jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sorry for not being clear enough — it's not any kind of job post or "I need a cofounder" type thing. I'm a technical founder myself and interested in knowing others like me. The project I reference is/will be my attempt to make sense of the data I collect.
I completely agree with your point about Slicehost resizing not being a great production strategy.

Our app servers (on Slicehost) were getting hammered yesterday, so I issue a resize (1GB -> 2GB). After about 20 minutes it gets to about 97% and then stalls. In a panic I log into the server and kill all the apache2 instances. I look at the Slicehost console again and it says 40%. It actually started over. By the time it actually restarted with the resized slice it was over an hour later. The traffic was already gone by the time the resize finished.
Google Closure's codebase, which powers Gmail, etc. is well over 33MB, and ExtJS' size includes image assets, etc. So you can see that this is a poor metric.

ext-base.js and ext-all.js, minified, are fairly light.

Further, there's no ExtJS builder that I am aware of, so there are no optional "modules." I'm not sure what you're talking about. While the components are technically decoupled, using a GridPanel without Ext.data's offerings, for instance, would be pretty clunky.
"For instance, I would wager that the blacks and whites moving in to the Detroit area are of a higher economic quality than the blacks and whites moving out of the Detroit area."

I couldn't get to the map (I'm just getting loading dots forever), but: As I sometimes have to tell people who don't live around here, while Detroit is every bit the sucking cesspool you've heard of, the greater Detroit metropolitan area is actually full of relatively upscale and nice places to live. It even has many businesses that aren't related to the automobile industry, though not enough. Detroit proper is physically huge, preventing this area from being called the greate Southfield/Novi metropolitan area. My guess is that virtually nobody is moving into Detroit itself, but that there are still some things in the same county and certainly in the surrounding counties that might see some people moving in. Net loss, of course, but there's always some people moving somewhere.
You gave your password to several companies and then freaked out when your account got accessed and assumed that someone camping outside your house must have cracked your WiFi connection and decided to wipe your computers while hardwired into your internet connection... I think Occam's razor applies here and the account was accessed by someone you gave the password to, though your paranoia is amusing.

It's pretty simple to keep someone out of your email, don't give anyone the password.
Indeed. I've added it to the very top.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=milliondollarhomepage.com

........Blip!.......... oh wait what was that?
I'm wondering if there's some kind of physiological thing happening here, because to me it's as legible as anything I've read. Maybe some degree of colorblindness brings the red and yellow closer together? I dunno.
> I mean how many people here, currently working in language X, would want to hire someone that is better than they are?

Isn’t the adage “A players hire A players, B players hire C players”?
The US Navy EA-6B Prowler, an airplane that emits a LOT of radio frequency energy, has a conductive gold layer on its canopy for Faraday cage reasons, to protect the crew from the radar jammer.
Presumably at that point he just wanted to get on with his trip.
It's a prisoner's dilemma. All countries are better off if everyone shares information, but there is a huge incentive to 'cheat' in this agreement.

News of an outbreak in a given country will have a substantial, negative economic impact. At the very least, tourism and trade will suffer. It's not unreasonable that other countries will quarantine and outright block off ties with the affected country.

Back in 2003 with SARS, Toronto Canada took a substantial hit in tourism dollars, so much so that the Rolling Stones stepped in to host a charity concert to help the city out... Chinese tourism was likely affected worse.

As a politician or public health official, crying wolf early or raising the alarm of a potential outbreak will certainly have a negative financial impact... what's not known is how serious a given outbreak might be. So in short, they are weighing a known, substantial cost (lost tourism) against an unknown and unquantifiable benefit (avoiding an outbreak)... being the political worms they are that got them into office in the first place, they will most likely take the route that provides the least direct blow-back to them, which is sadly the route of hiding the outbreak.
Well, they're obviously better for somebody.
The ultimate evolution of this, of course, is the fully autonomous corporation. Imagine a future where most human labor involved some Uber-like interface with an autocorp, and employment was filled on an as-need basis by some inscrutable algorithm, and the lifetime of a job was typically measured in seconds and not years.

The more automated the world becomes, the more necessary it becomes to make sure humans adapt to the machine, and not machines to humans. Consider autonomous vehicles, and the case when humans can no longer travel long distances without asking permission for, and putting themselves entirely in the hands of, an AI solely to guarantee the traffic control algorithms remain unperturbed by slow and chaotic primates making stupid decisions on their own.

Eventually, as the autocorps and automation took over, the economy as a function of ever more intelligent AIs interacting would become so fast and complex that humans would no longer be able to participate in any meaningful way, except as slave labor, or perhaps cheap industrial lubricant.

I'm pretty sure I stole this idea from cstross or somebody.
since the helipad is usually inside the airports flight area you are already per-cleared at the embarkation point so as long as the helicopter makes no stops on the way you won't have to do anything at the airport.

This is very similar to how private charters operate at commercial airports they have their own security checks which are usually much much more lax than the commercial passengers.

Some airport shuttles (in some countries) also allow you to do a security precheck and to turn in your luggage prior to even reaching the airport.
> And even if you give ZFS enough memory, its access pattern becomes so randomized that it's impossible to get decent throughput on hard drives.

Any idea if the slowdown also happens for SSDs (with enough memory)?
Hey thanks a lot. Follow up question, if you happen to know the answer: how long did it take to produce that and how much money?
Like in every other US city, the crime rate is near an all-time low[1]. Murders spiked during Covid, but they're still low compared to previous decades.

Those statistics focus on murder and 'major' crimes, and it's great that they are down. However as a city dweller the crimes that I actually worry about and the thing that makes a city feel "dangerous" are 'minor' crimes like pick pockets, muggings, vandalism and 'minor' assaults.
This page details GitLab's architecture: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/architecture.html

On that page you'll find a link to docs for Gitaly, a Git RPC service that handles all Git calls made by GitLab.
If all I have is $10, spending $5 on something risky and losing it is a tragedy.

When I have $1bn and I spend $5 million x 100 risky investments, then losing $500 million means that I, my children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren will still be richer than the top 10% in even the most developed country.

At some point the whole risk-reward shtick breaks down.
I tried fully deleting my Facebook account multiple times about 5 years ago. Each time, it became clear that my information was never leaving. Friends were still able to pull up my account. My credentials were still being recognized and allowing me to login to an account I was told was now nonexistent.

Now I see my phone number was part of the breach. I am so fed up with Facebook.
Thanks, I was looking for that. Aside from linking my name to my cell phone number (which I really can't even assume is private anymore) there's nothing private in there for me.
A casual reading of that may make it sound like Credit Suisse made some sort of conscious decision to lend money, but from what I see in the financial industry, lending is handed out like candy on Halloween, almost right down to the bowl left out on the street that says "Take Two" and uses the honor system. It's just "leverage". It came with the account and they used it, and it's likely very minimal oversight was ever exerted beyond basic automated checks asserting that sufficient assets were in place to be margin called if necessary.

I see a lot of people calling this the "everything bubble", but to my mind, history may record this as the "leverage bubble". With such low interest rates and free money being shoveled out of the helicopter as fast as it can with more than a whiff of desperation about the whole exercise, there's leverage everywhere, and leverage stacked on that leverage, and leveraged assets being held up as collateral for levered leverage. It seems, at least for today, that this was not The Great Deleveraging, but at some point in the not-too-distant future one seems inevitable to me.

(Subject to the usual "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" timing issues, in that I wouldn't dream of trying to call a date on this, but I can't help but think The Great Deleveraging is inevitably coming, when something somewhere pops like this, and the act of margin calling to make up for it pushes down other assets in value, which causes more margin calling and assets getting automatically sold, which pushes down other assets in value, which causes more margin calling and asset selloffs, and it just doesn't stop until there's hardly a speck of leverage left in the market and valuations are a smoking crater, along with every account that was based on leverage. A basic understanding of differential equations would suggest that it's likely the market will at some point experience a phase transition, where we don't gradually go from this being impossible, to kinda happening more and more as leverage increases, but instead we can go in very short time from this being essentially impossible to completely inevitable, and nobody actually knows when this threshold will be crossed.)
Hating on GNOME has been cool for a long time.
I would suggest using myhdl (www.myhdl.org), and then plugging the verilog/vhdl it generates into your vendor's tools.
Dealing with this problem is the central problem for 'Fix Congress First'(http://www.fixcongressfirst.org/), the anti-corruption organization started by Larry Lessig.

It's focused on the pernicious effect of the revolving door between K St. lobbyists and Congressional staffs, and the way private election finance keeps these toxic exchanges alive and dangerous.
Firefox 4 on Windows 7: http://grab.by/grabs/8946a738425aa50f88307695fa2bb4fe.png
Happy christmas to you all - I've also learnt so much since I started reading HN. Maybe my new year's resolution will be to stop lurking and start posting :)
I bought this assuming that it had the volume control wired to take the photo, and was slightly disappointed that it didn't. I know the back story, but assumed that as that was surely the main point of the app, that this version would have it as well!

Nevermind, it's not bad anyway!
I have nothing but sympathy for the Unicode Consortium which finds itself in a difficult situation. The main purpose of Unicode is to contain all characters of all the world’s writing systems, not to be a directory of the world’s symbols. Yet there clearly are some symbols which absolutely have to be part of Unicode. Punctuation, for one.

Where to draw the line? That’s not easy.
We add nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and various minor minerals.

Sure, until we run out of phosphorus[0].

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_phosphorus
Of course, that's baked into the system, since most European countries are part of the visa waiver program and citizens don't require a visa to enter the US.
It’s awful for stretching, it doesn’t isolate muscles very well and strains joints. If it was good for stretching, you’d see NFL and MLB players doing it on the field before their games. It’s a ridiculous, roundabout way to do something that science has figured out can be done much quicker and easier, with less risk to the body.

It’s just a vain feel good activity. Yoga practitioners talk all about their “practice” and improving themselves through their “practice”. You’ll hear yoga studios say stuff like “don’t go to church, just do yoga!”. There’s a bunch of pride wrapped up in getting the poses right, but this doesn’t benefit your body, it just lets you one-up on other people because your pose is “more correct”.
True, but that's only a secondary effect from the user's point of view.
He felt he was sent around the world not to protect his country's freedom or safety, but government and corporate interests.

There's nothing new about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket (by Gen. Smedley Butler)

http://www.amazon.com/Overthrow-Americas-Century-Regime-Chan... (by Stephen Kinzer)
It's to match where your finger would be when scrolling. On a touch device/mouse using natural scrolling it would go the direction you expect. Using traditional/inverse scrolling does the opposite.
I don't remember any issues polyfilling video, does anything make picture different? This is one of those things one person has to write once and then everyone can reuse it.
The CLRS Algorithms textbook typesets its pseudocode with keywords in bold, variables in italics, function names in small caps, and the rest in plain. You could go even further with a bit of grayscale shading or a complementary pair of serif and sans serif typefaces, but like any syntax highlighting scheme it would be very language-specific.
A lot of it has to do with demographics. Fewer people are getting married, and those who do, get married later in their lives. The engagement ring is usually only the first of the many jewelry purchases you make -- a lot more come after you get married. The car industry has a similar problem -- married people are the ones who become owners of homes in the suburbs, which often requires two cars to get around.
Sure, but they're not that different, particularly if you've been around the block a bit and seen a bunch of these.

For a reasonable definition of the word productive, I've never found it terribly difficult to pick up and be productive in a new language. Sure, a year later I'll look back and say "man, I was so silly back then" but that's not the same as being useless. We routinely hire people at work who don't have experience in our primary language and it's never been an issue.

One of the things that irritates me the most about our industry is the fetishization of the difficulty of switching languages. In my younger days people would say that the syntax was too difficult to pick up. Now that people realize that's hogwash they've moved on to saying that the frameworks are too difficult to pick up.
It's not that simple. Normally you render significantly upscaled stuff in an off-screen buffer and then downscale it for the best possible appearance for every single frame. There are some ratios you need to keep, or you'd end up with Linux-style graphics "quality" (try scaling factor other than 1.0). If you just scale icon/bitmap once without thinking about this, it would look most likely ugly after upscaling/downscaling steps (unless you got lucky).
eben's a wonderful speaker, but i believe he's resigned from actively working for the FSF? i could be wrong
Btw, how do I make the link clickable? Can't figure it out :-(
Ah yes, disc brakes would explain it.
Successful examples don't change the fact that how much money is wasted unnecessarily. I see startups spending lots of money on fancy offices with massage rooms, when you can't find anyone around if you try to find donation for a village in Cambodia where people living with 5 dollars monthly budget. Some startups do good things exceptionally but how do people feel good about hundred thousand dollars monthly office expense for a startup that doesn't generate any revenue ? I don't know much about bubble and stocks etc since it's kinda not my focus in general, but when I see something like Yo valued as 10 million... There is something wrong with this culture because you know this planet we're living on, I can point you hundreds of cities where the currency is a package of baby food. Millions of people struggle accessing water and food but here we see 300 million dollars are thrown to the table for a dating site. I don't know what exactly bubble refers to but as an engineer honestly I feel bad about being a part of this culture and I'm waiting for the first chance to quit this industry completely.
While sadly not merged upstream yet, it works very well.
I've been running custom SmartOS "eait" builds from http://imgapi.uqcloud.net/builds (which include AMD support) for some time now without any issues.
The source can be found at https://github.com/arekinath/smartos-live
A smiley or two is usually OK, but colored fancy text tends to make people think you are lame. Seriously overusing smileys and color and fonts will make you come off like a giggly teenage girl, which is not generally a good idea unless you are more interested in sex than answers.

Ok then, ESR.
Yes, that is the Wikipedia page for a spreadsheet application called Visicalc.
Factor is still maintained and there is activity in the mailing list. I still use it. Recently I restored from backup an old project of mine that is written in factor, http://tinyvid.tv. It was fun hacking on it again - reminded me of what a great language it is.
I don't believe that study is well controlled. In fact, some of the claims are either contradictory or just don't make sense.

A 2009 study sponsored by the US Department of Labor, which analysed about 50 studies on the gender pay gap, concluded that "The differences in raw wages may be
almost entirely the result of the individual choices being made by both male and female workers."

There are observable differences in the attributes of men and women that account for most of the wage gap. Statistical analysis that includes those variables has produced results that collectively account for between 65.1 and 76.4 percent of a raw gender wage gap of 20.4 percent, and thereby leave an adjusted gender wage gap that is between 4.8 and 7.1 percent.[1]

http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20...
I don't know if Microsoft crapped on it's developers as much as they lost touch with them.

The other day HN had an item where a MS guy was talking about "dark matter developers" -- devs who are plugging along writing WinForm/WebForm apps like it's 2003. That's Microsoft's constituency and they simply don't care about WPF/WinPhone/Metro/etc.
This guy is staggeringly authoritarian. He doesn't stop at "correcting" the views of radicalized nutjobs. He wants the bulk of US political speech actively managed, regulated:

He outlines six specific reform possibilities to improve exposure to diverse points of view on the Internet: 1) creation of "deliberative domains" where diverse exchange of views can occur online; 2) disclosure of relevant conduct by Web producers; 3) voluntary self-regulation by Web producers; 4) publicly subsidized programming and Web sites; 5) government-imposed rules that would require the most popular Web sites to provide links to sites with diverse views; and 6) government-imposed rules that would require highly partisan Web sites to provide links to sites with opposing views.

http://www.scottlondon.com/reviews/sunstein2.html
Nice layout for trips
In order to circumvent handling of mutable state or side effects, you have to use methods & techniques that feel highly artificial and obscure to me. Haskell does not feel like one language, but two. One is beautiful, and the other is monad torture hell. And being punished with a monad at every turn where your code actually does something is a parody at best, but not a practical PL.
Well there's a couple problems here:

1) I'm not saying "don't get mad"...I explicitly said otherwise. I'm saying "we should punish appropriately"

2) The basis for this is not so much that they were following orders....the basis is they made a mistake while carrying out their job.

There's a big difference between someone who is a murderer for a living and a Doctor who makes a (reasonable) mistake and kills someone.

The Doctor shouldn't get off Scott-free, but neither should they be charged with first degree murder.

The "just following orders" bit comes in because let's be honest: There seems to be an undercurrent here based on the fact that Penn has a disagreement with this policy.

So Penn basically "has it out" for this guy in advance based on the fact that he disagrees with what the guy's bosses ordered.

Like I said before, the guy screwed up...but it must be put in context.

I think it's important to discriminate between someone who through circumstances does something oppressive, and someone who ACTS oppressive.

In the case of the former, you should take issue with the act, and the circumstances.

In the latter case, you also take issue with the person.

I don't have much to go on, but I get the general impression that this was just some poor shmoe trying to do his job. He didn't set out to violate Penn's rights.

Penn shouldn't just drop it...but neither should he ruin the guys life.

It's very easy (and imho a little lazy) to say "well they should just quit their job instead of being a tool for the man.

There's so much wrong with that sentiment I don't know where to begin.

To answer your question directly:

No, you should not as a matter of course.

A lot of Nazis were practically kids. They may have been drafted...if they disobeyed orders, they might have been shot or sent to the Eastern Front.

By staying, they might have been able to treat the Jews a little better than their replacement would...who knows.

Again, this doesn't absolve them but it's important to put in context.

Who you should direct your anger at is the people who ordered the Jews into the gas chamber...and the people who agreed with it.
I've heard that Postfix is as close to perfect you can get, but I haven't dived in personally.
Agree, mostly. Smelly assholes are a dime a dozen; talented hackers with such a colorful story are rare. It isn't very hackerish to focus on a boring, easy, and unstimulating aspect of the man rather than the parts we could draw inspiration from. (Unless, that is, the people focusing on his bad behavior are doing so because they are learning not to behave that way themselves. That at least would make sense.)

On the other hand, what can we really learn from the Wikipedia article? It's great to be bright and accomplished, and we should strive to be so ourselves? The phone system used to run on tones? I think most of us know that stuff already. Maybe that's why people are resorting to gossip.
Sweet, congrats to Ricky and the team!
You're right about the macro-economics, but the Goldman Sachs angle is still a wtf.
Submitter here.

The Slashdot comment was in reference to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913102 which seems to have needlessly insinuated in the headlines and went againsn't HN's policies of titling posts.
No. An entertaining was doing something people assumed was part of his act. Their are also conflicting reports, both here and in the actual comments of the article.

Suffice it to say, it's still too early to know what was going on. But it wasn't just some guy having a stroke and no one doing anything.