jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I encourage you to write your Congressional representative and rather than exhort NASA to go to the moon, make it easy for private enterprises to launch vehicles into space. Export permits? Import permits? I listened to a talk on Falcon9 at Google where the presenter went into a small bit of the paperwork that was needed to fly their rockets.

Here was an interesting point. If you were crazy enough to ride in a Dragon capsule on its first trip, signed a waiver that basically said "I hold everyone harmless for this crazy act I undertake" and something went wrong and you died, they could be charged with man slaughter at a minimum and murder at worst.

So write your representative and suggest that they change the rules to 'will license' from 'may license'. That simple change means that if a company meets the published requirements for a space going vessel the FAA is then required by law to issue them a license to fly it. Combine that with a durable and quick issue resolution process (where once an issue is resolved it stays resolved) and people like Elon Musk can be much more aggressive about moving these programs forward.
Err, no. There is clearly a pattern to the data, and drawing the conclusion that self-assessment and actual skill are uncorrelated is not what you should do (the simplified pattern being that unskilled individuals overestimate their skill, while skilled individuals underestimate theirs, or a regression to the average if you will).

At any rate, even if we don't take that into account self-assessment is worth plenty as demonstrated by many studies which manage to get coherent data from self-assessments. Sure, you should take them with a grain of salt, and you can expect biases, but no need to throw them out.
Now go read about Markov chains which will blow your mind.

Back in the late 80s I read an interview with Phil Katz who mentioned them to possibly improve PKZIP so I looked them up in the library. That's when it dawned on me there were people far, far more intelligent and clever in this world than I would ever be.
Popular support doesn't excuse the judges who basically look the other way when prosecutors go entirely overboard, nor does it excuse prosecutors who cross the line.

Prosecutors, and I'm pretty sure judges as well (I am not a lawyer) are officers of the court. They should be held more accountable to their obligations in that capacity.
But it does mean that it's much easier for a person not to do anything that benefits others. There would certainly be people who say "I can get drinking money without working" and do nothing but drink. If you need to work to eat, it gives you some incentive to sober up.

I think people have a natural need to work and contribute things, but we also have laziness tugging at us. Enabling someone to waste their life is not doing them a favor; it impoverishes them in a way that lacking money alone cannot.
Yes, I am a 10y+ finance excel-based app developer. In short:

- sheets cant be audited

- too many formulae

- not webable

It’s inherently unsafe to run apps on Excel. Yet, people are more productive with Excel than with any other platform.
Wait, so what is the difference between .epub and .mhtml already ?
Mainly the boilerplate other languages force upon you.
Whenever i look at Java Code i start to chuckle.

Its so much more information that you need to load into your head.

To quote a picture from the post:
https://www.paypal-engineering.com/wordpress/wp-content/uplo...

And its not like you need static typing everywhere just in some places its better to enforce it for your own sanity. Type hinting looks like a good way to solve this problem in python.
Thank you!

In some sane industries where functional safety is required, this is strictly enforced. It leaves no ambiguity - what you write is what you get - and when the excrement hits the quickly revolving pressure modification device, you can just glance at the expressions and tell if they make sense or not.
Not comparable. PHP has at least fantastic performance. SAP is not only as ugly and illdesigned as PHP, it is mostly slow as hell. Besides expensive. PHP is free.

To run a simple non-official query, you would need to aquire a timeslot on Friday evening running over all 100.000 records, because the thing will run for half an hour. Not kidding.

I talked to the sales agent why they don't add indices to their database, and he answered "we don't need explicit indices. Our system is so advanced, it does auto-indexing". Lol. They really believe their own bullshit. Looks like their idea of a JOIN are 3 nested for loops.
Meh.... I think he's right that there's no good reason _not_ to use Python.

But I think he overstates the case.

Calling Python "compiled" doesn't seem right -- he's more right that this doesn't matter, there's no reason not to use something because it's "not compiled".

Calling Python's typing "strong typing", eh, really? He provide a link to a wikipedia article on typing in general, how about a link to anyone else making the case that Python should be considered 'strongly typed', for a particular definition of 'strongly typed'? I'm dubious that it would be any definition of 'strongly typed' that those who think they want it... want. Again, I think a better argument might be: So what, you don't need strong typing for success, because of a b and c.

And the concurrency discussions is just silly. Sure, you can do _all sorts_ of things without multi-core concurrency, you may not need it or even benefit from it, and scaling to multi-process can sometimes work just fine too. But there are also _all sorts_ of cases where you do really want multi-core parallelism, and Python really doesn't have it -- and trying to justify this as "makes it much easier to use OS threads" is just silly. I guess it makes it 'easier' in that it protects you from some but not all race conditions in fairly unpredictable ways -- but only by eliminating half the conceptual use cases for threads in the first place (still good for IO-bound work, no longer good for CPU-bound work).

I think there's a reasonable argument to be made that Python will work just fine for 'enterprise' work. There are also, surely, like for all languages/platforms, cases where it would be unsuitable. By overstating the case with some half-truths and confusions, he just sounds like a fanboy and does not help increase understanding or accurate decision-making -- or confidence in the Python community's understanding!
Great comment! I certainly wasn't thinking of some secret cabal sitting in a smokey room, but more a bit along the lines of what you have written. I guess I wonder about the specific people agitating/pushing society in this direction, as most people are pretty passive. I guess there are some among the pro-authoritarian crowd who are capable of agency and independent activity and can harness their more passive fellows in the direction they believe in.

I have a hard time wrapping my head around this as pro-authoritarian thinking is so foreign to me.
I imagine cities would probably eventually allow rezoning large parts of those skyscrapers into housing.
Not sure if I understand you. "Reasonable" == "lower"?
Or "stimulus" if you want to cast positive light on it.
They offer the option to transact in cash and avoid the panopticon nightmare that is the modern Visa network and banking system.
The new 2015 edition of the Dell XPS 13 and XPS 15 laptops are coming out in February with Ubuntu 14.04...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ces-2015-dell-refreshes-high-en...

You can select Ubuntu for the OS here, but the estimated ship date is Jan 29, 2015...

http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-15-9530/fs
lie down with dogs, get up with fleas
Absolutely. I think the hardest part would be defining requirements that nail the most important 90% of functionality. You would need strong mentorship from several experienced enterprise veterans to even stand a chance, though.
I unfortunately don't have any good recommendations on cool-running laptops, since I haven't found any myself, but I wanted to note that MacBooks have been known to overheat. My MacBook Pro sure does.
http://blog.ziggytek.com/2010/01/06/why-your-macbook-macbook...

One potentially cheap alternative to buying a new cool-running laptop is to buy a cooling pad:
http://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+cooling+pad
Americans hardly buy any products designed outside US. I've wondered for some time why is that and my best guest is non-US marketing doesn't work on Yankees.
As a matter of fact, the digital economy play a huge role in the 60% abot poverty rate. So it should matter to them.
Consistency is the very cornerstone of justice. I don't see how it's even possible to be just without being consistent.
All the "features" you list are things a developer would like.

I haven't owned a Nokia in several years, but if they ever want my business again, then they would need a list of features that a customer would find appealing.
(d) Build starships and expand into space.

We can agree on that at least. Our eggs definitely need more than one basket.
I got all the jobs I've ever held responding to newspaper ads. (using job boards is not that common yet over here in Uruguay)

I can tell you, though, that it's not the way to high-paying jobs.

I've gotten decent enough to get job offers from friends recently :) (though I declined as it wasn't a good fit)
Yeah, TechEd is not supposed to be an announcement conference. It really is more of an education conference.

The big announcement conferences for MS is PDC and MIX.
Unpopular opinion but I'm kinda on his side on this one. It's a liability issue.

If you open a "public access road" through your property, and there's a pothole that damages someone's vehicle, you can get sued. If you don't put up fences at the cliffs and some dumbass drives off the edge, you can get sued. If someone decides to camp at the edge of the road and a tree falls on them, you can get sued.

Anything that happens to people on your property is automagically your fault in the US. Allowing the public onto your property, especially when you're not making any money off of it (so you could, you know, pay for insurance like the previous owners definitely did) is a terrible idea.
Thanks a lot for the kind words!
Great question, CoScreen shows shared windows based on their relative positions and sizes. So they appear in the same way for all participants. If there are huge difference between resolutions, the users will see either very small/large fonts but we still concluded after many prototypes that this is the best tradeoff. Feedback welcome nevertheless...
I like that name. Sounds sinister.
That's awesome, and I'm glad to hear it!

If I could make a tiny suggestion: Why not hide the coscreen functionality under a little system tray icon with a pop-out menu? That way, it's invisible, but still easy to get to.
I don’t believe in squatters rights and I’m glad my state doesn’t have laws like the West Coast. There was a Reddit post recently where someone didn’t visit their property for 2-3 weeks. Someone moved in, broke everything, and then preemptively called the police to get squatters rights. Now the home owner has to go through a complicated eviction process and have his second home trashed.
TF Encrypted has focused more on MPC [1]. At least that's what their arXiv paper [2] talks about. It does seem they are also working to integrate Microsoft SEAL for HE.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_multi-party_computation
[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.08130
Nobody gets rich through starting out with few resources, working diligently, and investing/compounding their wages. It's possible to become financially independent that way if one is smart and lucky, but not rich. By 'financially independent' I mean you can stop working for other people without putting your survival at risk.

If you want to be rich you either need to start out with money (giving you bargaining power in every negotiated investment decision) or innovate in some way and bargain very aggressively and successfully. And that doesn't just mean bargaining with your competitors and members of the investment class, but doing the same with employees in your organization. One of the most reliable ways to do this is to suggest that you got rich through a mixture of hard work and fiscal prudence and then get them to sign away most of their negotiating power on a contract drafted for your benefit.
that helps explain why thoughts and prayers is so popular on Fox News
I was briefly answering a two sentence Las Vegas analogy. Please do expand on the many details my tweet sized comment omitted if you wish.
Asteroids have all of the same advantages. The greater distance is made up for by not having to transport goods back up out of the Moon's gravity well.
I have the same problems with touch responsiveness. It takes often takes multiple hits on the edge of the screen to get the page to turn.
Yes, you're not alone. This is one of those short term effects (i.e. withdrawal), although I agree that it has been annoying.
Both were government inflicted.
Lawyers gotta eat so they can chase them ambulances ...
This is equivalent to a landlord saying "Sorry, it's to expensive to build wheel chair ramps. So we didn't build any"

According to Uber, you need to call up another driver and get them to come take over for you because Uber will not.
> Freedom of movement, sure, but that is separate from Schengen.

True, I meant Bosman not Schengen.

> And I think dismissing light entertainment as not being culture is pointlessly elitist

I am sorry if it came out that way, what I meant is that entertainment is more tied to personality and familiarity than culture as "the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a social group" because those things are usually misrepresented in a fictional show made to entertain the general public.

I love Southpark because I love that kind of harsh sarcasm, but I know it's not a perfect honest to god representation of the US society and I usually also don't get all the references, because you can't spread pop culture to other cultures or generations by simply citing or mocking them. you have to go deeper than that.

> but close ties does not translate immediately to the extent of shared culture diffusing through populations

I think it does on a basic level.

All of the countries on the west side share very similar views about worker rights, welfare state, public education and healthcare, women rights, minorities' rights, democracy, etc. etc.

French is the language of diplomacy because French invented modern diplomacy when they were an important global empire and imposed their language on everybody else (and the reason why until the 80s in Italian schools French was the primary foreign language - I had to study it in elementary school from 1982 to 1987)

For the same reason German is #1 mother tongue language in Europe, beating English.

Think about religion in Europe: 75% are Christians,or at least they claim to be.

I am an atheist so I have no horse in the race, but that happened through centuries of close relationships (and wars)

Think about Europe before and after the USSR collapsed.

If we compare western Europe to former eastern block countries we will find fundamental differences and that's completely normal (and sometimes scary), because we have been separated for a long time and we are still compensating for that time.
I don't really understand how that is Uber's responsibility though. If a crime is committed, that crime should be reported and the police should investigate and take action based on the result of said investigation. Probably reasonable to suspend people pending the outcome of the investigation, but not sure unilateral action is warranted on the part of the company. We have processes for a reason.
> Which of Breyer's clerks drafted this? They clearly understand many tech issues and I hope they find their place on some Federal circuit to herald an era of logic in tech law.

Breyer also has a brother who was a District Court judge in the SF Bay Area who's undoubtedly had to deal with various tech cases. Not saying there's any kind of shared knowledge of tech within the Breyer family but just kind of interesting.
It wouldn't necessarily have to be geared for individuals. I think there are a ton of companies out there in the 20-50 employees that are doing well, not getting a lot of publicity, but have a tough time finding great people. As I do finding them. This is where a service like this makes sense to me.
Not quite what you're asking for, but it's really good.

https://makingmusic.ableton.com/
My guess is not that they are talking about just any 2013 Dell laptop, but that she is referring to something that is not of "ultrabook" standards of appearance and (probably) battery life optimization.

My impression of government hardware purchasing is that even while newer consumer models of laptops have managed to be lighter weight, have better battery life, and so on, they haven't met the litany of requirements needed for the government. She probably has a semi-custom Dell Latitude, which while a workhorse, is big and clunky and has less than desirable battery life. Oh and the screen resolution is probably 1366x768. Compare that to any ultrabook one could acquire today with a greater than HD quality display.

My guess is that her son is confused because before then she probably did most of her work with a Macbook Air, an ultrabook (perhaps even a Dell XPS), or even a Chromebook Pixel. These are all thinner, lighter, and with greater battery life. And they probably don't check the boxes the government wanted.
I've had a couple multiple-meg HTML pages on my disk, largely documentation. So, no images, simple HTML & CSS, etc. Every browser I've tried works longer than Preview for opening the file vs a basic PDF. Searching also typically takes longer, and pauses the application while it searches. As much as I wholly agree that I'd love HTML resources instead of PDFs, it seems browsers aren't made for things this large, and getting proper display for all the code & examples & math notation is not easy.

Admittedly, Preview only does a subset of PDF capabilities, and it's one of the fastest I've encountered, so it's not a wholly fair comparison.

HTML5 + CSS3 makes it easier, because fonts can be embedded, and there's a LOT more control over many things, and I know of no normal way to do anything like pagination. And many PDF viewers have interfaces optimized for reading, where browsers have interfaces optimized for navigation. I hope it's the future, but it's not the present.
Why do people update OS X? Just curious. If it works how you like, why update it? Security flaws are probably the main reason, but isn't there a way to get those without acquiescing to an OS redesign?
This is the third or fourth time this has appeared on HN this year...
No. It is horrific. You have done your job.

Maybe chuck in a few blink tags.
So, free as in beer.
I'm using a SSD for the operating system and 'hot' files that I'm currently working on, and a harddisk for bulk storage.

This works very well, and is much cheaper than going 'full SSD'.

I do agree that SSD is the single greatest advancement of computer technology the last 10 years. It's such an awesome speedup. And nicely silent.
Australia has been using plastic money for years!
The people who have them are for them. The people who don't are against them. I have yet to see a comment from someone who bought one and regrets it.
An improvement is already live regarding this, it used to have the same font size and color for the result and the timestamp. However I would personally make the WA date/time even lighter;

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=fathers+day+2011

Looks like this now:

http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/70578-420201195614AM
They can also do things that are illegal and then lie about them after if needed. Or just make up some false probable cause to warrant a search.
Thanks for bringing up that bit about being left out by coworkers. It reminded me of a passage from "Being Geek". Luckily the book is largely compiled from blog posts and here's the relevant post by Rands on the inadvertent exclusion faced by lone telecommuters attached to onsite teams: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2009/04/15/the_pond.ht...
I'm reminded of a story I read a while back (around 20 years ago) about engineers pointing out a security flaw in a vendor's Unix system, which the vendor did not take seriously. So they wrote a pair of programs: Falstaff and Othello, if I remember correctly... where if you killed one, the other would output to the console something to the effect of "I'll save you!" and would resurrect the other program, making it extremely difficult to eradicate from the system.

I've been trying to find this... anyone have a reference to the original?
GNU IceCat would be a great choice.
http://www.cnet.com/news/google-alibabas-os-is-an-incompatib...

For example. Try looking and you will find.
> " history has this repeated this playbook over and over, from horse power, steam power, electric power - labour intensive repetitive works have been slowly replaced by automation for hundreds of years now"

Yes, and we've never suitably addressed the problem of displaced labor.

You're mistaking aggregate, macro-scale changes in the economy for micro-scale effects on people.

Bob the factory worker loses his job because of automation, the economy at the same time creates new jobs in other categories. From an aggregate scale the economy is still humming along - a contraction of labor demand on one side is offset by an expansion in labor demand on another side.

But what about Bob? Is Bob qualified to take one of these newly created jobs? How will he gain the qualifications to work this new job? Are these new jobs in Bob's geographic area, or does Bob have the financial means to move to new job centers to pursue work?

This is the problem - you've mistaken "there are new jobs" for "there are new jobs for the displaced workers". The assumption that there is even much of an intersection between these two things is pure supposition - supposition that gets trotted around a lot because we don't like to think about the notion that maybe Bob - who has 30-40 years left on his lifespan - may simply be chronically unemployed or underemployed for the entire rest of it.

In reality there are going to be millions - if not tens of millions - like Bob, who have lost their jobs and are unable to retrain into a field that the economy has created. Others will take those new jobs, but Bob and his cohort are just plain fucked. The invention of new job categories does not remove the reality that Bob, and millions of others like him, are permanently out of work.
I think what would make a bigger difference would be to make the text taller. If I ever mis-click, it's because I accidentally clicked on the long title above the comments instead.

Your solution also has the side effect of getting rid of the link to the submitter's profile.
So basically, it's a tablet, but it's as unpractical to use as a laptop. (If you can use it comfortably somewhere, you can probably use a laptop instead.)
This device would be amazing for consuming media on the couch. I'm questioning its usability in a typical students day.

Reducing it to 9 inches is taking it to the extreme, even 11 or 12 inch displays would still be perfectly adequate and cut down on it's size and weight.
They are the first of all the other carriers to implement this type of billing. Verizon and the others will follow no doubt.

In five to ten years(maybe more) no one will be using cellular service to place calls and thus the carriers have to maintain and grow their revenues somehow.
Billions of lines of COBOL will 10s or even 100s of millions of lines written every year. Each time someone makes a mobile phone call, uses a credit card, books an airline ticket - 99% chance COBOL will handle part of that transaction.
I think a lot of things are self-taught by nine-year-olds: the basics of engineering (I know a nine year old who built a potato gun!), sports, arts and crafts, networking, animal care, and these are just the things off the top of my head :)