skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing accidental about being in public when you're at a table at the mall, either, and yet we accept that people make communications in such spaces, which because of the medium carry beyond their party, that were really only meant for their group. In the same sense that voices carry in a public space, Tweets can be seen by a larger group than was intended.

It's a sad state of affairs if our only option for having semi-open communications on the internet - things that friends of friends can see without having to sign up to a walled garden - is if we only say things that are acceptable to everyone possible, for fear of mobs semi-randomly forming, or worse, forming at the behest of a for-profit company driving the mob in a frenzy to get ad revenue (which is the case for times companies like Gawker have stirred the mob up).
This is probably true, but it's shameful. The consequences of making a joke that doesn't land shouldn't be this severe. For what it's worth, nor should overreacting to one. I think Adria Richards was in every possible way, wrong. We're all wrong quite often though. She didn't deserve a tiny fraction of the shit that came her way either.
This looks really nice! LDAP always seems to take some finessing to work right.

Do you support starttls?
Didn't he create a startup? If so, he is not unemployed.
Yes, just the UX, the plans should be the same. As someone who just spent many hours trying to navigate ACA plans, HealthSherpa helped me compare plans, even though ultimately I did not buy through them.
If you are a relatively famous person who has an audience/market who supports you despite (or even because of) an obnoxious persona or offensiveness to some people, then you are relatively immune to this kind of thing. Certainly, an "edgy" comic, or political commentator, can get away with a lot more than a CTO or CEO, even if the content is approximately the same.

The danger comes when you misunderstand your core audience, or alienate them. If you go off brand at the same time as you write something dangerous, you risk offending your own audience. That can be deadly.
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You should, in general, stay away from the internet -- especially twitter -- people make these joke things about "serious" stuff all the time.

Gotta thicken up that skin, friend.
I read somewhere that solar installations in Japan have about a two-day battery capacity.
Examples of abusive software
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It doesn't but one should expect some maturity from society. I think it'll take a generation maybe less but people will learn and understand it as an extension of self albeit diffused.
Super and what is the next step from here?
Even though, the ruby one-liner seems more legible, it is a lot longer (and probably a lot slower).

In this case I don't see what's wrong with the sed, awk or grep commands (fast and short).

To explain how they work

sed -i '/^$/d' input.txt # for every line matching '^$' (empty line) apply 'd' (delete the line).
grep -v '^$' # print every line not matching '^$' (empty line)

awk 'NF' input.txt
# 'NF' stand for Number of Fields (this is equivalent to number of columns
# in a table). If the number of fields is 0 the line must be empty. In awk
# 0 is false and non-zero is true. Thus when 'NF' is non-zero (non-empty)
# it is true, and the line will be printed.
The most interesting part of this to me is the swatch - I'm guessing they use some advanced CSS3 techniques to do that, since you presumably wouldn't be able to use JavaScript in email.

That aside, it looks like a pretty straight-forward form submission. No real security concerns - as it posts to a webapp and the credit card is stored server-side. Biggest concern might be that an attacker could buy things for you and they'll ship to your address? All they'd need to know is your billing zipcode (which isn't too secure).

That aside, their best bet would include releasing plugins for popular ecom software - such as Magento.
Thank you. Sometimes the leads you get here give us gems like this:

"The loose ball was snatched up by a Chicago lawyer and sold at an auction in December 2003. Grant DePorter purchased it for $113,824.16 on behalf of Harry Caray's Restaurant Group. On February 26, 2004, it was publicly detonated by special effects expert Michael Lantieri.

In 2005, the remains of the ball were used by the restaurant in a pasta sauce."
Yeah - Sherry's talk at MicroConf Europe was one of the best in some ways: seeing the 'human' side of someone who has been successful, and hearing that it's been difficult and stressful and not just bouncing from strength to strength makes it seem more real and attainable.

( patio11's talk was good too - lots of practical advice :-)
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I don't think HN is a bunch of MRA losers, but it's certainly closely connected to places that are. (as in, lots of people participate in HN who also participate in places that could be characterized as such)

So I'd say it's MRA-loserville-adjacent.
Winner winner chicken dinner.

I read the preface and this sounds exactly like what I was looking for. Many thanks!
This quite cool but for an HTTP server, most requests should complete within a few seconds and the average should be in milliseconds. Proving that requests are handled in finite time is useful (some kinds of bugs are eliminated) but it's not really the performance guarantee that's needed in this domain. We will probably be using performance testing rather than proofs for a long time.
It's important to note that people’s environment is heavily influenced by their social circle. Day to Day a poor person that has a strong social circle and some free time to sit around and play cards can be happier than say an elderly widower who might have plenty of resources but few friends or family left alive.

IMO, Rat Park would have been far more interesting if they had presented rats with identical environments but the difference being social isolation not just living in a tiny cage.
Drone racing in the snow
The problem, in NY at least, is that none of these sites account for the quality of the provider network, so you're fooled into thinking the quality of coverage just comes down to deductibles and coinsurance limits. Hopefully this works itself out over time, but right now network quality a serious problem affecting most of the plans offered on the NY state exchange.

Take MetroPlus for example: their plans looks good on paper, but their network consists of overcrowded municipal hospitals. Take a look at their yelp reviews for a more realistic picture: http://www.yelp.com/biz/metroplus-health-plan-new-york
Thanks for the detailed perspective.

My limited & roseate view of a 21st century Lisp machine is based on an old theme - a massively parallel computing system using bespoke silicon logic blocks.

As you have noted below, not only are the cache sizes in a modern CPU monstrous, there's also the compilers optimized for these caches, instructions, branch prediction units, etc. No point in ending up with a chip that is much slower than an equivalent one running on a specially-designed virtual machine, which is itself much slower than MPI.

Dreaming on, such a Lisp machine would need a vast collaborative academic effort with substantially new IP design, in say the 32nm silicon process node. That's the most advanced node where lithography is still (somewhat) manageable for custom IP design.
> As dislikable as the tweet's content is

Did you read the article? By thinking for a few seconds, the point of the tweet is obviously not racist. Not a smart tweet, in retrospect, but. Here's her explanation from the article:

> I thought there was no way that anyone could possibly think it was literal. (...) Living in America puts us in a bit of a bubble when it comes to what is going on in the third world. I was making fun of that bubble.
She was being ironic - making fun of herself by pretending to be a ditzy, entitled white girl who though that she could never get AIDS. Unfortunately, in her absence, people took her literally and assumed she was serious.
There's no use in trying to explain. I'm being downvoted to hell for trying to explain why racist jokes are not ok, with replies like "this is just an off-color joke" or "do you know what racism means?" . I'm pretty dissapointed in this community, been here for lots of years and thought that generally speaking people in here would be more open-minded. But the minute you start to explain why making jokes about one's race or incurable disease is not ok you realize you're in the wrong group.
You're absolutely right! Some are. But some aren't, and some power companies are very scared and lashing out. There was an attempt in Arizona to get monthly connection fees of up to $100/mo if you have solar at all. Hawaii has blocked people from getting solar hooked up to the grid.

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/07/19/solar-energy-ariz...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-solar-boom-so-su...

The problem is obvious, of course. At some point the only people left paying any kind of substantial monthly fees are those who can't afford solar, and those are likely the poorest. And then what happens is that there's a regressive tax. I get that you can't have that kind of bad outcome.

But at the same time, grid maintenance is fairly cheap and peak power generation is very expensive, which is why utilities will pay people to be able to turn off their A/C at peak times. This is quite literally where solar shines: the more A/C load there is the more likely you're getting good power out of solar.

If the utilities need to prevent a regressive tax situation then they need to change incentives to be more transparent rather than just flailing about. If peak power is expensive, make it easier for people to put solar up and get paid for it. If nighttime power is cheap, make it cheaper on the bill.

Power companies are basically complaining that arbitrage is hard. They're the ones who are in charge of their own business models, though, not me. So if they fail to adapt to the world as it stands, you'll forgive me for not feeling sympathy.
In this article from Reuters [0] their CFO stated that they only hold a single digit market share in the travel industry.

"The possibility of antitrust issues was played down by Expedia's Chief Financial Office Mark Okerstrom who said, "It is a $1.3 trillion industry and is highly fragmented ... We are only a small player and our overall share is in single digits.""

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/12/us-orbitz-worldwid...
I've often wondered if someone would make a DC outlet strip. As the typical one has a half dozen "wall wart" type power supplies plugged into it, doing the conversion to say 24VDC and then down converting from there seem to be more convenient. But efficiency wise its something of a wash.

And from a whole house perspective, I keep hoping for a capacitor (storing charge directly rather than in chemical bonds) which would give me back most of the energy I had stored.
It's about the scale of the response. If someone rolls their eyes at you, you don't throw them down and stomp on their head. Yes, they were rude, you perhaps would be OK to flip them the bird, but a curb stomp? Really?

And please don't say this is totally different because racism. It was an isolated twitter joke to 140 followers. Tweets don't move the world - but floods of them can certainly ruin individual lives.
Wondering why no one came up with "I'm Justine Sacco"
Even if we get to the point that all of the available/affordable TVs are "Smart", you still have the option of not letting the thing on your network.

Well, at least for now.

I will continue to use my plain old "Dumb" TVs and Roku devices.
It seems to me FogCreek's tagged logging is a simpler version of logging than what logrus provides and what should actually always be the case: you don't log strings, you log structs with multiple fields and possibly multiple values for each field. It's much more versatile and seems to be enough for most if not all use cases, as logstash shows (really, at some points it starts being much easier to just log a JSON dict and stop fiddling with fancy regexps for analytics)
Could you point the racism out in this tweet?
Interesting. Thank you for sharing.

"You could might as well require of the developer to have great aesthetic sense" - Yes, the full-stack-developer trend is exactly that. I do think that is a great idea in general.

Just a side note: In all my years of startups and day jobs, I've always found that if someone ever says "not my job" = it's an extremely bad sign for the business. Perhaps someone might say, "doing X instead is better for the company." But simply framing it as "not my job" - shows a lot about the deeper thinking that the person is having.
Same here. I rotate my online username on forums and online comment systems every few months: https://fakena.me.
This is a little off-track, and possibly you can't answer this question - have you met any of the NYT columnists? What are your personal impressions of them and how they interact?

I've always been a little interested since clearly sometimes they target their columns at each other.
> She mocked a whole nation, and used a disease that has killed over a million people as a joke in a public forum.

Pssst...Africa is a continent, not a nation.
HN isn't completely made up of MRA types, but if you've been noticing there are a lot of them here (along with your more typical "SJWs out to get us" types).

HN is in general no longer held with the same regard it was a couple of years ago. Note the number of progressive, well-respected regulars who've left this place behind.

There are other avenues to discuss tech and tech issues without ancaps, MRAs, and anti-SJW crusaders trying to internet-fight you at every turn.
Well remember this is the basic supply prices. ComEd tacks on another 4-5 cents in delivery charges and other supplemental crap. Then there are local/state taxes and etc.

And, sometimes, it isn't crazy cheap (especially when there's a cold snap in the south and everyone turns on their heat pumps)

https://rrtp.comed.com/live-prices/?date=20140130
ADDED: the author of the deleted post I'm responding to thought that he remembered that the Scheme 79 chip failed to actually run Lisp (Scheme). I replied:

Not that I know of, but only because of microcode errors. I was told "Sussman wasn't quite as smart as he thought he was" to tape it out without making really sure the microcode was correct.

In all fairness, at the time they had little in the way of available computer resources to e.g. simulate it, and it was all part of a very exciting time when MIT started doing Mead and Conway style VLSI, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead_%26_Conway_revolution and note the latter gave a famous course on it at MIT in 1978.
How about, "one ironic joke, and then a long flight where she could not communicate that she was being ironic, cost Justine Sacco a lot".

She wasn't being racist, she was lampooning American insularity. Unfortunately, a lot of people didn't get that it was a joke, and/or didn't get the joke, and she paid the price.
Next try getting insurance.
I'm worried about people who water down the term "racist" to mean someone who posts mean things on Twitter.

I'm sure the systemic issue with blacks in America is largely caused by immature comments on Twitter. I'm so glad the lynch mob was able to right this wrong, its almost like I'm living in a post-racial America!
Thanks! "ldaps" (ldap over ssl) is supported (required, actually) but not starttls (yes).
Sounds like victim-blaming to me.

If only she wasn't wearing /that dress/ in public...
A frustrating experience with returning to Google Drive from a Doc/Sheet/Slide
What could a new standard do that usb can't? Next generation is reversible, there's little to no chance of touching a half plugged in plug and get shocked. It seems pretty good to me.
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I wonder about this a lot - in 15-20 years, political candidates / public figures will have hundreds of things they have said online embarrassing their campaigns/images. Do we all just become more accepting of sarcasm, racism, bad jokes, etc? Is it a step backwards or is it a step forward?

I can tell you for a fact I'm sure things on my Twitter account could likely be taken out of context as I can sometimes be a bit of a "Larry David" with my public observations that I can't help but share.
> What about the even poorer people who only receive new hardware when richer people buy upgrades?

Good point. I suppose a better solution for the problem of hardware obsolescence caused by software inefficiency would be for conscientious software developers to deliberately use underpowered computers. I'm ashamed that I bought a new computer with a Core i7-4770 processor and 32 GB of RAM about a year and a half ago.
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Some states don't require car insurance, e.g. Virginia.
In theory, but not in practice. Visual Studio starts off great but it eventually chokes and dies for C++. Tools like Visual Assist can extend the lifetime but eventually it too will fail. This is true for every game and every engine I've ever worked on.

I now do 100% of code editing in Sublime Text. Other people use other text editors. I'm now of the opinion that code bases should be useable and searchable in plaintext form. It's not difficult and even with an IDE makes things better imo.
That is sort of becoming a thing with USB outlets. It is starting to become quite ubiquitous. I wouldn't be surprised to see an outlet that had 4+ USB ports and a standard outlet maybe.
Perl 6 unifies "regexes" and recursive descent parsing:

'$10.00' ~~ rx{ \$ \d+ \. \d\d };

my $pat = rx{ \p+ \q**2..Inf }; 'pqqpqq' ~~ rx{ <$pat>**2 }

Note that these "regexes" are syntax, not strings, checked and converted in to a hybrid DFA/NFA at compile-time.
With regard to languages, there's a real mix. PHP is still probably the most widely used language (including on the main desktop site, and our blogs are powered by Wordpress), but the mobile site runs on Node, and Go is definitely being used in the building.
Hmmm re-reading that it sounds kind of prosaic and press-releasey. here's what I really want to say: Dori is a great guy, the perfect person to find these records. Mike's artwork has reached such a wide audience only because Dori and Mike were able to trust each other, which was not a guaranteed outcome given the circumstances of their meeting.

plus Dori DJ'd my wedding and killed it.
It would be nice to re-think the necessity of AC, as well. It's been around for quite a long time and the ineffectiveness are crazy (same thing with whole-house heating). Why heat or cool your house and deal with the insulation problems that come from having doors and windows and walls and exposure to sun or wind on one side? Your house doesn't get hot or cold, it doesn't care. You get hot and cold.

Supercomputers run on batteries for an entire day or more in our pockets. Powerful mobile gaming machines can be run from a USB socket. There has to be a way to cool me down in the summer without needing to cool my entire house (and watch as the cold air streams out underneath my door).
It's also a lot better at telling us the downsides.

"Patients on immunosuppressive medications have a 10- to 100-fold increased risk of cancer compared to the general population"
What a strange hook. "Moore's law is running out and we soon won't be able to squeeze more performance out of transistors, so... here's a bunch of computing technologies that may have a niche but stand no chance of having better performance than transistors even when optimized." It's a fine article, but the hook doesn't match it.
I guess we should feel sorry for Comcast as well. Damn this Silicon Valley, always innovating, breaking things down.
> There are other avenues to discuss tech and tech issues without ancaps, MRAs, and anti-SJW crusaders trying to internet-fight you at every turn.

Please tell me where? I've noticed the same irritating trends here. At this rate, I might just go back to Slashdot.
Yeah, and software authors would have to get better and more efficient too...
I guess the moderation algorithms of Waze will eventually nullify the users who are falsely reporting these locations?
What scenario do you imagine that make Google disappear within 50 years?

I know it's a long time but they are expanding so much I can't imagine that nothing will work to the point they have to die.
Why I run this blog on MaxCDN and Ghost
Cool scrolling visual effect with those birds in the top illustration. Wonder if it was intentional?
What does Lisp provide on top of e.g. the lambda calculus? I'd expect the latter to be even more fundamental. But I suppose one could reasonably argue that that wasn't 'Software', just Math.
Even if one were to give her the benefit of the doubt on whether or not her tweets express racist sentiment, there's still a stupendous lack of judgment on her part. She's saying things publicly, associated with her name. Anyone who expresses something in that fashion should be fully prepared to deal with backlash. She should have the right to express her views, even if they are unpopular--and she should be willing to handle the consequences.
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Solar panels would only affect the revenue of coupled utilities. Depending on the regulatory framework of the state, Decoupled utilities [0] would be unaffected by solar (and may even benefit if they supply the capital investment to install the solar)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoupling_%28utility_regulati...
I actually thought it was funny. If you get offended by a thing that's so over the top it just can't be taken seriously, you sir are an absolute moron. Hate how people are just looking to get excuses to get offended and show off their 'righteousness' at the expense of other people.

Point is: It's a joke. Learn the difference.
Well, when others see a cloud, it is good to see needed rain.

We have all these very smart, very hard working, very dedicated, and very cheap (relatively) people that the ivory tower just uses as doormats. Guys, there is an opportunity here as big as a boulder. The question is: How do we get these people to work for us? How do we get them to to view our ventures as just as valuable as academia? Is it just as simple as : "Work for us, make a decent salary, make cool things, then, on Fridays/Saturdays, go downtown and give a lecture to people." ? Is that all these grad students and post-docs want? It seems like there is a need and a place to fill it for the right company.
There's no reason a proof has to take any time - propositions as types is a tool to guide us to correct information flow, it doesn't mean we literally run the proof at every step. If we trust the core, we can erase the proof checking at the point of compilation and we're left with identical machine code that has been proven to do exactly what we expect and specify.
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I just hate to think of the poor girl/woman who decides she loves the framework...