jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you fuck up in a way that costs your department money, you get yelled at... even in the government. Each government department is not given full access to all of the money that the government has available; they have a budget, and that's all they get. If the budget is spent being sued for incompetence, that comes right out of your raise. In theory.
Six year later, XAML didn't replace the old GUI's and is now on its deathbed...
>In tracking the sensors on each of the phones, we observed that the GPS in Nexus S could function up to altitudes of about 60,000 ft. and would actually start working again on the balloon’s descent. ... Maximum Speed: 139 mph

The unit shut itself off passing 600 at low speed, which is more restrictive than required. The rule is receivers that work above 60,000ft and 1000kt require export licenses as munitions (http://www.armscontrol.org/documents/mtcr), but there's no reason a phone's civilian-grade (unrestricted) receiver shouldn't work up high at that low forward speed. I suppose the most conservative possible interpretation keeps companies safe.
That is seriously embarrassing, but the attitude of "OMG there is no way to fix it!" makes me appreciate the rates that qualified consultants charge.

It is in no way an impossible problem to limit it by physical size if it's being printed in a standard format, but apparently it seems that way to some.
The primary group benefiting, far more than the capitalist class, are the H1B holders. It has a larger impact on each individual and impacts far more individuals.
Which can create nice issues, especially because stuff like Java is limited to UCS-2...
sure everyone is an employee of some kind to someone. The real difference is the level risk/reward you're willing to accept for your employment.
I'm sorry to re-use a reddit meme, but in this thread, as well as the previous one: you can read about american developers arguing about why they should be the only one to have access to the most lucrative market for developers worldwide.

It is pretty clear to most intelligent observers that:

a) there is a low-end-market of mostly indian consulting companies abusing the H1B program. It would be very easy to stop this. My suggestion: set a H1B worker minimum salary of 120% of the average salary for existing native workers.

b) The US, and the US companies wanting to employ the best software developers would benefit by getting the whole world as recruiting ground.

c) Individual developers outside of the US wanting to work in silicon valley would benefit

d) Not very good US developers in silicon valley, currently getting big salaries could be at risk.

e) The rest of the world would not benefit by the brain drain this would cause.
You hit the nail on the head. Objects in OO shouldn't be a projection of the problem domain, they're a way to structure the program (there's some overlap, of course).

Many people seem to get this wrong, probably in part due to introductory examples doing it wrong.
He writes javascript so he can scroll his website an inch when you click the down arrow
Does this guy write his own copy? He sounds pretty full of himself. He has a right to be after making these things, but still.
You (and everyone else) are of course right. I remembered the wrong thing, what I said doesn't apply to that method in Java. What does apply is that there are lots of subtleties in generating random numbers, and there's rarely a reason to re-invent the wheel. There's a good example of how subtle pseudorandomness is in the Java documentation, so I will link that instead of embarrassing myself further: http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/R...
the pixel-art should probably be resized a bit more nicely (no quadratic magic n' the such), instead of a blurred mess
"I don't think we should feel obligated to suffer through their pathology"

Some people seem to like following these type of undoubting & uncompromising leaders.
Interesting that they are pretty much abandoning their massive lead on casual gaming (which is a way bigger market than hardcore gamers). My parents enjoy playing Wii, but I don't see them buying/playing a console with 4 extra screens.

Sounds like a gimmick to this guy. I have a feeling Microsoft and Sony are giddy as hell because Nintendo is about to drop the ball.
I don't think he was claiming that Go is more fun for humans because computers are worse than humans at it. The statement was: "computationally interesting problem". I think he was thinking in terms of the challenge it posed to computing science, not whether or not humans found it enjoyable to play. But he also does seem to enjoy Go for its social benefits.

4kyu player myself. I enjoy how Go allows for extremely complex play with far simpler rules.
A high resolution version of what the dreamcast had? Seems a bit odd to me.
Social media’s ability to spread fake news (both left and right wing) is equally dangerous as is their ability to suppress real news that counters their own corporate agendas.
Numpy was quite difficult to get working efficiently. J actually outperformed numpy pretty much any way I compiled it: https://github.com/vmchale/matrix-benchmarks, even doing basic stuff like multiplying two matrices.
Hope this helps: https://www.pcmaffey.com/finally-i-closed-my-linkedin
He already is: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/us/politics/trump-access-...
This. Someone has to be in OWNERS and it’s difficult to find people willing to do this because fixing breakage due to API changes isn’t going to be on anyone’s OKRs. And if it’s not on your OKRs, it’s not contributing to your promo.
chrome://flags/#password-leak-detection - same thing
We're talking about passwords, though, not the user name.
Worked for me - perhaps because I capitalised it as SimpleTip. Here's the message I sent him :>

Interesting that you gave Craig Thompson such a hard time over SimpleTip,
while having NO IDEA about how copyright works when applied to code.

Absolutely right about reputation, btw. If you want to be taken seriously
you should realize that showing your ability to be a pompous blowhard
is the worst kind of advertising you can have for yourself.
Is it wrong that before I even build one of these I'm more interested in making a robot that follows the glider around?
My personal journey started after I had a severe virus attacking my liver, this was the third time in my life that I had a liver disease and I was really ill, I was extremely tired and weak for a month at least with a very slow recovery after that.
I had hepatitis (I think it was A) at age 7, mononucleosis at age 21 and anonymous hepatitis at age 35. I am almost 40 now and don't want to be sick again when I'm 49...

I read a lot about raw food on the internet and tried it myself. I used to eat the SAD (Standard American Diet) even though I was born, grew up and still live in Israel.

4 years ago I switched to a vegan diet and a year and a half ago I started on a raw vegan diet.

The best diet for me personally is 811rv, this does not mean it is the right diet for everyone, but you should at least try it before dismissing it as rubbish. It is not a quick fix, it takes a lot of effort, mainly in the social pressure from close friends, family and the society in general. this idea is so alien that everyone will be against it. Think for yourself and research the subject. It can't hurt you to eat healthier, right?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away - its just not true! You need to make the apple the main course and eat many apples during the day.

Here are some pointers regarding nutrition:

nutridiary.com (free journal where you can log what you eat and it calculates the nutritional value of the food)

juicefeasting.com
http://juicefeasting.com/JuiceFeastingSpectrumIntro/Whatisth...

http://www.google.co.il/search?q=raw+fat+or+fruit

http://www.google.co.il/search?q=811rv
Boosting the Tx power of the router only solves half of the problem. Wifi connections are symmetric; the clients need to transmit back to the router, too. A bigger antenna (even home-brewed like this) boosts Tx and Rx capability, so it's a better solution.
The other end of the same game... An (unpowered) "toy" glider with just a hill and the wind to provide the energy, does 445mph! Thats over half the speed of sound, with no motor...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt1MBKXfV7s

Details in a thread in here: http://www.rcgroups.com/dynamic-soaring-126/
Contrast RMS who had no qualms whatsoever about accepting $1M from the MacArthur foundation and another $1M from the Takeda foundation. In fact, judging from his rhetoric on the economics of software, he seems to think that this is perfectly normal!
It's been "living." This is just an update, correct?
The point :

> A chance for the eyes to change focal range from the fixed distance of the shitty monitors work provides.

is followed by me daily. I have a cute nice wallpaper hanging behind my pc. Every say 10 minute, I change my vision to point to the wall-paper from regular pc vision.

After following this, I haven't faced any eye stress. Really helped me.

Anyone follows over here?
There are anesthetics specifically designed to blow through opiate blockers or tolerance. They, coincidentally, are also some of the most dangerous opiods to consume. Fentanyl is an example.

This question is also why it's important to have your prescriptions you're taking up to date with your emergency information / contact.
This is interesting but actually I haven’t understand how Cubbit can be decentralised without using a blockchain?
I ran the program and looked at my iPhone dump, and it is not that exact and I live in NYC. It truly appears to just tag position of towers. Where it shows the dots for me is not exact or even close positions most of the time, and even locations that I've never been to but the nearest tower I must've connected to.

Which is helpful for me since I've long suspected AT&T has a dearth of towers in my section of the UES, maybe I can get a microcell out of this, haha.
The original Xoogler blog was phenomenal, not only lots of informative content about the early days at Google but a great literary achievement. Each post was a veritable essay and well worth reading.

Sadly doesn't look like it has maintained the same signal to noise ratio over the past couple years.
You have completely misstated the problem with SimCity.

"I first heard about this from one of the developers of the hit game SimCity, who told me that there was a critical bug in his application: it used memory right after freeing it, a major no-no that happened to work OK on DOS but would not work under Windows"

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
What I find really interesting is the implication that such outage could have on Amazons business model. Specifically, what I would like to see is transparent complete application duplication to other regions & availability zones for certain customer configurations of particular sizes etc.

The application would be transparently mirrored to another region and if an even such as this occurs, the mirror would be spun up.

The Customer would choose the frequency of snapshot desired, and would pay for that.

Certain sites, with less dynamic content, would be mirrored and continue to operate as normal with minimal impact or cost.

Other sites, where the content creations is fairly real-time from its users, would pose more complex and costly mirroring situations (ala reddit).

But the option should be there.

Also, remember to think of the evolution of amazons services say, 24 months from now, where this type of offering will likely become more a reality.

As too many others have noted, it is best to not be 100% reliant on amazon for your entire services - but at this point in time its a little hard to spread the load between competing offerings to AWS/EC2 etc.
The zeitgeist is that the cloud equals redundacy yet that's not necessarily the case. You still need to prep for contingencies...
@revorad nice! We use chartbeat so we should have thought of using backtype (their Twitter stream app of choice). Definitely will see how well that fits into our next iteration.
Hey, quick question. How long did it take you to get set up with Chargify?
Being rich and being sick of working for others are different goals. Many people in my family "work for themselves." They are freelance artists and musicians and make almost no money. Another family member is in finance and as far as I can tell he is pretty rich by most measures.

If you really enjoy excel as much as you imply in one of your other posts perhaps getting into banking or trading would be a good way for you to become rich.
Interesting. We were thinking about popping up a lightbox for a new user to remind them if they didn't use the keys. Do you think that would be too intrusive?

We definitely considered doing that, the biggest question that we ran into was how to select the article. We thought we could get something random from the database, calculate it based on what your friends are interested in, or calculate it based on what's trending overall. Because we have been coding for a long time (it's 7 AM and we've been up all night for the 3rd straight night) we just decided to leave it with some instructions and worry about how to do that later. We'll definitely get on it right now, it's a great suggestion.
This seems quite similar to the FAWN project at CMU. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fawnproj/ The idea is similar: if IO is the bottleneck, instead of scaling up IO, scale down the CPU power.
GV is a fantastic program. I have hit problems because of the limitations on the number of times you're allowed to connect your cell phone number to GV. That being said, I think it's against their terms to use it for commercial use.

Check Grasshopper.com. I am not a customer of theirs.
I'm using one as a business line, but would not recommend it. There's a brief period of silence before connecting, which results in constant 'do you hear me' questions, and generally poor voice quality overall.

I like the attempts at transcription for voice mail, but find the voice mail difficult to configure otherwise. Sometimes I get messages on the ring-to phone, sometimes on GV. There's no way to set the number of rings before pick up.

I'm having a much better experience with standard VOIP numbers through Callcentric, to the point that I'm looking at trying to port out the Google Voice number. Has anyone had any success in porting a number out?
Agreed, but what Apple philanthropy believes and what the app store approval monkeys insist on are by no means congruent. ;)
Applying the same (Apple) rules to that image as has been to these panels I don't think anything would be censored.
I've heard of mail getting to well known people in Ireland with an address consisting of little more than their name and the town.

depending on how competantly this is managed :-) Is this a play on the "Qualaty Initiative" from Dilbert?
Six months ago you could have made the same claim about blowout preventers. Extremely rare catastrophic failures can cost a bundle. In many cases you may not even be aware of the risks or the potential costs before you first encounter them.

More nuclear power is the future, at least in the near term, but we should have the humility to admit we don't really understand all the risks and all the costs.
Unfortunately, the credit card companies seem to disagree :( Or at least that's the response my brick and mortar payment gateway has given me in the past for something like this :(

To get a decent rate for our salon, we had to project ridiculous revenue and pray that we came close to it to even get a reasonable rate.
installing on other computers in office ;)
A good C library implementing common data structures (lists, trees, hash tables, etc) is GLib:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/

It does many other things, provides abstractions for threads, files, etc. It is a general-purpose utility library originally written for GTK+. I never really understood why GLib is not more often used.
Or: an 85kWh battery could power a 13 watt CFL for 272 days. Or power every light in my house for 18 days.
I just replayed Space Quest 3. In the game, Roger Wilco visits ScumSoft, a dystopian software company. Check out the ScumSoft office layouts:

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/spacequest/sq3-15.png

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bp3Emd3jJVo/T7wcdqFTM_I/AAAAAAAAAu...

The layout is nice, notwithstanding the whipping.
> "Practical" is a code word people use to mean whatever is convenient for them or is on their agenda.

I don't see it as a "code word", I see it as it is defined: In practice, as opposed to in theory. And I don't have an agenda, I'm just making an observation.

> What you're really saying is that working against the development of surveillance and control technologies by private capital and government decision makers is hard and so is not "practical."

No, I'm not saying that at all; you're putting words in my mouth that I never uttered. I'm simply saying that in theory, fully Free and Open Source methodology is the best way to ensure that we live fully Free digital lives. In practice this is difficult (but not impossible) to achieve, and it certainly is worth striving for.

I'm not saying you don't have a valid viewpoint, but you don't have to make up your own version of what I said and attribute it to me to make your point. You can argue on your own merits and not resort to grade school tactics (at least I hope you can).
Absolutely agree. Some of my most productive periods in the last decade were when I was sharing an office with one other person, with closed doors. Problem with late work, much as I like it, is that it screws with family life :-/
Maybe my friends did have some sort of confirmation bias, I don't know. I would describe them as "pro" drug users though, definitely not the type to stigmatize drugs. Regardless, why would a rational person risk their body and mind, of which they only have one, on that assumption? Especially on a drug without a reliable source (assuming you are not a chemist) ...
Given amount of rockets of all types of quality that Jeb had been in, I think he developed quite a intuition for how a good rocket should be built. In particular this is not it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0JUMFXlOsU (No wonder Jeb did not pilot this one).
> I don't know anybody who redistributes source code as a single C file

SQLite pioneered this approach, called an Amalgamation. It offers some noticeable advantages:

https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html

It is gaining some followers:

https://github.com/vinniefalco/Amalgamate

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2719311/tool-to-create-an...

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-08/msg00594.html

> Usually people redistributing source code don't mind having several files bound together by some make|build script.

A single .c file is easier to integrate into various build systems. For example a Visual Studio project, or another Makefile without needing a separate script. It's just cleaner.

> Most people willing to get something redistributable prefer a binary static|dynamic library or final executable.

These aren't portable like a C source file is.
Do you have evidence that private offices do? I'd imagine that it's a hard question for which to construct a perfectly controlled experiment in the real world. The Cornell study is one of the better ones I've seen.
Well, I suppose it depends on what you're talking about. If you're talking about Tor hidden services, "Tor hidden services" seems like a pretty good alternative.

Yes, non-technical people don't know what this means, but they can learn. Non-technical people don't know what the "dark web" means either, but it sure sounds mysterious, and has the added danger that they often erroneously think they do, but have no idea what they're talking about.
Diving straight into a framework while learning the underlying system in parallel can teach you a lot about best practices and design patterns and so forth. Personally I'd say doing both is a good idea. Just make sure you learn the whys and hows for everything the framework is doing. You can vacuum up all the accumulated knowledge of the framework team.

Saying this, I have no real idea how abstracted react native is from normal IOS dev, so maybe it wouldn't be as helpful as, say, learning python and django at the same time.
I've used this pretty frequently and it was great. Nowadays the new testflight makes this obsolete for external testers, but is still useful for internal testers to quickly get their UDID.
Argh! I stand corrected. Apologies for the confusion.
I recall having bad experience with these things on (or via?) sourceforge. It's probably the main reason why sourceforge dropped to last resort for me.
>And rightly so. Frankly, I think the only reason PHP keeps floating on is the inertia it has. All the investment in tools, existing codebase and developer experience are what keep it going, not language merits.

Considering the alternatives PHP is not bad at all. It's not like Python or Ruby are some pinnacle of language design.

It's main BS is a polluted default namespace, incosistent function naming, and a few semantic inconsistencies. It's not like any other language doesn't have its share of BS.

Plus what it lacks (a proper AST etc) it's getting. It has been improving ever since 5.0, and fast. Including getting a vast speed increase with 7 that will leave Python and co in the dust.
Good if compilers are that smart nowadays. Just a few years ago I did see two branches in a very similar piece of code.
Dogs, while descendants of the gray wolf, have been domesticated for tens of thousands of years. Leading a nomadic life to satisfy one's needs is also vastly different from sudden and abrupt change of one's environment - and even the relatively smart Alsatians have trouble with this (but then again, they're extremely territorial).

I still don't get the joke, except perhaps the increasingly dumb number of ways in which one can anthropomorphise her pets.
To be fair, knowing the jargon and conventions is almost just as important as knowing how to solve problems.

If nothing else, in college, most of the problems will be posed in terms of standard jargon and conventions, so it helps to know it.
> I doubt it will be a block chain.

This.

If a central bank can’t make amendments the ledger, there’s no way they’ll adopt it.
It's a pyramid scheme of sorts. The graduates don't even get paid very well. If you succeed though, you can start a modest retirement at 40.
I like and use my new PI400 every day.
Still have several older versions mostly sat in a desk drawer.
The pace of innovation in the PI product line has been rapid;
I have no reason to use earlier slower less reliable versions.
And they don't have great resale value.
None of them went straight into the drawer; they all had their time to run and occasionally get involved in a project.
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Power lines are not put under ground in most of the world. Nobody wants to pay an order of magnitude more to hedge against occasional downsides in reality.