jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, it's true that "hastily written papers for research grants" sets a pretty low bar when it comes to the determination of useful truths about anything. But it's also true that it's a bar that your opinion doesn't even come close to clearing.

I'm glad that you're not "for" reductionism when it comes to complex emergent phenomena, but I'm not sure anyone is "for" reductionism. Some people are "for" useful abstraction.

Epistemologies... my take on them is as follows. An epistemology restricts the ways in which something can be interpreted. Periodically, this has indeed been a problem. I am not sure that it is the problem you are describing; I think perhaps you mean to say that starting with an arbitrary epistemology, its easy to interpret anything to justify prior beliefs. As soon as you formalized your epistemology, though, it would start to lock you into its logic. What sounds right would take more and more work to justify if it was not, in fact, true. That's one of the benefits of having an epistemology. That's also one of the reasons there is a history of prior false belief for you to point at. All of the "fads" you mention are beliefs that can no longer be justified within the context of a scientific method. They are not arbitrary fads; they arose out of specific, historical misapprehensions, and it is not that they cannot be individually repeated; they categorically cannot be repeated. Within the context of a specific, logically coherent method, error runs out of space. Comparing the methods and knowledge of late 20th century medicine to those of early 19th century medicine --- should you chose to --- would refute the point you are trying to make.

Meanwhile, you are responding to a person who has related his first-hand experiences and observations about a personally tragic case of clinical depression with a glib, slightly incoherent and profoundly reductionistic non-theory about the causes of his wife's illness. This is probably the product of a messed up personal relations landscape, but I will tell you that it is one to which I am extremely sensitive. Nothing is inherently false just because you pulled it out of your ass, but it is not a reliable method of producing anything you should share with anyone without making damn sure it is to the point and useful.
I want to ask this question here because I feel like many of the viewers will be proponents of C and I want to hear your perspective. Why would someone choose C as a language of choice for a new project over Rust (or some other comparable language with memory safety guarantees)? Will/can C ever address the memory safety issues?

(I’m looking for honest dialogue and not trying to be combative)
I was asked a few years ago if I wanted to climb up the corporate ladder and become a manager. My answer was kind of like this: "Yes, but no. I think it would be more useful to promote myself and X to technical leads (sort of having various people with a pseudo CTO position), keep us doing what we love, while steering a project based on the requirements. I want to lead the projects, I want the bigger paycheck, I want the extra responsibility; however, I want to keep coding and architecting solutions... I do NOT want to push paper around."

This days the "technical managers" are needed less (of course there are exceptions to this rule) and less. You need a technical lead that can influence projects, make decisions based on experience, and act as a link between the developers and businessmen. Nowadays, I don't code all day as I also have some managerial responsibilities, but the bulk (say 80% ~ 90% of the time) I'm stuck in Vim pushing lines of code. I find that 10% ~ 20% of my time can be devoted to actual managing and it's more than enough.

Tip for the businessmen: Don't assume you need a bunch of managers to steer your project into blissful completion, you might very well get your best and most respected senior developer and ask him to act as a link between the task-force and the executives. You keep your best men coding or administering technology, keeping their morale high (don't underestimate having your cake and eating it too), and save money on hiring a paper pusher who is probably going to be a nuisance to the ecosystem.
All gamblers play to win.

Think about it this way: if you buy a slot machine to put in your store/bar/etc, are you gambling or investing ? - it's clearly a game of chance, and you might lose money on it, however because the odds are set in your favour in the long term you'll make money. Hence it's an investment rather than gambling.

You do actually get angel investors who invest in poker players with solid track records.
I'm at the point where I'll seek out a job if it specifically doesn't deal with a technical recruiter. Even if it pays less, not having to deal with them is worth it.

Between their lack of knowledge about technology and their overall "used car salesmen" tactics, I don't trust the whole lot of them. I know that's prejudicial, but I haven't had a good experience yet.
Not everyone needs public-facing IP addresses. It's also possible to write network/web applications that work through NAT, or that don't need routable clients.

Considering the transition to IPv6 will take at least a decade, do your apps need clients with public routable IPs?
I love this:

In a piece for the New-York Enquirer in 1848, he wrote, “It is particularly recommended to those of sedentary habits, to undergo the training which is to be found [on Crosby near Bleecker].” As if responding to the satire of people like Walt Whitman, Tailer argued that after regular exercise “narrow and contracted chests are soon turned into broad and expansive ones, and the puny limbs of him who is not accustomed to exercise are soon changed into well developed and finely formed ones, and he imperceptibly finds himself re-established in health and strength.”

CrossFit, 1850 style.
Not much changed over the years. Chromatic is still praising Moose and other bad ways to code.

> Moose is probably the singular reason there are any significant new projects in Perl in 2014.

There is another side of that story: Moose is probably one of the things that contributed to Perl's decline, along with modern Perl, Perl 6 and overall focus on all the wrong things.

Anyways, I wouldn't take chromatic's words too seriously. Learn Go guys :)
Reposting is one thing. It's another when it's been reposted dozens of times and it somehow gets voted to the top.
It's far more likely a combination of being out of practice and at the controls of a severely nontraditional car.
Under a specific tax statute.
seems good will hunting is everyone's mind. I wish people would try to see more nuances.
We probably need to collectively start doing the same thing that people do when they ask "How can I speed up my code?"... "Profile, profile, profile."

"How can I make my code cloud-scale?" "Profile, profile, profile." First make it fast. Not hyper-ultra fast, optimized to within an inch of its life with embedded ASM and crazy data structures, but as far as you can get it while still writing simple, sensible code. Then, only if you have a problem do you even worry about whether it should go cloud-scale, and by the time you're done with this you'll probably already have a good idea how to partition the problem better because you learned a lot more about it while profiling.
The real issue here is that federal and state governments didn't think through the logistics of distributing vaccines even though it has been many months since we've known a vaccine would be coming.

Where I live, there are about 10 different places that vaccinate, between county governments, pharmacies and hospitals. All of them have separate registration systems. Meanwhile, appointments go quickly and appointment availability is often announced on Twitter, which is probably isn't the best place for the 65+ crowd.

What they needed to do starting in December is create a state-wide (or at least county-wide) registration system. Essentially model it as a priority queue with different buckets:

1) covid ward healthcare workers

2) other front line healthcare workers

3) 65+

4) preexisting conditions

5) etc.

You can disagree about which buckets go first, but that's not my point here. This should have been setup and publicized well before the vaccine rollout started. Now, you get a sense of exactly who wants to be vaccinated, so you don't get wasted doses when 45% of a nursing home's staff doesn't want the shot.

You also ask people how far they would be willing to drive for a shot. I know people who drove a few hours. I know others who didn't want to drive more than 20 minutes. So it's relevant. You also ask times of day that people are willing to be vaccinated and if they want to be notified if earlier slots open up.

Once vaccines are actually available, you have a central queue and you pick randomly within each priority group. So let's say you are up to 65+ adults in the general population (which is a large group). 1000 appointments open up at a hospital in zip code 12345. You send out a text message and email to 1400 (since not all 1400 are going to respond to the text message) randomly selected people in zip code 12345 or who are willing to drive there. For some elderly people, you might need to make phone calls. You give people some time to respond and if they don't, then add them back to the pool and send messages to more people until you get all slots filled.

There are thousands of people in any major city who would drop what they are doing and run out to get the vaccine on a moment's notice. With a better system in place, this should never have fallen on the doctor in the first place.
Exactly. The best line of code is the one you dont have to write. The second best is the one you can delete.
The problem with reading too much into that comment is that the issue being commented on involves setting up an entire "design process" for ruby, including councils and voting and this and that.

It's troublesome to conflate the bulk of that proposal with the reception of RubySpec itself. It may be that some of the Ruby folks would've been receptive to a more limited proposal like "all released versions of Ruby should pass RubySpec", but we don't live in the universe where that happened.

Even then, telling a group of language developers that they should commit tests into what is effectively your "pet project" is a big ask.
Personally, I find the original more accurate and clear.
> It's not a fringe view:

It still needs to be substantiated.

> In the United States, adherence to the gold standard prevented the Federal Reserve from expanding the money supply to stimulate the economy, fund insolvent banks and fund government deficits that could "prime the pump" for an expansion.

Argument by authority combined with argument by assertion.

why do you think that devaluing people’s money and inflating the price of assets that the wealthy already own is going to help poor people feed themselves? Per Krugman, the point of quantitative easement is to decrease wages in real terms while keeping the same nominal price.
I think this is a perspective difference. Both of your statements are true.

1) yours from an individual point of view

2) the GP from society's point of view
Spending the crypto through a card will not stop the IRS from coming after you for their cut.
I said the same thing in a recent thread about cookies, and someone pointed out that there had been some kind of proposal along these lines, but it hadn't gotten any traction. I don't recall the name of it tho. (it wasn't Do Not Track, it was more complex, where cookies had some kind of "intent"/category associated with them).
More likely, Google have done threat modelling of their entire business and worked out that if there was ever some legal problem with using Linux (like the infamous SCO case), the amount of economic damage it would do to them would be more than whatever resources they are spending on coming up with an alternative (which will hopefully never need to be used).

Also, just as Chrome gave them a seat at the table of web standardisation, and a chance to try new ideas that didn't have to go through Mozilla's approval process, having a kernel of their own allows them to influence the OS design space in ways that are more aligned to their business goals, and without needing Linus's approval.
/bin/sh execution is supported at the kernel level iirc? Like, the minimum requirement for a linux distribution is /bin/sh, the rest of the system doesn't have to be there necessarily.
Sounds fantastic, proves you don't need an overcomplicated tech stack to make bank.

Congratulations my dude!
There are plenty of businesses that create tons of jobs and pay their taxes.

Tax deductions aren't meaningful for most companies. Samsung is pretty limited on where they can actually build this plant. It's not like Hattiesburg, Mississippi is awash with people experienced in silicon fabrication. So the company would have to pay a lot of money to import people from other regions. But Hattiesburg isn't exactly top on the list of places where experienced technical professionals wish to live.

The city counsel should play hardball with Samsung, since they will cave. This is one of those situations where it doesn't hurt to ask, but the decision is already made.
The federal government could very easily do all that for free and it wouldn’t cost fifty dollars per taxpayer.
I skip-read this as SPICY lecture notes...
A family member recently relayed the story of his kid begging for $20 for a “bunny suit” Fortnight skin and how he, the adult, slowly came to understand that the skin didn’t even do anything; it just ever-so-slightly changed how the game looked (which I already knew, but his exasperation was amusing). We were like, huh. Kids today.

Anyway, for reasons I don’t totally understand, in my experience this dad’s bunny-suit exasperation is how most people feel about paying for software of any kind. It’s not just frugality but indignation at the very idea that they be asked to pay for software.
People take a punish the enemy rather than a punish the deed approach so your argument will never make a dent in that. You're fighting against a level of double standards that we haven't seen since the peak of the Cold War. At best you'll be accused of whataboutism.

But this is pervasive in some cultures so it's taken for granted as a valid approach, look at judges even in free, democratic societies who punish people based on color rather than the crime. It's a similar problem albeit with different motives behind it.
>"As for jQuery specifically, there has been at least 2 trends militating against it"

Using virtual DOM does not give much benefit if at all on modern browsers.

Functional programming is just one of many existing paradigms and not a silver bullet. One does not need to plug every hole with it.
I know this is being hyper-geeky but I've never appreciated these kinds of alignments because they are just based on arbitrary man-made starting points.

If you want to impress me, show me all the planets in a solar system in a row.

Moon alignment = bonus points.

Unfortunately we have to wait until September 2040 for that around here.

ps. was that lunar eclipse amazing or what?
DrRacket isn't just helpful, it's a downright fantastic IDE if you're digging into Scheme :)
http://www.ekiga.org/ (ekiga / ubuntu maverick) comes with support for CELT, among others (Speex,etc), although I didn't compare them for quality.
Technically, there should be no controversy: regard is the base and from there you get "regardful" and "regardless". Really the only argument should be over using "regardless" rather than "regardlessly".
I would add parental leave, sick leave, overtime after 8 hours, requiring employees be able to sit, anti-SLAPP laws, assisted suicide, and a few other quality of life improvements at work to the list of things that can be duplicated elsewhere.
Why is that hilarious? Rich and poor alike get shafted by freeloading landlords.
> effects of imperialism or anti-liberal, anti-capitalist policies to liberal capialism;

I don't what you're saying. Are you saying that imperialism is anti-capitalist?
This guy is from the Midwest and has lived in SF for four years. Imagine reading a NY Times article about someone moving to New York, complaining, and leaving. Who cares?

Nobody is forcing this guy to buy a $17 salad either.
I feel like either I'm misunderstanding your comment, or you've whooshed everyone else commenting on it so far.
He could have exited for tens of millions (somewhere around 30 or 40) but held. As for my own two cents, he wasn't holding to make a point or pump the stock, but was instead sticking to his guns and following his own publicized strategy of not entering or exiting a position all at once. People read too much into his screenshots without bothering to know much else about him (e.g. his YouTube channel).

edit for clarity: The 13+ million that he did exit with is therefore a smaller chunk of what he could have made.
Fixed, thank you for taking the time to report the typos !
> Why not just pronounce it differently in English

I think because most people won't. They'll go for the most obvious pronunciation. Especially as there's a brand called Le Coq Sportif, which has a pretty well known pronunciation.

First exposure to names of languages, libraries, etc. is often written on a screen - and so it could well be years before anyone actually speaks the word, but they have the pronunciation in their head, and that tends to stick.
yep I'm currently wrestling with it. I've a prototype that precompiles EQU and FOR/ROF and I'll try uploading it to github when it's a bit more tested.
My observation is not primarily based on 'X' members speaking amongst themselves in their own country and language, but when speaking in mixed X and American/anglophone contexts.

I've noticed this most strongly where X is drawn from {Spanish-speaking countries, anywhere in Asia, Russia}. I don't have enough data points to be sure how still-native Arabs treat stereotypes and non-politically-correct word choices. (I have a hunch they are relatively thick-skinned, plain-speaking, and don't have the same stereotyping/language taboos as Americans/anglophones have, but I could be wrong.)

Yes, having experienced discrimination as a minority immigrant community in the English-speaking world would be one plausible explanation for greater sensitivity among X-Americans than native-X. As would now being in a culture that assigns greater deference to those expressing 'group offense'. It's overdetermined!

It would make an interesting sociological study!
If anyone's looking for alternatives on other platforms, I find "GNOME Do" quite good on GNOME/Linux and "Launchy" is decent for Windows.
Pretty awesome. I compiled HELLO.C. Took a minute, but it works.
> Nice hack, though odd name given that no hashing occurs.

When I registered the domain I imagined that state would be stored in a Twitter-style hashbang. Thanks to `history.pushState` and `history.replaceState`, this hack is not required in modern browsers. :)
sometimes I want to sit at home in silence or listen to music, and othertimes sitting at a coffee shop with a lot of ambient noise helps me get into the zone

Sounds like a DIY version of the Hawthorne effect - you just need to occasionally change your environment, it doesn't matter what to, because change itself is stimulating.
It seemed to be an off-mention. I'm skeptical, but not because of that.
Location: Cochin, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JS, Go, ES2015(ES6), jQuery, Vue.js, SQL & PL/SQL, Bash scripting, C

Résumé/CV: https://chynkm.github.io/resume/

Email: chynkm[at]gmail[dot]com

I am a PHP web application developer/DevOps freelancer with over 7+ years of experience in multiple technologies. I would love to work on SAAS applications; be a technical co-founder. Also open to part-time work.
Well, sure. But reading the GoF book as your introduction to programming wouldn't exactly be all that useful. Once you've actually experienced some programming and seen the patterns live and breathe it becomes a much more useful book.

Likewise, if you've never actually worked with monads the high level explanations aren't terribly useful.
What do you mean by "write a shell script to build and demo it"? Pardon my ignorance.
Can you explain the specific problem? Would snow have to be near the top of the door in your scenario?
Worse. My parents had a rather religious phase and sent me to a religious school. Science teacher literally said "carbon-14 dating is a lie from scientists that hate god". If I'd have read The Selfish Gene, or even A Brief History of Time as a kid, it'd have saved me a lot of time.

Those things you list seem relatively good, no? Making a microprocessor from gates while " just hooking up " sounds pretty near idyllic.
http://i.imgur.com/XFyKSak.png

Trying to filter oDesk job postings using a naive Bayesian filter. Using method described in pg's A Plan for Spam.
Clickable: http://www.toptendishes.com
This was why the best job I ever had was working for a non-technical founder who had found himself doing a quite a lot of technical things on a day-to-day basis. He found even quite simple things like URL rewrites in Apache config very taxing - so when he hired me and I made all his problems go away very quickly he genuinely appreciated how hard I was working, even though it looked like I just sat there on Reddit all day.
Thank you for this. I wish I had it before I fired off my email to Amazon...
I've seen doors kicked in where it was the jamb that broke and not the lock. I think I'd rather call a locksmith...
Is there anything stopping someone (including the government) from making this all appropriately public and in a reasonable format? e.g., contracts with West and Lexis?
Regarding technical viability: what's their luminosity? It's quite hard to compete with solar radiation. x-rays also can't be resolved (there's no small x-ray lens), so I assume you need some kind of shielded detector, which should be vulnerable to all kinds of radiation sources and isotropic -- so a lot of noise and no resolution.

Regarding jamming resistance, if the signal is weak enough considering it's lack of resolve-ability (contrary to advanced GPS antennas which reject ground sources due to multipath and interference), it should be easy to direct an x-ray source at a receiver it and neutralize it.
Another similar interesting gov't gig is Presidential Innovation Fellow:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Innovation_Fellows

- https://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows

- http://www.jasonshen.com/2014/everything-wanted-know-preside...

- http://www.jasonshen.com/2013/a-new-adventure-working-at-the...
I just don't see how you can be the Führer of something that moves at constant speed along a fixed track.
I'm pretty sure there have been cases where laws were needed to counteract social pressures that pushed towards violence. Such as the origins of "an eye for an eye". Your item (2) seems to assume that social pressures are universally positive, or at least towards non-violence.
I don't see how you can claim that MPG is objectively "more intuitive" than L/100km....
"production car"
The piece is specifically positioned as a retort to a somewhat sensationalist O'Reilly piece, and in that context it's perhaps decent. But this headline alone on HN is at least as sensationalist - redefining "your phone is tracking your movements between cell towers with a general accuracy of 2km or less" to "your phone is not recording your moves" is just newspeak.

Argue that the accuracy makes the data less usable for nefarious purposes, or argue the (much more pertinent to my mind) point that your carrier already has high-accuracy historical info and this really just puts similar historical info in your hands as well, point out that law enforcement can easily get the carrier info without ever even touching your iDevice, but don't try to claim that this is not recording location info attached to you.