jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Optimization, e.g., from
operations research can
at times make a good contribution,
but such work is not always easy, and
typically the first challenging
step is problem formulation
where address considerations such
as I listed.

Indeed, at one point I was starting
to address the fleet scheduling
problem with integer linear programming
set covering, talking with
G. Nemhauser, now at Georgia Tech,
then at Cornell, etc. With
current software and computers,
what I was trying to do, for just
the 33 Falcon airplanes and 90 US
cities, should be nicely easy to do.

Another problem, though, could
be the mix of aircraft types:
Early on FAA and CAB rules boiled
down to the Dassault DA-20 Fanjet
Falcon with Fred's cargo modifications.
Why? Because, e.g., wanting to be
able to operate both airplanes and trucks,
FedEx was flying
as an unscheduled air-taxi,
maybe intended for little Mom and Pop
operations, but then could
not fly planes with max gross
takeoff weight (GTOW) over 25,000 pounds.
Fred went to Congress and got his
28,660 GTOW approved as an exception.

Later Alfred Kahn deregulated
airfreight and, thus, let
FedEx fly nearly anything
they wanted. At that point,
there would be an issue of
what mix of airplanes?
But that was after I had
gone for my Ph.D.
If you add '!' to '#' you get 'D', which is non-sense in any high level language.
Sounds like "null."
Uhm, to me the left poster looks "better" in a way that is less visually distracting. My eyes don't find a focus point on the right poster and are scanning all the time - which is rather annoying.
Your speculative conspiracy theory is plausible, but I work with one of the people who made this decision.
At first I was confused by this comment because anything built with links is a graph. Now that I've caught your meaning, and seen the complicated "included" structure, I wonder if it wouldn't have been better to just add an "_id" property to HAL. HAL's designers, however, would probably just say that "author" should be its own resource, and be linked or embedded as required. That is, if it's too heavy to embed, then link it.
I'm also in the process of building a diabetes related started, and I'm both scared and excited to see someone else tackling this problem.

Aza, if you're reading this, I'd love to talk! Contact info is in my profile.
Thank you so much for an incredibly helpful post. I've done about half of what you suggested, which means that half of it is new to me.

One follow-up question for you: Do you have any advice on how to contact the HR department of a candidate employer and have a conversation that's deeper than 'yes, I will send a cover letter and cv'?

Thank you again for taking the time to list some specific ideas that I hadn't considered.
"risk of getting shot and carjacked is too real"

check and check, when I was 17 and 20.

Your whole assessment is perfect, enumerating most of the reasons that made me leave.
Oh yes, I have read Steve's post about a hundred times.
stats at the moment:

Average Windows: $5.69

Average Mac: $7.69

Average Linux: $14.17

As a Linux user, yes I am grateful! :)
It isn't about attempting to demonstrate that Linux is better than Windows or Mac, but supporting the developers and making others realize that Linux can be good for gaming too.
Nice Job embedly, your api kicks ass. Using for a project as we speak:)
The muscle building seems similar, though even more extreme than HST training: http://www.hypertrophy-specific.com/hst_index.html

I switched to HST after a long time of doing typical weight training routines and now do 1-2 sets per body part each time I'm in the gym. It's not nearly as extreme as what he's describing but I've cut my workouts down to 3 40 minute sessions each week and my gains have increased a LOT. Of course when I tell people that they freak out because there's an irrational belief that you have to put in tons of sets to see benefits.

Interesting stuff.
Don't forget the discovery of morphine by Friedrich Sertürner in 1804 :-)
It's about as techy as Amazon was after two years. Amazon is actually a much better comparison for Groupon than any of the other tech companies. Non-technical business, lots of investment in non-technical assets (warehouses vs writers/sales/customer service), etc.

No one has said that Groupon is a technical marvel, but there are the usual challenges involved in high traffic website as well as a lot of development on new initiatives, internationalization, etc. Groupon is making big investments in its technology platform this year. Look for some news about it in January.
You don't even have to be that old to remember most of that. Except for milk deliveries, well-dressed for airplane trips, and a few other things on there I remember how things were...

If you think about it, it's all before super cheap labor/parts from China, not just a technological gap.

One of my more earlier memories is standing in line for Star Wars. It went clear around a building or two and as a child it was the most spectacular thing to see that many people in a row.

Oh and I remember being given a nickel to buy a bagel. Damn I've gotten old :-(
Get a room.
You mean 'and understand the axioms', don't you?
There were ATMs all over Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1983. Hardly the World's greatest metropolis.
The network effects aren't a defense. The main defensible advantage is the customer brand. That's what the money is for - making sure it beats competitors to scale in every city in every country in the world.
> PDEs are really useful if you are in the rare domains where they are useful.

Aside from ‘rare’, this seems at best vacuously true.

> But most PDEs don't have even have closed form solutions for non-trivial boundary conditions. So unless you are a physicist or something adjacent, no, no you really don't need to know these.

As others have said, while your first sentence is surely true, the latter doesn't follow from it (and I would argue isn't true—but it depends on how you define adjacency). There are lots of things one can usefully do with an equation besides finding a closed-form solution. (For an ODE example, the classical predator–prey model does not have a nice closed-form solution, but is still plenty useful.)
have you seen her rap video? https://razzlekhan.com/
She should be arrested purely for subjecting people to its existence.
Who is "you" in this scenario? Who actually needs to know these by heart day to day?
I honestly think having the IDE resolve imports and then fold them is a good solution.

The users don’t need to know the specific imports 90% of the time, but it really helps the compiler. So it’s a sort of metadata for the code, something we don’t really have. Usually, the same code is seen by both developer and compiler.

(It may also help incoming developers, but personally i think it’s negligible. Now they just have module+identifier instead of identifier. The real help comes from “view symbol documentation” “jump to source” which is there regardless).
There is no need for a specialized adder.

The patented expression is computable in an obvious way by a single ordinary adder and a single AND gate connected to the carry input of the adder, without any other devices (the shifts and the "& 1" are done by appropriate connections).

Any ordinary N-bit adder computes the sum of 3 input operands, 2 which are N-bit, and a third which is an 1-bit carry.
any sort of decreased circulation can cause tingling. you may have had underlying cardiovascular/pulmonary issues for a long time, and are just now noticing it because covid.
The new MBA likely won't be announced until WWDC and come out shortly thereafter. It will also likely have design language that reflects the new iMac. Let that temper your decision making.
> This doesn't seem to me to be evidence of deliberate anti-emulation features - just imagine a hastily written port by relatively inexperienced developers who don't know about these quirks

If it were one thing, maybe, but six things done in almost no or no other games repeated across (presumably) thirty ported games? Infinitesimally unlikely.

Also, these were done by Nintendo Japan - how likely is it that they're "relatively inexperienced developers writing hasty ports". These tricks would seem the hallmark of very experienced developers who know the hardware intimately.
Looks very good. Well done.
How does a "manager" contribute when there are only 2 coders?
Waiting for a strong causal link, especially when there is a high level of statistical relationships, can mean we might be waiting too long to take serious action.

If repeated studies show strong associations, like say between cigarettes and cancer, it would make sense to take some steps to prevent the potential cause.
Came here to make sure that this article was posted. It's an engaging and well written examination of the followup to the Columbia's loss. Thanks for linking to it!
I am not sure how this will be received by others. I don't want to experience a cessation of ideas and thoughts. Being able to quell my brain activity so that no thoughts or ideas remain is the opposite of enlightenment to me. I am proud that I am an intellectual, self-aware being. It separates me from the rest of the organisms in Nature. So why would I want to turn it all off?
True; but if you were making a text editor today, with the whole flat UI trend and minimalism being so prevalent, the sublime UI is actually very intuitive. It's just that sublime got to it first, in my opinion.
Well, it quite well known that gluten creates several problems for SOME people. That's quite a different argument from the over generalization you did at the GP.

It's indeed something to keep in mind, but the good news is that it's easy to test for.
Ha, that bugged me a little too. I love being underwater so much because of the sensory deprivation :-)
Your's is the perfect use case for the site. Pity you cannot take the job. Thanks for commenting. It is very encouraging
Papyrus

/shudders
This swamp is the origin of author William Gibson's handle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/greatdismal
> I might be wrong, but before, an order from the Police was usually sufficient to block a website

Not really. There is an elaborate procedure to block a website [0]. The police can't decide it by themselves.

[0] http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/blocking-websi...
I get so sick of listening to people be so negative in the comments on this site. Can't you think of anything better to say than that it "sucks"
What's the correlation coefficient though? Attractiveness may only be weakly correlated with intelligence, in which case it isn't very meaningful.
Send an email asking your manager how they're doing, what interesting things are happening, and how you can help them with what they're doing. One short paragraph. No negative thoughts. No "hurt and licking my wounds" undertone. No "you've been ignoring me" or "I feel excluded". Just something with the general feeling of "hey, how are you holding up, hope you're doing fine, how may I help".

They may have forgotten about you. They may not be checking with you because your performance ratings are high and you don't require to be "managed" that much, and their attention is on someone who's having trouble performing their job. Heck, they may be having trouble or going through harsh times. You don't know.

I have seen this very dynamic happen when I was in contact with both the "boss" and the "contributor" who felt the "boss" was mad at them and shunning them and didn't want to talk with them but I had first hand factual knowlege that none of this was true. I gave the same remark as the above. The "boss" was happy to receive the email, and the contributor was relieved to find out that all their thoughts were unfounded.

Now, I'm not telling you that your boss is not ignoring you; that is a possibility, after all. I'm telling you that there's a high chance it's not the case.

You are a seasoned contributor and it's not lost on you that managing your manager is something you ought to do.

>My guess is that, he wants to promote his favorites and he wants me to leave on my own. How do I handle this situation?

>I know that the most common advice would be, speak to him. I am not considering it. Because it might turn out to be a false alarm I would be assigned a module which I am not interested in.

This is a dangerous vicious circle: assuming the manager has bad intentions, being aware of the most common advice, which is the most common for a reason, and not wanting to speak with the manager.

You'll go into overdrive for nothing as the work life balance is very good, and your performance is high. You will waste this.
I don’t think he should be so casually demonized. He’s just the same as any of us and he’s got the mother of all tigers by the tail, anyone with a shred of moral fibre and a sense of self preservation wouldn’t let go until they’d tamed it or killed it.
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If you have hardly any experience, how can you be confident in your belief that "product agility is a huge asset early on"?
FWIW, the editor they use, at least on the web, seems to be https://github.com/quilljs/quill.

I'm guessing Slack implemented something a-la https://github.com/patleeman/quill-markdown-shortcuts, but not very well...

In general the model of allowing separate positions for cursor inside vs outside a span is a huge improvements over WYSIWYG assigning "sticky formatting" to characters.
(Hat tip to TeXmacs which was maybe first time I've met that UI pattern.)
But you have to do it consistently. E.g. end of literal block has separate inside/outside but start doesn't.

(Of course, in source editing, it comes for free – formatting is delimited by characters like * or ` and cursor is clearly before or after the delimeter.)

----

I believe there is a saner middle ground — formatting as syntax highlighting. You're still editing the source, no hidden state, just immediate in-place feedback.
(Nowdays some call this "WYSIWYM" though it's not exactly same)
Examples:
https://stackedit.io/, https://codemirror.net/demo/variableheight.html,
https://simplemde.com/,
https://laobubu.net/HyperMD (the latter is borderline, hides too many formatting chars IMHO, but does reveal them when you move cursor to edit.)
> I don't believe there are any situations where people are better off when a third party eliminates economic opportunities for them.

This is just hyperbolic. This would throw out all labor laws, safety laws, worker protections, unemployment benefits, and child labor laws.
Yeah, I'm aware of that, but I'm not terribly serious about this being a viable business and I want that to come across. I made this because I wanted something like it, and I'm opening it up to people to use with me, with the understanding that it's not meant to be a Real Business(TM).

If it super blows up and has the potential to put food on the table, I might reconsider, but I don't think it's ever going to be more than a small group of happy users.
20 minute commute instead of 2 hours. I thought I can deal with the business model issues in exchange for that, it turned out I could not.
This is something that could happen in Dutch, as we have one word for both.
As an engineering approach to generating power, thermopiles are considered differently today than in the 1970's due to environmental and health risks associated with plutonium and the probability of a launch failure.
The article reminded me of this classic story of geek-love between Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan as they were creating the "gold record" that is traveling on both Voyagers.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1235348...
Texty only supports Android phones right now.
That 2.2mil number is most certainly only a small subset. 77 million total accounts, but only 2.2 attached to a card?

Doesn't sound right to me.
here is a review by Louis Gray:

http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/03/texty-texts-from-google-ch...
Another Suggestion:
I like the interface, but iCal sync and/or having it printable with checkboxes, etc. would be really helpful to get it OFF the computer (or cell phone interface, jQuery mobile, etc).
I like how you currently implement the add to day interface, keep up the good work!
Plutonium 238 which powers the thermopiles has a half-life of about 87 years and many of their instruments are no longer in operation, so the remaining mission scope is an issue of power management.
I used delicious years ago, but only for the bookmark syncing. I switched to foxmarks when it started, then eventually the built in sync of firefox and chrome. Never cared about the social aspect of it all.
Agreed - In california, a lot (most?) of the gun ranges will not let you go by yourself, you need to have a buddy. Now, obviously there is zero ability for a bystander to prevent you from doing something harmful with a firearm, should you chose to do so, but the mere presence of someone else, radically reduces the chance that you will do so.
Some people like java.
I don't store my master password anywhere or execute this generator on a device that I don't own. The main problem with fully random passwords is that I need to carry my encrypted volume around with me everywhere, and also worry about backing it up.

Yeah I realize it is being capped at 72 bits -- the main reason is that I've seen a bunch of websites that don't allow passwords longer than 18-20 characters or so. :-/
Okay, how do I import bookmarks from delicious? The "Import bookmarks" option allows only importing from a file and I haven't find anything in help about importing from various sources.
When did a blank wall of brushed aluminum cabinets become accepted as aesthetically pleasing outside of banker's penthouses in Manhattan? What are you planning on doing, killing a hooker in there?
People assume that democrats are more interested in campaign finance reform because most serious attempts to reform campaign finance laws have been spearheaded by Democrats and opposed by establishment Republicans. Every senator who voted against McCain-Feingold was a Republican, and many prominent Republicans and conservative organizations (Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich, Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute) approved of the Citizens United decision.

Every politician does whatever they can within the rules (and then some) to get elected, but some want to change the rules because, for example, banning corporate donations would probably hurt Republicans more than Democrats.
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We're currently hiring for the following roles:

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Instead of asking for donations of money, could you ask companies to work pro bono / donate resources. I.e. biols the computational biologist (top comment) could donate Friday afternoons to research. Pharma/biotech companies could use this as marketing to improve their image.
This is irrational. I encourage everyone eligible to protect themselves by getting vaccinated, but vaccinated people also spread the virus.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
As JoshTriplett said above, Rust's Clippy does this today: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/#suspicious_a...
Lots of people have wanted this for ages. I managed to cope with spindle replace and resize into new space (larger spindles) but being able to add more discrete devices and get more parity coverage and more space (I may be incorrectly assuming you get better redundancy as well) is great.
If you block sunlight, you will negatively effect food production, tree growth etc. I don't think it will have the positive effect you think it will.
https://wire.com/en/
And it blurs the line between programming and art. As if there needs to be any line at all.
Far more interested in the announced Dell XPS 13 with the edge-to-edge display rather than some random mac rumor right now :) That 12 inch Samsung looks pretty nice too.
No, I have degree in power supply systems engineering and power electronics. My e-mail is ya.na.pochte@gmail.com and skype is vladimir.ignatyev. Follow me on Twitter: @v_ignatyev
I do a lot of retweets about tech and entrepreneurship, following up trending topics.
E-ink is what made Amazon a device company. Copying the Yota phone seems like it would have been a better bet then going with the 3D gimmick. Yota has a really interesting product but hasn't really gained support due to a few issues (there isn't really Android SDK support for e-ink screens) that Amazon could have easily solved.
When this was on the front page last time, I pointed out that they charge fees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6906374

> They appear to charge TAF and other regulatory fees (https://brokerage-static.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/robinhood/l...) -- and based on the fee numbers it looks like they don't have significant volume -- but the website shows "FEES $0" in the app screen. The fees may not seem to be a lot, but saying that fees are zero is a factually incorrect statement.

I'm glad they fixed their homepage, but the table in the article (http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/screensh...) is wrong.
The future work section of the readme (https://github.com/atom/vim-mode#future-work-in-rough-order) lists some really basic stuff, so it's definitely not there yet.
I'm sorry dude :(. You are part of a forgotten demographic.
They are still the best service around for the customer (maybe lyft too).
Or you could apply to NERSC and hop on the Cray XC30. It was actually "free" for a while to use.
First you should spend some time to understand how code runs on a computer. I'm talking about the process and thread model.

If you're in python, for example, python the executable is typically compiled code, running as a process. It reads your code as input and based on that, operates the system. It's able to call already compiled/linked C code. Many of python's data structures are implemented in C. It's not possible to dynamically run javascript code using the python executable itself.

You need to have some process running some program which can interpret/compile/run your other code. That could be the same process from your native code, or a different one. If it's a different one, you can use some form of interprocess communication to call/retrieve the output of the execution of the other code.