jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I also thought about similar project. Git based active model has some drawbacks and not for every project for sure. It's not so good if there are many users making a lot of changes to data (like facebook). But it's very interesting for applications when few users make changes on site and site looks like static for rest of visitors (applications like any CMS). And we are getting a lot of cool git features for free.
Regarding your Ruby example and the tracing JIT VM. I think the efforts of Mozilla regarding the TraceMonkey/JaegerMonkey efforts show that while tracing is indeed a very good optimization technique, it is not by all means clear that it performs well on all benchmarks, particularly when compared to V8, which is a traditional method-at-a-time JIT compiler.

While I agree that there is nothing special about bytecode, interpreting it is regarded to be faster than AST interpreters. AFAIR, I read a paper about that, too, but cannot for the love of god remember its name/authors; also my impression is that Ruby 1.9 uses a bytecode interpreter (with some optimizations, such as direct threaded code interpreter).
Oh, right. Hmm, maybe packratius has plans to expand there, they complement historious very well for now so there are no plans to do that ourselves. It's definitely something to watch out for, though.
Thanks for the feedback and yes I agree that is something we're considering especially allowing others to embed similar drag-n-drop tools on their site to share onto Minus.

We already have an API documented and ready but just not yet released. If anyone is interested in testing it, feel free to shoot an email over to john@min.us and i'll send it right over!

Some tech specs on Minus: http://blog.min.us/2010/10/14/minus-tech-spec/

(PS: We were inspired by Glen Murphy's Dropmocks design and really hope to make Minus into a universal sharing tool with wider compatibility and support for documents, music, video and more in the near future. In the works = desktop app and firefox/chrome extensions ^^)

Cheers
John
Oh, I'm too stubborn to be convinced they don't work, I just wish PG weren't :P
The Datastore problems have indeed been fixed and things have been smooth since the fix.
I have a hard time understanding what this did, partially because the page load is so long at this point (so maybe server stress wasn't part of the execution).

When I finally figured out that I was finding albums by album art color, I closed the window.

I'm not sure why this is titled "great execution." There's nothing wrong with the execution, really--but it doesn't strike me as particularly excellent in any regard.

All that said, it's useless to search by album color.
I thought this was fun. If it loaded quickly enough, I can imagine spending more time playing around with it. It's not loading reliably for me right now, but I got it to work a few times.

I enjoy an element of randomness in music discovery, and this combines that with beauty, IMO.
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Even for printable characters complexity increases significantly as soon as you permit anything other than ASCII latin text.
The current docs don't make it clear why I might choose Atom over Sublime for coding, but it looks like an interesting platform for building all sorts of rich text editors with UIs targeted toward different kinds of writing - if it's as extensible as they claim, I can imagine an extension that turns it into iAWriter, another extension that turns it into a GTD task manager, another to turn it into a native blogging client app... building from there, more complex word processing might be possible.

If this just stays inside the coding community, it will likely be competitive but not universal, but if it can be built to target non-coders, it could set a new standard.
The designers got to mostly start from scratch (some things are there for JS compatibility) not only at the language level, but importantly also at the VM level. It's already ~ 2X faster than V8 and they believe there is room for more performance gains. Then add in all of the nice language features beyond classes and types and you have something worthwhile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...

US: 4.7 per 100,000 inhabitants

UK: 1.2 per 100,000 inhabitants

Germany: 0.8 per 100,000 inhabitants
London based too - what exactly was that 40 percent of? Would be interested to find out, as a colleague of mine can reveal the following details for comparison:
20 percent of equity in a B2B company (not even live yet; but customers already signed up), five developers plus owner, central London based, amount invested £1.4MM.
I am not sure how much haggling was involved but he was happy as the investor has a proven record with B2B in the UK, and can probably help it in the mid to long term.
They do it because they can and no consequences if they do.
http://offres.numericable.fr/tripleplay

The prices in bold are only for the first 12 months
Stick with your honest answer of none.
It's somewhat the reverse, in a way. Apple, and other companies, clearly would benefit from a once and always connector that far exceeds the demands of whatever USB will need in the future...

... except Lightning is the production version of an early rejected Type C prototype. It was rejected because external facing pins are a common and well known fault point in connector designs.

Those external pins on Lightning plug tabs are the most common failure point of their cables.
You can use Slack. If you have a problem, raise it in the relevant channel or reach out to the relevant expert. There's no reason to make that something that has to be done once a day.

If you want to know who is working on what, again there are tools for that (Trello, Jira, whatever).

If you need to reach out to a manager/team lead to escalate an issue, then reach out to the manager.

Morning standups quickly devolve into "I'll say what I'm up to while everyone else checks their email". I fail to see what problem they solve, really.
There's no single concept of nature that's understood completely. For example, there are a lot of things still understood pretty vaguely about milk. Or apples. So you can say that about pretty much anything.
I've thought about trying LineageOS. I tried and failed to get it running on my old Galaxy S3, though. It wasn't a big deal because I long-since stopped using that phone. But I'm a bit more cautious about trying to do that with my main driver, especially since LG phones probably aren't supported as well as Samsung phones.
This market cycle we've already seen countries place more regulations on cryptocurrencies as an asset class yet Bitcoin's market cap continues to grow.

People that follow the narritive of bitcoin as a hedge against inflation will still tend towards bitcoin.
Why do you think it needs to be open sourced?
Correct, gpg works out of the box with org files in emacs, you can google setup (https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/encrypting-files.html)!

One thing to note with this approach is that you wont see git diff, as encrypted files are blobs, so you have to be careful with it (its easy to overwrite something)... also, in two-three years, git repo size (depending on your usage) becomes/can become pretty large..

Other then that, its really good setup, and say you dont really fancy emacs/org-mode, you can pull same thing with encrypted text files/folders!
there are plenty of vendors providing builds of OpenJDK. I am not sure how are they different from one another and what distinguishing features they could provide. Wishing for a comparison matrix!
If you want to show that those attitudes are anomalous, you're going to have to bring something other than standard CYA disclaimer boilerplate. That NY Post link seems like a non sequitur.

I don't think it's a stretch to describe the "OK" sign as a "white power finger gesture" when the person making it is wearing a Trump visor and shouting "white lives matter". And I don't see how the noose is ambiguous, either — what do you think a noose is if not a loop of rope hung from somewhere?
I got my job by using Facebook. I first went to job sites, found a job I wanted and then searched the company on facebook to see employees who listed they worked there. Then I looked through all listed employees for a mutual connection between our networks to get referral, interview & job. Took me two weeks to land my current gig doing this.

Good luck.
"Boston city proper had a 2008 estimated population of 620,535" 22,000,000,000$ / 620,535 = 35,450$ per person, for something they helps in some areas but made congestion worse in others.

The presumption is that the artery is only being used by Boston residents. It's used by Boston residents to get out the city, by other MA residents to get into the city, and by non-MA residents to get in & thru the city, as well as delivering goods received in Boston ports to points north, south and west. Freight rail can (and does, vis the huge CSX yard in Allston) move a huge portion of that load, but you're still going to have trucks for the last-mile delivery to the industrialized areas in EMass. (and where has it made congestion worse?)

But even if you want to put everyone on buses, those buses still have to drive on something - the old artery couldn't be that something because it was falling apart, and alternatives have the same problem as an alternative highway system does. IOW. you're still talking about a tunnel system.
It was deliberately slow to deal with limitations of the tech at the time and also the finger stop tells you when you have finished and can let go.
Everything I know about Kubernetes I learned from a single-node (pseudo)clustered refurbished ThinkPad X201.

It cost me 90€ at an IBM refurbished sell. It is downstairs by the router, and it has been hosting everything for me except my email and my blog (which I want to host but I'm not sure about the reliability of my ISP's service, this morning it went down for 5h12m, without prior notice or anything).

It is amazing how much you learn from doing stuff. I'm currently on my 3rd year of univerity for CS, so I've tried the academia-style learning process, reading books on my own and doing stuff on my own. The latter is the best method by far.
I am going back to the 90ies.

In my opinion it was much easier to block those popups etc. as they've not been as invasive as the current malware.

Of course back then there was already stupid things as well but it scaled and got a lot worse I think.

I suppose you talk about the experience as a user? Because as an admin etc. things got a lot more complex since then.
Even if estimates were true, not sending an email still produces the same amount of CO2, or even worse, as people go waste this free time on entertainment, like watching videos, playing games.
Licence compliance -- they took the Unix kernel and don't really want to give back but having now taken the kernel it now has obligations under that licence to make it available for others.
Is there any evidence that our consciousness isn't just the result of computation as well? Is there anything to suggest that we actually have free will and make choices?
I woke up at 5:15 this morning because I was so excited to go into work at my startup. At Google, I wasn't excited a single day.

Think of something you care about, and do that. For me, that was renewable energy. My friends who stayed probably make twice or three times as much as me but who cares; they spend 3 hours a day on a bus and 8 hours at a desk they hate. Most days, I spend less than 1 hour doing things that I don't want to do.
Bluetooth keyboard of course, can't really use vim or spacemacs without it.
In Termux I install curl and all the prerequisites for a spacemacs install.
Oculus TV can be made to use Android apps like Termux.
I don't get why people compare Facebook's performance to that of Microsoft's. Okay, they are both tech companies that have large interests in the internet. But one makes enterprise and consumer software (exceedingly successfully by any measure) and the other is a website for sharing photos.

Microsoft is worth roughly three times what Facebook is at one-twentieth the P/E ratio. Why do people assume they are losing? I fully accept that they are continually riding the coat tails of Windows XP for the majority of that and have missed a number of opportunities though. But let's be honest, everyone but Apple missed the smartphone revolution except Google and Samsung and Microsoft owns part of Facebook and isn't really playing in a competing market for the most part.
Technically yes, but it would likely only be possible with a restricted subset of the language. Python and Ruby have a large standard library and set of built-in functions, because they're "batteries included" languages. Lua is quite the opposite: it doesn't even have access to the file system unless you implement that or use a module. So you'd either end up using a limited Python without features absent in Lua, or you'd need to bridge the gap in functionality with a very large runtime library.

If you're looking for a more expressive syntax, check out MoonScript. It's an awesome language that you could consider Lua's CoffeeScript analogue.
Ex Microsoftie here.

There are a few things I'd fix with MS, but I would definitely start with the forced curve system. It's basically evil.

Sort of balled-up in this is the sense of fear that forces people to make bad decisions just to get promoted (my favorite example of this: The "Metroization" of the Visual Studio 2012 interface, with nearly unusable color schemes and all-caps menus. I have to assume that somebody got promoted because making VS 2012 look like the flavor of the day looked good on a review).

I was in Xbox, which had a /lot/ of very, very good people in the same review band that I was in. It's hard to shine when you're sitting next to those folks; it's also hard to imagine not working with them, because one of the reasons I go to work is to study at the feet of masters.

So I was looking at an "okay" review, maybe even "sub-okay", while doing work that would probably have brought the company a few hundred million dollars over the next ten years. And I couldn't stand it. And that's one of the reasons I left.

Seriously, fuck the Microsoft review system. It's broken. Most everyone with a brain /knows/ that it costs MS really good people. But Ballmer and Brummel (the head of HR) seem to love it; maybe it makes it easy for them to remove threats? I honestly don't know why they think it's good.
No, banning a customer is almost exactly equivalent to sending the sort of C&D letter that Craigslist sent. I'm banned from Walmart for life, and was asked to sign a trespass warning explaining that if I'm found on Walmart property, I'll be charged with trespassing. That's Walmart's right.

Just because the door is open doesn't mean that everyone is welcome to go through it. The same holds true for websites just as it holds true for grocery stores.
China is .cn, .ch is Switzerland,
> Very weird and imo, wrong comparison.

I think comparison is ok, but people are missing an important distinction - yes, the system works exactly as one would expect it to. There are good reasons for the system to value WhatsApp higher than SpaceX. The algorithm's implementation is correct. The problem is, we're using a wrong algorithm - a system that begins to increasingly value wrong things.
> This describe a process used by J.K. Rowling to write the 5th HP book. Am I the only one to think this is also the worse book in the series ?

There are opinions. It was actually my second favourite in the series
I see UFOs all the time. I'm just don't know that much about aircraft and am not good at identifying them. Doesn't mean we've made contact with extraterrestrial life or that it would be worth my time to videorecord anything.
Right, which is why I added the bit about salting the URIs before encryption. The salt could be per request, per session, or rotated after some period of time (say once per day). If only rotated once per day, it would still thwart ad blocking, but have less of an impact on caching. It would turn into an economic question of whether the extra ad impressions are worth the extra bandwidth.
This makes some serious assumptions regarding what exactly "close to identical" means.

"Similar in design" or even "identical in design" definitely do not equate to "close to identical" in execution in all cases, despite the provided anecdote. If we're talking about something that qualifies as the same type of tool or weapon, OK. If we're talking about something with extremely similar metallurgical qualities, size, design, age, etc., then it's likely a little more than just "well, it's an x made of y found at z, they're all the same."
> How many baby tigers per birth?

1-6, usually 2,3. If unsuccessful (all cubs die) the female can give birth about twice a year. If successful (raised cubs live) the female gives birth every 2 to 2.5 years.

> What is the mortality rate on those babies?

> 50% before two years, but the female reproduces faster if she loses her cubs compensating for some of the loss.

> Is this definitely not just greater efforts to count tigers?

It would require about 60 successful litters per year.
Amazing work.

One concern is that the EasyPrivacy‎ list -- which is in my opinion overly aggressive -- is enabled by default. Most pertinently, it entirely disables Google Analytics on every site.
PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

http://www.richardgingras.com/devilsdictionary/
I keep hearing the word "agile" from vendors, consultants and non-software related stakeholders at my work (a telco). For me it is a buzzword, thus I have been quite reluctant toward it.

Seeing also one of the original authors thinking so, means I'll stay even more away, and perhaps take people using the word with skepticism.
We don't have to make any assumptions, we know how schedulers work, and the radix sort counterpart of a priority queue would probably be a radix tree, which would be impractical for use in a scheduler.
Yes C4 photosynthesis is an adaption to falling CO2 levels in the atmosphere. It does come at a cost which is why in areas that are not water limited C4 plants have not out competed C3 plants.
While true, it seems more of a historical reference of the term rather than a good description of today's foreign policy decisions.

The Brits were literally trying to outplay Russia, and both countries were knee-deep in Imperialism. They fought to physically control territory and claim land... an idea that is seen as quaint and naive today.
What a great bunch of guys! And, oh by the by, PSN is still down and Xbox Live is still having trouble.
Wasn't it Ben Franklin that made a very similar appeal, regarding all occupations? The US should want the very best talent the world can produce, in every field, not just technology.
For particle physics phenomenology, that's essentially what the field is, people developing physical models and predicting what would be observed due to such models in other experiments...since it's not exactly easy to perform particle physics experiments.
The downweighting in the case of ushakov's comment wasn't done by a mod. It was done by a regular user who, along with a small number of other longstanding HN users, has the ability to downweight subthreads that are either too generic or offtopic. This is an experiment that we've been running for several months now. Actually the experiment has been quite successful—this sort of downweighting is the probably highest-leverage thing we've ever discovered for improving thread quality, and I'd like to find a way to extend the experiment to more users.

IIRC, the downweight was correct in principle, because the subthread wasn't about the particular story, it was just a generic complaint about the general topic. We want those downweighted because, regardless of topic, they have a strong tendency to sit at the top of a thread, accumulating upvotes and choking out more specific and more interesting discussion.

It was a mistake to downweight it, though—not because the subthread was good, but because the topic was a YC startup. By far the most important rule of HN moderation is that we intervene less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the topic (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

The user who did the downweighting didn't know that Fig was a YC startup, so it was an honest mistake. Certainly none of this has to do with trying to suppress criticism of YC or YC-funded companies. We know how to take our lumps and do so all the time. We also know that community goodwill is the only value that HN actually has, so doing anything to jeopardize that would be really dumb.
I have no problem with this idea of iterative refinement, and indeed I actively teach it. There are certainly students who pick up the syntax more slowly, but this is largely a matter of degree. But the students I refer to above have trouble even identifying what's wrong about an intermediate value or where things went off the rails or what a correct answer would even look like. They're more common than you (as a hacker) would ever believe unless you teach intro CS. They can be taught at least enough to pass CS1, but it's not easy and "natural language programming" will not help them with the things they need help on. (Might actively hurt, actually.)
Remember that religions tend to preach of a jealous god: God gets really mad at you for idolatry because he's the only one you should worship. Preachers continually go on about how fanatical devotion to brands or sports teams or something like that are idolatry. It's not surprising that becoming an Apple fanboy becomes somewhat less compelling if you're already a Jesus fanboy, and Jesus tells you not to be anyone else's fanboy.

So let's take the idea that humans have a natural urge to religion and brand loyalty fills that gap, and turn the idea around: there is a natural human urge to fanboyism, and religion is just a hack to direct this urge towards some moral system rather than some random charismatic leader or stupid tribalism or something. Religion is a vaccine.
I won a call-into-the-radio contest when I was eight years old for being able to name Levar Burton as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge. My mom didn't believe me when I told her I won. I think the prize ended up being a Weird Al cassette and some temporary tattoos.
Ok, so your hypothesis is that this benchmark is fairly frequently executed, so that it's reasonable to think that a precompiled version is stored somewhere?

In that case, to avoid the accusation of cheating, the choice of precompiled code should have an algorithmic basis : For instance, something akin to Alexa rank of the .js at various CDN. That would make sure that JQuery would be precompiled, which could well be rational.

But I seriously doubt that such an objective method would include this benchmark code in the IE precompiled payload...
"This whole thing is based on the faulty premise..."

Uh, no, this whole thing is based on data collected in a study. Question the interpretation of the data or the provenance of the data based on the paper if you like, but this isn't just some sort of wild speculation, this is an explanation of the pattern contained in the data. Your "hypothesis" is not merely "an alternative possibility", it is "a thing contradicted by the data as collected", a rather different thing.
If it is Lefler then that is really Ashley Judd :
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Robin_Lefler
Watched 'Sex and Fury' last week. (Admittedly, that falls into 'Pinky Violence' genre.)
Individuals. Families and households. Cooperative spaces. Neighborhoods.
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