jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Actually it's being hyped that's weird. There are literally dozens of very interesting languages being created and developed right now and I bet you don't know of any of them. The only - and they are very few in comparison - languages which are being hyped since very early in their life cycle are the ones backed by corporations. Both Rust and Go are such languages and that's basically it.

"Normal" languages live on a different time scale: it takes many years to gather enough users to even have a chance of generating a bit of hype. For most languages that moment never comes: they are good, solid languages with decades of development behind them and completely obscure and unknown. Others become well-known in certain areas while still being unfamiliar for the "general public".

Take a look at Haxe, Opa, Elixir, Cobra or Io for example. They are all very interesting (each for its own reasons), mature and productive - and completely unknown. Out of those only Elixir gets mentioned here sometimes.

Anyway, a choice of language should never be based on "hype" alone. Of course, language popularity is an important factor, but most often limiting yourself to popular languages is a case of premature optimization: it's quite likely that in your project the language popularity won't make a difference (especially in small/short-lived projects) and that "raw" language features are more important than hype. (Of course that's not always the case: bigger or long-lived projects benefit from language popularity very much, for example by having easier time finding replacements for developers who went away and so on)
That's completely optional tho'; Milliband didn't pay a penny on the £1.5M house his "socialist" father left him.
Why doesn't my tunnel work in China?
Which makes Github the Moron Central. ;)
A lot of people on HN seem to be adverse to using these modal pop-ins. I'm curious to find out why people here hate them so much.

In practice, they can be very effective, almost shockingly effective, at increasing conversions. I know they can seem intrusive, but most commentary I see on them comes from a critical perspective, where the critic has zero intention of being a customer. I suspect the pop-ins may not be such a horrible experience for people who actually are prospective customers.
Not true, there are properties sold on a lease, but freeholds are very common. I own the land my house stands on in perpetuity.
I don't wish to degrade any new start-up, it's hard to make it out there but this one wasn't thought out or researched. People hate pop-ups. Really really hate pop-ups. Making an entire service based on the principle of serving pop-ups, for lack of a better word in my vocabulary, is idiotic. If you go around any given room and ask people, "When you are browsing a website do you like getting pop-ups? Say it's for a special offer for a whole 10% off! How about then?" I'm pretty sure the answer is going to be no and no.

Just for me personally if I get a pop-up on a website I'm more likely to go somewhere else, like to Amazon, where they don't give me pop-ups and already have my account information.
Of all the dark patterns on the web, this is possibly the most bullshit and annoying one of all. The one time I've been hit by something like this, it was a false positive (I was switching browsers to use lastpass for paypal), and it annoyed me enough to change my mind about buying.
lets hope they don't start passing laws like IR35 (targeted at some but not all self employed contractors in the uk)

Of course self employed lawyers and accountants don't get caught in IR35
I just wanted to say thank you for that link; I had always dreamed of using the oppressive heat to create an A/C system and now I know it's a real thing [plus, the adage about "no new ideas" is again confirmed].
I believe he's shutting it down as a political move. They're still going to use it to maintain Ruby compatibility and they'll still need to run it against MRI. It just isn't a standalone project now.
Man, this just lead me to tracking down and watching every Mathman segment I could find.

I watched Square One so much as a kid and it directly inspired my love of engineer and math.
Node.js + Express on the backend. React.js, Flux, Bootstrap on the frontend.
A few years ago, a veteran teacher told me his version:

1. Introduce a new test with an unfamiliar blend of questions, new style questions, etc. but don't give teachers extra time to actually receive updated textbooks, update their classes, etc.

2. Start giving the test to students immediately before they have any experience with the new format

3. Use the result low test scores as proof that things were really bad before

4. As everyone gains experience with the new system, attribute rising scores entirely to the brilliance of the new model. Give bonuses to district / state officials.

5. Once scores plateau at roughly the previous levels after a few years, start talking about repeating the process. At no point should you seriously consider tackling the structural problems preventing holding perennially under-performing groups back.
Yeah and a cabbie not giving full change is seen as 'tipping himself' rather than.. you know.. stealing?
> Get money out of politics.

How exactly do you propose to achieve that, though?

The problem is that political positions bestow power. People with money want that power, and I don't see how you can prevent them from using their money, directly or indirectly, to attain it.
we're (Australia) doing okay with the democracy thing, no explicit freedom of speech.

Plus, it depends if you define speech as "giving money to someone"
"(3) cases in which the technology is used in public places or other locations at which the FBI deems there is no reasonable expectation of privacy."

How could they ensure people not in public places would not be targeted? Or do they just mean that as long as the system is deployed in a public place they can do whatever they want.

So if they make something that can see through walls into every room of your house, it is OK as long as it is deployed somewhere public like a utility pole...
> Were there people moving in to replace the deceased?

The population has varied considerably over the years. It looks like it's somewhat lower than when I lived there. In a lot of ways, Whittier is not a nice place to live, so people where always moving away, but it had certain appeals that always drew new people in as well.

> The brief article mentions a Sheriff and I assume there may or may not be a deputy also. It also mentions a pot bust. What happens to people arreste?

This is a bit of a change from when I lived there. Back then, there was a separate building that housed the police department (not sheriffs), the fire department and a court room. A judge would come through once a month or so. That building is gone from Google Maps now though, so it must have burned down or collapsed under a heavy snow load or something (that happens). Any serious crimes would be sent off to Anchorage. I would imagine that is how it still works.

> I imagine since everyone knows everyone, the police would know anyone they arrest (and their family) quite well.

Probably? We all pretty much knew who was an alcoholic, or who beat their wife. There seemed to be plenty of petty theft and vandalism to go around. I still wanna know who stole my Big Wheel!
Waiters in the US make an average of $4.63 and median of $4.00 per hour [1] from their employer in wages. They make the rest of their income in tips. If you don't tip, you're potentially taking a not insignificant chunk out of their pay for the day.

In the US, it takes fairly extreme circumstances to not tip (by most people's standards at least; some people just never tip, but they're a tiny group), like if the service was extremely bad or the waiter was insulting or hostile.

Employers are legally required to chip in if the employee doesn't make minimum wage for a pay period, so it's not completely insane, but it's still a rather weird system.

[1] http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Waiter%2FWaitress/Ho...
The mac only stuff is a real turn-off. It might be informative to look at the website visitor statistics to see the piece of the pie you're missing.
See also above poster who feels 20% is not a high tip! To be fair most tipped workers do not make enough without tips and are allowed to be paid well under the minimum wage if they work in a tipping industry, so by not tipping at all you are really screwing them over.
> According to the bug tracker the plan is to run an experiment

There's a bug on file suggesting an experiment. Whether there is a plan to actually run one is another matter. (I don't know the answer; just wanted to point out that issues in bugzilla are not by themselves evidence of product plans.)
The single dose has been shown to provide good protection in the short term, so the 60% number is more relevant than the 8% one. Although percentage of total population rather than adult population would probably be a more accurate representation.
Police absolutely do not have to read your Miranda rights in order to arrest you -- they only need to read your rights if they plan to question you with regards to a criminal investigation and they would like to use your statements as evidence in a court of law.
Document everything in excruciating detail - I go so far as to record all the commands I run; and when complete o destroy the machine and start again (or use a separate system) and verify that I accurately recorded every step.

You can add additional text about why you did certain things - and then store the data in a wiki or checked into git or similar so you can find it when you need it.
Counterpoint: Facebook is taking your invested money and doing terrible things with it. Why fund that?
makes a lot of sense to me. if you sue someone for "bad ratings" as you mentioned, you likely have no case and incur court expanses, including penalty for wasting time... but at least you have that option for when you really have a case.
Hmm I'm kinda concerned that someone might be spying on me :)

But yes, I saw both your comments and "sometimes it does it for no reason" is still scary to me.
In this case I agree with you, but in general not.

Mits altair, The Apple I? Cool technology.
ICQ? Just for kids. Automobiles - toys only for the rich.

Lots of neato stuff grow up to be serious business. It's usually best not to bet against finding a useful purpose.
For the love of God, why don't people understand yet that healthcare systems are not ready to be over-run by the sheer number of patients in the worst case? That the death rate of just the virus is not a good indicator of potential casualties with an over-burdened healthcare network? That even if that wasn't true, that the preventable deaths of people due to incompetent governance and leadership are still a cause for concern?

I see this sentiment, this statistic, and this comment several times, every day. And I see it debunked several times, every day. Why do people keep saying this?
Which is basically zero. They do that just fine without telemetry. GA is ubiquitous.
Thank you.

Prior to this (a few months ago), I noticed that I was overeating just to maintain the feeling of being full/stuffed. I knew that was unhealthy, but I just wanted to feel good because I was going through probably the highest-stress time of my life.

Luckily things are much better now. Even with this virus going around, I should be pretty well off.

On this new attempt, the only time the hunger seems to become annoying is in the late evening. My solution: go to bed. I can't be hungry if I'm asleep, and when I wake up, I can eat my first meal.

It's going to take some mental adjustments, but I think I'll be able to adjust to not noticing minor hunger and not desiring the feeling of being full.
How many people does your situation apply to? Personally, I prefer having a landlord take care of appliances over the freedom to make my own changes.
no. the reason it hasn’t happened is because a) it’s very very hard (ie even harder) to detect click fraud. and b) you can’t track the user.
Hopefully that’s not what Dropbox is hanging it’s hat on - one point release of iOS 13.
Isn’t reasonable to expect that a tool made to send you email newsletters requires you to give them and verify your email address?
> duck typing is a misnomer because it doesn't involve ...

dang, the joke was so close
I can and have bought a Coke Zero in that amount of time by using self-checkouts with Apple Pay in Sweden (specifically the ones at Pressbyrån and 7-Eleven). Walk in, grab bottle, scan and press pay, Apple Pay Touch ID, a few seconds for the transaction to approve, and I'm out of the store.
That seems like an odd statement, considering that to participate in WeWork, employees got paid, customers got subsidized, and investors (Saudis, I guess) got charged vast amounts to no benefit for them. Nothing about it suggests valuing investors, but the opposite.
So, client just wants the hard drive. Doesnt want it encrypted. So...whatever
You keep making definitive statements. Are you saying that you can keep using React Native if your patent rights are waived? That'd only be the case of those patents don't exist - but even then Facebook is stockpiling patents related to everything connected with social networks.

Also, they'll likely be patenting whatever they can out of this technology, whether it's valid or not, you'd have to fight any action that Facebook holds against you - in the meantime invalidating everything, allowing Facebook to sue you for violating potentially dozens of patents; most everyone can't afford a lawsuit.

Facebook open sourcing all of these things is purely a power play, and not trying to contribute to the developer community. The power that this is going to allow Facebook to leverage in the future could get really nasty - it's why Google isn't using any of it.
This is also a great tool to play around with / construct regexes: http://regex101.com/
> I'd set up a write-only logging system to be used for auditing company systems

I bet Marc Karpeles had 5 people calling him at once that the trading engine was down again so THAT's where he put is efforts... He didn't get any calls from people saying "By the way, I hope you have robust auditing procedures."

Like some people live paycheck to paycheck, I'm betting the MtGox guys were living from critical bug report to critical bug report, without time for "luxuries" like "atomicity" or "database auditing"

(Let me say up front I am in no way intending for my comments to be a defense of the behavior of these criminals.)
Add to that salt on the roads in the winter and salt spray from the ocean in the summer.
but those are just general - nothing you mentioned is specific to nyc.
Facebook is doing video very good and very quiet. We're getting more views on a native videpost in facebook with less likes than from youtube with more subscribers. Part of this is because of the auto-play in the newsfeed.
I am trying to find out if archive.org is still being blocked or not, as we are hearing conflicting reports from users.

I queried the Indian DNS servers on this list that are marked 'valid' or 'new': http://public-dns.tk/nameserver/in.html

Only one of them (182.59.1.235, operated by MTNL ISP) returned the fake IP being used for blocked sites (59.185.3.14). The other 1843 servers returned the correct IP.

I am trying to figure out if that means archive.org has been removed from the block list, or if the DNS servers listed on that page haven't yet been updated with the blocked sites.

If anyone can help us figure out if archive.org is still blocked, it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks! -raj at archive.org
This chart can't be right. It takes 12.6 seconds to render the Wordpress home page?

http://i.imgur.com/k6Bq9Yz.png
I think most of this is covered by the python rule of thumb "explicit is better than implicit". I have a particularly stubborn cohort who loves nothing better than doing what I call "cargo trains" of combining list comprehensions and "." into sometime 7 or 8+ connected items in one liners. It is ridiculous. I have actually set calendar reminders to go ask him what these trains do after a couple of months between when he wrote the code and $TODAY. It never fails that he'll "get back with me". About an hour later I'll get an explanation via email :) . It never teaches him anything though.
Yea this terminology is borrowed from the OSI model for networking, with which you're likely familiar. It originally was used as just an analogy, but has increasingly just become the way the space describes (and markets) the different protocol layers of cryptocurrencies generally.
It is a problem on windows too. I've seem various devices that simply stopped working when you updated from win9x to XP, from XP to 7 from 7 to ...

Proprietary drivers are a problem wherever they exist.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm with you on not enjoying loss of access to my hardware and getting further and further away from the metal. But also, we gotta make a living and pay the bills... it's a competitive disadvantage with online services to be using more expensive to run instances.

In my experience and testing Rust lang is lagging a bit with ARM support. It's not that the language doesn't have good support (it does, it's great and very easy to cross compile), it's that the ecosystem around rust is _very_ x86 focused. Like I saw a simple JSON parsing library decided it would be cool to add SSE and SIMD support and now it doesn't work well on ARM (which has a totally different set of SIMD extensions). I have a strong suspicion your rust projects depend on libs with similar issues--but be ready because once those libs support similar optimizations for ARM, it's going to be super fast.
It would cost approximately $216 million to do full lead remediation in Flint, Michigan.

That's about 1.1% of the net worth of Jeff Bezos.

I indicate this not to imply that Jeff Bezos should be solely responsible for fixing the Flint water supply, but rather to indicate that the resources are there, the problems are there, and what we lack is the will to move resources to fix public problems (be that via taxation or charity). Even problems we know will carry a larger cost moving forward... Flint is a town with a population of nearly 100,000, and a high-lead environment can basically guarantee higher costs in education, health problem remediation, and possibly crime.
and fixed again, looks like I'm unable to write in an input box today...

regarding the title: what you said :-)
Hmm, this sounds remarkably like a possible DoS vector.
echo `curl http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/golang-is-trash/ | html2text | wc -w` words of seething envy
It is normal for governments to treat defense personnel like soldier ants. The reasons for this date back hundreds of millions of years.
... which is funny, because the gregorian calendar is supposedly based on a compromise between some years that christ was supposedly born in (the chosen year 1 is none of those, according to research, as he was born in 6-4 BC [0]).

So now we have: another calendar, that has a starting year that is defined by subtracting an arbitrary number from a compromise between alledged years some person was born in.

I love how humanity has the capability to invent new things with increasing complexity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini#Birth_date_of_Jesu...
I think you wanted to place this in Show HN?
At best this is incomplete.

Most humans talk about (month, date) tuples. US dates are big endian and written mm/dd. 12/25, 10/1, 2/28. They are elegant and compact and visually sort in the correct way eleven times out of twelve (11/12.)

Short UK dates are spoken as “Jan 9th” “8th of March” and written as such, or sometimes “Feb 9”. I find them very less pleasing.

Longer UK dates in Guardian format are prettier: 3 Jan 2022.

US dates inevitably have to be unambiguous about years. This is indeed unwieldy because a slashed triple — 3/4/22 — is used in the UK too. (The slashed pair is uncommon so it’s clear that 3/4 is an American date.)

Anything technical should indeed use ISO, but if you have an audience in a single locale it’s important to know your audience and localize (localise) accordingly.
> Now to see the insanity of the A-->B-->C-->D-->D-->E-->F setup: how can I lend you a chair, it goes from hand to hand from A to F, and at the same time I still have it on my patio?

You don't. Nobody claims you do, not even in the short-selling situation you're trying to describe; you can't vote a share that you've lent out.

> Stocks used to be pieces of papers. In the goold old days, in the end of the day people were spending hours moving papers "stocks" around from your account to my account (literally, papers)

This didn't change; it's just that, under US law, you can no longer own any stock. (Well, more specifically, you can't own stock that you buy on a stock exchange.) Instead, there is a company that exists solely for the purpose of owning all the stock and registering your interest in it. When you sell a stock to someone else, DTCC owns that stock before and after you sell it; what changes is that their internal records may or may not update the name under which that stock is registered.

There's a fun paper here ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1017206 ) going over the history:

> Congress, in the 1975 Securities Acts Amendments, took the extremely unusual step of legally imposing a single technique for settlement on the markets. The effect on securities settlement was somewhat comparable the effects of a law that would require all computers plugged into the internet to run on DOS.
The alternate I like to use on forms and such when I know it's likely going to be read by a human is "DD Mon YYYY", e.g.

1 Feb 2021

This is a bit more human-readable and closer to commonly-used forms of dates while still being completely unambiguous.
My favorite thing about YAML is that I can put JSON in there instead and most programs will work just fine.
I think I need to labor on my point a bit more.

There are many use cases for dates. From publication date to planning vacation on a calendar. What is the most common use for a date? Calendar, I guess? The most frequently used dates we encounter are within +/- weeks from now. In a day to day use, YYYY is useless.
If you have a Golden or Labrador retriever you can hunt for ducks and the retriever will go retrieve them for you. But I think you have to train the retriever first. Most people find it easier to just play fetch.
Maybe this guy is a Javascript Ninja but he doesn't know the first thing about colors.

Terrible readability, just horrid.

Edit: This sounds really mean. I usually don't criticize the design of stuff posted on HN but on the top of the page he claims to be a 'web interface ninja'. That's really pompous. But he designs this?
FWIW bro I enjoy that you are building something so ambitious and making progress despite the unwarranted hate. I have no idea why you bring out so many visceral trolls.

Can someone share why this guy and vlang are so hated? It seems like he is ironing out the kinks even years after the hate keeps piling on.

He keeps this up he's going to win.
Yes there was an extract in NYT comparting the issues with baby formula in 2008 China with 1850s New York

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/opinion/30wilson.html
I never said wine tasting was junk, but there is plenty of baloney in the reddit post. The worst part is the claim the author is not a scientist, merely an academic doing a study. Was his white coat missing? He did not attend Science University?

I also posted that the author is a wine maker, so it's clear he doesn't view the wine world as junk. My take away from it is that there's a lot going on in our head based on the input from the senses, that things are not black and white, and that it's difficult to rate things objectively because of it. And that this is completely fine, since we are humans and not machines, and if you can taste black currants in a wine and this makes you happy, knock yourself out.