jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
clicking around after this video i came across this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqSvkNjWnnQ

wow that looks and sounds amazing.
...a vector display.
I'm not sure what could be done that would be dangerous in the name of "ushering in the singularity." The worst plausible scenario is that we put money into research avenues that don't pan out. But that happens all the time anyways. The real worst case scenario is that someone gets too afraid of AI and goes all Sarah Connor. But that's not a likely scenario especially because most of the people who take the Singularity idea seriously are people who are generally optimistic about the long-term trends.
Not that there's anything wrong with that! (courtesy nod to Seinfeld). It is odd (I don't say telling!) that the standard term for sex partner is a preferred term for a guy's male friend in some places.
This is a good idea for a gem or SAAS. I generate screenshots on the CI server for one of my projects and put them into a dropbox subfolder per commit hash too.
I think it depends also on what strengths you already have and how you are personally motivated to learn. For example, I have found java's h2 database to be easy to work with (and you never have to leave java). I don't think any db could be easier to get started with and have less administrative overhead than sqlite. If, to learn how to program computer games, one is advised to first write tetris, to learn programming with databases, you might write a message board.
If china was to big to stop, so was surely the soviet union. The soviet union had independence from the US, political elites in control who wanted to succeed and the opportunity to try out several "versions" of socialism. If socialism works, why did it not work for them? Where they too stupid or unorganized to copy the successful vietnamese or latin americans? I think not. (A general rule of politics and history: If the germans can't pull off a system of goverment/production, it can't be done.) Chavez is on an oil driven spending spree, it won't end well[1].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
"They've gone to plaid!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0
No kidding? I grew up in Clover, SC and thought the same thing. Such a small world.
So the failure in a demo of a prerelease hardware device with pre-release drivers having a problem to connect to WiFi in a room in which there are around 500 access points and who knows how many connected wifi nodes warrants this much of analysis and an article of this length?

Wifi does fail here and then. That's just a fact. Even more so if you factor in pre-release devices.

On a different note, in china a sack of rice just fell over.
Ack! Reading Hacker News might be at the top of mine.
That's literally half a mile from where I grew up. If you zoom out a few times you'll see Lake Wylie. My mom still lives right there on Lake Wylie Drive right off of Mount Gallant.

What are the chances of that?
If I had to start learning this today (2010), I'd really do a mix of sql (probably mysql) and non-sql (probably mongodb http://www.learnivore.com/search/mongodb).
And yet, despite being screwed, they're still above the rest of the middle class and the working class.

If it's really that onerous, take a pay cut and enjoy a drop to the MMC or LMC. Or join the working class. They don't pay much (individually) in the way of taxes, so apparently they're not screwed much. Life would be pretty sweet there!
I recently used React + Bacon + Immutable in a small project and I haven't come across any issues yet. I haven't seen any larger-scale examples yet, but this blog post[0] was interesting and has links at the bottom to implementations of todomvc and the flux-chat example.

[0] http://blog.hertzen.com/post/102991359167/flux-inspired-reac...
Yes by law there is a prevailing wage rule, however in practice this is abused.

1) It is basically never enforced
2) The people rubber stamping the applications don't have a clue about the person, the job, or the title

What happens is employers pigeon hole developers into less experienced roles with lower pay grades according to the BLS (the source of data employers must use to justify the wage)

For instance you can take a person with 10 years experience and either say she is a 'Level 1 Web Developer' at 52k in SF, OR you can say she is a 'Level 4 Software Developers, Systems Software' at 134k in SF. Which would you chose as an employer? And these are extremes, you can play somewhere in the middle depending on your comfort.

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesWizardStep2.aspx?stateName=C... and then I selected the BLS region as SF and you can see all of the occupations they define which sound similar and are described similarly, but have wildly different pay scales.

EDIT: I'm reading the prevailing wage guidance document now[0] and employers can actually provide their own wage data surveys to determine prevailing wage. Wow!

[0] http://www.flcdatacenter.com/download/NPWHC_Guidance_Revised...
But that wouldn't be the seller's problem after the ink is dry.
The network is a valuable asset itself.
Finder has always been disappointing in my opinion. Regarding the two windows side by side, you should have Spectacle a go, it works wonder, but the feature is indeed not included in OSX. I have always found the way OSX manages windows to be confusing, and the new fullscreen behaviour does not help (I know alt clicking the full screen button shows the previous behaviour but still...)
It's not at all clear that this extends to humans.
Is there any way to save drafts for further editing in the future?
the counter was going down when I was flipping through. Folks must be flagging sites?
Ah haha, sorry, I misunderstood you. Yes, definitively the details of this are fundamental to know if this could work in non-ideal conditions -it's not the same to take a high res photo only of your finger with good lighting than use publicly available, normal photos.
Something that we don't mention enough - the m16 lower might be the best ergonomic piece ever made. All controls accessible without breaking cheek-stock weld. The boing-boing-boing of the buffer spring is a bit annoying. I left the service before the A3 saw wide deployment so not sure about the 3 round burst mech.

Change the upper receiver to a piston-type which for civvies is about 1000 USD and you essentially have a Galil. Israel got religion about the AK after the '73 war. They have a good record of learning from their military mistakes.

What I'm not sure about is a new cartridge. A heavier projectile will maintain momentum for longer distances, but to have the same muzzle velocity, you will need to add more propellant. My hand loading experience with .223 says it's possible, but maybe not desirable. And I think to move beyond the 62 grain projectile you will have to increase bore size. Once you move out of the .223 / 5.56 envelope, you're looking at new magazines, ammo pouches, etc.

I like the idea of adding reflex sights, as no iron sight really allows for quick target acquisition. But not sure how long anything with glass will last in combat.

As for the article's timing? Ask FN.
I sympathize. It is unfortunate that the python community never settled around a tool like leiningen for clojure or cargo for rust or npm for node.

What we saw with npm was the entire community iterating towards a feature set and everyone reaping the benefits automatically with npm updates. package-lock.json is a good example of this.
This is very interesting. As far as I know most universities don't even cover first semester worth of expenses for international students regardless of how bright they are. Most international students then find campus jobs and do 18 hour days to fill in for rest of the time in Masters programs. The PhD programs are bit more generous but never heard university paying for the flight.
This is the reason the bank gave:

In a statement explaining its policy, the SNB points to divergence among major
economies; in particular, the weakening euro which has hit about the lowest
level since its inception.

With anticipated cash injections by the ECB, the euro is expected to depreciate
more against the US dollar and as the franc is pegged to the euro, the
Swiss franc is weakening versus the dollar too.

So, they conclude that there is no longer "exceptional overvaluation" of the
Swiss franc that justified the minimum exchange rate.
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There are too many questions here crossing too many areas of the law to answer in an HN comment; some of the language you're using includes legal terms of art where the meaning is not necessarily intuitive. A blog post would be more suitable and I can't take that much time away from my work on http://recent.io/

But briefly: You should assume, as I've written in many places in the past, that your records in the hands of the AT&T/VZ/etc. phone companies can easily be accessed by TLAs. The NSA itself brags of a surveillance "partnership" with those companies, as I wrote in this CNET piece: http://www.cnet.com/news/surveillance-partnership-between-ns... In those cases, crypto has little to do with it.

In this HN comment yesterday, I wrote here about some of the privacy differences between our favorite Silicon Valley companies and AT&T/VZ/etc.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902638
That day will come, for many of us, when a large AAA game, web browser, or usable OS is written in a FP language.

And I realise that is an unfair target, but there is very little user facing FP software. The only one I can think of I have used is xmonad, which is both hard to use and fairly buggy
Why don't they explain why they have these restrictions? Their books are all in the public domain so what difference could it possibly make who downloads them?

The 24 hour download limit could possibly be defensible if they explained it -- for example they might encourage you to cache a copy of a book you'd like rather than refetch it every time. But they don't bother to explain.

I agree with coding4all: avoid this crap by simply going to the Internet Archive.
Of course people who live happy, modern, peaceful, productive lives do not deserve our scorn.

The problem is not that there is something wrong with living an ordinary life, in following the comfortable and society-approved paths of success; the problem is that for many people, that is not enough. There is (so the story goes) something in many of us that yearns for chaos, for a purpose beyond the ordinary, even for violence and death. No more do these people deserve our scorn.

How do we satisfy this desire? War is one solution, but clearly not a good one.
Right, and/or just make the connection to the vehicle bus read-only in hardware. i.e. leave the CAN controller's TX line disconnected.
I can't see a reason why a device like this would need to transmit on CAN.
And following up: Your laptop does not count as a "single machine" for purposes of RAM size. If you can fit the index of your DB in memory on anything you can get through EC2, it's still not Big Data.
Thanks, that's the sort of thing I was looking for. Didn't know about the popularity of the Underwood typewriter, thank you for the history lesson.

EDIT: What? Why was I marked down for thanking someone???
Employee mobility matters. Most people working at Facebook could take their skills and easily get a job somewhere else. The story was different for the company town workers of a century ago.
> extracting carbon from the air always takes more energy that was gained by burning the fossil fuel to make that carbon.

This sounds true at first glance, but is it always? It seems like it's obviously true for simple reactions like burning methane and converting it back to methane since the energy you get from it is equal to or less than the energy required to turn it back into methane, but might there be some other chemical reactions where you can turn it into something less energetic than the molecule it came from?
The approach you describe is mentioned in the article as "normal RL". Constrained RL is an advanced mode of it where you are given direct control over how often some safety constraint should be violated. Basically constrained RL is just automating away the part where you are manually adjusting the "normal RL" punishments to fit your constraints.
According to wikichip: Yes

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/athlon/3000g
You would have a point if Google had become more reliable since Reader was shut down.
Ahh. I had no idea. Thanks!
It look's like every other people's republic. I don't see why China is different.
Last time I had it done with my current phone, it was done in less than 15 minutes.

Extra materials are not negligible - at the scale of the iPhone, even 1% of additional material is vast.

In any case, is not only the extra materials that are the problem, it is that phones with a battery compartment are much more fragile, harder to waterproof, etc, and so they fail sooner anyway regardless of whether the battery is changed.

Battery compartments are a red herring. It is already easy and economical to replace an iPhone battery.

People discarding otherwise serviceable phones because they have been misinformed about the ease of battery replacement is the real problem.
> Just because there's a vocal minority that complains very loudly doesn't mean it doesn't work for most users out there.

Yes, obviously.

> The distribution maintainers have spoken; systemd is a vastly superior to any alternative out there.

This seems like a logical leap. Sure, distros have spoken -- but that doesn't speak to whether or not systemd is generally superior. It only speaks to it being acceptable for distros.

> People complaining about systemd is like people complaining that these newfangled LED lights are not producing enough heat.

I don't see that parallel at all. But I guess it doesn't matter.

What I do know is that I've used systemd a lot, and it certainly has its benefits. But it also has its drawbacks. Personally, the tradeoff is not acceptable to me.

This is why systemd has spurred me to stop using Linux in favor of BSD.
Shut up and drink your bag of milk
As far as I can see, touch events are not yet supported in IE: http://caniuse.com/#feat=touch

And also note that the posting on the webkit list is from 2012.
Their response has been to add new instructions and features to the chip. Like AES-NI in x86.
Some might find the game plan partly shared (in addition to the main angle on Snowden revelations) by Kim Dotcom and the Internet Party of New Zealand:

http://kim.com
No one has a right not to be offended. And free speech isn't really free if it can't offend.
It sounds like the argument for trigger warnings is that some people think they might be harmed by speech. That doesn't sound like a very good reason to try to limit free speech.
Or: how I developed carpal tunnel in my neck

Just kidding. Glad to see such resourcefulness.
I've noticed that moving things around to different parts of your brain helps cognitive functions.

One example of this is rubber ducking [0]; the act of moving a problem from the part of your brain that you use to think about it, out through the part you use to serialize sentences to another person, helps in problem solving.

[0] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking
Location: Earth

Remote: NO

Willing to relocate: YES

Technologies: Android, Mobile, Basics of Web and Design

Résumé/CV: http://rahuls.website/

Email: rahul.janagouda@gmail.com
I mean that was terrible, but I know full well that every company ever will have dumb vulnerabilities occasionally, so by that metric I could never use anyone.
Travel is actually the same.

I can travel to the other side of the world in one day. It’s way too small, or what we built is way too good.

And yes the world as a planet orbiting around a star will go without us. Or at least as a big giant stone.
Some are saying that about Linode and I just don't get it.

Loved Slicehost!!!
Here's a video that explains it, the relevant part starts around 9:37 https://youtu.be/N0FLPrSL1UA
I don't take "a few scared souls cowering in a corner" as a put down. It's a tongue in cheek comment about the massive (monstrous) growth of BTC. The only people who would take that seriously and get offended are people with preconceived notions. Most people would just find it humorous.
$50,000 sounds like a lot of money

For a server in the 90's, it sounds pretty cheap to me.

Apple's Xserves started at $3,000, and I've read they were considered underpowered. Sun was a premium company for heavy lifting.

The company I worked for at the time was into Silicon Graphics, and those machines were five figures a pop just for desktops.
Tangentially related: I really like the approach of mu [1]. Let other software (like mbsync) handle IMAP synchronization of a local maildir, let other software (like msmtp) handle sending, and focus on doing really good, flexible and efficient queries of the local maildir. Then you can build whatever thin, simple GUI on top of that.

[1] https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/
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Or it might end up with you losing your job to a robot.
The problem with machines and that most enforce 'bad' form. Every person has their own natural motion that a machine simply cannot match.

The best way to learn a free weight exercise is to simply start doing it without any weight. Start squatting and dead lifting with just your body weight (use a broom handle to simulate the bar). Once you get that down start adding weight. There is a very little that a machine will do to help you with exercises like that and in fact it could end up enforcing bad habits.
A little more background about the competition:

http://www.nist.gov/eeel/semiconductor/robots_052510.cfm
Give the subjunctive some love: "If It Were My Home"
In the context of plugin code, "this" is a jQuery object. In event callbacks or operating on DOM elements, "this" is a plain old DOM object.
Jobs has 138 million shares of DIS; currently valued at ~$4b.

He is famous for one of the worst trades in history with his Apple stock. In 2003 he accepted a safe but low returning investment in exchange for his 55 million Apple stock options. This stock would now be valued at ~$13 billion.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/36615-how-steve-jobs-lost-ov...
All I'm saying is that I don't understand why he would make his point in this manner.

English is not my native language and I only use the language in work contexts, so my exposure to profanity is pretty much limited to Hollywood output. I'm probably missing something important here.

(Btw -- the title has now been edited to include the author's name, but it wasn't there when I wrote my original comment. If I'd noticed that this rant is by Zed Shaw, I wouldn't have bothered trying to read it in the first place.)
Chances are if he really needs an extra 2k / month for health reasons then finding a job with better heath insurance is a much better option than possibly building a product that generates 2k/month in profit.
Nope. Not everywhere. Just a lot of places. Nearest to me is a 4 hour drive.
It would be nice if you could listen for events, specifically I want to know when a tab is closed so I can add a action to re-open the last closed tab.
Just reading the headline and thinking: Providers (like google) may still be able to filter out fake profiles if those fake contacts don't have relations to each other. Meaning that if only you have a contact with a random number, and nobody else has, it's most likely fake.
Haven't had an actual TV in years, I have a large HDMI monitor attached to a PS4 (aka. netflix machine)
This part made me wonder.

> So, if you were to buy an NFT from me, in a sense, you are buying STOCK in me because you believe that I (or my art piece) will continue to create more work and add more “value” to that stock over time.

So essentially, this has nothing to do with art, it's a way for artists to get in on the stupid money speculation train everyone else seems to be addicted to. You "own" the token in order to buy low and sell high, rather than it really mattering in itself.

We really are doomed, aren't we?
Actually I think they switched to just bluetooth now, or at least the new ones can connect to my computer/phone just through bluetooth without an adapter (the old ones did require one though)
I just don't have a TV.
More antidotes to the memory manager nostalgia:

- O'Reilly had been in business for thirteen years, had been publishing X11 manuals with animals on the cover for three years, and had just published the first edition of Programming Perl

- Python existed in some form (for two years already!), but no one had ever heard of it until the Grail browser four years later, which no one has heard of now

- the Video Toaster for the Amiga was a year old. So was Photoshop (on the Mac). NIH Image (also Mac) was even older. Frame grabbers were already well established in scientific imaging. Array processors were a thing (the one I saw was for the PC), as the kids say, if you had the budget for one

- IRC was three years old
Also why I keep a hackRF/BladeRF around.

I don't have any active cell phone modems on my property ever, so such transmissions would be easy to identify.
An alternate stance is that a thermostat is, or takes the role of, a central nervous system in the system it regulates.
Has nobody rooted the firmware for "smart" TV's?
Hi, I greatly appreciate your explanation, which I do think explains the "how you knew who plannned chaos was" in a very reasonable manner.

I'm not a member of mefi, and if you folks frown heavily on Adams' sort of impersonation, that's your community rules, and fine.

But it wouldn't be my community rules to have a moderator out him.

I guess I would like to think that his behavior, while perhaps not exemplary, would get a pass from the outing, because I suspect that such behavior goes on all the time, and you aren't policing, consciously or not, the behavior of people with less famous names.

I would prefer a community where "famous people" who might be mentioned are welcome as participants and I can only see that happening under pseudonyms. Because hey, they should be able to internet too. And a small aspect of that is that as on any online forum, there will be time they act like jerks, or so you and I might classify. And such behavior really shouldn't rise to national mockery.

His statements and the dialog from everyone were actually somewhat interesting.

But as far as that thread went, and your behavior while moderating it, the thread went downhill into a Scott Adams bashfest by the second and sixth's comments.

As a moderator, you allowed ad hominem celebrity bashing in as part of your community rules, but you disliked it when said celebrity comes in to defend himself and suddenly he is outed because he violated your rules.

Well, ... I think your rules that essentially do not permit this guy to defend himself unless he writes under his own name are lousy rules because no one else had to write under their name.

You didn't examine who the pseudonyms of the other commenters were. For all we know, it's his ex-wife, or some feminist blogger still angry with him, or someone else with an agenda.

I don't know what common mefi behavior is -- I think in your position I would have either ignored it, or as a moderator, asked everyone to get back on track and knock off the pile-on.