jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Andy Rooney complained about people who say, "I'm going to write a novel when I retire" but don't say, "I'm going to do brain surgery when I retire."

I think he might mean that writing for human consumption can be harder than most people think.
It doesn't.

But you can set a script to sync it periodically and it allows you to mount any remote as a network drive.

But of course, this is HN, a target audience that's generally to be able to use a command line tool and write a simple script.

I wouldn't recommend it on a regular users forum.
Java on Linux was interpreted until 1.3.1/1.4 when the VM, named ExactVM, was replaced by HotSpot which includes a JIT.

At that time, I remember deciding to prototype a B2B store in Java and then rewrite it in C++ when i will know what i was doing. I never rewrite that soft because Java becomes fast enough overnight.

In a sense, SUN kill itself with Java.
"The fact that it makes a lot of sense to use those terms hints that we might indeed be on the right track to building AGI "

But there is also the danger of false analogies doing damage, by creating the illusion of understanding something because the wording feels familiar.

There are no doubts similarities, but that does not mean, it is the same.

That happened a couple of times already with progess in technology and then simplified applied technical models to biological life.

So sure, I think so too, that we are on the right track, I am just a bit more hesistant.
It's worth noting though that in-place quicksort really doesn't play to Haskell's strengths - there are some examples of the code for it here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7717691/why-is-the-minim...
Suicide by pilot is another possibility. It's certainly happened before (SilkAir 185, EgyptAir 990, Germanwings 9525, possibly Malaysian 370)
> I would add that, after stack, tooling is not a problem anymore. It's not as good and polished as rust's cargo but it's ahead several other languages.

In a way Cabal 3 is even ahead of cargo, by being able of sharing build libraries between different projects and still having a sandbox like build for each project.

> There too many different ways of doing things (eg. strings, records), compiler errors need improvement, prelude has unsafe functions (eg. head), exceptions handling is not something I want in a pure language, ghc extensions change the language so much that using some extensions almost feel like having to learn another language.

For such a self called safe language, some things are almost comedy like, like getting exceptions for uninitialised record fields or unhandled alternatives in case expressions.

But Haskell still has a place in my heart and I‘m still following its development. But for my side projects Rust has replaced it, by being at some things even safer, but foremost safe at the places it‘s most important for me and also quite a bit more pragmatic. For me Rust combines the best parts of Haskell and C++.
I don’t understand, isn’t that what I did? Or I suppose, a link to a reply with screenshots of tweets clearly posted to Twitter?
I've never heard it called anything fancy, just the "wait calculation" or the "wait equation"

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2006/11/24/barnards-star-and...
Web apps work still.
> Look at Clojure. Weird parentheses, and yet it took the world by storm

Am I on another planet ? I'd rate clojure slightly above haskell in terms of market share. Is my radar broken ?
And while we think it's a big deal to most normal people it's a non-event.
the site relies on pretty much everyone being part of the site for it to be effective and checking it 24/7 to see if someone noticed them. Which is just never going to happen.

Yes, it's going to be a pageview generator, since you'll have people early on checking 100x a day to see if someone mentioned them, but give it a little time, and that'll stop since chances are noone will notice the post.

And this is why they mention the 20 million page views number instead of their uniques number.
Not at all surprising to me. Nokia is mostly a hardware company, and they just do not have a software house powerful enough to create mobile OS which could compete with iOS or Android.

Nokia is a good company, especially in the area of dumbphones (still a pretty big segment), but they are just not that good at making software - I tried in the past to use their windows client ;-)).

Nokia hardware + WP7 seems like a good combo to me.
You actually don't even have to zip it up. It just needs to be a folder with an index.html file in it. If Microsoft Word exports that, your non–technical person should be fine.
Yeah, it's a shame, had to install the Chromium snap only for this (Ubuntu 19.10). But then it did work very well (don't forget to enable the "record and play sound" permission for the snap.)
It wouldn't be an issue if the app was sandboxed. And I see no reason for a video conferencing to not be sandboxed or to implement similar privilege restrictions.
Not necessarily. Once someone has established that they won't engage in good faith ("told for decades that said national culture is hateful and outdated and must be destroyed without any decent replacement" isn't exactly an opening for discussion) it's wasted effort to engage.

It's still worth hoping they'll at least consider that downvotes aren't because people hate and fear the secret truth that they are the only one smart enough to see, though.

("Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.")
Still delivering next day in the UK, received some coffee beans this morning. Probably helps that the roads are a lot quieter than usual right now.
What's the point of pollution the conversation with useless ill informed fake-authoritative opinions that no one should act upon? This isn't "I tried Python and had a lot of problems with dynamic types", it's uninformed specualtion on an arbitrary sample of information the they haven't trained to understand.
This is the red scare all over again. “White” people are being targeted and now it’s even okay to remove their freedom of speech because someone has the moral high ground? Would anyone be surprised by a neo-HUAC comprised of Dorsey, Zuck, and Pichai? I’m beginning to think you all want that. I fear for the man who can’t see this as the slippery slope it is.

From my point of view, BLM has bad faith arguments and should be targeted. Perhaps a more neutral strategy should be used?
Conversation like that gets you in trouble with the Trust & Safety departments of all the social media giants. I think it's a major reason the debate is stifled.
People in Oz with slots already won’t release them until they know for sure they won’t need them. Bet you will see a flurry of releases the day before the flight (or they’ll just hold them until they are in NZ). But hopefully new booking demand will be reduced by this.
Don't mistake the post pandemic conditions for granted. Even after isolation working alone in a small apartment can be miserable, I find myself in the same situation, getting out for a bar or club in non working hours is not the same as working in a office. There are some simple idiotic social needs like small talk, or throw some jokes or even curse out loud in frustration that are difficult to get right outside the office.

Anyways, any argument down playing a situation is futile, let's just agree that every one is in a different situation and the best is to analyze case by case
Total, complete nonsense and lies. We have unemployment here - paid by the employer - and its substantial. I know several people who are even able to increase their savings while unemployed.
> While the cross-pollination of ideas from different teams and departments is lost

I don't think this needs to be lost. It just needs to be done more deliberately now if it is desired.

Remote work basically tosses out anything extra beyond your tasks as nothing happens naturally. You then get to craft what you want.
Crap often makes it to the front page. If the immune system (flags and moderation) functions correctly, it doesn't remain there for long.

I'm not saying this article is crap -- just that if it is, you probably just happened to see it before the white blood cells kicked in.
I usually set up nginx to "default ignore" and only respond to specific paths which I can name... works for api only domains at any rate. just use an explicit subfolder like /api/ ... cuts down on the noise.

location / {
return 444;
access_log off;
}

location /a/ {
...
}
This boggles my mind. I checkout and manually test every PR that I review, and the vast majority of the time (> 80%) I do find a bug. In fact, I'm very suspicious whenever my PR's get the green checkmark without any other feedback.
I feel like this is a good time to remind you, and everyone: never talk to federal agents. FBI, Fish and Game, Secret Service. Don't. They can say you told them anything, and guess what? It's a felony to lie to them. They will push a pre-written statement in front of you and if you refuse to sign it they will threaten you with saying you lied to them. Don't. Talk. To. Feds. Ever.
I suspect that DragonRuby is faster as a 2D game engine and doesn't make sense for a complex 3D game.
Sure.

But that's better than having multiple commenters across these threads show you links indicating that this wasn't a grand secret, which you just disregard because it doesn't fit a narrative.

shrug
Yeah. Someone also thought, “Party LET is a fine font.”
I think that's generally the point where it becomes more fun to give than to receive. At least that has been my experience.
I'm not saying you're wrong: I have been using python for so long, there are undoubtedly problems with it which I am so used to I just don't see them. But I'm curious about why python has a reputation in the ruby world as ugly.

And yes, installing scipy from scratch is a bear. If you're using a modern linux distribution, you probably want to install a python scipy package.
At the time I was living in Philadelphia. A year prior I had been living in San Fran or a touch under 70k and barely making it.
I didn't think the gender divide would be so big (after all, nearly half the tech podcasts I follow are hosted by women), but of the first 12,000 people to take the Firefox Test Pilot survey, 97% identified as male!
In many other languages it is agonizing to see a solution that does 95% of what you want. Without that last 5% it is unusable for your purposes and you are forced to reinvent a wheel.

As dangerous as they are, there is a reason people monkey patch. Refinements will just help remove the downsides.
"The US state department has said the release will put many lives at risk."

Yes, because the US government clearly has great concern for unnecessary loss of life :-/
Is this game going to be available for Wii?
The problem with posts like these is that this is a guy who was surprised multiple times, but statistically there should be some high ranking guy that was surprised multiple times. This court case comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Clark

As someone who has run probably 50 or more split tests I've been really surprised twice. Most of the time you don't know what is going to convert better and most of the time it's 10% here, another 10% there at multiple points in your funnel that, overall, total a 3x in your conversion rate. A 3x might not sound like a lot, but it's something like a 10+ fold in your ROI after you compare an advertising spend of $10 that nets you $12 in NPV vs one that nets you $36.
I use an IR trigger and a tripod :). iPhone has a timer though (at least on camera+).

I'd day jiggle induced by pressing the volume button is a non issue. In fact, on the next iPhone I would love to see this as a default behavior.
Another great example that I have learned and applied to one of my projects is from http://forkly.com/ . After you give your email for the invite, they provide a link that you can share on fb and/or twitter and if you share with at least 3 friends they will give you priority access.
I highly recommend taking the distillery tour at Maker's Mark. They put a lot of care into every aspect of the production process. They even let you dip your own bottle :)
Okay, name the town with > 2000 people in the United States that didn't have an ATM until 1990. I'm genuinely curious as to how that came about.
Very important point. Driving increases in CTR is a million times easier than driving increases in actual conversion rate. While the author mentioned that they saw "similarly impressive" increases in conversion, that isn't the norm. In a lot of cases, the extra traffic drawn in by jumping through hoops to increase CTR converts at a proportionately poorer rate - it's fickle, poor quality traffic.
This is surprisingly awful, in nearly every dimension. The melodies are approximately random within a given scale, the harmonies are aimless, and the instruments are the cheesiest I've heard in over a decade. There have been numerous algorithmic and automatic and learning composers over the years that are better than this, at least from an aesthetic perspective, or at least on par.

It's a hard problem, but I honestly expected something much more interesting from Wolfram. At the very least someone making something like this ought to make an effort to understand the current state of the art in the field.
On the one hand, you seem to be dismissing the person who maintains Home Depot's website and app as doing something trivial and unworthy. On the other hand, you're saying it's okay not to be an entrepreneur. The messages seem incompatible.

(BTW, I did not downvote.)
Square users only keep the device into their phones when they are taking a payment. When it is not needed they will carry it in their pocket, backpack, purse, or even put it on their keychains.

Even if someone were to keep the device in their phone all the time I do not think it would wear out their headphone jack. It is no different than keeping headphones plugged in all the time.
What I've never heard mentioned or answered is "how well does it scale?"... It seems to me that, after a few million nodes enter the network, it will take more time to process the transactions that are created than to create them, and gigabytes of space to store them.

Not to mention that new clients will basically never catch up with all this history. How do they solve this?
But drugs get you high. Bitcoins aren't an actual commodity.
I'm an engineer at Square. I'm sure most of the company is on here as well.
Congratulations to Myles

Alain's photo is incorrect
Yes, I already thought about that case. But I don't think it should be complicated to extend EncFS to handle that well (to just provide both versions to the end user in that case).
I think it's reasonable to distinguish "union" (collective bargaining) and "professional association" (which is what I understand the SO poster is talking about).

It's pointless for programmers to do collective bargaining - our skills are simply too diverse. But to have a professional association that can create standard contracts, assist it's members in negotiating out of stupid IP clauses, perhaps create some certifications etc. isn't a bad idea.
The most obvious one I can think of is that bodybuilding alters your physical appearance, and that is an important component of attraction for almost everyone. If you go to a site called FitnessSingles you expect the people you meet there to look a certain way (ie not fat).
I'm pretty sure Chrome Extensions allow you to integrate DLLs into your extension. Maybe this isn't the same thing you were referring to?

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/npapi.html
Collective bargaining power is better. A guy with a decade of experience may be able to negotiate a good deal, but for someone just out of university they'll likely be treated like their just lucky to have a job. Certain rules should apply industrywide.

For games industry in general a focus some sort of standardisation for credit would be useful. How long does one have to work on a project to be in the credits for example? People get screwed out of credit all the time.

Royalties is another point of contention. Some sort of standardisation for minimums would be useful. Call of Duty 2 has made well over a billion in revenue, yet there was all sorts of drama regarding royalties and the studio collapsed as a result and likely many walked away with nothing.
sigh

I wish people would stop down voting comments that they don't disagree with.
It goes to show you how complex the subject is when the intro is this long and requires this much explanation.
No. Unions are pure evil.
Union pensions & healthcare are a giant scam. Unions have completely underfunded their pensions and will go bankrupt in the not too distant future. The reason they are advocating national healthcare is that it will greatly reduce their financial burden.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/Examiner-Opi... (just a quick link -- i once saw a great list of pensions and their obligations but can't find it now)
1. In preview mode, format of name (16 character length) changed to 2 lines. <br> appended at the end of few lines

2. There must be download option for pdf or image

3. While writing, clicking "backspace" unknowingly, goes to last page, better make it "edit mode"

4. Provide more template

5. Provide option to add new category and ask for type of category (text, rating, check box, award, scholarship etc.)
You do realize that a large chunk of road deaths are pedestrians, people that explicitly did not choose to use a car and insted walk to their destination, and that are overwhelmingly killed by people that did choose a car?

I sure hope you do not drive if that is your attitude to safety.
25 minutes. Actually, no, I would just take the bus and arrive in 30 minutes, but having had spent the time doing something enjoyable rather than driving. :)
"However, the key nature of many of the sites affected, and the fact that entire sites, rather than just some of their pages, were blocked, is bound to lead to calls for this blunt instrument to be refined before it is used again."

It would be more worrying if ISPs could block individual pages on https sites like GitHub.
Just keep in mind that fever plus flu like symptoms is probably the flu!
Wow, reading this didn't give me any sympathy for her at all. I'm reminded of the episode of South Park where Cartman feels bad only about getting punished, no actual guilt or remorse for his crime, and fails to understand how the other kids can feel bad in any way other than because of punishment.

She steals someone else's work, gets caught and sends an arrogant, rude email with absurd claims (web is public domain) and then when she is hit with the internet backlash, she writes a post that it's not her fault because she was overworked and throws in an insincere apology where she still clearly doesn't believe she did anything wrong ("I think I did a nice job for you").

The original article didn't irk me nearly as much as her rebuttal. Quite frankly, if this really does put them out of business, they deserve it.
I wish I could uprate you with more than one vote.

Seriously, https performance sucks from start to finish. If the average user doesn't care about https, but does care about performance, who are they going to go with - you or your faster competitor?
I go through this every so often (actually last week was the most recent one), and I definitely agree that sleeping and spending your unproductive time learning new things is useful. The only problem is while you're in the process of getting out of the slump, people who are depending on you start to get angry, which only pushes you further into the slump. The only consolation is it's much easier to profusely apologize once you're back in good spirits.
Thank you. I really appreciate that you took your time to answer.

> All software has to use imperative programming at some level. Purely applicative programs can do nothing. The question is not whether the state of the world is modified, but how it is modified and if those modifications should be somehow segregated from other parts of the program.

We probably misunderstood each other, because I completely agree with that point. Now my point is that effect aren't segregated well enough. And that anyone who knows FP will have a better grasp of state, and will be able to segregate it more properly. I'm not against mutability. I'm against pervasive, rampant, unsegregated mutability, which I see way too much at work.

About your good reasons… I'd say reason 1, while still important, is invoked too often. It looks to me like premature optimization justify the use of verbose, unsafe, but familiar, techniques and languages. Reason 2 is basically the lack of teaching I was talking about. I don't know how to fix it, I just believe it should be. I partly deny reason 3. Command and control is of course best expressed with imperative programming, but no problem I saw is limited to that. Most problems have huge "pure" chunks, which are easily expressed applicatively. And in the large… I think modules developed by different teams should have explicit and small interfaces (if only to reduce communication overhead). Making those interfaces functionally pure where possible looks like the easiest way to achieve that. (Note that imperative inner cores don't bother me much, as long as the outer shells are kept pure.)

Apparently, I haven't read Dijkstra enough. I'll check it out.

It looks like I could learn from your code (you're definitely more experienced than I am). Could you show some you think I should look at?

> The real problem with programming today is aliasing.

Wait a minute, this sounds extremely interesting. I could say that the substitutability provided by purity makes that point moot, but I may have overlooked other problems (or solutions). Do you have a few pointers about that?
Of course there will be a regression if you change the scheduler policy. ck tried something similar to this and mplayer performance suffered with it (though I don't remember the details). It also broke gnome-startup because it assumed some specific schedule ordering, though this patch is more limited so it might not.
No, worst case is he gets fined $11k and then others are not only too afraid to opt-out, they're too afraid to speak-out.
Yup I'm a huge haml fan, and saw the similarities. I thought your post was great. Very clean, and you can keep optimizing it. I'm learning CL right now and this added some fuel to the motivation fire ;)
This is an interesting idea, and I will try it. Added methods mainly gets you if there is a name collision, it seems to me. Changing core methods, which is also possible, scares the bejeezus out of me.
For that matter Burroughs "Barsoom" books are fun:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barsoom

Definitely way more fantasy than sci-fi, but they're enjoyable nonetheless.
In the US you can fly AUVs like this one as long as you keep it in visual range at all times (and stay away from restricted airspace)
"Our search is still external to AppEngine but we're hoping that Google will do something about it sooner or later."

Certainly ironic for a Google platform to be so bad at search.
why is it wrong?
This is what I've never understood about GAE.

If you're small, GAE is free, but then, you could host anywhere for peanuts - just buy a linode or a small EC2 instance, it doesn't really matter.

Once your site becomes big, cost is going to matter and GAE is as expensive as anyone else, last time I looked, quite a bit more expensive.

So there is really not much advantage, it is only free when it doesn't matter, and when it does you're going to start looking for the exit pretty quickly, not just because of cost but because GAE imposes all kinds of limits which may make dealing with your problems much much harder.