jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Will the world become a better place?

That depends on whom you asked. From my perspective the world was a better place in the past but that's my personal opinions.

Has India become a better country because of all the offshoring? Their GDP might increase, but what about their quality of life? What about those overwork IT workers?

There are 2 things I learned in life so far:

1) There's this thing called "balance".

One gives, the other receives. One gets something, the other lose something. Addition, subtraction.

2) Money is the root of all evil.

I've never perceived that money can make the world a better place. In 1998, money nearly destroys Asia. In 2008, money hurts western countries.

US residents probably have more money than the other countries. But at the same time, check out the obesity level of US residents. Check out how many trash US produces. Why do you think people are buzzing over "green" thing.

If you have more money, you will want more of everything. The end result of this cycle hasn't been good so far.

As of today, the world has more problems than it was. Eliminate one, then two or more problems will arise.
The keybindings are customizable (in a previous version I added Alt-Backspace for "Undo".). But the procedure is not straightforward, you have to create a special module:
http://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/Keyboard_Shortcuts.html...
Thanks, Amazon FPS seems to be exactly what I want, but I don't think it has UK merchant support. I am hesitant about the whole "escrow" system because that can introduce a lot of complications and does not scale easily.
It's really funny how there is so much indignation about this. What difference does it make whether it's true or false, there should be an audit of the code.

It's this sort of emotional, knee-jerk response that leads to irrational behavior.
This requires a bike that doesn't have hand brakes, otherwise the zip ties would get caught on the brake pads.
It's a big allegation. This email didn't strike me as an overly emotional response. It was a very firm refutation from a respected member of the community about a hefty accusation.
Looks like any other data center, except all of the machines belong to FB. I bet is it nice and chilly in there. Though, I would like to know the specs of those boxes.
Interesting list.
"qwerty" is up there as well. Wondered whats that, and thats just first row on your keyborad.
Check out http://www.bugmenot.com
I've been reading comic books since the 70s, and have spent north of five figures on them, and I can tell you this is a battle that absolutely needs to be fought. Mainstream superhero comic book culture is a cancer.
To expand on that, the primary network effect that I see are applications integrating into the dropbox storage system. Smart move by Dropbox.

I wonder if Amazon can somehow leverage their own network effects into this product. e.g. Lots of content is already stored in S3.
True, but maybe that means you just give fewer tests that matter more.
non silverlight version: http://files.ch9.ms/mix/2011/mp4/EXT03.mp4
I agree that basic OO is easy, but inheritance (particularly multiple inheritance), virtual functions, RTII, etc. add significant complication.
>pretty much pushed conifers out of every niche in the world except mountain slopes

Definitely not true; there are plenty of pine trees in Georgia (the one in the US), and not just in the (rather mild) mountains.

I will admit that there seem to be more pine trees the further north you go.
I also went to Stanford and when I took a beginning level CS course a student in my year was caught cheating. He copied a problem set from someone else and was later suspended for a quarter. Stanford has a judicial review board composed of students that make the final decision in cases like these and he was still punished. Everyone was warned by the professor at the beginning of the class that the CS department catches the most students cheating every year b/c every problem set is electronically reviewed for ways it might have been copied.
It's a "lien". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lien /pedantic
By Lisp, perhaps he was referring also to Scheme and Clojure. Not everyone is aware that they're Lisps, too. (Detailed rationale and citation needed.)

For Scheme, nothing's ever really gotten off the ground. Little more needs to be said on the subject than "R6RS module system debacle." There are meta-module systems for Scheme. I'm waiting for the meta meta-module system.

Clojure, however, has http://clojars.org/ and lein (and cake). I've found that Clojure programmers are way more prone to look for something that exists and (perhaps mostly) fits the bill before rolling their own. I attribute this not to Clojure programmers being smarter or better human beings but to the relative ease of creating, searching, and resolving package dependencies.
Considered to low by...?
It requires the Unity WebPlayer, unfortunately not available on Linux:

https://unity3d.com/webplayer
I don’t find it very inheriting when somebody trips over something. Must of our media already consists of trying to catch somebody saying something. We don’t need more of that.
> Can you illustrate your points of complaint with examples, please?

No.

Start with any discussion about one of these topics: nutrition, James Damore, exercise, marketing, health, equality, racism.
As you say, this de-skilling problem is broader than SaaS, it is tied to oursourcing of critical competencies or, in younger companies, never having them in the first place.

If you want to see de-skilling in action, hard core, go look into the service providers, wireless and fixed. They are running on fumes and attrition-victorious teams that last had a new technology in the late 70s/early 80s because everyone good at networking went to the FANG predecessors and then FANG proper.
> go on 4chan or breitbart or parler or even other subreddits or just build a new platform

Only because the cancel mob hasn't also figured a way to shut down those sites and prohibit you from building a platform of your own.

Yet.
Armies are rapey, more or less depending on kid od war. But they are rarely so rapey, that you routinely save last bullet for women cause they are guaranteed to be gang raped.

Also, I think that part of argument is that you don't see Indian woman being at such severe risk of being gang raped from random white soldiers in Hollywood movies.
OK yes I somehow misunderstood your point.

I like the idea of searching with big exceptions. Specifically not searching mainstream sites sounds very interesting. In theory it would penalize those that are successful, but then they would be picked up and prioritized by the bigger search engines, so it could be a hit.
I'm a daily runner now for 26 years ( five miles a day currently) and an asthmatic who always has gunky lungs, but, as per my lung test last year, I have the lung health of someone 20 years younger instead of 20 years older, which is what my doctor expected given the severity of my allergies and asthma. I grew up in the 80s when I was forbidden from all activity because of my asthma, but running is my bulwark of breath, my mental/physical/meditation on how to breath healthy instead of in a diseased asthmatic way.
Yes but this cost the author $0
"A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all." --William James
This is fine in theory, but in practice you'd visit some site with an opt out cookie that gives auto approval just by visiting said site, who would then sell that to one of the huge adco's, and nothing would change.

Adverts pollute our lives in many ways, it's past time we stopped them IMHO.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22664110 - pinkfoot's right, I was wrong.
I agree, not intractable but there are meaningful differences:

* A native app can be installed once. A browser app is effectively downloaded fresh each time you use it. That give more exposure to attack.
* A native app is downloaded, then run. A browser app does both in one step. Separation gives the user a chance to verify using hashes, signatures, etc, ideally cross checked from multiple different domains incase only the download server/primary domain is hacked. If there are sensitive user cookies, malicious javascript can steal them immediately on page load.

Native apps that update themselves can be a mess, but OS or package manager updates are generally carefully managed (I.E. apt).

For the CDN concern, sub resource integrity should work well (of course you need to verify that the version you hash is actually safe, which people sometimes skip). I think browser support is good these days.

But I agree, not intractable.
> The Fed will be moving for the first time into corporate bonds, purchasing the investment-grade securities in primary and secondary markets and through exchange-traded funds.

The only step remaining is for the Fed to begin buying stocks. The Bank of Japan has been doing this (by buying ETFs) for some time now. That bank now owns ~80% of the Japanese ETF market.
> Give everyone a check

The Fed doesn’t have the legal authority to do this. That’s why the Congress is passing stimulus bills.

The Fed is focussing on our liquidity problem. That keeps solvent companies from going under due to illiquidity.

Congress, and helicopter money, are needed to solve the solvency problem prompted by demand destruction.
I flutter mobile application with iBeacons to teach social distancing.
The actual menu paper is static, it usually just says to ask the server about what is available for the day.
Possible alternate post title: Strategizing around R0 as a controlled variable, with masks, distance, behavior etc as controlling inputs.

There is also a WH petition which goes with this, for those who believe the conclusions make sense.

The overall proposal is a strong initial effort to get R0 well below 1, then ongoing and/or periodic repeats of control to keep managing R0.
Good resource. One common flaw i see in many technical writings, which i missed from the course, is treating the reader as a complete puppet. As in giving copy-paste instructions on what to do, but not explaining what's happening underneath.

Better to teach a man how to fish than giving away a fish, or better condensed by Fred Brooks famous quote from Mythical Man Month: Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.
> Ultimately, it comes down to individual behavior.

The problem with all this is that it just depends. If I check a message after stopping at a red light? No real risk. If i hit "call" whilst on an empty straight motor way for a hands free chat? No real risk.

If I try and compose an email on a country lane, or find a specific artist to play, or set a reminder whilst driving through a town centre... quite a lot of risk.

My car still has cassettes, so I have probably taken more risk changing over those (where is that bloody mixtape I want) than the limited phone use I have done
There's an easy way to experience a small range of colors you haven't seen before.

http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusions.html#Ecli...

Documentation on the physical phenomenon behind this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_color#Perception_of_i...
That may be a factor, but I think it's much more likely to be related to interface fluidity. People swap to SSDs on desktops/laptops without significant issue.

I believe Android uses a similar scheme: virtual memory but no pagefile. Is there a way to turn on paging on Android?
Thanks.

Just checked your baby (zferral dot com) - looks good.

> a lot of supposed 'deficiencies' i.e.: market analysis, planning and product development.

Some of them are deficiencies viz. "no ideas how to market my product to people who need the service but aren't using it" and some of them are by choice. Eg: I don't believe doing market analysis of potential customers would give me an edge. Shopify has 6000 active stores and I would say even a constrained market analysis would come up with a number much, much bigger than this.
Handing government the power to control the Internet would only be the first step towards this system, whereby individual ID’s and government permission would be required simply to operate a website.

I don't like where this is heading to.
Hmmm, I'm not so sure changing the meetup location on such short notice is the best idea, I'd hate to have people showing up to the wrong spot.

That'd be great for the next one though!
Here is the scan of the original typewritten EWD:
http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD215.PDF

The entire EWD archive can be read here:
http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/
GTA V is profitable, fixing bugs is not.
I assumed doge coin.
> 1. Scheduled to come out in Q4 2015

... and available on general cheap webhosting sometime around 2020. If we're lucky.

Thank god our company slowly moved away from building small PHP websites that have to run on the most fucked up PHP installations from the before-time. Now it's PHP 5.6+ everywhere :-)
VR headsets will exacerbate the issue, and make it more popular in media.
Fake failures aside, I didn't really appreciate the article.

Do you know what you get without failure culture? Italy. In my home country, if you fuck up it's over. People will laugh at your totally unrealistic attempt to strive for more. Everyone must fall to the lowest denominator.

Italians don't see failure as a short-term result, but as a lesson about life itself.
Of course they are - in most situations, and this is one of the things that makes commercial aviation so safe.

Except when something very unexpected happens (e.g. not all sensor malfunctions can be distinguished from a reading that's outside of the usual range, yet plausible); in such situations, automatics disengage and people need to step in.

In other words, you can only get so many reliability nines and still be profitable for mass transport (as opposed to, for example, Space Shuttle).
I agree with that, but if one of those things are right (the cancer part, maybe) but diabetes sure isn't one of those.
This is not any `empty room`. This is the front seat of a machine with high velocity hurling itself against the ground.
Yes, if John Carmack built something with Racket and liked the results, it does pique one's interest. There are a lot of tools and languages to evaluate and so little time.
I use Jungle Disk with my Amazon S3. Jungle disk has a mapped network drive directly bound to the Amazon S3 bucket of choice.

When I download I can choose to download and / or drag to my jungle disk cloud drive. Thus bypassing my local store and going straight to the cloud.

I agree with what your saying. I think web applications should allow me to use the cloud storage of my choice to store all my application settings and data.
You mean "Vogon constructor fleet"? A single Vogon seems a non-optimal strategy (seeing as mass suicide via poetry is only a partial solution)
It isn't even about formality, it is about power.

By sending a thank-you note, you acknowledge that they did something for you that you should be grateful for but all that happened was that you entered into negotiations over a possible future sale.

Do you get a thank-you note from your grocer?
Python web development and ruby on rails are very rewarding in how quick they get things done. Might check that out.
It sounds like you have nothing like enough minutes
I don't do a lot of web development and I hated php too a year or so ago.

But it's actually not so bad if you just want some things done and for me I actually started to enjoy sporadic encounters with it. I switched from my own hacked soup to kohana and I found jquery and them alone made it much better.

And I think you're missing context a little, I think javascript is a wonderful language and you can do a lot of "real coding" with it. I guess you mean this stereotypical, boring, web development which I agree is extremely loathsome.
cover letters are sometimes the only way to convey enthusiasm. conveying enthusiasm in a resume is quite difficult
PHP is more like driving a "restored" late 80's car today still. It ended up doing vastly more than it was designed to.

Don't get me wrong, it's still very useful, but it ends up not being as clean as python or ruby when made for most cases.

But in the end case, it does end up being a product of who is using the language.

It was designed to be a quick and dirty home page language, and still has lots of warts from that.
...and before the coin drops into the company's coffer, it's already been taxed as income against the person that earned it to spend, and before that as corporate tax against the corporation that employs that person, and as income tax against the people that bought that company's products, and so on.

Income tax taxes every transfer of wealth from one entity to another. That's just the way it works, the government takes a cut of the profit that anyone realizes at every hop.

I can't fathom any reason that income I obtain by betting on Apple should somehow magically be more exempt from taxation than income I obtain by betting on poker, working a dead end finance job, or selling my old crap on eBay, all the money from any of those sources has already been taxed dozens of times.
Maybe if I had watched the movie I would've felt differently, but I couldn't resonate with the comments stating the nostalgia and all. To me it read like "here is a code that does this".
Trust the scientific method.
I appreciate that you are trying to be helpful with this comment, but you're essentially parroting the same line that happy families have been doing for a year now.

"For example, we have two families that we're co-sheltering with"

Right, so you're not alone, and these rules don't result in you having 0 social interaction most days.

If I hadn't had the in-person, real contact that I do with friends and family, breaking so-called "rules" to do so, I would have gone postal. Full psychotic break. I was very close, and I am still very close.

> you've expressed a preference for putting others at risk

I don't have a preference for putting others at risk at all; I don't think you realise how offensive a statement that is.

Coronavirus is not the only thing that exists in the universe; for you it may be the #1 most important factor because your other needs are taken care of, that's fine, it's not for everyone.

These policies put me at risk. Telling me to look at screens as a substitute for human interaction puts me at risk. Not just me, but my friends and family, a year in everyone is going mental.

I am preventing myself from losing control of my mind, which would put myself and others at far more risk than even SARS 1 would have.
It was never mentioned in the article so I just looked it up on Wikipedia, but Elliptic curve cryptography is not secure against future quantum computers.
This seems like a flawed approach. These days, $8 bottles are a mass-produced affairs, generally full of additives for body, color, 'legs', and other attributes. They're very consistent affairs, as consistent as Bic pens or Cheetos. They are not charmingly rustic bottles from small struggling vintners.

(Not sure where you live, but in major US cities $8 will get you only the most mass-market stuff - Frontera, Yellow Tail, etc.)
How to you write your commit messages? For us in most projects there's a git hook that forces you to put the jira ticket number in the commit message (and the branch). So if you have to know why a change was made you at least a context of what the task was, which helps.
I find N95 easier to breathe through than surgical masks. They use static, not mechanical filtration, which doesn't seem to cause much restriction on air flow.

They do get less effective with time, exposure to moisture. Using alcohol to clean an N95 will significantly reduce its effectiveness.

Early on, Stanford did a study on various methods of sterilizing N95s and the change of effectiveness. Heat (70°C for 30 mins) was best.

https://news.stanford.edu/2020/04/01/researchers-show-how-to...
Sour Grapes is a documentary about someone who sold a bunch of counterfeit wine to elites that couldn’t tell the difference, worth a watch.
It's probably an iOS app client for HN. CFNetwork is like their URLConnection I think. You're blocking people who want to read your article!

As for why it occurs so often in quick succession, perhaps there's a bug in the app causing it to fetch several times instead of once.
Can confirm. Was involved in interviewing multiple candidates a day the moment our non-London UK office opened
From a cynical perspective, I agree with Bitcoin being something that rewards first movers and it could be something that limits social mobility if it's still around for 100s of years.

One potential outcome is for cryptocurrency to behave asset wise similar to land and real estate. It is something that rewards first movers and limits social mobility. The ever increasing costs of land and home ownership (in the United States) are part of a cultural preference as well as expectation of the asset appreciation. Home/Land pricing is almost always based on location and market clearing rates as opposed to fundamentals. Bitcoin is not just Money 2.0 or Gold 2.0, its also Land 2.0.

As Bitcoin becomes more legitimized through institutional and retail investors, ecosystem + industry participants I don't see it going away. Regular people will buy into cryptocurrency with leverage. Some people will make millions of dollars, others will not or will lose money.
Well, yes, but that's the MareNostrum!

It may be a bunch of 1U blade servers, but the architecture plays a huge part in building its presence: The location, the contrast between classical ecclesiastical design and stark modernism, the glass, the color choices, the dramatic lighting...

Compare that with a gray room with a drop ceiling and fluorescent lights. The hardware may be the same, but the effect is not in the same ballpark!
http://www.linode.com/index.cfm is pretty good.
The wired article was all-around poorly conceived and written. The author advocates open information sharing - but it's a fucking spy plane! Does he have no idea how the spy industry works? Not like the US and USSR shared data on the SR-71 or equivalents.
I like that talk. I saved the video a while ago and have watched it several times. His disambiguation of identity, state and value makes a lot of sense.
My biggest issue with XML is "XML misunderstands Unix philosophy". You can't easily use cut, awk and grep with XML without having a million of edge case to handle. There are some tools like XMLStarlet, xsltproc or xalan. But you can't safely extract content from XML files with standards tools even if you use the XML extension for gawk.

You could argue that XML documents are complex and cannot be described using simple comma separated. Maybe but some many XML documents are just there to store simple key,value data.

And now, we have "jsawk" (https://github.com/micha/jsawk) for parsing JSON under your terminal...
Just give the circumvention service an easy-to-remember IP, like the famous DNS servers 4.2.2.1 and 8.8.8.8.
Paraphrase:
Android will be like Windows, lots of marketshare - Still crappy
Storm On Demand has a pretty cool offering with decent prices. They even have a "bare metal cloud".

http://www.stormondemand.com/cloud-hosting/