jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Maybe. What would we have done, though? Tested everyone, even those without symptoms?

If your symptoms are mild enough to not need hospitalization, your instructions are the same regardless of if it's the coronavirus, flu, or common cold. Now they're just telling the general population to follow those instructions.

What really disappoints me is that people seem to think it's okay to ignore those instructions if it's not the coronavirus. One possible silver lining to this mess is that flu cases will probably be significantly reduced in the short term.
If you had an extremely low latency lightfield display and camera that allowed the eye to do the focusing then you could skip the light blocking part (not that that makes the optics challenge easier).
you have just witnessed the fed govs priorities.
they could have sent literature or items that would inform you and make things easier.
Related there is a related video series if your interested:

https://egghead.io/courses/professor-frisby-introduces-compo...
Like I said, there is a latency barrier to get in and out of the atmosphere due to RF modulation. Only NYC to Tokyo will be close, but that’s generous, as it doesn’t take into account intersatellite routing delays. Whereas, NYC to London by fiber is a single hop.
I don't see any of that. There's some overwrought navel-gazing about masculinity but I just posted the link because it showed that apparently you can get an embolism from leg extension surgery.
The CDC is letting perfect get in the way of good.

If you look at almost all of their actions, they continually clamp down on things that might work because they have not been proven.

It seems to me that they are led by academics and theoreticians with very little operational capability at the top decision making channels.
I think a lot of people in medicine, science, economics, policy and the media think what's happening right now is their shining moment, but if you talk to people on the ground -- this is a catastrophe and no one has any clue what's happening and people see that and they are internalizing it.

The experts are f* this up and it is going to have long term implications for already eroded public trust in institutions.
Seems to me she blames that on

> patriarchy and white supremacy

not on men.
RTFM is always a valid response when you are dealing with a lazy, spoiled society that would rather just call tech support and bother somebody who is sitting on the other side shifting through a stack of manuals in from of them that comes with the product...

What surprises me are people who have the patience to wait for somebody else to tell them why their app broke, when it's much quicker dealing with problem just by going straight to the source. (pun intended)
But why the government have to do it? Isn't it a profitable business in itself?
That depends on the toolkit. GTK first renders everything remotely and then transmits the final pixmap to the server. It also has multiple unecessary rountrips on every event which amplifies the lag even further.

On the other hand xlib toolkits like xathena widgets run blazingly fast even over modem style connections because all the drwaing happens server side and only a limited amount of drawing commands are transmitted over the network.
Happens in all different contexts. If you've ever had to take a car over the pits to get it re-registered or get a defect notice removed, you might have been given the advice to take out one of the tail-light globes. Then the inspectors feel useful because they have something to write down, it's trivial for you to 'fix', and everyone's happy.
Unrelated: as a non-native English speaker with CS background it's the first time I learned the original meaning of "semaphore". Took me some time to find https://www.uvm.edu/landscape/dating/road_signs_and_traffic_... to explain what is a semaphore (the search results were heavily biased to the word's use in computer science).
Oops.

It is a startup weekend project, I supposed they could get a better name once they get some sleep.
Oil is like finding an underground vault full of batteries of vastly superior energy density to any electric battery you can make. How are you going to compete with that?!
How so?

lm(['ul', ['li', 'one'], ['li', 'two']]) -> <ul><li>one</li><li>two</li></ul>
Well. There's two reasons to delete code. One is to delete code you think is unused or better rewritten. In this case you have unit tests and your source control system that keeps the deleted lines forever and makes it more or less easy to get them back.

But if you want to delete code that's in use, that's different. You know: The code might be some rarely used feature, something added for one customers request or something that a lot of people once wanted but is now solved in a much better way but might still have some users.

In that case, removing the code certainly takes courage. Can you explain why the feature is gone? Can your users/customers live with the feature being gone (even though there might be a better replacement, they might be used to the old ways)?

Feature-creep is the most common case for unwanted code, bugs and maintainability issues.

It feels great though once you show the courage to remove the cruft and then you can look at lines over lines of red code (my diff highlights removed lines in red).
And where is Joseph Millar, the guy who answered the question? And the question was responded to, in two days, so its hard to know if he actually waited around for someone to respond or used googl..er..never mind.
Agreed. He uses some funny wording, and separates the content, so you won't notice.

"For tax year 2010, roughly 45% of households, or about 69 million, will end up owing nothing in federal income tax,"

"More than two-thirds -- or 49 million of the 69 million households -- pay payroll tax. Of those, 34 million end up paying more in payroll taxes than they get back on their federal return. The other 15 million pay payroll tax but they get enough refundable credits to offset what they paid."

In short, 34 million of the 69 million pay more in taxes than they get back on their federal tax return. They don't -owe- anything because they pre-paid it.

So now we're down to roughly 25% of households not paying income tax because they don't earn enough or have other tax breaks. It still seems like a lot, but there's a lot of poverty out there, so it doesn't really surprise me.
Webstock has all of its conference talks online. 2011 (http://www.webstock.org.nz/talks/events/webstock-11/) has some awesome talks (I went, I should know :P ), and I suggest watching them all.

Speakers include Marco Arment, Doug Bowman, Josh Clark, Merlin Mann, John Gruber, Jason Cohen... so many amazing speakers. (Skip Mark Pilgrim though.)
I can't speak to the other fiction categories, but there are a number of readable books in the Kindle SciFi category in the 99-2.99 range. In particular, if you just want to turn off your brain and pick up something in the "space opera" category, it's an excellent release.

When I buy a 2.99 book, I'm not looking for the next Gibson novel. I'm just looking for something that will let me put my brain in neutral that isn't either beer or streaming video.
Ii doesn't take courage. Just a little experience tells you that code you delete is less code to maintain. And if you want to build anything non-trivial, maintainability is absolutely critical.

I love deleting code.
For an always-on device you would actually fare better with an SSD than a 2.5" laptop hard drive. Laptop hard drives are not meant to be always-on. The bearings tend to wear out very fast unless they spend a fair amount of time spun-down. 3.5" desktop hard drives, 2.5" server drives, and SSDs have much better mechanical reliability in that respect.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-ipod-of-prison

The Sony SRF-39FP is the "ipod of prison". It has good reception and runs on a single AA battery for 40 hours.
If you're pointing out a gaping flaw, you don't need a source. If you're suggesting a standard security measure, you don't need a source.

To insist on something novel, yes you want a source.
> - Living in a foreign country. If you work remotely living abroad or in the middle of nowhere can cost a LOT less than living in a big expensive city.

You don't have to go abroad to solve that (unless you're from Singapore or something). Most (larger) countries have deprived areas where the local administration is perfectly happy to welcome anyone who works (in an "export" industry, selling something out of the area and this bringing in cash) and pays taxes.

And even combination of decent living and good telecom infrastructure is often possible.
Yeah but no. You know those fancy FRP frameworks, ever wonder where they got their inspiration from?

https://rx.codeplex.com/
If you ever come back to C#, make sure to check out http://reactiveui.net ;-)
>Weapon reliability -- particularly on the Russian side. Will many / most of their ICBMs even get off the ground? Will the warheads actually work properly? I'm not saying they're all duds but if I was Russia I'd maybe keep 100 maintained for the sake of demonstration.

From the little I've communicated with people who would know (because they used to be in the IC), the vague answer is "Yes, they would work."

>European Theatre -- Russia needs its subs to try to stop UK / American subs from nuking them so they're not likely deployed around NA (instead hunting for enemies closer to home) and thus can't destroy the silos.

The submarines that launch ballistic nuclear missiles are not the same submarines that hunt the submarines that launch ballistic nuclear missiles. You might want to read up on the wiki on this stuff or something.
I see.

There is a possibility that some swindled payer might see the matter differently, though, and sue you and the swindler, together, blah blah "jointly and severally" blah. I assume Venmo spends real money on fending such lawsuits.
In some cases the helium cost is comparable to that of the propellants!

Both are negligible compared to the total cost of space launch currently, but once reusability and operations become more streamlined, they start mattering more.
Apple has > 60% market share in the US [1]. 60% is considered by courts to be a barrier to entry for new competitors [2]

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...

[2] https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c10784/c10784.pdf: "60% is a favorite threshold for the courts"
Ok, for the semi-newb here - this would do if I just wanted to secure a single site (e.g. a blog) without a subdomain, right?

Because I should really get on that
TFL should actually provide a reliable service if they want to start pointing fingers. They talk about security and safety but it's not safe to have to wait around hoping for the off chance a scammy black cab will spot you after your TFL train gets cancelled for whatever reason.
clojure package management is built on top of maven typically. There are two main approaches here:

1. Use Maven as Maven with https://github.com/talios/clojure-maven-plugin - My impression is that this option is often more popular with people coming to clojure from java, as you get the full XML and maven experience.

2. Use Leiningen https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen – this is a project and dependancy management / built system built in clojure on top of Maven's libs. You have a single (and simple - no XML) project.clj file that describes your project. My impression here is that lein is popular with people coming to clojure from non-JVM land. Being a former pythonista, this is my preference.

There is also a default maven repo that i believe both work with hosted at http://clojars.org.

In both cases maven handles dependency resolution and package management. My experience is that a global install of jars is not common like it is in python or ruby land.

The other tool that you will want to look at is https://github.com/liebke/cljr which is a repl built ontop of lein's package management commands. This is useful because it lets you run a repl without a project (lein requires a project) but still gives you control over what libraries are available. If you are using incanter (the stats package mentioned by Estragon) you will want cljr
That idea seemed overly broad. Plus, YCombinator is unique among incubators in that it only focuses on seed money investments and a bootcamp for founders.

Thanks for the feedback, though.
True, it can be done; I didn't mean to imply that it couldn't. This certainly isn't the "default" way to use the service, though.

But the little bit of extra work one has to do in Gmail to get local access to your mail is simply one trade-off. The real point is that using Gmail involves a variety of trade-offs, which many email users may not be able to or may not want to make. So "just use Gmail" is not a sufficient answer to the problem of spam.
FWIW, I come from Java and find Ruby to be fairly ugly.

It's all subjective, but I prefer concise, exact non ambiguous readable code.

From a google for 'ruby sample code'...

http://www.fincher.org/tips/Languages/Ruby/

print " with no line breaks."

printf("\n\nprintf ... %7.2f,... %s.",3.14156,"me")

Eugh brackets are optional for invoking functions? So I can no longer just look for () after a name to determine what is a function invocation?

def welcome(name)
puts "howdy #{name}"
end

"end"? Seriously? Verboseness... (This is one of the things that for me, makes ruby very ugly. It's needless verbosity and doesn't have any advantage over using {} ).

"hello".upcase() => "HELLO"
"hello".upcase => "HELLO"

Yuck. So how do you know what's a function and what's a variable?

balance = -10.0
puts "Bankrupt" unless balance > 0.0

Starting to look like cobol here... 'unless'? seriously? Why is that nicer than an if statement?

Java code has a very exact, easy to parse syntax. We all know it, and it's easy to learn - {} for code blocks, () for method invocations, etc

That's just for starters.
I bet with some clever marketing you could get more if you sold a good portion of it off as keepsakes. It was at one time the Royal Navy flagship, and was in the Falkland Islands war. "Own a piece of British history!"
Apologies for the lack of clarity. I think by now you know what I meant, though.
Instead of a simply giving your subjective aesthetic evaluation, based on some measure of "elegance", you could objectively compare, in HCI terms, the usability of the languages as user-interfaces to the computer. A mouse may be more elegant than a keyboard, but for, say, word-processing, it would have comparatively-horrible usability.

Likewise (and this is just a throwaway argument, not the general point I'm trying to make), Lisp may be more elegant conceptually than Ruby, but when trying to find an individual incorrect line of code to make a change, Lisp's "elegant" uniformity actually hinders scanning, whereas Ruby's bumpy, "inelegant" syntax gives your eyes regularized shapes to abstract sections of code into, and thus visually skip them without having to read into their contents.

However, as the mouse's elegance matches well with a paint program, Lisp matches well with Turing-complete data-specifications ("code as data.") Usability is not a one-dimensional spectrum, like your partial ordering of "beauty" above, but rather a consideration made separately for each task an interface is used for.
You're aware that our representatives aren't required to pass through these sensors, aren't you?
Perhaps those who eat meat should slowly introduce vegetarianism into their diet (if they wish to) rather than going vegan straight.

I turned veg about 15 years back (but still ate an egg). My haemoglobin count actually went up by a point (a year later). About 5 years ago, i gave up eggs too. A year later my Haemo was up by another half point.

I do have a small amount of milk in tea/coffee. In India, there are millions of vegetarians who live without health problems. Veganism seems a little extreme to us.
It did seem like that the author should examine her decision making/philosophy adopting process along with her dedication to veganism.
She even says that she and her family has received threats!

What would make someone do that simply because the lady has started eating meat?
The thing is, if you don't have contact information for the person through another medium, then Facebook has a de-facto monopoly on your communication with that person. And Facebook actively prevents you from extracting contact information from Facebook in order to use in other services; you can only extract contact information for communicating through their messaging system.

Network effects matter. The privacy and censorship concerns people have about Facebook are for good reasons.
"I wasn't aware you needed to be irradiated just to enter into the US ... What is the rationale behind that?"

It's the end-run around the forthcoming tidal wave of baby-boomer retirees that stand to eviscerate Social Security. Throw some radiation & cancer into the mix, and you maybe they can shave off enough years of longevity to keep things solvent.
LA Times, 2010: "Shut up and be scanned". LA Times, 1942 "shut up and go to your internment camp"

http://www.theagitator.com/2010/11/22/shut-up-and-be-scanned...
I think that's definitely how she's trying to spin it "officially", but her actual intent is pretty clear.

>I have to admit I’m always a little suspicious when an ex-vegan dives headlong into a love affair with meat.

I mean come on, what else is that supposed to mean? Is she "suspicious" that the author is simply echoing a new-found respect for meat? That doesn't even make sense.
I think you just fixed your own uncharitable interpretation.

Read it as "this goes against a trope I have seen many times on HN that".. that is a reasonable interpretation and not saying what you say it is.
Of course.

Gadget was fun, and Riven was spectacular. Let's not talk about Myst 3, though. :)

Same with Grim Fandango (getting glottis to puke was epic) and Monkey Island.

But they appeared in the time of the internet & yahoo search. Sure Myst was ~1995, but the rise of having answers a click away existed with these games.
The US is paying the most for vaccines and they're paying $20/dose for BioNTech/Pfizer.
> "People forget, but a big reason for early Linux success was addressing issues like this."

Xenix wasn't even something people cared about anymore when Linux 0.0.1 came out, aside from legacy installations. The big commercial UNIXes like SunOS (the Solaris rebranding hadn't occurred yet), HP-UX, AIX, etc. were what Linux was competing against.
It's not actually taboo at all to discuss variation in psychological traits between genders. There are innumerable academic studies of gender differences in all kinds of domains. No-one, to any significant extent, is stopping these papers from being published, or calling for this kind of research to cease. Similarly, there are endless articles about gender differences in mainstream news publications.

What is controversial is using cherry-picked scientific results to tell just-so stories about why the gender distribution in certain fields is imbalanced.

The study on the facial features of criminals was criticized mainly for its shoddy methodology, not for being unethical (see e.g. https://www.callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_crim...). Of course, people did point out that the research could have unethical applications – which strikes me as an obvious and fairly undeniable point. Your assertion that research of this nature is "forbidden" in the West is trivially refuted by googling: e.g. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/288373839.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3366989/
Anthony, this is awesome!
Pronunciation is in fact a different thing than changing a name. If someone mispronounces my name, it doesn't mean they've given me a new name. And people that want to pronounce it coq still can.

Like how the correct pronunciation of LaTeX is "lay-tech", while obviously a lot of people pronounce it "latex".
Skimming this, I just wanted to reply to this one bit:

> Befuddled users found they couldn’t send Pages 5 files through Gmail. It’s now fixed, as the What’s New in Pages screen proudly claims…

> > ° Updated file format makes it easier to send documents via services like Gmail and Dropbox

> …but how could such an obvious, non-esoteric bug escape Apple’s attention in the first place?

And the answer, if I recall correctly as to what was going on, was that this wasn't a bug with Apple's software at all. It was a consequence of the file format actually being a package, meaning it was really a document. Apple software all worked with documents just fine, and you'll find that if you tried to use Mail.app to send it, it would all Just Work™. The issue is that Gmail and other such services never even considered the idea that a user might want to send a whole folder and did not have any way to support that.

So the "fix" was to change the file format to actually be a compressed archive of the package (I assume it was a zip file, but I don't know how to go back and check). This made it work with all of the stupid software out there that assumed users would only want to transfer individual files.

Sure, perhaps the Pages team could have foreseen this issue. But that doesn't make it a bug in their software, just a case of only prioritizing compatibility with other aspects of Apple's software ecosystem.
One common misconception about using Hadoop is that use Hadoop if your data is large. Usage of Hadoop should be more driven based on the growth of data rather than size.

I agree that for the given use case, the solution is appropriate and works fine. Problem mentioned in the given post is not a Big Data problem.

Hadoop will be helpful in case if there are millions of games are played everyday and we need to update the statistics daily e.t.c. For this case, the given solution will hit bottleneck and there will be some optimisation/code change needed to keep running the code.

Hadoop and its ecosystem are not a silver bullet and hence should not be used for everything. The problem has to be a Big Data problem
I wish that HN would use the Public Suffix List (https://publicsuffix.org/) in its algorithm to display domain names of submissions. That way, we wouldn’t get things like this, where the domain given (pp.se) does not say anything about what the actual site is.
Ice is a poor conductor of heat. This means that thermal energy of the liquid medium will be exchanged between the ice near the surface of the ice body/bodies. Thus, the rate at which the ice accepts energy from the alcohol is determined by the surface area of the bodies of ice. A single sphere of ice produces the lowest possible surface area. On a graph of drink temperature vs time, crushed ice (highest surface area) would produce a large dip and then level out. The orb would create a broad valley of lower temperature, though never as cold as the crushed ice.
I believe this is to be a bit more educative about how to build a pipeline. Also, iteratively building such solutions quickly often leads to such "inefficiencies" but makes things easier to reason with. Besides, the awk step may have been factored out in the end so it wouldn't make sense to optimise early. Also, by the time the author reaches the end, he gets IO-bound so there's not much need to optimise further (in the context of the exercise).
Having started with ZX Spectrum BASIC (Timex 2068), followed by hexdumps, and moving into GW-Basic/Turbo Basic and Assembly after getting my first PC, I never coding anything meaningful in QBasic.

For me, those were the days to start learning Turbo Pascal, and QBasic was used mainly to run nibbles and gorillas, when I got bored of a coding session.
Something about which I'm glad to be wrong.
There's also FreeBASIC, which is largely compatible but with some shiny new features on top (even macros and tail-call optimization O_O).