jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So it's a Webkit issue? Honestly haven't got a clue what caused it. Just wish they'd fix it. Love all the privacy features of Firefox... but I have no inherent love for Gecko. Like that's all behind the scenes stuff. Does it matter, from a privacy perspective? Any insight into the aversion to using Webkit? Chrome uses Webkit on MacOS and Blink on Windows, yeah? Seems like the way to go.

I want my Mac Hardware, it feels nice. I want to use Firefox, I trust it and I like that I can automatically clear cookies and history on close... The fact that Chrome pushes you to sign in is so fundamentally offensive to me. Just super-creepy. So I want Firefox on Mac, but I have no strong feelings towards Gecko one way or the other, if that's what's causing my computer to over heat... wish they'd just swap it out for Webkit.
Maybe for vc backed software companies who can go remote or move to Texas to save on taxes and compliance, but there's still going to be a huge hardware supply chain here.
You may want to add a Dockerfile.
People are OK to throw radicals into internment camp, just because they showed signs of radical religious behavior.

Are you OK with that?

You did not seem to get the idea of clash of civilizations. That framing is about the civilization as a whole. In that scale, you cannot apply your concept of people individuals etc.
I have a nine year old who still gets tucked in every night and I spend half an hour by his bedside every night listening to audiobook stories or just talking about his day.

He was never a good sleeper. Since birth he needed human contact to fall asleep and stay asleep. Perhaps it's a genetic wiring or perhaps it's because wife and I are not believers in "sleep training". Our idea is that kids will loosen these ties on their own terms when ready i.e. when their nervous systems grow mature enough to feel safe sleeping on their own.

Many will scoff at the fact that we have a nine year old who has a sleep routine of a five year old. And yet... he is one of the best performing kids in class, always outgoing, self confident, popular with peers and teachers alike without being an asshole to anyone younger or older.

I'm a parent and I'm never going to judge another. But I think we're doing something right by our kid. But spending all this time by his side is taxing, not gonna lie.
I've wrote a javascript polyfill for this. Currently only supports 1x,2x,3x, same as the implementation in webkit.

http://github.com/culshaw/srcset
I understand the reasons behind it.

Given my experience with compiler development, back when I was in the university, my expectations is that the second point would be pretty fast anyway, if the first and last issues are solved.

I have good experience with languages that use modules, some of them had bootstraped compilers like the Oberon family.

That is why I said I am hoping for these issues to be solved, as I think building LLVM is the main culprit.
raised just over 40% of their goal - $12,809,906 / $32M.

was certainly an interesting experiment

edit: s/raised/were pledged/
Have started using netbeans, as of today, can see why you would suggest it, it seems, at first impression much better
I asked a few developer-related questions about it in multiple places, but never got any answers. I might've bought it otherwise.
I can't believe Steve Jobs would make such an obviously disingenuous if not entirely false statement. It's a cold, hard fact that AT&T and every other carrier tracks people. While it might be technically true that Apple doesn't track anyone, the distinction is beyond weaselly. And the point isn't whether or not Apple tracks people, the point is how easy the iPhone's unencrypted backups of location data make it for people to track your movements.
I'm not sure whether your comment is against Moon colonization specifically or more generally against the use of funds for space exploration. In the case of the former I don't know enough about the potential of such a mission to pass judgment on it.

In the case of the latter, however, I find that those who oppose space exploration in favor of using the funds for the good of humanity now (feeding staving people, building domestic infrastructure, eliminating innumerable other social ailments) are only shortchanging future generations of our children by guaranteeing their extinction. Very smart people have repeatedly warned us that we cannot remain a single planet species and expect a future. I really can't think of anything more important to spend money on than the only technology that will be able to allow our species to survive.
The one thing no one ever mentions about America is this: it's well governed and free for most part. That in itself makes it a country that people aspire to be part of. I wonder if people would say that about China - ever.
Borrowing money to buy BTC is...something. I'm surprised the board lets any of this fly.
As the guy who designed the architecture diagramming system, mostly to help folks keep straight what they're trying to help folks build, I hate that it's being used as a qualification/filter/etc. Sorry yo.
Why not give DVD from lynda.com a try
Okay but I am assuming that most web servers are not run from users' private computer networks, but from dedicated data centers, or somewhere in "the cloud".

But yea I agree if you want node to listen on port 80 then you either forward certain URLs to it (using nginx this is easy), or or you just get another IP to point to the same machine, which is probably better.
(Given your mention of a career, I'm going to assume he is at the stage where he can write programs to do stuff, but wants to move to the next level.)

To get better at programming, you need to do more than learn to program (languages, semantics, frameworks, etc.): you need to learn to think link a programmer. In this, there aren't many shortcuts: it requires study and practice.

Here are some great subjects to look into to get him started:

- design patterns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns)

- functional programming (although this is language agnostic, I personally would suggest working through "Scala by example" http://www.scala-lang.org/sites/default/files/linuxsoft_arch...)

- meta-programming (here are some videos--with free samples--on metaprogramming in Ruby http://pragprog.com/screencasts/v-dtrubyom/the-ruby-object-m...)

- algorithms

- compilers ("the dragon book" http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321486811/?tag=stackoverfl08-20)

- testing (unit, functional, integration, etc.)

One thing that will probably help him advance a LOT is learning a language that does things completely differently than the one he's using. If he'd like to try that, this book looks good (haven't used it myself but the choice of languages is pretty good): http://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-w...

Also, there are some great books on this list: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-m...

I'm sure there's a lot more to be said on the subject, but that's a start off the top of my head. What he should start looking into really depends on his specific weaknesses and/or preferences.
Depends where. In the US? poor souls kept getting blamed by management.

IT is expensive says Management.

So they offshore.

Job is gone.

Once industry sang the same song, we're done. No more IT practitioners in the US.

The shift is happening right now and it happens in a similar fashion: nobody feels it yet but suddenly the rug under them is gone one day.

Silicon Valley is an exception. There are always great companies like Apple and Google. And there are those poor startups that try to overwork the so-called "energetic, genius, creative" fresh-grads.

But the turn-over/turn-around rate is very high.

Stick long enough in this industry and we'll start seeing patterns.
I use mturk a lot at the startup I work for and while I think it is an amazingly powerful tool, one thing to keep in mind for experiments like yours is the number of actual unique worker Ids.

For example those 200 responses, I hope you really mean you Looked at the actual number of unique people who accepted hits and thus you actually published a (large) multiple of that 200.

In my experience if you send out 1000 hits, about 70 people will all of them.

There's no way to easily filter so that a worker can only do one hit without some API/iframe trickery.

Just some food for thought.
Thanks for sharing those evilolive! I haven't come across the Toronto Univ annotation suite before --- polygon auto-segmentation is an interesting problem. We have embedded a simple auto-segmentation algorithm into our GUI that run without a model but are looking to add DL-enabled auto segmentation in the near future.

Would be curious to hear why V7 is your favourite?
Sometimes I feel that the western fascination with Malaria is a little misplaced. Actual Africans speak about Malaria like we speak about Influenza: a treatable illness that only kills the very old and very young.

Actually Flu and Malaria kill roughly about the same number of people globally each year. Imagine if African billionaires showed up on our shores one day and started handing out respirators and face masks to Americans. "Just everyone wear these all winter and you won't catch the flu! So many lives would be saved!" We might use them to go fishing as well.
I think the fact that the reward address is part of the hash, and has to have the balance would prevent just swapping out the reward address.
I'm not sure what you're implying, because both interpretations are valid to downvote.
Yeah, Tom is supposed to be older and more fundamental that the current antic magics of Elves and Wizards. Like an Elemental, except even they are newer than Tom. I see him as different in kind. He can live in the dangerous forest, because it holds no danger to him.

If he's dangerous, its like the old Gods are dangerous because they may be capricious. They may squash something because they aren't paying attention to it.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/15/tsa-probe-sca... :

The Transportation Security Administration has opened an investigation targeting John Tyner

Michael J. Aguilar, chief of the TSA office in San Diego, .. said the investigation could lead to prosecution and civil penalties of up to $11,000.
I know you just tossed off that code, but I wanted to run it. I think n should have been k in the line "return sum(one() for i in range(n)) / float(n)"
Expected value of a single game: 1 day delay. Chance of "winning" a replay: 2/3. The has no memory so all picks are independent. Sum of infinite geometric series, done.

This is math team math all the way: if you were asking any question I might have to think, but since it involves repetitive calculations of expected value (probability times result), infinite length, and a trick allowing hand calculability, I know it has to decompose to sum of an infinite geometric series somehow.

Some variants left as an exercise to the reader:

a) Three door game as above with doors where A = heaven, B = 2 days + retry, and C = 4 days plus retry. If you get the lesson, this should be trivial.

b) Write a Satan's version of the three door game, where the rules look "simple enough" but the expected time to reach heaven is not finite. (This would be a great extra credit problem for a high school advanced math course -- and full points and a smiley face for "Doors A, B, and C all say 'come back tomorrow'.")
> People keep stopping me on the street to explain to me just how terrified I am.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Are you saying that you look scared and lots of people are pointing it out to you? Or are you saying that the fear of the Korean people is suppressed and projected upon the foreign nationals living within the country?
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...

Rules chosen in haste are very far from guaranteed to be better than what they replace. Most likely, in the massive rush to replace everything, cronies and political allies will carve off chunks, loopholes etc. to profit from.

The USA is different in that its institutions grew up over a few hundred years, starting out with a fairly trivial population and minimal government over a primarily agricultural people, and growing the state in response to crises. It's certainly important that it had a very good core in the constitution and the early amendments (bill of rights etc.); but that just laid down the architecture of what grew like a crystal afterwords.

Unfortunately, there's a brand of anacho-libertarianism in certain influential chunks of American thought, especially in economic circles, which believes that government itself is evil, and that if you only overthrow it, everything will be better. They tried that with shock therapy in Russia, and to a degree even tried it again in Iraq - no planning for aftermath etc.

It's my opinion that almost every part of a well-functioning state is balanced between strain in multiple directions, getting larger and getting smaller, regulating more and regulating less, clamping down on moral offenses and easing back on others, etc. These kinds of strains oscillate with the political winds, and the organizations that are grown in prevailing winds are stunted in one direction or another, and only corrected when they've gone too far, in a crisis.

In the light of this metaphor, it should be clear that an overthrow isn't the right recipe to grow a good new state: the organization won't have had the time and crises to grow in balance with its competing stresses. Instead, the immediate insiders will be unstoppable political gales, deep structural faults will be embedded into the heart of the operation that guarantee the politically favoured factions rents for decades to come.

I speak of an Irishman, who has, of late, longed for a revolution in my homeland, but recognizes it for the folly it would be. My country's primary problem is that it has too many representatives, too much clientelism, too much of politics is cynically local, and above all too much voting is based on tribal allegiances that date back to civil war nearly 100 years ago.
Airlines are the key.

I bet you that if someone setup website offering reasons not to fly, along with alternatives to flying - along with a catchy domain - and publicised the hell out of it in stories like these, the pressure from the airlines would become so great that the TSA would be gone (in its current form) within a month.
I can confirm this result from personal experience. In teaching basic algebra, I found people who couldn't multiply 0.8 by 20 without a calculator could easily tell me how much something that cost $20 would be if a store was having a 20%-off sale. Some of them could even compute the amount with sales tax.
>Plants and fungus don't have nervous system

Who says plants don't have a different, but equivalent way of sensing their environment?

Plants respond to stressors in the same way that animals do, they fail to thrive -- they wilt, or don't produce fruit, they grow more slowly, etc. Overtime, plants evolve defensive mechanisms like bark, thorns or poisons. Everything an animal does (or at least with strong analogies to animals), except plants aren't mobile.

Plants also respond to positive stimuli in the same way animals do, they thrive. Plants turn to face the sun, they grow faster, reproduce faster, produce more flowers and fruit, they stand taller, their leaves are fuller, their stems are firmer, all have strong analogies in the animal kingdom.

Anybody who's ever taken care of a house plant can attest to the fact that plants that are well cared for, doted over, with careful attention to making sure all of the plants needs are met, thrive better (seem happier) than those that aren't.
The bigger problem is that in many fields, even if you can read and understand the paper, it is not actionable, much less verifiable by you. It may be incomplete, hide an asterisk as some other branch may mention, or be altogether written as to be unverifiable.

The last bit is especially common in the most important but soft sciences like psychology, sociology, economy, history or anthropology...

Or worse, it may be in principle verifiable but only at high expense, or the results of the analysis are incomplete or buried.
The argument made is seemingly harmless, but historically has been proven incompatible with morality.

For example, one could argue those that are poor or uneducated are that way because of nature, their IQ, their race or ethnicity, but we know this to be false and immoral.
Jetbrains or netbeans?
"Next time", I and many others will simply refuse the lockdown strategy, and if it so happens that it's a virus that has high lethality across all age groups, loads of us are going to die before the evidence is clear and we start to voluntarily reduce interactions.

"Just a few weeks to flatten the curve" was a once in a generational play. I did my bit, and so far I've been punished for it.

I really hope for our sake it doesn't come down to this again, because this time it really will be a bloodbath, rather than a particularly bad year or two.
It's the very first item on their add-ons listing.
> The career path promoting great developers into managers (and eventually CTOs) tends to take people out of something they're great at and put them into something they might not be so good at.

Peter's Principle. The more professional experience you get, the more you realize it's not a joke :-)
plenty of divs and spans out there on major sites that nest so far down it looks almost like a fractal.
Products don't exist in a vacuum.

In one case we could assume no competition or weak competition in the product's market.

Over time, one can imagine a case including competition that disrupts a once-increasingly-valuable product to suddenly drop users.
That shift happened back in the .com boom of the late 90s. It has never really reverted back. It's still the case that top-flight PhDs are going to work as developers at companies (versus academic or industry researchers).

I think it is a testament to how interesting the work in our field is.
technically you aren't reversing it, you are calculating it through brute-force.

best analogy for a hash is smashing a plate. you may be able to glue it back together but it is not the same plate

btw I wonder how long before somebody calcs and loads a rainbow table onto AWS and charges for lookups. so tempted...
"Society should pay for it, since society will benefit from it."

OK, but if someone is paying for it then it's not free.

Whether "society" (whihc I'm guessing really means tax payers) should foot the bill is a different matter.

There's a good self-interest argument that one is better off in a society where more people are better educated, but the devil is in the details: Who gets funding, with what strings attached, and so on.
Who has time to add their social graph to Facebook? If it's important to you, you'll find the time to do it.
Charlie Curran's mistake is thinking the entertainment of the future will be just like the entertainment of the past. pg's essay was a challenge to find what the future will look like. He wasn't excluding any possibility. He wasn't predicting the demise of every single aspect of Hollywood, or even, of any specific aspect of Hollywood

pg was just pointing out that entertainment will continue to evolve, that change is the only thing that's for sure, and that like all industries, Hollywood is not immune to outside challenges.
This article is vague (and overly alarmist); other sources I have read indicate that the threat is to SF's municipal power company, which provides power primarily to municipal buildings (including, most notably, SFO!). The vast majority of people in SF and the Bay Area get their power from PG&E, which has power plants in many more places than just Yosemite.

More info: http://www.sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=391
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There is a clear distinction between malware (virus, trojans, and worms) and adware in the antivirus community. As this is neither drive-by nor malware, it's no stretch; it's an outright lie.

Who are you to say how open source authors make their money? While I'm not happy about this shady move by Dice, it's the sensationalist writing, full of misinformation that I was calling out.
Do you put Mensa on your resume?

While I think there's probably some low-range filtering going on with Haskell, I think that only shows that Haskell isn't that fit for writing much production software, since, for all the "smart people" very little has been done with Haskell.

What I think Haskell does attract are people that like to develop overwrought, abstract, and ornate systems. Another reason it hasn't proven to be terribly useful for production software.

I do like the experimental space languages like Haskell play in, and think there is strong net benefit to our field as a whole, by finding ideas that work when brought into that field. So I like people out there mucking around with different programming idioms/domains/approaches.

If I see significant Haskell or Lisp experience on a resume, I tend to be wary.
Technical competency is not a pre-requisite for being able to observe how your general life is impacted by using, or not using, a tech product.
I'm really curious about how will the usernames pan out in the end
It is probably much easier in the private sector, you'll typically be expected and empowered to produce results and achieve goals. The red tape and foot dragging you find in the public sector doesn't last long, people who perform poorly and block others tend to get swept out. Exceptions being the cable tv providers because they are monopolies and have no motivation to do well, and small businesses where you often have unskilled and inexperienced people leading (think every episode of Kitchen Nightmares you ever saw).
I want a peloton but every time I get close to buying one I get this fear about them going under or changing their business model and me just having a stationary dumb bike at the end of it all.
I'm not saying this is something everyone should have, mandatory. But I'm a bit tired of the "no one should have it, ever" camp.
And the next person that will own my house, if I ever sell it, can refurbish it to their own tastes, if they want.