jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods

During the last deglaciation that followed the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, geologists estimate that a cycle of flooding and reformation of the lake lasted an average of 55 years and that the floods occurred several times over the 2,000-year period between 15,000 and 13,000 years ago. U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist Jim O'Connor and Spanish Center of Environmental Studies scientist Gerard Benito have found evidence of at least twenty-five massive floods, the largest discharging about 10 cubic kilometers per hour (2.7 million m³/s, 13 times the Amazon River).
Well I mean you can also write "malware" easily with styrofoam and gasoline in the right ratios. You can also make some sweet wargaming terrain with styrofoam and fuel a car with gasoline.
Welcome to the club! :D
Reply all podcast has a cool episode where they go down the rabbit hole tracking down a scammer in India.
It’s funny because that outcome is almost certainly the opposite of agility. Just do the work and hope it’s what they wanted.
>A few thousand software developers can and did obviate maybe million+ secretaries, travel agents, book sellers, retail middlemen, map makers, camera manufacturers, advertisers etc.

Imagine what it would have been like if the million+ were uplifted instead by the same amount of developer effort.

Now I expect most tech creatives will never know how much more you can get done when you have an above-average secretary compared to just another average engineer.

Apple and their kind have such high profits per employee because all the outsourced workers don't count as Apple employees.
Worth noting, similar things being done here: https://atlas.ripe.net
with real-world examples (measurements from peoples home internet accounts, workplaces, etc - not 'sponsored' vms, not from some random data centre) and measuring just about anything (DNS and websites)

You can join, host a probe (get it sent to you, plug it in) and then run your own measurement tests based on the 'credits' you earn from having the probe running.
I don't believe this to be so, necessarily. You can copy-paste code AND understand what it does. I'm not sure how this is cargo-cult programming on its own(because it's not). To me creating factories, interfaces, and object hierarchies "because that's how it's done" without understanding why or whether or not it's actually needed is more "cargo cult" programming.

There are certainly people who just copy-paste code without understanding it. As an anecdote(because I'm on a role apparently with this topic) copying C# code off of StackOverflow that does AES encryption but sets the IV to all zeroes.. And not reading the comments that say this is bad practice but a customer constraint...

I guess my point is that a LOT of people seek and implement examples and while some don't understand them some find them extremely efficient and DO understand them.. In fact every time you use a library you are, in effect, copy-pasting code that you are relying on...
This is specific to shell scripting and to the history of nix standardization. No-one follows or cares about the LSB[1]; certification is expensive and based on buggy test programs that practically force you to "code to the test" and not to the specification. And when so many implementations ignore the spec, it would be more superstitious to code to the magical spec and assume it's going to work, rather than writing something and testing it empirically.

When I'm programming (in Python or Scala) I can and do check the language specification if something is confusing, and I don't think I'm alone in this. It may be a "significant" amount of programming, but there are definitely areas of programming with more rigour.

[1] I blame Debian, usually quixotic in its adherence to standards like the FHS - but when it came to the LSB they prefer to pretend that "alien" counts as RPM support. That set the tone for how much other distros tend to care about the spec.
There are posted speed minimums on the tollways here in Chicago. You can't go below 45 in freeflowing traffic.
Of all the things we have to worry about when we have general AI, whether or not they can own ip seems like a small one.
The reply to your question is already on point. There is a sickening amount of open systems on the net. I know zee used tends of thousands of routers as only some of his ddos tools. I also know of dudes who wrote custom scripts specifically for zee's ddosing, would scan for incoming connections matching whatever signature identified at the time, automatically connect to the router using whatever exploit to get in, change the root pass and restart it.

Zee got his net taken away from him numerous times hitting the wrong people.

But yes in a nutshell, the digital world is mostly unprotected open and unlocked houses, with little pockets of protected castles here and there, and some locked houses too.
I'd argue, for the last point (in the article), that given the currently higher number of men working in technology than women, encouraging all people to get more involved is equivalent to advocating gender diversity.
Don't get scared off by the Pie in the Sky Software logo that's set in freaking Comic Sans. This retrospective article is very much worth your while if you're interested in learning about how small software business worked in the '90s.

It's well-written, amusing, and there are also valuable insights about how to do live tech support for a complex product.
> "All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control," he said. "We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers."

How is this a loss of control? Using technology to make our lives easier or more enjoyable doesn't force you to relinquish control of your actions. If anything, it gives you greater control because you have more options and flexibility. For instance, GPS enabled phones allow me to walk or drive wherever I please without much thought, because it's so easy to get directions back.

Before my brother bought an android device, he was afraid that always having access to work email would be a big burden. What he found was the complete opposite; instead of being tied down to a computer, he now had the flexibility to move around, without being anxious about missing an important message.

In many ways, technology gives us more control of our lives, not less.

> "You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God," he quipped.

What if you don't have access to a smart person? What if this 'smart person' isn't smart? What if this smart person is manipulative? With the internet, the collective knowledge of millions of people are a mouse click away, and it's nearly impossible for any one person to control this information. How on Earth is this something to be afraid of?

He then decides to complain about Slingbox. He claims that because it has bugs, and because all software has bugs, all computers will fail. But all technology ever created by humans is faulty, so I'm not sure what's so significant about this. I'm betting Sling Box breaks less than a record player.

There's nothing insightful about this. He's just rambling about how the times are changing, without citing anything substantial.
http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/

4.87 million BTC
or 1031762 USD
or 21339945 RUB
or 1047 ounces of gold

Based on relatively low transaction volumes, but you get the idea.
The thing is when you want to go global with a "10s in 1000 hours" problems is that it'll happen every single day to thousands of people. It's all fun and games when you're a website or a mobile app, not so much when you're a 500+hp two tonnes metal cage using public infrastructure as a beta test sandbox
There isn't a LICENSE file in the GUI project. The LICENSE file in the CLI project seems to be the GPLv3, but the text is non-standard.
That seems like a lot of work. I suggest starting with pinball restoration. I bought and restored a Creature From the Black Lagoon [1] which took about six weeks work. There's a very active restoration community and lots of parts suppliers, and just getting inside a real machine will give you lots of experience if you want to make your own.

[1]http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=588
Looks like something that can be useful here in the US.
AFAIK, the Docker capability is largely due to Mesos. Frameworks need the ability to specify a container type so that they can specify that a Docker container can run. But running a Docker container is the responsibility of Mesos. So Marathon and Chronos, both frameworks, are able to specify a job which uses a Docker container, while Mesos is able to run the job which uses a Docker container.
They claim not to track users, any idea how they make money?
True, but you could just use stars. The SR-71's celestial navigation unit could get a fix during the day while it's sitting on the ground: https://books.google.com/books?id=xwPFC3GtcL8C&pg=PA132&lpg=...

The Nortronics NAS-14V2 was designed in the early 60s. I would love to see the insides of one of those things.
Forgot to mention, you also have to make the distinction between actual damages and trial damages. We've seen in many cases that damages were not as high as requested, and then were lowered upon appeal.
With all the riots that have happened in 2020, it feels they struck while the world was weak in order to hold countries to ransom. Whether that was the goal or not isn't that important, but it has certainly had the effect of making countries around the world spend more money on policing when they could have spent that money more effectively controlling the pandemic.
Couldn't any TV network or newspaper or radio station choose what to publish or not for ... ever, really?
What I see is that things are so hostile, that most people try not to raise the topic if they're in a "mixed" group.

Having both conservative and progressive friends myself, I sometimes find out that people assume I'm on their side, and are a bit deer-in-the-headlights when they find out I'm not.

I think the nastiness online is so bad that most (not all) people have figured out it is unwise to be having an in-person conversation about it unless everyone's on the same side, because it could get out of hand very quickly.

All of this mostly amounts to "everyone stays in their bubble", of course, which likely makes it all worse.
heh.. :D
>In general hospitals will experience capacity pressures at lower overall occupancy rates than would previously have been the case.

Why?
I found it funny that the account that copied his tweets verbatim was banned after only 12 hours (I think).

So just based off of their rules, he should have been banned for good a long time ago.
Exactly. Censorship is done by the government. A private entity can not "censor" anyone, legally. And the idea that the President of the United States is deprived of a platform by this is ludicrous.
Which group will be next for the mandatory quotes? This won't be a one-time thing. Sooner or later it'll be like the Lebanese parliament and government, with each group having a fixed quotes and positions.
It’s truly amazing how quickly people forget.

Reminds me of the rapid increase in housing prices now and concerns about a bubble. I mean, 8-9 years ago it was non-stop articles about how nobody would be fooled again by a housing bubble.
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Looking for a Jr. Dev role, open to something more. Self taught, currently a rising sophomore in college. Roughly 8 years experience, 1 year professionally. Hard working, eager to learn more.
The TypeScript is usually install via npm, but like many package managers it doesn't allow multiple user-specific installed versions of a package.

(What package manager allows for your multiple rustc versions? Or is it a bespoke solution?)

Fortunately the (IMO superior) yarn package manager does.

"devDependencies": {
"typescript": "~3.6.0",
"typescript-beta": "npm:typescript@3.7.0-beta"
}

Instead of using node_modules/.bin/tsc, use node_modules/typescript-beta/bin/tsc
Going on 20
If I'm thinking it right, the weight carried by that bridge is much greater than for something like a typical road bridge. On the other hand, the weight also doesn't increase at all when a ship passes over it.
Craziest thing you saw happen at one of the parties?
(Equations work for me on Firefox with JS enabled, as well as Safari mobile.)
The story about the guy in the van is so upsetting. Fuck that guy.
Write them down to a file, and encrypt the file with a single passphrase. You only need to remember one thing.

There are many tools that let you do that on your mobile phone of choice, including my own http://memengo.com which has a benefit of also including the online backup feature in case you lose your phone.
I'm one of the founders of Readness. Europe gets a lot of flak for it's venture capital world. Yes, seed funding is (too) scarce - but Readness didn't fail because we couldn't raise (and it isn't fair to blame the seed investors for us failing - everyone has been amazingly friendly and I've made many good friends "on the other side"), we were not at the point of being able to raise a meaningful round. We ran out of capital (after 2.5 years of building multiple products) before we built a compelling product in the space. Considering we raised less than £50,000 I think we had a good run.

I think it's kind of lame to disseminate why stuff failed in hindsight publically, but I'm proud that we failed with Readness so fast - it'd be easy to be so determined we continued iterating for many more years without having a fresh start to be radically new.

(I have a new startup in the works, don't worry)
> Immediately start working on versions for other platforms (Android, Blackberry, Nokia, WinMo)

I disagree. I strongly believe this is close to the 1st successful iteration of a killer app for mobile devices (the Babel Fish). One that other platforms might not have for a while. I would be surprised if Apple has not already reached out to invite them to One Infinite Loop to talk about their future plans (not acquisition, but Android).
"While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive."

I don't get how notepad, address book, calendar etc are part of yahoo's strategy and bookmarks aren't.
That said, the (original) algorithm is well-known and even novel algorithms shouldn't be patentable.
Bad for the 'buy downloads' industry, good for the 'buy reviews' industry.

Of course, since you have to download an app in order to review it, the 'buy downloads' industry and 'buy reviews' industry are one and the same.
Read stories. Start with short stories and blog posts. Also audiobooks are great for when you are walking around. Take walks where you talk to yourself or a friend about those stories and thereby think about them more clearly via the same mechanism that makes rubber-duck debugging a good way to solve technical problems.

This YouTube series is a good start to how to think about stories: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOeEc9ME62zTf...
Actually, John Green's works in general aren't bad for what you are after, but don't restrict yourself to one author.

Accept that not only are all these things maddeningly complex, but that you will never be comfortable with their ambiguity.

Also, go out into the world.
Learn to be a good listener so those who are tired, scared, lonely, or otherwise vulnerable will come to you for comfort.
You could also be avoiding potentially harmful substances which a diverse diet might have exposed you to. That they lived into their 90s on the same diet they had in their 20's implies they skipped TV dinners, Aerosol Cheese and McDonalds along the way.
I agree that this is more PR than it is principled stand. However, I disagree that the two situations are equivalent. In this case, IN is part of the country that SalesForce is headquartered in and they have employees who live and work in IN. Companies have some responsibility for their conduct in all the areas they do business, but it makes sense that they would be most focused on those areas where they do business and live and work.
> Maybe there seem to be some alternatives?

This is not meant to be an endorsement of this method, but PHP <7.0 uses a single-pass compilation where the parser itself does the opcode compilation. A lot of the buggy and quirky behavior PHP exhibits (at least when that behavior is unintentional) is the result of this process.

Like a lot of extant PHP, there's no real reason it was done this way: it's just the method Rasmus et al happened to program the original engine, and it's grown organically since then. With the AST, phpng, and the uniform variable syntax, I'd argue PHP7's main feature is finally getting around to correcting the sins of the past.
A wedding photographer photographs weddings, eh? It is quite sensible for said photographer to turn down requests for photographing non-weddings, and holds to a certain widespread classic & religious definition of what a wedding is. Now many find a reason to press for legislation [re]stating that it's the proprietor who gets to decide what the definition s/he adheres to on common religious grounds, not what others say it is.
He means start a business doing something profitable.
In most other Western countries the universities are pretty much the same as American ones, just without the crippling costs. U of T charges $10K USD annually for tuition, for an undergrad science degree, for a Canadian. McGill charges Quebec residents a stunning $2,000 a year for a science degree. There is no significant difference between U of T or McGill and any American university you care to name.

Student costs are similar in France and Germany, if not a lot lower.

It's simply a question of the US government spending money on things other than educating its citizens.
I do to some extent.

Class mobility at the highest echelons -- say hundred-thousandaires to millionaires or billionaires -- helps class mobility overall by introducing new ideas and by enriching people who still remember what it was like to not have near-infinite supplies of money and power.

If you have a society where the top echelons are locked down, it won't be long until this caste system trickles down to the rest of the culture.

It's not everything and class mobility at lower levels of society is probably more important, but it's not a bad thing either.
I actually had this idea a few years ago but never got around to building it, so I'm glad you're making it happen.

At my previous startup I hacked this manually by taking a screen grab with Evernote once a month.

I've heard Alexis Ohanian mention he is thankful for having the foresight to take screen shots or early reddit builds too.

I'm sure a lot of startups would find this useful for capturing the journey of the product and then later nostalgia.
If they're state employees, at least for Texas, you can have that info along with their name, agency and title right here: http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/government-employee.... You can probably get it for other states too.
Agree. Till now, I haven't seen a better screenshot tool than Skitch (mac-only).

In the screenshots towards the end (http://shutter-project.org/preview/screenshots/) there were plugins, effects etc which I generally find in GIMP and Photoshop. They just did a Microsoft Office of screenshot tool.
I'd rather be acquired for my personality than for my product, actually.
That's what you do too, right? You always say that you'll fund the team, not the product.
Actually quite a lot of research has no apparent practical payoff - it's still worth doing though.

Edit: Or the results of the research can be completely serendipitous products that are only tenuously related to the original research - my favorite example of this being the best known product of high energy physics research.
Good things:

- Tells me what I'll make with the tutorial right up front.

- Lets me know exactly what prerequisite knowledge is (I can tick all those boxes, good).

- Aimed at folks who know traditional backend languages and some JS but aren't JS Gods (a lot of node tutes seem to assume complete JS mastery).

No bad things so far!

Thanks Mr Dumas.
One comment on UX: After clicking "get started" I'm presented with a way to enter my email and password. It may save people a moment's confusion if you say something like

"sign in to twitter: twitter username or email

twitter password"

Although it's clear what you are doing once you see the URL and if you read carefully- but in that first millisecond I'm thinking you want me to sign into an account for your service (which I don't have).

Of course, you could always have the user create an account with you and have the wiring to their twitter account on the backend, but that would require more trust on the user's part.
College is an opportunity to learn. Better colleges are better opportunities. It's on the kids' backs whether they actually take the time to learn or slide through the system. If you didn't learn, it's most likely your fault, not the college's.
I think amazon have set a pretty competitive benchmark with Route 53. ($1 per zone per month plus $0.50 per million queries)
Good point: the article's style reeks of artificial scarcity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity
Was it just me or did anyone else think of "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell? The author of this article implicitly assumes that all the participants of the game come from similar cultural backgrounds.

Read: http://bokardo.com/archives/what-malcolm-gladwells-book-outl...

Some cultures, e.g. Colombian or South Korean, are more geared towards respecting authority than other cultures, e.g. New Yorkers. A collision of two such disparate cultures can result in disasters such as Flight 052:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Avianca_Fligh...

More details about the Power Distance Index (PDI): http://www.maximizingutility.com/2009/06/culture-clash-power...
sure. send to ryan.kalscheuer@gmail.com. look forward to hearing from you.
I have been programming for 45 years and started at age 15, the key to make it fun, forever, is just work on coding projects you love doing. Of course, you have to be in a situation that enables you to do that, but if you are lucky enough to be there, then I can see someone coding for another 20 years or most of your life.
I was looking up things like historical US spending and revenue levels. And not for work, just on my own.
That's helpful information. It doesn't invalidate the concern, however, since very large earthquakes are often preceded by moderately large foreshocks, so there is an now a temporarily elevated risk of a very large earthquake in that region.
I hate to be this guy, but - as neat as this solution is - can we please stop saying 'x64'? Intel 64, amd64 or x86_64 are fine, but x64 just sounds so wrong. It seems completely ignorant of why the architecture is called x86 to begin with.
Cookies are being exploited more and more for just personalization by other sites using Facebook cookies or the like - not sure if this is quasi-legal or just a full loophole.
Yea, it's true. Companies aren't really acting in our best interests - probably the legals driving this one. It should also be mentioned that your car probably has a black box that records what you're doing - already used in many court cases.
>ActiveX security plugin

Irony at its finest
Ha - I thought most people would think "trackware" were related to running, but I Googled the term and got all spyware related links - interesting...
The argument seems slightly different a standard "this isn't what I'm used".

It's more like "I know how OO allow teams to work together. I don't know how functional programming does that".

What would be the answer to that?