jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I find the beauty of Ruby to be in its object orientation model. The underlying simplicity of Ruby's Modules, Classes and Eigenclasses, and the richness of the architectures they enable is quite elegant and inspired.

The rest of the language is definitely more about pragmatism. How could it not be with the Perl legacy?
Can't we just reprocess that nuclear waste like the French do?
I think the relationship between lists, iterators, and generators is one of the greatest features of Python. I think len makes sense as a function in the same way the sum function makes sense as a function. Both do an operation on any eager iterable, including ones that don't store or "know" their own length.

The explicit self for methods comes straight out of the Python "rule" that explicit is better than implicit. Python is purposefully putting explicitness ahead of beauty, and I agree it's not particularly beautiful. Something that I find even less beautiful in Python is its super syntax:

super(theClass, self).method()

I'm still relatively new to Python, but I would argue that the super syntax goes a bit too far in explicitness (and I think it's fair to argue the same thing for the "self" in methods). Incidentally, there is a PEP (Python Enhancement Proposal) from 2007 to make super just work as super().method().

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3135/
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1911134

(Which happens every time with Google postings because they course post everything.)
Here's the key idea: your cross-country flight exposes you to 2-5 mrem. MWBS is about 0.01 mrem. It's trivial.
> The 39W max draw probably assumes the display is on?

No, this is the number for the Mac Mini, which is the obvious choice if you wanted a machine for maxing out an M1 24/7. (The Air peaks at about 30W, which it can't sustain for long unless it's in a rather cold environment.) So it has nothing to do with the display's power consumption.

Maxing out just the GPU while the rest of the machine isn't doing much would get you well below 39W, though.
I love this idea. If you can easily delete the code, you can easily refactor!
Why do you think Intel will succeed in selling leading edge fab services to fabless companies when GlobalFoundries (the chip making business of AMD) was unable to compete?

To me, it seems like the same story is playing out again.
http://99designs.com/buttons-icons
From the guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

Please submit the original source.
If a blog post reports on something
they found on another site, submit
the latter.

http://uxmag.com/design/the-psychologists-view-of-ux-design
If you want to find out why they're being asked to pay taxes, don't bother reading the article. It doesn't say.
Nevermind, it started working on its own after a while.
But in a well-written program the use of overrides would make sense. Just as much as this function:
ExitProgram();
should be clear in the context of a program. Now it's possible that this function actually creates a new process that then plays tic-tac-toe. But in a decent program, it will do its best to be consistent with what you expect. Likewise, if I see A * B, I expect that we're multiplying A and B. What does multiplication mean? Depends on the application, but I expect it to make sense.

And with a decent IDE you should easily be able to get the def for the '*', just like you'd get the def for any other function.

The problem isn't in the C++ language, but rather the C expectation that many developers have.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me. -Steve Jobs
Run a VM with Windows just for iTunes.
>. I do not see how any of the modern languages of the 21th century would be even remotely suitable to write an OS kernel with.

Not true. You just have to be smart enough to implement the stack and structure properly. Have a look at some of the experimental operating systems out there. Singularity is especially worth a look.
WRT the critique of his "aim for modest returns" comment -- it may help to read the paragraph below it (his point is primarily about your first startup, where you don't know what you're doing yet):

--------

Start your startup. Learn the ropes.

Then, whether you succeed or fail, you can swing for the fences. That second time you may just make it.
Regarding C and C++ I sometimes think of them like this:

If you want a language that's like C but better, tough, just use C.

If you want a language that is better than C, do not use C++.
Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL http://apps.facebook.com/cityville/?installed=1 from frame with URL http://fb-0.cityville.zynga.com/flash.php?isOuterIframe=1 ... INFO HERE CUT OUT]. Domains, protocols and ports must match.

That's always popped up in WebKit debuggers. I think everyone that's ever developed a Facebook app wastes 20 minutes learning that they can and should ignore it.
In an ideal situation the CEOs would not use complex tax structures to hoard wealth and instead pay taxes to fund social services. Perhaps they would even use some of the billions lying around to help reform government to work better for people.
OP is a term that's been used thousands of times in discussions posted on HN, the same can't be said of hashtags.
Does your iMac wobble after doing an up or down motion? That's currently my main concern with the Varidesk. I guess you could bolt on a monitor arm to prevent that though.
Where is @grellas when you need him most?
000 != 0?

Thanks for the catch. I'm deleting the original.
whats wrong with remember the milk?
Note... webOS != Web OS.
> A litmus test for the general economy will be sales of new iPhones this fall.

I actually would go with the sales numbers for the new PS5 because:

- People who already have a console and are stuck home will not buy a new one because the cash is not there.

- PS5 is a nice to have but not a necessity. Though the iPhone is in the same category but at a much higher price. The PS5 is estimated to be sold at $470-$499 while the new iPhone is much more expensive $799 up to $999.

- People who don't own a console will likely put this off and buy it next year and focus on more necessities.

- The entertainment industry is hit massively by this crisis, and this will be a good indicator of where things are going.

Going back to the main subject, I believe the economy may well bounce back. The issues that may arise may be more related to security and politics. If things go on like this, there could be worldwide riots, or even revolutions in some places.

Let's just hope a vaccine is found quickly.
There is one John Lennon song out of 165 songs on that list. Are you sure that is the reference?
My bad - made a mistake reading the question (see my edit above). But still, completely agree that the answers are worded very strangely. I think going for "real" math is a fine idea, but if the questions are designed as poorly as this one, it's going to become as much about reading comprehension as math.
Maybe I'm going slightly too far, but I can imagine a world in which we don't know relativity but use quantum mechanical effects daily (e.g. at the microchip level.) Can you not imagine such a world? Granted space exploration would have had to not-happen. It's at the limit of what I can imagine in a world. Can you imagine the above historical scenario today? (2015) One hundred years on from when General Relativity actually was published. How could we have not discovered it for 100 years if Einstein had not thought it up?

One exercise you can do is ask what recent discoveries could have been made 100 years earlier. Off-hand:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-Graphene-Supercapacit...

"why wasn't this discovered 100 years earlier"? is very close to "why couldn't GR have been discovered 100 years later."

It was discovered via scotch tape and a block of graphite.

reference following http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene leads to,

"Scientists often find ingenious ways to attain their
research objectives, even if that objective is a truly
two-dimensional material that many physicists felt
could not be grown. In 2003, one ingenious physicist
took a block of graphite, some Scotch tape and a lot
of patience and persistence and produced a magnificent
new wonder material that is a million times thinner
than paper, stronger than diamond, more conductive
than copper. It is called graphene, and it took the
physics community by storm when the first paper appeared
the following year".

In point of fact, perhaps it could have happened in 1903. True, Scotch tape was invented in 1930 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_Tape

But, again, why couldn't it have been invented a bit earlier?

And so forth. The fact is, what we know from the circumstances is that GR is a "great person" contribution to the world at a specific historical time. If it had not happened then, it is not appropriate to say it surely would have happened soon.

graphene was imminent for decades until it was discovered. (Other ideas were imminent for hundreds of years in science. It really doesn't mean anything.)
And urandom is not cross-platform, so if I were going to write a cross-platform library, how would you suggest doing it? By writing an interface to urandom, then an interface to CryptGenRandom (doesn't that require an FFI?), and then manually going through all of the platforms Java can potentially execute on until I can be sure I've covered all my bases?

I'm pretty sure that's going to be more than 5-10 lines of code.
EAGERLY awaiting that Windows build. And if I can't get a Windows build, I'm going to go out and buy a Macbook Pro just to use this IDE.
Nitrous.IO already did that.
But what if genetics hasn't changed? I honestly don't know, and it certainly looks like the first world diet has gotten higher in calories and that people in the first world have gotten more sedentary—but, what if it's another factor? Epigenetics is a possibility but there are others as well.

Another major difference is antibiotic intake. I don't know if humans consume enough antibiotics to affect their weight, but antibiotics are regularly administered to livestock primarily to fatten them up. We're just scratching the surface of the human biome and it's entirely possible that there's an answer in there.

You might be right (and my intuition agrees with you) but I wouldn't be so certain of it. Life is incredibly complex.
Somewhat of shame that his decision is based on the applicant's grammar while he makes a few bad mistakes himself.
DuckDuckGo removed all pirate websites like TPB,1337x, YTS from its database, with search results being blank or only bringing up a single result.
Wen moon?
> firehose

And that common denominator is appalling!
I didn't suffer any obvious cognitive problems after Covid, but I had a lot of muscle twitching, and while it slowly receded, my right eyelid is actually twitching a little right now.

I have never had anything like that before, and my life isn't very stressful. It is some kind of nerve damage. And my cardiologist has the very same symptoms.
For an epic of a fictional take, the Barbary pirates, and their slaving, play a significant role in The 8-book series The Baroque Cycle - especially the middle few books. One of the main characters ends up on an epic journey, catalyzed by his ship being attacked, and him taken as a slave.
> I was hit by a car

> It had a profound impact on me

I assume this wasn't intentional, but I had to appreciate the pun
As a fellow parent of multiple small children, your driving example struck me as odd, too. I think any time you are making a joke that riffs on your own frustration at the expense of somebody else's aspirations to be better, it's likely to fall flat. Maybe just to me and that one other poster.

I don't think the advice is to truly let kids do whatever they want with no input. It's to seriously entertain it when a child wants to try something new, even if your first instinct is to think they are too young. You can still say no, but it should be for the reasons you followed up with, not because "they're not ready".
Generally yeah, but the value of it dives of the cliff in some cases, compared to the hassle it introduces. Lets say you create a encrypted LUKS partition with a 32 character password. Would it be more secure by nesting 3 more encrypted LUKS partitions inside of that one, with each having different 32 character passwords? Yeah sure, but you're already pretty secure with just one as long as the password is good.

In the case I mentioned, adding TLS certificates to something that is already signed in a similar way that TLS would do, would add nothing in terms of security, but would add additional privacy.
That's not reliable enough. A lot of email clients (or users) have images off by default, at least when reading emails from new senders.
I'm not so sure, historically maybe, but now? A nights and weekend gig could turn into something huge. YC was designed originally for college students on summer breaks (hardly financially secure and the majority who end up at college are from the vast middle of the financial spectrum).

Sure, there's a bias toward the educated but education is attainable from the library and now the internet. The other biases will still be there, but they are hardly disqualifying in the U.S. There is no rigid class system, for instance.
Interesting to see them go on the counter-offensive. Very different from Apple's response.
It really depends on what your standards actually are and if those are truly what will make you happy.

In college I remember a lot of girls had core requirements that were like: 6'4" and taller. six pack, seven-figure salary, nice clothes, nice smell, college degree, nice and monogamous, good in bed, good kisser, a bit of a bad boy.

And I'd think, "if you could land this guy, there are clearly things about you that aren't apparent upon first meeting you." My next thought was, "prepare to spend your life being single"
Exactly. It for this reason that tools such as dd, rsync, and Time Machine exist.
Do not try the "usual computer repair services" if you aren't sure they really know what they are doing! There is a high risk they will try a couple of things and ruin the drive completely, if they aren't experienced in data recovery.

Take it slow and find a professional recovery service.
Once you understand 4chan, you don't want to analyze it.

Only those who don't understand 4chan say that.
I guess you're implying the white, priviledged, and uniformly similar kids with the same opinions and the same upbringings who attend Eton are somehow not drones.

Yeah, not so sure about that.
This is part of social studies curricula. Here's an example from Washington state standards for social studies:

https://www.k12.wa.us/student-success/resources-subject-area...

There are requirements for social studies, civics, economics, geography, and world history.
As someone who occasionally reads but usually does their very best to avoid this topic due to its tendency to be a total minefield, I just wanted to let you know that this particular argument doesn't work for me at all.

You'd be better acknowledging the fairly obvious benefits that come from encoding so much more information into a single word, and then going on to argue why despite that it would be a good idea to move towards neutral suffixes.

When speaking Spanish, for example, I definitely feel the lack of information conveyed by su when compared to his/her.
This tactic is also effective when you make grammatical/pronunciation errors in speaking.
Only OkCupid does; Tinder barely tries and even then it's hidden. For the most part the selling point is that you get introduced to people you wouldn't just meet in your normal social cirlces/events. Apps besides OkCupid have mostly moved to the model where you put in a few basic facts (age/sex, do you drink, etc), upload some pictures, a short (< 500 characters in Tinder) text blob, and off you go swiping. There's no attempt to match you on interests let alone any deeper compatibility metrics.

Also on the data collection front, the business model is more based around advertising, and just knowing you're single is all the info they need. They can bombard you with ads for events to go to, clothes to wear, etc. You're the most lucrative market if you're 18-35 and single.
maybe its cuz i live in the country and not silicon valley, but my last date was a walk which cost nothing :) our second date we made a dinner together which also cost roughly nothing. we just like each other's company <3
Texas does not have an income tax. Texas has property tax and sales tax.
I like this comment on the forums:

> “Hey, what did you do over Christmas?”

> me: “I drank too much and tried to read a book”

> Jose Valim: “I rewrote my language’s kernel to afford tensorflow-like operations for efficient ML operations”
> is that really this insecure

Depends on how many libraries there are. I have to deal with at least 2-3 different CVEs existing in our libraries or runtimes a month. And I’m dealing with a pretty small surface area compared to some of my peers.

We rebuild our environment from scratch every week to reduce the manual work involved in resolving those CVEs.
> Where were the editors on this?

Maybe the good editors at the NYT are too busy getting fired.
My ultimate problem is that once this fact becomes apparent to people, many of them tend to go down the rabbit hole of getting what they perceive as the "real" news from blogs/forum posts/opinionated tweets/random guy with a youtube channel. As in, the eventual consequence to mass media having poor rigorous standards of reporting is that people will migrate to sources that have even poorer standards. TBH, I don't really know what the solution to the problem is.
I'm doing a kotlin project. You won't find it hard or unfamiliar if you're used to Java. You still got gradle, and you still can use whatever java lib you want. It just feels much nicer in kotlin. Just jump into it, you can swap back if it doesn't suit you.
4 months later, hundreds of applications, and tens of failed interviews later, I put together the most useful tricks and data structures from Python to know!
I think it is more that they see selectively removing content as equivalent to moderation and thus they shouldn't have safe harbor. So maybe they want them to only remove illegal content or something?
There is more to weight gain than lack of willpower. The conscious mind is very little of the problem. The people in the study had all the same opportunity and advice, yet the ones who took the medication lost significantly more weight. What else do you need as proof that it’s not just education and choosing the right thing to do? If that were the case, why wouldn’t both groups show similar improvement?
So little discussion... Do people take progressive enhancement for granted, or is it that it isn't well-respected anymore?
Just use scoop: https://scoop.sh/

Another way I prevent such pollution is use portable versions of software and store them in a singular Software directory.

And to cleanly remove such "polluting" software, use Revo Uninstaller: https://www.revouninstaller.com/products/revo-uninstaller-pr...
Is "no data caps" sustainable for Starlink?

In my city, we had a wimax provider set up shop a while back (10 years now, I guess?). At first the promised, and delivered on, high speed and no data caps. Then more people started signing up, and clogging up the network, and they ended up imposing throttling and caps to try and deal with it.
The author seems to agree:

> There is an old finding in political science that Americans are “symbolically conservative” but “operationally liberal.” Americans talk like conservatives but want to be governed like liberals. In California, the same split political personality exists, but in reverse: We’re often symbolically liberal, but operationally conservative. Renaming closed schools is an almost novelistically on-point example, but it is not the most consequential.

Edit: I vouched for this post because this is a new take to me. I wish HN would ask for reasons from flaggers.
Your same argument can be applied against you: Allowing other distribution channels doesn't mean you'd have to use them. You can continue to only buy apps from Apple's app store.

If Facebook then decides to only sell on their app store - go use another social network. If Epic does the same - go play different games. Same with your bank, your supermarket and your taxi service - you get to decide who you do business with... unless you're an app developer. In that case you only have one choice: Ignore half your potential customers or follow Apple's shitty rules to the letter and still risk them kicking you out on a whim.

Apple owns roughly 50% of the US phone users. That's too much market power to ignore. They're going to be forced into opening up eventually.
> So I wonder - when did that change?

Over a long period of time. It was the case in much of the world by the time 200 years ago that you point to, but its progressed further since (and was well established in some places long earlier.)

> Is it because the view of the people changed?

Yes. The single biggest factor in spreading this expectation was probably the British Empire and its global reach.
Also, you don't necessarily need a lot of predictions from a net to fool it, because (another surprising result) images that fool one net tend to fool others! So I can create fooling images on my in-house net and then take them and fool your net-used-for-some-important-application without getting any feedback from your net. That's very surprising, and does raise serious security concerns.
the NSA is now following you.
The article says they are "cloning" the key, which would imply that yes.
It's aluminosilicate glass or Al₂SiO₅ with a hardness of about 7 (Mohs scale) at best.

Sapphire crystal is Al₂O₃, which has a hardness of 9. So it's hard, but not that hard.
That's not fair at all. If you look at the profile of the folks leading High Tech Gründerfonds one wouldn't assume that they are experienced in building companies (their backgrounds are in banking and consulting) and they also have a quota from the state to make a certain number of investments per year that they try to reach.

HackFwd doesn't look particularly similar to Y-Combinator and it's disingenuous to say that successful entrepreneurs (and active angel investors) are finding out about YC though Brand Eins. When I look at this I see it as a nice idea, with a competent team, with a couple of problems that look like they'll need adjustment along the way. I certainly wish them the best.

So, now, in like spirit, I'll write off your comments as the typical German nay-saying. ;-)
I was more-or-less with him up until the "Don't Rent" advice.

By his own admission, purchasing a condo and riding it up to the very top of the largest real estate bubble in history netted him only a 1% return. Any other market at any other time would likely have netted him a loss on that purchase.

In a non-bubble market, I wonder how much more he would have gained by renting that very same condo and investing the difference instead?
The original comment was referring to Safari 5 on Mac. Safari 5 on windows does not require a restart.
Are those the people that really created the products you use today though?

Tim Berners Lee may have created the web, but he created it without fonts tags, images, layout and so on. The web exists because of the millions of people who put a lot of work into it including Amazon, Altavista, Google, Yahoo, Netscape and so on.

jQuery lists 21 people in it's team and 8 past members: http://jquery.org/team

Did you buy the very first Dyson vacuum cleaner? (the DC01 in 1993) or one designed by one of it's 1500+ staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_%28company%29

Most products are built by a lot of people but just have a famous leader (who may or may not have made the very first version that you probably never saw).