jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, Europe has missed out on the last three generations of technology? I live in Europe and have visited the US. My impression has been the opposite.

When I was visiting (5 years ago):

- The trains didn't work

- People printed out google maps instructions instead of using a network connection because data connections were bad/expensive

- I had to sign my name to pay with a card at gas stations. I couldn't use an electronic payment card, only credit cards worked.

Now these are just examples off the top of my head. In my home country of Finland, the trains work, internet and utilities work (we don't have blackouts), payment is usually done by NFC for small amounts, card readers (with pin) for larger amounts.

If you're talking about industrial technology, I don't have enough information to compare. But I would assume Europe has better manufacturing. After all, Germany makes all the cars that end up in the US.
likely a risk of being amplify of false accusation.
last time there's a dude being false accuse of rape and throw into jail for 10 years
RMS' entire post about gender pronouns is weird [1]

> There are those who claim that we have an obligation to refer to someone using whatever pronouns person might choose. I disagree with that position, on grounds of principle and grounds of practice. I think we should respect other people's gender identification, but which pronouns we use for any particular gender identification is a separate matter — a matter of grammar. We do not owe it to anyone to change our grammar according to per wishes.

That's four lines after, saying we should all switch to his personal favourite pronouns:

> Use the elegant gender-neutral pronouns "person", "per" and "pers".

I'd be interested to her when RSM would not use someone's preferred pronoun and instead call them a 'perse'?

1: https://www.stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html
Investigating the "last holdouts" for anything is usually interesting. "The last 7%" is a heterodox group by definition.

That said, I don't think the way this data is presented tells us much about who they are. It just tells us how many they are (spoiler: few) within each demographic group.

Besides being backwards, I'd also posture that sampling and surveying a "last 7%" would be very hard. Things get quirky at the tail.
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged. "

- Cardinal Richelieu
It’s a form of extreme subjectivism that is just not practically feasible in any society.

Postmodernism is truly nefarious.
Holy crap this guy needs a new job.
> Honestly, it's not hard to call people what they want to be called.

That's true and RMS will gladly call you using any pronouns you choose: https://libreboot.org/news/rms.html#rms-is-not-transphobic
You're right, that's a good point. Its harder to make these decisions every day, but I still know that education of nutrition and diet can give people the power to make the better choices when it comes to food; rather than giving them a pill.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look through it!

I actually do use the DB feature. Mostly for well, Todo task (kanban style) and as a remedy to the "Exploding tab" phenomenon (saving pages with #tags to later check rather than have it visible as 100s of tabs).

It's just very nice to have everything at one place. Being able to link/backlink between task, homepages, notes and lists have been really useful to lower my anxiety of forgetting/losing some information/thoughts I write down, later.
It is my choice to use drugs to assist in achieving my life goals. I've been doing it without drugs for a decade now and it's fucking hard and I don't appreciate assholes who imply otherwise.
I highly recommend compositions from Maria Schneider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Schneider_(musician)

Something I just learned about her:

> Schneider's advocacy against big data companies and their impact on music, culture and privacy is reflected in some of her compositions of the late 2010s, including pieces entitled "Data Lords", commissioned by the U.S. Library of Congress (2016);[16] "Don't Be Evil";[17] and "Sputnik". Several of these compositions appeared on the 2020 album Data Lords.
mr-wendel I agree, people to associate with to grow your ideas and mission. Well said.
It's because Haskell is more functional than Lisp. (Can't speak to OCaml). Lisp doesn't do automatic currying; Haskell does. When you finally grok the implications of partial evaluation and laziness everywhere then you begin to understand that descriptions of the inputs and outputs of functions, while remaining ordered in time, become fully associative: You can group them however you like.

In Prolog there is another kind of revelation about inputs and outputs: There's no distinction between inputs and outputs and they aren't even necessarily ordered in time any more.
It's a reference to US political policy: the USSR was an enemy, and therefore everything associated with anything under a red flag[0] is evil.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_(politics)
Poverty is solved by earning more money. BAM I just won the war on poverty.

Crime is solved by just not commiting crimes. BAM I just solved crime.

Drug problems is solved by just doing less drugs. BAM I just won the drug war.
It seems odd to phrase things as "hype" and say Apple doesn't target engineers as their target market.

The machine literally has a component in it called a neural engine which Apple advertises as:

> In fact, with a powerful 8‑core GPU, machine learning accelerators, and the Neural Engine, the entire M1 chip is designed to excel at machine learning.

(https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/)

So asking "how well does that really perform" seems like precisely the right question, and to me it'd seem very clear Apple wants a piece of that market.
something = Pylons. http://pylonshq.com

"Pylons combines the very best ideas from the worlds of Ruby, Python and Perl, providing a structured but extremely flexible Python web framework. It's also one of the first projects to leverage the emerging WSGI standard, which allows extensive re-use and flexibility — but only if you need it. Out of the box, Pylons aims to make web development fast, flexible and easy."
Could be because they're all here at RailsConf.
Maybe they were jealous because people were buying Pulse rather than their own app ;)
"The reality is that Google will simply continue to improve Android and, like a slow motion replay of the 90s, Apple will watch the iOS lineup pushed back into the luxury niche that the Mac has enjoyed for all these years."

I've thought about this a lot, and I think that Android is gaining ground right now because it's across so many carriers. As soon as Apple breaks it marriage with AT&T and gets it phones into Verizon, Sprint, and all the other major carriers I think the Android growth with slow.

FWIW, I just bought an HTC EVO because I refuse to sign an AT&T contract.
yes, but if im stil up to date on that, it has its own gui frameworks that your app is tied to forever. Might aswell write the app in Cocoa or Win32 then.

Correct me if Im wrong, can you deploy your client side web app as a desktop application without using the Titanium framework stuff?
Anyone that is not a doctor or pharmacist who says anything along the gist of "If you aren't doing X while taking drug Y, then you need more of drug Y" is an idiot. Everyone is different, dosages will be different, and interactions, chemically with other drugs and psychologically with other issues, will always be present.

I'm all for anyone doing whatever they want with drugs, psychoactives in particular, but taking more is usually the wrong answer. Psychoactive drugs are not a cure-all or magic key that opens creative inspiration in uncreative types, just as much as taking Vicodin won't give you an erection lasting for more than 4 hours.
This is really great to see -- correct me if I'm wrong, but Trevor must be one of the biggest contributors to CoffeeScript. It's great to have someone so intimately familiar with the project author one of its first books.
Hacker News sounds like a pretty good place. Start an Ask HN.
This won't end well. If they can't communicate a clear focus that doesn't change or require expanding on the details further, they probably don't have one.
I've lost two good friends to this. Definitely be careful. A lot of government drug propaganda may be bullshit but it doesn't mean there aren't dangers.
So, I'd much rather see a tools co-op than yet
another tools rental service

Having visited my local hackspace I discovered that machines are easily broken and time-consuming to repair, especially when you rely on skilled volunteers doing repairs in their free time.

They had several broken rapid prototyping machines, lathes, drill presses and similar.

I think things getting broken is inevitable, and if I expect other people to fix the things I broke it only seems fair for me to give them something for their trouble. So for-profit tool loans seem like the common sense path IMHO.
You know I did see that the other day and forgot! C# is quite impressive in general. The intrinsic support really helped in that one. Thanks for keeping the thing going. Its cool to see someone follow your advice and benchmark a language not on the site.
FDR supplied the Soviet Union with lots of Western tech, including aircraft.
Actually being stuck in the past might be a feature. Denser circuitry is likely to be more vulnerable to interference by ionising radiation and more vulnerable to physical damage from high energy particles.
With new Christmas theme background title of site is unreadable. Would you please use code like this http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goog... for correct text color selection?
Have you read Roman Abramovich's biography? He stole close to that amount, too.

He started out selling stolen gasoline, then, after a stint in the black market, he eventually stole a train containing 55 cisterns of diesel fuel !! , ended up as friends of the mafia-government, which sold him Gazprom for only 100 million dollars (it is worth billions).

According to Wikipedia, Abramovich later admitted in court that he paid huge bribes (in billions) to government officials and obtained protection from gangsters to acquire these and other assets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich
Most of my open source code is 2-clause BSD, because I want everybody to be able to use it with as little hassle as possible. (I'd go with public domain except that there's always someone who points out that legally there's no such thing as "placing into the public domain".)
He has four honorary doctorates. It is his prerogative if he wishes to use that title. From Wikipedia:

"Recipients of an honorary doctorate may if they wish adopt the title of "doctor". In many countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, it is now a matter of personal preference"

"The term honorary degree is a slight misnomer: honoris causa degrees, being awarded by a university under the terms of its charter, may be considered to have technically the same standing, and to grant the same privileges and style of address as their substantive counterparts, except where explicitly stated to the contrary."
> Education is not an inheritable trait.

I used the conjunction "educated and intelligent". Intelligent people tend to gravitate towards education, formal or informal. IQ tests show that university students score on average 120-130 compared to 100 in the general population. Removing educated people from the common gen-pool in a closed society may have an interesting collective effect.
Yes.

I would question whether it was his intent or not, but that's getting into inside-baseball stuff.
There are lots of tools to make MITM easy. And it's not exactly rocket science, if you want to write one yourself. And the signing keys have already been published, right? So the only difficult part is breaking into PSN dev channel. You wouldn't necessarily have to hack the server that distributes bootloaders, maybe you could just impersonate another dev and submit a few changes to their existing app. When users are playing the "new version" of that game, your code goes to town.
Are Skype relying on third parties with no contractual relationship for an essential component of the network?
If you're doing frontend work, then Photoshop will almost certainly be used at some point, so it'd be useful to have at least some working knowledge of it (i.e. slicing, picking colours etc).
How did you get approved for AdSense? I'm trying to get approval for a small app with little textual content, but it seems Google want reams of text so it gets rejected.
I think there are at least some philosophical topics which are non-objective by nature. Consider whether to be a solipsist. ;) More seriously, if you don't believe in an objective morality, then moral philosophy is a subject which qualifies.
I also wish we had more weapons of mass destruction.
At least some css wizards are doing it by hand. Fx Diane Smith has made several extremely beautiful oil paintings in pure html and css. Which is an outright insane achievement.
How very far we’ve come in the last 15 years that “racing is largely not about the powertrain” and that an electric racing car is unremarkable.
It's not an oversight in REST, it's one of the ways of trying to faithfully implement REST over HTTP, which has a gaping hole in the standard set of methods that messes with that use case. While HTTP (specifically 1.1) is an implementation of REST principles, that use case wasn't front-and-center at the time (PATCH is also a recent fix to another hole.)

There have been proposed standardized fixes such as generalizing the HTTP SEARCH method that first appeared in WebDAV[0], but none have yet gone far.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-search-method-01
I learned ML in school 13 years ago. I've been happily employed since then at a major tech company with increasing responsibility and the only time I've really needed that background was to call BS on a given project needing a custom ML component.
How are these things "most capable" but missing essentials like USB-C socket (at least 50W)?
The password configs are clearly documented: https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/powerwall/own/monitorin...
> The author has a long and excellent record fighting against software patents.

Based on what? All we have is your (and his) assertion. I had trouble finding any history at all of this guy with "25 years software industry experience". And every single one of his blog posts portrays FOSS software as an unreliable IP minefield. Even if that's not the specific legal issue at hand.

In my opinion this looks like he is paid to smear FOSS.
The SLA uses great legal weasel words: "AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make Amazon EC2 available"

So anything that is beyond commercially reasonable is outside the SLA.

In truth, as with all businesses, the reputation for uptime weighs more heavily than the written contract. It will be interesting to see how the AWS people attempt to make amends.
Yes, go back to Doug Engelbart's Mother of all Demos. There isn't much truly new out here.
i meant = your feedback was good! *noted
Except, if the employee never uses any location services on the phone, none of the data is ever created/stored in the first place ... at that point you still have gained nothing.

The only records I have for example are from when I explicitly had Google Maps open, no other program on my iPhone has my permission to use the location based services, and as such it didn't track where I was going at all.
I think that having the other revenue sources transparent to the users would help both problems. People do want to know that a service that their business depends on (even a little bit) is going to stick around, and they don't want surprises when you ask for money from something other than subscriptions.

If the revenue is coming from transaction fees, present that as a feature. I could really see a transparent transaction-based model with free accounts working.

When you say "invoicing should be free", that sounds like a nice revolutionary pitch, but I wonder if BallinBige could clarify what features would be paid?
I agree-- plus you get the added bonus of being sure you get your book back. That's not something you can take for granted with physical objects.
"There could not have been a housing bubble without Fannie and Freddie, the FHA, and the protected-by-regulation class of bond ratings agencies."

I beg to differ. You could have pulled the full cost of every defaulted mortgage out of the bottom line of a single big-5 investment bank and not even bankrupted it. But we had all these crazy hyper-leveraged instruments that turned a 50 billion dollar problem into a 5 trillion dollar problem. The issue wasn't the mortgages, it was the leverage and gambling.
Presumably adjunct faculty could be more current and active in their respective field than someone who got their degree but spent the bulk of their efforts working on unrelated projects.
Just wear a safety vest and a safety helmet, people will recognize you as the problem-solver you are!
Such tests are for robots who lack the necessary gut feeling (aka EQ). E.g. hose who think, a good education will result in a good hire.
Yes, we use DRM to ensure that games you are trying to run are owned by a blockchain account that you control. It is all seamless. Users dont even know they are using blockchain tech.
Last time this happened in the UK it was a push to call for assistance system that got stuck on, also at 433mhz. It’ll be the same here.
I'd been thinking about that too, when people were speculating the account would be nuked Jan 20.

It's quite bizarre the situation we find ourselves in, the way these sort of primary historical documents exist at the whims of certain organizations, not to mention the strict ideological alignment of these organizations.

Future historians I'm sure would greatly appreciate if someone started version controlling the web.

And people presently alive would probably appreciate it if we could socially work out a way to have communication channels, our ability to exchange information and understand the recent past not under this sort of autocratic control.

This goes well past DJT. It would be nice if people, no matter their feelings about Trump, could understand the gravity of this.

My shock and disturbance at seeing this is equal to what we saw at the capitol.
They didn't just "not plan" ... listen to the NYT Daily podcast from this morning. There was an insane amount of discussion online about planning for this attack on the capital. Out in the open. I agree with the reporter, if they could easily find it, then LEOs could find it.

Let's assume they knew about all this chatter. That leaves a single possibility: the leadership was sympathetic to what they knew would happen.

It is very clear, when it comes to liberals and BLM protesters, then they severely give a fuck.

The video of Senator-elect Warnock getting arrested for praying in the rotunda... the comparison of the two different groups is just stunning.
Didn't they create that website before they got banned?
The people that receive Trump tweets and go on to attempt a violent insurrection against the government are admittedly in the long tail; I don't think that fact negates the fact it happened.
I live in the Midwest. Attacking black people on the street, kidnapping elected officials, these are not ‘new’ ideas I’m open to. Yet this is happening, and escalating... and most certainly Trump is the tip of the spear for that movement in this part of the world.

Let’s spend some time reading books, maybe we can go back to solving illusive pedophile rings online when we are better educated as a species.
I'm not sure that the Republican Party can maintain the current rube/scumbag coalition that long without Trump.
That'd be Raúl Castro (Cuba for the unaware).
I‘m sure you‘re ready to provide some evidence to back up this claim.
Current numbers re: adoption were discussed in Status' most recent Town Hall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98wsQe6hHHs&t=365s

As for dev support: Status has teams of full-time devs working on various projects related to the mobile[1] and desktop[2] (beta) apps, as well projects that are related to the larger Ethereum ecosystem, e.g. nimbus-eth2[3]. Our teams aren't particularly large, but are working steadily to squash bugs and add/improve features. We also have teams dedicated to UX and design.

[1] https://github.com/status-im/status-react

[2] https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop

[3] https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2
Is implication here that they are logging rideshare hours as self driving training data?
Linus remarked that you can see a pretty regular 9-5 pattern in the kernel commit logs quite a long time ago now
Yeah, but I'm not sure how to get it onto the virtual HDD in the first place. The instructions given depend on real hardware. Thinking about it, I suppose I could install Linux in the virtual machine, and follow the instructions there..
DZone is nice for for development news: http://www.dzone.com/
Part 2 of the article: http://www.safehaven.com/article/5206/why-the-global-financi...
Checking the Apple legalese [1] [2] it seems that we can "choose" between Apple One Year Limited Warranty and consumer law [3] which happens to be 6 (England and Wales) or 5 (Scotland) years. Can anyone clarify that for me please? My screen is flickering on certain gradient backgrounds but my 1 year warranty was over before I noticed it.

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/

[2] https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/statutoryrights.html

[3] https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/products/uk-ireland-uni...
My take on that sentence was not that author was comparing functional with object-oriented but rather the available tools and other infrastructure necessary to manage teams of developers and deploy code.
They should probably put some work into their homepage..
LoDash actually, not Underscore. Mostly because it's included by the game already. The code should run as-is. That said, it does occasionally get stuck. I think I have a bug with the direction indicators.
Digging deeper, you will hit the characteristic comparative pattern of platonic and the physical. Chips are build using matter and the limiting factors are ultimately physical. Algorithms are embodied on physical machines, but the bottlenecks are primarily conceptual. In that sense, the takeaway from this for me is a verification of the intuition that conceptual models offer greater degrees of freedom. (duh.)
PS / FWIW / TBH ohloh has higher LoC counts by including tests and utility code, but something funky is goig on with their counts of riak LoC

http://www.ohloh.net/p/riak/analyses/latest
The first surveillance state of the union, brought to you by the national security apparatus - national infrastructure division. (facebook+cisco+your-isp=full-stack-surveillance, little brother.)
Primarily the families who immigrate already in upper-bracket of income in India and furthermore their education level would be superior to most Hindus too

Yeah, but why does it matter when they come to the US? Shouldn't hindus who immigrated earlier have an upper hand, both in income and education, regardless of social status of new immigrants? Maybe it's because immigration from India to the US is somewhat recent phenomena?
What began as a simple glitch and a footnote in the history of howlers and error turned into an interesting tale of morality, honour and ethics. Fascinating.
this is similar to a greater ny acm icpc problem from 2008 (which my team was the only one to solve :-)
That doesn't seem true. Look to Lord of the Rings where the director kept in touch with the LOTR communities to ensure the authenticity of the series. It's even reflected in the credits that's jokingly purported to be the names of everyone in NZ.

George Lucas probably listened to investors over customers.