jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I guess the point of the parent applies when the parameter lists are long, thus breaking the sentence-like appearance of the chained calls.
Did you think you were going to get a vaccine? No - Moderna themselves suggest you are getting an operating system.

What is an operating system in a human body? Well, it would be a controller of bodily functions. Perhaps it would control emotions, re-production even.

Had anyone realised that this was on the cards? I had thought how a vaccination passport would be unwieldy and prone to being tampered with... why not have the body + vaccine be the passport? But this goes further - why not have the vaccine become an OS for the body?

I can barely wrap my head around what is going on here... Thoughts?
Nobody benefits from this system except publishers.

Academics hate it, but publications is the way they are measured by public institutions for, e.g., grants, or when being hired. There's no symbiosis, it has evolved in this way mostly because of decisions taken by non-academics (ministries, governments, administrative staff etc.) and nobody knows how to get out of it.
To use it as a Java based platform, not as yet another example of UNIX monoculture stuck in V6 CLI mindset.

Also, plenty of musicians, painters, designers, writers do real work on Android, my previous remark about real work was playing devil's advocate.
You know that's not the point. If the NY Times wants me to read their articles they should not make it difficult.
Why would you continue working for no pay, even if there were no other job offers?

I would put that effort into finding a different job. Tell me that isn't a better use of time.
Two years is an incredible length of time in this "industry". Look how fast Amazon are rolling out features compared to Rackspace (their current closest rival). Rackspace are losing the arms race. IMV they simply don't have the cloud engineering resources to build (hence the "tom sawyer's fence" which is OpenStack), so they buy. A good strategy if you have the cash.

I can see Rackspace extracting the monitoring features/code from cloudkick and add it to their cloud servers control panel, and leave CK going as it's own entity. That's pretty much what they did with Slicehost iirc.
A corollary is that losing is normal. Or, maybe more precisely, not winning is normal. But in order to win you need to be willing to try, and if you try there's a chance you'll lose, or fail, or look foolish, or whatever.

A first step in being a winner it getting comfortable with being a loser.

http://creatingminds.org/quotes/failure.htm
I searched and it looks like this one was either never submitted, unless it was so old that it was removed automatically.
Is he not entitled to his privacy?
#from http://goo.gl/6U7f3 count syllables with nltk

from nltk.corpus import cmudict

d = cmudict.dict()

syllables = [len(list(y for y in x if y[-1].isdigit())) for x in d["count"]]
"...that's not allowed..." LOL! Not liking Gmail might soon become a law rather than something that is frowned upon. ;-) I'm not much of a Yahoo fan myself, but Delicious is one awesome service.

PS. Thanks for catching the typo. :) I'm terrible at proofreading.
"Maximize shareholder value" strikes again. By the time we're through America will have lost its dominance in every sector.
I'm working on an album that represents my shift away from synths to sampled instruments. Synths are fine, but my computer is old and a whole orchestra runs on the same amount of CPU as one synth.
> but if the uber driver did not expect this, then aren't they getting a shitty deal if forced to accept the ride?

No. Drivers know in advance that they are not allowed to turn away folks with service animals. This is part of driver onboarding, and it's the law nationally (at least in the US). If they didn't know, it's negligence on their part for not understanding their responsibilities as a driver.

And on top of that, rides should NOT be more expensive for disabled folks. A blind person shouldn't need to pay more to receive equal accommodation. If there was a material cost (there isn't) the ride services should increase the cost of all rides to accommodate their disabled passengers.

The ADA is extremely clear about this. Have some empathy for folks who didn't have a choice in their situation.
The more important question is would you trust the mask the sick person is wearing is protecting you if you are standing near that person.
Pushing the processing cost to the user doesn't imply it's zero-cost for Clubhouse; they're still on the hook for disputes/refunds.
> JFC talk about a "you're with us or against us" mentality... your rhetoric has pushed me further towards unions being bad.

It's a remarkably odd choice to refer to OP's comment as "rhetoric" in this case given that the remark "it's not physically possible to be neutral on this issue" is a literal statement of truth.

Generally, neutrality implicitly supports the status quo; it's a choice like any other, whether you acknowledge it as such or not, and as OP pointed out it is literally true that if you have the option to be part of a union and you aren't, the bargaining power of that union is less than it otherwise would be.

I suppose you'd have to clarify what you meant with respect to your own decisions - have you ever even had the option to join a union? Because if not, then I could see how you might be able to see yourself as "neutral" as it's not an issue that has directly affected you. But if you did have a choice then presumably you made a choice one way or the other, in which case "neutrality" isn't something you can actually claim.
Also a good write-up by Eugene Volokh here, with plenty of original source material:
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/04/05/justice-thomas-suggests...

He summarizes as follows:

"As I read it, Justice Thomas is not arguing that platforms are already generally common carriers or government actors under existing legal principles; that argument is quite a stretch, and his analysis seems to me to largely reject that argument, except perhaps when the platforms are restricting speech in response to government threats.

Rather, he is anticipating what might be done through legislation, and whether new state laws that do treat platforms as common carriers (more or less) are going to be seen as blocked by the First Amendment or 47 U.S.C. § 230. (His analysis of the interests involved may also be relevant to whether such state laws violate the Dormant Commerce Clause.) That's an issue the Court will likely have to deal with in coming years."
There has never been anything such as "trickle down economics", it's merely a political label to demonize lowering the tax rates on investments.

Arthur Laffer tried to argue that tax cuts would lead to an increase in growth enough to produce the same or more tax revenues, which clearly didn't happen. But tax cuts did clearly lead to an increase in growth.

Right now, even under the lower Trump corporate rates, if you want to invest in a U.S. Business you will lose 33-50% of your profits to Federal and State taxes. Thats a tax on investment, reinvestment and savings. If you want to convert savings to investment, just cut those taxes.
I wonder what percentage of lawmakers are regular users of PornHub and its affiliates.
check out RedBeanPHP - it does some interesting stuff for schema liquidity
It works both ways. When management form an elite club focused on exploiting workers, this induces sides. Workers who didn't care about unionisation are provoked by management to collectivise. Then these workers learn that collective action actually produces results, so the polarisation between "sides" increases.

Concluding that you're "against traditional unions" just places you on one of the sides.
I think it's likely Stripe has caused the trend of bundling easy payment into platforms.
The answer, as with (almost) anything in software development, is it depends.

I jumped right into it because I am building an isomorphic React website for a community - using React Native just makes supreme sense for this use case since I can reuse my React service code across my backend, web frontend, and iOS (and Android whenever React Native adds support).

It may not be the perfect solution to every problem, but it works so nicely for me since I am doing this on the side with only junior developers & a mid/senior developer to help. There is no reason for me to reinvent the wheel here.
I think this article sets up a straw man argument that is a little disingenuous. It seems that most of the politicians (save for a couple extremists) and everyday people who support more emphasis on STEM teaching aren't arguing it should be at the expense of the liberal arts education Americans are getting now. Sure, the focus on STEM is partially about "making America more competitive" as a whole, but I think it's even more about enabling everyday people to get reliable+productive jobs and career skills that will be important in the modern workforce for decades to come. That can only be a good thing.
"Explain How Everything in Computers Works. How Does a Source File Turn Into A Working App?" in under five minutes. How do you even begin answering a question like that?

You could try to be romantic and playful and say the love child created by a sexy, error-free relationship between source code and the compiler is an executable?
It seems your data on F-1 are slightly out of date. Yes, the rules are the same for everyone, but each team optimizes within them differently. As for identical cars, I guess McLaren only wish they had a car like Mercedes or Ferrari (or any old car that could actually last an entire race).
Why would Chinese hacktivists want to attack a project which increases their ability to get past the GFW?
I've heard that their reporting is fairly good, so long as you don't look to them as a source of truth about matters regarding Qatar.
In that case, why is https://github.com/greatfire/ still returning the alert(..) js when not coming from Baidu?
With software penetrating everything there is no such thing as "outside of stem" anymore ...

Edit: Also philosophy is part of STEM ... just lacks rigor sense and practicality.
Curently an unfortunate reality: https://medium.com/@opirmusic/why-software-developers-should...
Formula E is actually worse than Formula 1, since they are built by the same manufacturer. You can't level the same criticism at F1 these days, with a dominant team like Mercedes.
> Google keeping nonstandard APIs in Chrome for its own convenience opens the possibility of other websites using them. Either through ignorance - they don't know it's deprecated and nonstandard - or because they trust Google to not break them, and don't care about standards. The result is a web that works only in one browser.

This is what happened to XMLHttpRequest, or have you already forgotten that it was originally an ActiveX control?

There is not (and there never will) a single way to define how the web is built.
A few of PHP's most (publicly) hated components are being removed in 5.4 (which may become 6, from what I can tell this article is lying when it says 5.4 is "around the corner") - register_globals, magic_quotes is being discussed. Even the old asp_tags setting is going. However these have no relevance to me as I haven't used them in years.
The much better approach would be to find about 5-10 competitors on Twitter and take the intersect of all their followers. Those are people that actually care about your market.

I saw an app on App Engine out there that did this, and I've considered for a long time trying to make a business out of tools like this to analyze competitor's usage of social media to attempt to find decent leads.
I was hoping.
I don't know the initial conditions of what?
Great Comment:

Anne,

Offering your content or service for free implies that you need to rely on an advertising based business model. If you aspire to build a big online media business (say $50m in revenues) you can do it in one of three ways:

1. If you’re broad reach, you need to grow to be one of the top 10 websites in the US by traffic
2. If you’re demographically targeted, you need to grow to be one of the top 25 websites in the US
3. If you have content that attracts endemic advertisers, you need to grow to be one of the top 150 websites in the US

Analysis and math that gets to these conclusions is at the Lightspeed Venture Partners blog (click on my name in this comment).
jeremy liew on March 13th, 2007 at 12:27 PM
100% Agreed. My employer has refused to comply with state mandates and has had us working from the office the entire pandemic. For those that eventually talked the owner into allowing WFH (in November) took a 20% cut.
Since it did play on my other DVD player it would seem that the only errors are intentional.

Try Googling Sony+drm - they have form for this type of nonsense.
Kindle - best screen for reading many ebooks, the display goes easy on your eyes.

iPad - best device for everything other than just ebooks (news, games, multimedia etc.)

2nd monitor - best increase in productivity (YMMV). Put code, docs, chat, music, and more open at once. Your eyes move faster than Alt-tab.

Personally, I would go with a 2nd monitor since I don't read many ebooks.
Correct, it will stop serving requests (ignore the rest), but the end result is no different (in fact I imagine this is exactly what's happening). That system is dead to the world. According to Wikipedia in Q3 2009 [1] Skype has over 500 million users (Q1 2009 says 42M active at any time); any super node that is processing a thousand requests and then dies (or only processes one request a second) isn't helping anyone.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#Usage_and_traffic
If I translate this right, I think you are lobbying for me to become a professional writer. ;) Thanks! I do enjoy the practicing.

I'll consider it. Although it's one hell of a career, so I'll either have to think about it pretty carefully, or just accidentally find myself doing it one day without even knowing why.
There's a bunch of suggestions on the Geek Feminism Wiki at http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Hiring_discrimination#Sol...

Yes, most job descriptions give the appearance of being biased towards males. The best thing to do is get feedback on it from a couple of women with the skills you're trhing to attract and a diversity/recruiting expert. We did that at my previous startup and it made a huge difference.

If a company sees diversity as important, it doesn't really take that much time or money to reach out.
They claim to.
I don't know anything about Adam and the team at Hipmunk, but I no longer even consider other sites when it comes to searching for flights. The people who I've recommended Hipmunk to have said the same. Their focus on user experience is (even for a startup) uncanny.

The word disruptive is thrown around a lot and often way out of context. I believe Hipmunk and Airbnb are actually disruptive.
Inter-account transfer in the UK seems pretty much instant these days, even between different banks.
The best bit about Dart is not new features, but many of the footguns that have been removed compared to JS.

Note: Dart doesn't have generators, and Ecmascript is not planning on adding optional types.
We'll all know if it's more than pure marketing if they raise the bonds and secure the corporate alliances necessary to build this. Convincing Panasonic is no small feat, IMHO.
Tesla Gigafactory will cost $4-5B (of which Tesla will invest $2B) and exceed 2013 global battery production, enough for 500,000 cars, 30% less than current costs due to third generation technology.

That is 12x growth in 72 months.

The Gigafactory is named after the gigawatt or 1,000,000 kW because it will be producing multiple GWs of cells and battery packs.

An annual production of 500,000 automobiles will put Tesla squarely in the #1 spot for luxury production 3x more than Mercedes.

If you look at global auto sales[0] Tesla will be one of the largest, read top 5, auto manufacturers in the USA depending on how you slice the pie between domestic and international sales.

[0] http://wap.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-autosales.html#aut...
cool need to integrate this
It would be a fairly safe assumption that anything that hits the United States at a minimum has traffic analysis done on it. Most google services now use HTTPS at the front end.
I would definitely avoid Java's SecureRandom. It means too many different things depending on what platform you're on. Meanwhile, XORing SHA1PRNG against /dev/urandom seems cryptographically nonsensical.
FWIW Tesla doesn't use model years. Technically the model year is encoded in the VIN but it flips over at the start of the calendar year and isn't associated with any particular changes to the vehicle. Tesla has been adding features as soon as they're ready since launch. (e.g. parking sensors, power folding mirrors, upgraded seats etc)
I'm not suggesting that you decide "which function to use" based off a type signature. But that the type signature provides a lot of useful constraints to help you reason about things. And those examples point out how in some cases, just with the type signature you can determine exactly what the function can do.

The examples show the different from non-pure languages or functions, where "someList.Bla()" returns "void" and might have done anything to the list, from removing all items to reversing them, to calling Bla() on each element inside (which in turn might do who-knows-what).

True though, without pure functions then the benefits aren't all there.
and then to see one of the browsers go down in flames after all the efforts.

But you gained a lot of arcane knowledge in the end, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.infosystems.www...
So he used training and tactics - isn't that rather unsporting?
I thought the idea was we only flew expensive aircraft against people living in caves (or at weddings) or at least stuck to bombing those with no anti-aircraft ability.

Poor people shooting back at $Bn aircraft just isn't fair.
Actually:

The winning entry has to be a general algorithm that can be implemented by the RTA. That means that it takes a timestamp as an input and can generate predictions for the next 15 mins, 30 mins, 45 mins, 60 mins etc. Results must also be replicated by the RTA before any prize money is awarded.

So it sounds like they are expecting your code.
Actually you need less.
If you have a piece of metal occupying the cross section area of an aircraft for a certain time interval - the faster the target the more chance it has of passing through the same space as the metal.
Now with less Mashable: http://www.aviary.com/blog/posts/aviary-launches-html5-photo...

Direct link to the editor: http://www.aviary.com/html5
There are some programs you can download to help reduce eye strain - they will remind you every so often (20-40 minutes) to do some eye exercises. I find this helps me if I am having sore eyes - especially looking a few inches above the monitor into the distance (20+feet).

I also find that if I am wearing glasses, going to contacts helps, and vice versa.
I don't think you actually read enziobodoni's post. (S)he certainly didn't say there were no toxins or they were effect-less.
I suppose that one could argue that it's abusive.

Given that she went offline.

But on the other hand, her cam was public, so it's arguably nothing like revenge porn.
There was code in IE 5 that used the original SSE instructions if the chip had them, and regular code as a fallback

We found a stepping of a 486 chip where this code crashed about 25% of the time

Since it was only that stepping, and we already had a fallback path, we just skipped the optimization for that chip version and didn’t investigate exactly what was broken though

Having a lot of customers with various CPU versions helped to track this down pretty quickly
We've noticed the same thing about out 9 year old girl. He behavior radically changes for the worst after shes been watching videos of her choosing from youtube.
Yes, I had massive problems with it and it was making me really stressed. I changed jobs to somewhere with more capable leadership, so I could trust the work I was given to not be outright stupid.
Yeah, I'm skeptical of that paper and it is extremely difficult to disprove, because access to that population is so restricted.

The way I'd test it would be presenting a set of 2 tones and giving them control over a third. like 200hz +300hz and then letting them move a slider between 325-425hz. Where do they find the resulting sound most pleasant and where most unpleasant?

The sensation of dissonance is so strong and visceral, it is extremely hard to believe it has no universality to it.
very uninteresting
It's also the airline that you could get on any day of the week and go to wherever in Europe with no fuss.
Where "preteen" is the age-range 10-14 - at least according to the Daily Mail (not mentioned as such in the report).

There is a reason for the Daily Mails trashy reputation.
Woz is leaving for Australia.

~ 1200 people gave up their US passports in 2012.

The USG is like a bad neighbor: not dealing with them is still going to affect you, even if you ignore them.
Related, the video How Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM[1] is actually more fascinating and entertaining in my opinion.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWX5B6cD4_4
It was over 35 years ago, so it has absolutely no influence on me anymore, but I achieved a perfect 800 on the SAT math achievement test, along with a 5 on the Calculus BC.

But on the regular SAT, I only achieved around 1300 total, and the math part was somewhere between 780-800 (did I have a bad day?).

I never completed college, but I have been successful nonetheless.

I think that there is more to one's ability than simply achievement test scores, grade point averages, or college degrees.
This essay really gets better with age. When I first read it I was a kid who thought the advice was pointless -- I already spent all my time thinking about physics problems, what else was there to do? But focus on the good stuff got harder with age.
Those haven't been sold since 2017 :)
After reading the article I'm not entirely sure all these drivers did participate in the race using their own setups while staying home. Especially after this part: "[Pike] and Majors tried to fill up a field that reflected this big tent, letting in fellow NASCAR crew members, as well as some public relations and social media specialists."

Can someone please tell me they did not turn a strong recommendation to avoid public events (which lead to the competition being cancelled) into an opportunity to gather tens of people at one place?
The support agents are given freedom to extend your Prime membership a few times (up to 6 maybe?) by 1 month. After that they can just tell you you're free to cancel your subscription so it's hard to really abuse.

That support button to talk to a person over the phone was really hard to find at some point though. Didn't need it in years but when I did I think I had to dig for an hour or two until I found it.
Not mentioned in the article: almost all semiconductors used outside of computers and cell phones are produced on old processes - 40nm and up. Fabs for these are cheap - maybe in the $1 billion range - but no one builds them because of low profit margins. Instead these mostly get built in fabs that used to be cutting-edge, long ago.

Maybe the automakers could pay a little bit more for these chips, and it would become profitable to build fabs for them again. But everyone knows that the moment people forget the semiconductor shortage, automakers will try to drive the profit on those chips back to zero again, and whoever built one of those fabs will be left holding the bag. Basically the automakers and/or Wall Street would rather forgo the sale of an entire car than pay a buck or two in profit to someone else for the chips that go into that car.

The best term I've heard for something like this is "end-stage capitalism".
I wonder what the minimum % a heuristic could be said to have? When does a heuristic become just an educated guess?
blocked at my work...Detected possible botnet command and control traffic.