jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In the context of "leaving early", I suspect he meant that some of his coworkers left at lunchtime on Friday, after having worked longer earlier in the week.
Good point, I added the qualifier! csh is now there too.
oh i thought this was going to be a lot grosser and ahhaha i'm not even sure why i clicked
Don't you need a tracker still?
> Presumably, this was an automatic notice that pops up when Google's app updates hit a certain age and are meant to catch people who haven't been to the App Store in a while

So, statements in the screenshot like "the version you are using doesn't include the latest security features” are lies, uh ?
The problem with the laundry pile LRU is the extreme bitrot of the first items in.
I think we have to understand that Google is a large company filled with people with technical skills. These people are rewarded for contributing to open source. So they do. That's it. It is entirely possible that maybe Google employees might want a feature that others don't, but I haven't seen that evidence.

In 10 years of developing Go, I know of only 2 things that the community has disagreed on with the Go team - package management and generics. One is already fixed and the other will be in a year. Nothing I can think of wrt their contributions to Rust, Kotlin, C++, Python etc.

No one has ever articulated why it's a bad thing that Google sponsors open source development. If someone could articulate specific reasons, that'd be great. But this kind of FUD comment ("hmm, they sponsor an awful lot don't they") doesn't add much.
Google needs a real competitor, I feel like people don’t try to create search engines because it’s such a monolithic task and Google is so far ahead
I’m super-late to this, bit just wanted to say thanks to idlewords on the off chance he sees it. This means a lot to me.
String templating elevated to "tagged templates" [0] which dispatches template on your own function is suprisingly acceptable solution. I'm using it to drive mssql sql generation [1] and it works really well with type system around combinators. It's perfect, extremely lightweight way to achieve embedded dsl like experience.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
[1] https://github.com/appliedblockchain/tsql
I roast with a popcorn popper I bought at Walmart. They only last a few roasts before they "die" - that is just a heat fuse that is set too low. Buy a new, higher rated one from Radio Shack, and you are good to go. 25 bucks total including the surgery. This does require you to have an outdoors place to roast - if you live in an high rise in a city it's a no go.

By and large you'll want to wait a few days. I find it depends on the bean - some are great just out of the roaster, some are pretty bad. Some take a day or two, some take 5 to really come into their own. Or so I perceive, with non-blinded tasting.
The Peter principle actually states that in a meritocratic organization people will rise as long as they're competent, then stagnate once they reach the limit of their competence.

Edit: The one you're thinking of is rather the Dilbert principle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle].
There is a firefox greasemonkey script called "Hacker News Threadify" [1], which claims to do just what you want. It works pretty well too.

[1] http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/110317
I can't edit the expired link above, so search for "hot mutton cool magician" or try http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4VQaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZSUEA...
The problem was that it was a complete pivot on an operating system people finally saw as the true successor to Windows XP. It's what Vista should have been, a nice polished and professional OS that generally was out of your face, yet extremely useful. Then there was windows 8, not horrible, there were some under the hood improvements but the horrible hybrid metro/desktop interaction alienated the desktop market and no clear incentive to upgrade.
HAMT is cool! I'm maintaining an ORM objects cache server in my $dayjob that uses HAMT as it's core data structure and I really like the ram usage efficiency.
You can't pay for Netflix from their iOS app.
> Of course. Because Gimp does all the thing Photoshop does

It actually does, for the majority of the population. Which doesn't matter. Any Photoshop alternative must be a clone of Photoshop.
I wonder if the NYT meta header is just a similar flag leaking out, or if it is something that can be abused client side to never have ads.

It's totally unsurprising that it would be a CMS feature, I'm a little taken aback each time I see a crass juxtaposition on smaller sites (more out of surprise at them not doing it than any particular personal sensitivity to it).
S4TF from my (external) perspective was always more a (very cool!) programming language research project than anything else, at least since Lattner left.

I would personally assume the shutdown was due to a combination of reasons:

- There simply being no good reason for Python users to ever move to Swift. There is no big painpoint being solved for the broad ML user community

- Organisational momentum lost with Lattner leaving

- General disarray of TensorFlow as a project, the parallel rise of Jax from/within prominent Google orgs, it being the cool new thing
That's why instead of 3d printing barrels, diy gun enthusiasts have been making them out of metal using ECM (with a 3d printed mandrel).
School. Nobody is tied down to a chair but children are challenged to think critically on a daily basis.

A good education should produce a balanced and well rounded adult. I teach CS ages 14 to 18 and all teachers have pastoral care responsibilities. I teach much more than just the curriculum. Some lessons — tutorials — are dedicated to general education.

A highlight from last term was tackling the question “is being gay the same as being a paedophile?” It was asked earnestly and in context. It was my pleasure to answer, ask them more questions, and get them to think about consent and what is and isn’t ok for society to ban.
Having phone numbers and contacts of certain people can get you into trouble.
the data mentioned isn't messages but phone numbers, contacts, status messages, logs etc.
If the research results depend on small differences being amplified you have a much much bigger problem. (but if course this could happen unnoticed/sloppy work)
At least according to NYT[1] it seems like the police being outmatched was rather intentional.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06/us/washington-dc-pro...
That said, impatience also prevents feature creep.
"To fully pass the test, I'd need to see something that detailed who from Dyncorp was involved and to what extent."

Yes, thats where the "conspiracy" bit comes in. We know these things are happening. We know they are being funded by Dynocorp which is itself funded 95% by US tax dollars. But who exactly organized it, well, gosh, nobody actually wrote it down. Yet we are to believe that nobody knew. Like, "who could have imagined people would fly planes into buildings?", as our Secretary of State blathered. (Answer: NORAD. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-18-norad_x.h...)
Fair enough - I'm not going to pry any deeper. It's nice to see the depth of the HN community though.
he's loaded some designs
That or they force you to agree to a spec that absolutely will produce a burned hamburger, then refuse to accept it because its burned. Both you and the burger end up burned.
We had another problem with braintree - due to some error on their side, they have submitted all of our AMEX transactions for settling twice. It took a lot of phone calls to convince them that the problem was on their end, and after they "fixed" it, it happened again during the next billing cycle. They fixed it for good after it and we had no problems since then, but for a while there I was seriously considering ditching them for good. However, at the end of the day, they are still way better than PayPal - we had the common issue of having our account frozen...
If not peer review then what? Centralized review? Is there any hope that that won't collapse under its own weight? Public review? That hasn't done all that well in the Open Source world.
I know someone with MS who went through something similar with encouraging results. I believe it was a mix of chemotherapy to suppress her own immune system followed by a bone marrow transplant from a healthy donor.
Oh no that's not needed. I understand your point of view and anyone with a first glance would have done the same. I don't know the guy, never interacted, don't know much about him either. I just randomly try to help at times, my way of getting good karma.

I guess I'm a good use case for anti spam algorithms, now you know what false positives are :)
Most algorithms that work with real world data have a simple core but end up covered with warts and exceptions because of stuff like this. No doubt a company that does a good job with this has some special rule sor scoring weights for resumes sent out by recruiters.
"Even as a fan of Mac products I think Steve Jobs gets too much credit."

I couldn't agree more.

Jobs epitomizes everything that so many of us detest about big companies, so I have to wonder why anyone here actually likes or even respects him.

He doesn't invent squat, or developed any hardware, written any software... so why is it that it's ok for Jobs to claim sole credit for everything Apple produces?

At the same time, Microsoft not only bends over backward to take care of 3rd party software developers (most of the time), Microsoft also explicitly gives credit to the developers that wrote the software.

When Jobs released the mac, he had the mac programmed to announce that Jobs was its creator... never mind all of the people at Xerox PARC who actually invented all of the technology inside, including the UI.

And when Gates announced Windows 95, he brought out the development team and gave them credit.

So who's the better person? Obviously not Jobs.
Got a specific problem in mind? How would you attack this?
how would it solve the problem of recruiters sending the same resume to a few hundred places? I know that there's a really old resume of mine that has been forever circulating from a firm I used years ago.
Is it just me, or is Jonathan Ive the only Apple exec able to convincingly recreate Job's reality distortion field?

Every time one of these videos comes out, a bunch of guys are paraded out, each one trying to imp Job's style, vocabulary, and delivery, but each one coming across as some guy trying to copy someone else, rather than exude their own sense of style and originality.

To be even less charitable and more cynical, it comes across as a bunch of corporate suits with succession on their minds, all believing that Job's unique style and power of persuasion are necessary to sustain Apple when he eventually steps down, and that the most likely candidate to succeed him will be someone who most effectively recreates those traits as CEO.

But if so, they miss the mark, in that those traits can't be copied. They can't exist if they're not authentic, if they don't originate from the strength of a unique individual's vision, passion, and frame. You don't get those by mimicking someone else in the hope of increasing your odds in the corporate succession game.

Without looking them all up on Wikipedia, I'm sure they are all highly accomplished in their own rights, driven and passionate about what they do, thankful to have amazing jobs at the coolest company in the universe (Google excepted; not taking sides, but that's a debate for another thread), and have even contributed to and influenced Steve Jobs' vision and direction at times.

But none of them is Steve Jobs, and never will be, and the harder they try the more obvious that is. Only Ive comes across as someone with as strong a sense of individuality and frame as Jobs, and that's because of all the execs, he tries the least to mimic Steve, if at all.

He has nothing to prove, having lead designed practically all of Apple's products since Steve returned to Apple, and acts like it. The difference is subtle, but to me, very apparent in videos like this.

EDIT: To unharsh on those guys a bit, they're much more successful than I, and probably 99% of all other human beings are at this point. So /salute to them for that.

But that makes me wonder even more why they seem to feel the need to try to recreate Jobs' style, instead of developing their own. Surely, to get where they are, they have an abundance of talent and a wealth of experience, all of which should contribute to a strong frame, and the lack of a need to copy someone else's.

To reduce Jobs down to the essentials, I think it's really his frame, and his ability to frame Apple's products, that is the crux of his RDF and marketing ability. But there are equally effective ways to accomplish that without aping his vocabulary (pro tip - only Jobs can use the word 'exciting' to describe Baudrillardian consumer products without a hint of irony or corporate BS jargon; no one else should even attempt it).

I wish these guys would realize that and find their own path, be their own person.
Apple’s ads are quite costly – they will probably never serve the most ads or get the most eyeballs but they will probably have high revenue.
> Apple's all about the user experience, and I think they have rightly judged that enough of the new features won't perform adequately to be a satisfying user experience.

What feature a 1st-gen iPod lacks that makes it satisfactory on a second-generation unit? IIRC, the only change is the addition of Bluetooth, processor and memory being the same.
If I've got a company with a million dollars per year in revenue, I'm well past the point that banks won't loan me 100K.
So I'm not sure exactly who this service is trying to target.
iChat AV has always had an interesting usability / interaction issue.

Because the camera is located on the display bezel, and not in the middle of the screen where the video window sits, you can't ever make full eye contact with the person you're talking to. It makes the entire conversation feel a little "off".

I've always thought this was a subtle yet important reason computer-based video chat never took off, and was super excited by patents that hinted that Apple was going to put the camera behind the display.

Hopefully the new iPhone 4 camera is close enough to the display to make eye contact possible.
I'm no fan of the Obama administration but if you watch any of the "analysis" shows on cable news channels it is clear that "stirring the hornet's nest" is a big part of how they operate. And I don't think it's a bad message to say "just because it's on the internet doesn't mean it's true" but I would say the same goes for any other media these days, including White House press releases.
In Canada, property taxes are assessed as a fraction that results in the city budget being met within constraints. Rising house prices for YOU vs. everyone else would result in higher property taxes, but a rising tide lifts all boats. The city budget and the relative worth of your home to your neighbors' determines your fraction.
Ok, but Boulder is supposed to be fairly liberal, environmentally conscious and so on. They seem a bit out of touch with reality: they don't want to increase housing stock, but they don't want higher prices either.
For people still in school, I have found that nothing beats flash cards for learning. It takes a bit of time, effort and discipline to write and use them, but in the long run, it's going to be easier and faster to study for exams.
The other 20 percent are probably 404 errors.
> You might talk to Amazon directly - they've been known to forgive debts like these in these kinds of circumstances.

They did:

> Lucky for me, I explained my situation to Amazon customer support – and they knew I wasn’t bitcoin mining all night. Amazon was kind enough to drop the charges this time…
"I can't tell you about it. If you can't see it then you'll just never know it. I feel sorry or you."

This is a succinct summary of my own experiences. LSD basically makes you realize just how much of a slave you are to your own biology, and the kind of unrestrained thoughts it elicits cannot readily be translated to everyday frameworks. Nobody who's never tripped can comprehend what it's like to trip.

Still, it can help you learn lessons if you make a point to do so. I recall LSD trips whenever I feel stressed or depressed, and it works really well to make me realize how little my problems matter in the grand scheme of things.
A nice article, yes, and +1 for mostly being about cyclocross. I presume the author isn't the guy bunny hopping barriers on the MTB...
My date/time code only worked with US date MM/DD/YYYY and not DD/MM/YYYY. Fixed now.

And to think 50% of my traffic this month has been from Europe. A lot of users I won't be getting back...

Thanks for the bug report.
I remember an episode of the Olde Time Radio show "The Shadow" where Lamont and Margo attend a trial as audience members. This is in the 1930s // 1940s for context.

The prosecution projected a film with audio [cutting edge technology at the time] demonstrating the crimes in question [bribery and related charges].

Lamont ['The Shadow'] was able to hear the audio and read lips at the same time and figure out that what was heard was not was what said. "Believe half of what you see, and nothing you hear" was his takeaway.

As the story goes, that's what happened. The film shown at court was dubbed for audio by a hired guy who did great vocal impersonations. The accused was innocent.

Short story long: deep fakes aren't a new idea. 100 years and counting. Same trick, different tools.
Even better is using Eclipse with the Vrapper plugin to get Vim emulation from inside the IDE. There are some limitations, but for when I need to work on Java code, it's much better to use Eclipse+Vrapper than to go without any of the IDE benefits.

http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/
I will always remember the day that I finally started to question Apple's practices. I know I may be late to the game but this announcement just makes me very disappointed. What happened to the blue box era Steve Jobs?
And by the way, what a brilliant piece of marketing from Microsoft. Force a bunch of developers to play with the new features in IE9 who likely never would have downloaded a "technology preview" on their own for a mere $10,000 AND earn some good PR while doing it.
I thought the criticism was a little overblown. The goal of the contest was to show off what you can do with new HTML5 features in not a lot of code. It wasn't really about Javascript code golf. So I think allowing jQuery makes sense.

(Though then again, I'm also guilty of writing a game as well: http://10k.aneventapart.com/Entry/154 )
Nope, just another word vomit from Jeff. He likes to throw around clever-sounding phrases such as "actively harmful at worst" without any substantiation. I don't disagree with the sentiment though.
Grief is often a loss of future that won't happen.
It's unlimited
> Yet I have plenty of people all over the planet that I should be ashamed to have European heritage living in the USA and that it's my fault there are a lot of poor black people.

Do the "plenty" of people have an issue with you having a German ethnicity? How so?

> And that I owe them money and should "check my privilege" because of it.

You are conflating different things here.

"Reparations" aren't a way to funnel money from "you" to "black people". That's another oversimplification, akin to saying that Medicare is about taking from richer people to put money into poor people's pockets.

"Privilege" has more to do with the colour of your skin, than your ethnic background.
If by "permanent" you mean "90 days", then yes.
> That's why it's better to let everyone bargain it out amongst themselves. ... In a free market, the resources should flow to whoever needs them most.

If I had the opportunity to ditch my ISP who wants to throttle Netflix through underhanded, shady tactics I WOULD ABSOLUTELY DO SO!

But the various entities were granted regional monopolies on certain wire plants like coax and utp and those huge, huge, huge advantages have yet to be leveled by the same entities that enacted the laws which caused them.

If I had the option to choose from at least say 5-10 different ISPs and some of them did what Comcast, Verizon and AT&T choose to do and other did not, I would vote with my wallet and choose a provider who does not engage in such tactics. This would cause those providers to lose customers and eventually, those providers to reconsider their "paid peering" stance. Or not! But I wouldn't be subject to the whims of a few business folk at a company that I have no practical way to influence.

As it stands, I do not have that choice. So I'm not terribly opposed to various ISPs being told through various means to play nice or have their toys taken away.

But given that I don't have any kind of real choice (duopoly at best and I'm in a major metro area!) it's kind of disingenuous to say "the free market knows best!" when there is in fact not a free market. Free the market up and let people duke it out. But don't pretend that the un-free-ness of the market somehow doesn't exist just because there are multiple long-haul transit providers.
Could please someone informed explain how is this more restricted to only prove theorems, instead of being a more general prolog-like system?

From the Microsoft Research page, I read:

> Z3 is a high-performance theorem prover being developed at Microsoft Research. Z3 supports linear real and integer arithmetic, fixed-size bit-vectors, extensional arrays, uninterpreted functions, and quantifiers. Z3 is integrated with a number of program analysis, testing, and verification tools from Microsoft Research.

And with my current knowledge (which is low on the matter) I can't reconcile arithmetic, arrays, quantifiers, etc. with general program verification...
There is a company doing fantasy startup investing with bitcoin: http://sandhill.exchange
Yet another attempt to explain the incomprehensible.

Why does such a popular version control systems find itself in need of so many explanatations.

Any startup attempting to market something that required a user to understand concepts such as this...

https://codewords.recurse.com/images/two/git-from-the-inside...

...would be laughed out of the room in any other context.
My first exposure to Lisp was through a combination of Hacker News, SICP, and Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence. Also, there may have been a blog post by one of the Posterous (or a similar company) guys about getting started with SBCL for web services.

At the time, although I could read the material, it seemed to require too much mentally to actually Get Things Done. I think it was a deep misunderstanding about how to structure a program that is independent of state.

Later, after playing with Scala, amongst other languages, I came to understand that state exists in functional programs. It's not conjured up out of nowhere, spontaneously brought into existence, but rather, it exists as data, and it is the job of the program to direct the flow of data appropriately - like a plumbing system, so to speak.
or OP just wants to donate $100k to charity