jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
BASIC on the Apple II was my first programming language and I loved it at the time. Once my kids are a little older, I'm going to start with Ruby. One thing that was very helpful learning basic on the old Apple was that you could use the command line to examine variables and also program on the fly. This is similar to Ruby's IRB. Being able to tinker with a program without having to compile first is very instructive and most of all fun!
Flagging for flamebait headline trolling.
Z is a very futuristic, advanced sounding letter. Ask a kid to draw a spaceship, and then ask him to name the spaceship. It'll probably start with Z.
I don't know anyone who's going to actually have time to play DNF because of this.
I think it would have been great if they allowed pre-orders 5 years ago too. I could have sworn I heard of this happening but perhaps not.
In rural areas where this is common there isn't traffic. Thus the politeness doesn't cost you anything. Also in those rural areas it is somewhat common for someone with the right away to have a reason to drive much slower than the speed limit and so giving up your right away makes things better for everyone - the other person doesn't have to try to pass you latter.

When there is traffic you giving up the right away is impolite to the person behind you and shouldn't be done. unless traffic is so heavy that you won't be able to move, and so you should give you your right away to someone who can go.
I'd start with any one who decided not to ground the planes and deflected responsibility a soon as the first crash happened. They have direct responsibility over the second crash.

The I'd go over all the certification process. Any person who concealed information or misled in an official capacity goes to jail. That's the whole point of requiring titled engineers signatures. The buck stops with them.
That would work right up to the point where the server returns a certificate that the client needs to validate. If you're an attacker then you'd also need to have a certificate with a matching domain and is signed by a trusted certificate authority. Otherwise the client will see the certificate as untrusted.

Having a trusted certificate for a domain you don't own is already the "Game Over" scenario for current TLS connections since DNS hijacking is generally much easier.
In general, business focused subscription publications (WSG, FT, Economist) tend to be more factually accurate. People subscribe because they want facts and good / impartial analysis. People who watch Fox want to be lied to.
Which language is not imperative then? The only program writtten in non-imperative language I can think of would return random values (of random type, also not known to mankind, including total destruction and creation of life) and crashed avery second function call.
Idk... there was an article on here a while ago about how after the Ford/Firestone tires = death incidents a decade and a half ago actually resulted in Ford making much better quality cars.
As an Ubuntu One user, there's only one platform I would use Ubuntu One on instead of Dropbox: Ubuntu. The only reason I use Ubuntu One instead of Dropbox on Ubuntu is that I can sync any set of folders or files. I hate having everything stuck in a Dropbox folder.

Dropbox is just far more reliable and faster.
Interesting. Although, it doesn't strike me as a scalable business. At least not to the point of justifying such big investment.
I was really hoping he was speaking tongue-in-cheek, but I fear he's serious...
I'll get my mom on this right away. :)
Sorry for the double comment ... you can see the controller in action at http://code.google.com/p/sharpy/ ... which is my less than a week old PHP framework.
BT did this a while ago, starting around 2003.

I'm not sure how heavily used they are, though I'd suspect not tremendously.
On an iPad, but not on an iPhone.
I can say that besides delicious, I haven't used any yahoo products besides fantasy football. It's a shame that they haven't attempted to monetize the service in order to keep it alive.

I wonder if this is indicative of Yahoo, where the business culture seems to be not to charge the consumers for products.
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If you need to build a complete parallel power generation infrastructure which must be capable of satisfying peak power demand on its own then it's almost irrelevant whether that infrastructure is battery powered or coal powered (from an economics standpoint). Not to mention that nobody's created anything even remotely capable of being used to generate peak (or even base) power loads using only stored energy.

This tidy infographic makes it seem like we could start the switch to PV power tomorrow if only we really cared to do so. However, the truth is far different. Not only do we lack the manufacturing capacity, by orders of magnitude, to produce enough PV panels, we do not have the operational experience in creating the sort of power storage systems that would be necessary if PV sources dominated base electrical power generation. This is not a solved problem.
Genocide of the native population wasn't the initial thought I had in mind.
> MIT had a spectacular history of Electrical Engineering but for the last N years they have concentrated on the "next cool thing" syndrome, the worst case being the MIT Media Lab.

Stanford doesn't seem to have suborganizations that are as externally visible as Media Lab and the like.

> We have to remember that there are major outside influences that are shaping these institutions, especially for Stanford, being in the eye of Silicon Valley.

I may be too close, but I don't see Stanford as being radical or innovative in its organization.

For some relevant comments by Stanford's current president see http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100526.html and http://ee380.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/videologger.php?target=100...
Remarkably well-written. Wordy, yes, but entertaining, and insightful.

I'm inclined to agree with his points; and, I wonder how it relates to free (libre) software. Maybe not at all, but it would be really fulfilling to have that kind of user.
One version, by John Dryden (1681):

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Assuming he doesn't care for the money, it seems like this waste of an opportunity to help some people - and rather selfish. Perhaps the Clay institute will do something good with the money (scholarships?)
I had a similar thought when describing the idea. However, I don't think we're comparing apples with apples. The accredited investing law has been in place since 1933, so if the pyramid schemes you're referring to really are conceptually the same as what I described, they would have been illegal.
Hmm, I hadn't thought about that. I didn't realize most of Microsoft's tools integrated so well.
Few people switched to DDG because of censorship, the main DDG selling point is privacy. All of their marketing stresses that aspect.
Congrats! Im just hoping that you can include Rstudio in your list of apps. Thanks!
Why would someone who already has enough would invest in Bitcoin and support it that way?
Imagine paying $87.00 for the opportunity to pay $80,000 for 100 shares of Gamestop...
Will it be available in the EU or US only? Buying from the US not an alternative considering toll fees, VAT etc.
Yea, in most states you can't be forced to join a union, and dues are for the maintenance of the union. Only members pay for it.
I get what you feel, but on the flip side, if Google was even more aggressive at policing accounts and even hit 1-2 false positives, only for a scathing post to follow on a popular orange news aggregator, how is that a better situation?
I use the lightning network almost daily and I’ve never done that. I just use a wallet that is lightning capable and that’s it.
Usually, when someone makes a wrong prediction, it doesn't have huge consequences. But if you knew about Bitcoin early on and didn't research or understand it and wrote it off, your opportunity costs are pretty significant.

It doesn't matter how many use cases or rationales people give, they are still going to be stuck on the negatives. You'd expect HN to understand that everything has tradeoffs, both pros and cons. Is Bitcoin perfect? No! It needs to improve costs and speed through L2, it needs to find ways to reduce energy consumption and use green energy as much as possible, we need to make sure that the money flowing in things like Tether is legitimate. There's still lots of work to be done and it's still just 12 years into it's existence, so you expect price volatility and lots of hype as people are learning and investing into it.
You just described http2
Clickable links:

https://tastemaker.cc/tastebreaker

https://tastemaker.cc/producerpower

https://tastemaker.cc/newcomers

https://tastemaker.cc
If the B12 doesn't work out, food intolerances are worth looking at. Food can cause problems like this:
https://health.google.com/health/ref/Celiac+disease+-+sprue

That's one autoimmune disease caused by one specific protein found in wheat. Suppose you have a similar problem. You could fix it by cutting out the offending food.

Wheat would be a good thing to start with. My wife cut it out (along with sugar) and found that her lifelong GERD went away. That's not in any standard medical advice.

It's worth a try.
>It works great for them on their Neckbeard 9000 Triple Quad Dual X Neon Nvidia NIOPIATE computer with SSDs in RAID-26 configuration.

That sounds a little more epic than my Core 2 Quad with 4GB of DDR2 and an Nvidia 9800GT, but I can't imagine the Flash performance is any better on The God Box. And Hulu, while it does run alright, definitely leaves something to be desired on every machine I've used it on.
By the very same logic there is no reason (apart from investing time & money) that Firefox shouldn't be able to run on 16-bit systems. But you don't see anyone complaining about that.

You have to draw the line somewhere. XP is old. There are a lot of decent OSes and upgrade-options out there. I see no problem ignoring XP for any new, major development projects, especially if new APIs will need to be developed in the process.
I'm not sure that I can agree.

1) The blog post of yours which attracted such vitriol was entitled "Never Hire Job Hoppers. Never. They Make Terrible Employees"; you aren't using a conciliatory tone and it seems unfair to expect one in response.

2) Practically all the comments I read on here are more civil than I see elsewhere on the web.

3) In pw0ncakes original post there were a lot of measured statements (for instance Job hopping is almost always involuntary-- not in the sense of a person getting fired, but in the sense of a person being wise enough to realize that he's in a position that his wasting his time, and moving on-- the rational response.) which you appear to have disregarded.

4) Most of the vitriolic posts I've seen on HN have already been modded down into oblivion.

5) Although purely anecdotal I notice the civil air here and censor myself accordingly (in real life I tend far more towards "sarcastic douche" than I do here).
>Hard work doesn't scare me but consulting is off the table due to restriction at my workplace.

What "restrictions"? You have a (most likely verbal) contract with your employer to provide your effort in exchange for money. They don't own you and any clauses they have that restrict what you can do when you're not there or don't even work for them anymore are probably not enforceable. Especially when this dubious claus is holding you back from money you need.

Just because a contract says something, even if you signed it, doesn't mean it can actually be enforced.
Are they helping out anyone or just people that complain loudly? My gmail has been killing me lately.
I have nothing to suggest as I am in a similar situation and have been pondering making a similar type of request to the community for a long time. I have been repeatedly frustrated with my attempts to get to the bottom of it (ie rejected by the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, 8 million doctors, 8 million lab tests). I have reached wits end more times then I care to think about. The most debilitating thing of all is that I lost the support of just about everyone I know because no one believes me when I say that I have short term memory problems and my stomach aches 100% of the time. It truly is a nightmare and something that I fear sharing with anyone at this point.

In short, if you do figure something out, please let me know. Thank you and good luck.
Flash cookie control:

alias playFlash='chmod 777 ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/\#SharedObjects'

alias clearFlash='rm -rf ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/\#SharedObjects/*'

alias stopFlash='chmod 555 ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/\#SharedObjects'

alias showFlash='ls -l ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/\#SharedObjects'

alias .cFlash='cd ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/\#SharedObjects'
That's exactly what happened in Nevada during the housing bubble. You could sell a shack in CA for a huge amount of money and buy a McMansion on an acre for next to nothing in NV. As that trend continued you could see a distinct uptick in the rate at which CA influence was happening in the schools, laws etc.
Both Slicehost and Linode have top notch service. I switched because of price/ram and 32bit support. I found that the overhead on a 64bit machine on low ram instances is just not worth it for the kind of stuff I'm doing now.
This is just wild massing guessing on my part, but without vendor/hardware lock-in, wouldn't competition (and therefore service) be much better? As of now, there's several prohibitive costs to switching services due to having contract cancellation fees, requiring a new phone, not necessarily being able to transfer your data, etc. With an unlocked phone, you'd still have those contract cancellation fees, but it would be a much smoother process to switch. If it was easy enough to change to another carrier, carriers would most likely focus more on being more attractive than their competitors to try to entice customers to them. As it stands, it seems to me like few people would actually bother switching unless they were grossly unhappy with their service.

However, I'll freely admit that I don't necessarily have data or experience to back this up. Am I on the right track here, or babbling aimlessly?
Price isn't everything.
neat. looks like it uses polling + JsonP to maintain state.

tried to install trafficbeat on my site, but got a javascript error - looks like the script tags they give you to copy/paste are including files that aren't javascript.
My main issue was the needless animation in the background.

Safari 5 on a fast Core 2 Duo is plenty usable with it, but when my scroll framerate seemingly goes from 60fps to 30, it's not worth it. Smooth scrolling is just too high on my UX priorities list.
so since you reject the articles financial argument, what is it you find "flippin rocks" about austin?
$15.20/month gets you 512MB on fivebean.com. I've been quite happy with them so far.
My sole reason for picking Linode for hosting was RAM, as there was no one else out there who matched the RAM for the price. And now, WOW, I am a very happy customer. Thank You, Linode!!!
Trump didn’t “go after” Hillary or any other political opponent in any form whatsoever after he took office. He said a lot of things on the campaign trail and then left it at that.
Pretty much none of the library controllers have options to prompt the user before moving a tape. That is after all the advantage of a _robot_ vs just having a human take it off the shelf and stick it in the drive.

So, no "air gapping" a tape library is called tape export, where the tapes are ejected into a port for the operator to stick on the shelf, or ship to cold storage.
History of nuclear has taught us that nuclear is very safe until an accident happens. You can see Japan as the latest example disaster where one week before, no one imagined this could happen.
here in Quebec, we decided to close a nuclear reactor after Fukushima at a cost of $2 billion
Either way, us consumers win!
Is Python uninteresting?
No.

Impeachment is simply an indictment. We all know indictments work. The famous ham sandwich.

The senate then takes up the indictment and as in every case to date, acquits the president. The bar to a successful removal from office is quite high and is so for a reason.

There is no “impeachment trial” that results in an impeachment. There is a majority democrat house who decided to vote on an impeachment and send it to the senate for a trial. The senate the held a trial and acquitted.
I thought they made nice cars, I had hoped they had a good value proposition. But all the nice bits have a tendency to feel cheap after a year or so, and after a few years the ride tends to go to shit. I want to like the Genesis (even test drove one a few years ago), but it was cutting too many corners to really fit in with "luxury", for the price it was.
Did they even know what they were attempting?
Pretty sure I am a dude with some pig heart valves in me.
I'm not sure I want to give my Heroku account password to an external service.
It's pretty close; few people even bother to change the title. If you follow up by searching for anything about the article's content, you can do a pretty good job of determining with 95% certainty whether or not it's a duplicate.

I personally don't think it's too much to expect someone to spend five minutes of time before publishing a post to tens of thousands of people, but I may be in a minority.
Yeah, I dunno if it was just instinct, but that was the first thing I noticed.

Someone needs to learn pretty URLs...
Their leader gets no salary, lives for ever, and is omnipotent.

Rupert Murdoch currently only ticks one, maybe two of those boxes.
John Gruber totally rips off Steve Jobs' LaF, but that's okay because he's not competing with Jobs.

Seriously though, it's interesting how people tend to come to emulate their role models in this way. You can see the Jobsian 'tone' used by a lot of people who agree with him. It's a very 'no bullshit', 'here's the bottom line' style that can sound dismissive and, dare I say it, a little arrogant.
Anecdote here. I have existential anxiety too. I have the same fear of shrooms as you.

Salvia Divinorum "salva" when smoked has historically provided me with relief - it's great for someone who wants to stay in control because the high from it only lasts a few seconds (when smoked). If you don't like it, it will be over really quickly. A single session with it should set you right for a few months. Also, unlike most popular substances it is an "upper" - making you excited and happy instead of chilled.

Marijuana has the same effect as alchohol, during a high I'm typically free from ego (sometimes it extends to the next day). Good chronic provides a very powerful experience that I can only describe as the opposite of existential anxiety: I've had moments where I've found my temporary nature beautiful. If you haven't tried chronic before treat it with respect, take 1 hit and don't be impatient for the high. It's safer than alchohol so you might try that instead.

Although I'm really considering doing shrooms once after so many have said that they have helped.
It’s easier on the eyes. You don’t to squint at a 16x16 images to get to the right tab. Once you get used to it, you won’t want to go back to Firefox or Chrome. I use Safari 8 daily and it’s simply amazing, fast and reliable.
Apple has at most 10% of the computer market and is just one player among many. I am skeptical Microsoft with their 90% dominance would or should be allowed this much power over the industry.
"Russian-owned" is still largely misleading. The company is owned by Russian speakers that lived and studied in Russia before starting JetBrains. Most (if not all) of them have two citizenships by now, one is Russian. The company is not owned by the Russian state and has never been.
More precisely, I was referring to monads and do-notation with that phrase.

Here are some references on when it was invented / implemented:
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/8rkrgq/when_was_do...

Also a JS gist on async/await and do-notation: https://gist.github.com/MaiaVictor/bc0c02b6d1fbc7e3dbae838fb...
At a minimum, I'd wager that those that stormed Capitol Hill, wouldn't have done if the election had the opposite result.

I'd further wager that any protest in the counterfactual would have been a much smaller scale, and much less violent. 2016 being an example of Democrat supporters accepting an election result they didn't like - with officials taking a legal approach into their plaint with the election campaign (i.e., Russian interference) based on trying to build a case on evidence... not making indefensible claims about a conspiring deep state.
Languages like Haskell, Clojure, Erlang provide good "modern" abstractions like STM which are great.

But even having the basic threading primitives built in from a early point would help I think (e.g. Java, C++).

Why? Because it does not let library authors entertain the idea that they can just ignore all parallelism concerns.
I think that one is a round about way of saying “a new human space program will never be affordable or on schedule”
I disagree with this:

> One, types are a concretion. If you’re looking for higher level of abstractions to get flexible behaviour, you’re ultimately going to have a world of pain

I don't see why types should be in the way of flexible behaviour. Frameworks like Spring in Java use types to direct dependency injection and it works well.

Also this:

> Types wrap data and treat it like a black box whereas schema describes the shape and content of data.

Types can be made abstract and blackboxy, and sometimes that's what you want. But doesn't a record type give info about its fields? Doesn't a sum type give info about possible alternatives in the values?

> As such haskell ultimately suffers a lot when they have to interact with the real world. Suddenly they are left reeling as they find out that the real world is, in fact, dynamic.

The trick is to know what we are really modelling. If we are deserializing domain objects from JSON, it makes sense to have types for the domain objects. If we are writing a tool like, say, jq, perhaps we should merely have a datatype for the JSON tree itself: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/aeson-1.5.5.1/docs/Data-A...

> Bottom up design is something we’ve learnt collectively as a good way to be much more flexible in responding to change.

Even if you want to design bottom-up, the moment you want to add anything to your program, you need a little top-down thinking, if only at the micro-level. You want to create something new that isn't there, and then think how to accomplish that with the tools you have.
The value of type safety is more that you're more productive because you can faster change things (as the compiler tells you what needs to be changed). This allows for faster iteration on your product.

Correctness is indeed not the most important thing, it's kind of a nice side effect.
You can agree or disagree about the design decisions made by people contributing to Haskell language, but you have to admit that it's a pretty clever bunch of people. Haskell has contributed more to PL research in past few decades than any other language. That alone makes it a language every programmer should learn. Not because they should use it daily, but to learn what functional programming is in its purest form.