jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It really depends on the size and resources of your company. I used to work for a large French ecommerce company where most of the stack was in Clojure and most of the people we hired were totally new to this language and/or were Clojure fans but were new to the ecommerce world. It didn’t really matter as long as they were motivated because we had the resources to train them and give them time to learn.

I left ~1 year ago to join a very early-stage startup where we’re currently 5, and while I would love to hire people that don’t master at least most of the stack we use, I just can’t because we really don’t have the resources to afford to have someone spending time (their time and also other people time) learning everything. This probably an extreme example but it illustrates the point: even if you’d like to hire people in a broader spectrum, you can’t always afford to. [ I hope that at one point we’ll be able to do it :) ]
After more reading you offer significantly more value than a pure static site with custom redirects and API passthrough. I just wonder about differentiating from CloudFlare.
Don't worry, we Europeans can be weird too. There's always some group that doesn't really deserve it.
It wouldn't be much of a challenge at all to support two power sources, or at least to keep them from doing any harm. Couple of diode-connected MOSFETs, maybe a penny each at the scales we're talking about.
Sorry to hear about your mom. Do you have any references for the calibration design article? Also do you know the linear accelerator that was used?
Really? They're still backlogged? Are they being hand crafted by a small village of elves?

I did eventually get mine back in February or so. The add to shopping list feature is very convenient. I don't see this obsoleting that Echo function which is much more general purpose. (Can add anything whether you get it from Amazon or somewhere else.)
it's in progress; link will be posted soon!
That's a lot of assumptions and 'probably' for what supposedly fixes a critical bug.
Every decade or so, with regularity, the world seems to go through a significant economic or financial crisis triggered by some or other "unexpected" shock:

* The current crisis, starting now, in 2020;

* The global financial crisis from 2008 to the early 2010's;

* The dotcom, telecom, and tech bust of the early 2000's;

* The Asian debt crisis of the late 1990's;

* The Latin America debt crisis of the 1980's;

* The oil shock and stagflation crisis of the 1970's;

In each of these crises, a significant swath -- or all -- of the world's financial infrastructure has seized up, requiring government intervention to prevent collapse.

A natural question to ask is whether the financial infrastructure we have today has been well-engineered to be robust to these remarkably regular shocks.

Judging by the regular seize-ups, it doesn't seem to be.
"The SNB (Swiss Nation bank) is the 35th largest investor, on average, across its top 50 holdings. In most securities, the only firms with larger investments are big asset managers like Blackrock and Vanguard, which hold investments for many individuals and institutions. That means that the SNB is the largest individual fund, bigger than any hedge fund." [1]

[1] https://qz.com/1140322/check-out-the-swiss-central-banks-ins...
I guess it depends on the components size.

Small straight forward components -> sure.

Mid-sized components -> maybe.

Large component -> No, but probably you it's a good idea to see if they can be shrunk.

But I only have played around with this tech, so no real experience.
https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/production-...
You must also take account that people not always look at a language per by their MOST perfect domain fit.

For me, and probably many I look in the rust sphere(and go and swift and F# where I also have worked), this langs are not picked because "I need bare-metal baby!" but "I need something a bit faster/easier to deploy/less resource/less crazy intensive than obj-c/python/ruby/js/php".

I have picked all 4 (rust, f#, go and swift) because that, because all (except go) have AGDTs and pattern matching (and go only because I need some utilities easier to cross compile FAST) and that is all.

ALSO

because are langs FRIENDLY to solo(me!)/small teams of developers. Even If i must pick a "system language" I will NEVER pick C++, too much complexity. That is why I pick F# vs C# (F# is more economic in lines of code, more expressive and overall simpler), Swift as fast I as could (vs obj-c) and Pascal over C/C++ in the old days.

Looking this way, them intersect much more than most imagine.
I see, thanks!

When do you think it will translate to treasury bonds crashing? I can't imagine them having 5 more years, but on the short term they can easily go to negative yields.
It's a fig-leaf.
Gilt Group uses Node.js along with Hummingbird to do real-time traffic analysis/monitoring.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1335425
A table with one column may very well be appropriate, however that's not the case here. A table has been used for layout. You will notice the up-vote icon has its own cell for example. Not to mention, various deprecated style-related tags like center are used as well.
Not entirely what you mean, but have you seen sarien.net?
while we're complaining - my big problem with, really, programming languages in general, these days, is that they're getting good at making it easy to do complicated things within a process but unfortunately typical development projects are getting to be more distributed, which means that the nice abstractions your languages provide usually can't extend across your entire application, so you end up dumbing things down, relying on stuff like web frameworks which imo tend to be a bunch of hacks, etc. (This is probably the reason for the current popularity of dynamic/untyped languages - why bother specifying types when the invariants they create will only hold across part of your application anyway?)

I'd like to see more effort put toward creating programming environments that provide clean abstractions that span entire multi-process distributed applications.
People who can authoritatively talk about such attacks can't or don't talk. So, information out there is mostly anecdotal at best or just plain speculation. These cables add to that stack of information but from a much higher level of involvement. It may not be new or news but it's certainly from more credible source than what we usually hear from.
It was very strange to read:

4 - Don't rush through your Yahoo submission.

but then I see the date of the artice: August 10, 1999
Clickable: http://www.ditchit.com.au

Congratulations on getting something out there - for me that's always the hardest part!

One thing I noticed is that if I remove the value to any of the $_GET variables in your urls I get a mysql error. Not sure how you're handling the data coming in to display listings, categories, etc. but be sure to guard against SQL Injection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sql_injection).

Also, don't forget to add some meta tags (like description and keywords). I always forget to do stuff like that so I bookmarked http://lite.launchlist.net/ to help myself remember.
You can do many billion MD5 hashes a second and there are a few common suffixes @gmail.com @outlook.com etc.

The search space is mostly lowercase and maybe . or +

So it literally isn’t a reverse lookup but it’s still pretty broken.
Maybe start a zoo, or maybe I'll call it a "park", for kids?
You'd be suprised. It's not uncommon to see players that only play that much because they want to become a pro player, but in the end they never make it, or qualify to 1-2 tournaments. The lucky ones end up making money from streaming, but a lot depend on their parents or girlfriend's for a place to live since they don't make enough money to live off of.
No. It was a local blackout: too much load with air conditioners in the summer
I think the 100% is when the data shows the recession is occurring i.e. if a recession is occurring now, then the chances of one occurring in the next 3 months are clearly 1 (I get your point however...it is odd). There are other factors in the model aside from the ones with charts.

The model isn't in a textbook because predicting the economy is nothing to do with economics as it is taught at universities. Economists use complex structural models because they are fun to teach and create barriers to entry. This is why DSGE models are so popular in universities, govt, and central banks but barely used anywhere else.

If you want to forecast the business cycle, you just need linear regression. You can't ever be 100% (unless a recession is already occurring) because the economy is always changing but basic models are pretty accurate (the BIS has done quite a bit on this recently - https://www.bis.org/publ/work818.htm - funnily enough, the term spread isn't the be all...but economists have a big problem with including things like credit.
This is interesting, as this appears to be similar to the difference between Daniel Kahneman's System1 and System2 modes of human thought. ML is perhaps beginning to approach our subconscious, associative intelligence. This shows up in its excellence for things like image processing, which we do instantly and automatically. Perhaps growing the tech equivalent of a prefrontal cortex is what's going to be hard, or require a different approach.
> hen you are probably forced to argue that consciousness is very closely related to computation, to the point were a coin flip, or a hello world program has some sliver of consciousness.

Why not? Those things have zero-consciousness that is conscious only of itself and which correctly reflects their lack of self-model.
Would even HBC and the various East India companies reach that size, at that time?
I'm at a point where I think that "(2) Code is a liability" is a fundamental revelation that separates developers. It acts as a proxy for so many things, including some from this post:

- Code duplication should be avoided, but not if the alternative is complicated or highly-coupled code. Duplicated code is increased liability, and complicated code is increased liability. Sometimes two similar but separate functions is just easier to read, use, test, and maintain; assessing the "liability" helps you make the best decision.

- Tests are good because they decrease liability of other code, but they are themselves are a liability, so you can go too far (as many other commenters note about TDD).

And "Code is a liability" is not a silver-bullet. It isn't specific or prescriptive enough, and that's a good thing. It requires experience and effort to understand what that means and to make use of it on a case by case basis. But I think it does point you in the right direction by posing the right questions and focusing on the important trade-offs.
Genuine (outsider) question: how is housing not a uniquely-SF problem? The rest of the country and even other parts of California seem to have affordable housing, at least relatively speaking.

EDIT: RE downvotes, shame on me for not being familiar with SF politics, I guess. It is, after all, the center of the universe. (◔_◔)
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Just like some people find running very boring and others are obsessive runners, some people will find strength training boring. That's ok. Find some other physical activity that gets you in the zone and forget about the daily stresses of life - may be it is playing basketball, or tennis or whatever. I really started to love strength training once I got the hang of it. It gets less boring once you learn to be fully absorbed in it - focusing on correct form while lifting heavy weights and pushing yourself requires a lot of concentration and mind-body coordination, and I think that's what gets me into the "flow" state and generates the good feelings of accomplishment.
My understanding is you can't "get" one or the other. You either have them or you dont. Keep in mind I last read on this in 2012.
> Are we propagating negative Chinese news?

Yes? Should we not care what one of the largest economies in the world is doing to its people?

> literally nothing will come of it.

How do you figure that?

Are you arguing that we shouldn’t cover something newsworthy because you’re convinced nothing will change?
The full quote in the bill seems to be "uses flight controllers, radios, data transmission devices, cameras, or gimbals manufactured in a covered foreign country or by a corporation domiciled in a covered foreign country."

So it's apparently not all parts. Which I agree would be, at a minimum, very difficult to make 100% US--certainly not in a COTS product.
Or start to consider education and college not being more related than field work and education.
I'm not the parent, but as a second-generation immigrant, I broadly agree with all of this. I'm fine with whatever laws we all decide, and I think they should then be vigorously enforced.

Our current wink-wink scheme, supported by both major parties, is bad for a lot of people, and in many way most harmful to illegal aliens (who are abused and/or are virtually enslaved).
> which helps technological change, which leads to a more efficient economy

You made a leap of logic here. The technological innovations in finance directly contributed to a more volatile economy that crashed and inflicted massive losses on huge swaths of the global population, many of whom never recovered.
Here is the link to the Github repo: https://github.com/mesosphere/mesos-dns
Pigeon-guided missiles also come to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
Isn't there an issue in Python where closures don't work as expected? The following code will blow up:

https://gist.github.com/skatenerd/72281cadd2ae3e44d6cf

For some reason, stashing the variable inside of a list will fix the variable resolution..?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4851463/python-closure-wr...
> File cabinets are the perfect analogy, it is exactly the metaphor used by file systems.

File cabinets are not infinitely hierarchical in any meaningful way (you can try to stuff files within files, but it breaks down so quickly in practice one doesn't do that, while that is exactly what makes file systems powerful), and does not have links. We learned in the early 80's how bad that analogy was after assorted attempts to take it literally (and make "file managers" that depicted actual visual filing cabinets).

> From a UX perspective, most users don't care about the features of a modern file system

Most users don't, and for those it doesn't matter that the applications operating on their data is layering its functionality on top of a file system.

Some users do, and for those of us who do, an application loses a lot of value if we lose the ability to control and structure our data hierarchically within a file system.

> Think like a UX designer and not a programmer to solve this problem.

The reason I am terrified of people taking data out of the filesystem is because I've seen what UX designers tries to do when they are given these tasks. It's not that it's "bad". It's that it satisfies only a subset of users, and that I'm pretty much never in that subset of users.

So no, we should not think like UX designers to solve this problem, because it is not a UX problem. It is an information organization and retrieval problem that the typical UI designer is in no way qualified to solve. A specific UI layered on top of this storage to provide a specific set of users a means of accessing that information is a UX problem.

But that only works if the data is stored in a way that allows those of us not served by those UIs to get at and operate on the data with other tools.
Not saying you're wrong, but after reaching several hundreds of millions of users, reaching 500 million is not such a big milestone.

Not a big deal.

And btw, if they'll keep their growth at 4% per month, expect 1 billion users on ~ January 2012.
What do you not understand?
Total firearm-related death rate per 100'000 for the US: between 10.2 and 15.22.

For the UK: 0.38 to 0.46

Source (and more sources): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-re...
I look at it this way; my company is looking for another web developer in the south FL area (.net, c#, sql, html, css, javascript -- if anyone's looking).

I do a web search on every resume and if I got a result that showed you as a HackerNews contributer (aka someone with a modicum of karma) that would get you an instant interview.
I know it's not fashionable nowadays, but I, for my part stick to Nokia phones.

"Rootability" is not an accident there, but part of the design.

This, of course is unless your (subsidized) phone is locked down to hell and then some. This is much less a problem in Europe, since you can always buy the unlocked phone and as a matter of fact, with the exception of pre-paid phones, even subsidized phones are not SIM-locked (you sign a contract anyway) and I never had one loaded with un- removable crap-ware.
Ha! I was about to go put together yet another layout like this. Thanks a bunch!
I don't think the main point of the FSF article is to disagree with the choice. To me it sounds like FSF just took a chance to remind the general public about the issues they always try to publicize. The disagreement is probably just added for some extra publicity.
Another similar facet is companies having the leverage to hire people as private contractors when they are in fact legally employees.
So it would have nothing to do with all the legal quagmires the EU is currently trying to drag (e.g.) Google through, such as News in Spain, antitrust lawsuits, right-to-be-forgotten?
"People die everyday in car accidents and safety is an illusion, so let's stop wearing seatbelts. Safety is not worth the indignity of driving around trussed up like a turkey."

BTW, the government and the courts agree that warrantless snooping is dangerous, which is why there are checks and balances in place. The recent leaks raised doubts that those were not effective. But if the numbers in the declassified documents are accurate, it's nowhere nearly as bad as people here are imagining.
This is a fine fluff comment about someone's experience reading about a magician. (And not a particularly good comment.) Nothing wrong with making a comment, but it doesn't reveal anything particularly interesting.

In all seriousness, I get that you don't want to share secrets. But your tone comes off as just acting superior without any substance behind it.

I also wonder what you mean by "you aren't allowed to share what you do." Is there some enforcement entity that will come get you if you share? Will Penn take you into a dark room and sit on you or something? Or is just a behavior that all magicians adopt for the shared success of the group?
Out of curiosity, did you try using dialyzer? I understand ADTs are strictly better, but was there a particular problem that dialyzer couldn't pragmatically solve for you?
Let the insurance companies figure out who to blame in each particular case; that's what they're for.
How is this really an improvement over 1 class, with a single method that takes an Enum 'mode', which then switches to one of three internal methods ?

Lambdas may have some benefits, but this article really doesn't demonstrate any.
We learned a lot about how to do this properly from projects like 三北防护林, so hopefully we will succeed.
As long as nobody is legally allowed to enter a road with such modifications, I'm all for it - but I surely hope there will be strict enforcement against 'speed hacks', which user-modifiability will surely turn in to.
Yes, absolutely.

My comment was actually incorrect, since it's 11.4 in 100,000 per year. I think I'd want my spouse to spend 1/5th less time driving for the increase in risk.
While there are some OSS column store DBs, Vertica is a very well put together solution.
It's very fast, it scales reasonably well, it has support for wide-range of analytic functions, and good support.
Not everywhere and not all the time, especially not considering a 30% better mpg, as the article mentions.
Stardog[0], a semantic/ontological[1] database, is probably best in class, and is closed source. Anyone interested in writing a open source triplestore, email me ;)

[0] http://stardog.com/
[1] They've started calling it a graph database, though I think triplestore is the most correct name
async/await is the biggest reason I'm looking forward to ES7.
I've been to a great Mexican restaurant named La Cucaracha. Great name, huh?

I've always wondered how Chi-Chi's stayed in business, BTW.
My company made the same switch from MongoDB to Cassandra, a little over a year ago. We were storing analytics counters in Mongo and wanted better consistency guarantees.

What we found when we switched was that Cassandra had better consistency with similar performance to MongoDB. Then a few months later, as we accumulated more data, performance started to take a nosedive. Counter increments began impacting other database operations and the nodes would become unresponsive. Eventually we moved all of the counters to an in-memory aggregator that flushed to Postgres a couple of times a second.

Counters were introduced in 0.8 (when we started using them) and are pretty half-baked. There has been some good discussion about overhauling counters, though I'm not sure when they're scheduled to land.
Re: Bubbles - Such as? Let me be more specific. If I shall quote wikipedia - "It could also be described as a trade in products or assets with inflated values" Doesn't Bitcoin set to eliminate inflated values? With no central authority controlling the amount of currency available or loaned at certain rates then valuation becomes absolute, no?

Re: Manipulation - I'm not sure I understand how the value of the currency can be manipulated. If the value is directly set by the end user then it's impossible to manipulate.
Does this app share any code with Letterpress or did you re-create the UI elements/interactions?
I'd say it's more that inspired by...
That's easy to answer -- TED is to ideas what sugar is to nutrition. One has a superficial resemblance to the other, a resemblance that lasts about 30 seconds.
Your understanding of the problem is in error, and will be corrected by reading the linux-usb thread linked to by the article.
I'm running Safari Version 5.0.2 (6533.18.5) on Mac OS X10.6.5.