jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
(To make my comment clearer: there is no working compiler, no code generation, not even a proof of concept of what the compiled code would look like. It could become more interesting, but so far it's just an imaginary language making wild promises. IIRC the author also wants to code the whole stdlib in assembly for speed and because it's so 'radically different' from C...)
Additional links:

An example:
http://www.mailchimp.com/api/downloads/mc_lolclient.lol

MailChimp's interpreter:
http://code.google.com/p/mailchimp-lolcode-interpreter/
But this was the exact same situation users were in before the very first search engines: there were many directory sites with lists of places to go. Each site had a brand and users became attached to that brand.

Generic search engines were successful because they abstracted the list-based directories into generic searches. Users were more than willing to replace the many brands they used with a single brand that offered meta functionality.

I see no reason to think that we are finished abstracting. Some new service should come along and abstract away more huge parts of the internet and put it under one brand name. Users will still have their brand-loyalty, it'll just be to a conceptually larger service.

Or is there something about the current state of affairs that means it should remain fixed?
TSA agents aren't officers of the law.

You might consider it non-sexual, but try asking a rape victim instead. I most certainly consider someone touching my private parts a sexual assault; and the fact that it's institutionalized doesn't make it any less a scandal. Don't be under any illusions; people who enjoy this kind of thing will see it as an interesting alternative career choice to school janitor etc.

If the scanners become mandatory here in the UK for going to the US (they aren't on Virgin Atlantic flying out of Heathrow, last time I checked, a couple of weeks back), I'll probably have to quit my job, as I will no longer want to travel.
I love it! So many companies have made it a massive pain to use password managers, and thus unique, random and strong passwords for individual sites, all in the name of "security," using that property.

I wish all browsers/password managers would ignore it.
I tried WhatsApp, then stopped using it when it became painfully apparent that unless all my contacts use WhatsApp, it will never be a good experience for me. I don't want fragmented messaging on my phone.

Not only that, but SMS is very cheap. In Australia at least, most mobile plans come with unlimited, or more than enough SMS messages included in the plan to satisfy most people. I send a lot of text messages and it never makes any dent on my monthly bill.

What I'm getting at is, I'm puzzled why the app is worth 19 billion.
What an ironic way of proving the OP's point!

(Put another way: this is why so many STEM people get a bad rap.)
I'm slightly disappointed by the article. It's a novel and interesting topic but wired fails to explain the details of how this works and doesn't even try to explain the physics behind it. IMO it wouldn't be too difficult, since the idea is actually quite simple and can probably explained to a non-technical reader in a few sentences.

In my opinion the Figure A in this PDF really explains it well:

http://acg.cis.upenn.edu/papers/ieeemicro13_responsiveness.p...

(page 3 of pdf)
On the public company side board ownership of stock is often trivial
You can't stop a train immediately. At least Symbian/MeeGo/Android chasm has been avoided.
Or - it matters, just not as much.
It's a series of tools codifying an opinionated position on web dev workflows. There's a decent description on their homepage at http://yeoman.io/
It's that Blackberry with BES has actually decent management and security, unlike a cobbled-on-Android MDM, and the Blackberry keyboard.

The underlying OS on the Exchange server doesn't matter. That DoD is (I'm pretty sure) the world's biggest MS deployment does matter, though -- even though I prefer UNIX, if I'm in an environment where 99% of systems are Windows based, I'd build my ancillary systems on Windows, too.
That probably would've happened anyway. Nokia was far to late in the post-iPhone introduction market. In fact, I get the impression that they are slowly recovering. They have a good hardware lineup and are starting to get traction in lower-income markets (e.g. South America). Also, the Lumia 521 and 520 are now topping the non-contract phones best-seller charts on Amazon.com.
NoLED is a neat hack, but not a substitute for a built-in, reliable notification mechanism.
Not to pile on the guilt, but I swept yards when I was 11 to raise the money to buy Visual Basic for DOS 1.0 when it came out ;-) Unfortunately, the joke was entirely on me in the end!
All in good fun, StrawberryFrog :)
It's possible. Kindergarten is age 5-6.

I started with LOGO in the first grade( age 6 ), if that can be considered a programming language. I was poring over my dad's purple 8086 book by age 8 and writing some basic assembly programs.

Kids' minds are incredibly plastic. One year difference, given the wide variability of interest and abilities in a given population pool, kindergarten is not difficult to believe.
Not to get into semantics, but this meme has been going around for a while: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/luxury-vs-pr...

(link is from From DF a while ago: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/05/18/luxury-premium )
What about vimdiff, that's already installed on most (unix-based) computers?

http://andrejk.blogspot.com/2008/04/vimdiff-howto.html
Some countries even pay you to come, see Chile and its $40k grant: www.startupchile.org
And here we see an excellent specimine of a Protoss in the wild.
Wow, it's like a stationary Snowpiercer.
Whoops... I did not realize the URL was not clickable when doing a text submission. http://16s.us/sha1_pass/
I wish I knew Scala, I was too caught up trying to decipher the code to take in the author's point. I have a basic knowledge of monads but unfortunately wasn't able to glean anything further from this article.
I had a doc prescribe me Xyzal for allergies last year. I can't help but think the name was a running gag in the marketing department that stuck. Especially considering the drug's website includes a pronunciation key under the brand logo.
Do you have a recommendation for a good rye that's not too pricy? I'm fairly new to bourbon: the only one I've tried and enjoyed is Knob Creek.
No one mentioned burning ants with a magnifying glass.
If you've put enough thought into them to have a confidence level, why not give a specific probability? Then you will be able to see (to some extent) how you are poorly calibrated - overconfident, underconfident, etc.

For example, I have a ton of judged predictions on http://predictionbook.com/users/gwern so you can see my problem - low self-esteem. (I expect to take some losses when all my 2010 predictions expire in a few days, but the overall trend of underconfidence will remain.)
I had sleep apnea for 18 years of my life and the only indication was chronic snoring. When I had my sleep study done my blood oxygen content was fine but they found I was waking up 20 times per hour (every 3 minutes) and I only got 3 minutes of stage 4 deep sleep per night. (think about that)

I was already getting straight A's in school and was captain of sports teams in high school, but the first night I slept with a CPAP machine after that study, I woke up and felt BRAND NEW. It was insane. My whole body from head to toe felt more rested and restored. My life has since gotten a lot better and I've felt more outgoing and healthy.

If you have any shred of a doubt I would get tested. Heart attacks have run in my family and I think it has a lot to do with sleep apnea.
Except for the proliferation of cheap unimaginative grey PC boxes, all over the world. In my life time, yeah. no happy ending.

You mean those cheap, upgradeable machines with interchangeable parts which DO come in many colors if you want them? Those same machines would double in performance every 18 months (24 months now), they were and still are wonderful.
Wow, how has this not been done!
Thought I'd give a contrarian perspective here.

I was hiring for a telehealth startup based in NYC and got some referrals to some recent General Assembly grads. I bit and went ahead and scheduled some interviews. It was a total joke, honestly. The graduates glossed over the entry-level interview questions with a lot of handwaving (I would ask them things like "How would you do x given y?") and quoted rates upwards of $100/hr even though their total experience was the 10 week course @ GA campus.

I was so turned off by that experience that I just never even considered hiring from a 'hacker bootcamp' again. I'll echo what others have been saying as well: You can hire them, and maybe they'll perform for a while - but the amount of time you'll need to spend to get them up to speed on CS basics will more than likely not be worth the investment. You're better off hiring a recent college grad whose only experience is working with Java - at least they have the fundamentals and can build on top of them instead of backtracking.
It's almost as if the people who upvote stuff differ in opinion on what is valuable and/or interesting
I'm that type of person, which is why it bothered me and it even sticks in my mind at all now.

The reservation that was canceled would have tipped me over the threshold to get a cashback reward, so I let OpenTable know and got my points.

The restaurant wasn't very good anyway, which was a factor in my decision as to whether or not I should've taken it up with OpenTable.
Really glad to hear that you've decided to join YC Paul. Especially in this "Golden Age" (http://goo.gl/RESDb) of startups.

A great addition to the YC team. :)
MySQL. Not that using anything else would have prevented this or would help restore the table faster...
email me with details about the project, name, etc. my email is in my profile.
pg has a PhD from Harvard.
I think it's a measure of the goodwill in the community for Github (and perhaps, the fact that a lot of us have done something similar in the past) that they won't cop much flak at all for this.
#11. W3 Total Cache. Wordpress is CPU hungry.
People have been talking for years about the answer to spam being verified emails. Cnewmark is right that Facebook has everything needed to do it - and what's more to do it in a simple and practical way.
I wouldn't exactly call them un-targeted; the recipients have asked to receive them. Also, this is an audience that is open to using the offers as a way to get ideas for new experiences.
Happy holidays everyone. I have learned so much from here and can't wait to see what will come next year!
You know what Thomas, you're right I'm being douchey. I'll work on making this a bit better, and report on what I find.

Thanks for your comments so far.
The point about using the "brother" is to provide the distance required to make the stranger feel like they can give truly honest feedback without hurting your feelings.
Hmmm. How is that substantively different from the process of electing a representative via democracy?
Yes. Exactly.

When a potential client or employer offers you equity, you can't sit there and ask them for their financials. And for the most part, employees and contractors aren't very well educated in the risks involved with investing in a startup either.
The person interviewed in this article seems to say they are not strangled by data: "The role of data in design at Google gets exaggerated. People forget that design at Google is just as often faith-based as data-driven." So while that may or may not be true, I think the header for this post doesn't accurately reflect what is in the article.
Good to see other UTD'ers on HN!

Yup, I didn't start using source control until after I graduated. CS education has a lot of catching up to do.
Merry Christmas, Happy New year and Happy Holidays to everyone.

What, no Festivus?
I would love if my VCS tool could also keep track of things like "This diff is the result of running sed -i s/this/that/g .py". I usually split out such mechanical changes anyway into a separate commit, but it would be clearer for reviewers to see that (most review tools show you the overall diff of the entire branch you want to merge by default, making you click further to see patch-by-patch changes), and it would also be easier for me* if the VCS could re-run the sed command when I rebased.

(An obvious next step is Coccinelle-style semantic patches, but let's start with sed!)
I believe they keep logs of all things ever translated simply so they can filter out their own translations they later find on the internet.

It's harder to filter out competitors bad translations though...
Do you mean they pay everything cash or they use debit/atm cards? In Europe these cards usually still work with the VISA or Mastercard networks.
Isn't having a well-specified protocol how you get features to stabilizes?
This is particularly a problem for academic labs looking for bioinformatics specialists. Many of the bioinformatians I know with strong stats backgrounds have taken jobs at banks etc where the pay and benefits are significantly better. It's hard for academics to offer their staff something competitive to retain them. Moreover, people are realizing that so much of medical research is less about the patients and more about using their samples to get big papers with little impact on their prognosis
Most of those tweets were discouraging the use of masks for the purpose of protecting yourself from Covid. This still holds true today. At the time, a lot of people were hoarding masks, thinking it would protect themselves. Letting them continue wouldn't help control the spread, and probably would have increased the spread in hospitals.

I agree the fourth tweet has aged particularly terribly.
Unsafe content.
Probably some automated spam detector got it banned.

Here's the ban message for posterity: https://i.imgur.com/0lFapQ1.png
I keep reading these comments, but too lazy to research myself. Anyone has any links handy?
If I had to guess at a moment's notice, I'd say some kind of spam/malicious content tripped some kind of automated trigger. Hopefully it can be fixed soon. Usenet unfortunately harkens back to the era before there were bad actors at all and thus has the same vulnerability to spam and other issues as email does. I bet it's something along those lines.
old school shower comeback I see
For Goliath, what about the entities that allegedly kill GM's EV1 electric car and want people to keep depending on fossil fuel? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car
> Microsoft is now primarily an enterprise software company.

You're forgetting the XBox a bit too quickly.
> Beyond the notion that fish farms are a sustainable source of fish meat, the fact is that fish farming needs a fodder supply to feed the fish.

This is not the only model. There are fish, specially freshwater, you can feed on algae and micro crustaceans, which in turn consume organic waste from traditional farming. That's where research is going into, and where fish farming is more promising, not the sea net model.

Tilapia is produced in large scale this way quite successfully, and is a desirable meat that sells for a good price here in Brazil.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has seafood watch. This includes iOS and Android apps to check while on the go.

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx

You can also download and print:

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/downlo...

"The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program creates science-based recommendations that help consumers and businesses make ocean-friendly seafood choices."
Why single out Texas? The vast majority of states are the same way, including Tesla's home state.
> Microsoft's approach was different: let others innovate, then we'll dominate.

XBox, Surface and ergonomic keyboards would beg to differ. Not mentioning the countless other innovations that didn't become as popular as these ones.

I know the Hacker News hive mind likes to perpetuate the myth that Microsoft doesn't innovate but it innovates at least as much as, if not more than, Google and Apple.
This isn't a helpful comment. Cite an example of how it is wrong, instead.
Ya, I agree with extracting useful things from your experience. It seems the OP fails to do so by realizing that having extremely cheap and available resources for getting a product to market is historically rare and also constitutes a golden age.
In my world I haven't
Hard to say from here. You can try going a level lower, run something like "tcpdump" on your machine and just watch what's going on. Might provide you some insight into the inner workings.
There're always people who want to game the system :( I still think that interviews/applications are better on theoretical level though. Maybe it's because I didn't do very well in high school :)

Anonymization definitely helps. It's strictly enforced on national exams there and it seems to work pretty well. I'd focus on ensuring that applicants themselves do the job though. For example, application letters could be written in a controlled environment, without any help from 3rd party. Some people would memorise prepared letters, but it would make it a wee bit more fair.

P.S. Anonymous interviews would look great. Live Robot voice converter, full face (body?) mask... I'd watch this movie.
Then you enter the realm about hardened / realtime systems, where guarantees about eg. execution time are required. Those usually require a different aproach to kernel development anyway -- I do know there is something like RT Linux, but I have no idea how big it is.
The anisotropy of the CMBR is easily explained in terms of red/blue shift due to the velocity of the earth, solar system, galaxy etc.., as long as you don't mind violating special relativity. (in some sense)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background, 'CMBR dipole anisotropy'
I'm curious , if I type

"ls -la"

how does it know if it is "variable ls minus variable la", or "command list with command argument -la"?
I would argue that the $10 bluetooth earbuds I got at Menards have done exactly the same for the way I use my iPad mini. (I was still using wired headphones exclusively until about a year ago, but started to find it limiting with a device that can't fit in my pocket.)
It’s a bit different I think, you can’t explicitly exchange a dollar for a (tiny) fraction of US GDP. You can buy some product of it with it, but eg if US continues to grow at 2% per year, you can’t latch on to that.

By contrast, shares have this property, to some extent, because in the long run they either pay dividends, or are returned for capital. A share literally owns you a bit of the company’s economy. Give or take non voting shares, non dividend paying shares etc.
The companies mandating 100% office time are doing so because their particular executive teams are nuts about it. See Netflix.
My spouse, a flight attendant, comes home with a nice aroma smelling of perfume and jet exhaust. It might not be OSHA legal but it is what it is. Airports stink.
While I haven't personally used it, another commenter mentioned Xonsh[0] and that is what it appears to be: A very smooth integration of python into a shell that still feels like a unix shell.

0. https://xon.sh/
glassdoor is a fucking lie, use blind instead for real reviews. The coverage isn't as wide though.
If the senior developers are grumbling about not wanting to be in the same room as their coworkers, I wouldn't be surprised if the junior devs feel nervous about asking for a few minutes of their time.

It is the job of senior devs to make new employees feel like part of the team.
How much is trust worth?
For a moment I thought part of the tutorial was missing, but the "gameLegend.png" image shown at the end doesn't load so quickly due to being 1.8MB large; it can be optimised to 71kB.
I think s/he objects to the idea of asking Go to compile and then run the program each time, rather than running the resulting binary:

JSON.parse(`./json`)
Google was pushing Hangouts heavily for a while, and I think that's still bundled with Android but is now on the way out. It did the job last I checked.
25th amendment is in discussion by his cabinet. Consequences are coming down hard.
Yes, and their great success was in not getting shut down entirely (Napster) or soaked with prohibitive licensing fees.
I think languages have converged a lot, and when one language has a killer feature, then others try to copy it. CPAN was the big thing in Perl years ago, but Ruby has GEMS (maybe it always did) Python has Pip. Java loops used to need an iterator when I used it years ago, now they don't it is even getting functional features these days.
No, they really are not.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/03/netflix-clamps-down-on-vp...

Netflix tells us that there's been "no change" in the way it handles VPNs, so you shouldn't have to worry about the company getting tough any time soon. With that said, these blocking errors started showing up in the past few weeks, so it's not clear what would have prompted them.
My experience of UK netflix is that UI is designed expressly to disguise the fact that beyond a thin crust of popular films, there is a desperate lack of content and barely any change week to week.

There is no - "what's new in netflix" - because it would reveal there is only one or two new films a month. Instead you get "popular", "trending", "blockbusters", "highly rated" that let them display the same content in a slightly different order multiple times.

I just feel their only game to overcome the lack of content is to offer you the same film enough times with different forms of social pressure until you finally surrender and watch an Adam Sandler film you have been evading for years...
We do, but it should be linked on the homepage and be more visible; https://cachet.herokuapp.com
I love how people try to be logical about all this. There is no logic, it's nutcases vs power-trippers.

Here's the reality - it's not IF but WHEN the next nut gets through TSA with something else, not something new, but something they were supposed to be looking for in the first place. These are all slackers on a power-trip, who else would apply for such a job?

So what are they going to invent next to harass everyone? How exactly are they going to do cavity searches, or is this step meant to get us accepting enough for the next level?

The next idiot might hijack a private corporate jet with no security, and that's going to make an interesting battle of corporate lobbyists for "freedom" vs. power-tripping security theater hiding behind "keeping you safe".
Andy Grove had a point with the title of his book, Only The Paranoid Survive. That's what I admire most about Bill Gates, from the 1970s till maybe 2000 he managed to remain paranoid. (I say this as a compliment and something that I hope to emulate.) Most people with his level of success would become smug and over-confident. Like his successor, for instance.
The response has been great, my email is cpj1357@GMAIL.COM
Imagine the chinese market is made open to you. What has changed from today's reality?

What makes access to the chinese market difficult for westerners, apart from the luxury/status items? The language and cultural barriers are still significant.
That's a good case in point. In general you're better off choosing locations further away from where you live/work to prevent issues like this where your office/home and datacenter could be affected at the same time.
Nice idea but windowless flash are also more cpu consuming, so ads would use more cpu. I wonder what's the environmental impact of a change like this would be ;)

What's strange was that performance was my original thought when seeing that title, flash is breaking the web is so many ways.

I'm not sure it would change anything for Chrome though, the plugin in a process seems to use the windowless model by default. I'm not sure about that, but the rendering speed while doing my experimentations with http://swiffout.com seemed to suggest that.