jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As someone who works for one of the companies in Sydney that happened to use Clojure (one of the reasons I joined them), I know find myself in a strange situation where as a hiring manager and a leader of team of engineers that have little or no interest in FP languages that I can't justify advocating for FP languages.

a) hiring is way too difficult at the best of times and is compounded more when you filter the pool so small (admittedly the filter is not bad for some measures).

b) so few at the company have any interest in using languages outside of the more mainstream; for example it was no effort at all to get interest in Golang.
>apparently a good thing.

For a very loose sense of apparent. It's heavily debated, and there's no empirical evidence of greater growth in countries with negative rates, in fact countries with negative rates are generally experiencing lower rates of growth than they were with high rates, although it's hard to disentangle correlation and causation here.
15ai, do you mind talking a bit about the methods you are using?
Of course it is so much faster, it does almost nothing.
If you're looking for a girlfriend / wife anyway, then the odds are high that she will be a citizen.

Not necessarily true. If he comes from a country with a significantly different culture (i.e., somewhere other than Europe), he would probably be more comfortable marrying someone of his own nationality who is also a recent immigrant, and thus is more likely to also be a non-citizen.
IBM isn't going anywhere. For a start their consulting arms (Global Business|Technology Services) make up the bulk of their revenue. And that business is booming.

IBM has always been at the forefront of research. IIRC they have more patents than anyone.

Trust me, they're not going anywhere soon. In fact, I'd wager we'll see the end of Microsoft before we see the end of IBM.
China says they built the Great Firewall to stop child porn, foreign-manipulated political views, etc. But a year ago, they extended the blocks to entire sites, e.g. all of Blogspot, Google Groups, and Youtube, not just the specific pages dealing with taboo subjects, like they do with Wikipedia. Obviously aimed at the company that runs those sites.
Australia could go down the same road.
I certainly don't think PG deleted him. But I really don't think his post is that bad. I completely disagree with what he said about the Apple case, but the part about the ATT case made me reconsider some opinions.
We await silent Tristero's empire.
Well, naïve Bayesian inference is supercomputer-level when you use it on a huge universe of data.

As Peter Norvig often points out, these kind of tasks are highly data dependent. The supercomputers are probably more used for data access as for raw computation. I can totally imagine Peter writing a forty-line Python app that runs on Google's infrastructure that does about as well.
I can't figure out how to profit from it. Hence, now run your own for free.
Can any of the scala folks point me to a good introduction of the language ?
From the headline I thought they were talking about the Diverging Diamond: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1204033...
Nooooo, didn't you read the Discussion portion?

Audit trails are automatically generated, and can often be found on logs and cable trays.

It automatically logs everything! You'd also be able to identify people with broadband connections pretty easily.
59.774Hz? That's a huge frequency error. I saw 59.6 go by. 29.5 seconds behind. Those are load-shedding levels. Unusually cold weather and heat pumps. Ouch.

Back up to 60.080. They'll run a little fast if they can to make the remaining synchronous clocks catch up.
Tony Hoare apologising for inventing the null reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare#Apologies_and_retra...

> This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.[26]

So much time, and therefore money, working around `\` escaping characters in file paths.
Since the Amazon outage, I've been wondering about the best way to quickly switch to another host.

This is exact problem we (Cedexis) solve.

Assume your site is www.website.com, in general points to an A record or a CNAME to a datacenter/ cloud/ CDN.

We add an intermediate hostname, low TTL (20 seconds), global anycast network, which can be scripted (write your load-balancing logic in php) to handout a CNAME (one of many) based on performance (RTT), load, cost, anything else you can think of, etc.

Re.: AWS's recent outage, assuming you are running your apps in multiple zones/ regions/ clouds, we would have noticed the latency and automatically routed away to a different zone/ region/ cloud.

We collect hundreds of millions of performance measurements daily: http://gigaom.com/cloud/heres-what-amazon-outage-looked-like...

Drop an email and I am happy to explain more and setup folks from HN with a free account: prakash at cedexis.com
Or sites like Reddit and Hacker News that people love too spend to much time on instead of actually working.
I'm interested in your comment, Would you mind expanding upon the quote?
M is the Roman numeral for a thousand. MM should be two-thousand, but has come to mean 'a thousand thousands' e.g. a million.
Literally all trucks look the same. Where is the innovation ? Don't show me a concept car.
I'm glad they're walking back on this.

But in general, I'm noticing more and more that some product and UX designers seem to be trying to pass utterly broken stuff as "oh you're just not used to it yet" type of thing, which is extremely annoying. People have been explaining the EXACT problem to Slack on Twitter since Nov 7, and they clearly said that "we don't want that" many times in the thread.

It's not the wrong decision in rolling this out with no opt-out that is the problem, it's the fucking insistince on "no it's just all the thousands of you complaining, and not us" that gets me. And they had many opportunities to admit this.
Probably smart to wait for the second generation model with way better vertex count.
I'm not in the field; I just picked it up from the wikipedia page. They call it the "crash partner vehicle". Searching reveals that's what it's sometimes called in the vehicle safety industry.
I love the idea of a perfect meme vehicle. Almost bosozoku like. But I'm guessing it won't do well in the market
I love it. It looks like the future, but also reminds me of Johnny Cab from Total Recall. Still love it.
Recall this though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15800676

Which was posted on their forums but apparently went unnoticed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15803700
This is a fair criticism, and in line with the comment I replied to, but I still don't know if I agree with the overall sentiment of cynacism. While I'll give you the leaks about Prism/Five Eyes/Mail Espionage (the original government surveillance!), etc. the same documents are in line with what a pattern of being motivated by a fear of being unprepared to defend the greater society from upheaval would look like. Obviously metric gaming is the self serving side of that desire, and I'm being a bit of a devil's advocate here, but a department that doesn't receive adequate resources can't perform its function adequately. At the same time, American justice (I don't know much of other systems) has a long tradition of not just being a government product. Our system is designed to be corrected, lawsuits are easy (if funded) because the (ideally) other side of productive authoritarianism is civil resistance (physical sure but also legal punativism). I realize that these aren't reasons to not be cynical of our LEO organizations, but I guess that's why the cynicism seems strange to me, it's also not a reason to doubt the overall outcomes of the justice system. Whistleblowers (and their checkered history sure), civil disobedients (looking at you MLK and Malcom X), plain old litigants (gay marriage) are the counter balances to the sometimes hostile nature of the bureaucratically empowered entities in the American government. Is the system perfect? Obviously not, maybe not even optimistically close, but it's certainly not something indicative of a populace motivated purely by metric performance from my perspective.
Sorry. No. Cheney and Bush decided to invade, for whatever reason, and concocted a convenient justification.

Hans Blix (UN inspector) repeatedly, emphatically explained that Saddam had no WMDs. Etc.

Saddam would have been quite happy to give it to us as the price of remaining in power.

Saddam had completely capituated and agreed to all of Cheney Bush demands.

They invaded any way.
> No, my response is based on the science.

Then cite your science. Don't give me some one sentence response with no evidence.

>The cold hard truth is that there isn't a single study identifying any kind of racial component to IQ (and please supply one if you know different).

I literally stated that the cold hard truth makes this controversial not definitive. There is no single study that race as a causative factor for IQ but there is also no single study that definitively separates IQ and race. This is something hard to measure, but it is highly highly unrealistic to assume that there is zero correlation with IQ and race when all genes control both physical attributes and mental attributes. What we do know is that IQ is correlated with race. This much is true. Correlation doesn't imply causation but it doesn't terminate any possibility of causation either. In fact correlation is a prerequisite to causation.

https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php

Note that for the above Asian countries have vastly different cultures between countries. Also note that despite vastly different cultures the top countries are mostly Asian. Correlation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence#Group_di...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18656315/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20712152/

Actual studies are numerous and produces definitive differences between in IQ between countries AND race. What causes these differences is controversial but the difference and correlations exist (even when accounting for Asians and white people living in the same culture.) There are even studies where the authors conclude that IQ is indeed caused by race. However there are conflicting conclusions that say otherwise. The causation is controversial but the correlation is definitive.

>If we can agree that individual differences in IQ massively outweigh all other factors (in that there are low-IQ asians, and high-IQ white folks) then any kind of racial profiling around this is just racism. You cannot conclude anything about an individual from their race.

I am not arguing for racial profiling. Please do not imply this and turn this into a racist witch hunt. I am arguing for observable facts.

There are low IQ asians and high IQ white people this much is true. But statistics talks in terms of bell curves and generalities. The IQ bell curve for a population of Asians is higher then the IQ bell curve for a population of white people. This fact cannot be denied.

>And you're not controlling for cultural differences. I've spent time in Asia, and the cultural differences are enormous. Massively outweighing any genetic differences.

I am aware of the cultural differences. Show me some studies relating IQ to culture and you have an argument here. However it proves nothing. IQ differences can be influenced by either culture or race or both. There is nothing that definitively proves either factor yet here you are specifically stating that your view is based on science. It is not.
What information do you feel that you're missing or being kept away from?
https://www.google.com/search?q=Associated+Press+children+ca...
I know someone who worked in this field (managing executive pay). The answer is "because they can".
For those who aren't familiar with the history of the Cannonball Run, the podcast Criminal did a very entertaining episode on it recently:

https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-155-cannonball-12-18-2020
Student resumes are quite different - placement of education, prominence of projects, importance of specific entry-level knowledge and skills. So they really are a different category of document entirely.

Our expertise is in experienced developers' resumes - two or more years of experience, up to 35+ years' experience. It's a different process, with different hiring teams at a company, and different resume product entirely from new graduates'.

So, unfortunately, for now, the answer is that we have no plans to add student resumes.
How is this a CVE? Lots of stuff leak through side channels. I don’t get it.
Vitrify it, clad it with concrete, clad that with steel and dump it in a subduction trench where it’ll eventually join the magma under the mantle.
Thanks! Yes!
I've been keeping a daily journal for almost ten years now. I think it is important to keep a long term perspective and for that nothing beats plain text. In the beginning I used a note keeping software. After an application crash I lost data. I would not want to have any dependence to a proprietary data format. So now I use plain text + Markdown + local file search . Same goes for knowledge management.
Everything seems so surreal once you reach a realization like this.
You could use the tag system.
The questions would be at ama.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/Joel+Spolsky. The person who posted the question just had to accept the answer of the person who he had asked.
thanks this is cool. I'm glad we have more precision, can't wait to see what awesome apps people write with this.
Step 1: Talk to a mental health professional. I know you probably think that whatever's bothering you isn't serious enough to talk to a shrink, but when you have no friends to confide in, that is EXACTLY what you need.

Step 2: Find people like you. Look on Meetup.com for groups of people with shyness or social anxiety. You'd be surprised how comfortable you can be in a group when you know everyone else in the group has the same irrational fear of social situations.

Two simple steps and, given time, you'll feel better and even start becoming more outgoing. You won't turn into an extrovert, but it's all a game of inches.

I also find that, in small and controlled doses AND ONLY IF YOU HAVE LOTS OF SELF CONTROL, social lubricants like alcohol or marijuana can also help to overcome social anxiety. Your mileage may vary, so always err on the side of caution and avoid anything of that nature that you don't KNOW for a fact that you can keep yourself in control of.
Fair enough. Again, I was just trying to analyze their landing page copy from the point of view of a potential customer. I am not a potential customer.

But for people without any Ruby experience, you don't know that fact ahead of time. All you see is the unknown ruby command. And my impression (as a non-user of ruby) is that it's hard to get going. So a potential customer may see these issues as a hurdle to jump.
It's also one of the more readable languages in existence and it's implicitly championed by an IT juggernaut.
http://www.quora.com/How-many-servers-does-Twitter-have
I can't help but think that the end of printed instructions can be shoehorned in here somehow. If I do get printed instructions with something, they're virtually unusable either because the type is far too small to read, or because it's all hieroglyphs without words. When I look for instructions online, I'm finding videos more and more often, even for something like a recipe.
Interesting. But, oh, the comments to that post...!
It seems rather alarming to me. A member of the opposition got done for blaming the ruling party for the performance of a government-owned investment fund which is run by the wife of the current Prime Minister[1], and where (according to Wikipedia) the President has the ability to directly hire and fire the board members. It basically bans anyone from ever contradicting the official government position, no matter how questionable it is. Normally, a party which does this would have to worry about the other party getting back into power and doing the same to them, but since Singapore is a de-facto one party state that's not a concern here.

Incidentally, the reason I can't link to a more mainstream article about the ownership of Temasek Holdings is probably that the more mainstream outlets seem to have been strongarmed into pulling them down.[2]

[1] https://www.asiasentinel.com/society/singapores-lee-family-a...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/business/media/25times.ht...
The post incorrectly claims you must pay by mail or phone. It also doesn't mention the security aspect of changing card numbers.

Whilst 1-3% cashback is may not be unusual in the US, ~0.2% is typical in the UK (maybe ~1% with Amex). Some countries have hardly even heard of cashback cards, I think. Looking e.g. here:

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/best-cash-back-cards/

suggests that the US market is also not as generous as commentors make out. Most high-cashback cards are quite specialised, often even changing month-to-month. There is only really one exception at 2% on all purchases.
Not wrong. Gregorian starts at year 1. If you want a decade to be 10 years, it can't end with 10, that would be only 9 years.

Daily usage differs from that definition of course, but that's not the point.
Domain names are not a scarce resource, there's no need to put the bar so high. As far as I can tell the current system with the current pricing seems to work just fine, why not continue that way?
It's less difficult when jokes are labeled as such. So I guess satire in Singapore will be fine, but will have to be unambiguous about what it is. It sounds similar to how in civilized places you're supposed to make it clear to the viewers that an ad is an ad.
I'm an expert and I don't agree. The successes of symbolic AI have been many; they're just not called AI any more. The failures of ML are many; they're just ignored. How many layers do you need and why? How many training cases do you need and why? What has the network learned and how do you know that? What important things has the network not learned? When will it fail?

Until you can answer these questions, you're not doing science. You're just throwing data at Tensorflow or Keras until you guess it's good enough. And then someone dies in a self-driving car accident because the network didn't learn that a transverse truck or a pedestrian was an obstacle.

ML does impressive stuff but as several recent HN articles have pointed out it's basically just curve fitting. And voodoo curve fitting at that.
Which people? There's no "world government" representing us, and having it annexed by the US isn't a great substitute.
Thanks for sharing that article. The kid's letter to his lawyer was remarkably clever.

If it wasn't for everybody manipulating the market, there wouldn't be a stock market at all...
Just do good things for nothing. Karma doesn't exist; what goes around doesn't necessarily come around.
I've been aware of the 23 enigma theory for ~5 years, but haven't noticed evidence supporting it.
There will be many more. At least until something decent comes out.
I was making the point that a lot of the advantages mentioned apply to netbooks. Some of the ones that don't (e.g. standing-up use) would be a case of swings and roundabouts. I agree that standing-up use, particularly data entry, is one of the iPad's advantages. I didn't get how much of the standing-up use was data entry (where it's game, set and match to a touchscreen) and how much of it was passively displaying data (where the advantage is smaller).

One place mentioned in the article where the iPad wins over netbooks is ease of cleaning, having way fewer crevices than a device with a keyboard. Not an impossible problem, but I imagine it's nice not to have to worry about it.
In the article to which you refer (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/health/research/13genome.h...) Wade suggests that diseases are partly caused by "a host of rare genetic variants" and that "with most diseases, the findings [about disease-causing mutations] have explained only a small part of the risk of getting the disease." Is something awry in Liberman's critique or is Wade just changing his mind arbitrarily?
Good answers and I applaud the effort given, but the questions feel like they were copied out of a textbook or teachers example and the word "programmer" inserted.

I think I would have tried to relate to kids today by explaining that someone has to write the complex video games they play and the browser they use to waste time on all their internet sites.
That's a pretty dishonest characterization of the article. It is a case of the government taking a settlement because they are afraid of losing in court, but everyone knows that stock prices are artificial and that the media can manipulate them.

That's why I don't get the recent anti-speculation sentiment. The stock market was never about value-investing, it's about speculation. Everything is speculation -- when you put money in a CD, you are speculating that the bank is not going to become insolvent and lose your money (and that the insurer is also not going to become insolvent). That's why you get the interest rate premium over treasury bonds. Now, you may argue that you're less likely to lose money in your savings account than in betting that Google will drop to $1 a share, and you're right... but it's all about degrees. Every decision you make is speculation. The market is all speculation, either people speculating, or people's algorithms speculating. Nothing more.
> usually it will be The iPhone

So the brand still doesn't work, since Apple never uses an article.
It does not work that way, not even legally. Just because a picture is online does not mean anyone is free to distribute it further.

The legality of it depends on copyright and on TOS of places where it was uploaded originally.
>It’s not a surprise how the white media love him and his values.

I never got the idea that the "white media" (what ever that is) likes him, because the narrative is pretty much the political opposition of the establishment is being targeted and attacked.

Never once I saw any value judgement of Navalny political views, hell until you posted it I never even reflected if he was right/left winged.
For blood diseases it’s enough to replace all blood-producing cells and their producers, I guess?
It's not something they created.

You're not really contributing, it's more akin to showing off your stamp collection, but with sexual undertones that make many feel uncomfortable.
> It is also worth to note, that other countries, Canada, Russia, Northern Europe, et... have nowhere near the problems Texas had.

Well, of course. There was no problem of "it's cold". The problem was "it's colder than we expected". You don't prepare for things that don't happen.

This actually reminds me of a comment I saw on the topic of international shipping: "Slow is fine. Late is not." The goal isn't to arrive quickly, it's to arrive when you said you would get there. And analogously for the temperature.
In the rare moments when I get the naive idea of "Privacy on The Internet" tingling in my head, I kick myself in the but and reread this book: https://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/0684832...
Nice to know that the actual parents of children are the channel owners of youtube and google.

cool.