jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Alternately:

1. Steve -> Manager: This guy e-mailed me again, does this need to be dealt with?

2. Manager -> Steve: It's a good algorithm, but the guy's been demanding and impatient, and with everyone prepping iOS/iPhone 4 for WWDC, Engineer just hasn't had time to look into it.

3. Steve -> Dude: No interest.

Specifically, I highly doubt that Steve Jobs would speak directly with an engineer about a potential acquisition of a potentially useful algorithm. I doubt it was ever really on his radar at all after the first 30 seconds where he read it and forwarded it off. That's the entire reason managers exist.
At my place of work we used to use Ada for most projects. In more recent years a move to C/C++ has been made.

Now the trend is towards model-based design, where toolsets such as Simulink or SCADE provide certified code generators or code checkers to remove most of the manual element of generating code from design.

Would love to be able to use Rust, but will need to wait for a COTS tool chain that provides certification evidence for DO-178C Level A. Sealed Rust looks to be going that way, but it's no small task.
because everyone there was hired from yahoo and other "portals".

really.

those folks have a natural tendency to fatten the middle management layer and focus on buzzwords that shake the core business (mobile! vr!) and feature creeping until the product is so broken it dies. all while killing the few trully tech/innovative teams.
“Cloud, fog and mist droplets are very small. Their mean diameter is typically only 10-15 micron (1 micron = 1/1000 mm) but in any one cloud the individual drops range greatly in size from 1 to 100 micron dia.“

Fog also has very high humidity (otherwise it would evaporate), so any study that shows lower transmission of the virus in high relative humidity environments has relevance to anyone that assumes droplet evaporation matters? https://www.accuweather.com/en/health-wellness/new-study-say...

So fog is very relevant, thanks.
The Matrix, if you go by how many times I've watched it.

Other strong contenders include

V for Vendetta

Rad

Vision Quest

Tron:Legacy

Hackers

Sneakers

Antitrust
'can your tool run a full-featured app from a single file' is a really important test of simplicity

esp given how people learn online, a single-file example is much more palatable on e.g. stack overflow vs three files

way friendlier to learners

not that anyone is building large production apps with single files, but tooling quality matters and this is one way to measure it
When things are cleared up with covid - just go to the library and see all the seniors who have next to nothing, then think - how many of them have a grandchild in their care?
Based on my conversation with my FB friends, FB's major challenge to tapping into cloud business is their "moving fast and breaking things" culture, and their arguably cut-throat impact-oriented perf system. We have to admit that not all tasks in development are glorious. Someone has to be on call. Someone has to fix all the important bugs. Someone has to implement features that customers ask for, even though the features may not be glorious. I personally even enjoy bug fixing, as it is closest to scientific investigation. However, would I prioritize bug fix if I were in FB? Hell no. I would launch launch launch, and show impact impact and impact. Would that be good for cloud customers or the business? Of course not. Would that erode customer trust in the long run? Oh yeah. Sometime somewhere a nasty bug will show up in this type of culture.
...or just use a semi-decent editor that tells you when your code is indented inconsistently.

I think we solved this problem like, 20 years ago or something.
Well right, but make already had like six users, so it was too late to change. ;)
Not if you set a proper far-future Expires header.
I have mixed feelings about this secession from HN. It's great that there's a separate place for Indians to meet and talk, but I fear it may leach from the diverse culture here.
Travis is an interesting guy but caveat emptor.
Doctest (http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html) seems like an interesting crossover point, though.
If we buy that Brad Rukstales was simply curious and confused by spontaneous commotion, then how does it make sense to say he should be treated as a criminal? He's saying he's an innocent and curious person who was accidentally misplaced, and you're saying you trust him and think he should be punished as a criminal anyway?
If your post was earlier, it constitutes prior art and some of the patent claims can be invalidated.

Was your post archived at archive.org prior to that patent being filed? Or is there some other proof that you published before they filed?

Note that their claim being invalidated does not mean you get to patent it, since you did not file prior to publishing (via your post).
Yes! That's definitely on the todo list and would be a welcome contribution.
The Long Now foundation isn’t only building a clock. It also is thinking about long-term conservation of data. See https://rosettaproject.org/)
I am not in favor of the rioters, but I do think people should actually go through trial and be found guilty before they are fired from their jobs.

I would support legislation that protected someone’s job while they were awaiting trial. Not because I support this guy but just on general principle.
>Counter-question: Does your operating system have all its files directly placed in "/"? Why not?

Because my files are not fungible.

I understand keeping business transactions separate from personal transactions. But creating lots of little pots of money for different personal expenditures makes no sense to me at all.
Yeah and you should self-host your email too
HTTP also uses CRLF but the spec is flexible I think.

Still most if not all implementations use it.

That is alot of bytes when you sum them up.

Also CRLFCRLF is used to demarkate end of headers and chunks.
Oops, *mega, obviously! But I did mean watts.
I'm not a fan of linkbait-style titles like this: "Why the modern world is bad for your brain."

How about "Neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin explains how constant multitasking is making us less efficient"?
Watch out for whoever says that Perl is an ancient technology, because they're either ignorant and completely clueless about what's really happening in the world of computer programming, or they have hidden agendas.

That's a strong statement. Are you quite sure those are the only two possibilities?
Furthermore, just because you don't have an address doesn't mean you can't receive mail! At least as recently as a few decades ago, there were rural communities in the US where nobody had a street address; the postal service knew where everybody lived and would deliver mail given just a name and town. I'm not sure whether this arrangement still exists in the US, but I'm pretty sure it still does in Ireland and probably elsewhere.
And it's all over HTTP, too? Wow... that's mighty disappointing.
Can't be mad at the speed and outcome of the response. I'm sure they would have preferred the incident not be published at all...

In any case, we've all had "oh shit!" moments before. I'd love to think this would be a wake up call about quality control, but Verizon is just so freakin' big, that I can't imagine the number of vendors that have contributed to the amount of code Verizon is running at any given time. I can't imagine the chore of vetting it all at delivery time, let alone having to go back now, realizing how bad that bug was and assuming other sloppiness likely exists.
I don't see this as any reflection on idempotency as principle (or other principles in general). Building systems poorly, without a plan, and no testing, will result in a bug-riddled mess, regardless of what pattern is being used.
I think birds fare about as well as an aircraft when striking other aircraft. Doesn't really seem comparable.
The Dart blog post was unclear about the future of the Dart VM. I don't see why Google will continue to maintain the VM. Does Google use the Dart VM on servers or mobile? Dart would be nice a nice replacement for Java on Android.
That's business cable, but Comcast also has business fiber that's symmetric up to 10 Gbps. http://business.comcast.com/ethernet/products/dedicated-inte...
> If a week (7 days) supply is $85, you have $12.14 per day and about $4.05 per meal, which hits your target of "closer to $4/meal".

Many people don't spend $6 or even $4 on three meals a day. They buy lunch and dinner, both costing around $6 if they eat out or around $3 if they make a packed lunch (more for dinner).

There might be someone somewhere who buys a premium breakfast for $4 a day and then spends $4-6 at lunch and dinner, but those people are a rare exception.

Most people are going to compare it to the meals they actually have now and what they spend. It doesn't become cheaper just because they recommend you have it for breakfast too. Breakfast is dead for the vast majority of the adult population (unless coffee counts?).

> On a separate note if you buy a months supply (don't have to eat it in one month) that is $300 for 28 days (84 meals) it comes to roughly $3.57/meal

That's irrelevant because the issue is getting people into the product who think it is too expensive. Suggesting they spend $300 as a buy in is not only unhelpful but also makes them much less likely to want to try it.

Also that's only $1.50 cheaper per day than the base price. Hardly a saving. Still costs above $10/day. Adding breakfast doesn't save any money, it is just a way to make it seem cheaper than it actually is...
This page consistently crashes Chrome on Android 5.0.1 on my Nexus 5. It doesn't even get to the "chrome is not responding" screen, it just closes less than a second after rendering the page.
Pedantic note: large-scale engineering organizations have an additional two zeros in their order of magnitude: 10,000+ engineers. ;-)

But you're quite right. This is part of the reason why Java has been so successful - it's both boring and well supported.
Yep, and being in Espoo the week it was published, I can tell no one was that happy with it, specially after the push to modernize Symbian with Qt.
No, this should never have to happen. Medical professionals are certainly well-compensated, but direct providers of care receive less than 15% of healthcare revenues. It shouldn't be expected for doctors to personally pay off medical debts, they shouldn't exist in the first place!
One of the most pernicious things that’s cropped up within my lifetime is the idea that lost revenue is a justification for something else. A lot of low level (per incident, not aggregate) fraud and malfeasance gets justified this way.
I have found runnaroo gives often nice results especially on technical topics. Combining with DDG removed the need to use Google.
And control of a PCIe device (with the usual lazy broken drivers that just ignore IOMMU) means full read and write access to all physical memory adresses, including OS kernel, firmware and NMI RAM areas and all applications. This gives an attacker the capability to compromise the hardware in very permanent ways. Nothing to take lightly or brush off as security absolutism.
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They're wild alright. One 'method' that's widely credited is the unofficial policy of shooting poachers on sight. Oldish article, but there's some more detail and context on the situation at Kaziranga (today used as a role model at other parks) here:

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/Number...
Can we please keep these fact-free pseudoscience articles off HN? Particularly those lacking a link to the original source or even the title of the paper.
If we are being attacked electronically, it makes sense to be able to defend ourselves.
I admit I didn’t like parts of the first game as much as I’d hoped, but after playing the commentary and enjoying the “escape sequence,” I’m looking forward to the sequel. I just hope that the developers’ lessons learned designing that last level will carry through to the new game. The last couple of test chambers sucked due to not separating complex puzzles from the timed ones.
All fair points, but I'm really curious to see what you did with traits that has anything to do with dependency injection. DI is essentially a runtime activity while traits are just a more granular way of assembling your objects together at compile time. I just don't see the intersection between the two concepts.

I have the feeling that you might be confused about what DI is exactly, but I'll happily eat my words if you can point me to a description of what you did, some source code, a blog post or whatever.
I'm glad that you like the API. :) I did think a lot about it, but it still needs a lot of work.

Why would you like to use your own S3 bucket as the backing store? I would love to talk with you more about this.
I'm sure I understand why the stop light/intersections need to be there at all. Why can't the orange road pass over the red road on one side and then pass under on the other side of the underpass?
Because in the past, people used to use tables for everything. Want to add some spacing? Create a table with invisible columns that contain 1-pixel gifs "spacer.gif".

Now adays these things can happen with CSS, and you should use css to get spacing and positioning done right.

However, for layout, I completely disagree with the mainstream idea that "divs and css are better than tables for layout".

#1 argument, they say, is that tables are semantically incorrect for layout.

Well then, are divs semantically correct for layout? Absolutely not. Actually, tables are semantically correct for layout.

How else do you express stacking elements vertically and horizontally?

Floating divs to create layout is a horrible hack, and it's not maintainable at all.

Use tables to get the basic layout, but do all the styling with css.
I can get arch up an running with X, alsa, video drivers for intel processor and fluxbox (and dwm) in half an hour. That must be enough for running chrome. I do not include download time in that half hour because I save the stable packages that make my computer run smooth.
It was my immediate association as well. I guess there is no such thing as a free launch.
You can get evaluation copies of windows to run IE in for debugging free from Microsoft. My big complaint is that I don't want to run a VM for every browser.

It appears as if the IE exe's made by Xenocode still work. I don't have a link for them, I'm not sure if they're hosted anywhere still.
What is your market like? If you are targeting a large unmet need, you should make your product free.

I'd argue the opposite. Get in there and start charging right away. Get as many customers as you can before some buffoon comes in and gives it away for free. If you're lucky, you'll establish that the market price is > 0, and future competitors will charge in a likewise manner.
Purists consider it controversial, but using tables for forms is fine in my opinion if it gets you the layout behavior you want. CSS and tables just don't offer the same options when it comes to layout.

There are only two big uses for tables that I would avoid, and which are probably how this all started:

- Don't put all your content in giant tables for multiple columns, etc. Browsers do have to go to some effort to calculate column widths and such, and may delay rendering the contents of the table, e.g. until all the dependencies like inline images are loaded.

- Don't try to use big hairy pixel-precise tables for freeform layout, like when designers would carve up a mock in Photoshop, export the "slices" as 14 different images, and reassemble them using tables. This is a maintainability and usability nightmare and will come back to bite you.

People can get really dogmatic about not using tables. Perhaps you could find some forms you like and see what kind of mark-up they use.
IMHO, I thought this was one of those occasions when the content and its delivery trumped presentation.
I think you need a link there to http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ : thought you just meant it wasn't readable! Readability is great: before that I was just copy & pasting to a text editor...
Yes, I've always said when you eat fruits and nuts, you are eating the plants babies. Why all the hatred towards plants ..
I agree with the truth that this comment expresses, but I hope for different things.

I really mean to blog on this subject, in fact, as it's one that inspires me.

Due to a curious combination of circumstances, I work 3 months each year in a factory (likely representing the bottom 10% of the labor pool), and the system that we have works way worse than it could for all parties involved. I'm very interested in thinking about where it could go with the proper application of technology.
It would be a far harder problem than unifying Germany. But there would likely be a lot of foreign aid coming in. In the end it doesn't really matter how hard the problem is, if it has to be done it has to be done. The only long-term alternatives are annihilation of the North, the North turning into a failed state but sans the Stalinist regime and WMDs, or annexation to China, which would be even more difficult than unification because of the language and cultural differences, not to mention all of China's serious problems in basic administration.
You guys in US do it all the wrong way. I remember how examiners fought cheating when I was a student at Warsaw University, Poland (1990 - 1995). They simply allowed cheating. So, at the beginning of every exam an examiner announced something like: "Ladies and gentlemen. You are allowed to cheat. You can browse your books and notes,
no questions asked. But I must warn you that exam tasks are designed such a way, that they require thinking - and thinking is not compatible with cheating, because thinking is fast and cheating is quite slow. So, you are allowed to cheat, but if you will it is very likely that you will not complete minimum number of tasks required to pass the exam.
I wish you good luck."
Follow up question: Any startups using Scala?

Based on my observation, some heavy hitters are using Scala in production, but the learning curve is high and development time is slower that PHP, RoR or Python.
I don't really have an advice but if you can explain your problem in an email hnewscontractor@outlook.com - I can work for free for 10 hours and give you the work. Any further work is paid (including a fee for the first 10 hours).

Thinking about it- that is the advice, establish the freelancer's credentials first.
Can you recommend a brand of collagen?
If it wasn't for California's strong environmental restrictions there would be no coastline for Khosla to appreciate from his private property, or rather it would be a much different landscape.

Everyone else plays by these same rules.
Khosla is very conspicuously using his outsized monetary influence to the pervert the spirit of the law.
i think it's fair that for big projects, you'll be fine with the IDE. I spend my days in emacs, Intelli-J/Rider, and VSCode...

I don't do a lot of code editing in emacs, except for usually dotfiles and other single file operations. I do do a lot of code reading in it, though. Rip-grepping through multiple projects, opening the interesting looking files in Emacs....and then when I think i have what I want, I'll usually open the parent project in VSCode or Rider to do some editing.
I still fail to understand why they shouldn't just be allowed to use computers. This is a failure of the education system to adapt.
Bloomberg also wants to have it both ways, they want their content to be referenced on Google, and a select number of people to share the articles they read for free, while disallowing others to do the exact same thing. Fortunately no nobody can prevents people from screenshooting and sharing the screenshot for free instead of the article directly.

Bloomberg can't have it both way.
Were you actually confused, or are you just picking nits? If the latter, then it's not really a bug is it.
They are fishing. All they need is one developer to take this deal, not all of them. Just ignore it and move on.
I went down this road towards the beginning of my career. I tried split keyboards, ergo mice, keyboard tray, new chair, etc. There are a couple things that matter in ergonomics, mainly that your chair is at a height where you can set your feet flat on the floor comfortably, and that your forearms are the same height as the desk.

All the products made around ergonomics are total BS, full stop. Your body is not built to sit at a desk all day, and you can't fix that with an overpriced keyboard. Take breaks from time to time and go walk around a bit.

Get yourself setup so there's no pressure on your arms and legs and call it good. Don't waste your money on ergo BS.
They need to pour oil-sized investments into electricity storage research.

There are only two technologies I've heard of (sodium and redox flow) being developed and they are not enough (and not portable).

added: here's a complete list of ALL we have and most of them are not viable for home/large vehicle power http://electricitystorage.org/tech/technologies_technologies...
What laws govern police asking for things?

From what I've gathered, police can ask for all kinds of things that they legally have no right to (searches, being let in, etc), but you can still ignorantly comply. They can even legally lie about shit to persuade you.
Oh, but installing apps is so much faster on an SSD, it'll only be 1/2 of a day of work. ;)

Adobe CS5 < 15 minutes onto an SSD vs. 45 minutes onto an HDD.
Uh, how is it NOT a performance increase? Applications load faster. Everything loads faster. The OS boots faster.

What a horrible argument.
Feel better about yourself, now?

Do you seriously think that your local utility is going to have massive solar fields that are going to provide the kind of power demands they have or even a chunk of it? The only long-term option is for existing space to be used - power generation on the space used by the house it generates. Until that is affordable, I doubt it's going to make the impact we're hoping for.

Plus, come on. We all know how utility companies behave. They'll have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the type of investment necessary to roll these out, even if they're cheaper in the longer term.

Also, yeah, I wouldn't have had a clue what to google for the type of information you pulled up. Good for you. You get +1 google points for today, sport.
IIRC good performance of ssd requires slightly modified formatting parameters. I'm not sure if this is still true, though. Anyway, with different block sizes etc. I'm not sure if cloning works, does it?

On windows, unfortunately information essential to running an app is stored in the registry and the files are scattered over several directories. So windows users might have to reinstall the stuff -- which could turn out to be a good thing anyway if you were already running your windows system for a long time of period.