idiots …
The tail recursion was not my point. I also could have given another implementation of sum.

I wanted to demonstrate that the implementation of Dice::total() can be much clearer and still in a similar functional way.
If I cut down a 50 foot tall tree with a swiss army knife, it would not be a testament to the "power" of the knife, it would be a testament to my own stupidity.