jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wit sent this email to customers today:

- If you have a paying subscription, you won’t be charged again and your instance(s) will remain private.
- Your open instance(s) will remain open
- If you have open instance(s) that you want to make private (for free), please wait for a few days until we roll out this feature.

I'm a paying customer and had plans to pay them significantly more (I am building an app that will be released in a few months that will heavily rely on it). Personally I'd rather see it stay a paid service since I want an SLA and support.

That said, Wit.ai is a great service, the team is friendly and responsive, and I congratulate them.
Unlike vomit inducing 'VR' (I own both dev kits) and over broad ideas of 'IoT' - speech and intelligent assistants (ie, siri/cortana/ok google, alexa, jibo, etc) is the future of computing.
Maintaining software is not as fun as greenfield development, and Apple's strategy of assuming that their users should just throw away three year old devices seems not to work out any longer.
freelancer.com is your best friend!
You've got your causation backwards there.
I guess it's just a phase that people go through. Like writing their first confused monad tutorials / explanations.
Yo got funded for $1.5m.

Secret raised $35m, including $6m of founder cashouts (one bought a ferrari.)

Is this a bubble? Dunno, but that's pretty frothy.
> I found it not too troublesome to earn between $2,000 and $3,000 a month.

A blog post about it would be nice.
I was doing data-entry vomit and I had a degree in biochemistry. I had taken two years of programming in high school (like 6-7 years ago) which helped give me a basic understanding/foundation.
Have you considered that telling someone to give up their livelihood is not a good way to get them to accept your advice?
I pre-ordered a pebble time but canceled it after the Apple Watch reveal. Here are my reasons:

1. The Apple watch will integrate leaps and bound better than my Pebble (I REGULARLY have to forget each device on the other and re-pair the BT to get notifications to work again, this has gotten worse as of late)

2. Mic AND SPEAKER on the Apple Watch (I want to talk into my wrist and get response from my watch for both Siri and Calls not just a todo app)

3. More apps, let's not kid ourselves, the Apple Watch will have more and better quality apps than the Pebble (or Android wear for that matter)

4. Resale, Apple products have amazing resale value so upgrading is less expensive than with other products in my experience

5. I think the Apple Watch looks nicer than the Pebble

I bought a Pebble Steel and have had it for over a year now and I love it. It's what caused me to back the KS right away, I believe in smart watches. That said the notifications just randomly stopping working drives me insane. It's gotten worse as of late and when it causes me to miss a text or a call then it stops being a useful tool. I have worn my watch every day since I got it and can't imagine life without a smart watch but I will be getting the Apple Watch because if it only work %X of the time then it's near useless to me. The battery life doesn't matter to me, as long as I can make it through the day then I'm good. I charge my phone nightly so it's no skin off my nose to charge my watch. I don't currently but I've considered charging my Pebble nightly but I worry it will negatively affect the battery. I want to charge it nightly so that it's a habit and not a constant "Do I need to charge this tonight or should I wait a few more days" which leads to me forgetting to check from time to time and then having to sit at my desk at work with the charger cable plugged in until it's at 100%.

I like Pebble and it will always hold a special place in my heart. Hell, maybe if I used Android I wouldn't have these issues but I don't and I do so I will be getting the Apple Watch.
Have a look at this one, highly recommended, https://github.com/hughsk/ticker
I have an ARM Samsung and I really like it; great battery life and runs Linux with Crouton. ChromeOS is fine for browing and most document writing I do. My wife wrote a few books on it in Google docs. No problem...
It doesn't get better by adding even more entitled whining.

If you have a family to support then how about choosing a less problematic career path than "Network Attack Specialist"?

You are not entitled to making a living from your favorite hobby if that entails building a dystopian future for everyone.
Maybe you should research whether or not "the Miss America Organization is the largest provider of scholarships for women in the world". You might be surprised.
Getting sudden exposure to world bank documents can be shocking. At least they are honest. They are basically saying to folks across the spectrum, "3d printing is better for everyone, there are no negatives" is their message.

3d printing is just a smaller more flexible factory, great for making things qty 1-n where n makes sense. For a lot of applications, buying a 3d printer and making a single part pays for itself. Health orgs will be able to fit their own medical devices made on their own inhouse printers, anywhere in the world.
It’s so hard to feel bad for Facebook. They’ve made shadow profiles for non-Facebook users for crying out loud! But they are really going out of their way to oppose Apple on this move.

The burger restaurant clip in the audio...couldn’t they still target users just based on interests? And not actually linking those interests to a specific person?

And on the other hand, I don’t hear much from Google.
If you're tied to software that is used on RHEL or release in sync with RHEL I'd say stick with CentOS-like distributions - but if you're not I'd say that moving to Ubuntu LTS doesn't seem that bad of an option.
This was discussed in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6914669
Regarding:

"- Comment strings appearing before argument lists in
functions. I would like to see the entire protocol,
name and args, before reading the docstring which may
refer to the args."

I think writing one doc string for a multivariate function is better than having to write one for many. Check out clojure core's min function:

(defn ^number min
"Returns the least of the nums."
([x] x)
([x y] (cljs.core/min x y))
([x y & more]
(reduce min (cljs.core/min x y) more)))

So there are occasions for this related to efficiency. Where would you prefer the docstring?
Because both were very clever social engineering hacks that were brought in to unite a disparate, migrant, non-homogenous group of folks to work together for the benefit of all.

Those random references I made, including playing football in the void decks, are just part of the collective Singaporean experience that has made the country as it is. All were due to the various policies crafted by LKY and his team.

Look, by the time I cared about politics or even had voted for the first time, the GREAT LEADER had already retired and was a shadow of his former self.

Having criss-crossed the globe and now running a startup that has offices in three (very) different countries, I have come to appreciate and admire the man and his vision.

I am not trying to make the man a saint. He had his flaws and there are many policies I strongly disagree with. However at the end of the day, a man's genius is measured by the number of goals he scored, subtracting off his own-goals. And his score runs pretty high.

Just to make myself clear, it's not reverence. It's respect.
Admittedly I'm a new programmer, but learning Go has taught me far more than just Go.

For me, Go seemed very low level -- I mean, it even had pointers! But then I tried to rewrite some GNU utilities in Go (still not sure _why_) and I had to translate C to Go, which flipped my world upside down.

Simply because Go was easy enough for me to write as a beginner but close enough to the hardware for me to want to explore, I've learned a lot about the Linux kernel, C, GNU, programming best practices, and so on.

And the best part is everybody is do damn friendly. If I'd ask a dumb question about Go I'd get a friendly response, along with RTFM. With C? Usually just RTFM.

Robert, Rob, and Ken did a fine job. (Along with Brad, Russ, et al.)
Lamo befriended Manning during a depressive period caused by gender confusion. Lamo played on Manning's vulnerable state to get information about the leaks. That's why it's relevant.
One of the features of the Signal protocol is that each message is signed with a different key so that if one message is somehow compromised it's still impossible to retrieve the others. I think this would break with P2P sync.
OK, "potentially compilable" then.
x86 has had BCD support since before I was born. And, as far as I know, when compiling for a platform that's missing a fundamental datatype, it's usually the compiler that adds the missing type as a runtime.

See for example this, a software float for crappy ARM processors.

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/16e2427f50c208dfe07d0...

I was more so wondering, if a COBOL compiler (given how low level the language is) makes a lot of assumptions about the platform. Even assumptions about potential quirks.
Maybe they should have phrased it better - but there are some places in Paris (an example I'm familiar with) a typical tech worker would make for an awkward situation at best and a dangerous one at worst. Especially if the tech worker doesn't present as a monogamous heterosexual.
I should also say that I had an acquaintance that did this. He was working for a small local ISP (I think; might have been hosting, the kind of thing where they give you an FTP server and the ability to shoot everyone else on the shared server in the foot with PHP) and he literally turned his entire job into a couple of scripts and a big spreadsheet. He then just ran them a couple of times a week and called it a day. I don't know exactly what all he did, some sort of server management things and providing stats to management, but nobody else knew how to do it so he provided the non-technical management who didn't understand their own small company with value and the only work he had to do was run some scripts. It can be done.
I guess that’s what makes them good VC’s ;)
Danny Woodhead: 0 fumbles with NY Jets in 2009-2010 (didn't play much), 1 fumble with NE Pats from 2010-2012, 1 fumble with SD Chargers 2013-2014 (did not play full year with SD in 2014 due to injury, but had many more attempts in 2013 with SD than with NE). http://www.nfl.com/player/dannywoodhead/4327/careerstats

LeGarrette Blount: 3 fumbles each year with TB Bucs, 2010-2011 & no fumbles in 2012, 3 fumbles with NE Pats, 2013, 1 fumble with Steelers in early 2014, 0 fumbles with NE Pats in late 2014
http://www.nfl.com/player/legarretteblount/497149/profile

Laurance Maroney: 1 fumble in 2006, 4 fumbles in 2009 with NE Pats, 0 fumbles with Den Broncos in 2010
http://www.nfl.com/player/laurencemaroney/2506884/profile

Sammy Morris: I'm not going to summarize his stats, but he has a whole bunch of fumbles with a bunch of teams including NE. http://www.nfl.com/player/sammymorris/2504126/profile

Those are all the running backs I can think of who played for the Patriots and other teams in recent years. I'm not going to bother with Corey Dillion since he was before 2007.

ftr I am a Patriots who hopes that there is no wrong doing but is trying to keep an open mind.
Yes, the implicit "I think" still applies. "I think the tech people think Google is evil".

I don't know how to say this lightly, but
taking personal affront to statements of opinion is not a sign of the insult of the opinion of the speaker, but a sign of the insecurity the listener has in their own opinions.

In other words, relax.
I've actually used CDuce in production. It was certainly interesting, a kind of "XSLT/XPath done right". However it had major drawbacks such as being very difficult to deploy and not having any easy way to integrate with existing OCaml code (ocamlcduce was a camlp4 extension which tried to integrate the two but was tricky to get going). For example you can really easily and powerfully parse XML documents, but you can't save the result in a database or even to a flat file (even printing the result is hard).

I should say that it's no longer developed and no longer works with any currently available versions of OCaml.

Nowadays I use libxml2 from OCaml instead and just insert untyped XPath expression strings into my code, so that's a step backwards from the point of view of safety, but at least it works.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101125015934/http://merjis.com...
http://ocsoap.forge.ocamlcore.org/
The difference is that nobody is using the US frontier as a scraping-the-barrel positive example!
I recommend against that. :) A team I was on had a demo for a client, and a shaky database schema. I had used, as a test account, the username "MOTHERFUCKINYEAH" for the same purpose. The purging of this account caused a few 500 errors, and we almost lost the client, and although I didn't get fired, we were all shuffled around after that to less critical projects, and one of us actually got sent out of the state.
Then it's odd to call her the "single most accurate representative" then if you agree that Doreen is not representative of the users or the movement anymore. The historical information about the sub was well-researched and interesting, though.
CuriousMark's channel is really entertaining if you like vintage electronics. It's amazing to see how clever and powerful these machines and how they push the limits of what was possible in their era.

His explanations are very clear and he has mad troubleshooting skills. It's always very thrilling to see these old machines get back on their feet and come alive again!

MrCarlson's Lab[1] is another very enjoyable channel showing detailed restoration of antique -generally radio, mostly tube-based- equipment.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU9SoQxJewrWb_3GxeteQPA
The symbolism of him attending is much more important to me than the symbolism of him staying away.

Few people will start a riot if he is there transferring power to the new president.

A legion of people will show up to disrupt the proceedings if he isn’t.
Note that if you should doubt that Parliament can do this if it really wanted to, consider that those courts are themselves also subject to Parliament's whims. If it wants to do something courts keep blocking it can dissolve those courts and then they can't block it.

For example the UK's Supreme Court is I would argue in most practical ways far more independent than the more famous Supreme Court of the United States, its judges are not appointed based on partisan loyalty or selected to achieve some naked political goal bypassing the legislature, they're just independent judges from roughly the same process that creates other judges in the UK's courts. But - in this one way they're far less independent than the SCOTUS, the Congress cannot abolish SCOTUS, but Parliament created and could in principle destroy the UK Supreme Court.

Would they have the guts to do that? Realistically no. Their constituents would I think be pretty unhappy about that. But in principle it is technically possible.
Expression of genes is also driven by the external environment. Different environment (even minor differences) can result in different phenotypes despite the same genotype.

That was the theory proposed as to why identical twins have different fingerprints. Slightly different conditions in the womb result in slightly different fingerprints.
absurd bandwidth? try this on for size: the square kilometer array does online (“realtime” loses its meaning when the data processing latency gets long enough) interferometry on millions of antenna achieving an OUTPUT data rate of a few TB/s, which is then filtered down to a paltry 1 TB/s by an exaflop computer. it’s a mind blowing instrument, and as a public science project there is lots of fun stuff to read about it :)
> There's no censorship here- parler still exists, people are still free to share their (abhorrent) viewpoints there

People are calling for AWS to drop Parler, and Parler has already come out and said if this happens, then Parler itself is gone forever.
> It seems like the basic political discourse you find on twitter, fb and every other social media system

Well that is one way to normalize Facist murderous wrecks and their abhorrent ideas.
Too scared to let them because they fear physical attack? Or too scared to let them because they fear a bicycle injury?
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http://banshee.fm/
http://ncmpcpp.rybczak.net/
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40721/winamp
Type systems at least as rich as Hindley-Milner are pretty much table stakes in 2022. Common Lisp's type system is not as rich as Hindley-Milner. I believe it doesn't even support user-defined parametric types (so it's kind of like pre-generics Go in that regard). It lets you type function args, but it doesn't incorporate the args' types into the function type.

So no, Common Lisp's type system, even with static type checking enabled, is not adequate for software engineering in the present day. Coalton, however, solves many of these problems.
> Does china have its own desktop OS though?

Red Flag? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux
I’ve recently been writing personal code that leaks like a sieve. It’s just not worth my time to find every leak when the lifetime of the process is finite and short and it will only ever run on a machine with gigs of memory. I haven’t thought through your question enough but maybe a situation where memory usage would be super high if waiting until the end of scope? I’m probably trying to hard to come up with a situation but I have a gut feeling that freeing mid scope is important under certain circumstances to keep the code simple and understandable.
Indeed! It's also worth noting that the USPS (at least my local office) requires any package sent via Registered Mail to be covered in its entirety with this and only this tape (water activated, not gummed).

Registered Mail is their most secure product - chain-of-custody, stored under lock-and-key at each hop along the transit path. So at least according to the USPS, this stuff is as good as gold.

(A slight pain to apply what with water activation and all, but man does it hold!)
This could probably do with a (2014)
This uses CloudFlare and the page is cached (CF-Cache-Status: HIT header). Kinda disappointing that we're not receiving data from your compunet but rather the CloudFlare edge machine.
When it starts being involuntary and harmful, or perhaps in response to emotional trauma?
Your link opens as "video is not available".
"no dad, I meant the blood sucking arachnids, not insects"
Here's an interesting tidbit I wasn't previously aware of:

"Mr. Kapuscinski is an amazingly courageous man," McKnight
said, according to the law firm's news release. "He saw a
company program out of sync with designated federal
guidelines and decided to make it right."

He is also much richer. Under the False Claims Act, a
whistleblower who files a fraud complaint on behalf of the
government can share in the recovery. Kapuscinski will
receive a 15 percent share, or $19.2 million, according to
the law firm.
As a counterpoint, how many people can look at a Symbian phone and instantly recognize it as a Symbian powered device? Yet Nokia sells vastly more Symbian powered smartphone than Apple sells iPhones: http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/5/21/smartphones-b...
it was a free podcast that i downloaded from iTunes on the phone. no syncing was involved.
Richmond, VA INMUnited is hiring. We do Ruby on Rails and iPhone development mainly, and are looking for a senior developer with experience delivering large projects, although we'd love to hear from any devs who read Hacker News :D

I'm Bob, you can contact me at the email address in my profile.
Is anyone looking for people to fill industrial research positions, i.e.
jobs where one of the goals is to publish research papers?
One possible solution would be to find a dictionary that has either pinyin or zhuyin fuhao to guide pronunciation. I believe zhongwen.com provides this.
Yes, that's the exact reason. The words mentioned in the article all make total sense if you know Latin and/or Ancient Greek:

* bus (from omnibus, latin for "for everyone")

* shampoo - that's actually coming from the Hindi champo (according to Wikipedia, I didn't know it) where it means "head massage"

* isotope - that's actually Greek, but still not hard to figure out; iso = same, topos (τόπος) = place

* communism - that doesn't even need explanation

* computer - also no explanation needed

My point is, the only thing that makes these words sound "unique" is that they are usually borrowed from other languages, especially Latin or Ancient Greek. Many of these words are just as simply structured as their Chinese equivalents.
i have to travel a lot and I load up the N1 with Movies, etc. for entertainment on the road. 16 Gig internal is nice but it's just not quite enough, not to mention to have to load it via USB (I pop the card out when I want to put on large media). Even 8 Gig internal with an 32Gig capable SD slot would have been a dream.
How about the problem of, given a polynomial equation in at least two variables and integer coefficients, figuring out whether it has any integer solutions. This has directed a lot of modern mathematics and, on the face of it, doesn't seem like it should be so hard.
Plus you can build off of this. They may remember that for two variable quadratics the real solutions form an oval or hyperbola or quadratic or two lines. In general you'll get some higher dimensional surface, and the "shape" of it (and how many "holes" it has) is closely tied with how many integer solutions there can be.
The performance of some of these apps is appalling. The Sparrow GMail client idles in the background on my MacBook Air around 20 or 30% CPU usage on one core. If you try to scroll the list of mail, resize the window, or breathe on it wrong, it will chug, the graphics will stutter, and it will peg itself at 100% cpu for several seconds. If I have it running, it cuts my estimated remaining battery life from 4 hours to 1 hour.

Kiwi 2, the twitter client, uses 100mb of ram for one twitter account. What?

I know most people aren't going to check these numbers or care, but when I open an email client and feel my laptop getting warm underneath my hands, something is wrong.
I agree. We need a limit on the number of hours someone can work in a week.

Of course, startups would be exempt, right?

Right?
The bottom right now are starving children in many parts of Asia and Africa, and homeless people shivering outside. But that's not the case for most people being discussed here. If we want to take parental leave, then save a little while you're working so you can live on the savings when you need to. I am as guilty as anyone else, but we can't deny the reality. The US is also very high in per capita resource consumption, and we don't need the government, or a small private cartel telling us how much to work and how to spend our money. Yes, there are problems, but I don't think regulation is going to solve them.
You need to get to the point _much_ more quickly. The animation violates the "10 second" rule-of-thumb for attention span. (http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html)

The graphics and layout are nicely done ... but I'm not sure to what end. (I realize that's part of the problem of announcing stealth projects.)

The layout will have to change if the teaser is presented all at once.
The R Core Team has included a lot of new members to its team. A lot of those members are mentioned in this article as positive to the community.

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/09/new-members-for-...

Community building is something new to R in my experience. I would give it a little more time. I would also like to reiterate one of the strongest tenets of free software is that it is only as big as what YOU put into it.