jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's the approach Berkeley CS (and a lot of other CS programs, but I can only speak to UCB's coursework). The first CS course teaches fundamentals of computer science, using (mainly) python, but also Scheme and a declarative language to explore the concepts.The subsequent coursework exploring Data structures/Algorithms uses Java, and then system-level architecture uses C and MIPS.

Every professor is extremely careful to make sure nobody leaves the course believing "This was a python course" or "This course taught me Java"; rather they emphasize the topics covered, using whichever language as the tool for exploration. Python is a great choice in this regard BECAUSE of how rapidly prototyping happens, perfect for a course built for exploration.
There is a lot of discussion in this thread if torture theoretically could be morally justified - ticking time bomb scenarios and so on. But his support is not for some theoretical scenario. It is for the actual CIA actions where people were tortured, where it didn't result in reliable intelligence, and where the CIA lied about the effectiveness of the torture.

Of course, even if the torture didn't lead to intelligence of any value, it still might have been effective. The purpose of torture when used around the world is not primarily to produce intelligence. The primary purpose is to punish, to instill fear into the enemy, and to provide satisfaction. You can still support torture even if you know it does't provided intelligence of value, if you believe the other purposes justifies it.

Bu can you really be called a "good person" if you support torture for the sake of the fear and the pain and the satisfaction? I guess you can - if you are rich and influential enough.
Where is your evidence that pay is "set by a giant, uncoordinated, massively competitive process?" Pay is set by a variety of factors that generally favor the wealthy and connected, usually in such a way that workers rarely benefit from expanded wealth (wage stagnation). Additionally there is a coordinated effort (see: any Koch political outfit or its allies) to weaken and destroy unions, which are the principle means other than law that laborers gain in wages and working conditions. Moreover, there is very strong evidence in the form of the subject of this thread that pay is set, at least to some non trivial extent, by acts of collusion.

It seems to me you believe very strongly in a black-and-white world where "the market" functions just fine. It is terribly out of sync with actual evidence, though, which you simply brush aside while scribing arguments containing numerous unsupported assertions and demands that others support their statements. As if we should simply accept your point of view as the truth by default.
Which leads to the even more useful page of:
https://www.drumbeat.org/node/1544/about

It's a peer-to-peer online university, where students teach courses about the areas they're experts in, while others can gain course credit for taking and performing well on those courses. The hope is to gain some credibility with employers by the end of 2011 and to have ~250 courses offered as an alternative to currently expensive certifications and often outdated university courses on web development.
It could be formulated as: "No fundamental law has an infinite application domain."

Every law is broken outside curtain boundaries.
Blizzard uses it for WoW and Starcraft II as well.
Do you really think that the only reason to use CSS over table is because of purists? CSS is much easier to manage than tables and css frameworks have fixed all issues related cross-browsers problems.
Very good illustration of needing an experienced startup lawyer. It's true. And really interesting story in its own right :)
Judging from the top questions that I read, this is not a site for linguists, at least not ones interested in descriptive rules of language. Nearly all questions asked about standards of written English, which are arbitrary and uninteresting to a linguist, except in that the bickering over what is “proper” might bring to our attention divergent forms among varieties of English.

For people interested in the debate over whether a “correct” English (or any language for that matter) exists, here is an interesting article by Geoffrey Pullum:

http://people.ucsc.edu/~pullum/MLA2004.pdf

Re: written English vs. spoken English
Spoken English is a primary linguistic form while written English is secondary or parasitic on spoken forms, so actually from a linguistic perspective, calling written English a language is wrong. English exists in speakers’ minds and written English is a filtered encoding of that language with certain non-linguistic constraints put upon it (e.g. in my dialect of English, dropping an auxiliary at the beginning of a yes/no question is completely okay, but in writing, I hardly ever do this, unless in a very informal context. This is because written standards tell me not to.)
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So much true.

I have built many personal finance and analytical tools for my own use with Excel and Google Sheets in few mins and have extended their features as needed from there.

I have been using some of these sheets for years and are better to my needs than buying an app or subscribing to a SaaS web product.
It is not okay to include others in your sexual activities without consent. That's the line. Getting aroused by doing something in the public / been seen doing something means involuntary participation of others, which is not okay.
> Because our society is structurally and historically configured to not be fair to people based on color

Yet it is people like you perpetuating this.

> is to dismantle the endemic systemic racism that currently exists.

And how does codifying and encouraging racist behavior help with that?
Regardless though, it is up to the BBC to take it down.
I'll try to steel-man the OP's argument. The notion that there's both a biological component and a sexism component to the statistical divergence between equal-sex representation in CS, should not be contradictory. OTOH, if someone is primed with an argument about the biological component, they might behave differently when encountering a female peer. So, for instance, there's a psychological component to reading Damore's memo, and even the most objective of minds are vulnerable to a subconscious bias. Furthermore, a genuinely sexist person could easily shield themselves with this argument to justify conscious and biased sexual discrimination.
Imagine my name was printed in my early HN posts. Then imagine I became the most influential commenter on HN - to the point I was shifting political discourse online. The idea of a newspaper not printing my name in a story about me would be absurd.

It wouldn't really matter if I said it would hurt my current business or that my wife would be upset that I was commenting so much online. It isn't really the newspaper's job to worry about those things because, as you said, it isn't a PR piece.
Shhh, we need to cover the uncomfortable truth that our numbers could have been better if we took (and take) the threat serious
Those suffering from tinnitus, a couple of things I discovered. One is some medicines may aggravate tinnitus. For me it was my BP medicine. When I switched to different one, my tinnitus was greatly reduced. However I still have some tinnitus due to hearing loss. So when I got hearing aids, after a month of adapting, I noticed the hearing aids suppress the tinnitus even further.
Also in a previous comment by the author, before the DMCA:

I also believe that it's not in Trello Inc. interest to try to censure us because of the Streisand effect, and it would be overly complex (I live in France, Yaşar lives in Turkey, we don't have a common company or an organization, and in fact we never met each other in the real life), and even if they stop us, and because the code is distributed under the MIT license some other will take the relay (remember PopCornTime anyone?).

That, combined the author posting it to on HN several hours after getting the DMCA, makes it clear that the author does not care about blatantly ripping off and redistributing others' work. Regardless of whatever their proposed solution would be for correcting the infringement, I doubt this project will ever be safe to use under assumption of an open source license.
15:36

> I'll execute if loop

What is if loop? Do you mean if statement?
Note that parenthetical contradicts the "zero days to fix" definition. (No patch available is not zero days to fix "in other words".) That suggests the term as commonly understood is a bit fuzzy.

Personally, I've noticed more use of "zero-day" to mean "exploits are now public but no patch is yet available" than to mean literally "programmers just learned of the bug today".
As far as I can tell, they're not actually hotlinking anything - they just copied it once into their repo. Did I miss something?
Whatever you do, please don't design your own chip.
I'm confused, why would they be working on React and SpacePen? Don't they do (roughly) the same job?
As a result, noise is reduced and we end up with a cleaner picture -- just as we would if we had one big imaging sensor instead of two little ones.

But the two lenses are taking the picture from different angles, and with different focal lengths! I don't understand how matching of pixels is possible without an error greater than the noise they are trying to remove... It definitely can't be equivalent to one large sensor, as they claim. Unless they can somehow route the image from one lens to both sensors? Is that even possible?
Features, userbase, talent; the same reasons a developer or engineer would work with any company.

Let's play a game; how many degrees separated from Facebook is HN and YC? You go first, take a guess!
A union that is getting contracts because they contribute to the right people is the corrupt devil. A union that provides for their workers salary, safety, retirement, or whatever other good is fine, but many unions cross the line to not allowing non-union workers fair ground to compete with them and that is evil.
"AMD Pre-Announces 64-core Threadripper 3990X: Time To Open Your Wallet"

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15151/amd-preannounces-64-cor...
I'm not entirely sure it's fair to say that London's minicab market was particularly corrupt. Uber's real success in London was marketing and investment meaning that it'd could grow rapidly, I believe Addison Lee had a booking app concept at the time, so not even that was particularly new.
Using a bot to reserve it before all the other bots snap it up.
> I disagree. The UK could be viewed as more "socialist" than Ghana...

Yes, Ghana has been through a lot of dictatorship rule until recently when we saw the light of reducing government involvement in people's lives. But why does that matter here?

>Also, with the tactics Uber has historically used - in a "proper" free market, would they not become a monopoly?

How so? it's very easy to start a ride-hailing service. In fact, I've lost count of how many of them we have here in Accra. Uber itself has been forced to reduce its charges by other competitors like Yango[1], Bolt(Taxify) and even ironically the traditional taxi providers.

These days, I don't even bother to order uber or Yango or Taxify because the taxis are responding to the competition.

[1] https://yango.yandex.com/en_gh/
Oh man. This brings me back. I'm from Ireland and I raised so many red flags and assumptions from people when my wife (American) and I married less than a year after dating (married 16 years now in NY with two kids and our second dog).

I would also argue that the US is a much less attractive option for people now than when it was 10/15 years ago, given how immigrants and immigration has become even more divisive among white people.
I would check why my code do 500 requests in the first place. That's unsane unless you do some kind of video game.
What about Push? Can't anything be done with it? Like Mail.app
Cool! 20 years ago, I tried using PCR quantitatively to study estrogen receptor gene expression in feline uterine epithelial cells for my senior thesis. I didn't end up doing much science though, because I spent too much time hung up on techniques.
When I was a boy we visited... not sure, Granada I think. There were both a museum and shops around that sold swords, of the old broad type. They weigthed a lot. The teacher made us notice the size of armour. That people were very short and still could wield 15 kg effectively.
DHS was created by consolidating several existing agencies. One of them is ICE, which has traditionally had a role fighting counterfeit goods and copyright infringement. Yes, it's bad that they suck so badly at their job -- but this isn't a "power grab"
Link:
www.furlango.com
I just checked it again. Looks ok to me. Any one control in particular.
Any one else seeing the same issue.
I'm definitely not snubbing you! I just basically don't remember anything. It's impossible to do that in this job—my brain has been sandblasted into statelessness a long time ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

I'm always happy to try to explain the intended spirit of this site, and how we interpret the guidelines, as best I can. But posting "what a shit country" isn't a borderline infraction—how do you think HN users from that country are going to feel when they read such a thing?

From your comment here, it sounds like you might be feeling that moderation is somehow personal towards you. I can tell you for certain that that's not the case. But I'm not sure what else to add that would make you feel better. I don't see any emails from you in the archive, so if you've emailed many times, you must not have mentioned your username.

There's lots of forgiveness - we don't want to exclude anybody who sincerely wants to use the site as intended. At the same time, your 0.002% argument doesn't work when it comes to breaking the rules, for the same reason you can't get out of a speeding ticket by saying "I drive below the speed limit 99.998% of the time".
I hate to be that guy, but you're thinking about endonyms and eponyms.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exonym_and_endonym:

The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names defines:

Endonym: Name of a geographical feature in an official or well-established language occurring in that area where the feature is located.

Exonym: Name used in a specific language for a geographical feature situated outside the area where that language is spoken, and differing in its form from the name used in an official or well-established language of that area where the geographical feature is located.[2]

For example, China, India and Germany are the English exonyms corresponding to the endonyms Zhongguo, Bharat and Deutschland, respectively.
It's a hard question, but the threshold issue is: how far is that solution from the status quo? If you start reasoning from the set of principles you can reasonably impute onto Obama just based on his politics, the answer is: not that far. And if you want to know why he doesn't seem that concerned about the whole situation, there's your answer.
Where is the list of controls? I would be really interested to see their grid layout control implementation. This is something web is struggling with.
WhatsApp went from being a poster child to an ugly donkey in my country (Uzbekistan & other countries in Central Asia). Just two years ago everyone I knew was using WhatsApp, and what happened now? Most people use either Viber or Telegram, because uploading/downloading pics on WhatsApp takes forever.

WhatsApp had a POTENTIALLY massive commercial use here and they blew it with paid subscriptions (which people in my country can't pay through Apple/Google stores). So people started switching their mobile numbers to get back into WhatsApp, which actually was really bad for WhatsApp but they blindly saw that as success. Their growth team probably said: "We are killing it because more and more people are signing up!" Yeah, but what's the churn rate? It's probably huge as well. These unique mobile users that they counted were actually the same people who couldn't find a way to pay.

Ok, so if anyone from Whatsapp happened to read my post, here is how you can make (or could have made) money:
- Charge businesses to communicate with their clients through WhatsApp. This is very straightforward -- businesses need A MAC/PC CLIENT for their team to talk to customers. I know our tech company wanted it, but you wouldn't let third party clients exist. So we sticked with Viber and Telegram. Luckily regular users also ditched WhatsApp.

And look, we were not the only ones who needed it. The guy selling shoes/clothes would show products through WhatsApp. The local florist would show what he had available on particular day through pics on WhatsApp. Then he got tired of sending these pics to everyone, so he wanted to have these pics in his profile page. So who offered multiple pics in the profile? Telegram did. As much as I hated their deceptive claim about "being the most secure app", they actually managed to listen to users.
I've paid for it once, but before that I had at least two extensions, and since I paid I've had one extension.
sslh is linked from his page
Shakes fist you will be ;)

This looks better though, IMHO.
Definitely some similarities exist like you listed.

Riot offers following to the (massive) client-side table:

1. Custom tags (with unscary HTML + JS syntax)

2. Minimalism (both size and API surface)

3. Performance (minimizing DOM operations with virtual DOM)

The 3rd item is not battle-tested / benchmarked yet and there is probably room for improvements.
I know it is not good HN policy to doubt your intentions but by emphasizing the NOT's, DEIDENTIFIED and YOU, you make me highly suspicious. Anonymization of data is difficult at best and sometimes nearly impossible so I would advise to publish the entire protocol if you want to give people assurances. The encryption key, as already stated, is pointless without an explanation how you use it and why it is employed and is otherwise just smoke and mirrors and no real security.
I thought about it. When balance php servers will not be a problem, problem will be with database.
At the point where you're using a theorem prover you're not really writing C any more (I mean, do you count ATS as writing C?). It's a perfectly good way to produce reliable code, sure. But I'm pretty sure it's not what the article is advocating.

> And then, as ill as you speak of C, you turn around and plug your Java systems into C systems, such as Varnish, Nginx, Apache, PostgreSQL, or thousands others that you use every day, not to mention the OS itself.

I do my best to minimize the C surface, and I worry about what I am exposing. E.g. I don't put Apache/Nginx/etc. anywhere in my stack (I either route directly to the JVM or use an Erlang load balancer), which means I wasn't running around patching them in the wake of Heartbleed. I'd use e.g. Riak over PostgreSQL wherever possible.
> Raising the cost of the human makes the robot more attractive sooner.

Which is exactly why the minimum wage should rise. Just like the price of coal energy should rise or the cost of unsustainable goods should rise.

People are a limited resource and you can get only so many people over time. It is important that people, who are entities of incredible intelligence should be repurposed to harder and mentally more involved processes.
Fond memories. I was the editor in charge of that cover story and wrote several sections.

I still remember personally inspecting the innards of the 165 machines that the team exhaustively tested in the lab. The effort we all put in to produce more than 60 data-heavy print pages for a single story was brutal, but seeing the physical magazine that got delivered to more than a million subscribers was tremendously satisfying.

It was an amazing time for the industry. Processors kept improving by leaps and bounds, decent graphics and "multimedia" (which we take entirely for granted today) were rapidly becoming a reality, and software was getting more interesting by the day. To put the timing in context, it was about a year before the Netscape IPO and emergence of widespread visibility of the World Wide Web.

PCs were still a costly investment. The Dell machine that was one of our Editors' Choices cost over $3,000. For that -- about $5,000 in today's dollars -- you'd get a 90-MHz Pentium processor, 16MB of RAM, a 1GB IDE drive, and a 15-inch CRT monitor driven by a graphics card with 2MB of RAM. Compare that with, say, the phone you carry in your pocket every day...
Are you allowed to do this with fonts you got from Google under their terms of service?

I always figured they reason they didn't make it easy themselves was cause they didn't allow it, but never actually checked. I would kind of like to serve google fonts with cache-forever headers -- google strangely doesn't. I'd also like to package them up in a web project I'd like to make runnable from local file system without internet.
But, and I am a Ruby neophyte, someone, not the language designer, wrote a library / DSL that somewhere has "end_of_day" defined.

Now I would never ever trust that this nice person got end of day right for my 100M project. Because they cannot. Is that end of day as in close of business or as in midnight? Is that end of day as in the time some we start that process in ? Or end of day as some arbitrary cut off for a global company (frequently in my experience it's a New York day whereas every library starts using UTC). Don't start on leap seconds, leap days, process allocates that can kick off your code on a machine in HK or NY.

Really this stuff needs to be written as a stdlib in the organisation using it. Datetime might be verbose but I can read that code and see what it does in any python program - "end of day" is something I need to go and find the underlying library for.
The python ones, Hy and Pixie, look pretty cool. Two very different takes on what it means to "use python" for a lisp.

Pixie uses the RPython toolchain and is totally its own language, with its own VM and JIT.

Hy appears to be python with lisp syntax.

Both sound fascinating.
There is always scarcity with out of production sets, how is that an indicator of collectors depriving the market? If anything, your ability to purchase an out of production set new in the box is because of collectors.
> I don't know how you could expect to be even that valuable

I've had roles where I changed ~5 lines of code that resulted in at least my yearly salary worth of reduced operating costs. Programming can be a high-leverage activity, FAANG salaries aren't necessarily irrational.