jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the info! I'll look into Kirby more. I love the theme you're using, super simple and to the point, nothing distracting from the content
Two weeks ago I had -32C in MN and it didn’t set any records.
It is simpler to persuade those few daemons that want to update resolv.conf to do something else (e.g. talk to networkmanager), than to ensure that every program that directly reads resolv.conf is updated for the new syntax.

Programs are not supposed to read resolv.conf and implement their own resolver anyway (due to nss), but many still do.
If the mask was made of a material that's transparent to CCTV cameras it would be "galling", yes. That's basically what's happening here.
That's a pretty big leap. The OP was talking about putting their phone in a drawer, not throwing people in jail without a trial. I, for one, don't blame them one bit.
From: p...@cs.stanford.edu (Lawrence Page)
Subject: Q: Setting User-Agent Field?
Date: 1996/01/07
Message-ID: <page-0701962007020001@qwerty.stanford.edu>#1/1
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organization: Stanford University
reply-to: p...@cs.stanford.edu
newsgroups: comp.lang.java
it's pretty simple.

OS: Linux
programming language: Ruby
web server: Apache + Passenger
database management system: Mysql
server-side web framework: Ruby on Rails
- includes ORM
client-side web framework: jquery + backbone.js
deployment: capistrano

and adjust those settings when it doesn't work for you.

worked for all my projects, and I did some really non-trivial CRUD applications.
Emm... but why not write codes? I think, for example, code down algorithm is both good to understand the practical side of comp sci as well as a better way to remember algorithm.
Two more thoughts here:

1 - This is almost entirely a fiction phenomenon, at least for now. While there are plenty of nonfiction books priced at 99 cents, the books on the Kindle Top 100 are consistently all-fiction. Even bigger name nonfiction authors who are traditionally or self-published, including NYT bestsellers, are finding it near impossible to hit or stay on that list.

2 - Many of those self-pubbed fiction writers on the kindle top 100 list are using the 99 cent price point for single books as points of entry or loss leaders (though they're actually still making money) into a funnel for a much bigger body of work. Amanda Hocking and J.A. Konrath experimented with rotating certain books into the 99 cent slot knowing that once a reader likes their style, fiction readers often attach to the author in a way nonfiction readers dont. That fuels them to want to read the authors other books...for $2.99 to $4.99. So one 99 cent book can lead to many more higher priced sales and readers for life.
In total, it would be more dangerous. If you have an audited application to handle a particular type of data, then downloading countless unaudited applications from unknown sources is less secure.
same larry.
page@cs.stanford.edu, in 1996
Web development is not broken, it is just non-trivial; you need to think at different levels of abstraction: server-side, client-side, database, etc., and there are usually different technologies for each.

But web-based software is taking over the world; empirically it is not broken, it is very very successful.

And if you want to imagine some magical technology that solves these problems, you are probably falling for the silver bullet fallacy - anything that is advanced enough to solve complex problems (which web software now does) needs to be sufficiently complex to solve those problems. And any abstraction layer is likely to suffer from leaky abstractions (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...)

That's not to say that improvements can't be made (Rails is one example that aims to make the web development process more coherent and consistent), but fundamentally (and empirically) it works.
Full headers at https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java/msg/88fa10845...
This. However I wonder what it would be like to ride a bike on two rolling-roads so that the front and back wheels moved in opposite directions. Or, indeed, a trike/quad with large coaxial wheel separation and contra-rotating rolling-roads.
Security flaws in financial institutions has got to be one of my greatest fears. Wall street doesn't understand software[0][1] yet they rely so heavily on it with algorithmic trading[2]. The day that something goes terribly wrong, they're going to have no idea what happened...

[0] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/09/six-year-old-st/
[1] http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-gol...
[2] http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_o...
The fact that the NHTSA formula gives a score of 5.4 doesn't mean that NHTSA recognizes the car as superior to those with a technical score of 5.3. To put it differently, if a class gives a grade of A,B,C,D,or F, having a numeric score of 99 versus 98 is somewhat irrelevant if the ultimate grade is A in both cases.

If they really did want to make a distinction, they'd introduce a new scoring metric that does allow for those differences
>* The claim in wikipedia says that it has more general affinity to the gallo-romance group than to the ibero-romance group. I may be wrong, but I read that as "it is more similar to french/italian than to spanish/portuguese".*

There might be a terminology mismatch here and you are talking about different things.

Perhaps the core language (syntactic structure, regular verb conjugation patterns, core words) is very like Spanish and that comment on Wikipedia is referring many non-core words in the common vocabulary being pulled from languages common in other neighbouring areas.

Caveat: I am no linguist nor do I speak anything much other than Correct English and American English.
That makes a lot of sense. Once you get to a certain point where the core of the functionality is built and the rest seems easy and/or tedious, it might be tempting to hand that part off to someone more interested/with more time/etc. wouldn't it?
Good idea, Good design. Keep it up!
GUI. I suppose GUI is an entirely new category of pc, but its still a personal computer.
Well, to be fair, your life would probably suck pretty hard if the market was to stay offline. Tis the world we inhabit :)
I anticipate allowing undercover cops to go unrecorded will prompt police departments to make all cops undercover. To better serve the public of course.

I think any authority that accepts money from the public should be obligated to surveil themselves. Not just cops, but federal, state, and local regulators as well. What you do on the public's dime should be publicly available, with an API to your speech and location.
Ironically funny how wrong this article was. Especially considering SPA frameworks like Angular decorate HTML with framework specific attributes, I don't think we'll ever see HTML replaced with anything. Libraries like React.js by Facebook actually abstract the DOM quite a bit, to the point where you can use it on the server side using a virtual DOM, however the virtual DOM still operates on the premise of HTML markup (just not markup you can see).

Kind of reminds me of the statements people were making about Apple when they announced the iPhone and how it would fail.
There are two reasons why many companies run a closed source database. For some types of databases, there is no good equivalent in open source. For some types of workloads, the closed source implementations are orders of magnitude more efficient, faster, or scalable than anything in open source, so open source cannot reasonably support the workload.

It happens more often than you'd think. There are still many things in the database world that open source does relatively poorly compared to alternatives.
I wonder how the higher floors would be in a building like that? I'm on the 97th of the Sears Tower, and there are days when it is rather uncomfortable as the building sways. Are the newer buildings, with mass dampers, immune to this?
One interesting aspect FDB was offering is the multi-model approach. Fortunately, there are still true open source alternatives for this like ArangoDB and OrientDB.
See, they're not selling customer data to another company, they're just selling the part of Radio Shack that owns the customer data! Totally different!
That's modern day software development/management for you. Thank the MBAs
How do you not think about work outside of work though? My current job is a shitshow, and I would like my thought towards it to only happen 9–5 while I get paid, but my brain is always thinking about whatever I’m stuck writing code about even during my weekend or outside work hours. I don’t work outside work hours but I can’t stop the thinking either. You make it sound like there is an on off switch, but I don’t seem to find mine. Do you have any tips?
That's harder to accomplish on a video
It ain't tesla
Are you American? Because high cost of health insurance does not deter risky behaviors towards health or a glaring lack of responsibility.
Summary of purported benefits of Flutter over React Native:

- User interface based on Material Design and Cupertino

- Performance due to compiled code

- Cross-platform

- Firebase support

- Community support

- Hot reload

It does sound attractive. The article is informative and quite convincing.
I don't listen to music anymore while working. I found myself either distracted, or spending a lot of time checking for something that fits my current mood w/o it being distracting. Plus, I got a new workstation and can't bother to login to my Spotify there.
It's a good point, but, to be fair to parent commenter, they may have meant something different.

I think they may be referring to the phenomenon of walking away and having the solution "come to you" while doing something else. It took me a while to appreciate this, but simply walking away is often the fastest way for me to solve a hard problem. There I am, lying in bed, or cooking, or whatever, and BOOM the solution is presented to me - just like the divine inspiration described by so many. Of course, now we (hopefully) know that it's probably less a matter of intervention and more a matter of brain chemistry, but true regardless.
I'm sorry, but this is relevant to the original article in what way? No such courtesies were afforded to the author until long into the ordeal. (By my count of the author's timeline, ~2.5 hours after he stepped into the security lines.) The author mentioned explicitly that he cleaned his apartment and the TSA agent refused to give any indication that that might be cause for the flagging for explosives.

Regardless, contrarian anecdotal evidence does nothing to diminish the questionable approach to how airport security is, and in the author's case was, handled.
In our environment, blocking all traffics from data centers are effective to prevent malicious attacks. You can get the data center ranges from IP2Proxy database.

We need to whitelist a few important servers that we are working with to prevent lock-down of good traffics.
Right, I’d concede you have a point if it weren’t the entire fucking US Internet hell-bent on doing this.

This comment exists in every thread every time yet another company acquiesces to the new moral police. I’m not personally interested in reimplementing Twitch, Amazon, Twitter, Stripe, email, and a bank.

It is extraordinarily unhealthy for society to completely bifurcate into two mutually exclusive enclaves that ban their political opponents wrongthoughts and seek to destroy the lives of those who transgress. That is the path we are on and it will not end well.
Set the sentence for prosecutorial/judicial misconduct to be the same time as the defendant has served so far. That way there is some incentive to come clean sooner.

In other words, the longer you hide your misdeeds or cover up others', the longer your sentence will be if and when the misconduct is uncovered.
So you don’t use two factor?
So you think as a compensation for that risk police officers shouldn't be held liable for taking innocent people to prison with their misconduct?
Woke political correctness gone wrong. Nothing about getting kids back to school, until just recently -- but all about virtual signaling by the school board.

Glad they put aside this issue, but even on the face of it's seems insane to me.
Seattle cops similarly make bank. Of course, police pay is heavily effected by local cost of living, but Seattle cops make tons of overtime. I just learned there is a minimum three-hour overtime pay, meaning much of the overtime payout isn't even physically worked: https://www.theurbanist.org/2020/09/04/seattle-police-fleeci...
I like this style as well, we keep all our scripts in a ./bin directory, e.g. ./bin/lint.sh, ./bin/test.sh, etc. just as discoverable as make commands (run ls ./bin) and much easier to maintain.

If you really want make, you can also just call out to your bash scripts from make:

test:
./bin/test.sh
lint:
./bin/lint.sh
...
I see it as a cynical cash grab rather than a toy.
Yet the regime that regardless of sexual orientation prevents free travel without checkpoints suspecting terrorism of all...
Getting a haircut, or getting disposalists to handle rubbish, are both professions which require a degree of training and experience. I'm paying for a service I could not do myself.

I feel like having a person deliver food or do my laundry is at the other side of the spectrum. I can do both things, and its obvious that those who are working in those jobs roles are not in the economic bracket to afford it themselves.
Seconded - there are some interesting/challenging social dilemmas ahead for the 1st world in particular.
I would imagine that this wouldn't normally be as big of an issue if it wasn't a service offered in SF or NY, where there is already a lot of animosity around wealth and its impact on the community around it.
There's another article on HN today that could be of interest to you, where signups increased by 60% when they moved signups from the front page. YMMV.

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/signup-...
I am not able to access the URL. Seems to be broken.
Yeah, but you have to monetize that larger market, and the Android world seems very much oriented around getting free stuff: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/05/distimo-june-2010/

I think it's calmed down a bit recently, but a few months ago, it seemed that a lot of the ads from UK retailers for Android phones heavily pushed the fact that there "x0,000 FREE applications" available. That's liable to create a culture where end-users begin to expect to get everything for free, which doesn't strike me as an appealing prospect for developers.

Contrast this to the Apple world, where for all the bitching about arbitrary approval rules, the App Store provides a means by which users can easily and happily pay for your product. This ease of monetization is the main reason, I suspect, why newspaper/magazine publishers have rushed headlong to embrace the iPad, as compared to websites, it's a lot more obvious how they might be able to extract value for their efforts.

Just look at how Angry Birds costs a dollar on the App Store, but is (currently) free on Android Marketplace. I don't know if the Android version has ads, or if Rovio plan to charge for it in future, but I'd imagine it's going to be a while before it becomes as lucrative for them as the iOS version.
Put Things Off, the laid-back to-do list for iPhone, was built in my spare time over the 9 months or so.

The 'web tasks' feature is backed by Google App Engine, and the push notification system uses the C++ based Manic Messenger ( http://www.manicnetworks.com/ ) as a proxy.

I've learned a lot building it and welcome your feedback if you'd like to share it.
Well... as far as I know, json by itself is just objects with fields, these fields are either objects or string values. Of course you can do all you mention but you'll have to build a convention on top of json. So reading these json payload would require more than just knowledge of json, it would also require knowledge of what are these fields or objects that carry special interpretation meaning and what to do about it.

A lot of these conventions are available the XML standards. Of course if they had started with something like json the result would be less verbose but maybe not that simple either.
What libraries did you use?
This, while 100K wont be much in SF, I don't think people realize how much that is in other states (and how much you get to take home). Where I live after 80K is already a senior developer position, and that's still in the US (Florida).
By definition, it still has to be loaded in RAM, so this strategy is unfortunately moot.
It's a statically-typed and compiled language, by most accounts you can expect it to be faster in a lot of places.

This has more to do with the interpreter, of course, you can compete with PyPy.
I thought they meant on the supply side - I imagine most half-decent software engineers would leave a startup for 300K a year almost anywhere
Hi @wannabebarista. So did you mean you target SEO in the first place?
> PPP makes no sense when it comes to comparing data usage between countries.

We are not comparing data usage, we are comparing the value of two different currencies. The value of 100 US$ in India is different from that in the US or the EU. In order to normalise the value between two currencies, PPP is used. It doesn't matter what the 100US$ is spent on, data or food.
If that sub ever gets popular it will get shut down, seeing as china funds and controlals reddit.
Thats pretty much how I remember them as well. And you could use plucker to crawl all the news site and compile a single archive of todays news, to read on the train - offline ofcourse. Everything was offline back then and I kind of begin to miss that :) - I read several books on a palm - all of Harry Potter, some A. C. Clarke and HHGTTG. The thing could go on forever.
> a rented server in some datacenter is not self-hosting

It is though. Don't be elitist.
even a hardcoded PIN is correct 1/10000 of the time
Because they would love to do it, if it didn't affect their careers detrimentally.

Any study on Facebook data would generate several papers in good publications, great for the more scholarly inclined working at Facebook
So you are saying that US don't want competition in the region? Because what you described: "Control of Yemen and Bahrain, being a controlling force in Syria and Lebanon and making Iraq a Vassal state and controlling the Gulf" is exactly what US is trying to do since years in the region, no?
If you use bash, read the "Command Line Editing" section of "info readline".
The problem is the 'rich guys' are using the average Joes money, often lent to/invested with them by banks and pensions funds to try and secure the largest return possible.

Even if they're using their own money, the cynic inside me predicts that if/when the house of cards comes crashing down, Mr and Mrs Taxpayer will be asked to 'stabilise' the industry in the interests of national economic security.
From what I've seen (and I may be wrong here), I think the post that enters the front page stays on the top just for a short amount of time, before gradually settling down on a position determined by the time it's been there, the votes it's got and flags. The post will keep sliding down with time.
Edited: Clarifying.
I don't partically like the terminology "the cloud," but it is becoming ubiquitous. So, "cloudification" might work.
+1 for ChinesePod
I'm pretty sure such regions could be just a few meters away from each other - the two sides of a hill crest.

Remember, there's no atmosphere, and the day is 14 earth days.
I'm not a lawyer either.

I think different standards apply because there's a rather significant difference in the urgency between a dispute about an intruder in one's living quarters and a patent or intellectual property lawsuit. It looks like RunwayFinder is not even trying to dispute the case and is giving up pre-emptively because they don't have the funds to fight the case.

Accepting a temporary license to postpone the lawsuit does not sound smart to me, it sounds like a ploy to allow RunwayFinder to stay online longer while FlightPrep continues to pursue licensing agreements (which the owner has no ability to pay) or legal allegations that will result in additional damages as well as an admission of the validity of the patent. But I guess now we'll just have to wait for someone who knows what they're talking about to correct one or both of us. :)
I have a humble level and did checkmate both with two bishops and with bishop and knight... yes, I've found both finals. I had learned the mecanics years before, didn't remember exactly how, but it wasn't so difficult to find the path with enough time.

What I don't want to find is queen vs. rook. I played once queen and pawn vs. rook and won, but it was painful. It seems there are some masters that are specialists in drawing in this positions, even if it should always be a win. Computers with end tables have not this problem.
Meh, I don't use touchscreens other than a phone, and even then, if I'm anywhere near a real computer instead, I'll use that over it.
why u no poll?
The CDN could have simply refreshed its DNS cache couldn't it? That would mean it loaded the files from somewhere else.
It's a vague outline for anyone learning anything, really.
Obligatory Buffett paraphase: there are no called strikes in investing (ie if you choose not to swing at an opportunity, that then turns out to be good, nobody penalizes you)

As much of Berkshire's success has been based on limiting losses as pushing successes. "Buffett declines to invest in company" is a less sexy headline than "Buffett buys large stake in X" though.

Maybe Buffett's old. Maybe Berkshire is played out. Maybe they miscalled the pandemic churn. Or maybe the market is just so screwed up now that they're declining to swing.

I believe Berkshire has always been a macro-trend company? If we're looking for someone who traded in and out of pandemic dips and bubbles, that's very much not-Berkshire.
Nuclear is uneconomical even if you totally ignore waste disposal costs.
I might have an easier time following if there were some small code examples.

For example, the article mentions that for simplicity some components require other components to exist. That sounds like something that cannot be encoded in the type system of most languages, whereas the fields present in classes within a class hierarchy are encoded in the type definition.

A code example would help me figure out if I'm following or not.
murex also passes objects. The difference is the objects are passed as UNIX byte streams but with an additional data-type meta field. So processes written in murex can have PowerShell-like objects but at the same time standard POSIX utilities can still be added to the pipeline with no additional effort.

That latter point is, in my opinion, the biggest hurdle to using PowerShell.

Of course, it ultimately boils down to personal preference and for some, .NET support is a killer feature.
The attitudes, outlook, habits of the Blender development community are healthy. Dwelling in that scene and bringing something of it with you to mundane work will make you something special.
People who ask point-blank questions whose answers are as varied
and voluminous as the gigabytes of readily googleable prose exhausted on the
subject are either high schoolers or programmers who seek quick, facile
solutions. Emacs's free-wheeling complexity is decidedly not for these people.
It’s a good thing. Now we know this isn’t an isolated incident and that the company needs to be fully shunned.
Just tried this. Note for others: between 2. and 3. you need to get back to normal mode (which is kinda obvious but...)

Thank you for the tip.
Dummy head binaural recording is the physical equivalent of that generic HRTF math. It, too, would work for 90% of the population, but not the other 10%.

Dummy head binaural recordings work perfectly for me. I can hear forwards, backwards, up, and down perfectly.

The only 5.1 -> headphone HRTF implementations I've heard that properly give directional cues mangle the sound so bad that it isn't worth it.