jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Years ago I was automating control of 3rd party WiFi devices, many of which presented a console which would be a much more reliable means of controlling the device than trying to hack the web UIs of the time.

I was using Tcl mostly running on Windows, and the Expect library for some reason had tremendous lag, or maybe it was a paid extension from ActiveState, I can’t remember the exact reason for not using it...

So I decided to just reimplement my own ‘expect’ command using native Tcl and a socket with just enough knowledge of Telnet control codes to get a prompt to appear.

What amazed me was how few lines of code it took to implement a fully functional Expect, and how useful it was as a means of structuring the automation, specifically around timing when to send inputs, parsing outputs, and confirming an action completed.

I’ll try to dig up the old code and post it on Github...
You’re completely deluded into believing that genius is overrated. While it is never in isolation, and its fruits are the product of historical necessity, it takes a rare breed of sacrifice, which PG here is saying as obsession, to hit the targets no one else sees (paraphrasing Arthur Schopenhauer); and is constitutionally the personal, moral input of an individual on choosing how to cause themselves to be, unconcerned with the mediocre concerns of their contemporary society.

Shame on you and your ilk for suggesting Descartes, Newton, Kant etc. were just there picking low hanging fruit. They were doing work no one had the courage to do.
It implies the existence of a common underlying connection between music (or should I say art in general) and pretty much everything else.
And there's the science-society-art triangle that seems to work really nicely together as three pillars of knowledge you can pursue. There's a perspective based on either of those three you can take when considering anything.
I have no punchline, it's fascinating to me too.
Your fear is valid.
One way I solved it (partly) is to hire help. Use your financial comfort to buy back your own time by paying someone else to do chores like cleaning, dishes etc.
And the 1-2 hours per day that you'll save, now you can spend with your kid and/or on your interests.
>Nearly all medicine have side effects. People should be informed about them (it is included with the medicine, at least here).

Most medicine has minimal side effects for most people. "Very common" side effects are ones that effect 10% of people taking the medication.

People should be aware that side effects are possible, but they are unlikely. Going in with the attitude that side effects are inevitable makes one more susceptible to the placebo effect causing them.
Why is it that massive handouts in the form of quantitative easing over the past decade are fine but giving money to poor people will lead us to an instant Zimbabwe/Weimar situation?
I solved it by not being a software developer at work, and doing projects that interest me at home.
Maybe I will at some point, not in connection with this post.
Gravatar is too ubiquitous for me now that Wordpress owns it. Plus the Wordpress account requirement is really annoying. So I hope your project will become an alternative on many sites, OP!
They do, I checked. It comes in at a cool half million (Helloooo, investors!)
That's not a problem if you accept transactions in the mempool.
This is just afternoon hack to see if there is any demand for it.

It should be ISO, but before I allocate time to work on it I'd like to see if there any demand.
Our guys tried CentOS for awhile with OpenStack, but gave up because so much of it is clearly maintained with Ubuntu in mind. So they switched to Ubuntu and things have been mostly smooth sailing since then.
A visionary leader does not mean people underneath them are in full agreement -- just that they are compelled to follow the vision, and act undivided, even thought there is likely quite a bit of divisiveness at a personal level.

A democractic decision does not mean that people who disagreed will fight against the group. If their voice was heard, they know they will be part of the majority for other decisions, there is little reason not to cooperate when actually working on the project.

The source of the decision has far less to do with how divided a team is than the actual makeup and morale of that team.
Slack is an Electron app. It's basically their website on top of a bundled browser.

I don't know about the others. Are any of them native?
Rez = ?
Typically libraries don’t directly load one another. The language runtime does this.
One thing people don't understand about cost saving is that it almost always looks good in the short term. You save a lot of money by using commercial grade parts (like eMMC, the dashboard screen, etc.), or by hiring SW and HW engineers who have never worked in the automotive or embedded environment. It's sacrificing quality for quantity and price. But it's usually the customers who pay for it all, one way or another.

From Tesla's perspective the bet might have payed off, by the time this becomes an actual problem for them, they're already over the hump and weathered the worst of times, and can afford to spec them better (one would hope they learned something from this although I have my doubts). In reality probably the real reason this worked for Tesla is Musk's ability to build a fanatical fanbase that can drown out any other voice.
Company founders have learned that by simply being present in a big growing industry, they are virtually guaranteed for receiving investments. A rising tide will lift all boats.
It's GraphQL support is lovely.
That is what I mean by over-the-top rhetoric. On the scale of bad things, the asylum situation on the US-Mexico border is below what Australia is doing on Manus Island, below what India is doing on the border with Bangladesh, and none of those should even be discussed in the same paragraph as what China is doing.

It's Orwellian. When you contort the rhetoric and language such that you're unable to describe graduations and degrees in what we might all agree are bad things, you lose the ability to think clearly and make judgments rationally.
The article doesn't seem to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle
at all, which I think is her greatest accomplishment, formulating it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6725387 has some commentary on the <30 line JS spreadsheet. It includes some interesting discussion on functional "spreadsheet" implementation with Haskell.
Oh, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H... (without slash at the end)
I'm also a stronger believer in TypeScript not because it's necessarily "better" than Dart, whatever that would mean, but because it was designed from a much MUCH more pragmatic perspective with TypeScript being a mere superset of Javascript.

So while both transpile to Javascript and that's great when it comes to cross-browser reach, a large Dart codebase makes me nervous since there's a high barrier of both entry and exit if Google would abandon the project, which they have shown themselves to be good at doing, especially with little to no forewarning. TypeScript's approach just feels more sensible to me.

I like the vision set by Dart -- a complete toolkit in language as well as API for the modern web, client as well as server -- and while TypeScript may not share it, it does share the vision of greatly simplifying large scale web application development. Further, I think it even surpasses Dart on that front for above reasons and general workflow and migration reasons which cannot be underestimated in particular for a new language.
Sorry- my remark wasn't intended as a shill accusation, but re-reading it now, I see it.

It was tongue-in-cheek, I enjoyed the positivity in your original comment.
Time for the now, almost weekly, shoutout for http://reactiveui.net which is a functional reactive programming framework that uses the Reactive Extensions for .NET to create elegant, testable User Interfaces that run on any mobile or desktop platform.

Supports Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Mac, WPF, Windows Forms, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store apps. Check out "Writing Mobile Apps the Github Way by Paul Betts" @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voa44OHBKME

It is the framework that powers GitHub for Windows and various other undisclosed projects ;-)
Payscale shows The top salary for a software engineer in Índia to be around 130k USD. If we are talking about The same currency, and considering India's economic reality, I'd say you have the sweetest deal ever. Why move to SV and barely be able to pay the bills with a 250k USD salary? Of course money isn't everything and it might be a great cultural experience, but since you ate asking here, I assume that's not your priority.
Meerkat, the new social live-streaming platform developed by Ben Rubin and his team, undoubtedly dominated discussion at this year’s SXSW festival, with many heralding the social startup as the breakout app of the event. Has this new social phenomenon got what it takes to break into the lofty social vernacular? Or will the Twitter-owned rival, Periscope, be hot on its tail?
Let's not forget that a large need for anti-cheat comes from focus on centralized matchmaking overr community-hosted and community-moderated servers that were more common before the game industry's focus on monetizing their games to the last bit.
>truly talented writer, not really the kind of guy who should be held up as a moral teacher. had a long-term pattern of sleeping with his students

So? Unless the students where kids (as opposed to 18 and above), that's a moralist, religious-derived, US-centric concern (not that such moralism hasn't made its way and infected other parts of the world)...

People that call out adults for sleeping with whoever adult they like are worse than people that sleep with their adult students...
Are you suggesting that there weren't lots of arrests of rioters and looters this summer? I believe that many people were arrested any time the protests turned violent or in cases of significant vandalism. I know there were many highly reported arrests in my part of the country from the parts of the protests that went out of control.

Still, they weren't insurrectionists. They weren't trying to put someone in power who lost the election. That's an important distinction. Maybe we shouldn't compare them at all, but if we're going to, what MAGA did was worse.
Get everyone back to their right latitude won't be any need for all this fuss
Because population density and culture are the other factors. In most cases, combined with limiting large groups and reducing the frequency of meetings, it is doing what it is intended to do - reduce the R0 factor. Even in LA.

Every Internet pundit who can take one number and divide by another, announces they have proven something or other. Give it a rest.
> Regulations and subsidies are what make solar cheaper than coal in the US.

Please stop parroting this. Coal is cheaper than solar in the same way that a house with no down payment is free. The environmental debt from coal's CO2 emissions will far exceed costs of solar.
This was the most interesting finding: increasing production by 20% did more then increasing storage by 10x.
Everything in your comment really resonates with me—except I feel mostly powerless on getting to the second state. It either happens or it doesn't.

I can easily recognize the down periods, but like segmondy, I can't (or won't) do anything about them. In a free work environment, it's easy to rationalize not working right now with "I'm listless, it's better in the long run to rest." But too many of those occasions point to larges issues, such as not really caring about the work.

I self-identify with being intrinsically driven, as well as caring about my work. So now there's the meta-guilt of not being interested and motivated enough. Along with the normal guilt of "why won't you just harden the F up and do something."

Anyway, if you have written anything else along these lines, please post a link. I'd be very interested in reading it!
Looks like posting a youtube embed in the comments breaks things
The big difference IMO is that Microsoft and Apple have successful business models, where Facebook is still searching for one. There is less risk building on a platform that has a clearly defined and profitable business model.

Remember the widget economy? Facebook widget funds? With one redesign, Facebook singlehandedly wiped out the market.

You will always rely on third party products and services, it's unavoidable. Make sure you own the work that is core to your value prop, and only take on acceptable risks when outsourcing.
I disagree.

When I bought a new car, I used the dealer's website to study their inventory. Once I found the make, model and features I wanted, I used the "days on lot" number to negotiate a lower price. (Since, as I understand it, dealers make payments on their inventory; therefore, the longer the car is sitting on their lot, the more money the dealer has "lost".)

And when I bought used cars, using the internet helped save me thousands of dollars (close to $10K each time).
About 6 months ago, I left an ipad on a plane. Unsurprisingly, all my attempts to recover it led to dead ends. I didn't have the mobileme / findmyiphone app installed on it. I understand privacy concerns, but I'd actually like it if Apple did have a copy of this db, and they allowed me to proxy through them / law enforcement so that I could locate this lost device. I know someone has it b/c I can see they were using my Netflix account.
I don't recall any mention of the specific methods used in California, but in this case the officer took the phone when he arrested the person, so presumably the police had quite a long time to muck about with it. Here is one of the original articles covering the California Supreme Court ruling:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/warrantless-...
OK, let me put this differently.

Why do people use Node.js? Because it solves concurrency issues or because it's easy to use JavaScript application server?

Why do people use Erlang? Because it solves concurrency issues or because it's massively distributed and fault-tolerant system?

Just look at the popular projects and communities behind those two projects :)

Don't get me wrong, I agree that both solve concurrency issues, but this is just tiny part on which they overlap and I don't believe that they are meant to solve the same problems.
I guess you can judge the people, but I'm at a loss what you mean by judging the situation. I mean, if the incentives align a certain way to make a thing very likely to happen that thing is going to happen. The people responding to the incentives might be assholes, but you can't really judge the situation on the whole, any more than you can judge a seed for growing, once planted.

The thing is, it seems that the incentives don't actually line up in the first place. According to this data, the most successful games companies will be the ones where the developers work reasonable hours and are treated with respect. So what's going on?
SpaceX is all about getting into Earth orbit. It has no capacity or projects to go beyond there at present. Elon Musk has expressed a desire to do such things, but the company is not yet engaged with them. Doing so would likely involve fresh investment (for much larger amounts of money) and revaluation.

Earth orbit is hard in terms of energy costs, but relatively easy in other terms: you don't need to solve the long-term independent life support problem, manufacture things off-planet, or figure out how to do supply lines in space.
It was misleading and unfair. But to understand it, you have to imagine yourself as a young, woke, sheltered person who went to a top private high school, a top college, and then got an internship and a job writing at the NY Times. To these people, there's only one correct world-view and anyone who even questions it, or thinks some truths are nuanced, is evil.
I would say an article that claims:

>They are the ones that choose the president.

Is just like that junk food...
I’m with you man. My experience of caffeine is that it is one hell of a drug. From its effects on sleep (a vital process), to its control over our mood.
There are plenty of skilled engineers who either don't make it into FAANG or don't manage to get into the US.
I know it seems like that but most people simply “negotiate” by getting multiple offers and taking the one that suits them best, or leaving one company and joining another. In that way it’s a bit like a blind auction. Whatever room to negotiate you’ve left at the top of your offer represents risk that you’ve underestimated the other partys’ offers.
Been years since I've read it but Getting to Yes is a nice slim volume that seems still to be hugely popular.
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I don’t know about (1) and (2), but since v. 1.0 there has been practically no need to rewrite. I believe there is a commitment to not introducing breaking changes, or at least a strong reluctance to do so.

EDIT after actually looking at the article: the “no breaking changes” commitment is right at the top.
PSA: if you've not used it in awhile, use the betas via F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fsck.k9/ You have to click "Versions" from the F-Droid app and specifically opt-in (and upgrade) the betas, F-Droid will default to installing the older stable version.

The betas are almost night (mode heh) and day apart, the UI and operations have almost a complete overhaul from the old days and it looks (and works) really great on my Android 11 device. This isn't K-9 Mail on your T-Mobile G1 anymore, it's a brand new day for the betas.
Facebook as stated they are not making a phone, but they didnt say they were not making a phone OS like Android. Im thinking a Facebook mobile OS makes sense. THose you want to talk(voice, text, IM, pics, etc) with are on your facebook now and they just released their new social inbox. This is all speculative but just maybe they'll do this?
Are these normal text messages or premium texts? I don't want to be charged extra for something that's free.
See, that's the kind of mean spirited reading of texts I hate so much. They were made aware of the issue, they looked at the code and (they claim) that it doesn't behave as designed because of a bug. This is them saying "We didn't design the cache to never be purged, that's a bug." Whether you believe that or not is your own problem but that's the whole story, writing "a bug we uncovered" is entirely appropriate in that context.
You're not wrong, but note that there are lots of histories of Athens. The same cannot be said for most contemporary states, which were almost all ruled by a king/dictator or oligarchy.

Athens at least burned brightly.
I'm not a fan of direct democracy but this article isn't factually based. Notice they only give one specific example. That one example is Prop 13 which limited the amount of taxes that could be put on property and required a two-thirds majority to pass any tax increases.

Now let me ask this: If Prop 13 is such a hindrance why is California in the top 5 highest taxing states across the board?

Beyond that most of the initiatives are either social issues (Gay Marriage) or done by Percentage (Prop 98 that requires 40% of general fund spending be spent on Education).

So California's problems are not because of direct democracy. The reason the Economist is writing about this now is because they are (by their own admission) a left-leaning publication and Democrats in California believe the solution to California's problems is a tax hike. But they can't get it done without a couple Republicans because of the 2/3rd rule (imposed by Prop 13, again the only named example in the article). So the problem from their immediate perspective is "Direct Democracy".

But mark my words, some day down the line Republicans will get power in California and they will want to cut money to public schools. When that happens I'd bet all the money in my Bank Account the Democrats are going to be holding Direct Democracy up as their savior.
I would like to see two things; 1. change the '...a lot of...' to '...all of...' with reference to the data being accessible. And 2. expand the purview beyond institutional sources to individual sources. I've got documents that would make a small be excellent addition to what it was like to be a solider in the south--- and I'd have no objection to them being wildly available.
Are these normal text messages or premium texts. I don't want to be charged extra for something that's free.
Players are the ultimate spanner in the works. Ultima Online famously had lofty ideals about simulation, particularly of ecology, which were abandoned when players were introduced and they promptly murdered everything.

This looks interesting from the point of view of not having to roll your own dynamic spatial load balancing and DB backend for an MMO. There's not really enough information around to know what particularly is unique about their implementation other than they are licensing it to other developers.

The game using it with the most public facing information is Worlds Adrift by Bossa Studios.
"Fear is a dictator's best friend"

FTFY :-)
This uses WebWorkers ("Javascript threads") to make your visitors compute stuff for you.

I imagine people travelling with laptops would be less than pleased (they do detect "mobile" browsers and shut off, apparently). I'm also not sure how useful an unreliable MapReduce node running Javascript is...
Ok this is the answer I was looking for - but a bit unexpected. I can certainly understand an NDA for working there, but interviewing? ok...

As for comments farther down, it's a case of curiosity like I said - corporate/company culture, not their products. I think that's relative no matter what the company size is.
There's a little typo in item 5:

"Will allow you to mount a folder security over a network."

I guess the author meant instead:

"Will allow you to mount a folder securely over a network."
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~rtate/publications/proofgen/

"Generating optimizations from proofs"

They developed main algorithm using category theory.
> remember not to talk too fast.

1000x Yes. The first couple of run throughs, talk so slow it's painful. Just drag things out and speak very clearly. Record it and listen, it'll probably be faster than you expect.

Also, try dividing your speech up and using a lap timer - sometimes when you go back to work on rough spots and hit certain sections more than others, it messes with your pacing.

And be relaxed, but enunciate! Auditoriums and microphones are less forgiving on the rounded edges of speech.
AFAIK they didn't do anything special to save two frames, just a CRT (which is what's used on LAN) has 2 frames of lag.
I don't know what you've been reading other than fear propaganda posted on reddit, but that is an extreme rarity. All major software employers provide full insurance coverage.

Healthcare is a non-issue for software developers. Why would you take half the salary to get the same or worse healthcare (for very specialised needs you're better off in the US healthcare system, prime example of collateral damage in the UK system is Alfie).
The article starts with "We've been experimenting with breaking up employees into random groups (of size 4)." How does stopping at a list of group sizes (numbers) help you do that?
Which is neither here, nor there.

Hard disks are not floppy disks or memory, they always used base10 since half a millenium, and Apple just continues the same, like everybody else.

End of non story.
Some of the data layouts are optimized for web compatibility rather than (purely) ease of hardware implementation.
Hmmm I wonder how many more types of cells like this there are. Is there any reason to think that body wouldn't use a very small amount each of an enormous amount of specialist cells.
Sorta sounds like Enneagram types is what you're looking for?
That's the [new] hope with SVCB.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-https-and-http-3-neg...