jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am working on a low-code volunteer management system for crowd tasking volunteers. It will use Whatsapp, Google sheets, and Google forms for registering volunteers and notifying them about volunteer tasks.

https://github.com/crowd-tasking

I have a second personal project which also takes up some of my time. It is a chess game played on a smaller board (also has a blind mode).

https://halfchess.com
As a seller we see lots of refunds go to customers for this (we see the refund, but Amazon covers it since they’re doing the fulfillment).
Dual booting/VMs might not be practical or worth the effort if you're a gamer or work in one of these fields: mechanical/electrical engineering, firmware, lab or factory automation, architecture, etc.
What benefits does it provide over self-hosting gitlab or gitea?
I couldn't find anything either. Didn't expect click bait from Penn State.
I don't understand. Shouldn't these items then no longer be branded "Amazon prime"?
I’m aware that Linux supports ARM (it also supports PowerPC) but if I’m not running my services on an ARM server, that doesn’t help me. Hence the last sentence of my post.
No https PG?
The hard parts are almost always the robotic arm and other similar mechanisms such as legs. A wheeled rover base is pretty much the TodoMVC for robotics.
Been thinking the same thing for just as long. "int" was supposed to be a full native word. Nowadays it's best to never use "int".
The market for Hummel figurines was large and growing for many years. Now they've fallen out of fashion and are basically given away in estate sales as the collectors die off.
I think Canada still comes out ahead… in the US:

* high monthly premiums for healthcare with high deductibles (I pay 14k a year with a 5k deductible for each person in my family)

* high medication prices (people often buy drugs from canada)

* 0 maternity leave (15 weeks max in Canada)

* 0 vacation (2-3 weeks in Canada)

* less accessible child care (Canada is working on building out ~$10/day child care, it can easily cost ~$20k a year in the US)

* less affordable college tuition

* higher crime rates, higher incarceration rates

* lower minimum wage (canada’s is nearly double)

* at-will employment, termination without cause or severance (in canada you can be fired easily, but reasonable severance is required)

* reduced access to abortion (significantly in some states as of late)
Your 30 year old sedan analogy is terrible. A space shuttle isn't a "daily driver" that NASA changes the oil in every three months or 3 million miles. They're meticulously maintained. Yes, they're old tech and certainly in need of replacement, but they're not bad just because they're old.

Heck, thousands of people use the Golden Gate bridge every day, and it's 70 years old!

Anyway, I'm much less pessimistic w.r.t. NASA than you. Am I disappointed that we don't have permanent bases on the moon and mars? Most definitely. I'm a huge fan of space exploration, and I really wish we were farther along. That said, NASAs robotic exploration continues to impress. There have been failures, mismanagement and poor performance in plenty of cases, but I'd be willing to pay even more tax to increase NASAs budget. I still view them as a good example of things the public sector can do right.
(Different type of thing, but here's the best Zed video I've seen: http://vimeo.com/2723800)*

Great talk! I really enjoyed how you explained where the business people are coming from, described the pains of being an engineer to the crowd, and then tried to describe a middle path. Very enlightened.
Based on your User-Agent, Google's CSS service only responds with a CSS to either a .woff, .woff2 .eot, .svg or .ttf font file. For local hosting you'll need to order these formats in a compatibility sequence, so every browser gets the one it supports (nice writeup here: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/using-font-face/).

As all files are the exact same ones Google is hosting in the wild, I don't feel like you'll lose any optimizations (which might be the case when using font generation services like FontSquirrel).
"This provides an engineering anecdote that adblocking is worth more than half a gig to a large fraction of the population"

That's a reasonable conclusion only if people are aware that they're making the trade, which I suspect most users are not (otherwise this article would be rather boring)
Facebook choosing to improve upon PHP is still, arguably, a (weak) argument for PHP as a language which is, at least, worth improving upon. Given their money and resources, they could have chosen to abandon it entirely, but they didn't. Maybe a more accurate form of this argument would be "Facebook still doesn't entirely hate PHP."

And even so, there are obviously plenty of sites, and even startups, using PHP, but facebook seems to be the goto for PHP advocacy in sort of the same way that a certain ranty blog post is for its detractors, neither of which really requires much effort to employ, or counter.
I'm glad you included a link. Those templates are great! Thanks for offering them for free.
We live in a convoluted world. The message seemed simple enough for me.
If you love this talk, you should read "Shaping Things" by Bruce Sterling. Non-affiliate link: http://www.amazon.com/Shaping-Things-Mediaworks-Pamphlets-St...

It talks about the history of objects, the future that Schell talks about, and then what's next after that... 'biots.'
Non-programmers know that they're not supposed to understand programming. People who've taken a reasonable number of math classes tend to feel like they should know more than a tiny fraction of the math that's out there, even if this expectation is unreasonable.
"Just saying. The 20s are ment to have fun, get laid, drink booze, write some code, then go out again. You wont be 20some again, it is a once in a lifetime opportunity to enjoy life (and start something at the same time)."

And for those of us that have no interest in several of these things that are allegedly essential to "enjoying life" in one's 20s?
And what exactly is the point of "advertising" a song to people who, for all intents and purposes, already own it?
yes, but that would not be enough to do something useful [yet, and less so with lisp]

Theres lots of housekeeping [~bs] in programming, maybe some in math too.
Would that amount vary much if the person you were to kill was someone you cared about?
Your local webserver will likely also respond on 0.0.0.0; if you bind to a port on 0.0.0.0, you listen on all interfaces, which is the default in apache.
I'd be real interested in their method for finding only the content of a page for "reading". Is it a custom template for most major sites or something smarter?
> the level of formality and carefulness in discourse is considerably higher than SO or HN

Well, HN is pre-college kids arguing with those who went to college about whether it was worth it.
Mass probably is only significant because it makes the stopping distance longer.
iOS devices themselves offer most of the hardware security features Blackberry (old) offers (I actually know zero about BB X; it seemed unlikely to live to adulthood, so I've ignored it). I love iOS for that.

iOS is undeniably a better web browser experience than Blackberry. It also has a viable app ecosystem, but that mostly doesn't matter for enterprise.

The only large OS X Server-managed deployment I've heard of is Apple internally. In Silicon Valley, I'd probably go with iOS-only (I don't believe in BYOD, and crossplatform means LCD and pain) with either a third-party MDM or maybe try OS X server. No way I'd do that in a 100k seat enterprise with high security requirements -- 30-50 person shops aren't really "enterprise".

I am excited about iOS 7, but not at all excited about Apple's lack of any real focus on enterprise. The only reason Apple has stuff like Kerberos support in OSX is that Apple uses it internally.

Apple focuses on consumer (primarily), with iCloud, etc. as the main management tool. There is a little bit more for small businesses and some smaller education deployments, but aside from Apple.com, there isn't much attention given to the enterprise market.

(If I got to pick a job, I'd rather be HHIC of Apple Enterprise Products/Enterprise Security rather than CEO of Microsoft, personally. Either would be a turnaround.)
A quick search on that page does not show any mention of "loss" nor "smell".

While anecdotal, I do know of at one person that has lost their sense of smell and taste for now over 5 months. Even worse, any smell she can actually notice (often the faintest of smells ) is disgusting to her. Independently of what the smell actually is. That person is young and to my knowledge not in a risk group at all. In the UK, she struggles to even get someone to take it more serious than just prescribing antidepressants. I would not be surprised if many of the minority of people with long-lasting effects are unknown to the system, because either they do not search for help, or because the health system does not take them seriously.

So again, one sample is not a study, but I just want to point out that overgeneralising in either direction does not help.
In the ideal case it should be constant and as close to zero as possible! Of course we don't live in that world for arbitrary scale, but surely "a one person SaaS" should be able to do without so much low-level tech and infrastructure work.

It seems to me that even when you outsource your infrastructure to a major cloud provider, you're still spending a lot of time yourself setting everything up.

I'm certainly not criticising Anthony here – what he's done, especially in terms of product development, is remarkable – but just thinking about the industry at large.
I think that's a common experience for people in the modern era, people are very atomised especially in cities and in white collar jobs where there's not much common toil to bond people together.
i never understood why americans are so obsessed in trying to shutdown spotify, i have just no words, this is ridiculous

is it because it is a successfull european company?
You assumed the diff algorithm only compares each line against one other line. That's not true.

You look at each line many times in these algorithms. Running time is O(n log n) or O(n^2) not O(n).

So you generate N hashes and compare each hash against log N or N other hashes.

So, for big enough data it should be faster.
So, if a flight has a high percentage of overweight passengers that causes an incident, too?
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I am talking about average/median salaries (everyday worker) - high end salaries don't matter much at a country's scale, I think. If neither gdp growth (below other European countries in the same category as Germany) nor median income growth is a good metric, what do you suggest instead to measure German success ?

Your comment made me realize I may have not been very clear - the issue is that Germany's success is measured in terms of exportation as is, which is known to be a common fallacy in economics. If it were because German's products became better at a cheaper price, then it would have been a good thing, but I am arguing it has been mostly through artificial deflation (income stagnation instead of money deflation as this is impossible in the eurozone).

This is not very polemic, btw, and is pretty much agreed upon by quite a few people, independently of their political inclination (see e.g. http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/03/martin-wolf-china-ger... for one reference)
I've used this in the past for projects and was pretty good:

http://www.zip-codes.com/
You've got it backwards. Techcrunch and YC are not in any way responsible for the economic environment that has been forming over the past decade. We're experiencing the second wave of the tech boom from the 1990's. TC and YC are cheerleaders for what was already occurring.

* Recession/weak job market for programmers is a thing of the past, at least in Silicon Valley.

The job market is weak, in terms of quality jobs and pay. Outside SV the job market for job seekers is absymal. There are many skilled programmers who don't live in SV and can earn more money developing websites and web apps than they can in the job market. Companies are being left with open jobs and unable to fill them because the talent is being eliminated from the job pool.

* Reducing this to $50/month has no meaningful impact on startup costs.

I was referring to the large-scale cloud computing, not replacing virtual dedicated hosts with VPS. I don't have exact numbers but I'd gamble that it costs 2 orders of magnitude less money to develop a large-scale datacenter than it did a decade ago.
Honest question, I'm not a distributed person. Why can't someone turn Signal federated? Wouldn't the centralized server just be a different server? Sure, you'd need to roll a custom app but plenty of people do that. I constantly see people here complaining about it not being federated, but the server is open sourced, so what's the issue?

Side note: isn't it good to be centralized while the app is quickly rolling out new features? Then a switch to federation would be better when all the features are enabled?
His entire presidency was marked by #NotMyPresident and every democrat member of government, media, and tech all supporting protests against him for 4 years straight. Did they give up? If not, then why should his supporters?
I don't think you're right here - Google's stated aim has long been to provide the best search experience for its users. Nothing it has done in the past, empirically, has shown that it wants anything otherwise. Even Cutts's response in the article above exposes such thinking.

To Google, what's best for the company is best for its users. Bing (and now DDG) are hot on their heels, and so it doesn't make sense when you claim that there's a split between what Google wants and what we want, which are better search results, etc etc.
If that's the case, they can't enter it into a computer anyway, so don't worry about it.
What if you die before then does the money come out of the loser's estate?
They have an ad network to cater to first, searchers come second.

I'd like to think that isn't true. But if it was, my point stands - as a searcher, I am willing to go somewhere where the searchers come first. Search is not a lock-in. Changing search engines is almost painless.
1) Specify which Lisp you're talking about. "Lisp" in and of itself most generally means a family of languages, making the submission title sorta worthless.

2) Assuming you mean Common Lisp, it isn't purely functional. You can do imperative, OO and functional programming with Common Lisp. If anything, languages like Haskell have more right to be offended, which leads me to my next point...

3) More languages than Lisp support the functional paradigm. Yes, the submitted page is dumb in the typical Wolfram way (everything I do is an assimilation of what other people have already done but it's SO MUCH BETTER THAN ANYTHING LIKE IT BLAH BLAH BLAH), but there's no reason to get defensive about Lisp in particular.

No one is going to take Lisp away from us. Chill out!
Funny that Apple went for B with notifications.
First off, speed is not scalability. I think we need to start talking about "scalability" in terms of the "speed" / "cost". I can get billions of req/sec if I have billions of dollars. What scalability should be is getting as much as you can performance/stability wise with the least amount of money.

With that being said, the plan is that since all backends and frontends can talk using arbitrary types of 0MQ sockets, and 0MQ provides for any kind of network layout, you can make it as "no single point of failure" as you have money to burn on. In my tests so far it's incredibly trivial to have 10 mongrel2 servers submitting requests using a subscribed UUID, and then have 20 backends servicing those requests and replying as needed. Since both the frontends and backends are just using basic messaging with subscribed queues it's fairly easy to get them to talk without any one of them being the point of failure.

Of course, with this comes a configuration penalty which I have to figure out. Either the backends then have to know where all the frontends are (probably easiest) or the frontends have to know about backends. I still haven't got that worked out, but again, it's fairly trivial to create a "registration" service where newly minted backends/frontends announce themselves.

Finally, all of these things have been solved no problem. The easiest answer is I'll just figure out how other people have done it and copy them. It's not like this is new territory or anything. The question itself is kind of stupid because you're saying, for some reason, 0mq precludes my ability to use any existing best practice architecture, when really they're orthogonal and I'm not just using 0mq.

tl;dr: The way everyone fucking does it.
Really? You will take a less vibrant, less helpful, and less forward-moving community over WP because you cant set it up right?
We turned down an investment and went the revenue-funded route instead. We grew a bit slower but it was absolutely the right decision.
Completely agree with the above sentiments, but that's not the end of the idiodicy. There are people who will link a video to make their argument. Not only are they unwilling (and usually unable) to put it in their own words, they won't even link a text article that does it for them.

So they expect me to watch a commercial and 3 minutes of video, when all they had to convey was a very concise point like "democrats offered to make 90% of the requested cuts, and the other side is shutting down the government over the last ten." But I "absolutely" must watch the video, with no summary of the point because "[my congresscritter hero] totally proves you wrong".

... and have the full support of the other reddit posters. F--- that.
Wow! This is an awesome story!
It is a good _book_. Far more enjoyable and memorable to read than only these notes.
So those two hex screws they show in the circular access panel are the only things preventing the guts of the mini from being removed through the back? That sounds pretty slick, actually.
Here's a decent (not good, decent) strategy:

1. Build a set of templates
2. Go to a few mom and pop shops
3. Sell said templates at a flatrate
4. Offer dirt cheap hosting $5/mo for 1 year
5. Prosper.
You're right and I'm wrong. You have people like Jay Electronica rapping and that's a good thing. A categorical dismissal was unfair but nonetheless a valid prescription for the original poster.
The alert mechanism looks for successful logins, not spam seen in the wild with his account as the sender, so yes, someone has definitely accessed his account...
Never going to happen. You can buy an external one for $100+ if you're so inclined, but Apple is clearly gunning for a future where physical media are irrelevant. It's the content that matters, not the delivery method.

Modern Blu-Ray titles are stamped out using the cheapest methods available anyway, there's no experience when using their product. It's a disc in a case with some cover art work. Very thrifty, cheapening the product considerably.

This is nothing like the old Criterion-style treatment with a nice box, some accompanying materials, and a sense of owning a piece of something important.

The future is downloads, Bittorrent or iTunes store or otherwise. It's the only method that will scale to the future. When Red is making a 28K camera, when Apple produces screens with 300+ DPI, you know Blu-Ray is only a stop-gap.
Eh, I don't care much about names. Purity-up-until-RTS being taken seriously makes it easy to think of computations both pure and impure. I get to choose whether to interpret IO as an imperative, impure language subset of Haskell or as a pure type. Both have their advantages.

If your language is impure then you usually can only choose the former.
May be so. However, Because of the fact that he is a newbie in the community, and not a spammer/troll, I'd like to give him the benefit of doubt.

Having a barrage of downvotes, just because you dint know the rules when you are new, without any explanation is not helpful (and slightly unfair and discouraging).
This is very big for Square.

The main issue with their flagship product is security. When every other country in the world is moving fast to accept chip card transactions a United States company comes out with a so called "innovative" product which reads the magstripe only.

Visa have been heavily pushing chip card technology so for them to push this product shows they are willing to allow Square some slack in the security requirements.
In addition to reuse of SSL sessions, files downloaded over HTTPS can be cacheable as well — you just need to add:

Cache-Control: max-age=<number of seconds>

this way you'll eliminate roundtrip needed for redownload/cache validation.
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>"There will be more to come, but the art of data center design has finally gotten around to addressing its major sources of wasted power. "We may move one day from 1.07 to 1.06 or even 1.05," he said. But there will be no more announcements of 38% power savings in a new data center versus the one that came before it, he said. Today is the time for dramatic gains. Tomorrow's gains will come much harder."

---

The future measurement will no longer be PUE, but compute density in a given square footage.

Especially when you have single service facilities like Facebook, and standardized architecture offerings like Amazon.

However - what we hopefully will see is "Designed for the compute cluster" chassis offerings from the major vendors, based on the work of Google, and now Facebook's open compute project.

The primary issues we have with DC design, and that are addressed by the open compute model, is that you have all these various vendors; PDU, UPS, Power Bus, Rack, Server, Cable Plant Components --- All these things "fit" together, but they are not DESIGNED together.

Meaning that they all get designed in a relative silo, though around standards that make them connectable, but not to become something greater than the sum of their parts.

Systems like hot aisle containment are still built effectively ad-hoc and custom for each datacenter.
This sounds like a network issue – though that doesn't take away from your point.

In my case, I can Watch Instantly for an entire movie, in HD, without any trouble at all, and it does start almost instantly.

If you're getting the bone, though, that points to the limitations any bandwidth-intensive business has to contend with as they scale. A decent number of potential customers are stuck with sloppy internet. I wonder at what point Netflix's growth becomes inhibited by the shitty state of US ISPs.

More interestingly, I wonder what moves they'll make to get around those limitations. They are a crafty company.
I second trade shows and conferences. Professionals in target demographics such as yours thrive on trade shows and similar networking events. I worked for nationwide company that had virtually no online presence, but they dominated events like these. It's amazing how much we depend on technology these days yet so much business goes on outside the bounds of the internet. Get out there and go for it!
"Early stage employees may not bear the risk, but they'll certainly bear much of the responsibility."

That nails it.