jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, the media has been referring to them as such since the Apple iPhone campaigns. Everyone else has been saying Apps or App in reference to word application for a long time. It is a natural shortening of the term. Just like people refer to videos as vids, automobiles as autos, facsimiles as faxes, and so on.

It saddens me how much of this marketing mythos of "Apple invented $ANYTHING_COOL", even when it has existed for a long time, is so prevalent. It would not surprise me if someone out there was trying to claim apple invented skinny jeans and Jobs was the first jazz musician.
From http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_qa_ferriss/all/1,

"The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman, a title he reverse-engineered from data he collected from the clickstream and Twitterverse."

Does anyone know how the above works?
Do you have some details on the background of this issue?
Thanks. Haven't come across this one yet but Paprika looks pretty slick.
There is a vast stretch of appropriate solutions between the maintainability hell of "hardcode the coordinates of every pixelchange in your animation" and perfect code.
In my opinion this is what is holding us back in the grand scheme of things: Only do things which are profitable.

Let's just step back for a second and consider the following questions:
Do we have the raw materials to start space colonization? Do we have the human resources (manpower and knowledge) to start such a program?

I think the answer to both questions is yes. Unfortunatly materials and the manpower are too expensive in the current industrial world.
The notion that you ought to be willing to become an expert in any field if your need is great enough is entirely in line with the ethos of Hacker News.
I'm very skeptical about this sort of advice, especially when it is motivated by We do Ruby, we know what’s best. Trust us.
But that doesn't involve any "Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination", as the article mentions.
Agreed, there are very few cars on the market that fit the bill. There's the Ford S-Max, Peugeot 5008, and the Audi Q7 (which is ludicrously big) - I think that's it.

It really does feel like a massive gap in the market, and I wonder why that is?

BTW, if you're still looking, and depending on the age of your kids, it might be worth looking at the MultiMac - it's basically a new back bench for your car, with 3x car seats built-in.
Have you used the Valve Index controllers? Because I own a full Valve Index kit, and while the headset is great the controllers do not remotely live up to the hype. The entire finger tracking technology is not accurate enough to give the kind of control people expect with their fingers. They would literally have been better off with an analog button for each finger.
Because... they dance the devops dance with their devop hats on! Security problems can be swiftly danced around until they actually surface, and can then be handled in the next round of "continuous delivery". It's also smart to postpone solving most issues until after they occur, so sales can continue bragging about "continuous improvement".
Not in Denmark because of the tax, but in other countries with similar wealth it's pretty standard. In the US and in Germany it's around $35,000.
So what happens if you get caught? Or someone calls you out?
As a website owner, how do I track down all the alternate roots I'd need to register with? If each of those charge a fee, how much will I need to spend on each root? If I need to perform an OPS task like flipping to a new external load balancer IP, how many alternate robots do I need to coordinate with, and how much testing do I need to verify each root is updated?
It's all pretty meaningless semantics and guesswork.
Curve fitting means adaptive computation in networks of fairly simple units that allow for fairly general computation, i.e. traversing program space to find a good solution, or equivalently, intelligence is about evolving/searching a program that solves a wide array of tasks. It is about finding programs that maps from sensory space to the space of action sequences, maximizing reward.

But you need the right prior structure such that learning and producing action sequences is efficient or even feasible/reachable. You can see any additional program structure that aids e.g. generation and recall of memories and planning (production of output targeted at solving a goal) as prior structure that limits and defines the searched program space. You can even regard a planning module as part of the curve fitting as it simply concerns the last step of producing the output.
Therefore, intelligence is "curve fitting".

So the actual question is: How much additional structure over just a large number of simple repeated units is necessary? Nobody knows. Possibly not much. Possibly quite a bit.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21459220
Was a bit concerned with weight until I plateaued. Now I realize I am in a lot better shape, including blood sugar and lipids, even though I am stuck at this weight. I keep up the exercise and don't worry about the waistline so much. It is funny when I workout though. All these skinny people around the gym not sweating at all. If you don't sweat, I don't see why they bother.
The worst part about the psychedelic renaissance is the comment section.
Upgrading org-mode should count as tweaking the config. Is there any part of org-mode that stopped working suddenly?
From a security standpoint can you discuss the life of my data as it goes from my computer, through your service, and into my coworkers computer. What is stored where? Who at your company can access what? Thank you in advance for any information you are able to provide.
JavaScript was made to add a bit of interactivity to webpages. Like "click the button to expand the text". What is it now? There are whole javascript frameworks being made. Maybe soon web(sites) won't even use HTML anymore but rather render custom UI to a canvas. Browsers are new operating systems running on top OS. Lots of performance wasted by this. Yes, there are webapps using it wisely, although JS is often misused on sites which could have been plain html or html+ajax. In many cases CPU is not even doing much but some webs take 2 seconds or more until I start seing some graphical output after entering URL. It takes a lot of time to render templates and construct DOM. Pretty sad.
As the replies demonstrate, he did. Turns out.
Not everyone is interested in taking the time to make themselves a whole meal every day. I know I'm not: I don't derive a lot of pleasure from food of any kind beyond a limited amount from a very small selection of specific food items. As a result, I find myself more, not less, aware of the effect my eating habits have on my health. If I could away with it, I'd eat McDonald's for every meal not because I find it to be some pinnacle of culinary superstimuli but because it's that much easier. I don't, because the health and mental effects of eating fast food much more than once a week are immediately obvious (to say nothing of the probable long term issues).

Food is a deep topic with really excellent geeking out potential, but it's not something I'm interested in reprioritising my life over in the way you suggest. To put it in an HN friendly metaphor, people like me are eagerly awaiting things like these squares or Soylent for the same reason Apple has been able to so hugely disrupt and capture the smartphone market: no one is selling a good experience to the people who aren't interested in revolving their life around the topic.

So yes, I can do better. I can shotgun a litre of Soylent and spend the extra time wandering foggy seashores with my wife, or tweaking up my RC airplanes, or working on something opensource. Not everyone wants to be a food geek anymore than you're going to convince your grandma to switch to Linux and then care what bootloader she's using (syslinux FTW!).
I can't believe this isn't a bigger story here. The section near the end of the article about the death of an employee, Phillip Lee Terry, is terrible, and the cover up of his death is absolutely horrifying.
looking forward to using this once it rolls to linux
> We don't need to call these stories "truths" to do that. No need to muddle up the terminology

And what is that terminology? Even math and physics have different definitions of truth; why can't literature (
literature's use of the word is closer to math's definition rather than physics)? I think most people are capable of accepting different definitions in different contexts.

> I think you misunderstood. It's not that it's not worth knowing. It's that you don't really know it if you can't quantify it.

You don't really know even when you can. The consequence of the Gettier problem[1] is that we cannot define "knowledge" in a way that is both completely satisfactory yet still applies to anything other than math. That is, if we define knowledge narrowly enough to be rigorous and in accordance of our ideal of what knowledge is, we find that we don't know anything. Hence, all knowledge is knowledge to a degree.

> You're just slapping together some explanation to feel better.

Isn't that what understanding means? Suppose we could simulate the entire universe from the Big Bang on extremely fast, and move forward and backward in time in an instant. That would be very useful indeed for some purposes, I guess. Some would even call it knowledge. But would anyone call it understanding? All understanding is meant to make us feel better. :)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem
Microsoft's roots are as a company full of hackers. Gates was coding up traffic software in high school and dropped out of Harvard to found a startup. Even through the wild 25 year ride of building a company on a well timed pivot around the lucky success of Windows, in fine Seattle tradition it built the skunkworks that is Microsoft Research.

The increasingly apparent changes in direction relative to open source, end user OS pricing, and nondenominational hardware specification indicate a possible return to those core valued of the company's early days.
Of course, rent control and zoning/adjusting regulations for higher rates of construction are not mutually exclusive.
I believe it's already mapped to F12.
Sounds nice, but have any of you guys figured out the cleaning part of the equation? Because if not, I'd gather most consumers will stick with their pans. (Pros are a different story, of course.)
I had the Z80 card in my Apple ][ and ran CP/M more often than the Apple's own OS.
All currencies and value systems have their own inherent strengths and weaknesses, depending on how and where they're being used. Bitcoin is no different.

The all or nothing thinking when it comes to currencies reminds me of hearing people talk about religions.
On a lot of software development projects, particularly open-source ones, the reality is that there are often only engineers.
In some cases, a dramatic drop in hashing can cause "programmed self-destruction". http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0534
While bugs happen in any language, shell scripts are far easier to debug than C. You tend to not get nasty interactions spanning multiple source files in shell, where the bugs tend to on a single line (like in that Valve example, where rm should have never been used in such a careless/negligent manner). On the other hand, are you sure you've checked for all of the potential undefined behavior problems in your C programs? These are far more numerous[1] than many people realize.

[1] https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode...
No problem at all, hope you found/find what you are looking for, i just hope the keyboards look standard enough :)
Mouse Guard was the first one that came up for me too. As a bonus, it's also got an RPG.
Define your acronyms, please: HK
Just read between the lines. This is not about giving OpenOffice.org to the community, but more about stopping in-house development on the project.

I guess they finally noticed that LibreOffice is quickly overtaking OpenOffice.org and that OpenOffice.org won't get them any money. Of course it does not make any difference if Oracle gives this project to the community: The _only_ interesting thing about OpenOffice.org is the trademark, for everything else there's LibreOffice.
with that argument you've reduced the problem to how complex (ie. how long) said phrase is. the point the author makes, is that the password should be easy to remember and not a nonsensical phrase (so you don't have to write it on an insecure post-it). I see you wrote uncommon as well, so I agree there might be an uncommon yet easy to remember password, even though this somehow contradicts itself (not subjectively but collectively).
Parent has a point. If you can teach your dog that the button is a way to communicate with you when you're out of the house, that would be awesome. I suppose something like having a few signs it can hold when pressing the button, maybe? Training that would be incredibly hard, I'm guessing, but if possible, it would be amazing.
Surely you are joking Mr Feynman - for a glimpse into a great mind and their outlook towards life & nature.

Gun, Germs, and Steel - For the valuable history of our culture and society.

Atlas Shrugged - for showing the entrepreneurial way and the necessity for hard work
I know language changes with time, but I can't help but feel a little saddened by this, as if an unruly mob had overrun the academy.
D3 is the reason I got into animation in the first place. The general ease-of-use combined with the hackability of it is awesome.
ObHeadlineHypeComplaint: that's a "hand slap"?
Dang. If I'm logged in, it isn't anywhere to be found. If I'm not logged in, it is indeed #13.

I must have posted to this thread too much?
agreed. a bit hyperbole, as some people might already be familiar with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor
Nowadays, the science news are more and more becoming this: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1174 or maybe this http://xkcd.com/882/ :P
Great article. Also brings up an aspect of the tech startup mentality that bothers me from time to time. From my reading of pg and ycombinator's focus on fast hockey stick like growth curves, it seems that you can easily dismiss/overlook small and steady businesses like Klippers which can perform very important roles in our lives.

I'm not criticizing pg and the ycombinator crowd, in fact I have much respect and admiration for what they're trying to achieve. But I think small businesses don't get the respect that they deserve.
currently #13 on the front page
Fair enough, it's not for everyone. After 10 years of being a developer in a country which is relatively cheap to live in, however, I'd be more than happy to take the financial hit.
Sorry for your friend.

Problem with vent bag is that you cannot maintain a positive expiratory pressure (around 10mmHg of pressure during the expiration to prevent lung to collapse alveoli). For Covid-19, all the projects based on mechanized vent bag where useless because of the type of disease.

There are several companies behind the project. The company who makes the electronics is Tronico (https://www.tronico-alcen.com/en/markets/medical). It has all the medical certifications needed.

We are currently going on with ANSM certification (equivalent of US FDA). It is a long 2 years way, with lots of papers and tests... If it is approved, sure it can save life everywhere in the world. If it is not, it was a project where we learned a lot.

By the way, ambulance ventilators are harder to develop and to approve. Hardware must resist huge shocks and accelerations.

As said previously, the Rpi part and the software is not critical at all, it is here to fill a gap between the minimal UX and the expected UX. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25671617 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25671318.
I'm sorry but they are not the same.

"In the South, racists didn't want to do business with black people, and the government intervened and said they had to"

Again, business <-> customer relation is protected. Business <-> business protection relation is not protected in any way shape or form. As a business owner you can stop doing business with any other company for any reason, including the protected reasons, because while corporations might be people in the US, the protected classes protection does not apply in this sense. You could say you don't want to do business with another company because their CEO is a man or a woman, or because you don't agree with their sexuality or their religion or any reason you like and that's allowed in its entirety. Business to business relations are not protected this way.
There's a "[-]" button you can click to collapse threads you don't want to read.
Beauty is well researched & documented to affect one's social standing, how much people trust you, career success, mate/family success, and many other factors.
A car ECU programmed by amateurs will not be better or safer than the one flashed by the OEM.
Ha, ultimately it is just semantics. That said, I personally wouldn't trust these browsers for online banking or similar uses. The main choices I'm talking about are no multiprocess sandboxing and keeping XUL addons, although the speed and rendering improvements in Quantum are significant too.
It re-flows and styles things so that it's more inline with what everyone else sees. In the past this used to be the norm, now messaging applications feel the need to really point out your own messages. I've been using it for ~1 month and when I don't it actually changes my experience.
That is indeed the earliest of the three.
Exactly. Israel and its supporters have successfully weaponized accusations of antisemitism to make political attacks.

It's actually quite rare to see genuine antisemitism these days. Most of what we see claimed as "antisemitism" is just vague insinuations and associations, or inventing supposed "antisemitic tropes" in what people have said.

In fact it's got to the point now where if someone is accused of antisemitism, it's best just to assume it's a malicious accusation with no substance behind it.

I mean, when you have the Zionists accusing people like Noam Chomsky and Bernie Sanders of antisemitism, you just know it's a bad faith exercise.
Why start with the shader compiler rather than simply whatever commands are necessary to get the screen turned on and a simple memory mapped framebuffer?

It would seem easier to get Linux booting (by just sending the same commands apples software does) before worrying about 3d acceleration and shaders...
That was great, thank you for the detailed follow up.
I've had issues accessing Schwab too on days the market tanks.
I always thought smile was some trick to break referral links and avoid paying out. I'm not clear on how it all works, I could be completely wrong.
Microsoft is in fact gaining a lot of traction in this space despite how late they were. They could actually surpass AWS.

Chrome dominates despite being late, though partly due to being rammed by Google/Android, though it was also clearly better performing than IE (and FireFox early on).
Some emerging theories of pathology suggest that lung function can be increased by reinflating collapsed alveoli with constant pressure: https://emcrit.org/pulmcrit/cpap-covid/. This source describes cases where oxygen supplementation could be reduced or eliminated.

This development (https://www.isinnova.it/easy-covid19-eng/) looks very promising for 'sub-intensive' cases -- adapting decathlon masks to provide positive air pressure (to help reinflate lungs) without intubation or leaking contaminated exhaust.

I don't know how many of these rapidly improvised ventilators can provide constant pressure, but if the closed mask method could be used successfully to prevent serious cases from progressing to ICU (or more importantly, keep people in their homes a little longer), it could have a huge impact.
First mover advantage is valuable when every user makes your service more valuable to other users. This makes it harder for other companies to enter the market after a dominant player appears.
No, if you actually listen to him it's pretty obvious that he is joking. The general idea that we have unelected bureaucrats that some people think have too much power in our government is not the joke. Calling the State Department the Deep State Department is the joke.
This book completely changed how I give presentations.

https://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Patterns-Techniques-Craf...

You can find it on the internet at various price points.

I even had a chance to give a technical presentation in front of the author and he said it was excellent, so apparently I internalized it’s lessons.
I know right.. Any similar resources for this?
Sadly google hasn't killed "the bullshit". The rise of personal/social media means that we can live in our own bubble of whatever view we choose.

This was exposed quite starkly with this story: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...

If you exclude the pro/cons comments (and the abuse) you're left with loads of "charities have the cure, they are holding them back"

they defy sense, yet are reassured by the people about them.
When I mentioned I wouldn't be continuing with Economics after I graduated, one professor asked my why. I said that I had wanted to find a theory with the same mathematical elegance as classical economics (i.e. general equilibrium theory) but found that there didn't seem to be such a theory left to discover. Almost everything beyond classical economics was mathematically shallower (not to say it was wrong or poorly thought out, just that deeper mathematics wasn't applicable).

So while mathematics is very effective in Physics, and I believe it will remain so, I am highly skeptical whenever I see people trying to apply deep mathematics outside physics and chemistry. Some things just don't seem amenable to mathematical laws.
I can confirm. I worked with Chromatic at the consultancy he mentions; I developed the Python/wx app.

He was a stand-up guy, a professional in an environment where most weren't. (It turned out that the company was already having trouble making payroll when they hired me.)

The perl dev group's focus on testing was impressive and very forward thinking. But at the same time, the Golden Hammer anti-pattern was evident to me: matching your tool to the client's problems, as opposed to placing the client's problems at the center of your focus.

I believe that my CS background helped me take that client- and problem-centered approach. And led me to create several proofs-of-concept in different languages before settling on Python/wx (largely unknown to us) as the best way to meet the project's requirements.
Organic chemistry is the least or one of the least math-intensive chemistry subjects at the undergraduate level.
Thanks for the info.

But then my doubt is the same: If the old ones are the same as this one, then why sue to be able to use the new one free? Just produce the old one... it's the same.
Shouldn't the entities most impacted by the change be listened to when it comes to decide on policy?

I think the parent's point is that the people are the entities most affected by change and their voices should be the ones that matter.
Domain knowledge trumps language in the real world.

It's funny, we mock MBAs who believe they have the generic skill of managing anything, but how many programmers think that they can write programs in any company or industry?
Looking at how software has evolved in the last 30 year I will make the following statement: nothing that exists today requires 12 years of coding. :)