jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Also, nitroglycerine is pretty terrible fuel. You can get 7 times more energy from burning a gram of ethanol than from exploding one gram of TNT.
As downvote-prone as that comment seems like it could be, I would like to add it it by saying that this can't be the right way to handle diseases. There has to be a sweet spot between telling everyone immediately, insighting a panic, and holding back all of the information.

I'm not too incredibly concerned with managing the information from the general public; but, the WHO and other people should always be immediately informed. In fact, if they were rapidly informed and we can get a cure out quickly, then the loss of life from these new diseases wouldn't be as bad, I would like to hope.

The problem is in hiding the information.
I think you mis-understood the question.
What I had in mind was that Go is an open source project, if C#'s solution is a good one, why not write up a proposal and try an implementation?
Continuing the quote... "No serious for-profit site would consider giving up 50% of the page to an ad. It’s insane."

No, the content-to-ad ratio on the screen of a commercial site would never be 50%.

https://imgur.com/i74b7He
If your language is versatile enough, has adaptable syntax, and powerful at DSLs, it can adapt to future requirements quite well.

Haskell is great at concurrency and parallelism not because the language was designed around those at all - but because the language is well designed, and focuses at communicating the programmer's intent, rather than implementation details. This intent is more directly translatable to correct concurrent code than an imperative spec which is inherently lower-level.
Out of curiosity, which do you think you are?
Is it possible this might change with HTML5 in the future?
Thanks Matt, I shall be in touch tomorrow
A major corporation with an arrogant CEO? Imagine that.
right you are. how embarrassing. can i downvote my own post?
I'll chime in with an opposing anecdote about managing the healthcare for my father with cancer. Dealing with a large insurer, we have no problems with being denied coverage, timely prior approvals, and while some of the copays are high, they are not unreasonable for the plan he chose. Whenever I call, the agents are pleasantly helpful. My main complaint is with providers' fraudulent billing ("cost": $500, "adjustment": $390, insurance: $65, copay: $45), and the worst thing I've had to do was sometimes wait after receiving a billing nastygram, for the claims to settle out.

Of course he is of Medicare age, so this is a Medicare Advantage plan that is still bound by many of the Medicare rules and copay schedules. I can't imagine going through the same thing with my own insurance.
Sure, but the vast majority of the time I've seen (and done) it, it does work, and that's commendable. I firmly believe that redditors are a nudge away (if that) from great discussions, and a "he's making a good point" is enough to make redditors say "wait, I downvoted him because I disagree, not because his point is bad. Let me undo that".
One thing that confuses me about iOS devices is when a gmail account is added to the mail program. It isn’t clear if it is adding SMTP/IMAP or if it is doing some web app type configuration and if that gives Google more access to track device activity.
I.E Richard Stallman ?
I used to tell the students I TA'ed that their first task -- assuming they were physically able to do so -- was to be able to type at 60wpm with high accuracy, without looking at the keys. Many students, and indeed many professional programmers can't, and I'm increasingly convinced it holds them back [1].

Surely at least until you can type quickly and accurately, you're not going to get much out of learning to use a complex editor like emacs or vim, and indeed most command-line tools are going to be a chore to use.

As Jeff Atwood says, "When was the last time you saw a hunt-and-peck pianist?" [2]

[1] This is of course not an original thought. Here's Jeff Atwood saying the same thing: http://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programmer...

[2] http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-keyboard-cult/ (I should mention that I don't agree with most of this post, but the line about pianists has always stuck with me.)
i find most of the 'pro-dynamic' stuff to be kind of well... not very impressive. and i say that as someone who primarily uses 'dynamic' languages. to be the big win for dynamic languages is the ability to debugger driven development but many dynamic languages don't have a debugger that will allow you to do that. i never really understood the power that 'dynamic' gives you until i started using lisp and smalltalk environments. ruby, as an example, is nice- i use it all the time- but it doesn't have the same power as a smalltalk or lisp w/ a serious dev environment- and that has nothing to do with the typing system.

with smalltalk, i can write a test, have it fail and from the debugger, add my needed classes, add instance variables, change variable values, check state, move back to previous points in the stack and restart after making those changes and continue on my way. once you've tried it, it is a very addictive and pain free way to develop. just doing dynamic typing doesn't give you that. it requires much more, in the end that is what really interests me. i find that to be far more of a productivity boost day to day than the stuff that these static vs dynamic arguments usually turn on.

As to people who stick to a single paradigm and tout it as the best thing since sliced bread well... except when I get a little cranky I don't have much use for that and try to tune it out as background noise.
So, boiling your original objection and subsequent explanations down to a single sentence, you think I'm unaware of the fact that there are exceptions to my original statement, let alone just about every statement ever made? I can assure you that I'm not. Or perhaps you feel it was necessary for me to disclaim that words I type without citation or claim of evidence are only my opinion?

These questions are rhetorical, FWIW. I'm trying very hard not to be the snarky guy who argues until the bitter end, for exactly the reasons implicit above.
I'm 22, from India, have a good job and a decent degree. Don't worry - you will be just fine.

This is what I did to get a good job -
1. Play in programming contests - topcoder, codejam, etc. and get under top 20 in India, and hence learn to solve algorithm questions
2. Apply to companies

I recommend that route. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, now Facebook as well - they all look at problem solving first. Next comes Computer Science knowledge - can be gained in dedicated 2-3 months' time. Do it. It's worth the result.
+1 for the use of the word "Gusher"
>>People's first name is their "family name".

I may be mistaken but I believe this is true in Vietnam (and probably other countries as well).
Playfish are hiring Java developers in London, SF, Tromso (Norway) and Beijing: http://www.playfish.com/?page=jobs

I can't speak for the other offices but we've got a great friendly and intelligent bunch of guys and girls on the team here in London.
I got pissed off with having a home address that different organisations insisted on putting their own spin on, so I can imagine how frustrating it must be when it's your actual name!
It could be argued that you have stolen the design, in as far as the concept of stealing applies. Just as if you download a movie ripped from a dvd, there is no argument about whether you have stolen the DVD. The content is separable from the medium.
I met Sunde after that original ruling so I have to assume they aren't locked up and won't be until they stop appealing.
"What does the dropbox client do that is significantly different from this?"

Using inotify (linux). Polling doesn't scale.
Yes, that was one of the few books on computers I have read that I would call masterful.
Sure, the web is open you can choose to run your website the way you want it, if you don't want people linking to your content you should stop them. But the burden should be placed on the website owner and not those who are linking to the content, this isn't something like stealing content that we are talking about (which should be despised) it is simply sharing content with others no different than telling someone to check out a book named Fill in the blank.

Robots.txt is great for something that is automated like scraping but otherwise it is severely limited.
There was a time that I read every programming book front to cover (no Internet, few programming books in public libraries, not enough money to buy zillions of books, and loving reading all contributed to that) but some are more addicting than others. Looking at my bookshelves, I find many that stand out not only because I read them front to cover, but also because of their quality. Examples:

Inside Macintosh (especially the phonebook edition), (terse, but well-written, and describing a revolutionary system), but also some of the later books. For example,mtgs series on QuickDraw GX is tedious in it's repetition, but if you skip that, it nicely describes a very much complete 2D Graphics system.

How to solve it.

The art of computer programming (volumes 1, 2, and 3). What helped here is that my public library had them, but they are nice to read, if you have the mathematical background (it definitely helps to read this in parallel with a study in number theory, combinatorics, etc)

Anatomy of Lisp.

The art of the meta-object protocol.

Out of the inner circle.

The Soul of a new Machine.

Unix Internals, the new frontiers.

Effective C++.

SICP.

More recently, I found the C# specification a page turner. Easy to read, and almost every section made me think about why they chose to do things different from Java the way they did (examples: complicate the grammar by including structs, having signed and unsigned ints).
Being a bunch of PC users for the existence of our company, it was somewhat uplifting to finally get a few Macs and experience what everyone is so joyous about. On the sidelines is seems foolish. But once immersed in the Mac world, it seems foolhardy to "deal with" Windows or Ubuntu (although I definitely appreciate what Canonical is doing).

The same is to be said for RIM. They definitely broke the ice for smartphones, but failed to lead the pact. As a Canadian, I do wish different results. But as a logistical, Apple picked up the reigns and jockeyed to the finish line.

Android, Windows Phone and RIM won't turn heads or wallets by saying, "me too". They have to define an experience, not copy it somewhat.
I thought the main reason was obvious: it's only available if you buy from Apple directly, not from, say, Amazon. Apple makes more money when you buy from their store instead of a third party.
Curious, what would you consider to be more useful error handling?
It may soon be even easier than that.

http://www.geekosystem.com/tor-router/
It is _an_ answer. It interrupts my experience when I forget to Command-click and close the tab on accident.
The demographic information you have on the users still doesn't make them more targeted beyond the geographic segmentation.

If however you're doing multiple deals per city, per day based on more than one demographic metric then it's targeted. ie. I'm a local brick-and-mortar business (I'm not) who wants to advertise to men between the ages of 25-35 in my city and only those. Then you've got a targeted play. Otherwise it isn't more targeted than the local newspaper other than your particular demographics are likely younger. It's still a shotgun approach to your entire user base in each location = not targeted.

Is that what Groupon is doing?

EDIT: Case in point. The owner of the beauty salon that's the current deal of the day in my city is a friend of mine. I am not her target market, yet I'm seeing the deal. That's a missed opportunity for her and you.
But those are interface problems. Nothing really to do the internals being software driven. I think many modern synth companies have reverted back to one knob - one function design.
But C's the new hotness! It's blazing fast!
People seem to hate "no problem" too. People get really touchy about the smallest things... did you know that some people take it as a deadly insult if you place their change on the counter instead of placing it carefully in their hand?
Yes, 30 minutes of "security" checks and body scanners are a problem.

It is a matter of PRINCIPLE.
This is why I cringe every time I hear someone say "Ideas are worthless - it's all about execution."

Coming up with a worthwhile idea is hard work, and that work has value. As someone who has executed a bad idea to death, I've come to appreciate how much you have to get right before you start in order to be successful.
The Japanese version will not be closed. It's called Chiebukuro, and it looks like it will continue as it is: https://chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/
That's why I don't use AWS. I am sure I forget to disable or enable something and then wake up with life ruining bill.
Since they don't want to fix it, it seems like this is still a part of their business model.
Maybe this business requires more regulation - if company cannot resolve an issue negatively impacting the consumer, then government should step in and mandate bill capping features to be implemented.
Maybe we should start writing to our representatives to come up with something, so companies like Amazon know their place.
> It goes awry when the team gets larger than seven or so people.

Everything does. Teams don’t scale, its not a special feature of daily standups. Beyond that, you need teams of teams.

But, sure, the standup format is a waate, because the filler is stuff that should be evident from a status board, and the meat—impediments—should be addressed as they emerge, not delated for a daily meeting.

> Now, you may be thinking that this format takes a lot of time. It doesn’t!

I think that it just means that the dominant personalities that have touched any given ticket will be the only ones who talk, which is part of my the reason the classic format is organized by people, not tickets. It also has the same redundancy issues as the classic format, and while it may have a linear improvement in time over the classic format, when both formats are followed equally well, the scaling is exactly the same as classic. So, the problem it seems to solve is “standups aren’t adequately venues for social dominance displays”, not “standups don’t scale”.
My initial enthusiasm for Swift faded pretty quickly when I tried to actually use it. The tooling is buggy and unstable. Code that calls Cocoa APIs is often no less verbose than ObjC. Every XCode release brings syntax-breaking changes. It feels like the language design was compromised by the requirement to bridge to Cocoa; all the strictness of the language is just a facade when you're manually casting every time you deal with a collection, for example. I guess I like the strict handling of nils in principle but in practice I've found this often means the user gets a crashed app instead of a more tolerable bug.

I'm getting out of iOS/OS X coding anyway for other reasons but even if I weren't I certainly wouldn't use Swift for production yet. Apple should not have pitched Swift as production-ready at WWDC. I think a lot of us would be less critical if it had been billed as the technology preview it was (and still is).
however net neutrality isn't going to correct an issue he faces. his home is almost a half mile away from active service which puts the onus on the home owner. new subdivisions usually contract out cable laying; cable, electrical, gas and, etc. This cost gets embedded in every new home sale.

Now I am curious why this owner hasn't decided to contract out the cable himself from house to an an appropriate connection point? I am not sure if his house is 2500 feet back from the road or merely 2500 ft from the nearest drop. I have seen many a farm where the main residence is quite a run from the street so this could be similar.
If you want an archaic microbiome, you may want to investigate the probiotic offered by General Biotics[1], featured a few times on HN. 100+ species of microbes that are both well-studied and missing from modern processed foods. I haven't tried it yet myself and I never got a response when I asked how long one has to take the supplement in order to feel results on average. It's an interesting idea and appears to be well-received by those who've tried it though.

[1] http://www.generalbiotics.com/
Its 2 on, 2 off.

2 months in 12h shifts working 4 days a week is not that bad.
Creator here - here's a blog post explaining the reasoning for the site - http://knowingwhattosay.com/confessions

Basically as a freelance client hiring a freelancer is a weird proposition because you don't know what you're getting before it's too late. Productized services take care of this because they outline exactly what you're getting before you buy.
Well, I can't even reset my password. I suspect that's because my registered e-mail address uses the "foo+bar@gmail.com" format (which I use for easier filtering), and something on Slack doesn't like sending those (no e-mail on my inbox, spam folder or filter matches)
The Bod and in general the wider library system in Oxford (over 120 libraries!) was easily the best part of my undergrad academic life there. Having a dedicated space for studying, open 24/7, within 20m of my room was absolutely liberating and fundamental to the experience.

I sometimes wonder whether I should continue my education somewhere like Oxford, just so I can experience the focused concentration of a library again.
There are lots of 'this wouldn't have happened under Steve' things that are good. I think Steve was awesome, and I wish we would have had him for longer and gotten to enjoy more of his creations. That being said, Steve had a way of holding grudges, and being set in his ways when it was obvious things needed to change.

As a shareholder, I think Tim is doing an amazing job, and there are lots things he's improved that are more shareholder friendly than Steve (I know I know capitalism is terrible screw greedy shareholders blah blah, I'm saving for retirement dang it).

As a full time mobile developer, I definitely don't think things are any worse, and I think they've made changes for the better. I know developers aren't #1 by any means, but they aren't being completely ignored.

As a user of most things Apple, I'm happy with my iMac, iPhone, iPad, and even Apple TV (for the most part, could definitely be better. really hoping for App Store this summer and Amazon Prime access). Really though I've been hugely satisfied, and based on the customer satisfaction surveys most everyone else is too, moreso than for pretty much any other company out there.
Oh, yes - the first time I looked at it was on my phone and I didn't even notice that you could scroll down. I think because the links for Help, Contact, Privacy appear at the bottom of the viewport and those are normally in the footer of the page I just assumed there was nothing below.

I would play the weekend level again. Dunno if I will be remembering to come back once a week, though.
This is really surprising, given that the Bitfinex hack was quite complex (unless they had inside knowledge). There are several ways to hold crypto for an amount as large (hardware wallet, brain wallet, pre-signed transactions, etc...)
The other commenter put it better than I would. But Canada is so multi-cultural there really isn't one "Canadian Culture". Most of our "Canadian content" is no different than American content, it just happens to be filmed in Canada. But even a lot of American shows do a lot of filming in Canada.

There is really no "Canadian music" either, it's really just the same as American music. But it isn't just American content I get exposed to. I also get exposed to a lot of other content from all around the world.

Take the recent culturally popular hit on Netflix "Squid Game". Should Netflix be forced to show me something from Canada instead of promoting Squid Game simply because they are legally forced to? Shouldn't they be showing me something they think I will like regardless of where it came from? In fact Netflix does exactly this and does suggest content that is even in other languages with English dubs or subtitles.

Instead of being forced to listen or watch subsidized Canadian content I am able to watch whatever would interest me the most from anywhere in the world. In my opinion your view is an old style view that applies to a less connected version of the world. With how connected we are now and how easily I can see content from across the world it feels like an old fashioned approach to do what you are suggesting. And it feels extra silly with just how much more multi-cultural Canada has become.
Actually, modern versions of black will retain the fluent style you prefer, though it will collapse up to the first method call on the first line within the parens, so you end up with something like:

foo = (
spark.read.parquet(...)
.filter(...)
.withColumn(...)
)
We leverage DPDK & SmartNIC to accelerate Layer-3 routing to 100Gbps / 30Mpps with 1M routes in the routing table.

This approach allows for border router, NAT, L4LB functionality with performance comparable to Cisco ASR / Juniper MX routers.
Not for the Intel machines. MacBook Pro got at least a CPU bump about every 12-18 months, but machines like the Air, Mini or Mac Pro could go several years without any update at all. https://infonewt.com/apple-release-patterns/#macbook-pro
Particularly someone following the said star.
What kinds of cancer does proper nutrition and exercise cure?
Wow, that’s disappointing. I’m surprised they couldn’t squeeze a basic mobile phone camera module on there just for the sake of it.
Consumer taxes impact low-incomer people way more than high income people.
no. You are not answering my question. you are simply saying dont blame ghazali. My question is, what caused the death of "desire for scientific temper" and economic conditions do not change someones quest for knowledge or for that matter, influence an entire population away from science who took to avoid it like the plague. I had this talk with a guy last week and when i mentioned ghazali, he said something on the lines of "are you talking about his first phase or second phase?" then when i showed him this quote, this person goes "yes. obviously his first phase. in his second phase he rejected his earlier texts and even started learning the same thing he rejected earlier but the damage was done".

You cant just tell a population to reject a way of thinking but apparently someone did manage to do that
I didn’t say they use off the shelf video cards. But they absolutely do use off the shelf parts.
Depends on the system(s) you are talking about.

For the Commodore 64/128, there are multiple modern solutions using both USB and even microSD that emulate 5.25" floppy drives. My personal favorite, while not cheap, is the Ultimate1541. Over the years, due to its FPGA base, it has grown from a 5" drive emulator to way, way more.
Well, they're a bit company right now, still riding the revenue success of Fortnite and the potential of their launcher/store. So investors are interested, including Chinese investors that own a decent swathe of shares. I just hope they don't become such huge industry giants that they stomp on anything with a faint smell of competition.
Nice! Thanks for the feedback.
What is the point of making custom codecs for Bink, instead of using state of the art free codecs?
Not being skill related is why Theranos happened.
The evidence is the email. A crime was committed. forget the settlement, the CEOs need to go to jail
Yeah was thinking of a glider. Silent, you can launch it via catapult launcher, at night it would be completely undetectable.