jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It feels weird that a containerisation technology imposes requirements on the underlying storage technology to work well, tho.

Now I understand that btrfs is not really a requirement.

But I've been thinking about using podman to replace docker-in-docker on our fleet of gitlab runners where we build our images, and running btrfs is a deal breaker. We really don't want to add complexity to the mix. Fuse-overlay burning through the whole CPU is not really good looking either. Mh.

I still have to properly dig deep into this, but I'm keeping my hopes high.
Ok? Counter example to “breaks even if you don’t drive it”
The problem with that is that it doesn't change the color of the text back, so you get white on white (except for the buttons).
That's great feedback, thanks!

I still find a lot of value without commission as my preferred investing style was unwieldy to do manually. I suppose it depends on the complexity of your index. As you approach 40+ it gets pretty time consuming.
Oh yes, but that's a much different question and is strongly conditioned by where Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are in the hype cycle (I'm using that term empirically, not normatively). You'll find at least that much negativity about other technologies and startups that have gotten to similar stages of (let's call it) ultrasuccess. Just look at the threads on Airbnb or Uber, for example. They're so vitriolic and repetitive that thoughtful discussion is almost impossible. We can speculate about the reasons for this but it definitely doesn't have to do with sentiment against new tech; it's a later-stage phenomenon.
Maybe try some other tool. Segment.io is decent.
So probably 10MWh to build a Tesla, before even driving it?
If you hit an adult, it's assault.

If you hit your dog, it's animal abuse.

If you hit your spouse, it's domestic violence.

Even drill sergeants aren't allowed to hit recruits.

But if you hit your children– people who can't possibly defend themselves, people who depend on you to survive... it's allowed. It's even encouraged by a significant fraction of parents today. To me, this seems like a glaringly immoral exception to a general rule: only use violence in defense of self or others. After all, pets can be controlled without hitting. Why can't kids?
Looks really interesting!

Would it be possible to use OpenStreetMap data?

http://planet.openstreetmap.org/
I would call it half-hearted.
And if you're gay and try to flee persecution and claim asylum in Australia, they send you to Papua New Guinea. Where being gay is a crime.
OVH like to dick around with the kernels on their VPS and dedicated servers. You can work around it but I really wish they didn't do this.
yay.

I used the first edition. Skipped the second edition entirely as I knew the third was coming Real Soon Now.

I've been wanting to get back into hardware but have been delayed by my wait for this book.
Link to the original source, for those who want an updating total: http://www.humblebundle.com/ .
Nice resolution - helps a lot imo.
What's wrong with "The Western Hemisphere"? The world's a sphere (roughly), so any way to denote longitudinal halves is going to be arbitrary.

Are you saying that we just shouldn't use hemispheres at all (save maybe Northern and Southern because they're not arbitrary) and instead say things like "North and South America" or "Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia"?

I do agree that it's not a great a little awkward because the very western parts of Europe and Africa are technically in the Western hemisphere. But it is a much shorter way of denoting things than listing continents.
One difference is that Heroku and similar are fairly young companies, whose infrastructure was largely built in "the cloud" and for "the cloud." Whatever preconceptions the builders had about the charactaristics of the underlying environment, they started learning the reality and adapting to it relatively early in the project.

Netflix is a sizable and successful business. It's more than a decade old. Their streaming business launched only 4 years ago, more than 6 months before EC2's general availability, and almost 2 years before EBS, and it would be even longer before any of it was a reasonable choice for a company of their size, launching a new service building off their existing customer base, that had to succeed to allow the company to navigate a major transition that the company had been planning for for years.

The similarities and differences in their experiences would be interesting and probably informative, particularly if considered against the vastly different starting points.
It is zone file from the last night (or day). It requires free account from Verisign for .COM and .NET. I used such account for a while.

edit: "Zone file" is the file containing the records of all registered domains in a zone (.com or .net). Last time I checked it was something 80M records for .com
I am sure they exist, but the fact I didn't hear of any cool ones says a lot. I never see a cool "Show HN" start-up which is from the Muslim middle-east.

And to remind you, we are talking about the entire Muslim middle-east here, with >100 million people who live in relative wealth and comfort. But Google is investing in Palestine, who are only a few millions who live in poverty and danger.
Why are you generating styling at all? It's not dynamic information. It's a static asset that can be cached.

Semantically correct markup uses fewer tags, so the output is smaller (also, there'd be no online styling, which would also make the page smaller). Even a small difference on a popular site could matter. But only you can answer that for HN.

Look, do what you want. You want to write bullshit markup, be my guest. But there isn't a single web dev in this community who would code output like this for their own site. They're just too chickenshit to tell you.
Indeed http://www.startuparabia.com/navigate/countries/palestine/
Putting the space plane under the rocket instead of on top seems like a really good idea. Using a first-stage turbojet/scramjet combo to take advantage of the readily available oxidizers in the lower atmosphere seems like it could be a huge weight and cost saver. The railgun sounds flashy and probably unnecessary, but the acceleration is so low that it may actually be practical.
Works great! You should add a couple of extra registrar options (I use GoDaddy) so you can get the affiliate commission.
I didn't read the entire article (the buzzwords were carpet-bombing my brain cells). But I'm wondering how different from email will FB's mail be? Will it be a blend of, basically, Google Wave, FB updates and regular Email? Is this why Lars Rasmussen joined FB, so he could continue working on his ideas that inspired Wave?
I guess we'll know on Monday. I'd rather wait to see what FB says, than read some buzzwordy drivel.
Has modern education become so jaded that it now plays out as farce, where learning is not the goal but gaming the system is?...I have never understood this mind-set.

There is a certain degree of faith needed to want to make progress toward some distant and difficult goal. If you don't believe the rewards are going to be there when you complete the journey, there is really no point in even starting down.

The two rewards I can immediately think of with respect to learning are: the ability to approach the problems you find in life with a deeper and more enlightened understanding, and as a result are in a better position to generate a lot of value for humanity; and the feeling of satisfaction from having gained understanding into something that isn't trivial. You have to believe one or both of these things will happen before you start, otherwise you'd being doing something difficult for no reason at all.

The reason why it seems beyond my comprehension, and perhaps the reason why it feels beyond your comprehension as well, is that there are people who don't believe this. They think that there is no sense of enlightenment at the end of learning, or that this sense of enlightenment isn't worth the effort. They think that whatever they end up learning will be of no practical value, and that it is only practical things that hold value to people in general.

They believe, quite honestly, that learning will get them right back to where they are now, except for the practical value of the sheet of paper they receive at the end.

In short, I think people, if they ever had it, have lost the faith. It doesn't matter what you learn, so you should make the process of running in circles on as flat a plot of ground as possible.

The difference, at least for me, is that I haven't yet lost the faith. I see value in learning, both in an intrinsic sense of accomplishment, and a societal effect of being able to make a bigger impact on things people use. The positive feedback loop is there now; unfortunately, it has been with me for so long, I can't actually recall what got it started.

If the positive feedback loop doesn't start though, the lack of it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. You end up in social groups where learning is discouraged, and where things that are practical now are much more valued. Once you fall in with the social group that fits your point of view, it takes quite a revelation to reach escape velocity from the same.

So, this comes down to yet another question, which I still don't know the answer to: how do you motivate people to take an example as part of a more fundamental truth, rather than an exception that proves their point of view? I wonder if it involves forcefully weaning them from the teat they've discovered the more intelligent amongst us are willing to provide and for far less of a cost than the value people get out of it.

I really wonder, as I did in another comment on this article, how much of this is really a product of past behaviors of those of us who love to learn. It seems as though we thought positive reinforcement is the answer; maybe we should revisit that.
The examples I'm surprised no one has mentioned so far: C and C++. (gcc is written in C. clang is written in C++. Just about every C or C++ compiler is written in C or C++ or both, though there are exceptions like the C compiler on the Symbolics Lisp machines.)
I wish there was a website that would aggregate all the flamebait tactics of tech-pundit personalities, and then display them on top of their articles (browser extension/greasemonkey script) so I could stop reading these ridiculous articles upon reaching the author line.
Pretty sure I've got the encoding problems handled.
I think this is the salient point for startups. Painfully contrived "fun" can be a short-term win. Tech press and early adopters like it ... but only because they like being clever enough to appreciate it.

"Look at that, it gave me a badge! Normal people will eat this up!"

But then normal people fail to eat it up, and traffic goes nowhere.

Three possible ways to avoid needing contrived "fun":

1. Be immediately useful. E.g., save people money, or provide excellent search results. This is pretty straight-forward, but tends to require either amazing engineering skills or an actual business model.

2. Be a social obligation. Facebook is home to plenty of third party apps that are desperately projecting contrived fun, but FB itself is rather somber. It doesn't have to be anything else.

3. Actually be fun. This is subtle, difficult, and maddeningly subjective.
This sounds nice in theory, but can you point me to any examples of Java apps that are actually distributed this way and are less than, say, 20 MB (or some reasonable threshold for the app's complexity)? I know that, just looking at my JVM framework on my hard drive, it's more than 200MB. Is it really a practical option to shrink this footprint 98%?
Hackage has been down all day; I've uploaded a new version (0.2.1) just now which has the new condition/restart system, new REPL, and other goodies. Should be just a "cabal update; cabal install atomo" away! :)
The filter seems to work! :-)
Well, I was actually going to use the comparison to Canada (where the topic came up the other day in a discussion I was having) but while Canada's system is less progressive than compared to the US, the gap is less dramatic than with Sweden.
> Are people getting addicted? Well who are you to infringe on the tobacco industry’s right to make a buck?

There are 2 issues here:

1) Higher taxes are a very strange and indirect way of stopping something that's considered unacceptable. Suppose we made murder legal and simply taxed "hit" contracts with a very high rate. That would be crazy, right? But that seems to be our policy with cigarettes. If we're serious about stopping smoking, then we'd make it illegal, and put the tobacco companies out of business entirely.

2) Tobacco companies specifically target children, who aren't mature enough to make good choices, and then the kids get hooked on nicotine for life. So that needs to be addressed specifically. I'm amenable to protecting kids, but much less so about paternalism for adults. Again, though, I don't see tax policy as the answer here.

If you consider nicotine addiction to be a moral issue, which it might be, then there are very perverse incentives involved in taxing cigarettes, because the government is making money from something it considers immoral. I would also mention the addiction that many state governments have to lottery ticket revenue.
A few years ago I gave up on my own XMPP server and moved to Telegram because Signal wasn't ready.

Recently I have moved to Signal because, after the WhatsApp opportunity, I had to move my non-tech savvy family members to something better, and I suspect Telegram isn't it (I can't understand how it is funded, it is too "magic").

But it is rough, specially compared to Telegram.

For example: there's no way I'll share my phone number to chat with strangers, whilst on Telegram I have an anonymous username I can use.

But even forgetting about that, it is the small things, like it can't record and send a video (you can record it out of the app, and then send it from Signal; at least on Android), or the atrocious desktop app.

I'm happy it exists and I'll stick with it because they're supposed to be "the good guys", but I'm hopping it improves before I have to admit it was a mistake and I should have trusted Telegram.
Settlements are something, but don’t address the root cause:

> But despite increased attention, it’s still rare for police officers to face criminal prosecution.
No, we are not all doing this. Over the last year, we have done pick-up on all our restaurant meals, along with nice tops for the staff. We are cutting out the sleazy middleman, and ensuring the margins on our meals go 100% to the restaurant.
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Yeah, I think Sacca is just trying to sell himself as a good guy. I'm skeptical any of these companies will succeed (I only looked at a few but underwhelmed is an understatement), and unless Sacca is putting a significant amount of his own capital behind this initiative it's hard to believe he cares about it more than he cares about being rich. And I think that's what this is about - a rich guy trying to improve his image.
Usually - word of mouth and solving someones problem helps alot.

Can you share your product? Who knows, maybe you will get your first paying customer ;)
The sample size is perfectly acceptable for a single study. The article also indicates further research will be done.

The claim perfectly summarizes the findings of their research, contained to this study.

That fact that the conclusion is limited to the study is implied. It's expected to be naturally understood by all.

Imagine headlines if they had to explain every single bit of nuance. That's what the article itself is for.
we have generally higher wages and prices on the low end (that is, the rest of the population and high minimum wages), and comparatively lower wages compared to the US coasts for tech/stem. That high minimal wage and remoteness affects the price of a lot of things.

That being said, the original poster is a little bit off, as both Sydney and Melbourne have inner-city transport options and infrastructure that outcompete practically all American cities in that regard, and punches pretty damn well on a worldwide basis (behind only a few cities that are notable specifically because they are world leaders).
Not for me, on either iOS or OSX.
FPGA designer here. Just wanted to point out that “efficiency” is highly context sensitive in FPGA design. Everything is an area / speed / power trade-off. If you only need a ram that is 8-bits wide and 64 words deep then it might be way inefficient to waste a dedicated 18kbit block ram on it when it would fit better into 2 LUTs. This is why Xilinx, for one, provides pragma such as RAM_STYLE to help guide synthesis:

(* ram_style = "distributed" *) reg [data_size-1:0] myram [2**addr_size-1:0];

block: Instructs the tool to infer RAMB type components.

distributed: Instructs the tool to infer the LUT RAMs.

registers: Instructs the tool to infer registers instead of RAMs.

ultra: Instructs the tool to use the UltraScale+TM URAM primitives.

See: https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xili...

edit: formatting*
Tl;dr This landmark judgement holds void Section 66A of India's Information Technology Act that made material on social networking sites that were "offensive, caused annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will" punishable by upto 3 years in jail and a fine. This provision was widely used by politicians in power to stifle dissent.
The 520 is a great phone. It's snappy and definitly feels smoother than low or mid-end android phones. WP8.1 is pretty awesome on weaker hardware.
Generally I enjoy reddit, but when it goes wrong it really goes wrong. It shows the side of itself many prefer to ignore, that being that the petty whims and power plays of mods become more important than the discussions
Not to sound posh, but I miss the Maps feature.

I have a basic phone and the only reason I hold to my iPad at all times is the fear of being given an appointment at a place I can't find.
Neither flash nor java are "enabled by default.". I think that's a poor analogy. JavaScript engines are built directly into the browser.
What I find funny is that this website uses flash itself.
There's a Manhattan in New York and in Kansas. Each is the best choice for some people.

Manhattan Kansas rocks (or did when I was there). :)
To confirm, your intuitions are correct.

I wonder if it's harder to figure out _what_ is better about your split tests as the tests themselves become larger, though.
clickable http://orangeslyce.com
It may sound hard but most of it is pretty mundane. Scraping the NIST database is just a program visiting pages for wavelength ranges 0-100, 100-200 etc. to get all the data. Then it parses the HTML tables into a hash table indexed by element name ("H", "O", "C", "Na") which gives for each element an array of pairs of floating point numbers (wavelength of spectral line, strength of spectral line).

Talking to the spectrometer is boring too: you have your program execute some other program that comes with the spectrometer, which talks to the spectrometer and saves a file containing a list of floating point numbers which describes a graph like this (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5d/Spectra-...) with data points. The floating point numbers come in a weird format that the standard floating point parsing function can't handle, so you munge it a bit with a regex.
Ok then, check out this awesome DSL example screencast in common lisp:
http://lispm.dyndns.org/news?ID=NEWS-2005-07-08-1

I don't know how much common lisp you know, but you asked for a real example.

Also check out this awesome talk by Shriram Krishnamurthi: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Talks/SwineBeforePe... (audio and slides). It uses scheme. There are many more examples, but these are just off the top of my head.
If you watch the video, it specifically addresses these two concerns -- it is an ultra-light aircraft so a pilot's license isn't necessary, and it's VTOL so you don't need a runway or airport.
Not saying it will work, but these specific objections aren't relevant to this particular whirlygig.
Actually, I've worked on a hand gesture recognition thing on web for quite some time (http://api.alii.tv/). The unfortunate part is, that is a plugin, and it is really hard to make a plugin compatible with every machine in wild.
Your comment was completely off topic. You said there was a big difference between zero-mariginal-cost stealing and entirely-mariginal-cost stealing. Of course there is, but that has nothing to do with the arguments in the discussion. That's why I said you weren't following the discussion and explained the discussion to you.

Now you've rewritten your comment to remove the part about taking money out of someone's wallet and summarized it as "Your statement is true but that doesn't justify a conclusion [that you never asserted]". But the wallet part of your comment was important to your comment and is the reason I replied as I did.

The topic of my comments was about the parallel btwn no marginal cost activities (someone denied it with a bad argument, and I said so), so your reply to me (yes it was a reply to me, or you wouldn't have it nested under me) was off topic and missing the point of what I was talking about. It now sounds like you wanted to be talking to the original poster, krschultz, not me, which would have made more sense.
I went to a variety of in-state schools. My advice to people selecting a school for an undergraduate degree is to decide the sort of environment you want to live in for the next four years, then select a school in that type of environment.

There's a Manhattan in New York and in Kansas. Each is the best choice for some people.
I thought it was amusing until I read that:

#define LOBYTE 0377
#define STRIP 0177
#define QUOTE 0200

I can deal with preprocessor abuse but octal crosses the line...

Also, in case anybody would have the bad idea to take inspiration from that code, don't do that:

#define MAX(a,b)	((a)>(b)?(a):(b))

It evaluates the macro parameters twice.

Although, on second thought, don't do anything like that code anyway.
Yea, looks like they are using self-signed ssl certificate.
"I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb." - Sergey Brin. Maybe a little self centered but true.
Why not use libuv right away?
You're missing the point. What is the probability that someone flipping a fair coin will flip 20 heads in an unbroken sequence? The answer is 2^-20 = about 9.5 * 10^-7.

Next question. How many people need to be flipping coins for one of them to have a better than even chance to flip 20 heads in a row? Answer: about 3/4 million.

Next question. How many investors are there in the world? Answer: many more than 3/4 million.

Next question. If someone among millions of investors makes 20 successful market picks in an unbroken sequence, what's the probability that he will attribute that outcome to blind chance, and what is the probability he will start selling a book titled "Secrets of the Winners" on late night TV?

My point? When confronted by an unexplained occurrence, it's wise to consider the possibility that it's a random outcome. This is called the "null hypothesis" and it's the first possibility a scientist considers.
Viewed just in terms of gameplay, it's low-stress. You can pretty much always stop and think, very few puzzles are timed, very few puzzles come down to "twitch".

On the other hand the antagonist of the game is an abuser, and directs a steadily increasing stream of gaslighting and verbal/emotional/physical abuse at you as the game proceeds. Personally I find it over-the-top enough to just be funny, but YMMV
Yeah, I think you are in agreement.

It’s worse than that though, because I’d be afraid to say anything contrary to the activist’s opinions. I don’t want to be stalked or harassed. The company is extremely tolerant of what employees say, the activists not so much.