jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can take it from your username that you feel that Fuchsia is a threat to your beloved Linux Desktop to the point of having complete denial that the project is not real. It’s OK to be scared.

But I’m afraid you have to someday accept that some of Big Tech is ‘using’ Linux as a stop gap to either create their own proprietary subsystems around it or a completely new OS compatible with Android for which they pretend ‘they care’ about Linux.

They only care if it’s only for their interests as we can evidently see for Fuchsia Android support and WSL2 GPU hardware acceleration support.
Dammit man, now I want cookies.
Why would someone give euro against a more risky local money?
honest question: what's the advantage of bitcoins over amazon gift cards (or any other prepaid credit)?

they are immediate, cheap and can be exchanged for real money for free.
How does that email system work? Can’t you just do free instant wire transfers in Canada?
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We offer:

- An autonomous, high-trust environment, open to innovation and personal growth.

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- A good salary depending on your knowledge and experience.

We ask:

- Experience in backend web development and data-intensive business logic and problem-solving.

- Experience with development and integration of REST API's, including testing, security and deployment.

- Proficiency in: Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis.

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- Decent English speaking skills, Dutch is a big plus.

Email for more details.
The problem is not so much their poop, it's the pets themselves. For example, in USA, 25% of the meat production is meant for pets [1], it's huge, given also that meat production is not environmental-friendly. The whole pets products industry is really large, there are maybe close to 1 billion pets worldwide. Other example, cats affect negatively ecosystems (birds, little reptiles, some important insects, ..)

My proposition is simply to cut down pets population, how? I don't know, a law if necessary, nowadays the environment comes before having a toy animal in your home. It's an easy thing to do with a significant impact, there are others, like cosmetic products, plastic wrappings, ..

[1]: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/503376/all-meat-pet-food..., https://www.treehugger.com/pets/cats-dogs-meat-environmental...
Well, lets agree it's a sad thing. Very sad.
Above a couple GHz, VNAs are still $$$. With mm-wave being the hot topic now, you're still looking close to $100k
> (and in fact workers-owner)

what’s wrong with that?

> by political ideology

but isn’t that how our current system is as well? the political ideology of “free market” and “globalism” etc?
Counterpoint: There is also a higher chance of Post Offices losing your package, routing it to an incorrect address, or other holiday errors that would increase your risk.

And just from the minimal Dark Web browsing I've done, it seems like post offices are really only searching packages when they already have some reason to be suspicious, like contact from law enforcement. Truly random checks seem like an extremely rare occurrence.
I think there's a large difference between "doing business" and "mismanaging".
>You forgot the part about exposing your finished database to unprotected elasticsearch http endpoint ;)

I'll cut straight to the chase and post it on hn. This intermediate step of waiting for someone to discover it takes too long
It surprises people that Google kills products because people them as traditional products. But they're exploratory vessels for selling ads. Of course Google's ads are the product.

It's unsurprising, to me at least, that they explore lots and lots of ways to sell ads. That's exactly what you do with whatever widget your company peddles.
Interesting. I was under (perhaps mistakenly) the impression that buying a ticket to A-B-C and stopping at B, would result in being charged for the A-B route instead.

Regardless, I always check my baggage so A-B-C type tickets would not work for me.
Nice. Do you plan to add geolocation information like https://www.ipaddress.my?
I think the answer was 8, I can't quite remember. Your second point is definitely a good one though, didn't think of that.
Thank you for this idea. For now I'll just use librivox.org

It is extra pleasant if you softly play some instrumental music, such as Ludovico Einaudi.
I am just amazed that people do not turn this feature off. It is probably the first thing I do when I encounter software that tries to correct what I write.
I guess you didn't read all the way to the end.
Really? So why do so many human beings get paid 10's of thousands of dollars a years to exercise theirs, while it's relatively few digital general-purpose "digital ontologies? that are worth paying for.

(The highly contextual ones do pretty well in the market, though.)
after a half-eighth of mushrooms, Gerald tells me what to do next with my life (he is my spirit frog)
How to scale...what? A video encoding service doesn't scale the same way as a blog. An analytics service doesn't scale the same way as an email marketing service. What architecture is optimal depends on what you need it to do.
> I defined my meaning in technical, policy neutral terms,

Let's review.

>>>By 'reform' incidentally, I mean consistent facts-based legislation giving the existing system a complete overhaul.

"Consistent facts-based" doesn't imply improvement, let alone good even if you throw in efficient and less red-tape.
The NSA accepts the reality you've presented. Is that what we want?
This seems like a poorly written editorialized account of nothing specific...
I use the reader-mode on Firefox. Sometimes, pipe it through outline.com and brow.sh (now-defunct)
I think that what the parent is saying is that if you can already denormalize your total karma score it can't be much harder to also store the total number of comments and when you want to get average score divide (total karma / total num comments)
From this distance it can be hard to conceive of a city being abandoned, leaving usable things behind. But, in a culture using rammed earth (pisé) mud bricks there's little stone to rob and (micro)climate change has been a bit of an a-periodic constant in the nile region, aside from wars. Sand drift covers things remarkably quickly. Scara Brae in the Orkney Islands was engulfed, not a city by any stretch but a settled functional dwelling in a religiously significant culture, abandoned and buried quite fast, if not overnight.
Those counts seem to be wrong. Looking at the code, they seem to count the number of merge commits (commits with >1 parent). However, some nixpkgs committers also use GitHub's rebase merge option. This means the change went through a regular PR + review, but is merged without generating a merge commits. Secondly, some PRs have multiple commits, so even if everything is merged through a merge commit, the number of non-merge and merge commits may not be balanced.
It took only 3 upvotes to land on the main page ???.
HN should review this.
duplicate, was posted a few minutes ago and got flagged
A better way to create a CV/resume - people don't know how to talk about work but if you ask the right questions, you get interesting answers.

There's a lot more on the site, but we're experimenting with an idea about dropping down the adoption curve and making stepping stones to provoke a kind of behavioural change.
And yet whenever any of the 15-30 year olds I know want a specific piece of music, they go straight to YouTube. I have yet to see anybody push "Buy" on any of those services

"The average iTunes user spends ~$40 per year on the service"

That matches my experience, and that's average. Presumably the in-app purchase whales are skewing that high; it's probably closer to $20.

Between apps and video, that doesn't leave much for music. Almost all the money goes to Top 40 for that.
The author is advocating giving the profits to shareholders rather than investing in innovation. He phrases his "spin off" comment as "let someone else invest in innovation."

Cash cow disease costs _stockholders_ untold (sometimes actively buried in accounting maneuvers) dollars. Consider Xbox, which consumed billions (that's with a 'b') before eventually turning a profit of millions (that's with an 'm'). If Xbox had been spun into a separate company, then Microsoft _stockholders_ could have kept those billions (with a 'b') and let _someone else_ decide to invest billions in trying to jump into the game console business.

(emphasis mine).
There's no inherent reason that the whole life cycle can't be handled in a single tool. However, there have been tens of thousands of person-years spent on these tools, so people here are pointing out that it is a tall ask for any company to create one tool that integrates everything. This goes doubly so if it is only going to be a side project to GitLab itself.
LZ77 is pretty trivial as compression algorithms go. Go take a look at this video for a explanation accessible to non-developers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goOa3DGezUA
It seems a little ironic that the main call to action on the website ("Get Started") doesn't seem to use the library.
you gotta fake it till you make it, otherwise you are just shooting yourself in the foot.

Being big is validation for most people, they figure if you got big, then you must have something to offer, and at the very least you won't scam them.

This is especially true for communities, since noone wants to be the first one there.
I took a physics exam once where we had studied previous years exams and the test was essentially questions from those tests. Needless to say, that exam went fine, but it felt very weird. We weren't cheating, the exams were publicly available on the college's website, but the professor clearly didn't know that. The idea that you can reuse an exam multiple times especially in the science is just over. It sucks, but it's the truth. The same is becoming true of interview questions.
Why does it matter to them that there's no competing spec

Because ALL web standards are standards only because of the fact that there are MULTIPLE implementations. This is a basic principle behind the Web, and making even a single exception leads to a dangerous slippery slope.

It seems they're trying to run it into the ground because they don't control it

No.

because it didn't go through their proper procedure, whereby it must have a competitor.

Yes. In the long term, not having another implementation is a dangerous sign -- it is a sign that developers are incapable of coming up with another implementation. What if SQLite can't be ported to some hypothetical architecture/stack in the future -- for example, a fully managed OS? What is the guarantee that someone will be able to come up with another implementation of the same spec which can run on that OS? At least with multiple implementations you know that the problem is tractable.

Why? In what way is this helpful?

It is helpful because it demonstrates long-term thinking.

And if they're not being helpful, what's their purpose? To be dogmatic and prevent good ideas they didn't come up with from spreading?

No, to think in the longer term than you do.
Job advice: never be the guy who spends his day writing 'documents'.

'Write-only media' is not just a clever pun.
The science of debugging. :)
Why did you decide to use caps in the title?
I've fired up R and am doing some exploratory data analysis. I think its an interesting problem and will definitely submit something if I can get decent predictions with the downloaded data.

I've looked at the literature and research has tackled such problems using computer science(neural nets) and statistics (linear regression, Kalman filters). In my opinion, its easier to approach it as a statistics problem than a computer science one and this may explain why there is some hostility on HN. For instance, getting $10000 for a linear regression is easy money (although I would be surprised if the winning entry used this).
The question is pretty straight forward, but where are the punctuation issues? Are expecting more commas?
Driver's License is the wrong metaphor for OpenID. If you had an Internet Driver's License, it would be your email address. You always have that with you at all times.

OpenID is more like a Von's Club card. An inconvenient scrap of plastic that would just take up space in my wallet so it gets left at home. Every time I go into a Vons, I have to ask the cashier for a new one and it pisses me off that little bit, just like every time I go to StackOverflow I need to dig though my email to figure out what OpenID provider I used to sign up for my account there.

Just like the Grocery Store Discount card, where I find myself more driving out of my way to go to a store that doesn't make me use one, I generally don't bother with sites that want me to dig out my OpenID just to use them.
+ What's it about?

+ Do you know your material?

+ How long is it for?

+ Are you explaining, lecturing?

+ What is the style?

If you know more about it than the audience, then say up front that you expect everyone in the audience to know more than you about various bits, and that you're simply there to share something on which you have some expertise. Starting with that tends to put an audience on your side, and emphasises that you acknowledge their expertise.

Depending on your answers to the questions, though, this might not be appropriate, but without more to go on I can offer no other advice.

Just for reference, I regularly speak to audiences of up to 500, and have several times spoken to audiences of up to 2000 and done live television.
Take this with a pinch of salt, because I didn't downvote your comment, but your comment doesn't add anything to the article. It's just noise and doesn't advance discussion.
An old favorite:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1746797

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=687604

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=453396

Related:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/floating+point?page=1&so...
> I prefer to go with alternative medicines ex. local honey, lemons, etc.

These alternatives clearly have the advantage of being side-effect free for most people, but I have always been very skeptical about their effectiveness. Are there actually any reliable studies on the efficacy of local honey in treating allergies? And I thought that the role of vitamin C in warding off colds had been pretty well debunked. (I assume that's what the lemons are for.)

Don't get me wrong, I really wish all this nice stuff worked. Show me firm evidence that it does, and I'm sold. (And some of it I'm happy to do even if it's not effective in the pharmacological sense, just because it feels/tastes nice.) But as I said, I'm skeptical.
I love this idea, I hope it comes to fruition and the science becomes public. I don't quite understand the NASA project approval plan though. AFAIK, the similar NASA Ares project was shelved? :(
http://marsairplane.larc.nasa.gov/
Along with the other answers, there is often the case that the startup is, you know, actually profitable. My company buys them and grows the company in order to make more money. Their principals sell in order to achieve liquidity. Win Win.
They may have just been showing off the new features since Bing was added in this version.
For example, if I were to put sites like reddit or HN in my hosts file, and point them to 127.0.0.1, it really wouldn't take me more than 30 seconds or so to get around it. It should work as a reminder that, "oh yeah, I should be doing something else" but that never seems to work for me.

I did this when writing my dissertation. It worked really well. I find that most of my browsing comes from clicking through to the sites in my "Most visited sites" homepage. Blocking them was a good neg that broke this harmful browsing pattern.
It really was for an equal job at a comparable company?

I might apply for some more interesting jobs for a lower salary. Especially if I changed job area to something I didn't really know that well.

If I stop being a consultant, I'd probably be paid a bit less.
and a man who has a Million dreams that Roar is called an artist or an Entrepreneur.
For most people on HN I suspect this would be more like:

1. Close your IM, email and browser
Unsound in a very specific and suspicious way - yesterday it was pointed out adding a single, do-nothing, line to the middle of the function makes the "optimizer" fail.

That isn't unsoundness, that's incompleteness. An optimization being incomplete means that something that could be optimized isn't -- one being unsound means that something that shouldn't be optimized is. These terms come from mathematical logic.
This isn't anything you couldn't surmise after watching the first few seasons of The Apprentice. I have a related theory, though.

I've worked with several arrogant people that took under-performing operations and grew them into sizable profit centers. Their arrogance was an asset when in a fast change atmosphere where bullheaded determination and over confidence got things pushed through. They didn't always make the best decisions, but at least they were capable of making timely ones - and bend the will of others.

Once the rapid growth and improvement period was over, though, they never adjusted to sustaining mode. Their arrogance caused rifts in the organizations. Two were eventually let go.

So my amateur management theory is that highly arrogant people may be great for leading organizations in a period of rapid transition, but they are not typically the best leaders for mature organizations.
On the contrary, I suddenly feel very good about my salary. I'm right on-track with everyone except for Facebook, while I work in the corporate world.

Of course, I work in the energy industry, so that is probably the critical difference. This industry has cash.
Yeah, JavaScript is running the risk of turning into the new C++ with all of these dialects and subsets ;-)
You can embed images directly in css with data URIs as well: http://css-tricks.com/data-uris/
CSS Sprites should be better, though. Less computer processing power.
Fair point but the other two count.

You Americans should get that spell checker bug fixed though. ;-)
Careful... http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
I'm curious about this as well and was going to submit this question to HN. I'm debating between charging say per $5 per user or like you say a tiered approach:

$7 - 1

$12 - 5

$22 - 20

$40 - 20

$90 - 50

$150 - 100

On one hand a flat fee per users seems to be the simplest approach where as the tiered system implies a deal with more users.

I'm leaning towards the tiered method. Everyone loves to feel like they are getting a deal. I know I do and when I put myself in the buyers shoes I think this is what I'd like to see.
None of those situations (which I have any knowledge about) are even remotely comparable to that of Russia at the time of revolution. Germany and Japan had been fully industrialized. Singapore basically grew by attracting capital as a tax haven.

Russia in 1917 was about as developed as Germany or Japan in 1850 - or Britain in 1750.

The funny thing is that this fact means the revolution totally contradicted Marxist doctrine, which predicts communism as a natural remedy to the excesses of capitalism. Russia hadn't even entered the captitalist "phase" yet - it was literally the least appropriate country in Europe to stage a communist revolution in.
A classic one is heat transfer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumped_capacitance_model

You can also model some hydraulic systems using components analogous to electronics (flow=current, pressure=voltage, pipes=resistance). For example a certain pressure applied to a pipe of given size (cross-section + length) and material will result in a predictable rate of flow.
+1 for F#. it is a really great language and I learned a ton by spending about 250 hours with it. The book Expert F# is a really good resource. the first 200 pages are about the language (a complete guide) and the rest is just case studies of .NET junk. I wish they had made 2 books not one... 1st 1/2 is excellent though and worth buying.
- Call their API through ipv6, because they may not yet have a proper, ipv6 subnet-based rate limiter.

How would someone do that using node.js? Asking for a friend.
Designing stuff is really expensive, using things made for Earth with minimal modifications really makes a lot of sense.

The steel is cheap on mars too (initially), since you ship it there anyways as part of the cargo starships, which aren't return to earth (since the energy to make fuel is initially really expensive on mars). Manufacture it in Mars and your basically just talking about shipping the batteries, motors, and a small amount of electronics (and machinery you will need anyways).
The grown-ups you mean?

:D
I found the JPMorgan Chase Software Engineering Virtual Experience very useful. I learned a lot about JPMorgan Chase's framework and how to utilize my background in software with industry tasks. I believe the Virtual Experience was nicely structured as it gives guidance on how to complete each task with an element of freedom to add things you may find useful into the given files. I really appreciate the support given in completing each module and I would like to thank InsideSherpa for this wonderful experience!
Yeah, imagine if this was applied to something like water. Having it be a public utility? We'd all be dead...
You seem to be assuming everybody in the world always wants the same things, which is demonstrably false. There were excited communities of people using Lisp in 1962 and Java in 1997. Both were significantly slower than mainstream platforms of the time. There are many platforms today that provide performance, and people who need performance will use them. I can't compete with them. Mu is for people who don't need performance quite so badly, and who are willing to trade performance for other benefits.

Also, the word "priority" means relative importance. Too many priorities are equivalent to no priorities. Performance not being a priority just means other aspects are more important, not that performance will be glacial. Indeed, a lot of performance stems from doing less, and I fully expect fewer layers of abstraction to keep Mu quite competitive for many tasks. But that will happen naturally without me needing to push on it.
> Problem: Software

> Complex and Easy: Graphical User Interface

> Simple and Hard: Command-Line Interface

GUIs are easy for the specific things the programmers made easy, and potentially impossible for everything else. The moment you want something the developers didn't put in the GUI, there's no recourse other than writing your own tool.

Command lines are harder to begin with, but modern command lines give you a gentler ramp up to writing your own tools.
Not much of a news item. They are not shutting down google translate.
> Who's next?

Anyone who violates Twitter's terms and conditions.
Unfair moderation is not a good precedent.
Free speech extremists seriously think a private company should be forced to keep someone who uses their platform to incite deadly riots.

Trump's free speech here has consequences. 5 people have died.