jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Seymour Cray and Control Data were really something.
In the 1960s, Control Data was very much a hot stock.

Yes, later the Control Data SMDs (storage module
drives) were good units and quite popular in the
industry.

While I was working my wife and myself
through our Ph.D. degrees, I was doing
applied math on some military systems analysis
work but also served as system administrator
for a Prime super-mini computer (basically
a version of Multics). We started with
one of the 80 MB SMDs but later got
a 300 MB version. Later as a B-school
prof, I proposed a Prime, and we got
one with two of the SMD drives.

There at the B-school, from my proposal,
at one point there was a shootout
in front of my dean between me and
the campus CIO:
The CIO didn't want us to get
our own computer and wanted
to claim that the SMD drives
needed computer room air conditioning.

I'd contacted Control Data to see if
we might buy the SMDs directly from
them, and they'd sent me their official
engineering specs which I happened to
bring to the shoot out. There I
quoted the specs to show that
simple comfort A/C would be fine
in both temperature control and
humidity control. The CIO claimed
Control Data, Prime, and I were wrong.
I explained that while in grad
school we'd used no A/C at all
until summer when the room
got a little warm for people;
then we hung an A/C evaporator
unit off the ceiling with the
compressor and condenser
unit on the roof;
the SMD drives were happy
all along.

The Prime lasted for 15 years,
well into when PCs were better.

The 300 MB SMD drives seemed
amazing. The unit weighed
some hundreds of pounds.
Now can get 3 TB or so
in a 3.5" package -- amazing,
one of the most amazing
rates of improvement in all
of history.

The paper has some okay content.
It also has some flat statements
about how VC works now: No
technical risk. Maybe some
market risk but not much.

My approach doesn't fly:

(1) Pick a big problem, one where
the first good or much better solution
will, clearly, obviously, no doubt,
be a must-have for enough
people and earnings per person to
eliminate market risk,
achieve product-market fit right
away, and be financially successful.

The extreme case, but in biomedical,
would be a safe, effective, cheap
one pill cure taken once for any
cancer.

(2)
Then, for that problem, use technology
to get the needed first good or much better
solution. There, for
information technology, get an
applied math solution where the
theorems and proofs can be checked.
This solution is evaluated just
on paper, that is, before any
software is written or, usually,
before spending any big bucks.

Then the rest of the project should be
low risk and high payoff from
just routine work.

(1) and (2) have been, for 70+
years, very effective in
a huge range of astounding
projects for the US DoD
and, for much longer,
much like how some of the best
applied math, applied science,
and engineering have been
done for 100+ years.

But for this approach, it is necessary
to be able to evaluate (1) and (2)
essentially just on paper, and
somehow VCs don't want to do this.

So be it! The flip side of that
situation can be an opportunity!
I came for the free beer but stayed for the physics lessons.
Here's a video of the ball in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVwhVz_y8m0

The ice press sells for $700 to $1,100, depending on the size. http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/cirrus-ice-ball-pres...
I don't know for sure but the transcripts are so good and for a show like TAL I imagine that they could probably have someone do them by hand.
Would be nice to see a decent webinterface hosted nowhere by zeronet [1] serving torrent magnet links of individual books or small collections.

That way a free library of public domain books could be hosted without server costs by the people for the people.
Not yet, as there was a bit of an argument in the HTTP/2 WG about that.

I may suggest a SHOULD NOT again, however.
So, just about anyone in West with a secure retirement and a house.
Whoa, I did not know all that. Very interesting. Thanks!
If you place your hands on a normal keyboard and move your right hand three keys to the right does that feel split enough for you? If so, you might like one of those big 5x15 orthos:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=99065.msg2733725#msg273...

You can do whatever you'd like with those three blank columns in the center.
Yep, I was reading his "Gondor heavy infantry kit review" last night, and almost quoted it in my last comment as to why the Mongols could produce such an effective fighting force and subsequent societies couldn't: "every army is a battlefield instantiation of the society that created it."
No-ads sunglasses. We have a winner here.
Edit: or place your content over the ads, AR-style. Almost thinkable with today's technology.
All the wealthy / educated / WFH parents are still going to homeschool or set up alternative remote education options for their children instead of letting them go six months without education. It's not like Amazon employees are gonna say "oh wow, I guess school is out for equity reasons, better let my kid play video games instead of learning."

So all this will accomplish is ensuring that only the wealthiest 30% of students get educated, instead of the 90+% with internet access.
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Our stack is mostly in Python & React, and we're in AWS. We're growing rapidly while being profitable, and there are plenty of opportunities to leave a mark in the company.

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I'd say by any definition of "We can at least all agree on a definition" that I'd accept, we can either all agree on the definition of both or neither.

If both, we're discussing this in a context that prefers practicality and meaningful discourse. If neither, we're discussing in a context that prefers pedantry and academic hogwash. Otherwise, if one but not the other, maybe we're getting the worst of both worlds ️
Not sure where you're getting 2 weeks pay from. Many in the professional class will lose their jobs in a contracting market (there will be losers), and finding a new job will take much more than 2 weeks. In the mean time, there's still rent/mortgage to pay amongst other expenses. Not everyone keeps a lot of cash liquid.

There's also a difference between selling some stocks and liquidating your portfolio. It's not all one or the other.
The numerous* stories that I have read recently about medical professionals writing themselves prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine so that they can have it available for themselves and their families suggests to me that the French trial is not the only reason to be hopeful about hydroxychloroquine's efficacy against COVID-19.

Sure, medical professionals are not necessarily any kind of super-rational savants, but I think it's unlikely that all of the medical professionals who are trying to hoard hydroxychloroquine are being irrational hysterics. They might be engaging in ethically questionable acts by hoarding hydroxychloroquine, but that doesn't mean that they don't know what they're doing from a self-preservation standpoint.

That said, it's not that I think they are necessarily trying to hoard hydroxychloroquine because they are convinced that it works - it's probably more that they want it on hand in case it turns out that it works. However, some of them may also have directly seen it help people, or may have heard or read about it helping.

Given that hydroxychloroquine has already been used for, as I understand it, weeks in treating people ill with COVID-19, I am actually surprised that there is not more anecdotal evidence about its efficacy. But I probably have just not been reading in the right places.

*Edit: I probably shouldn't have said "numerous stories", since "numerous" implies more than the number that I actually have seen.
dat:// can give you that.
What is the principle exactly? Is that established in just one Supreme Court ruling? So can that simply overturned by a new one?
We're using it in a soft-realtime setting to monitor industrial chlorine production, and for us it has been a very pleasant experience overall. Yes, we've had some issues, but similar to other ecosystem IMO, and our support contract with Julia computing helped us in the one case we really couldn't solve ourselves.

Julia works really well for power users. There are no huge libraries full of C code like pandas or scipy. Instead there are dozens of small, well-tested packages that fill the same role, all hosted on github. That makes fixing issues so much easier.

Granted: outside of numerical/technical computing, the libraries can be lacking (eg. web development) compared to other languages. We're doing it anyway, but it's a more difficult decision.
Not really sure what your question means, but originally CS for "code segment", DS for "data segment" and SS for "stack segment" had distinct use cases. They weren't general purpose segment registers at all. ES was an "extra" data segment register. When FS and GS were added later the alphabetical ordering of CS, DS, ES, FS, GS was natural (with SS still being the odd one out).
> All dead patients were tested and they were positive

Good to hear. Is there an official statement on that?

> Also, there is no guessing game as to who is affected by the virus.

In what sense do you mean? No guessing about what?
I think they're pointing out that some people who got afflicted with Corona virus cannot be completely attributed to the virus alone. There may be underlying conditions which contributed more that caused the demise of the person.
It only takes to blunt competition's resolve to make them drop from the race for the bleeding edge, and they will never close the gap again.

They will have to throw staggering amount of cash to close the gap of multiple <14nm nodes, but there will be no Qualcomms, Apples and AMDs to pay them for that if they are few years late.

In fact, even sub-40nm nodes are already a barren ground without much clients left. Those who still hang onto 22nm, 14nm only do legacy products, and they will inevitably move on, leaving 22 and 14 only fabs without much business.

Both 22 and 14 still require extremely costly mask sets, high cycle times, and large MOQs. Need very different equipment from 40nm+. And they can't support analog, embedded flash, power, ulp devices as good as 40nm+, which makes them unattractive to microcontroller makers.

For 99% of companies in semi industry, the scaling ended at 40nm.

That's cold hard truth to it.
If you spread 50,000 cars over the surface of the planet, how much of the Earth's surface do you think would be blocked from view by the ISS? Because we have millions of cars scattered all across the Earth and from space, you can't even tell they're there.

>how long

I'd say at least until there are more satellites than cars. In other words, not gonna happen.
Here you go: https://www.librarything.com/lost_something.php
Which non-capitalist countries have handled it better?
I have public health insurance, but if you need some better treatment you can always pay for it by yourself. Some minor surgery for 300€ isn’t big deal. Or one can get additional insurance packages to mandatory insurance for all the special needs. My all older colleagues tell me, that private insurance is kind of scam. You pay almost nothing when you are young, but with age it costs more and more. You pay for kids on top and barely get better treatment than regular insured.
truly talented writer, not really the kind of guy who should be held up as a moral teacher. had a long-term pattern of sleeping with his students. committed serious domestic violence against one of his partners.

this wasn't well-known at the time this speech was given, or after he killed himself and the speech became hugely popular. It seems like it still isn't.

I think there's some kind of minimum bar where you shouldn't take spiritual and moral advice from somebody.
We're really talking about the same thing.

The only way to enforce p2p is to forbid servers, it's too useful to have specialized software running somewhere with a fixed IP address, DNS, and fat fiber. Even the most successful p2p protocols, bitcoin and bittorrent, are pretty server-heavy in practice.

That said, I want my version control to contain, locally, everything relevant to software development, and use some sort of pub/sub model to propagate my changes. Here, a server is helpful: gives a fixed domain, a canonical place to retrieve the repo, and so on and so forth.

But it should be more like Fossil, where everything is stored locally and you can spin up your own localhost to access the GUI through the browser. Fossil is too monolithic, I reluctantly had to abandon it on that basis, but it points in the correct direction IMHO.

And if the hub is down, as long as peers and backups haven't changed IP addresses since the last time we communicated, I don't see why work couldn't continue.
Ive used Simple on and off since the beta. Customer service was always top notch. One time they had a few hours downtime and they just gave me $50 for the nuisance. Didnt ask, just suddenly gave me $50.

Also, their reps were also very good at gif communication. Id never before interacted with a company’s support team through multiple gifs.
Interviews and letters of application might seem like a good idea, but on closer inspection it isn't. As you could expect, an industry of "consultants" has emerged, helping rich kids get into Ivy League schools, by interview training and "helping them" write letters of application (i.e. writing it for them). So the grass doesn't seem much greener.

Perhaps the best system would be a combination of anonymized grades/scores combined with anonymized interviews?
I actually think this is why: http://vip.wordpress.com/hosting/ and it has already happened a couple times
I think Signal should not marry a single crypto-currency, or intermediary.

Add the feature, but come up with a solution that is currency agnostic.
It's probably THE most worthwhile subscription. I also pay for the WSJ, but the Economist blows it away.

It's fact and evidence based and strongly avoids emotionally charged language and bias. That's not to say it's perfect. It's just closer to perfect than any other media source out there.
> all the planning, negotiating, syncing, communication & meetings stuff overflows into the engineers themselves

That is traditionally done by managers, but it doesn't actually need to be handled someone who is anyone's boss in particular. It's handleable, often with less overall effort, by people who are at the same level as every other team member on the org chart. The whole boss/report dynamic tends to inhibit clear communication, because circumspect people tend to to communicate less-than-candidly with those who hold the power to advance or inhibit their career progress.
Obviously you don't fight if you can avoid it. 2 of the 4 sentences in my post were about that, I dunno where you got off thinking I'm hyper aggressive and need a lecture about violence not solving anything.

If you're in a situation where you think you have to fight, yes, you sucker punch the guy while he's leaning into you yelling stuff, hit him again if he's still on his feet, and then get the hell out of there. You don't read articles about how to win a boxing match. The comments about kicking were mostly a joke on the article.
I've been on a TN 3 times (don't ask) and it's always been as an Engineer, i.e. Software Engineer.
Heh. I'm just saying, for people who do train in martial arts, it's hard to say how well a technique works for someone completely untrained.

I like to parry someone's punch and either Deashi Harai or if they come in to tackle, darce them. That doesn't help most people though.

Maybe it's better to say don't get in fights, but if you're worried about getting in fights, train martial arts, and even then, don't get in fights. :-)
You dilute the enzymes in your stomach, making them less effective. This is a good way to get fetid gas in your lower intestine and colon.
Is it just me or should she have started this with the "So let me say this now: Monica I am so sorry for any harm I caused you." line?

It read like:

-excuse
-excuse
-excuse
-excuse
-excuse
-sorry
-excuse
-excuse
-excuse
Reread my original post. I said that the Kinect could bring innovation in other areas (beyond the Xbox), which in turn could sell more media center PCs, for example. I imagine that without the drivers, the Kinect would have remained a game controller novelty at best. I didn't intend to imply that the drivers would sell more Kinects or Xboxes.
I'd love to find some rigorous way to measure it, but (as of six months or so ago) when I sat with two phones, held down a button, and waited for a tone to come out the other end, the delay was observably longer with a GV-to-GV call than with a GV-to-cell call, which took longer than cell-to-cell.

I find myself saying "no, go ahead" or talking over the other person far more often with GV than not. It's certainly usable, but I avoid GV if the call quality really matters.
I actually thought the thesis was pretty interesting, it seems to be:

"Unlike most large Web companies that built their businesses on cutting costs out of an industry and eliminating middlemen, OpenTable has managed to do the exact opposite. It has created a new middleman."
You equate "teaching language" with "research language." You believe that a language with rigid syntax, static typing, and built-in OO would obscure the core ideas of computer science. Fine. You believe that. I'm sure you grasp that others, especially the list of people mentioned in the post, do not share your views.

So, what we have here is that you have certain beliefs about what makes a language suitable for teaching and what makes a language suitable for industry, and on the basis of your views, you do not believe that the same language would be suitable for both purposes. I accept logically that your conclusions are compatible with your beliefs.

I don't understand your last sentence. It seems to be some sort of axe grinding, as I certainly don't recall saying anything about industry programmers being ignorant or stupid.

So all together, I can't think of anything new to add to this thread. I feel like a foil used for you to set up and demolish your own arguments.
also you can find some references/links in this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1586027
I have an in-law who works in the Grand Rapids area for sourceforge. He telecommutes. If you limit the scope of this discussion to exclude telecommuting then your right. However, thats not your only option.
chival-what?
I take badly formatted code as a sign of sloppiness on the part of the author, and this usually comes through in more than just the formatting. This saves me the time to actually read the code.
It's very simple. If you don't want the music you created to be available free of charge, don't release it!

It's absolutely your choice. If you want to keep control of it, keep it private.

But once you (by your own choice) make it available, don't be shocked or surprised if people share it without sending you money for every copy.

The system we have for paying artists is clearly broken. It has been for a very long time. The digital revolution is just putting the final nails in the coffin.

But even before filesharing on the internet, artists were getting screwed left and right, and very very few could make a living creating art.

Now it's clearer than ever that we have to find some other ways to compensate artists for the work they do. Some suggestions that I've heard along these lines are:

- Put a PayPal (or choose your favorite non-evil payment system) icon
prominently on your home page and ask for donations.

- Release your music for free, but ask for money
so that you can work on your next album. Don't release
your next album until you've gotten enough of a payment
to make it worthwhile. If you're good and have developed
a large enough fan base, this should be quite
a reasonable business model.

- Give away the music for free, but charge for
live appearances (make money touring).

- Make it clear to your fans that you are giving away
your music for free, but need them to chip in by buying
tangible merchandise like t-shirts.

Ok. None of these are perfect. And they all work best when the artist is already well known and has a large fan base. But relatively unknown artists have always struggled to get by, and filesharing does not change that equation.

At least with all of the suggested payment methods above, the artist gets to keep a lion's share of the profit, instead of begging for pennies on the dollar when going through the established record company system.
The technology and industry has changed indeed. I wanted to emphasize how man used to treat bee as a companion - nowadays however we seem to disregard its share in getting us to where we are. We used to fight to keep them alive.
One concern is if neighboring states differed too much there would be incentive to exploit the system. We already see issues with purchasing cigarettes in low tax states and smuggling and selling them in higher tax states. States would effectively be have to have the same system its most permissive neighbor does since geography makes it so easy for illicit enterprisers to smuggle in those benefits.

Possible solutions are to coordinate neighboring state activities or to increase enforcement but each of those has its own set of problems.
The main reason is that no one really thought of that, kudos (and upvoted) ;-)

However, while that method would work for a simple Ruby script, it's basically useless in the context of a Rails app, or any other framework, as it will give you the total block depth within the framework. For instance, if you put that line inside a controller method in a Rails 3 app, you'll get a block depth of 10, without explicitly calling any block methods. This is usually not desirable, because we're not concerned with how many levels deep in the framework we are; we only want the block depth of our own code.

Now, obviously we could simply say:

caller.grep(/block in/).length - 10

...inside the controller method, but then it's vulnerable to changes in the framework, due to updates or whatever.

Also, this would not give us the flexibility to exclude certain methods from our depth tracking.

EDIT: Oh, and most importantly, because it then wouldn't be an exercise in exception-handling, thread-safety, and meta-programming, which was the real point of writing an article about it.
Value of an act of kindness is much like beauty as it is in the eye of the beholder.

For adoration of a female, one would want to calculate the liquid value she puts on the act - not what you deem the true value is. This is also known as "value based pricing." If one would calculate an act as not worth it, they could be potentially passing up a lucrative opportunity.

Put another way - think of it as the perceived value of cleaning up malware on your own computer, versus maybe what value your grandmother would place on such a task.

Well calculated chivalrous moments are always externally validated.

Go get 'em boys.