jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
'According to his son and daughter, he would play music whenever he faced an intractable problem, and would often finish the performance by saying, “There now, I’ve got it”. It was a much better use of his time than continuing to fruitlessly agonise over the maths or physics.'

Fascinating. Definitely have experienced this with hard problems and writing music. There must be some kind of orthogonality going on there.
>> Society deify successful people when in reality they are nothing more than serial lottery winners

This is absolutely false and a terrible thing to perpetuate. Work ethic has the highest controllable coefficient to success as an output. Luck exists and the universe is probabilistic, yes, but it is not non-deterministic.

This self-lashing of our community and amongst the populist movement that is growing in popularity in the EU and US is ridiculous, reducing the sum total of human achievement into lucky chance rather than actually understanding the probabilistic universe and knowing that while our actions do not wholly determine our fate, they play the single largest role we have control over, and as such, it would be better to believe the myth that we have full control over our destiny rather than this ridiculous concept that luck controls ~100% of circumstance.

Probability theory needs to be taught in primary school, apparently, because for members of even this community, the fallacy of determinism and binary outcomes run rampant.
It's intuitive, but I'm not sure if there's a causal link. The 20th century saw an incredible increase in income equality and that was the highest point in the recent crime wave. In fact, the increase in income inequality in the US over the last thirty years has coincided with the drastic decrease in violent crime, which is super interesting because it implies that those variables might be more independent than originally thought.
unfortunately, since that article was written, the guy doing the porting has slowed right down. The most up to date info can be found in the EAB forum thread

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=74013&page=11
Use /etc/hosts blocking if you are worried about CPU and memory. It also works on rooted Android devices.
Cost.

We have the technology to weigh aircraft. But they'd either be onboard, and thus safety critical and subject to a lot of abuse (being inline with the landing gear presumably), or they could be on the ground/at the airport, which means every airport in the world needs them, and they need to be compatible with every aircraft's footprint (i.e. huge or highly adjustable).

Plus the time cost/queuing for getting weighed. Then adding fuel after (since fuel is based somewhat on weight).
It's interesting because while Miss technically just means that a woman is unmarried, in practice it's only used for children. Similar to how Master technically just means an unmarried male, but I doubt anyone on here has been called that since second or third grade.
What does data at rest has to do with the cpu architecture ?
IT wise I'm pretty confident that the airline industry is a cobbled together mess. A much bigger problem than COBOL that has been doing the rounds on HN lately. (mind you, there's probably some overlap in the venn diagram)
Amazing!. How long did it take to reach this point from envisioning the idea.
There's some (perhaps lots) of potential for this for in-memory analytic processing (e.g. in an analytics-focused DBMS).

Also, a specific potential use of FPGAs is for pattern matching on large amounts of text/data: If you do it at all, you're likely to do it often; and it can't be a custom implementation since the circuit depends on the specific pattern.
Much of how quickly you learn a language depends on what languages you've had prior exposure to. So, depending on the language you choose to learn, YMMV.

Total immersion, at least in the beginning, is only useful when your language of choice has linguistic similarities to what you already know. Otherwise, to get to a level where immersion even makes sense comes only after hard studying. Without this base knowledge, everything you hear will sound like complete gibberish...not really an efficient way to learn.

As someone who is fluent in Korean, I'd presumably have an easier time picking up Japanese here in the US than a foreign exchange student in Japan who only knows English (given similar levels of dedication/work ethic). That's because Korean has many similarities to Japanese.
http://rr-project.org/
You are assuming that the users will notice the lack of green text for the EV certificate in their browser. It is not an error to use a non-EV certificate, even if the site 'should' have one.

(defining 'should' here is difficult)
You use the Apple remote and frontrow to navigate.
That's silly. Bush 2.0 was able to get elected (twice), regardless of various blots on his earlier public record. So did Clinton. (I'm not interested in any ideological wars. Please spare us. Point is, both men served two terms as President no matter how many detentions they served once upon a time.)
> No intel I3/I5 ? That's disapointing.

Intel's fault, no license for NVidia and no OpenCL support in the i3/i5's GPU (and it's still a very, very crappy GPU indeed) means it'd need a dedicated GPU.

Reason why the entry-level 15" got one, by the way, and the 13" macbook pro is still using a Core 2.
How to succeed as a lawyer?
That much is obvious, but what would cause the FBI to get involved and what would he be charged with?
I am currently 31, living in upstate NY.

I started college fulltime at 18. I started in physics, switched to IT. This was 1997.

I was working in the field for the likes of IBM and Xerox by the time I was 19. School quickly became deprioritized. This was 1999.

9/11 hits. This is the same year, or year before, I would have graduated on-schedule. A month later, I get laid off of an extended contract I'd been working for a year. For the better part of the next eight months, I can't get an interview aside from one job in Montana. MONTANA! I scrape by on freelance work. I land a job paying 50% of my last salary. After six months I switch over to a job paying 70% of my last salary -- still very disappointing, but livable, barely.

End of 2005, I quit that job and go back to Xerox for a second contract. Almost returned to my pre-9/11 salary. I happen to wrap up my associate's (AAS) degree in IT at this time. Six months later, I relocated to be closer to family. That job, in 2006, finally put me substantially over my pre-9/11 salary, at about 80th-85th percentile for my role nationally, and about 95th percentile for my role locally.

My independent consulting work starts growing significantly around this time.

In late 2008, I finally crossed the six figure mark in fulltime salary. I also made a healthy five figures in indie consulting in 2008 and 2009.

It would have helped me, I think, to have a degree PLUS my experience after 9/11. I don't think a degree alone would have done much for me -- all my four-and-out classmates were out of work and/or getting paid less than I was myself.

Does my AAS help me now? Doubtful.

Would a bachelor's help? Not salary-wise ... but it would be a nice step on the way to that Master of Science or MBA that I've always wanted ...
He says there is no interest to post to his moms posterous, but is that really true?

I can imagine quite a lot of spammers who would love to have a blog-post on an otherwise reputable blog. If spammers manage to abuse this system they could get their blogposts, filled with links and instructions to buy medication, all over all posterous blogs.
I used to read the comment/letters and sometimes look at the headlines. I don't bother now - they sent me the "we're closing the site, free trial" email and I thought it wasn't worth signing up for a taste and then getting locked out. Google News and the BBC are filling the gap for conventional news for me.
There's an even easier solution... require confirmation via email. You send the post as an email, you get an email back immediately asking for post confirmation.

edit:

It looks like this is already standard functionality (if turned on, and even if not there is still an email sent with a delete link).

I don't think dustin does a good job explaining why "It is OK" in this blog post, but I think I agree with his conclusion, this doesn't seem like a big deal if a user has opted for the more optimistic workflow rather than the more precautionary one.
Wow plus the tweet itself has a tone of religious extremism with an implied consent from god as a justification for an atrocity.

I'm not even sure I'm against the death penalty but doing it in the manner of the Taliban is sick.
Why people hate.
I can't be sure if you are being sarcastic or not, so my apologies if I missed it. To say that large corporations aren't optimized for making money seems foolish. Of course the goal of a corporation is to increase shareholders wealth, and by extention earn a profit. The goal is the same for a small company or even a startup. There will be instances where a fortune 500 fails this goal, but that doesn't mean the analogy is off. There are some Formula 1 cars that break down or crash. The logic in your argument escapes me.
No prob. I know the Hacker News crowd has a lot of self reliance attitude, and I've been there too, but I've recently been coming to realize that for any legal matter its best to just go to a professional. Its often too far outside of our fields of expertise to be worth the time and effort to become competent in the field, especially because once any real legal action happens, you're going to need professional representation.
It's possible for anti-vaxxers to simultaneously be a net harm to children while having reasonable concerns about some aspects of our current best practices regarding vaccines. Regardless, dismissing them and calling them murderers doesn't seem helpful towards stopping them or addressing their fears.
> it only makes sense to spend energy on sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere, once you've already de-carbonised everything which you possibly can.

Except possibly when energy prices are negative due to wind and solar intermittency - although that is also a signal that you need more storage in the grid, additional storage may not be economic for some reason.
Amazon doesn't care, the FTC might.
'"Is", "is", "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.'

- Robert Anton Wilson
I bought a 2TB SSD for my XBox One and I never looked back.
> public spaces filled with ads projected on peoples belongings.

They literally could have done this for 100+ years.

They do not.

Do you see how what you say makes no sense other than a fear of technology?

You've seen projectors, you've seen how they don't just project them anywhere, it's hard to see how one makes this leap.
Maybe people in the 90s assumed "prosperity" in general would be a panacea; but the hypothesis here isn't really to do with GDP more generally (because that can all be generated and captured by the state, as in middle-eastern oil-producing countries) but rather to do with a certain inevitable demographic shift.

China has already started on a shift called industrialization: a massive demographic shift from poverty-class subsistence farmers, to middle-class industrial workers (e.g. construction workers.)

The next shift after industrialization is a mass promotion out of the working-class and into the middle-class (a.k.a. the bourgeoisie: small-business owners/entrepreneurs), where industrial jobs dry up, people mostly live in cities, and everyone goes into business for themselves to serve a specialized role in a city. Accompanying this is, also inevitably, a massive rise in political consciousness, because you need to study the political climate to effectively run a business.

Now, that second shift is far from happening in China yet. Their industrialization phase only just started 10 years ago, with a construction boom analogous to the one that the US went through in the late 1800s. It'll likely be decades more before there are no more Chinese public-infrastructure projects; before the average Chinese citizen is rich enough that everyone turns their nose up at working in the trades; before the average Chinese citizen's life-goal is to be a vlogger or whatever kids in developed countries want to do now.

But, despite that phase being a ways away, it's also seemingly inevitable. We've never seen a country get stuck in the industrialization phase once it's truly begun. It's finite by definition—the same forces that create this phase of growth, push a country through and past it.

The only deciding factor on how long it takes a state to become democratized, in this theory, is how long it takes to reach the industrialization phase. It took China a long, long time (probably because Communism put them at a standstill in accruing the necessary resources and talent to begin having a working class at all; they had to relent and do some top-down state capitalism just to get anywhere at all.)

And many states are stuck lower down the development path, where they'll likely never reach industrialization without outside help. That "help" usually coming in the form of the world deciding to target them as the newest cheap labor outsourcer. (Luckily, once China is post-industrial, it too will be a labor outsourcer, not a labor supplier.)
China is the ultimate long game and they tend to have long memories as well.
Exactly, 1000 guesses per second is probably a reasonable target to tune your KDF's difficulty to, depending on of course the application and the amount of resources you're willing to dedicate to running the KDF on every login..
Cellebrite is a popular supplier for mobile forensics, which may require using vulnerabilities are not yet patched, i.e. finding or buying zerodays.
The very name plenty of fish leads one to believe there is always someone better. As such daters do not invest the time it takes to develop intimacy by growing trust, resolving incompatibilities, solving issues together, etc.

It enables a habit of bailing at the first sign of trouble.
Next year China will have more high-speed rail than the rest of the world combined. The US really needs to built at least one route(200mph). It's really embarrassing that we could fall so far behind. D.C. to NYC in 1hr, with a 5 minute stop in Philly?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train
This post leaves out a key difference between something like RSA and EC, which is that EC doesn’t actually provide an encryption function. You end up using an integrated encryption scheme.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Encryption_Scheme

This is intuitively similar to how TLS works, in which asymmetric concepts are used in conjunction with a KDF and hashing algorithm to agree upon a per-session symmetric key.
It was a statement by the person representing the Commission in Court. I'm really curious how this will play out. (Safe Harbor is more or less the justification for using US cloud services for anything having to do with personal information. If it gets killed, a lot of people on both sides of the pond are going to have a very fun time figuring out what to do next.)
We're actively working on document.write and as far as I know have future-proofed the design so that adding it won't involve massive rewrites.
I have a BS in ME and worked ME jobs for about 11 years. During the last 1/2 of this time, worked on my MS in IE and was doing simulation modeling. Simulation modeling is where I learned how much I really enjoyed programming but had also been writing some statistical analysis programs for QA on the side. At year 12, I was able to jump to the Information Systems side to write B2B code for outsourcing of manufacturing. I have been doing programming jobs now for the last 17 years and have enjoyed it.

My advice is to keep working on your coding skills. You don't need a degree in CS. You have proven you can handle technical topics with your current degree(s). Maybe search github for some open source projects dealing with mechanical topics (something like robotic movement or control systems or CNC). Join these and contribute.

When it comes to finding a job, there are companies the will value your full skill set. It may take a while and sometimes you might have to work as a ME for a bit. But in some technology companies, you will be able to move horizontal.

Wish you the best!
> most people convey to others that this box is 12x8x8 inches

Replace inches with cm, I didn't explain it well. Even if it is centimeter, people would tell dimensions to others more than convert them. The point was about frequency of communication between humans vs. frequency of converting units.

You seem to be taking offense that I said something US-centric. I didn't mean that at all.
In order to deal with quotients it is not necessary to normalize to a single representative for each equivalence class (though sometimes that can be useful).

The more important part is a facility for detecting whether two objects are equivalent, and a guarantee that all other operations respect the structure.
I invented for myself this one: 2021-02-26_08-30-00_

And never looked back. Because since then I have no problems with dates anymore.

If there is a need for 'ms' you can add them in the end or add more sections for more precision.

For me it solves it.
Military organizations tend to detach personal for long shifts so the remaining unit can stay somewhat functional in their normal schedule.

When I was on guard duty it was usually a 24h shift followed by a 24h break for a group of 8 or 10 privates and 2 NCOs. That means that roughly a quarter of the company is permanently detached. If you switch to 12hour shifts, you have to consider that normal operations take place during daytime. At any day you then have three groups unavailable: One on duty, one resting from the night shift, and one preparing for the night shift.
I think of “an Excel workbook” as being an actual workable example of the pattern.

I think that gives a lot of solace that it’s not going to collapse the market for devs.
I had this thought as well, but having used Liveview in Phoenix this really isn't the experience. Since the updates are really small and as long as you do it only when you want updates from the backend anyway the experience is just as smooth as any SPA even on a shitty mobile connection.
Thats exactly the point I’m making in my post. Glad you agree
Input focus is already controlled by the window manager on X11 so you can implement whatever policy you want there.
Very good and very true point. Multi-linguism only has upsides.
I've had some cases of customers asking "what happens if your company dies" for cloud services even knowing the company I work for is +30 employees, so not just for "one person company", some people seems to care about what happens to their data / service. I'm just wondering if that comes from conferences or talks that points out that a lot more/less.
Any hardware manufacturer deciding hibernation for Linux was worth doing would have done it already.
Yes exactly, find is like test a.k.a [.

test -f foo -a -f bar -o -z foo

can be read

isfile('foo') && isfile('bar') || emptystring('foo')

Likewise

find . -name '*.py' -a -executable -o -printf '%P\n'

can be read

(F.name matches '*.py') && (F is executable) || print('%P\n', F)

where F is the current node in the file system traversal.

They both respect -o as OR, ! as NOT, and ( ) for precedence, which you have to quote as \( and \).

A couple years ago, someone helped me implement a better "find" without this wonky syntax for https://www.oilshell.org/ . But it isn't done and needs some love. If anyone wants to help, feel free to join Zulip :)

I do think that "find" is more like a language than a command line tool. It's pretty powerful, e.g. I just used it to sort through 20 years of haphazard personal backups.
Me think you grossly under-estimate the complexity of creating a facility that processes basic inputs, a few chemicals, and lots of optics/lights to make state of the art nanometer scale 3D features at enormous volume and very low defect rates.
Say more with less. I had a look at the website and it's not easy to understand what your product does. For some reason I thought it was code analysis software at first. If I go back and read more closely I see that it is an editor so to speak. I think a video to explain how to make a basic app would be nice, it's hard for me to see why I should learn to use your app when I can't understand how I get to a finished product.
Thanks. I falsely assumed that the creator was in the US. Hopefully Canada does not have this strange culture of looking down upon geeks as in the US (so much so that Paul Graham wrote the essay on revenge of nerds, which I couldn't even understand where his emotion came or why he wrote the essay until I came to the US years later).
I feel like Airbnb and Uber are both large and popular enough, at this point, to push regulation in the direction they see fit. Anyone standing in their path will be labeled protector of the old monopolies and anti-consumer.
So what cause of death went up?

Edit. To answer my own question it seems to be the very vague "All other causes" [1].

1. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db88.htm
> What about a social network where you can only have 10 friends?

Path (https://path.com/) originally started as a social network where you could only have 150 friends
What of the ISO standard that mRuby is based on?

http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_...

Aw crap, I have to buy this doc to see it?
This is a false framing: the airline's policy is exploitative, and it's hardly a "scam" to exploit its oddities.

If I put a tollboth on the sidewalk in front of my house it would hardly be a "scam" for you to walk across my driveway and onto the street to avoid paying.
>Building 1,500 kilometres (900 miles) of "2+1" roads—where each lane of traffic takes turns to use a middle lane for overtaking—is reckoned to have saved around 145 lives over the first decade of Vision Zero.

Basically translates to: "this substantial increase on costs (3 lanes instead of 2, +50%) is going to save the lives of 15 people per year". It is really praiseworthy for a country to just go for it and put people first. A human life is truly invaluable but very few countries actually account for them as such; on most other countries "15 dead" would simply just not be worth the investment.
> A part of a codebase can be complex (sometimes the problem that is being solved necessitates a complex algorithm / codebase) but yet well written.

I tend to use the following terminology to distinguish necessary an unnecessary complexity:

| Easy Problem | Hard Problem
Easy Solution | Simple | Simplistic
Hard Solution | Complicated | Complex
As long as Snapchat has a good case for maintaining the monopoly on ephemeral messaging the valuation is pretty reasonable. It's the best thing since IM and nobody else seems to get it. FB messenger could shake things up, but they seem reluctant. It's hard for any social/messaging incumbent to do it without cannibalizing their existing user activity. And they have 2 patents which may or may not be valid.
My prediction is 1B users by 2016.
An interpreter might make more sense, as compiling rust in a straightforward manner (without optimisations) is really slow and takes a lot of space. It might not be slower to just interpret it, and avoiding binary generation might be advantageous.