jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It may be 50% in Amsterdam, but I seriously doubt it's anywhere close to that high in the rest of the country. I've ridden extensively around Eindhoven, a mid-size city in the middle of the Netherlands, and you spend extremely little time in the street with cars.

The other thing that the author glosses over is that pedestrians and bikes don't share space either, and that pedestrians are equally deferential to cyclists. If you walk in the bike lane, you'll get a good shouting at.

That's something that shows extremely poorly here in the USA by comparison, after you've grown accustomed to it. Anywhere in the US there's a separate "bike path", it's really a multi-use path for bikers, rollerbladers, walkers (usually two or three abreast), kids on Razor scooters, horseback riding, you name it. Dutch bike paths are for BIKING (Ok, and for 50cc motor scooters).
No, that is not how factorization scales. The time difference between a 760 and 768-bit modulus is less than a factor of 2.
Well, the LLVM announcement certainly is new. You'll have to forgive me though, I thought you may have been propagating the old "in Tcl, everything literally is a string" trope.

What did you press it into service for in ye old .com boom?
Github wouldn't get baidu's cookies since they're different domains.
http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/
Sure, mobile is in high demand today, but lots of people do stuff on mobile that is sub-optimal in terms of workflow. By "sub-optimal" I mean it really isn't designed to be done properly on mobile yet. I think this is what the parent comment was getting at...
> This is going to hurt Google

Possibly.

> in the public eye

I seriously doubt that. People are busy and have a lot of things to be concerned about. The general perception of SV employees doesn't seem to be very favorable from what I've seen, either within the Bay Area or beyond. The average worker in middle America is not going to feel much compassion for people making $200k a year who end up out of work because they publicly challenge their employer.

> and with its workforce.

That's the calculus that they (Google management) needs to compute. How do they deal with this situation without angering so many people that they end up losing people they want to retain. The other side of that is of course the absolute disinterest in keeping people who are not key contributors but are likely to be "activist".

FWIW, I know ~50 people at Google, and although I am not in touch with most of them on a very regular basis, of the ones I have been in touch with exactly 0 of them have any sympathy for the positions of the people who are making a public scene.

What they are concerned with is the company being seen as a place where people are running amok and the work isn't seen as the first priority by the employees. That can be demoralizing to the rest of the staff who are interested in having impact and can affect recruiting if potential recruits think the company is a big hot mess.
You're most likely mistaken. Clickbait is not just about attracting attention, it also needs to be misleading. So while your complaint passes 1 test for clickbait it fails the other. Please be more thoughtful before posting unfounded meta comments, the HN rules explicitly discourage low-value content that doesn't contribute substantially to the discussion.
If intel has learned anything it must be that whatever they call their next process it must be one smaller than the competition regardless of how they come up with that number.
But then, you haven't solved the private electronic payment...
There were quite a few people who discovered evolution by natural selection before Darwin published the origin of the species, but the reason Darwin is given credit is because his explanation was so complete. It is in someways similar to Einstein and special relativity.
Or at least make it opt-out.
you're supposed to 'believe' to benefit from the best case scenario dude :) just rationalizing about it is not supposed to be enough...

and additionally, fasting was around before it was introduced in islam; check it's versions in judaism, christianity... actually, it was also around before that. people used to fast during equinoxes for a very long time for all sorts of different ceremonies...
How easy would it be to add Hypermedia support? Haskell does have some libraries supporting it.
Is there any evidence that fasting for 3 days is not safe or is this just an assumption? As I understand it is perfectly safe for all but the most fragile people.
When done properly, conduit is laid that fiber is then run through. You don't re-dig to lay new media, you simply drag it through the existing conduit. That's why "dig once" is such a big deal.

http://www.muninetworks.org/tags/tags/dig-once

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-seeks-t...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/14/execut...
I nominate Eric Lander.
Exactly. His point is that people who argue for abolishing time zones are playing a classic shell game. They're talking up the benefits of the new system while ignoring its problems (and the benefits of the old system).

This kind of shell game is pretty popular in software development, where new solutions are hyped because they lack some of the problems of the old solution, but also lack many of the benefits of the old solution.
That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that it can help. Yes, the iPhone is a good product. I understand that's part of the reason behind the fervent love of it. I think that Apple's image can help things succeed.

Look at the iPod and the iPad. Who the hell had an MP3 player or a tablet before they came out? Not many people. Apple is good at creating needs and good products where products already existed. I'm not saying their design isn't part of that, I'm saying that their image can certainly help. We don't know enough about this new FaceTime to say it's instantly better than previous products other than the fact that it's free, and gong to be an open standard. Since we can't speak about the design of it, I chose to speak about another factor that could cause it to succeed.

Edit: "Reality distortion field" was a horrible choice of words on my part by the way. I meant that Apple's success at marketing would help this product succeed, no matter how the implementation was, not that their implementation will be or has been poor.
I seem to recall he said the "only on wifi" was a temporary thing - while "we work with cell carriers" (I noted the plural: carrierS).
Why is the parent being downvoted? It's true! This are just evolutionary improvements for some things and playing catch-up with others. Doesn't stop it from being a great product, but it's not the aweomest thing Steve wants you to believe.
I'm impressed with 24% thinner. After holding an iPod touch for the first time I always wished my iPhone was less bulky.
But the media outlets that really matter to Apple (Newsweek or WSJ/Mossberg for example) get access way before the launch so they can write their articles.
If you do implement this, you should release the source code.

A handful of projects need a tool that allows GIS over text locations.
Correction: I called the GP post a 'pseudo-communist rant' I'm not saying jrockway is necessarily an actual communist, or even a pseudo- one... rather that he has, whether on purpose or not, stated a classically Communist belief about capitalist political economy.

That is, I wanted to point out that the claim being made--that capital owners, in capitalism, add nothing to the capital they own--is fundamental to a philosophy we now understand to be old, bad and dangerous.
Huh, no WebM support.
Previous stories had not identified the specific devices under control, only speculated about the nuclear connection.
The worst YC interviews being the ones where people cannot explain what their start-up is going to do is interesting. The same thing happens when talking about past projects in technical interviews. The worst candidates cannot clearly explain what the project was, or give specific details about their work. I'm never sure if they are actually confused about it or just aren't good at explaining, but either way it is not a good sign for how it would be to work with them.
maybe i misunderstood your original comment. can you give an example of the sort of task you argue an algorithm is incapable of completing?
Sure he probably goes through more material per day than 99.99999% of the population, but whether he remembers or understands is another matter.
Can't say badging has ever motivated me outside of gaming and even then some are just highly repetitive to keep you playing. In something like WoW some of the badges actually require you to complete new sections of content and can be fun to acquire.
Or to start a company to help people AVOID scams maybe?
Yeah, I'm at a loss explaining it too.

I think part of it comes down to the fact that a lot of these places were never urban - they may have had big buildings but the people never experienced street life in the way older American cities - and most European cities - have experienced it (see: Boston, NYC). As a result urban planning is too much an exercise in theory and too little based on pragmatic experience.

Another component is that Radiant City-esque designs look better on paper. You have tall, majestic buildings where architects can go wild without the constraint of adjacent buildings, and ample parkland appeals to our intuitive sense of what must be pleasant, but isn't in reality. In areas where urban decay has been especially problematic, these designs afford residents a sense of safety - they are safely ensconced in towers of glass and steel and may enter and exit with their cars. In many American cities avoidance of the street is sadly still a feature, not a bug.
Cool, will email. I added my email to my profile as well, thanks for point that out.
Windbaggery, a.k.a. the fallacy of thinking that wrapping your ideas in intellectual-sounding verbiage will make them invulnerable.
I don't think communism is inherently unjust. When practiced in its ideal form by people with no selfish instincts, it could be quite a nice system.

Capitalism is simply a way to harness people's natural selfish motives for the good of society. Neither system is morally superior to the other; it's just that in a state populated by humans, one works a lot better than the other.
So pumped Textmate 2 is finally coming out. I was just about to switch to vim too.
Sure — I write my JavaScript that way, too. But when it's time to deploy to production, it gets packed.
There are many brilliant people, but their time gets sucked away by Minecraft. It takes brains and balls to start a successful company.
My policy is to down vote or comment, but not both. If it's worth a reply, why would I down vote it? If it doesn't contribute to the discussion, why would I reply?
Ah, I hadn't compared usernames.

Your mother thought of some very detailed gotchas. I too would be interested to hear how it goes in the end.
For what it's worth, my ex-girlfriend (an African fugee) was called an oreo (among other things) by African Americans who didn't approve of her lifestyle.
The fact that you have to pay an extra $50 to get LAMP on it is pretty shocking if you ask me
I'm sorry I wasn't clear. Like dieterrams said, I just meant that when you lose sight in one eye, loss of peripheral vision is probably more impairing overall than the loss of binocular parallax.

If your depth perception was truly devastated by losing one eye (as the article implied by calling binocular disparity the most important facility for depth perception), losing eye would be a lot more handicapping than it is in my experience (I know several people with only one eye, one of whom is a pretty good casual volleyball player).
But they must surely be doing something fancier than this naive-bayes-style model, otherwise they'd have no use for a roomful of supercomputers.
I'm not sure the article asserted that Scala was "not better" than Java. It was asserting that Scala is not "a better Java"; that is that the design philosophies between the two languages are such that it's not right to treat Scala as an evolutionary "next step" from Java, as some have. I think there's some truth to that point of view.
frossie, I mostly agree with you but I wanted to bring up a couple of points:

* As you mentioned, the Prez' authority is (mostly) limited to the US. I say "mostly" because the US has been known to exert economic and even military pressure on other countries that didn't toe the line of US interests. Shutting down the US corner of the Internet would take about 13% of worldwide Internet _users_ offline; in terms of infrastructure and services, I'd wager it would be lots more. Consider that Google, Yahoo, MSN and lots of other globally significant sites are US based.

* Something else to consider: Who runs the DNS root servers? Isn't internic run by a US company? In theory, DNS is redundant; in practice, I think loss of the root servers would kick up a lot of disturbance. AFAIK the Internet would be crippled for most intents and purposes without DNS.
Hey Peter, ever hear of a little thing called willpower and self discipline?
They don't need mass surveillance and weak crypto to find out what a few known evil doers are up to. You can develop informants, physically bug devices, and get warrants for service providers (the old fashioned way where you specify a person's name and what you're looking for).

But they'd rather have a database with the sum total of human thoughts and interactions.
> How exactly do you define sacking?

I'll go with this one, from Cambridge Dictionary:

"an attack on a building or town in which a lot of destruction is caused and many valuable things are stolen"

> ... and you think that's "about as peaceful an outcome as we could possibly have hoped for"?

Yes, as peaceful as we could have hoped for, considering that many of these people believe a satanic cult has undermined the US government and defrauded their rightful president out of a second term.

> I genuinely don't understand. This is the kind of operation of government that is supposed to never be disruptible. If past mobs knew it was this easy then we could have had a zillion coups by now.

You don't automatically achieve a coup by entering some building and interrupting some bureaucratic process, no matter how symbolic it may be. Biden got elected.

> This is still unimaginably bad.

You must lack imagination.
And that was fun!
Interestingly, those two consoles had dedicated hardware decoders. It doesn't make any sense to have uncompressed audio for them.
They do have a wine region, possibly not much known in the USA.
After reading the article I was going to suggest the same thing. I think the radial symmetry is much more pleasing and I like the nod to the original 13 star flag.
Probably the only man in the world who doesn't care about money (and not just saying that)
You might be able to get away with just testing it on Darwin.
This article should be followed up with an article titled "Thousands of ways engineers are NOT like hot chicks"
Nothing in the original post by Elon Musk states that.

Its a "AMA" or "Ask me Anything."

Original Post:
>Zip2, PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity. Started off doing software engineering and now do aerospace & automotive.

>Falcon 9 launch webcast live at 6am EST tomorrow at SpaceX.com

>Looking forward to your questions.

>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/552279321491275776

>It is 10:17pm at Cape Canaveral. Have to go prep for launch! >Thanks for your questions.
Most companies will add the "Bachelors in Computer Science, or the equivalent" with maybe a caveat of it being a technical equivalent or something similar - this is to home in that it is an engineering job.

In my workgroup, I think only one has a degree in computer science - at least two don't have any degrees, one of them being an excellent senior engineer. I have a masters in math myself, and I usually gloss over the bachelors in CS requirement since my work speaks for itself. I don't think most companies really care about the degree unless they have an obstinate manager.
Such a wonderful essay. It's very applicable to the teaching of computer science/software engineering as well. So much of the problem is the misunderstanding people have about the field. It's a creative, constructive discipline, and so much of the instruction is consumption, mimicry, and repetition.

Solving well defined problems is relatively easy. Our real problem is that real problems are not well defined.
Why? eof's comment was wonderfully open and honest, but jpk's response was true. In the description, it's not clear that the script even got written. Would you accept this result if you had hired a freelancer to write the script?
I'd say it's a matter of approaching strengths and weaknesses aggressively, a-la Nokia.

RIM Strengths: keyboard, corporate relationships, extremely happy users, historic hardware excellence

Weaknesses: shitty UI, no app ecosystem

Motorola was in this situation but with fewer strengths two years ago. Do you really think that RIM would not benefit from being able to say:

"As always, the best keyboard in the business. Now, with access to Amazon App Marketplace / Android Marketplace!"

To my mind it's entirely possible that RIM could bankroll itself through this cycle with their current cash, but if they want to compete, aggressively, they should probably adopt the android ecosystem as a compatibility layer.

An android phone that works excellently with Blackberry Server and has a blackberry keyboard would be EXTREMELY appealing to a broad range of corporate buyers, and many power-users as well.
Why not simply support IE8? It's not any harder than, say, supporting FireFox.

Cross browser stuff is really really easy now that you don't have to worry about IE6 anymore. Give it a shot.
Good point. I toned down the recommendations a bit, and added a link to an article by PPK explaining how to avoid delivering all your high-res images to low-res devices. (A lot has been written about this lately, and I didn't want want to repeat too much of what's already been said.)
Henry Ford found that his factory workers were more productive per week at 40 hours than 48 hours. It's not a big surprise that what worked in his factory isn't ideal for every job almost a century later.
Languages affect how you can express certain concepts. More expressive languages can be useful in new programming concepts. A personal example: Many years ago I had to program in VB.Net, and never understood polymorphism until I dabbled in Python and played around with some projects in that language. VB.Net lets you do Polymorphism, but it doesn't assist you in learning it (at least for the way my brain is wired).
Probably way to late for anyone to read this comment, but I used to think X11 was dead for remoting since VNC was faster over high-latency high-bandwidth connections (which describes most of the internet today). Then I discovered nomachine NX; it is way better than VNC or native X for remoting. A bunch of linux distros even have the GPL version available in the package management system. It is as much faster than VNC than VNC is over native X11. Also, it doesn't try to jpeg compress my syntax-highlighted text.
Once the same happened to me in Shanghai, but the Taxi driver insisted it was his mistake for not understanding my bad pronunciation and stopped the counter...
Do you think it's acceptable for you to have read the document, no matter how simple the encryption?
> anyone who reads "Huck Finn" and actually thinks about it won't find its use of the word "nigger" objectionable.

I've read Huck Finn (and Tom Sawyer) as required in high school. I am also black. As a product of it's day, I understand the context in which the language is being used but that didn't make it any less demeaning and frankly the only effect it had on me was to make me not want to read any more Mark Twain works. Requiring me to read these works and expecting me to appreciate its message is a lot like saying you should admire the boxing skills of the mugger who's beating you up.

I am perfectly fine with allowing students to study these works on their own or to write reports on them, but I don't think students should be required to read them.
The exact opposite. Echo chambers shutdown heterodox thinking, Bridgewater apparently embraces it.

They’re filtering out people who are most susceptible to getting stuck in groupthink.
As soon as I saw Gartner mention digital twins as one of the next big things in innovation in one of their reports, I concluded it was a buzzword.
This all sounds great, but I suspect this will be VERY expensive.
Bernie Madoff ran a ponzi scheme for 30 years and had the entire financial industry and regulators like the SEC fooled the entire time.
not everyone sells UX of a website?
I used to love WebSockets a lot more. At some point I got deeper into implementing HTTP servers and proxies, and realized how much of a special case WebSockets are to implement. They're cool, but I prefer Server-Sent Events on HTTP/2 whenever I can get away with it, which is pretty much always (binary data being a big exception, and even then I consider long-polling first).

I think there's value in keeping our protocols as simple as possible to accomplish the task at hand.
The rising of Bitcoin can be a threat to working democracies - at least if it is used as a currency. Monetary politics are important for our society to function properly. On the other hand: For broken countries, it can help the people as a temporary replacement.
I do have to laugh a bit at people being very quick to dismiss this idea when HTTP/2 is effectively the same idea--one long-lived bi-directional 'socket' to multiplex all requests. It adds a lot more niceties like the server proactively pushing assets on first load. Many folks might even be using it right now without really realizing or knowing it.
Did you mean "Recur"?
It provides page dimensions, color advice, and font size suggestions.
And the tumbleweeds continue to roll across SliceHost... which is stuck in 2008.
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How much is the extra traffic, again?

200GB of traffic included seemed good at the time, but it doesn't already. I'm seeing (and using) more offers lately that have much more traffic included.
Thanks for the feedback! Your suggestions make sense - I'll take care of them soon.

It's for fun, but you might see an ad some day.
At my last corporate job (in Austin), we interviewed an engineer currently at Apple. We asked him why he was moving. He answered "I can work at Apple for $120k/year, and pay $1m for a house, or I can work in Austin for $100k/year, and pay $200k for a house".

This was pre-bubble and I didn't fact check his numbers, but are the cost of living in SV numbers correct?
I outlined other extensions, but that is the very start of all marketing research. I don't see how you can possibly just launch into a project without having any clue of how much money there is to be made in the area.

The approach above is important because you need to be able to estimate how much revenue you should expect at various levels of growth. I suppose for me it's about whether I just want to have faith that my product is viable because I would use it, or I want to have a ballpark estimate that tells me how much I can realistically expect to get out of the company.

How much can someone make at selling online commerce software? Don't you think that's an important question to have some handle on?