jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to see what happens when we finally have replicators
Hey everyone, this is my baby and I would love to get some feedback.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask anything (but I might disappear for a couple hours because I have a final coming up).

Thanks!
The easiest way (used by Russian villagers claiming to be >120) is to use your grandfather's birth certificate.
When computing various values related to navigation you sometimes need 1-cos(a) for very small values of a. If a is very close to zero then cos(a) is very close to 1, and as a varies (very sensibly) over modest ranges, the value of 1-cos(a) as computed by the naive expression bounces all over the place.

So one needs to detect when a is small and use
1-cos(a) ~ a^2/2-a^4/24

It makes a difference in some safety critical software I've written, and was removed despite the comment by a subsequent maintenance programmer. I was then contracted to fix the major problem that ensued.

A similar problem is when using the naive solution to the quadractic equation. If you have ax^2+bx+c=0 and you use x=(-b+/-sqrt(b^2-4ac))/(2a) then you run into stability problems if ac is very small and "a" is small. Then the sqrt is close to b, so for one choice on the numerator you get the subtraction of nearly equal values, giving rubbish. Then you divide by a small number and get big rubbish.

The solution in this case is to get the root where the numerator is close to 2b, and derive the second root from the first. More details if you want, but after seeing why it's hard, it's no longer interesting.
Although, as she pointed out, this argument doesn't work for car design
the answer is wrong. It's either -i or i.
I fly around 100-120k miles a year so aircraft have become a place of rest. Simply sitting on one usually puts me to sleep.

That said, I take a number of very long trips each year e.g SYD-NYC etc. and find that ordering 2 or 3 rum and cokes after dinner and diving under the blanket knocks me out for a good 8 hours. Steering clear of the in flight entertainment helps too - plain old reading is much more calming.

Never used a neck pillow as I've always found the adjustable headrest to be adequate.
A) Cash on hand has value.

B) Banks do charge them interest on that money. So their opportunity cost = (Money * (Potential return - bank interest rate), but risk also has a cost.

C) As a public company Edit:(Ahold) could sell stock and gain capital without making their numbers look bad.

IMO, if there was a 5% risk of going bankrupt it's a now brainer. If it’s less than 5% they can mitigate it by keeping more cash on hand.
The source says this temp page is made by Microsfot Word, i am pretty sure there is a clue here but i can't sniff it, and i am being serious.
Tesla isn't exactly a household name either, nor is Maxwell.
Except this will only help large employers like Google and completely screw startups. How do you compute wages when it is paid in terms of equity?

1% of Google was worth nothing in 1995. It's worth a lot today. How do you identify if a startup is the next Google when calculating wages for your auction?

The only winners of your auction will be mega corps who will pay a huge salary upfront with no equity.
I wonder what functionality eyes serve at that depth, and if none, why do the fish that live at these depths have them?
Get a partner who's a front end dev like me ;)
I don't think I'd ever use "nih" to describe making wise decisions to go build a better version of something that exists in the community already. But "NIH Syndrome", the one where every little thing requires a custom built library or framework, is almost never wise or appropriate.
The UK government is trying hard to remedy a lot of the issues raised here for software development. GCloud (catalog of SaaS services - once you are an approved supplier theoretically your "ally" patio11 suggests merely has to click and purchase is real. A similar setup for software development is underway right now.

What I am saying is, the essential problem of sales to enterprise is still making something someone wants, and finding that someone and persuading them to sign.

Edit: not disagreeing with anything patio11 says - in fact I think I am supporting the main point - government and enterprise sales ain't so different and they are gettin more similar each day.
Here you go;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGbJYk-x1sc

It took me a while to seek to my mental pointer to this.

Wendy Brown is brilliant. But some caveats to try to encourage people
to stay with it; The video is long. It's dry and academic. She's a
classic leftie. The "business" under discussion is education.

But hidden within this is one of the most cogent explanations of
financialised decorrelation of social and monetary values.
(Brown's other writing on political science is also brilliant
and worth the effort regardless of your actual personal
political position.)
I'd like to clarify one point. That is the Social Security hasn't been pay as you go since a commission headed by Alan Greenspan put forward legislation to deal with the baby boomers in the 80s. Under Reagan, Social Security went from pay-go to a trust fund. The social security crisis is not a matter of depleted resources in trust (some 2.4 trillion in 2009 - http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/supplement/2009/4a....), but a crisis of whether the US government will pay these Treasury Bonds at face value or not. The real crisis is the government not having the political will to tax in order to pay its debts.

http://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/fundFAQ.html#n7
Minor correction: there does not have to be at least one parent commit. A commit can have no parent. The root commit, for example, should be parentless.

A repository can have more than root. For instance, I have a repository that was formed from merging two separate repositories. From a code history point of view, the two repositories are unrelated, so in the merged repository each has its own root.
I've landed solidly in "always reset" territory. There are just so many inconsistencies between browsers/platforms that I'd rather have everything looking as consistent as possible, and work from there. It does add extra garbage to Firebug, but it's worth not having to debug a display issue on a browser on a platform that I don't have access to.
Being able to do all your cool stuff in the usually boring enterprise world is the interesting part. If you don't need to integrate with container dit or java product dat there is no real need for scala.
Please point out the "shortcomings" of Java. It has done quite well and provably "scales" from programming in the small to enterprise level. Even the required detour of multi-core resulted in the industry's gold standard of memory models: JMM.

"Much smaller language specification" is a red herring. The issue is (practical) comprehension.

"C was a well designed language that was later added onto haphazardly and you ended up with C++."

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Evolution-C-Bjarne-Stroustrup/d...

I've read that book. (Have you?) Nothing "haphazard" about C++.
The U.S. Constitution absolutely cannot be amended by Congress.
Despite the interesting content, I'm compelled to ask: does anyone actually watch progress bars?
Interesting history of the suit. But while the article sees a future for the suit, to me the suit is history. Suits once denoted upper class, and sumptuary laws prevented lower classes from looking upper. Now suits denote lower middle management in an old economy company. No one aspires to that. Jeans, sweats and t-shirts are the new class separator, indicating which of us have earned the freedom from having to wear suits.
Yeah, https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync.

There's a decent guide here: https://ubuntu.com/blog/safely-backup-google-photos.

I run this every night on a raspberry pi, syncing them to my local NAS which is in turn backed up to cloud storage.
I am also an avid equestrian but support myself and my hobby on my own (which also costs more than my share of the rent). And I have to admit, I feel a bit envious of those who managed to make a fool work and sustain them without caring the smallest amount. But I hope it will bite her back the day you will leave her because you sound too miserable to stay in this relationship.
You might be confused but there is a high possibility that such communities have a job section as well as useful content for those who have already moved. We suggest looking through a few websites where you will definitely find vacancies for candidates from all over the world:

ExpatCareers.com
Expat.com
Expatica.com
Iamexpat.nl
It's a verb too, i.e. cocking a rifle, cocking your head. "Cocky" is also a commonly used adjective. It is an entirely benign word in most contexts.
A young woman was caught on film vaping - it is inconclusive to me it was THAT young woman.
I am wondering about this too. Tax compliance is complicated and Stripe doesn't do much for you on this front.
Scanning the title I quickly thought "Duh of course you can". But the complications of that have been eating at me for an hour now.

I can imagine of world of horrible patent trolls who have AI generating "art" constantly just so they can claim the work for themselves when a human artist creates something similar.

Thinking much further into the future: what will be really freaky is when society decides that only the AI has the right to copyright the AI's work.
Tesla's not a tech company, it's a car company.

Tech companies make money because the cost of scaling a tech service to support more users is pennies on the dollar. Just spin up more servers - most of your expenses are fixed, regardless of whether you serve 2 users, or 2 million. This is why Wall Street fawns over them.

Unless Tesla has built a Star Trek replicator, it's not a tech company. It's a car company, that must spend 95 cents on building a car, to secure 1 dollar of revenue from selling it.
Could be all kinds of reasons, most having nothing to do with you. Agree with others that there's little harm in being a squeaky wheel--ping them several times at reasonable intervals.

Beyond that, though, always ask yourself whether you want to work for a company that seems incompetent or rude in their recruiting. They're generally on their best behavior now. What will things be like after you're hired?
If you're on Android, you can use Dimmer to go below minimum brightness:

https://f-droid.org/app/giraffine.dimmer
Look up fast twitch vs slow twitch muscles.
Only a few hundred connections, and iftop is showing very low traffic (does that capture SYN floods?). I get the feeling people might be DOSing as a proof-of-concept then backing off, which I appreciate.
Hacker News is just super on the ball,
it out-paced actually updating the website.

Still when I built julia this morning, from the 1.3 banch,
I can confirm the -RC5 label was gone.
The value of gold in any of those technologies is only worth as much as the alternatives that accomplish the same effects. Gold as a concurrency is completely detached from gold as a useful commodity.
He doesn't say that Brazil's refusal occurred in 1997 but rather shortly after he was elected.
The federal FTC has also indicated it considers some of the state/local transport regulatory regimes anti-competitive, though it's not clear they have any legal authority to interfere with local determination.
Personally, I wish for an ARM notebook market coming out of the Chromebook, with different configurations for Chrome OS and Ubuntu etc.
Netflix DVDs by mail : Netflix streaming :: Uber : Driverless Uber
No, and I honestly can't think of how you interpreted that. Please explain.

EDIT: Oh, wait, I think I get it: you see the U.S. as a safe heaven, a place people should go to escape dictatorships, a place where their rights would be respected. Is that it?
Show me the line of the Constitution that lets you travel by air.

Show me the line that says it has to have such a line.

Article the eleventh .... The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Article the twelfth ... The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights)

Further, show me the line of the constitution that specifies the technology by which any of its rights are to be executed.
I had the same experience. They only asked about things I haven't focused on or cared about in over 20 years.

The person on the other side of the design interview also seemed very inexperienced and wasn't able to follow things that would be obvious and simple to anyone who has actually done system architecture.
> "This is your last free member-only story this month. Sign up for Medium and get an extra one"

Well, that's about the end of medium I think.
Signal messages are not routed through your phone. Reach has it's own independent queue and the phone can be off and you'll still receive messages on the desktop client.

I would also state that it is unfair to compare an app that doesn't have to worry about your privacy and solving real engineering problems vs basically making a web app that can easily sync your data because it's all stored on someone else's computer.

If that's the level of privacy you're setting you may as well use email for communicating. It's federated, it's easy to use, and everybody has one.

All that said, I do agree the Signal desktop app needs some work, but they'll get there eventually, and in the meantime I don't have to wonder if any of my data will be leaked to anyone outside of my intended recipient.
> I don't think there is mastery in this work.

I take it one step further, I don't believe mastery exists, or rather we don't have a consistency on what mastery 'is'.

I prefer the saying something along the lines of "expertise* just means you get in more trouble when you do it wrong"

* Expertise is replaced with 'black belt' for martial art expertise
here's the summary: it opens with "We recently migrated our internal CLI tool from Node JS to Golang". It's just a way to keep using the hammer they already had, no matter if the problem is a nail or not.

could be titled "how to hack your private npm server to be a OS package manager, because we don't want to learn our OS packaging"
codingdave, I think you really hit on exactly the right point, and in doing so have also spoken to my mind exactly where we've gone off the rails as an industry in our hiring practice.

When we interview people, we do so in such a way that we believe someone is capable of showing mastery of the field, where those who have been in the field a long time and agree with your philosophy here know that about all we can can hope to achieve is humility.

It also feels like this fundamental to why this field has not been able to mature to a point of being a profession in the same form as other fields - because while we can teach a lawyer the law and we can teach a doctor a particular way to perform a technique, software is all just a bit wet and sticky.
It also only gets really bad with deep dependency trees. If it's just your stuff, you probably avoid most of the issues.
Hmm.

On their front page, all the way down on their page, there is a banner I presume lists prominent clients. Among those listed is Google Compute Engine.

Are they saying that Google Compute Engine runs on top of dotCloud? Or the public site that GCE runs on?
I've got a better idea: make all these fruitcakes use the same freaking OS and stop re-inventing the same thing over and over - i.e. get the government to standardize the OS.

Oh, okay, never mind. Free market for the win.
> Worse, people who still pay any attention to paper mail are likely to send you back a reply on paper or call you. Now you need a mail room, a data entry operation, and a call center.

I'm not all that happy about paper spam either, but this makes sense depending on your target demographic. If you're selling to seniors, for instance...
Many countries other than the US have figured it out, maybe something to aspire.
Alas, I expect CVN-80 to be the last of the aircraft carrier vessels of the US Navy, so it's fitting it should be called "Enterprise".
In many societies, organizations, families, the parents can. I'm so glad where we live we have access to governmental maternal and parental leave options and we're able to make it work financially.
I think the biggest promise of NFTs is proof of patronage/bragging rights for supporting an artist. Displaying an nft piece is like a painting being on loan from a private gallery to a museum. Owner and creator are clearly designated.
Should probably rewrite it in rust, to solve the markets memory leaks, otherwise everything will keep going up.
Nazi officials implemented the Jewish badge (an identifying badge to mark Jews) between 1939 and 1945. They did so in a systematic manner, as a prelude to deporting Jews to ghettos and killing centers in German-occupied eastern Europe.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-bad...

CHART OF PRISONER MARKINGS

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/artifact/chart-of-...
It is not about the software. OpenNI is useless if there are NO MORE sensors. Xtion, structio.io all based in prime sense sensors !
Is Scotland really a country, in the sense that we usually understand the word?
Free and paid products frequently attract completely different audiences. If you go with a free beta, you may end up with the wrong product.
> How is that in any way beneficial to the product being advertised?

it isn't. But the clients of the advertisers cannot really have a say in this - the measurements of ad effectiveness tend to be done with impressions. They are optimizing for a metric that doesn't completely align with the goals of advertising
It doesn't lose selection when scrolling.
The problem is that without adblockers the web is basically useless due to too many publishers becoming too greedy and torturing their users with sometimes dozens of layer,banner,popup,popunder and scareware ads on one(!) page.
> a network service

sigh solving the same problems over and over and over

inetd, xinetd, djb's tcpserver, probably others and heck, even systemd have all offered well tested and hardened solutions this this problem.

Every generation rewrites Unix badly
amazon actually loses money on each kindle book. think about that.
In my opinion the condition of the wheels at this point in the mission profile is a 'duh', absolutely, but not necessarily a 'dud'. The investigators themselves admitted they were surprised to learn that the design of the cantilever, combined with 'sharp pointy rocks on Mars that have been stuck in place for millions of years', as well as what is a near-obvious flaw in the chevron design, produced the current conditions. Lesson learned, but hardly a surprise.

I'm not saying it was a failure, just that the cause of the problems is hardly surprising, or even unpredictable given the circumstances. But, as always, design and budget constraints produce a panoply of ways things can get - eventually - busted in production ..
It would be interesting if a group of students applied for their applications en mass (say, the entire 2012 admitted class to a University in the US) and performed statistical analysis on the resulting data. I wonder if any great numbers of students would be willing to breach their privacy to allow such a study to be run.
Great idea. Terrible moderator (watch the video).

I hope there'll be some lovecraftian mixologist contraption to up the ante a little.
I've been using fynx[1], and it seems to work for me so far.

What attracted me to fynx was that it uses Facebook's immutable-js[2] for its stores.

It would be nice to get an updated version of this comparison of available flux libraries[3].

1: http://foss-haas.github.io/fynx/
2: https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js
3: https://reactjsnews.com/the-state-of-flux/
Coming from linux, I would install a package manager first. Homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/) or MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/). Be sure to install the developer tools from Apple.
Nice write up, pretty interesting that Skype has not come out and said anything about WTF happened. Also ironic that their security blog's last posting it titled "The importance of updating" :) ( http://blogs.skype.com/garage/ )

-John
Air-quotes? Or just stick to boring words.
I'm surprised that so few other people on this comment thread seem to get it. Google Play and the associated Services ecosystem exists for the sole purpose of forbidding exactly what Amazon is trying to do. Amazon's sole purpose for this phone is as a way to get phone customers into their ecosystem first, and Google's stuff exists to get people on the Google ecosystem first. A first-party device with Google Play and Amazon services is Not. Gonna. Happen.
Except, the FTC will bankrupt you with false and misleading claims like these. If it is pitched as a toy, that's one thing but you haven't. You're just lying.
Well, and the interface is async (though in a shitty way that requires a lot of effort to wrap in sane promises) and the behavior spec is simple enough that you could plausibly have multiple implementations, which is the stumbling block that killed WebSQL.
this went from being environmentally sensitive to culling species wholesale real fast

remember last time we culled cats what happened?
drug dealing can be harmful, but you are correct otherwise of course.
You must read a lot of websites that are all forums, plain text. Web services and online stores on the other hand need techniques like this to lay out things in a way that makes sense. Imagine if Wal Mart had its cash registers in the back and only niche expensive items at the front. Sales would drop. In fact I think I just realized why malls suck so bad.
For some reason, I like this. However, I think that a voting system that 95% of the population can't even understand won't be very popular overall...
Those sites are designed oppositely. This principle applies to movies and in fact anything with a frame around it, there are certain emotions and intents communicated with framing. Think of this as website framing.
Feynman diagrams are the only thing that comes to mind - mathematicians and physicists still use a code-like notation to describe concepts. Are there any examples from those areas to use as a guide?
Why would I use Blueprint, when I could use the excellent 960 ( http://960.gs/ ) by Nathan Smith? To me all of the above choices are good as long as there is a way to use Sass ( http://sass-lang.com/ ) like in Compass ( http://compass-style.org/ ) to remove the presentation code from your markup, i.e. span-8, grid_4, etc., using sass. Compass defaults to Blueprint, but thankfully there is the excellent compass-960 plugin ( https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass-960-plugin ) so you also can use 960.

Anyway, I will try Intuit and see how it compares to the above. Thanks.
>> Bitcoin doesn't remove banks

Yes, it does in this case. One can receive money electronically through Bitcoin, without account with a bank, PayPal or Google.
$150 an hour? A day? A week? A month? A year?
This is where we are today: it’s national news to report on a now defunct blog that believes in liberal discourses and methods of discovering truth, or as close as we can get to it.

And then of course try and discredit it as heretical since some people we think are racist or their ideas may drop into the discussion from time to time.
I don't want to say "anti-pattern" because that's not what I mean...

But new tech should be the last resort.

If nothing stable, decades old, and well documented can solve the problem then reach for hot new-ness
I feel obligated to respond. Accurate information ( research, analysis and so on ) is out there though it usually you have to pay good money for it. "Free" news", as it were, is basically whatever brings attention ( which FB proved oh so very well ).

Truth is not worthless. Quite the contrary. Truth is expensive. But a fair chunk of the population subsisted on a rather limited news diet.