jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm a wannabe chef, and I use it for all recipes I've created, or adapted from others. Ratios for baked goods are much easier to work with in metric than imperial. Same goes for woodworking, and anything else with smaller distances. Try as I might, I'm still too used to 'miles' to switch to kilometers.
Give it some time. Releasing them gradually also allows for more time for the media to pick up on it, which is good from their point of view - as opposed to a concentrated release, which would get much less attention.
I've always been on the fenice bout patents. At a very ignorant level, they are instruments of unfair revenue. But give it some thought and they make so much practical sense. They spur private innovation.

Without patent protection, what incentive do pharmaceuticals have to spend millions of $ on vaccines? As noble a cause as greater good is, greater good doesn't put food on the table.

Secondly, patents promote the spread of knowledge - you have to reveal your secret in order to protect it.
Thanks, any ideas for reliable used iMacs? There were none on the refurbished page on the Apple Store, hesitant to trust ebay.
I would genuinely rather lose all my critical data to cryptolocker than put it in the cloud. Given a choice between my data being accessible by no-one or everyone, I will pick no-one every time.

Data in the cloud /is/ available to everyone that matters.

I'd also like to remind you that it can be impractical to back up some forms of data, especially in the cloud. High definition video (weddings, funerals, holidays) is impractically large.

The problem /is/ Cryptolocker. Anyone with an ounce of practicality will take mitigating steps against it, I have no sympathy for anyone who ignores the risk, but the solution is not massive scale global data duplication, that is treating the symptoms. The solution is to dissuade criminals from this path.

Widescale international cooperation in finding these people would be a start.
Hi guys, I am not affiliated with ClerkDogs in no way, shape or form. Below is the email I sent to the person Linkedin suggest owns it. I just like the site and I thought I would share it.

....................

Hello Mr Skorman,

My name is Elly. I have been using Clerkdogs for more than a year now. It seems the service has been on autopilot and most of the time it is extremely slow.

I just wanted to note that I think you have the best recommendation engine for movies. CD is one of those few apps I would really love to see get bigger and better.

I hope this few words will reencourage the team to keep working on it, make it faster, faster and faster.

Great job, great site, great tech ... just slow :).

Cheers guys,
That would be fantastic.
http://www.sitestrux.com/work
brandon(at)sitestrux.com

Thanks!
But get a great co-founder first!
Yes that lept out at me. Isn't that first year physics? I mean I remember it from years back, my first fond memory of university physics (and from which point I knew I would love it). It was really a 1 short lecture task to derive special relativity (which covers this) from a few basic postulates? (or course was a huge crazy leap to postulate in the first place).
Tansey, thanks for the feedback. But I am not affiliated with the site. I am just a long time fan and user.
Just watch Ryan Dahl's jsconf.eu talk. It's great fun and very informative.

http://blip.tv/file/3735944
There was speculation that because the original agreement did not include the iPad, Apple was under no obligation to give AT&T exclusivity on the iPad, and that they renegotiated the contract when the iPad was released. Such a renegotiation could have included an earlier end to exclusivity.

It will take another court case to confirm if that is true, since neither party comments on the terms of their agreement.
So let's say you write a web app in Rails or Django. Of course all sorts of magic happens behind the scenes, but ultimately the whole thing boils down to a function, ( def handle_request(request) { return ... } ); which is given the request and returns a response. If you have to wait for something (the database or whatever) that function will have to sit around waiting for it (e.g. "blocking") before returning the answer.

In Node.js, despite however much magic of a framework you have, it utlimately boils down to a function that gets a request and a response proxy ( function process_request(request, response) { } ). The function can do whatever it wants with this response object, by sending data right away, stashing it somewhere to be picked up later, having it send data in response to an event in the future, whatever. Then the function returns, and gets out of the way, and other stuff runs. But the response object is still sitting around, and whenever you tell it to do something, you can send some (or all) of a response back.
if this interpretation is true it seems that disney is now making movies in the style of -animal farm-
I teach young men who must amass a certain number of credits before they can become police officers or state troopers, lower-echelon health-care workers who need credits to qualify for raises, and municipal employees who require college-level certification to advance at work.

Credentialism to the core.

Some of them come to me at the conclusion of a course and matter-of-factly ask that I change a failing grade because they need to graduate this semester or because they worked really hard in the class or because they need to pass in order to receive tuition reimbursement from their employer.

This breaks my heart. Why are we doing this to people?
undefined medium is a free and open-source pixel grid-based monospace typeface suitable for programming, writing, and whatever else you can think of … it’s pretty undefined.

It is inspired by many 5×7 pixel grid typefaces, especially Gilles Boccon-Gibod’s MonteCarlo, which is unfortunately, since 2010, no longer maintained.

The 400+ character set fully supports Latin Extended-A with Western European, Central European, and South Eastern European languages.

In addition, there’s many typographic symbols, mathematical symbols, superscripts, double-spaced fractions, a copyleft symbol, and a capital sharp s character.

—

undefined medium is available in OTF and TTF fonts for desktop use, as well as in WOFF and WOFF2 fonts for web projects.

You can download the compiled fonts from the releases section of the official repository.

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

This license is stored in the official repository, and is also available with a FAQ at: https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

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GitHub repository: https://github.com/andirueckel/undefined-medium

Typeface website: https://undefined-medium.com
Where would you go after you've compeleted these exercises?
A friend of mine just today bought me a pack of 3 by 5 notecards and a ball point pen.

It's not like I don't know what my priorities are, but it's intractible to hold on to them all mentally. Writing them down means that I can, temporarily, forget some of them.
I never had any trouble; maybe you're using poor-quality cabling, or a lousy crimper. Do you happen to have one of these bad cables lying around? A close-up photo of the end might reveal something.
Who said they have zero revenue? The Harvard endowment is about $36b - generating about $5b in revenue for the University.
I've tried nearly all of the frameworks listed. I still don't understand the love for Symphony. It's extremely bloated and over complicates everything. I also found that Doctrine, the main ORM used, generates SQL that's not very efficient. I had to constantly break out of it.

My thought is that big companies like it because servers are cheaper than developers. So even though it's extremely inefficient, it saves money in the long-run.
Richard P. Gabriel observed WiB in era of Lisp vs Unix, MIT vs New Jersey. Silicon Valley on the other coast and small then. Also see Dorothy Denning, talking about the Windows PC era.

https://faculty.nps.edu/dedennin/publications/National%20Com...

Redmond is in WA not CA. If your point is about commercial pressure, not just SV bashing, then please listen to my tale of David Hyatt and grad school friend (Hyatt writing draft code and rewriting five times) from the interview with Lex. That was an academic assignment, not commercial work.
I always assumed that it the high paid jobs in SF were proper software engineering positions as opposed to line of business apps that lower paid jobs else where often are?
Lack of an addon architecture is what completely killed IE for me. No adblock is a no-go. (It's also the non-idealogical reason I use FF on Android: Chrome is locked down.)
Here's one I think happens fairly often...

e) I'm a career manager with a nice-looking, but superficial set of credentials in the form of education, speaking engagements, articles and the like. I'm not competent or aggressive enough to really scare of offend anyone and fine points of political maneuvering are lost on me.

The real players in my organization are perfectly comfortable and wield huge influence from their VP-level roles. They need an insulator and a fall guy. They orchestrate my promotion and work me like a puppet from a distance. Their success is my success, my success is their success and any of our failures will be mine.
The problem I have with anarcho-communism is that it is identical to the tribalism and village/clan based ways of organizing society that we have progressed out of.

The basic enforcement mechanism under every a-c system I have ever read is to "drive them out of town." Thieves, rapists, ect will be banished from group. We have only to look to the past to see just horrible of a system that can be for people who have a different skin color, sexual orientation, ect from the dominant group.
After having seen the following talk with Noam Chomsky, I said to myself "I should really learn more about the history of anarchism and the causes and conditions of its demise".

Who is Chomsky's Favorite Anarchist?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8KpRb38Uks
...then I find that it will be unethical for every participant.

Well said. I like the cliche: If any of us are oppressed, then none of us are free.
The 'opposing side' is the PR shills hired by the gas industry (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alyssa-carducci/2a/148/889) (http://heartland.org/alyssa-carducci) (http://energyindepth.org/about/).

"Government Relations" is a nice euphemism for propagandist.

In 50 years when the Midwest is a toxic wasteland, many of those responsible might be able to move to Dubai, but our children and grandchildren are going to have to somehow live in it.
Whoops, that should have been translucent. Yeah you tune the gold nanoparticles to absorb radiation that is able to be transmitted into the body (I can't find any graphs of the human body's vis/ir transmittance - although water is a good 'baseline'[1]). Tuning something to green wouldn't work so well, because you can't get the light in. But infrared works great - evidenced by how readily red light passes through fingers with flashlights.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Absorption_spectrum_of_liq...
What does $1000 get you? Time off to work on the project?

In general, I think begging posts are in the best interests of HN.
It's always been a no brainer for my team to hire remote and we were majority remote before COVID. There is simple reason for this; The hiring pool is much much wider when you remove geographical restrictions. Trying to hire within the criteria of someone being able to physically transport themselves to a certain location limits greatly your ability to find and recruit talent. Even more so for niche areas where skills are even more in demand (Security Engineering in my case).

I remember just before COVID a large content streaming platform (the biggest one there is) were trying to hire security team members, it caught my interest and I was more than experience enough, but they had a caveat that hires were only available for those that can travel to Los Gatos, California. Suffice to say, being in the UK with children settled into school and liking my life here, it was a showstopper. edit: I just checked and they still have the same hiring conditions on their job board.

COVID has proven the case of 'necessity is the mother of all invention' and these companies are finally understanding that you can run remote engineering teams perfectly ok. Even though it's not like for like, open source projects have been operating this way for years and had set the blueprint on remote collaboration. Some of the folks on my team used to be office based (even though we worked together virtually, they liked the social aspect), however they have pivoted now. Firstly they love how they can spend a good 4-5 hour chunk of uninterrupted thought at pure unadulterated programming without someone wondering over in the middle of them debugging to say 'he, did you see the email I sent you'.
From the article "We engaged a professional medical organization..."

A dismissal with the phrase "I don't even know where to start" is just a content-free way of expressing contempt, and suggests the writer doesn't have any interesting or useful information to share.

Plenty of research indicates that at the very least, Vit D, Vit A and zinc help protect against severe covid, and it's notable that the author reports that nobody who attended this event has developed a serious case and 90% have already recovered.
You can apply for financial aid and go for free. I did that for PyCon 2013.
Ah.. seems like I finally got out of it at gen ~530 by changing the amount of champions to copy to increase the amount of gene variation in the pool.

I guess it kinda stuck into an inbreeding sort of loop.
Wider SIMD units may provide a linear performance increase for many workloads, but they have a super-linear impact on the up front cost of the chip, especially when you take into account the opportunity cost of those transistors: they could have been dedicated to something that might have also helped non-numerical workloads. Wide SIMD is great to have, but it doesn't come free, or else we wouldn't have GPUs.
Hey dang, maybe you should write a critique of pg's post, and how it fails in so many ways with the principle of charity. Just to give this discussion more balance since you've been criticizing other people's responses.
I did a few enterprise sales, e.g. to Deutsche Post AG or Siemens, and I have to disagree to point 7 here. At first German companies do not sent a check in an envelope, but use Germans much better banking network for wire transfer. Unlike US direct debit and direct credit are free of charge and execute within a day between two banks, and nearly instant at same bank. The other thing about point 7 is a "trick" I learned more then 30 years ago: Offer 2% discount, if customer pays within 7 days. Everybody who can count will do, even enterprise.
Yes and no. If you write the ASM you can use them, but it's code generation likely won't (but then I haven't checked for 2 months).

Most things that can be vectorizes will be placed in SSE rather then AVX. Also the GCC generally sucks at optimizing for SSE, or determining when code should use SSE as opposed to standard registers.

Generally speaking the LLVM backend does better SSE and vectorization code generation. But some think it used SSE to much/incorrectly.

So TLDR no

New wide registers are VERY new. The are barely supported, my processor has AVX2.0 and I have (still have to) one of these days set up perf properly because all of its fault codes aren't properly baked into the kernel yet (as of 3.17).

(Sorry for the lack of references)

Also the biggest draw back of AVX is they don't hold their state between context changes :/
I use this a lot. My text editor (octopus) runs in it. Inferno is pretty interesting and very easy to code on, however the programming model takes getting used to.
"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late."

– Reid Hoffman, founder, LinkedIn
Walk down the tourist area of Haight Street towards the park and you'll see pieces of cardboard and what looks like dog poop or human faeces smeared all over the sidewalk. Outside every store is someone smoking marijuana. It's a terrible place to go for a walk with a baby or kids.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273960

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271117
Letter boxes are also legally protected, but that's not the main reason only USPS does letters. They could dump them on your porch like they do packages. It's because it's a legal monopoly. And no, I'm not making it up.

See, for example USPS vs O'BRIEN: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/6... ...which also handily cites the statutes.
So my problem with acetone is how quickly it evaporates. I figured that cooling it down would slow the rate, so I kept my beer steins of acetone in the refrigerator.

Still didn't prevent accidental chugging. Any other suggestions?
Sounds def. interesting...and looks good at first sight...will follow it for a while
English Windows applies English sorting rules, whereby CH is not a separate letter. It is not easy at all, different languages have different rules, including multiple passes over the input (e.g. the first for letters and the second for accents), even some of them left-to-right and some right-to-left.
Nonsense. People have been commenting on how these two orderings are confusing for far longer than 20 years. Things made in the United States have had worldwide circulation for quite a while, now. Even if one has WWW tunnel vision, Markus Kuhn's WWW page on ISO 8601 has been around since 1995.
Pretty annoying as I’d just got all my dashboards set up and now they cancel my trial, gah!
Typical misinformation

Columbus was looking for a route to "India", there was the East India company.

Moreover, the British left India as 600+ kingdoms. It was the Indian who rebuilt the nation.
A random check of about a dozen names from the pasted list found that the voter either did not exist, or was no longer registered to vote on account of being dead...

There were two people who had obituaries that showed up in the voter rolls...twice. In both cases, a quick lookup in the phone book suggests that two people with the same name (but different initials) live in the state.

So, thanks for the example that the Michigan election rolls are correct?
Then shouldn't Enron and Lehman Brothers be highly valuable brands?
It also helps having inside contacts at Google, Twitter or Facebook.

"So I rang my friend at Twitter" tends to be a common theme in these blog posts. I believe this was the case here too.
Sorry everybody for the slow, unresponsive and sometimes broken site. I initially didn't think that one of my posts would gain a lot of popularity. I'll work on shifting the site to a dedicated server soon (oh boy, what was I thinking?).

Thanks to @warrenmiller for posting the cached version here!
From a mathematical view on complexity, I don't see exactly the difference between memory and computation. I wonder what would be suitable definitions for the two concepts.
Blame the whole world, why don’t ya
Your answer is very inspiring and also perfect example for youngsters to understand money and productivity are not the only things that matters in life.

I had a similar junction in my life and I selected money instead of pursuing family and academic life, now I'm starting to think maybe wasn't a good decision. I'm getting older (38)

Do you mind if I ask did you also quit your job to pursue Phd? Nowadays started working on my old projects, ideas and realised this is the only stuff that I'm enjoyed right now!
> BTW I'm quite wary of "security products" for enterprise; it reeks of antivirus software writ large. That said I can see some benefit to services like audits, or even things like honey pots or "dark net scans" for detecting leaks. But something tells me that's not what you're talking about...

The product itself is quite reasonable on paper [1]. (And, yes, it would provide value even if all of the software industry would ramp up their security practices, so it's not a band aid like antivirus software.) The execution is the problem. Despise selling "nation state attacker secure" appliances, we are not internally focusing on producing a high security product but give priority to certifications and features. The disconnect between marketed identity and day-to-day developer experience is breathtakingly depressing... at least to those of us who have an interest in security. Management doesn't care of course. It sells (because of certification and little alternatives on the market), so all is well.

[1] Sorry for being so vague. Given the set of statements I've given already, anything more would make me personally identifiable to my coworkers.
This is awfull.

6 months is too short for any account.

I can understand the need to cull some never really used accounts. There are a lot of never really logged on accounts filling up the space. So some weeding of those is understandable.

But not ones that have been used but not that active any more. E.g. dead, seriously ill in hospital, backpacking for a year or travelling to Mars.

Or simple just stopped tweeting for a while or permanently. I am sure many now dormant accounts have tweets linked from pages across the internet.

I do hate services that recycle usernames. So open for abuse.

I have a couple that is merely business or project related that tweet once per year if that. They should not be deleted.

I also have a few that I just created to demo something. After a year or so I can not argue against them being deleted.

I registered a few accounts for my kids, who are still too young to use it but thought I'd ensure they have the option of choosing their name as their handle. Never tweeted, so probably a prime candidate for deletion. Unfortunately.

I/we don't know the criteria they use specifically internally to decide who might get deleted. But I hope it is some sort of scoring based on several criteria. Not just when they last logged in. like:

* how many tweets have they sent

* where the account used over time, not just after registering

* last login

* how many times did they login

* does it have a profile picture

* detailed profile

* have they requested not to be deleted

* are any of their tweets backlinked from other sites

* have x followers

* following/followers is more than x
If anything, indicating you pay for such things makes advertising to you outside of youtube is far more valuable.
That's a different issue altogether, but still salient.

- 1. you need a beefy device to render in a reasonable timeframe

and

- 2. you need The One Blessed Renderer to even see anything

I do recall the situation 20 years ago, when I could use about 2/3 of the relevant Net, with the rest going "meh, chronic complainer, just use IE. What? Yeah, that's your own fault for not choosing Windows." The second part is far more worrying, as it is not resolvable locally, either by optimization, or by horsepower.
Just a few thoughts. Very simplistically...

FLIR is a special camera that detects infra-red light. IR is electromagnetic radiation that is emitted from objects with heat.

RADAR emits a more "traditional" radio wave, and then detects objects when the radio wave reflects back. Unlike FLIR (which is passive), I would consider RADAR to be active.

I would think (rather naively so) that the case against using RADAR without a warrant would be stronger, given that the government would have to actively affect your house. To play devil's advocate, the pot grower was emitting a signal in the FLIR case...

Anyone more educated than I able to cast light (haha) on this?
Did you read what you just linked? Specifically, the part after the open parenthesis? The bit about the patch not being available?

> It is called a "zero-day" because the programmer has had zero days to fix the flaw (in other words, a patch is not available).

Please try again.