jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've looked at Mesos briefly, but it seems completely JVM-based, and that you're not prepared to build your whole stack around the current Java stack (Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Kafka, Zookeeper etc.), Mesos has zero utility. Is this accurate?

As someone working on scaling microservices, I keep being disappointed by potentially useful services that turn out to require a JVM-based language such as Java or Scala. For example, Kafka looks very decent, but the high-level client is written in Java; if you're not on the JVM, you're stuck implementing a lot of the client yourself. As far as I know (from the last time I looked at this stuff), the Zookeeper client is similar, whereas Spark and Storm both require that you write processing code on the JVM, and libhdfs is apparently still JNI-based, not native.

For someone using Docker, is there anything competing with Mesos that isn't wedded to Javaland?
[...] some experiments can't be done from within the box [...]

Only true if the box is not everything.
In our defense, they keep adding new EU countries. But no, we're not in all of them yet. We're in 13 EU countries, Norway, and Switzerland: https://stripe.com/global
I spent 6 years outside the USA from 2008-2013.

I highly recommend everyone do this. Spend several years in Europe or South America (the places I went.)

You will quickly come to see-- I expect-- just how much of the media inside the USA is propaganda.

Everything from Law & Order to the nightly news is mostly pro-government propaganda. (Supporting our politburo type government, not a dictatorship, but in the past 100 years the one party has won every single election.)

But you gotta get outside the bubble to really see it.
>That's why single women were called "spinsters" - spinning thread was their primary job.

Quite a revelation for me. Very interesting read.
Wow, I see I'm going to have to break this down Barney style in order to reach you:

The silly argument that started this all off was that you have to be an expert in every field in order to examine complex systems or problems that span multiple domains. This is simply not true, because a complex idea depends upon simpler ideas. These ideas can be formalized, where scientific theory occurs at the edge nodes and verification occurs at well connected nodes. This would allow an individual to select a layer of abstraction to work on - not unlike software development.

This isn't very far off from the present system of scientific journals and peer review.
Rebuilding those dynamic libraries requires external build system and compiler invocation. In Lisp you just use the REPL.
I'm not sure but it seems my point has been lost in the way.

DOS is a real mode OS. Windows 95 is a protected mode. Windows 3 was some kind of dumbed-down protected mode that 286 had. Actually I believe it could work in different modes.

The distinction is pretty important. Windows 95, that needed a 386 minimum, was a true protected mode system, with virtual memory and pre-emptive multitasking. It would be absurd to call it "a DOS program" just because you could launch it from the DOS prompt.

So the same can be said of Windows 3. It changed processor mode, not so radically as 95, but enough to exit real mode... calling it "just a DOS program" is simply wrong.
In the USA, not buying a few packs of cigarettes can save you enough money to buy a whole month's worth of rice and beans. I've seen quite a few "poor people" at the supermarket using government funded EBT cards to pay $3 for a 10 ounce bag of potato chips (in addition to buying a whole bunch of other expensive, unhealthy crap).

Now if you're talking outside the USA, then yes, there are plenty of "truly poor". And our government doesn't help. E.g. we mandate using huge percentages of our corn crop to make Ethanol as a gasoline additive. That drives up the cost of basic staples like corn in Mexico.

There are many truly poor people around the world. There are very few of them in the USA, unless it's because of mental health issues or because of voluntary lifestyle choices.
Specifically: http://www.crackle.com/c/kidnapped?cmpid=3529&utm_medium=660...

WTF?

Good thing that we run NoScript ;)

Is that the lesson of the day?
> Source?

try saying "where can I read more about this topic" if you are interested in the topic, instead of "source?"

since "source?" has come to mean an adversarial relationship even if you aren't trying to discredit the person that had not left a source yet. it commonly appears where someone's worldview is not the same and is not willing to accept new information whether a source was provided later or not.

for now "source?" means "I'm not interested in what you have to say and will waste your time"

and "where can I read more about this topic" means "please provide canonical sources so I can learn more", ironically
I'm a native speaker and it confused me to.
If I make $50k, I mean I am taking home $50k
If I've revenue of $50k, I am taking home less than $50k
What's the average effective tax rate for high-net-worth+ individuals if unrealized capital gains are included as income? It seems like people get an increasing level of control over their taxes as their networth increases. Choosing when to exercise options means you have some control over AMT. If you invest in indices, it looks like direct indexing has a lot of tax benefits over an index fund. You can get variable and fixed rate loans against your investment accounts.

It's not a good idea for tax minimization to be the main goal of your investment strategy, but it seems like people can get access to a large portion of their investments without actually realizing capital gains.
Gold can be confiscated and actually has been in the past. Also, it's easy to lose. I personally feel gold has less value than a globally distributed proof of work and value store. Saying that, at what point did I say you should buy gold instead? By all means, hold both BTC and precious metals as a part of a well diversified portfolio.

Maybe there are better decentralized currencies (that's a matter of opinion) but there were better operating systems than Windows. It's about mindshare.

Honestly, just look at BTC's performance over the last 10 years. It has been the #1 asset class by far.
>It's impossible that Tesla is 3X the market cap of Toyota Why they didn't stop buying of Tesla the same way they stopped GME is criminal.

GME wasn't stopped because it was too overpriced. A few brokerages stopped accepting new GME positions because they couldn't afford the deposit requirements. That's it. If you went with another broker (eg. fidelity), you could buy all the GME you want.
This is my first time hearing about H2, what's the benefit of H2 over sqlite?
All I know is the two vacuums we have. Both have absolutely exceeded expectations. The first was a wedding present in 2005, and it still works GREAT -- we only bought the 2nd (a cordless model) to avoid lugging the big one up and down stair so much.

I absolutely would buy another Dyson if either of these failed or broke, no question. We're super happy with them.
> It would be worth wasting a few doses here and there if it greatly decreases the level of corruption in the system.

While reasonable in isolation, I would suggest that this view doesn't account for the extreme scarcity of the vaccine, and the stretched healthcare resources. I mean, while I work 300 feet from our hospital and our vaccine stockpiles, it was quicker to travel to the neighboring county with a lower caseload. As someone who still experienced close to 4 hours standing in line in total & driving over a 100 miles, the situation is pretty dire. Ironically, NY state has been extremely boneheaded in vaccine delivery policy. They didn't allow hospital networks any leniency is how vaccines are administered, but punished them for slow rollout. In the initial two weeks or so, NY state mandated that only COVID ward staff, emergency & delivery staff should be vaccinated. We were done with them in a couple of days, but the state wouldn't allow the rest of medical staff to be vaccinated. It was a ridiculous situation - we had thousands of medical staff waiting & ready to get vaccinated, we had the resources, and we had the vaccine - but the state would not update their policy. By the time they did in mid January, we were already facing the post Christmas & New Year related travel surge in cases and didn't have staff to spare for vaccination. According to me, hospitals/counties should have been allowed to move further down the priority list as and when they had the capacity to do so, rather than requiring the governor to allow it. Instead, we had ridiculous situations like 30% utilization of stocks.

> If they really wanted to they could of course come up with an efficient, low corruption system but they don’t seem terribly organized in the first place.

Agreed, but what's the options available to the last mile staff, like the nurse who opened the vial, or the doctor in question?
video does not explain how exactly payment split would occur. My understanding is, its easy to calculate how much each person owns, but thats easy part. hard part is to split the bill on n credit cards...
I would imagine they will be importing most of the talent -- either from Portland, (inter)nationally, or at least from Bend or Eugene or Corvallis. My guess is that it really is the taxes + land costs + electricity costs + environment (cool high desert is great for evap cooling). Also Oregon has good business taxes, if high income tax. Finally, there is good skiing nearby at Bachelor, nearby Redmond has a great airport, etc.
I've been reading eloquent advocacy of FP for over a decade now but significant real-world applications written in FP langs are still very thin on the ground. It's clear that FP languages are good research vehicles and teaching tools but the burden of proof of their general suitability lies squarely on the shoulders of the advocates at this point.

Five years ago people were telling me Haskell was the greatest thing since sliced bread but now more often than not people discuss the tradeoffs of its design, much like most other languages.
Photoshop's vector tools are advanced enough that it's fine for creating professional logos if that's the only tool you have access to

That said, this is not a helpful tutorial.
We don't use credit cards. The primary payer records the split and everyone else sends a free peer-to-peer transfer. It can be done through the app or the web.
Presumably if said judges worked in a coffee shop making and serving coffee, that coffee shop would not all of the sudden become a federal court?
I was there doing some geology this May, and one of the AK geol. survey guys mentioned that the previous summer, some of his colleagues were working directly across the fjord on the hillside on a clear, sunny day. A snowstorm sprang up pretty suddenly and they got stranded for several days. IIRC one of them had a little deployable shelter but the other had to hide under some boulders.

As a side note, Whittier has a huge tsunami risk, not from typical undersea earthquakes but because the mountainside on the north side of Whittier Sound is unstable and some very big blocks of rock (100s of m) are slowly breaking off from the bedrock. If (when) these fall, they could create a pretty massive wave that could devastate the town. [1]

[1]: http://137.229.113.30/webpubs/dggs/ri/text/ri2011_007a.pdf

edit: added tsunami info
In the circumstances that might be a generous explanation for their ID enumerable non rate limited API going down.
Is minimum wage a living wage?

$7.25 * 44 hours per week * 51 weeks per year is still only 15,950 US$

That's gross, not net.

I'm not convinced that people would pay extra even if they didn't have to tip to a company that paid a living wage but charged more.
Not at all! I haven't worked there so can't speak to their development process, though what I can gather from their public talks is that the way they build AI is among the most advanced/professional.
Thats because they employ more people. Just because 100 people in an area make $20/hr at UPS for example doesn't mean that amazon can't find people willing to accept $15/hr.
What worries me is that soon we won't be able to monitor this anymore because these devices won't be dependent on a customer-supplied internet connection anymore. Instead, they'll all have cellular connectivity and we'll have no idea what is being sent, to whom and why.

And I fear that there will be no device manufacturers in the same price range left that don't include this feature. Similar to how Smart TV's are cheaper than dumb displays of identical specs.
To add to this part: "My main epiphany was that realtime applications do not exist. Rather they cannot exist."

Most of us think our applications are realtime (never mind the OS schduling cpu time for your code, so inherently not realtime) but this is only because it behaves as expected, while there is not too much load nor too much data. The moment you start having significant computational load or start having too much data (aka the cpu, memory or storage starts choking), or when you start to split data apart (aka distributed applications) then the problems with "realtime" applications starts to become obvious.

If something goes wrong, to fix the immediate problems would be to retry/rerun the simulation, but that might result in duplicating your intents, which results in the simulation and its state as invalid. Then you either (hopefully) have some mechanism to de-duplicate whatever happened more than once or you have to start you simulation from scratch after fixing the data manually.

Or just design the core of the system with Idempotency in-mind from the start so you have a good way to handle such scenarios. Embrace that most things can/should be handled in a eventually-consistent way. Very few things in life has to happen RIGHT NOW (good luck with that).

An interesting spin on realtime systems are computer games, where we refresh a view of the simulation every few milliseconds (aka 60fps). Every frame gets rendered based on the inputs (keyboard/mouse)from just-after the previous frame. So in effect, the current frame being drawn is just a reaction based on previous inputs. So let me ask you this: in a game engine like this, where would you assign the value of "now"? Right after the previous frame? When capturing user input? When rendering the new frame starts? When showing the new frame but before capturing the new inputs? Where is reality's "now" moment in a computer game? Let's ignore the delays between keyboard/mouse input and drawing from CPU/GPU to the physical screen and lets assume this is a single player FPS and not a multiplayer turn-based game. And lets ignore sound processing too - just think of the simplest of game loops - should we consider them as realtime? Ponder that.
You are agreeing to what I said. If China had 5nm why would they need to upgrade to be able to help?
Don't use Gnome and you have all these issues with the GUI fixed.
Which Diamond/Rio player was a better product than the iPod at the time it was taking over (~2001)? Apple certainly had good marketing with those multi-coloured dancing adverts ... but the product itself was pretty great.
My question was about how "tar xvzf" should be called "untar".

Your reply might still make sense (i.e. untar could automagically figure it out), but I was highlighting how tar/untar today also means (de)compressing that tar archive using many different compression formats.
16,000 accounts, Yikes.

How can consumers trust products or services when the lines between legit and blatantly fraudulent have become so blurred today?
Apple had DRM at that time and required special software to use.

Rio worked with anything and had no DRM. Any Rio was superior to all early iPods.
And then Texas would refer to slavery as the "triangular trade system" see here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-re...
Exactly. It's not about being faster than other Javascript engines, it's about compiling down to Machine code, and being way faster than all the other scripting languages.

Unless you use Java, C, C++, etc you would do better with Node.js
"Guys, don't panic - our schools are great, as long as you're white!"

If they're failing to educate a large number of students, they're not working as intended.
Where are the OpenACS communities at?

One of the most frustrating things of the new job is only finding articles/posts/whatever from 10 years ago.
Thats not what he concludes. It's "as long as your parents are educated".
I am not trying to draw any conclusions. Just exploring what the data seems to support.

Another alternative (mentioned on otr-dev) is an implementation which uses a low quality rng feeding the ECDH might result in some messages being recoverable and others not.

An attack on CTR would indeed be pretty fundamental. Though some of the other documents appeared to support some level of cryptanalysis capability against some implementations of at least some symmetric ciphers.
Is there any correlation between population obesity and local temperature distribution? That is, are Alaskans generally thinner than Hawaiians and Swedish people thinner than Tunisians (correcting for other factors to the extent that is possible)?
I'd made myself homeless to move on from a place I didn't want to be.

I didn't really see the point in staying in a new place I didn't want to be (sitting on a street).

I chose to walk cities, talk to people, hitchhike around the UK, and generally see if I could find a life and place I did want.

It also means I avoided getting into a rhythm of hostels, soup kitchens, and charity.

I know I was homeless and sleeping rough, but at the time I didn't view it like that. At the time I just viewed myself as a nomad, wandering around with a backpack containing some library books for company.
here's another i read some time ago

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf

i don't know how he gets paid to write these. perhaps as class clown for the fine folks at microsoft research? in any case, very amusing.
One normally does not turn off OTR in the middle of a conversation.
Folks, what is this doing here?
I thought people may be interested in this update. I started LLVM Weekly on the first Monday of 2014, and have somehow managed to get it sent out every Monday since. As of today's issue, I've managed to complete it for every Monday of 2014. If you haven't read an issue before, this week's isn't very representative - it's been a very quiet week in terms of LLVM development due to the holidays.

When I started it off, I had in mind 250 subscribers as the amount that would make it feel worthwhile to me. I decided to try to publicise it with the second issue and posted to HN and /r/programming: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051572 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1v4lbi/llvm_wee.... From memory, this led to the number of subscriptions quickly rising to ~800 or so. It's hard to tell the actual number of readers given that some are subscribed directly, some read via llvmweekly.org rss, some read on the LLVM blog, and some will just read the mails on llvm-dev. There are ~2k direct subscribers to the email and feedly tells me there are ~140 people subscribed to the llvm weekly RSS and ~2k to the LLVM blog, plus there are ~1500 followers of @llvmweekly. This is all peanuts compared to your average Ruby/Python/Javascript newsletter, but of course it's a niche topic.

I'm planning to continue through 2015. It's a fair investment in time to prepare each week, but as I use LLVM/Clang in my research it is at least useful to keep on top of development. If you have any suggestions on improvements, please do share.
I think a problem that bugs me a lot is how I see lots of people wanting to do lots of cool things, but they lack the appropriate guidance. We do that on a day-to-day basis, but what about the other folks out there who don't know about this place?

Usually forums, IRC, blogs help in getting immersed with anything, but I have a feeling that a startup with the primary purpose of "Enlightening" its users has yet to come.

edit: Basically what I'm shooting for is: how to get rid of the crappy forums and allow a truly easy and fun way to go about learning new things.

People go to college to learn about how things should be, but not how they are. Waste of time and money, sometimes.
That's really amazing. What was her title? Was this supposed to be a programming professor? How can anybody who purports to be teaching the practicalities of software construction require you to use the wrong tool? Blackboard has terrible handling of file uploads... as of fairly recently two users couldn't two different files with the same name.
Ah, I think you misunderstood my point. I was specifically saying that getting health insurance was important- even if you have enough money to cover the cost generally. I mentioned insurance negotiation to emphasis that there were outside factors contributing to making it must-have.
>Apparently PHP is now verbose enough that people feel the need to write code templates for it

It isn't though. PHP is many things but overly verbose isn't one of them * . Although there does seem to be a drive by some developers to make PHP look and act as much like Java as possible. Maybe this comes from discomfort at PHP not being structured or strict enough out of the box for their liking. If you've only ever dealt with well-engineered languages which have a certain, coherent set of patterns and paradigms baked in, and which demand you write your code a certain way, and you approach PHP, you're going to have a problem.

I don't know why a tool like this would be useful, but it wouldn't be because of the language. PHP exposes its own token parser - you can generate PHP code with much less abstraction than this.

*classes like IteratorIterator aside...
I should point out, that EU has standardised driving licence education. So despite Denmark having almost no tunnels (no mountains to speak of), we still have to learn about tunnel driving. And that's good.

These tests also include driving at a facility.

However, the EU requirements are minimum requirements, countries are allowed to make the requirements tougher, such as Finland (which I think requires at least 3 days at a facility).
Britain discurages driving, sweden makes roads safer. There both going to reduce fatalities, but britain ed:(approach) can't really make much progress without removing cars from the road where Sweden can make things safer and still use cars.
Excellent and well said.