jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"I have never met someone who didn't understand how computers and internet work, at least on some basic level."

Dear god, I want you to live in my world for one day. I write for a tech blog, and half... ok, 75% of the commenters on the posts I write have the same attitude as the author of this post.
> How catastrophic is it? It's ... well, not to be dramatic, but if this doesn't end up being one of the nastier long-term natural catastrophes of the next few decades, then I shudder to imagine what's coming next. Not only is this killing seabirds and mammals, it's also de-oxygenating a large portion of the Gulf rather nicely.

Point of clarification, this is a man-made catastrophe.
I get that people who don't understand something tend to belittle it.
However, I have never met someone who didn't understand how computers and internet work, at least on some basic level.
Most people at least understand computers and the internet enough to know that programmers are the gatekeepers - without them, there would be no internet, and computers wouldn't be able to do anything.

This is the first time I have come across a person who does not understand computers and the internet at all. I really hope I never come across another person like that author.
Paying for your own namespace...now that's an idea!
2.5 Million gallons per day. Years after the news stops reporting it in a couple months, the wildlife will never recover.

Relief wells must be made MANDATORY or we've learned nothing and it will happen again.

BP's deepwater Atlantis is poised to do the same thing in our lifetimes.
The system you've described doesn't really scale to, say, 1000 people with 10TB of files. Even with a lot of flash drives in that cache.

The sneakernet is engineered basically to let you keep making trips to that cache outside your dorm room and somehow magical files appear from a block or two away. Also, files from you magically appear a block or two away when other people ask for them. The sneakernet takes care of all the routing to make lots of files show up in lots of places geographically close to you without too much overhead.

I've found lots of times I will request a file that the system in its cleverness has already cached locally on my HD. So "getting it off of the sneakernet" is actually instantaneous.
That's correct. Thanks a lot. Updated the blog with the correct example (using function). I was testing on Chrome and even your examples showed better results with value of variable 'a' to 1000, although slightly. Firefox shows no difference.

Another thing, JavaScript 1.7 has introduced block level scopes.. you can achieve that by using the 'let' keyword instead of 'var' to declare a variable. Although most browsers don't support it yet.
Use poloniex!
One post per week is too limiting!! There are days when I want to talk to or mention 10 friends!
Yeah. I guess when you promise a perpetual account to all students for life, that adds up quick. New policy is 5GB for active students faculty and staff, and 1GB for alumni, retirees, and former students.

> As of November 2021, UTmail is utilizing over 6.4 PB of pooled storage. However, due to a change in the G Suite storage policy, Google will implement a 545 TB pooled storage quota.

> Of the customers impacted: 70,000 are students, faculty, and staff, and 200,000 are alumni and retirees.

Edit: just read the help files closer and turns out that alumni and retirees lose Google Drive entirely -- 1GB is just for email.
The article mentioned the guy is a programmer. Anybody want to bet he's been reading the TSA articles on either Reddit or HN?
I have been wondering for very long whether there are VM images for all Android releases including custom ROMs? Can they even be virtualized? Agree that cellular and other features like GPS might not work but at least we can test with different setup right?
There's lots you can do. First: stop typing. Get voice recognition software. It is possible to program with VR; I did it for a year or two, by using ViaVoice's Java bindings to control emacs. (I stopped when I no longer needed it, not because it didn't work.)

Second: get a good keyboard. The Kinesis is a good first step. You may find that curved keyboards like the Microsoft Natural don't work for you--when I tried one, it required me to stretch my fingers further, which hurt more.

Third: find a doctor. (Actually, call the doctor first; but you should be helping yourself while waiting for the appointment.) If you're in the Seattle area, I can recommend Dr. William Ericson [1]. He did my surgery (years ago, before he moved to Seattle). Some time back, he figured out that a lot of the patients he was seeing, who weren't responding to carpal tunnel treatment, had something in common: extra ligaments near the elbow that pinch the nerves that go through the carpal tunnel when you turn your hands face-down. He can cut those ligaments--they're totally unnecessary; 75% of the population doesn't have them--and the problem goes away. Worked for me--very minor surgery; I was conscious for the whole thing.

[1] http://www.wbericson.org/
Keep pluging away, it's way worth it :).

Rather than use the upgrade gem I started a new project, copied/converted what I could, and then let my tests tell me what was missing. First the models, then controllers, and finally the integration tests.

Without automated testing you're fucked of course, but as long as you have a decent safety net in place you'll get there.
I don't know who this Jobs character is, but he obviously doesn't know many of the 24 principles of maximum productivity or the 37 ways to unleash creative potential. He should probably spend more time reading articles about how to zen-up his workspace for maximum focus if he wants to get anything done. It doesn't even look like he owns a Moleskine! How does he do mind-maps!? I mean seriously, Steve, how do you expect to get Twitter followers with that cluttered desk?
Doesn't seem to be available for iPod Touch even though many of the features would work fine on it.
I'm struck that it appears to do very little local caching. In that sense it feels like a highly polished web app, always at the mercy of an available network.

Also, it's iPhone-only. Following the direct download link from an iPod or iPad yields an error. Guess I'm sticking with Boxcar for iPad push notifications.
Cool that you managed to upgrade to 1.9.2. The encoding issues have us scared. We do have a few special purpose webapps that run 1.9.2 because of very high performance requirements.
(I misread your last comment :-)
Personally, I find that taking a very aggressive approach to the Liskov substitution principle is the most helpful rule of thumb. I follow it to the point of practically never using inheritance. If you are using inheritance to modify behavior, then you are probably ignoring LSP and making your code "unintelligible".
>I am not sure how you can make the statement that higher minimum wages don't equate to job losses. Do you have proof?

Sure there are some studies that say it doesn't.
http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/157-07.pdf

But it's a point of contention with economists.

In any case your examples are a gross simplification based on anectodes and reduced to typical republican/libertarian talking points.
Why does agreeing to disagree and moving on seem like such a radical idea?
Same here? is that security issue?
Please do not use code blocks just to draw attention to your comment. It is not clever or creative.
".., and I have to wonder if “location-based pay” works in both directions. I live in suburban London, ten-ish Tube stops from the belly of the beast. If I worked remotely for Facebook and wanted to move somewhere central where rents are three times higher, would Zuck give me a raise? Somehow I doubt it."
> And there's more. You could be fairly affluent and have four children, each with their own console and mobile phone, but struggle to use corporate video conferencing software for them all in a single household, especially when parents and guardians also work from home. How many families have six computers?

Do they need computers? zoom/teams/webex all work on phones/tablets.
Which retail job can I get to bump me up the list on vaccination, but doesn't actually increase my exposure possibility?

I would just stick with trying to follow rumors of thawed vaccines about to be thrown out for the day, but all of my group chats are jetsetters and they're often easily swayed by conspiracies or are just Republican and I don't have energy to ask about being vaccinated there.

edit: well its nice that I was able to crowdsource a discussion here! as you see, the energy of doing this in a sequential chat is much greater than a nested thread chat. really great insight into how to get it, thanks lifehackernews!
>Ignoring Indian and Chinese theories today is just sticking your head in the sand and promoting some weird type of conservatism.

That is true, but I don't see that happening in music education in the UK. I can't speak for anywhere else.
Of course,

because hacking other countries in Russia is "legal" and they do it.

The trade off is that cannot really go on good vacations with all that stolen money, because they might have a unexpected visit
I will never need a touchscreen in my laptop. That's what my iPad is for, which I can connect to my laptop, by the way. Function keys I've last used in the previous millennium, and I've got an escape key, thank you very much. My laptop automatically unlocks via my watch. But yes, I expect facial recognition to come to the Mac very soon, too.

And I've never used a PC trackpad with satisfaction rate of > 30% ;-) They are all shite.

I guess it is just a matter of preference. As I said, if you care about the trackpad, you will never touch a PC laptop. If you don't, you think you have a 94% trackpad, and that it doesn't matter.
Windows 3.1 was on 7 disks, with the last disk being printer drivers.

This is a beta version, but still should demonstrate nicely: https://ia801800.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/30...
GEB is pretty dense. Comparing GEB to short stories by Borges, I feel like Borges is able to capture the same ideas (recursion, infinite permutations) in a more engaging way and at a fraction of GEB's length.
There is an old saying, two kind of people enter the market in the morning, one with money and the other with experience. They switch postions by day end.
What are the best resources to become a guru?
If there was an online course/lecture version of this, I'd totally sign up/watch it. It's a great play (generally Adore what Stoppard wrote, in all their variety), and I'm sure most of it went whoosh over my head. The projects sound very interesting too, miss a bit the uni environment when people are forced to think more creatively - learning on my own it's a lot harder to kick that into gear. :)
“no SoMe” is probably “no Social Media”.
I have the opposite problem. I have a s*t ton of ideas and think-of course I do!-that they are all viable. But I can't decide where to start. I'm driving myself crazy. Add to it, the fact that I can't code...and am very impatient and don't want to spend the time needed to learn overly complicated no-code tools...and I have a laptop full of file folders going nowhere fast.
Wow, thanks for the tips. I'll certainly investigate the Lisp Machine. I played with newLISP a while ago and ended up writing a visualization tool for a project at work. I'll revisit it. I think I'll look for a SICP group to help keep me motivated to get through the book. I've never heard of losak, I'll definitely check it out.
I wanted to add that I had MSSA, not the more serious MRSA, but like the article points out, even the MSSA staph in meat is serious and can cause major health problems if it is spread to the skin.
Staph infections are a common bacterial skin infection, especially in athletes and among wrestlers. And even though MRSA is largely a problem in hospitals, that doesn't mean it's not a problem for all of us. Most people visit a hospital at some point. My cousin got a staph infection for going in to have a baby.
Here are the click-able links to the page, Your feedback is very welcome, thanks.

http://statifyme.com
http://twitter.com/statifyme
Unfortunately - and I say this as someone who doesn't eat meat - going vegetarian isn't enough to save you from bacteria. They will sometimes spray fields with contaminated animal waste which will then end up on your plate if not properly washed.

Maybe if everyone was vegetarian… The food industry is under a lot of pressure to cut any corner they can. Antibiotics give a producer an edge. Something like this really needs to be an industry-wide regulation.
If anyone's wondering, Präservativ means "condom" in German. My favorite false cognate in German is "das Gift", which in English is in fact "poison".
I just realized you and I have multiple "threads of conversation" going on at once. (which is OK.)

I like your Actors example. Yeah, concurrency can't be defined in terms of "threads" in a specific implementation sense, but only in a more generic sense of "threds of execution," as in "execution contexts".
With Internet Explorer's native support for HTML5, I thought it would score higher.
I used this to teach myself to code for the first time. It felt very natural just exploring and getting immediate visual feedback with the images I generated. I still use it to generate my desktop background images.
The abruptness of your comment seemed to imply that it is less of a genuine question, and more of a passive-aggressive lashing out against the luck I had (or the emphasis I place on luck in getting where I am today).

But then again, I'm terrible at sensing the subtext of other people's written words, so I ended up simply taking the question at its face value.
I do know list comprehensions, and I use them all the time (not trying to be defensive here, just providing context). I understand that they are just a different syntax for mapping -- applying a function to members of a list to produce a new list. However, while list comprehensions are clean and pythonic syntax, I think the "map" syntax more clearly illustrates the concept that the author is trying to teach.

Your suggestion for asides is certainly valid, and I agree would make it more useful for budding pythonistas. I just think that her focus was to introduce functional concepts, and python was simply an easy language to make the concepts concrete. I think that it's stretching the scope of the article, and therefore watering down its message, to put any additional focus on specific features of the python language.

I guess this is an example of my earlier point: I knew about map and reduce, and understood their power. However, it had not clicked for me before reading this article that they feature so prominently in functional programming because they work with functions that have no side effects.
Working consistently longer hours has been shown to be counter productive, in every study I'm aware of. This has also been born out in my role as an engineer and technical team lead managing other engineers and coders numerous times. I doubt Google needs to be informed of this!

You'll note that there's approximately zero 'goofing off' time in his schedule, he's either working productively, or not present at work. This is a good way to be productive and maintain sanity.
Even switching back and forth at the right times seems somewhat risky to me before ExitBootServices(), while Runtime Services are restricted to a subset that's much more resilient to external state changes (and doesn't run background stuff).

NetBSD rump kernels may provide a better base for OS experiments where you can use working code until you have replacements ready - based on a real OS, not some API that accidentally became one.
It is fairly interesting that the rest of the people replying to you find it suspicious that somebody is carrying flash cards with the words "terrorist" and "bomb". They make no mention that there was no specific threat, and no bomb or other actually illegal possessions. There is no way you cannot criticize their faculties for judgement.
Russia hasn't been communist for a while but almost all the doctors are still state employees. As for distortions, can you think of any other cases where the distortion is massive and the situation doesn't involve government subsidies?

Regardless, I'm not going to go digging around for evidence. My point is that the post above and the linked article did not even address the socialism aspect, which is a huge warning flag.
I mean, cyclists are not required by law to continuously ring the bell when traveling at less than 25mph though. Cars have car horns; that seems like a better analogy to bicycle bells than the "external noise generators".
Consider that whenever you are paying for AWS you are also paying for whatever proportional part of the AWS infrastructure is sitting idle at any one time - Amazon still need to cover those costs - it just get amortised over the paid resource usage.
Millennials is trending hard:
https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=millennials

It's hard to see why - I see a lot of pretend statistical articles on the subject but nothing validating that this group is actually any sort of cluster.

It's also interesting that when they talk about millennial, commentators are usually not talking about poor people. They mean middle class kids. I guess it's good clickbait for ads because it's a category that could describe anyone with monies children.
Don't be so cynical. They also add typos!
Whether NSA explicitly backdoored WinNT or simply knew so much about its vulnerability that they didn't need to, we can all safely stipulate that the agency had extrajudicial and coercive access to every networked WinNT system on the Internet.

But NSAKEY isn't that.
There are multiple 'grades' of criminals. All of them have one thing in common, they broke the law.

But the law is so widely varied that to group all these people under the same heading and to narrow it down to choice is in quite a few cases simply in error, depending on who you are, where you are and what your genetic make-up is.

Lots of things that are criminal in one place are considered health issues in another, mental health issues in a third and non-issues in a fourth.
From my perspective, Chrome is magical in terms of resource usage. You get a task manager to kill off tabs that use ridiculous amounts of CPU for when you aren't even looking at them, and all it takes is a simple refresh to bring them back. Compared to Firefox on Ubuntu on my cheap modern laptop, I can run an immensely larger number of tabs in Chrome with less CPU load, and bring them up very quickly. It seems like it is definitely doing a lot more GPU caching, as I have encountered a lot of weird graphical effects clicking to tabs that I haven't been using, especially when restoring a large session (I've been using Chromium lately).

As far as the virtual machines go, you could potentially just remote for those, no? Honestly I would prefer a laptop running on a very low load, especially if it's in my lap!
The author can block users (in fact so can other viewers of the stream - presumably that only affects what they can see themselves though)
Machiavelli is best;

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15772/15772-h/15772-h.htm
I think a lot of the 'trendy' GIL hatred comes from that one blog post by Zed Shaw where he moaned about python 3 not having anything really great in it.
This is great that the Oakland PD acquiesced to the request...it appears old Excel spreadsheets is a common way for the camera-tech contractors to store and disseminate the information. A couple years ago, MuckRock made a request for Boston PD's records, and received one spreadsheet (in error) that had 65,536 records: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2013/dec/15/boston-po...
Aside from a select few free software communities, the Apple community is the one I've witnessed the most negativity and hate in.

Maybe this is because people in both of these communities feel they are "special" somehow, and "better" than the average user?
It's probably a lot easier to find JS developers than Qt developers, too. Ugly or not, there are a lot of people who know JS.

Then there's skill transferability. GitHub no doubt already had a bunch of JS developers already in-house. Those devs can (at least in theory) move back and forth between Atom and other GitHub projects. That's not likely the case for Qt. They would have had to hire or train dedicated Qt developers, and what else could they have done with them?

Maybe they could have put them to work on a GUI-based git front-end, but that's about the only other thing I can think of.
As much as I hate the Java language, "isinstance" does allow you to check for an interface, not just a class.
William T. Freeman is an outstanding vision researcher. His list of publications (http://billf.mit.edu/publications/all) is full of these simple, clever solutions for problems slightly outside the mainstream. I really admire his work.
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HackerNews does not allow deep threads, (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2032770)
so I reply here.

Why would supernode that has CPU as a bottleneck stop serving _any_ requests?

Say, CPU is able to serve a thousand requests per second.
If supernode receives a million requests per second, then supernode should serve first thousand requests and then ignore the rest, right?
So what patent-free service will you use instead?
Isn't this what caused a tizzy in the markets a few months ago?

Some news article came out that trigged some of the algos to sell...then the other algos started seeing this and selling...then the news reports started flowing in about something weird going on...the algos thought the sky was falling and started freaking out until somebody hit the scram button?
My results indicate Firefox 4 is slight faster than Chrome on that benchmark (10%). On kraken it is almost twice as fast.
I recently saw that a "Walgreens Pharmacist" is typically paid around ~$120k/yr.

If I set my mind to it, I am fairly certain I could become a Walgreens Pharmacist. However I have no interest whatsoever in that. So regardless of the pay, I would not pursue it.

Do you see the problem here? This issue is deeper than you give it credit for. For example, if women are different in some fundamental way, what is the difference? It seems just as likely that it results in them not being interested rather than lacking ability.
There is, it's available from the DVD FLLC. A Japanese firm where Sony is one of about 10 shareholders.

But beyond perhaps some logo usage rules or guidelines, the existence of the format spec isn't necessarily the word of god, so to speak.

Sony has been implementing intentional errors in their DVDs for many years. On the one hand it likely has increased the annoyance factor in ripping those DVDs and therefore somewhat decreased the prevalence of ripping, but on the other hand you have cases like the OP where the standard use case is also hindered to the level of annoyance.
I think 'shipping' in that context would be finishing a novel, short story, screenplay or whatever. To the point where you've proofread it for typos. Even if you decide it's not good enough to show anyone. It's the act of completing one project and starting another project that you will also complete.

"Not shipping" would be writing down ideas in your story journal or outlining forever, writing the first page or first chapter or the first act, deciding the idea is going nowhere, and going back to the drawing board, and starting over again and again and again.
Is that proven? Is it intuitively clear? What makes us think that a mixed team of programmers is better than a homogeneous one? Maybe it is in some cases, and isn't in others.