jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am 6'2 and I passionately hate people who keep their seat reclined for the entire duration of the flight. With the seat in front reclined it is impossible to eat the meal. It is also absolutely impossible to use a laptop. For this reason
I actually never recline myself, unless I have a child sitting behind me.
You should randomize the list when you display it, to make it more fair for people who sign up late.
Hehe... that doesn't sound so expensive actually (some kind of automatically-opening blinds or curtains on a schedule) and might help.

Edit: russell_h actually did something of the sort - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1409313
> He gets fellow inmates' respect

Of course he does. For them, it's like being in the same prison as Ernst Blofeld, Lex Luthor or Ludwig Von Siegfried.
Sorry, the “they” I was talking about was Ahold. I think Zappos probably chose the correct path. As a rapidly growing company they had fewer options.
Why is the "random()" function in libraries always not very random? Why do I always have to use some other function for more random stuff? Shouldn't the poor implimentation be called "fast_random()" or something similar?
If you think of the figure as lying in the x-y plane, then its projection onto one of the axes has the same length no matter the orientation of the figure. One nifty example of this is the Reuleaux triangle, which is related to the mechanics of rotary engines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuleaux_triangle
Russian villagers claimed to be older to skip military service (which was bad for farmers, as the sons had to serve for a long time), don't know how it would make sense for an Indonesian woman.
Oh. I have used absolutely astonishingly awful software.

The thing about awful software is: it usually has the opposite of network effects, nobody wants to use it, so people find work arounds.

In a few companies I have learned low level interactions with particular bits of software so that I don’t actually need to use the software directly.

In others I have reverse engineered the file formats of software so I can serialise and deserialise the contents of the proprietary file format.

But teams can’t be worked around, is expected to be used often (all day, really, for almost all communication) and has astonishing network effects.
I was on a train a few years back and the snack cart had to go cash-only when we were in cellular dead zones. I guess it depends on the operator's risk tolerance - you can't tell if a card is declined until the customer is long gone, but if the dead zones are big enough you'll get fewer sales because so many people don't carry cash anymore.
Of all the discussion of lambda calculus I've seen, this may be the most interesting bit. I've never really understood the purpose, not how to read it. This might actually encourage me to understand.
I think my comment was not really clear. Yes, the apparent mistake Alex made was glaring and obvious, but the entire operation was very weird. They shut down alphabay right before turning off The Hansa, which they had been operating for months at that point. It was the coup de grace, basically trying to get as many people to sign in to the Hansa before it also goes off.

To me that indicates they have been able to turn off alphabay for a long time, considering how easily and well timed they did it. That also means they have had tons of time to build the case. Of course you can argue that the simplest explanation is the best one but considering law enforcement literally operated the biggest DNM for months, completely under the radar I'm not sure why "they found an email he used for a few weeks 4 years ago" would be more simple.

You can read what DeSnake, another admin of the website had to say about the takedown. He's extremely security conscious (he hasn't been caught yet afaik which is another can of worms) and he's adamant that it was not a simple bust. Actually, the whole thing was kind of a mess, with some mods getting arrested (even without making obvious mistakes like Alex did ). You can read up on the confusion here:
https://www.darkowl.com/blog-content/alphabay-marketplace-re...

If I had to guess, some mod/admin informed on him (maybe even snake!) hence why they had access to an early email. But who knows? Now in cases like the silk road I'd agree that it was simply trash OPSEC but the Alphabay/Hansa takedown was so sophisticated that anything is possible
Not GP.

> I am providing my own project management software
If that's the case, I recommend changing your pitch from "Customize collaboration tools" to "Customizable collaboration tools"
I have been thinking what is the best way to solve inequality. There are two problems one is wealth creation and other is wealth distribution.
- Communism doesn't do a good job of wealth creation.
- Capitalism doesn't do a good job of wealth distribution and causes inequality.

-Increasing the taxes, only gives money to the government and my impression is they are not efficient in using money so overall the wealth of the society doesn't increase.

If we limit how much a rich person can hold in large companies as stock, will it force the rich people to invest in small companies? Now we will have a mechanism of spreading the wealth by the rich person who knows how to use money efficiently. However the rich person will still become richer, not sure yet how to solve it completely. Maybe inheritance law should be changed so that once the person dies all his wealth goes to the employees in some fashion.
On the subject of bloated executables, git on windows is epic - it's broken into something like 17 separate executables, 3.1mb each, over 500mb in total.
I'd think mostly similar. Goroutines are "stackful" coroutines, though, so their memory use will be higher. They have an interesting stack copying model, so I'm not sure if they require as many pages as POSIX threads do. (Having a "denser" memory space and no guard page requirement would mean you could use huge pages and thus have much less TLB pressure.)
I'm sure you didn't intend it but your comment comes off as a bit condescending (a good litmus test for that is checking how a comment like this would read if the author was an older, more experienced man). Setting appropriate work-life boundaries is a common issue now in the covid WFH era and something people at all levels are struggling with. I've found uninstalling Slack on my phone to be helpful in enforcing this.
> I think this is actually an interesting point because the US did lose the war but if the winner writes history, then why do so many think they won?

How common is that belief on a whole?

In Vietnam or China, it's common knowledge (and celebrated) that Vietnam won the war.

In the US, I can't imagine talking to someone over 40 that's unaware of how the war ended.
Very awesome project!!!
> But, as I understand it, Node is faster than JVM languages?

What is the source for that?
I have stated this in other comments, but I feel it is extremely important. There is no rational way to attribute this to simple human error, given the overwhelming evidence of how protests on much more irrelevant topics, moments and locations are normally treated by US police.

There can be no reasonable doubt that this was allowed to play out, with the few policemen stationed there being openly friendly with the crowd by some reports. The level where the decision to allow the protest to attack Congress was taken is of course up to the courts to investigate, but I feel it is disingenuous to claim that this isn't the most reasonable conclusion by far.
progress is being made though: https://github.com/roblox-linux-wrapper/roblox-linux-wrapper...

Thanks to Proton work, VMProtect hurdle has been passed and the new issue is in regards to the challenge packets that the game sends at start.
But isn't it the core Republican platform that business should be able to decide who they work for and how they conduct their business?

In essence there should simply be more printers, so that the King could get someone else to print his pamphlets.
> You cannot say whether it's fraud in favour of trump or in favour of Biden though.

This is true but to people who care about election integrity it shouldn't matter.
I find a single small size monitor to be superior.

I switched from a larger monitor to a smaller one with the same resolution and not having to turn my neck any more was rather pleasant.
The insurrectionists were there because they falsely believe the election was stolen, and half of that video was him saying "yep, you guys are correct". He's done this shit before where he vigorously fans the flames but then gives a half-assed concessionary call for peace that his followers know to ignore.

They were there in the first place because of his message
meanwhile: Dell Precision 7740 with 5 external monitors - 6 screens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrVjjQpzivQ
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When I work on my own I tend to do easy stuff more often than hard stuff.

So maybe because everyone likes TF2 and creating new content is easy, more teams tend to work on it.
Apple: it just works.
The missing part might have been Empathy.
I'm not innguest, but I'm curious, why is this downvoted so much? I get that the idea is somewhat impractical, but at least it's original and creative, surely the kind of idea we want to encourage.
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If I understand the objection here the problem isn't that the computer has the time wrong, it's that our understanding of time is wrong.

The computer still has the calendar entry at the right instant in time identified when the user input the entry.
If you look really closely at the noisy images, you can see little blotches that vaguely resemble the things the computer recognized them as.
After you mine rare earth minerals using energy from solar panels?

Simple perhaps but certainly not easy.
This article adds depth to concerns raised in this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9192154

It's important to recognize that private capital isn't simply "rich people playing with their own money". The lack of transparency and accountability in this sector is going to have negative consequences.
@spearchucker

"Intellectual currency" as you put it, is absolutely necessary on the frontier, along with tenacity and a willingness to put up with physical and mental hardship.

If there is a limit to the number of people who can flee a degraded earth, I see no problem limiting it to people who can work together and yield their intellect in service of survival. I'm almost positive that I would be one of the ones left behind on Earth so this isn't some sort of personal superiority complex.

I also think it's entirely appropriate for those who have benefited disproportionately from the degradation of a system to use their extensive resources in direct service to fix the problem.

Ultimately I'd like to believe that all persons interested in "escape" could be accommodated but I also think most of us would have to remain and deal with or fix the degradation.
Anybody can throw some crap together and make it stick. And it's a perfectly valid solution.

My issue is when there is criticism laid against those solutions which are actually engineered in a way that allows for supportability and extensibility. They are arguably far more important than execution time.
Not there at all (slower than the Pascal equivalent, limited to fairly simple games, and uses some C), but nevertheless interesting is http://cleangl.sourceforge.net/thesis/CGL.pdf, which describes a game library in Concurrent Clean.

(reading http://clean.cs.ru.nl and looking at the archives of the mailing list may give the impression the project died at the end of 2011, but http://clean.cs.ru.nl/Download_Clean has binaries from November 2014)
Yes, as I've already mentioned it deserves more thought than just two sentences when you're trying to sell the idea that nuclear weapons are not deterrents to large scale wars. So far modern history has already disproved Hasegawa's opinion. Ever since the advent of global ballistic weapons, we have yet had another major world war besides conflicts here and there. They have kept the peace.
You can fly a drone from your nice safe office which doesn't need to be anywhere near the war. No need for AI, though that is already used for the easy parts. For exactly the reasons you state.
Did the article say these condemned men were volunteers?

Also, given this was done by a pope, what were their crimes? Apostasy? Blasphemy? Homosexuality?
That seems normal to me? I'm well-past the teenage years, and I wouldn't commit to a weekend activity without double-checking with the rest of my family first.
You are conflating price and quality. If there are two top level people equally good one will undercut the other. And if one lives in Bangalore and the other in SF the first will undercut massively. SF living expenses are an exception on a global market place.
> There are ways to deal with missiles, but none are maneuvers by the target.

Countermeasures combined with maneuvers to break lock and prevent reacquisition is, as far as I know, still doctrine because it has a high enough probability of success to be useful (and to be worth equipping planes for).
This is the underlying energy behind NIMBY.

Cities have many stakeholders. Residents, sure. But also businesses, workers, the homeless, the environment.

And there are tons of tradeoffs. Maybe by rezoning and not mandating single family homes, the increased population density will improve access to transit and services. It's not necessarily as cut and dried as "Rezoning is negatively perceived by current residents, therefore don't do it".
> If voting is mandatory there's no situation in which a majority decision is actually suboptimal, unless you believe that a minority should somehow be able to override a majority.

What if the majority make a law saying "anyone gay or black is to be executed"?

Or "anyone with more than $1 million in assets should pay a 90% tax rate"?

Or "wildfire prevention, nuclear power plant inspection, SEC regulation, should all be defunded in favor of a federal football team with free bread at the stadium"? Maybe it takes 10-20 years for huge-impact consequences to be felt, and in the meantime you get free bread.
No way interested and running an equivalent business with much less overhead and faster growing customer interest with higher returns, has nothing to do with crime or incompetence or imperfection
Awesome! Would you say that QML is mostly interesting for mobile/convergent apps or is it something that you'd use for a normal desktop app as well?
> Wish we’d all agree to one templated configuration format.

If you mean a standard configuration file format, that has almost never happened in the entire history of computing. There are standard data formats, sure, but to standardize a configuration file, all the applications need to be limited to the functionality expressed in a single config file format. Most applications hate that, because they want to add infinite features, and none want to wait to standardize some new version of a config file in order to release their features. (If they release before the config file changes happen, now you have a vendor-specific extension, which means waving goodbye to standardization)

The following are the only configuration file formats I am aware of that have been standardized:

- bind zone configuration
- inittab

Crontab isn't standard because different crons have different features. passwd, group, shadow, etc aren't standard configurations because they are actually databases. And anything else which goes over the wire instead of a file is a protocol, not a configuration.

Now, it's still not a bad idea to have standardization. The trick is to make it so they can change their configuration, but still be compatible with each other, and the general way to do that is to abstract the configuration elements via schemas. That way you can have the same basic functionality for each app, but they can define it however they want so that it can be re-mapped or interpreted by a different program.

However, that is in no way simple for a regular user to use. So to convince app developers to have a "standard configuration format", you need to reframe the value proposition. What's the value add? If you say it's just to a user can use one config file on many competing products, the developers won't care about what, because they want you to use their product, not be able to move to another one. If instead you reframe it as "extensible language for integrating and composing multiple independent pieces of software/functionality into one distributed system", then their ears might perk a bit. Basically, reformulate the proposed solution as a language to compose programs, like Unix pipes, but slightly more verbose/abstracted. The end result should be able to be read by any program supporting the config format, and "declaratively" (modern programmers love this ridiculous cargo cult) compose and execute distributed jobs across any system.
One of my favourite things about Python is that its integers are true integers: they do not overflow or wrap. In my opinion, this is the correct default for most programming languages (in fact, I would have gone a step further and made integer division return fractions rather than floats by default, as well). It removes so many problems (especially for beginners) since it is the way that integers work in the real world: for example x + 1 > x always, with no exceptions.

Of course for efficiency concerns, programmers should have access to fixed-width integers as well, but I think that true integers should be the default. It was also contemplated for Go [1], and was pointed out that true integers benefit from being a core language feature, since the compiler can perform a lot of SMI (SMall Integer) optimisations, which essentially use machine integers for small enough integers, before switching to a more complicated implementation. They also recognise that the biggest benefit to a bigint type is making it the default integer type.

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19623
I get what we're talking about. I don't get the connection to why we would expect media coverage.
That's it, indeed :)
you can also try the RESTful API. Docs at https://github.com/davidesantangelo/dato.rss/wiki
If performance is that important for your use-case, why are you using python? Wouldn't it be better to use an appropriate tool more suitable for your needs?

Is the performance difference between Django+TastyPie, Flask, or Falcon really going to be the bottleneck holding you back from achieving greatness? If so..then maybe it's better to consider a different tool set.

Any number of other high-performance solutions fit the bill: Go, Java JAXRS, etc..

After having spent over a decade in Python-land myself, I've learned that a Framework's ease-of-use by developers is vastly more important than any micro-benchmark performance.

When I evaluated Falcon for it's usability in mid-2014 I found it painful when compared to Flask or Bottle.

--

But if benchmarks are your thing, for laughs, I've found some which compare Go / Python / Java etc (hey, at least they are data-driven :) :

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ - here "Falcon" scores below Go, Java, and PHP frameworks.

http://ziutek.github.io/web_bench/

https://medium.com/@tschundeee/express-vs-flask-vs-go-acc087...
how did they get servers with insane amount of ram?
"Why would they worry about pregnancy with someone age 9, but not age 11?"

Uh, 11 is still early to experience puberty. And why do you think pediatricians are not worried about an 11 year old getting a girl pregnant?

The problem is that a 9 year old has even less experience and maturity than a 13 year old to deal with the challenges of puberty. And no peers to share the experience with. Society is set up to deal with children going through puberty at a specific age. The problem is that a 9 year old going through puberty is still a 9 year old in many respects, even a particularly bright 9 year old.
While not a parent myself, this is my take on it: Parenting is hard. You can tout heavy discipline, not letting the child watch pornography, or giving him internet access, but the fact is that every situation is different. I wonder what might have happened if they hadn't given him access to the internet? Maybe he wouldn't have fostered a love for programming, or maybe he wouldn't have graduated college at 19.

All I'm saying is that maybe we're too quick to judge how these parents handled the situation.
If they get the penis-recognition AI working, they can split the site in two, chattroulette and penisroulette, and automatically route videos to the correct site. I'm honestly not sure which site would become the more popular though.
I feel like hotornot solved this problem a lot time ago.

Just let users rate other users, and let them set their thresholds.

You could even have the software automatically calculate a score based on how quickly/often a user is skipped. Vulgar users are usually skipped often, and within a few seconds of a connection. Stop connecting those users with newbies, and start connecting them with each other.
Not had any issues with pgrmr support or reliability myself, but can't recomend linode/slicehost enough - personally slightly prefer slicehost, but use linode as well since slicehost don't have UK servers.

edit: oh, and possibly consider www.ovh.co.uk, a French company. Never used them myself, and don't know how good their VPS servers are, but have heard many endorsements for their dedi servers (and their prices are very cheap)
It would encourage trolling.
Citibank ought to let you open a Yen account. I'm English but when I was working in the US I had no problems opening a USD account with them (via my branch in England).
I would simply send them the tracking numbers for those orders.

Is it something that is hard to do ?
Funny, I was actually just browsing the ExtJS site last night, and decided I would almost certainly never use it. Its way too crazy corporate.

I just hope Raphael and jQTouch will continue to be developed independently.
I live in CZ, so I use this one, it is quite OK here. Also in DE is active free software community, so they might help you if some problems occur. Maybe RU or CN could serve good (if you don't fight against their governments, of course), but I don't have personal experience with these TLDs.
To say that text browsers are "anchoring" the web to those text only standards would imply that developers are making design decisions based on testing and feedback from text only browsers.

There is no way that the percentage of developers doing that isn't vanishingly small. Like 0.1% or less. I always chuckle when 1 person chimes in on a show hn post to complain that the site doesn't work well in lynx... Ya, I'll get right on that, top priority!
Yep, larger companies are probably way better equipped to deal with raising the minimum wage.

This will just hurt small/medium business.
I like that line of thoughts. Given that we have a parser, too, it's more like a 27:27 mapping: https://www.jooq.org/translate