jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As other people have mentioned - the problem is that academia rewards producing papers, not stable software libraries.

For example - scikit-learn is an amazing project, lead mostly by a small group at INRIA with Gael at the helm - and in terms of academic prestige, scikit-learn is probably 'worth less' on your CV than a couple of Nature papers.

This is of course ridiculous - scikit learn is used by a huge amount of people, it takes an insane amount of work to run the project, yet the incentives are what they are.
meta: Over these past four years I've seen a growing number of people interpreting the most nuanced, neutral statements as 'apologist', 'biased', 'lobbying', 'spam', 'politically motivated'. I don't think this has always been the case, especially on HN.

It's not just skepticism, that's for sure. How do I put it? It's like assuming there are sides when there are no sides. I'm curious, is there a word for this?
We have tons of non-China sources, and their death rate is low because of their overwhelmingly aggressive response and tactics, which were lauded by the WHO.
Like the girl in the taco shell commercial said "Why not both?" Use both an AMD and Intel chips in new Macs. Use the ARM chip as a co-processor to run iOS apps on the Mac. This would make it easier to develop iOS apps on a Mac. Also it would foil the Hackintosh crowd because PC Clones don't have ARM chips in them.
The number of deaths and those in critical/severe conditions are better measures than the number of infections. The latter greatly depends on testing policy and availability.

Germany is doing better than most in Europe by the former measures.

South Korea also had a higher infection growth rate since they tested extensively. Because of that they can identify cases and contain the spread.
You would still need to fill the box with something heavier than pasta.
Absolutely. I wanted to buy an EVO 4G and because root was easily available, I had no trouble paying the ETF and switching to Sprint. If I had to use the phone as I bought it from them, I would not be a customer.
npm is a hobby project designed to bring me joy. As a side-effect, a lot of node users find it helpful. That's great, and I'm proud, but honestly, if everyone stopped using it, I'd keep hacking on it.

A little boy may grow up to be the doctor who cures cancer. But that's not why you have children.
This is the best kind of security research. Sometimes people think security research is unethical, but there is no ethical question here: should a user sitting in front of his own device be able to use it for anything he wants? The answer is "of course".

As a user of an unlocked Evo, I want to thank you for doing this work. It makes my life more enjoyable!
There's a huge critical mass issue here that can't really be solved with a browser extension. It's been tried many times. You can solve it with a couple lines of javascript on the site though... so that everyone on the site gets to chat regardless of whether they have a plugin or not. We've done it: http://www.envolve.com/
I completely agree. I really don't care how anyone writes their code. I care about self-described experts giving false information about the language to newcomers.

If there is pedantry, it is about the importance of either telling the truth or shutting up.
They already sell a service....

How is this up voted? It is answered.
What else has changed in your life as you've made more money? Correlation does not imply causation. Are you sure it's the money that has made you more satisfied?

As a counterpoint I have more money now than I've ever had, and am at an all-time low in satisfaction with my life.
Seriously? Surely you can't be serious about needing yet another to-do list app. That sounds like asking for another abandoned Rails blog engine.
I know as a fact that Adobe intends to try, but I can't help but think whatever they cook up is going to be only marginally useful for serious development (which frankly is my first impression of Producer as well, though it does have potential)
I think the parent meant you could make that much money as a consultant in a couple of days, not create a niche software product with recurring revenue.
And of cars that don't have these sort of systems in the first place?
A ~2 hour limo ride (presumably the direct alternative) would be far more from zero productivity.

If you really can't use a laptop in a car there is still, getting something to eat, making a phone call, or even just listening to music.
It doesn't seem like exchange is stopping:

https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-...

I love how Bitcoin is destroying all these economic "theories".
Hand-wrapped? Please tell me a bookmarklet did that?! :-)
Google Chrome Frame fits the bill there.
Counterpoint: China

While China today isn't nearly as bad as the USSR was, their authoritarian government that still jails and executes political opponents hasn't stopped their political stability and economic success.
Yeah, discontent definitely means being alive. If you're fat, dumb and happy to the extreme degree portrayed in the book, then you're going to live a worthless life from the perspective of any individual creativity or accomplishment.
Anyone else find it interesting what companies _aren't_ on the list? I guess MSFT didn't seem relevant.
"People should stop asking me to follow them now."
Many spent an entire afternoon working on this thing without success. I hope they liked the challenge, but I’m also glad we didn’t have to use our internal resources reviewing their resume.

How fucking pretentious can you get? Maybe they were busy, maybe they had kids to take care of, maybe they were documenting their steps vs. flailing around. Glad I don't work in the valley if this is the kind of attitudes "rockstar" employers have.

Edit: I see they are actually located in NYC.
It appears that Mr. Appelbaum's cell phone named names.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men...

"We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

--Edward R. Murrow, See It Now, commenting on the McCarthy Witchhunts
Yes, among others. Briefly: Read that, then Appel's _Modern Compiler Implementation in ML_, then chase whatever interests you in the bibliography and on citeseer.

See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1822515 (first)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1820858 (parsing)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1608752 (good thread)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1642345 (another good thread)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=835020 (lots of good resounces!)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=704957 (yet another good thread)

That should keep you busy for a while. :)
Aircraft avionics and software are subject to rigorous testing and qualifications. Why should automotive control systems be different?

You may hack your Mustang, your Tesla, whatever if it never leaves your driveway or the dragstrip, but those checksums from production better match for any CAN network connected subsystem if you want to roll out onto a public, controlled road. You should be free to modify anything that is airgapped from velocity or direction management though.
My understanding from my research into OAUTH2 is that most of the vulnerabilities in it are only issues in a naive implementation. They can be made secure, but it's not easy and you have to know to do it in the first place.

Doesn't OpenID Connect address those issues? I know that's what Google is using now.
With the number of servers Amazon has powering AWS, etc. maybe it's worth their while to buy a chipmaker and design custom chips to keep things going? I have no idea why Amazon would need a chipmaker otherwise.
But all the ones they mated with died out.

Unless you mean they were capable of but never did?
Every single Russian is responsible for this. Do not ignore their responsibility as human beings.
I'm wondering if the people who are railing against saving languages are equally against organizations such as the Internet Archive? My thinking is that, as tech-savvy computer whizzes, many folk on Hacker News are happier to preserve something that makes sense to _them_ (media or website snapshots) than things that don't (languages and foreign cultural history). It's difficult to say what is useful without the benefit of hindsight, by which time it is a moot point -- the resource is long gone and will never be again. Anyways, just my two cents as an incredibly biased amateur archivist.
> You talk about having "5 star ratings," and such.

Usually 'odesk' or equivalent.
Although sometimes I still enjoy a M.A.S.H. rerun more than the fodder I find on the interweb...it has been fairly amazing to watch the birth and transformation, even tertiarily. Well written, WM.
He has a great bit of advice[0] regarding learning that sounds simple but is easy to forget:

>One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

[0]http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2rgsan/i_am_elon_musk_...
Most definitely. There have been a lot of studies around end of life treatment. Michael Pollan wrote a great piece for the New Yorker covering this aspect: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment
>These people would probably do better to spend that time improving themselves or looking at the amazing things and people near them that they could actually interact with, or if they have to idolize someone at least doing it to someone worth idolizing like an accomplished artist or philosopher.

How can you get this message to the unwashed masses with a horse that tall?

I mean, where do you get off telling people who is worth idolizing? People have idolized less accomplished, less personable, less accessible people than those two since before media was a thing.

To me Stallman is a toe-jam eating crackpot with no social skills and an embarrassment to all those who support him and does little to nothing worth idolizing, yet I'm in a forum where I'd probably find no shortage of people who idolize him.

I'm not a fan of Justin Beiber... but are you really going to tell me he's not an accomplished artist?

Man does the tone of this comment just rub me the wrong way.

If following your advice means getting into a headspace where you don't cringe at the thought of telling people who's "worth idolizing"... maybe those fans are on to something...
Many projects are open-source, developed by the community. It comes with several caveats:

1) many open-source developers use vim/emacs, maybe something like Sublime Text and don't have experience with IDE offerings for languages like Java/C#. As such, they don't really require much more than syntax highlighting and basic autocompletion.

2) many of the new languages boast powerful metaprogramming capabilities. Metaprogramming makes it very hard to implement working refactoring, because the IDE cannot reason about the code as well as in more 'static' languages like Java.

3) most new languages coming out are closer to the functional paradigm rather than OOP. I think OOP lends itself much more for refactoring features and things like autocomplete.
That’s incorrect - the global pie has grown bigger.

Inches and markers exist which never existed before.

All those new workers are consumers for goods and services from America.

America soy beans are famously bought in China, as are American bonds.

Economically- if you get cheaper goods, you do more with the same income, meaning your quality of life goes up.

The issue is not the growth of China- the issue is the distribution of wealth.

As the pie has grown, the share of the pie has changed.
What speaker you are talking about? The linked post is to Julia 1.3 release notes that doesn't mention Rayon at all?
I hate to be "that guy" - but you mean "too," right?
Do you have any problems with GC pauses?
Never is a long time.

Sure, it's probably not going to substantially change in the near future. But I think making people aware of the issues and why they matter is a good thing. Hopefully, with education and time people will start to care and maybe things will change.

In fact, things are already changing. Not so long ago almost all Americans were completely computer illiterate, and you had to be pretty exceptional to even have an email address or own a computer, much less care about electronic privacy.

Now most Americans own or at least have a computer, have email addresses, and are reasonably computer literate compared to how they were before the internet boom. And there are exposes on various privacy and security issues in the printed news and even on television.

So slowly people are becoming more aware. I expect this trend will only continue to increase now that more and more of the population are born in to the internet age and with a computer virtually in their crib almost from the day they were born.

Some of the most idealistic and privacy conscious people are the ones that are closest to technology and who are most adept at manipulating it and shaping its future. And their numbers are also growing as the general population becomes more computer literate as a whole, and as there are more and more abuses of privacy by corporations and the government.

So I would not count the chickens of a privacyless age quite yet. Remember that not long ago most people thought the collapse of the Soviet Union was as incredibly far off in the future (if it would ever happen at all). And there are still people living who at one time thought that Segregation would never end. And yet both Segregation and the Soviet Union did end. Things did change. They changed drastically in ways that many did not foresee even a decade before.
Can it consume external data sources easily? At my company we have an XML RSS feed that I would like to transform into some sort of infographic display (dynamic bar charts, moving pie charts, tables, etc.)

Currently, we are solving this problem with a mish-mash of Ruby/Sinatra and jQuery/Raphaël but its not clean or easy. Would this be something that Radi could help us build and maintain?
You have to understand: Spam is about economics. It's not about morals or freedoms or anything else. It's purely about money.

If the amount it costs a spammer to spam is strictly less than his earnings from spam + profit, then he'll continue spamming. Every time Balsam wins a judgment, it goes in the cost column, thereby eating into the spammers' profits. Enough such judgments, and their profits evaporate, prompting a search for a new means of livelihood.

While I may or may not agree with his methods, his actions are taking money out of the pockets of spammers; which, given their model, can only be a good thing.

If more people did what he's doing, we would definitely see much lesser spam.
I suggest you to use RoR
Great article, but it's been posted a few times this week:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2023215
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2030286
It's a silly question. The only honest answers are "yes" and "I don't know." In order to answer "no," at least in the US, you would have to read all federal, state, and municipal laws that apply to you. Also be familiar with case law in all areas of your life, since that has the weight of law as well. I'll go out on a limb and say no person on earth is so qualified.

Anyway, save yourself the trouble, since the answer is "yes." Everyone in the US is a criminal. Have you ever gone over the speed limit? Did you report every internet purchase on your taxes last year? Everyone breaks the law every day.
Precisely. Isolated facts out of context make poor and usually misleading arguments.
If Apple would cooperate just a tiny bit, I assume the Linux community would gladly do all the rest for them. The M1 Macbooks are actually quite reasonably priced IMO. Right now it's even hard to find an AMD Ryzen 4000 laptop with >FHD screens...

If you get Linux developers onto your platform, you unlock the server market, I assume. I don't get why Apple would not open that possibility for their silicon future.

I think a downside to have Macs running Linux would be extended hardware support and evasion of their obsolescence strategies.

Overall, I think they could win a lot, so there is a desperate hope they change their minds on that. At least, I would be completely lost on them, if AMD manages to match their performance and there gonna be well-screened AMD laptops.

Apple, you got this current advantage to win people like me over. Once the others catch up, this opportunity will probably not arise again, as I will never ever settle on MacOS or Windows, especially with the current course of increasingly restricting how I could use a >1.5k€ device.

If the M1 Air had proper Linux support (at least committed), I would buy right now in an instant. I naively believe, if you don't get Linux people like me, Apple's silicon endeavour will not get a hold in the larger CPU/GPU market.
We do. You act like collective decision making is impossible while living in a democracy based on it.

Who gets to decide our taxes, criminal code, safety regulations, or election rules?
First, there was tear gas, and in fact there were rioter(s?) shot by police. Then, you are comparing one protest to hundreds. There were tons of protests in Seattle where a group of a few dozen would go around marauding and looting and police would stand down and watch. Same here I guess.
> The question is what their shareholders stand to gain.

thankfully, not the whole world thinks like that.
This is just trying to hand wave the discrepancy away with more votes are still the be counted. Its admitting its true, but

“a few counties have not completed uploading their vote histories,”

And the other explanation is a hypothetical explanation of over or under votes. No proof that this was actually the case here.
I remember Musk tweeting that the price was too high back in May when it was a fraction of what it is now. (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/01/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-says-sto...)
If you have multiple Echo devices you can do “alexa announce _____”
yep, i made the same prediction in another thread. To go further, i bet it will be and livestreaming commentary on inauguration day and probably outperform the actual inauguration in terms of viewership.
He will be remembered as a patriot by the same 50% of everyone who voted MAGA, twice.

I don't know about history books.

Probably if a given book or article even records more than his name and the R, this act could easily be one of the only explicit facts mentioned. All the years of messier boring day to day policies won't be mentioned, just the summary single word conservative, "advocated conservative policies" etc.

It doesn't have the same effect.

So you end up with a little blurb that says his name and the list of offices he held and that he was famous for declining to participate in a coup attempt.

I think I could see it actually that he will be remembered as a patriot.
I think you are referring to the Hawthorn effect/experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Actually, this post epitomizes a different trend entirely; the trend of startup culture moving into physical objects.

Kickstarter has been a great blessing for that trend, bridging the otherwise difficult gap between a good design or prototype and pilot-scale mass production.

This is what we've done with MakerBeam, this was behind the success of the Glif and TikTok, and it looks like Siege Toys is next in line to make a go of it.

There's no bubble when one is manufacturing goods and selling them at a profit. Entirely different, older economics apply.

Looks like you gents have a great product, Siege Toys: Best of luck!
Clickable: http://www.vuru.co
Coffee shops are very different from each other. You may just not have managed to find one that works for you.

I would also not want to stay in a place that matches your description, but I'd be interested in a place that deals with the critique points.
> any threat to the status quo without a fight

If they are too old and weak to fight, yes. And given the already decades-old, protracted stagnation of wages this will inevitably happen.
Jordan Peterson is a favored voice of the alt-right and his views are not generally consistent with evidence based research. [1] [2]

Recognizing that people have different life experiences based on their gender, race, etc. is not racist. The goal is not homogenizing everyone and everything. You cannot recreate that sort of diversity within a single group. That isn't to say there isn't diversity within that group - obviously there is. But the idea that you can have more diversity in a group made up of all white men than one that has a larger mix of genders, races, and ethnicities is, if I'm being totally honest, absurd in its basic premise.

Understanding that there are differences between people isn't racist. I cannot respect cultural differences that I refuse to see because I'm "colorblind." I can't respect different life experiences and difficulties faced if I refuse to see them. I can't accept differing inputs that are fundamentally based on those different life experiences if I am unable to modulate my treatment of someone based on who they are.

It's a common misconception that the way to beat racism, sexism, etc. is to be "colorblind" or "genderblind" - but it isn't. One size fits all approaches are fundamentally flawed, and ultimately result in the group in power attempting to force everyone else to conform to their mold. This isn't exclusive to white men - it's just generally the group in power wherever they are. You see the same behavior with different outcomes all over the world, so I'm not framing this as a "white men are bad". You have to treat people fairly - I should pay a black person as much as a white person - but if the topic of racial issues in America comes up, I should take the input of the black person over that of a white person. If I was in Japan and that came up vis a vis treatment of foreigners there, I should take the input of the white person over the Japanese person.

Fair treatment means equal treatment in many ways, but not all of them. Some experiences and viewpoints are impossible to recreate if you are not part of that group. That diversity can never be recreated by a homogenous group.

1. https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter
2. http://gap.hks.harvard.edu/impact-gender-diversity-performan...
(There's a very large body of research on this. Hundreds of studies. I have picked two based on them being high on my google results, but if you really want I can link dozens or hundreds more.)
Seriously though, wasn't Hong Kong doomed in December 1984 when the British government signed the handover agreement with the CCP?
A couple other DB professor friends of mine have also confirmed.
There are ecological benefits. Studies show that relatively inaccessible private and public beaches and wilderness have healthier ecosystems and less litter.

For example, even just regular trampling of sandy beaches impacts the local food chain:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Not all of them, only the poor.

If I recall correctly, sugar of lead was a poor man's sweetener. The rich could afford honey.
I like pirate radio but it's illegal by definition.

They completely fail to mention that spectrum is limited and that you are probably causing interface for someone else.

The right thing to do would be to give them free or subsided licenses.
(list-packages) and install move-dup.el to gain four variations on that theme..