skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very short answer is - writing code makes you a better developer. But it's incredibly rare for you to be able to invent every pattern, every useful trick, every readable style, so you read others' code. Your ability to understand what you see in others' code (and to judge it) goes up as you get better. So you write lots of code, read lots of code, write lots of code...

There is an analogy to writing in a human language. If all you do is read for 10 years, and then start writing, you'll almost certainly be a bad writer. You learned to read and extract information (and get enjoyment), but you almost certainly didn't understand how writers achieved those goals. This is even more sure for programming. Writing code over and over again helps teach you when and why to apply certain rules, because code has to work, not just look pretty.

But unlike writing human languages, there is far more to learn about computer programming - it's not just grammar and style, there's all levels of design, and architecture. So you read articles and books, but those are usually very hand-wavy. By reading the code for very large programs and then trying to copy what you see, you learn.

Also unlike writing human languages, you start by writing code. Reading code before you've written any is nearly pointless - you just won't understand what you are looking at.

It also matters what code you are looking at, just like it matters what you are reading - but again, only once you get good. So until you think you are at the median level for software engineering, don't worry too much about what you read.

The cool thing is that there's so much code available to read now, as compared to 40 years ago when programming first started becoming a real thing. And especially with Google and a few others not just employing hordes of great engineers but releasing a lot of their source as open-source. Read the Chrome source, for example. Or the Linux source.
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If so, it seems very confusing that the header is "Install Size".
You may like rare coloured photos made by US army Major Martin Manhoff who served in the US embassy in Moscow from February 1952 until June 1954, when he was expelled from the USSR on charges of espionage. All of this material ended up in a closet in his home in Washington State where it lay unseen for over half a century. Here is a link:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015584792...

It includes rare footage of Stalin funeral (made from US embassy building):

http://www.rferl.org/a/manhoff-archive-part-one-stalins-fune...
Some of it - John D. Rockefeller throwing dimes to kids for the good PR, for example, is Machiavellian in the bad sense. But much of it is trying to persuade people that even if they were purely selfish, they'd still benefit from being less utterly self-absorbed, and demonstrating that.
It is interesting that they are confident enough to launch it with a commercial payload instead of doing a test flight with a dummy second stage.
In the US that's called "nanny state". The US has a stronger tradition of citizens who think and act independently, even when they are working cooperatively.
If you can't handle 2,000 projects, how are you going to handle 20,000, or 200,000?

The Debian Project last I checked (a year or two back) had over 60k software packages. It's got an interface for delivering those. Actually, several interfaces, and the ones I prefer and use are commandline and filter through grep, if they don't provide their own search interfaces.

And those are platforms which are noted ... for their relative lack of software availability. (I think that criticism is ... misguided in several ways, but on a sheer quantitative basis, there are some pale merits.)

If Google cannot figure out how to manage, organise, present, and offer useful search interfaces to a measely 2,000 pieces of software, then, with all due respect, get the fuck out of the way for someone who can.
This article could have been written by an algorithm.
Everyone knows the meme about Quantum Mechanics being incomprehensible, like, ~"if you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics".

Quantum Mechanics requires randomness, because determinism is scary.
Both probability and fate are functions of time, and time is the most interesting thing to look at.
Generally, Time is ignored, or at best "accounted for".

As a programmer I think time is more interesting than particles or fields or probabilities of wave-function whatever
No, You Can't Buy Congress's Internet Data, or Anyone Else's
In my experience it really depends on the vertical. For some things (ford cars) demographics don't work well, but for others (mercedes) demographics like household income and age perform really well.

I think their is so much input for rtb that it is prime for ML. Most exchanges have some basic ml auto-optimization, but eventually someone will automate almost the whole thing.
I wanted to give it a try on my second laptop running 32-bit Ubuntu. However it looks like they dont support 32 bit Linux machines. SAD!
You're just stating laws of physics though which isn't helpful. The idea behind diets is that your body processes different sources of energy differently. For example, it doesn't process antimatter at all despite its numerous calories. Maybe sugar kicks it into hibernation mode, desiring to engorge everything in site. Maybe ingesting mostly fat causes the body to efficiently start to be able to access excess fat reserves. Maybe it's different for everyone depending on genetics.

Stating the laws of thermodynamics to people who are struggling to lose weight or trying to understand how our biology works isnt helpful and just comes across as smug. It's like being a mathematician and looking down on all other fields as just being derived from math.
I thought this was pretty cool but missing something. Until I realized that uMatrix was blocking Cloudflare. Once I loaded the rest of the site... Awesomeness. Great work, whoever made this.
It's the same in Canada: different sales tax/VAT rates in different provinces on different goods. E.g. HST on clothes in Ontario but no tax at all on clothes in P.E.I. I think it does have a lot to do with the federal system. The UK is unitary, so there is a flat 20% VAT on everything taxable, which is included in the sticker price. I wonder if Australia includes tax?
Google can stop killing shit any time it wants. It's got all the Spaces in the world.

Oh, wait, no, they killed that one. In about a year....
You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any of this works
For better results, have that intern gather the email addresses of those 12,000 pre-approved sites, and email them a personal ad placement buy offer, or request a media kit.

You'll find all sorts of personalization opportunities and you get to cut out the middle-man.
They also didn't really mention if this is 100% of their rtb or just some. I'd be really surprised is they limited their retargeting and native to 5000 sites.
Ask HN: Compare/contrast SJ.Res.34 to the data currently had by FB, GOOG, etc.
Could anybody here comment on the differences between spacex's engine, and the engines on the space shuttle?

I was under the impression that SpaceX was trying to make the first re-usable rocket stage, but I've recently found out that that isn't true. The space shuttle already holds that title.

I'm also kindof curious why they decided to go with a vertical-landing-design, instead of putting some wings on it and having it glide home like the shuttle did. Is that a weight-concern? Aerodynamics, mabye, but couldn't the wings be articulated in the same way that the landing legs are right now?

(I will admit some ignorance in this field. I'm definitely a fan, but I'm definitely not a historian or a rocket scientist)
As long as the petro dollar slavery system controls the world no new energy technologies will be allowed. Anyone attempting to bring new technology to market is given a choice. Silver or lead.
Added email to profile. Thanks.
> Ok, AI is a threat to jobs up and down the ladder. I get it. Now what? What are we supposed to do about it?

Make sure it doesn't fall exclusively in the hands of the 0.1%. We need to put the means of production in the hands of the people.

I envision a self-sustaining, self-reliant technology stack using solar energy, 3d-printing and automation, owned by a community or state, providing everything needed for its people. Maybe 1000 people could bootstrap a self sufficient community, if organized well.
Yes, VPS services will still assign your instance an IP address of its own.
There are two different questions there. Can I personally buy the info? No.

Is that information currently for sale? I have no idea.

Just because it isn't being sold publicly doesn't mean it isn't being sold at all.

Furthermore, comparing Facebook to ISPs is ridiculous. If Facebook pisses me off, I stop using it and I'm slightly inconvenienced. On the flip side, if my ISP pisses me off, I have literally no other choice in ISPs. I would go without internet beyond tethering to my phone, which means pretty much just basic email (IE: no internet). So your comparison is... bad.

Furthermore, for you to suggest the cards against humanity guys are running a scam shows complete ignorance of the company and the group of people behind it. Literally 0 chance they're trying to scam people.
I think that's true that inconsistent results lead to poor employment outcomes, but I do believe that's only part of the picture. I think the perspective it misses is maybe the assessment is not true that it's their inability. Maybe we aren't looking at the right definition of opportunity, training, job, working environment, company culture, or even productivity to make that assessment of their ability currently. The basic thesis is these people are an underutilized resource because they do not fit into the consensus method of assessment of the system. In fact they're so outside the conventional metrics that people don't even realize it's discrimination how they're handled but it is. So I guess one way I plan to handle this in future is to approach it as a way to include a type of diversity and difference that is not currently being addressed. Not without realizing that these people are crafty and they will consistently try to get something for nothing if you provide them that opportunity. So I think a contract where there's exchange both ways is fair and it's something that has a chance of working.
A good thing for the big players, not the web. Everyone else (like me) me pays for their hosting with a few dollars a month in ad revenue will lose out.
re Moneyball - the big takeaway (clearer in the movie) being that most people who experience tremendous success don't actually realize it, particularly, at the time.
If automation is so evil we should ban the loom.
Really this is a jab at net neutrality, the open selling of data by ISPs is a power grab away from the FCC that helped to make net neutrality a thing by labeling broadband/ISPs as common carriers.

Republicans (this was a party line vote) say it is unfair that Google and Facebook have your personal information and use it for ads but why can't ISPs have that and also sell it? One big fucking reason is people sign up to Google and Facebook for the purpose of sharing and agree to their ads in exchange for a service. Google built the most powerful search engine and Facebook built the social graph. Google/Facebook built value and they only use your info to target ads to you, they don't sell it because others would do the same. They sell ads and people use them because they have info on you, not necessarily to sell off to others.

If you ask me it is unfair for republicans to legally allow ISPs to do the same because we expect privacy from ISPs in ways we do not from Google and Facebook. You can choose not to use Google or Facebook but you cannot choose your ISP/broadband provider. In my opinion this is like letting someone view your mail, read it and then sell information about you. It is also an unfair competitive advantage for ISPs because they can place ads on any website if they want or track you across all sites not just like Google/Facebook which are huge but only see a portion of what you do. ISPs built no value product like a search engine or social graph for this purpose, they should do that if they want access like Google and Facebook. It seems almost like the GOP are harming innovative companies and rewarding/catching up non-innovators. I bet broadband companies/ISPs won't even use the profits to improve broadband and rollout gigabit service for real. It is a rewarding of lazy semi-monopolies over innovative companies and products.

Republicans also control the FTC not the FCC so they want all control to fall to the FTC instead. It is both a power grab and a bending over of all their constituents.

Most of all, it is also another step in dismantling net neutrality as FCC protected that by categorizing the broadband/ISPs as a common carriers and they want to sap the FCCs power in that regard.
Good man. I work at Bluehost and I spoke to him on the phone once, his website was/is hosted by Bluehost. :)
Would be nice to have a TLS encrypted DNS. I know that wouldn't hide everything from aggregate reporting but it would help I would think.
Ask HN: How to price properly to get maximum income?
Hello guys, I'm running an app that is worth $2,000. Now, the payment of the client will be 50% initial for using the app then after wards 50% when they are satisfied by the app.

The problem I'm having is a long term income generating app. As I can view it when the contract is done I need to, again, find new clients and do the same pricing in which when I don't have one then I will be stuck or worst close business.

Is there a strategies or other payment plans on how I can make customers and my service do long term contract that will maintain the business and hopefully make it bigger or sell it to companies.
Exactly! Who in their right mind would deliver a report to their boss and say, "Its only been a couple days, but this drastic change has been successful!" But someone instead went to the NYT and said that same thing.
Wait, what? This one?

(2) A cable operator may disclose such information if the disclosure is—
(A) necessary to render, or conduct a legitimate business activity related to, a cable service or other service provided by the cable operator to the subscriber;

If the cable service has another service that delivers ads, why wouldn't that be acceptable?
https://www.cnet.com/news/aols-disturbing-glimpse-into-users...
Yes, mitigated compared to a full-speed descent. It's not really possible to compare it to an entirely different system though like a fighter jet. Fatigue is analyzed at a part level, like a single strut or a patch of aluminum reinforcing a small area, and is dependent on the type of loading, materials, magnitude/dir of stress, temps in some cases, frequency of cycles, and so on. Fatigue life in aerospace is a tradeoff between designing heavier, beefier, longer lasting parts and skimpier, lighter parts that lead to a lighter vehicle overall.

Any part can undergo fatigue damage for a given loading if it is designed to be weak enough.
Fast PNG Processing and Enhanced Images Processing in Multi-Threaded Environment
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Semantics - it is anticipated and quantified, but with error bounds ;)
Thanks for the example of where similar ideas have worked.
As it says below "You need to look at the download size on the end user device, not the binary size in iTunesConnect."

Is that what you are doing?

Because otherwise, it includes the bitcode size.
(i don't pretend this makes sense. only that it is :P)

In any case, i would still bet more heavily on it being displayed wrong than anything else.

If i was to increase the binary size of first party apps at google by even 1%, there would be a mob with pitchforks at my desk in less than an hour.

I can't imagine apple is really different.
The stress and intonation examples are what puts this on the far side of the uncanny valley. I've not heard computer speech like this, where the voice seems understand the idea underneath the words.
How is easy filing for those who only earn income through employment any different from people who pay for tax prep every year? The people who pay for tax prep probably aren't thinking much about it either.
The $300 billion was estimated by assuming that his assets expand with US economic output. That makes no sense because the US population grew substantially (and the US economy has diversified into many new fields).
The funds are not held in escrow. The obligation is a social contract with the government.
I won't tell you what you meant as you're the leading authority on that. However, what you wrote was "A little later we had Lessig saying 'code is law.'", and, if you'll allow, a reasonable interpretation of that is "code replaces law".

If you meant to convey a different meaning, you might have clarified. I stand by my statement that that appears to misrepresent Lessig's argument, which is a good one.

As for the range of opinions ... from John Gillmore to Staticsafe ... views differ. It's helpful to keep in mind that Gillmore, Lessig, and Staticsafe are all presenting arguments as challenges to conventional wisdom. To that end, presenting any of them as indicative of the CW is also ... misleading.

Unless you meant another argument.

Again: I'm not trying to tell you what you meant, but I'm telling you what I'm reading from that. And ... between exposition, clarity, and/or argument, it could be better.

Cheers.
$25 - two sandwiches from Toasties baby :o
For assessing eligibility to benefit programs the definition of poverty threshold is fine.

But using pre-tax pre-transfers figures to describe shocking levels of child poverty is disingenuous, in my opinion. To assess poverty, we should look at the situation after all the actions that are already done to alleviate poverty.

At least you shouldn't argue for more benefits or social programs, if you don't take to account the existing benefits and social programs.
It might not matter after you do the math, but on landing this rocket is plunging back into the atmosphere at supersonic velocity moving through its own rocket exhaust. This is a pretty visceral image that does sound like something causing fatigue.
Nix's functional software deployment model is a useful tool for building software reproducibly, but reproducible builds are neither the primary motivation for nor the primary goal of the Nix model. For information on what problems it aims to solve, how it solves them, and how it can be applied in various useful ways (e.g., a package manager is just one particular thing you can implement using the Nix model), I suggest you read the first chapter of the thesis I linked earlier. It's very interesting, and I think you'll find that the model can be applied to problems like this; it's not just about building software reproducibly, although software that builds reproducibly is conducive to the model.
They've been using libcontainer and then moved to runC (which is effectively a standard-compliant wrapper around libcontainer) since before 1.0. LXC was only used in the early history of Docker, and it was pretty bad to be quite honest (it's better now but there's no chance Docker will switch back).
I suppose it comes down to who you trust more: your tax preparer to get as many deductions and credits as possible for you, or the government to give them to you.
Why ship cotton from the US to a developing country when you can do it at home for a similar price?

I think you are right, automation will get to the developed world first, but I think in part to automate the developing world remotely.
Different people have different reactions. I've known guys who just shrugged it off, and others who were in a lot of pain for weeks.
'Someone is putting lots of work into hacking GitHub developers' only if they use Microsoft Windows as their development platform.
Ok, is anything in this proposal preventing you from using Turbo-tax, your accountant, or just doing it yourself by hand?

No one is forcing you to use the IRS pre-filled form. What is the problem? Let the "idiots" pay extra taxes if they want and smart guys like you can spend extra time and money doing your taxes the old way.
Legal is really important and I agree it might be a big cost. I don't see it as something regrettable I see it as setting up the legal is setting up the necessary compliance and policy infrastructure for something like this to be sustainable in a legal sense. I don't have any experience in this but I think there must be ways of presenting it where decision makers see this is as something desirable or are motivated to see the experiment take place. That might involve judiciously selecting a particular jurisdiction to launch something like this in at first. Or organizing for working in an area where we already have existing contacts with decision makers. Or finding some way to structure these things where legal is not the major obstacle so a creative way to fit into an existing category of something legitimate.
What's that? She already said he is impotent. So "that" wouldn't work.
The only way to have the freedom from being punched in the nose, is by taking away the freedom to punch people in the nose, punishing punchers with more nose-punching, but constrained by due-process (peer-reviewed violence).
"It's full of contradictions!"

"So is independence!"
We're not talking about all rich people. We're talking about Jeff Bezos. How did Jeff become the second wealthiest human on the planet?

Well, his mother's family had some wealth. But his mother was a single teenage mom until she married his step-father. His step-father immigrated alone from Cuba at the age of 15. Later, he worked his way through a degree at the University of Albuquerque.

So, I'm not sure how much of a silver spoon he had.
I'm talking about this: https://www.gofundme.com/BuyCongressData

And this: https://www.gofundme.com/searchinternethistory
Hrm. I'm wondering now if there's a possible ethical case for actions which don't improve the common weal. Or how to resolve conflicts between short-term present vs. long-term future outcomes, or other conflicts -- say, you classic Trolley Problem.

I also wanted to note that your dismissal of Fundamental Rights is a good point. I'm finding far more agreement with the Pragmatists (Dewey, James, etc.) than various Natural / Fundamental Rightists. If only because any idiot can jump up and claim "This is My Fundamental Right" and ... all rational discussion stops.
This gave me a good chuckle, thanks.
As I understand it, the main difference is that the Falcon rockets are (or are eventually meant to be) much less dependent on refurbishment between launches. The Space Shuttle required extensive and expensive work between launches to the extent that many critics[1] claimed that it wasn't truly "reusable". (IMHO, while the shuttle program definitely didn't achieve its goals, it seems like calling it "reusable" is fair).

As for gliding back: the Falcon booster does not actually achieve orbit-- when the main engine cuts off, it is on a ballistic trajectory back to the ocean. While it may be possible to design some sort of gliding apparatus to "save" a booster on a sub-orbital trajectory, it is (again, as I understand it), much simpler to simply adjust that trajectory via a boostback burn that reverses or slows that trajectory, and to then perform a suicide burn[2] to recover the stage, either on a barge or (on lower orbit missions) back on a land-based pad.

I am not a rocket scientist, nor do I have experience in the space industry-- these thoughts are just based on what I've read following the SpaceX reusability program as closely as I can for the past few years.

I do play a lot of Kerbal Space Program, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle...

[2] http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10307/what-is-a-sui...
I'm not sure what you're saying here. Women can have their eggs frozen and undergo tubal ligation. That's pretty analogous to vasectomy and frozen sperm, albeit quite a bit more invasive.