skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fascinating map, thanks.

Does anyone know why federal land is so concentrated to the western half of the US? Is the “empty land” in states like Texas state owned? Why?
Many of those chips are not programmable though, or are 'programmed' through things like voltage dividers.

At what point do you consider a chip a 'computer'? Would something like a voltage regulator or mux/demux count as an ASIC?
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Whoops, sorry apparently its $319 million according to Sebelius.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2013/10/...
For all the reasons you use any kind of backend. To access authenticated resources, to persist data centrally, to share information between users, to hide your proprietary code...
Station keeping doesn't only involve drag; it involves rebalancing the orbital plane when a satellite fails; you also need to provision fuel to deorbit.

The higher the orbit, the more fuel you need to deorbit.
I'm sorry it comes across that way. I certainly could have been more precise, but I wrote this to express a certain feeling, and felt that I couldn't improve it without losing something essential. Maybe someday I'll write something more analytic and less emotional.

I think a lot of code is bad, and the world is a mess. But I have no idea about your code, and I'm not sure who is at fault, or even if that's a useful question to ask. I'm certainly no genius, and I definitely don't know how to fix all of it.
Agreed with the hot spare. Typical RAID reconstruction on these systems is limited to available I/O operations (IOPS) after accounting for the number needed to meet performance goals. If these are the only drives on a fairly beefy system you have lots of extra IOPS available so you should be able to reconstruct a drive in under a day if you wanted to. There are the usual caveats about age related failures happening in groups but at least anecdotally and from what I know from the folks who work in NetApp customer support usage across a much larger population, it is quite reliable.
What’s wrong with an “article written about a tweet”, when the tweet is from someone — the CEO of AWS — with the highest authority on the matter?
Hi, non-Facebook user here :)
I didn't know my socially liberal city was secretly racist until I joined Tinder and OKC.

Unfiltered, unbiased, completely raw racism against Asian males.

Sometimes I wonder if it's worth continue living as a North American. There's just institutionalized racism from Hollywood, which everybody takes cue from.

Especially when there's a vacuum of identity due to the mosaic nature of Canadian identity, it creates ethnic silos, and just an air of unfriendly unwelcoming misery that is Vancouver, BC.

Or maybe everybody is house poor and blame it on Asians in Ferraris.....whyflag
There is an argument to be made that solitary confinement is torture. Check out this New Yorker article:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/30/hellhole
Can you recommend something to find restaurants with a sufficient number of reviews to be meaningful? Yelp at least had a lot of users, even if many of the reviews were fake. Google reviews tends to inflate everything, so most restaurants have a higher score on Google reviews than they do on Yelp. It would be nice if someone solved the review problem for restaurants.
reproduction is fine, its just when families are having 5-6 children still, or when a human can only give love to a child if it is 'their' blood. Also in 1970 World pop was 3.6B, a much more sustainable number if everyones going to live a modern lifestyle with high consumption needs.
The three necessary and sufficient ingredients for evolution are: 1) Inheritance, 2) Variation, and 3) Selection.

Let’s consider fertility using this lens:

1) Fertility rate is heritable, 2) Fertility rates vary from person to person, and 3) People with higher fertility have higher reproductive success (it’s almost a tautology).

I’ll let you work out the implications.
Okay that's actually more reasonable, thanks
Steven Sinofsky, who formerly lead Microsoft's Windows development, raises some very interesting historical comparisons to prior paradigm shifts in the industry.

https://www.twitter.com/stevesi/status/1059663467676762112
Lots of companies get older and lose ability to execute. AMD was very old already when Opteron happened.

The age of the company in a case like this is irrelevant. What matters is current management and staff and market context.
According to Wikipedia:

"The original budget for CGI was $93.7 million, but this grew to $292 million prior to launch of the website. While estimates that the overall cost for building the website had reached over $500 million prior to launch, the Office of Inspector General released a report finding that the total cost of the HealthCare.gov website had reached $1.7 billion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthCare.gov

Here's the report claiming $1.7B total cost: https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-03-14-00231.asp
Crypto influencer community
Cox’s Orange Pippin or GTFO.

Although i am also fond of Discovery - it's a good apple, with striking red-streaked flesh. And my dad's got a tree of it, which helps.
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Yes, take note east coasters. This doesn't happen on the west coast.
I've been noodling on what it would take to build a generally conversational dialog machine.
That's a steal compared to the Obamacare signup site.
Anything with a CAN or LIN bus connection has at least one MCU in it.
Agreed. I think for temporal data (accounting) reporting non-relational databases are fine.
The difference is that most people weren't aware or didn't care until he announced his support of Trump. Nothing objectively changed, but like a bunch of robots everyone immediately started calling for him to be removed from the Facebook board of directors and the relationship with YC to be ended.
Those same sample web sites have fing ctr of fing 0%

Cool, hip, trendy, websites are fun bro.

However, people want to get paid.

So,sorry bro, no whimsical customer journeys.

cr > all.
Lest we think this is a nail in a coffin, Oracle’s stock is barely down after market close (7:50p ET) off a price close to a 5 year high.

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/orcl/after-hours-chart

The “lawnmower” keeps on mowing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18323166
Dammit. I wish you could delete accounts. I have tons of accounts and can’t seem to find links or settings to delete any of them to reduce my exposure to this crap.
As a backer, I feel that IndieGoGo does absolutely nothing for you. On the other hand, they actively enable scammers to continue scamming!

I backed a product that seemed to be ready, from everything the creators had posted. But months went by and the product wasn't shipping. As people started complaining, IGG's website actually allowed the creators to shadow-ban complainers! I manually verified this by using a private window: my comments, which were visible to me, were not visible when using the private window! My comments were not abusive in any shape or form: I had just pointed out that even though these guys are claiming it's not ready yet, they are already advertising the product in a trade show.

All of my complaints to IGG were either ignored, or answered with a generic "not all campaigns are successful". They refused to take action when it was pointed out to them that the creator is actively deceiving the backers!

And the creators, after ripping off 1009s of users, went on to run new campaigns, which also ripped off people!

I will never back an IGG campaign again. Actually, I had half a mind to take them to small claims court, but dropped the idea.

IndieGoGo are a bunch of scammer-enablers.

Edit: case in point, this camera: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alpha-the-world-s-smalles... (read the comments! and see the dates)

The campaigners went on to make this campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/snap-the-smallest-afforda... (read the comments here too!)
Forgive me if I missed it, but I don’t believe I saw any mentions of ruby in this thread.

I feel like the English like syntax and use of keywords instead of symbols would be very beneficial for people with disabilities.

I guess python is in a similar vein, but ruby doesn’t rely on white space for its blocks, which I think is a real plus.
I am convinced this no longer exists. (shameless plug ramble: [1]) It's too easy to inflate reviews now.

[1] https://www.notion.so/The-Hyperreality-of-Big-Data-ae0aebb35...
A process is any instance of a program that's being executed. That definition doesn't change whether it's a program running as an ordinary Unix process, as an Isolate in a V8 runtime in a container on a virtual machine on a bare-metal blade in a DC rack, or as a hypothetical MIPS-like CPU on my whiteboard.

By "choose your scaffolding", I'm just saying "how much of the OS kernel would you like to re-invent?"

That isn't a wholly cynical position. Doing so might introduce new capabilities or cost efficiencies, which seems to be Cloudflare's pitch. But very often we get excited by the possibilities and lose sight of the tons of additional stuff now required to achieve quite simple things. In the worst case (e.g. VMware) we end up re-inventing hardware abstraction, scheduling, networking, memory management, and filesystems i.e. most of the damn kernel. Docker is a less egregious offender but still deserving of the "too much scaffolding" label.

In the very best outcome, the capability gets stripped down to the core enhancement and pushed back into the expectations for a base OS, which is for example why practically every OS now comes with a hypervisor and a container mechanism.
> any floating point unit may be Turing-complete through encoding into floating-point operations in the spirit of FRACTRAN

Well that's the most interesting thing I learned today
I’ve thought the same thing
Show HN: “Java Retrofit” for C++. Build Web Clients with Oatpp ApiClient/libcurl
It was an acqui-hire. He wrote the new reddit app, too.
I guess I need to get in the business of making websites for the government.
Facebook is the same. Click on messenger on the web app, and it takes you to the play store.
Of course facebook spends 20 billion a year and can't keep it's shit together either.

Maybe people should stop thinking software is cheap.
> There. is. no. evidence. of. this.

5 seconds of googling:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimhandy/2012/08/16/think-yelp-...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/yelp-accused-of-bullying-bu...

There are multiple accounts in the same results page, and even in this very page:

> Yelp is utter trash. They've shaken down several friends of mine who own and run restaurants. Either you pay for their premium services or a bunch of 1 star reviews start magically appearing on your business Its a well known racket and they should be run out of town on a rail for it.

> After I received my first positive review on the site they called me and tried selling me all kinds of advertising. Hundreds of dollars per month worth. I declined, and around the same time my review went from being on my business page to being buried behind a "View Reviews that are not recommended" link.

Etc, etc. This seems like evidence. Or are all these people lying? Why is everyone slandering poor innocent Yelp then?
Considering that the breach wasn't on the actual site itself but on the accounts of private companies that were tasked with receiving the applications, this isn't an issue with the website. More than likely, someone employees that work at these contractors had weak passwords and no limit to the number of logins. As soon as the people on the website found out, access was disabled. It sounds like they actually had their shit together at this point.
Healthcare.gov is the Obamacare signup site.
oatpp ApiClient is a mechanism which enables you to generate Web Api Clients in declarative manner.

Under the hood it uses provided RequestExecutor to perform http requests. Thus you are abstracted from the low-level http-client library implementation and you can substitute any other http-client library at any time with zero code changes.

Roughly you may treat oatpp ApiClient as "Java Retrofit" for C++.
OK. This is something worth spending a few downvotes on. Are you simply stupid or are you just an unempathetic ahole? Since you're on HN, I'm guessing the latter.

Even speaking as someone who is relatively more conservative in economic matters than most here, this is just obnoxious. I have zero issue with charging a reasonable use fee on federal lands. There are costs associated with using those lands and, as I wrote elsewhere, double-digit dollars are not any real deterrent to using those public lands.

But now we get to rationing. Yes. It's sometimes necessary. We do it all the time based on price and it's a very efficient market-based mechanism. And I usually favor it. But it's not a great mechanism for public lands.

Partly this is just an issue of fairness. We don't (theoretically) allocate votes on the basis of income. We shouldn't allocate park access either.

There's also just a pragmatic matter of creating a perception that the national parks are only for the rich. To be sure, they're not really for the poor in any case. But it's not a good look to rub that in anyone's face.
this imo is actually an unindented consequence of crunch in video game dev. I hate the crunch but love the friends I made. yes I know you can make friend without crunch and I don't want to subject people to it but I have bonding memories of going out for breakfast after working all night
What do you think about Facebook's “Clicks and Mortar” strategy?
Okay, so now I have to build a pipeline, to get my runtime into WebAssembly. I have to sit around and make that work. And ultimately, what does that actually look like, when fully realized in code?

A sprawling mess of compromises, or a full rewrite. Sounds great.
Because development and homesteading proceeded from east to west, and so did private claims on land. Substantial preservation programs (by area) took off nearly a century later.
No love for Cortlands here? Incredible.

I'm one of those who don't understand the appeal of honeycrisp, I guess I prefer soft-fleshed apples.
It is explicitly limited by geography. The magnetic pull of the earth on the west coast, because of the San Andreas fault, prevents this from happening there.
I wish they'd offer the option to open in Relay or whatever your preferred app is..the official Reddit app sucks.
Criticizing JIRA is easy, because it has enough rough edges that people get unhappy with it and, while it’s highly configurable, configuration is hard and odds are the way your JIRA workflow is configured doesn’t quite match the way you would configure it if it were up to you, because it manages the organizational concerns of what needs to get done and by whom in a consistent way independent of the personal concerns of the people doing the work.

Jira is like C++ or representative democracy or capitalism: compared to your internal mental model of things, it’s a needlessly complicated and shitty system, but try to find an alternative that sustainably works for as many different use cases before writing it off.

(Also, much like these things, Jira takes a lot of heat for things that are just part of the human condition but only seem that way because it’s a mechanism for addressing facts about the world that are inherently annoying to us, especially the fact that a lot of people want dumb shit that you may not personally agree with.)
Good. Being an asshole to both consumers and small businesses should end in this outcome.
I'm sure we agree 99%.
I am relying on multiple accounts I've read online:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimhandy/2012/08/16/think-yelp-...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/yelp-accused-of-bullying-bu...

There are multiple accounts in the same results page, and even in this very page:

> Yelp is utter trash. They've shaken down several friends of mine who own and run restaurants. Either you pay for their premium services or a bunch of 1 star reviews start magically appearing on your business Its a well known racket and they should be run out of town on a rail for it.

> After I received my first positive review on the site they called me and tried selling me all kinds of advertising. Hundreds of dollars per month worth. I declined, and around the same time my review went from being on my business page to being buried behind a "View Reviews that are not recommended" link.

Etc, etc. This seems like evidence. Or are all these people lying? Why is everyone slandering poor innocent Yelp then?
I’ve been very happy with Daisy Disk over the years.

https://daisydiskapp.com/
For an interesting contrast to this sentiment, read Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. He is writing from a somewhat unique perspective from his position as a park ranger in Arches, way back in the 1930s when it was still mostly undeveloped.

It's also a great book in general.
Cloud Computing without Containers
you can still use mbasic.facebook.com to read your fb messages if you need it.
After my Samsung tablet was stolen I ordered a cheapo (~$100) replacement tablet online without having tried it. Bad decision. The lower end tablets are horrible for reading due to the lower screen resolution. Movies and photos are fine. But with text you can see the individual pixels and it's almost unreadable. I just ordered another Samsung Galaxy S3 (less than $500) and will sell the cheapo brand I bought. I haven't really seen anything match Samsung's AMOLED displays, and it's half the price of the iPad Pro which has an LCD with less contrast.
The environment we find ourselves in has undergone rapid and drastic change. Many people are poorly adapted to this changed environment. But not everybody.

Their adaptations will spread. And, thus, we shall evolve.
This always happens and the noSQL market will eventually consolidate / settle down to a handful of players just as the SQL market did.
If you want "more objective" you are asking for less opinionated.
I do for real-time audio synthesis.
I don't think Elon musk or Tesla fans will ever say that.

Truth is, Tesla sells well. Chevy bolt does not sell that well. And one of the major reason Tesla sells so well (50k model3 at 50k$ in a quarter) is because of the futuristic hype and image. So they will never admit that Tesla makes just another premium car, or that autopilot is just another driver assistance program.
I guess we are talking about different topics :)
“but my 15 year old cousin can make websites!”
Obviously like I said one of the best $150m, er $1.6b, taxpayer has spent. I seriously can not can't think of any other website that takes that amount of traffic and operates on a significantly lower budget.
Laws should have some kind of escape clauses that kick in should unintended consequences start dominating the impact.
One of the contributors to OpenCensus here - feel free to ask any questions!
The national parks and most museums in the us you have to pay for certainly have programs to discount the price if you can't afford it. Despite popular worldwide opinion, We're not heartless greedy jerks in this country.
I would not have guessed that there would be any HN users in Wonder Valley. Do you have any sort of structure on the property, or just a lot? What (if anything) do you do for water/electricity?
Why Does California Have So Many Wildfires?
Same for contrast. If you're not actually trying to read, low-contrast is more appealing. Thus, the CEO who has read their marketing blurb a thousand times likes low-contrast, even though it's counter-productive.
Nice! Thanks for your response.
There is a big difference between literally not being able to feed your children and deciding not to have another child because it would mean moving to a neighborhood in a worse school district.
(insolvent) Foodora Australia concedes riders probably employees not contractors
http://skillcult.com/ has an amazing set of blog posts and videos about a whole range of obscure and interesting apple varieties. He’s talked about apples that taste like fruit punch, bananas, anise, spice, etc. The range of possible flavors that apples can express is pretty amazing.
There's a state park by me that charges $40 or so (although you can hike in for free)
It is a bit of a rant, yes; I did write it to evoke emotion; and it is less clear than it could be.

> what is the connection between "Beautiful code gets rewritten" and "Refuse to work on systems that profit from digital addictions." ?

Both result from systematic perverse incentives caused by local rather than global optimisation processes. That's part of what I was trying to get at in part II. We really aren't very good at making collective decisions yet; neither narrow ones about how to build software, nor broader ones about what software to build. I don't have a solution, but in the meantime I'd like to try not to make things worse.
Probably because only the good houses from the past are left standing. Also, have you lived in middle class houses from 100 years ago? They’re tiny.
The only widely available data that comes to mind for me is social mobility aka economic mobility.

It's not so easy to find a good compiled list by country but here s a start (see especially the chart at the bottom): http://www.verisi.com/resources/prosperity-upward-mobility.h...
If you prevent overtourism with quotas you will screw the underprivileged in other ways, e.g. by making it impossible for them to expend the time and effort to make it in under the quota.
HelloBox is another one - https://www.hellobox.co - that helps you create community sites.
I’ve been learning*

:D
Is that not a thing? I had thought "west coast" described startupy, in-house, vaguely agile type of software development, and "east coast" described government contracting, sub-sub-sub contracting, waterfall-style development. Maybe I just picked it up from the folks around me and thought it was more universal.
Don't get me wrong, I have great luck interacting with women in person. The online service is supposed to make it easier for people to meet, but quite honestly, that doesn't earn money. The plan becomes to make it difficult on purpose, then sell you features that take away some difficulty.
You mean administrating JIRA processes or administering the software itself? Any web app you install on your network is going to need to have someone managing it.
As I read more and more on gut bacteria and general health, I have to believe that gut bacteria as factor into these ill effects. That is, with less exposure to others, your gut is less diverse.

Or looked at from another perspective, studies have shown that couples live longer, as do people with dogs (and cats?). But those relationships also exposure you to the bacteria of others. That's a positive. Flip it around, and less exposure will undermine the diversity of your gut and eventually your overall health.
Something Looks Weird in Broward County
PavlovsCat wrote a very generalizing statement about what "Asians" eat and then tried to smear it on me. It was a thinly veiled racism but then again people from UK doesn't seem to have a good grip on what is considered racist in North America. What he wrote would fall under sneaky bigotry. Not full blown racism but I'm used to seeing dogwhistling on reddit.

I only wrote that the corrupt Chinese elite exploit the people including taking prisoners organs, prostitution, all sorts of human rights abuse.

but somehow it's been derived to that removed comment which implied that I didn't view Mainland China unfavorably, please don't try to conflate it with sinophobia, I haven't made that case at all, it's just apalling behavior from the Communist party of China that pisses me off because it pains me to see what my Chinese friends go through.
Just in time for Black Friday.... yay! What could go wrong?