jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am not sure, this is a "you don't know what you don't know case," but certainly this cannot be the best today.
Yes it is called talking your book. Very popular.
> "Most people are unaware that if they don't use insurance, they can negotiate upfront cash prices with hospitals and providers substantially below the "list" price."

Substantially below list, but still well above what insurance providers pay.

Even when you can self-insure in the US, if you actually find yourself needing medical care, it would have been cheaper not to.

Except on the short-term scales and/or when you're young and may well not need to see a doctor for several years at a go.
It makes such a difference, this and posture. I've had so many injuries and joint problems from not doing this, luckily I've made it a routine in my 30s
I didn't count that one because Netflix didn't actually discontinue it -- Nintendo did. They removed all support for streaming services.
Ok, I've squeezed in mostly.

Edit: since other commenters are still questioning this, I've put a question mark on that bit.
My dad was a huge Amiga fan. I always felt that the Amiga was a bit ahead of its time. It was doing SNES graphics and sound in the NES era.

It's a shame it never caught on beyond the Video Toaster being used in TV/movie studios.
Getting onto H2 is worth investing in then though, and drastically simplifies things that would otherwise need bulk operations everywhere.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean with downstream, but in my experience H2 is really well supported almost everywhere these days. Ymmv ofc
I agree 110%, but there are still issues:

- VPNs are not perfect. IIRC Wall Street Market was busted in part using an exploit on the admin's VPN.

- You need to use your real name and ID when renting a PO Box, and most dealers require you to share the full name for delivery to a PO Box, since that increases the odds of a successful delivery. The only workaround here is to register an LLC and use that company name for the PO box.

- Last I checked, most markets still do not allow Monero. Empire market had a "bug" but that caused everyone to lose their monero, and they haven't re-enabled Monero last time I checked, effectively forcing everyone to use BTC.

- Fake reviews are easy. If you buy from a newer seller you run the increased risk of a being scammed or getting harmful product. Luckily dealers are lazy though and will make all their fake reviews at once.
I find that MS are often quite good at developing good APIs and documenting them.

In this new doc I particularly like the Delta Queries section [0]. It's something that's difficult to get right but with this you can pretty much copy and paste their guidelines for your project.

0: https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/master/Guid...
More reasoned analyses of 20th century performed by actual academics tend to view the collapse of the Soviet Union as a complex process with multiple confounding factors, including heavy losses in WW2, meteorological tragedies such as drought, ensuring crises and massive social changes from a feudal serfdom being transformed into a space-faring nuclear superpower within two generations, corruption within Stalinism itself, inherent geographical and power advantages of America and West Europe, etc. Careers are built on this.

No reasonable person objectively looks at 20th century history and says 'workers owning the means of production caused this', and it's equally asinine to suggest 'public broadband will lead us back to this'
*too a fraction, not by a fraction
Good advice. My wife (a pianist and piano teacher) just read the article kindly submitted here and said that that is how she practices. I've heard over the years about how she advises her students, and, sure enough, one of the key ideas is to distribute practice across multiple days each week rather than piling into one lump of time just before the lesson.

After my reading of the article, I have to say that getting a good night's sleep each night is definitely crucial for learning anything challenging. Sleep makes connections and consolidates learning.

The one thing I don't see mentioned in this article that my wife tells most of her students, after learning about it from one of her university music teachers, is how important it can be to analyze a new piece of music through multiple modalities. My wife's university teacher has a book about "music mapping,"[1] an approach to reading musical scores and adding visual notations to them, which is highly individualizable and works wonderfully for helping musicians learn where the music is in a new piece of music. Playing with musicality rather than just memorizing notes is always the key idea.

[1] https://www.areditions.com/books/rs001.html
I find it peculiar that he spends the whole post complaining about OS X and then proceeds to say that he switched to an alternative that he considers "markedly inferior" to OS X. Doesn't seem like there was value to his quitting at all besides a "change of scenery".
Neat idea, but it lacked feedback for the user.

I have forked the project and added a pop-over description of the error when the user mouses-over the 'diagnosed' element (not supported on all elements)

- https://github.com/MrNibbles/holmes
- Vinicius's article was great advice, so please don't consider this a knock on it.

- I wasn't really trying to outline sales-driven side projects in that part of the article, merely successful ones.

- For truly mature companies (ones who are out of the startup phase), side projects are a healthy thing to encourage because they can afford to take risks with their time and money. We were looking for a standard by which a startup like ours could tackle a side project. This is the standard we hit on that seems to be working for us. Of course there are others. And in different kinds of companies with different kinds of cultures, we'd expect variation.
Yeah, some stranger might have thought for a few minutes and then asked "But how are they going to make money from it?"
I was in UTCS from '00 - '06. I got a chance to program in a diverse set of languages, learn a lot of theory, and get introduced to many practical concepts like networking, security, and databases.

They give students the tools, the entrepreneurial desire has to come from within.
LG used to be Goldstar I think, until they screwed up their brand name by building lousy quality products. It sort of makes sense why they'd want a cryptic smileyface instead :-D
Came here to say the same thing.

Schildt is warned against in the alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ faq[1], and there's an entry for "Herbert Schildt: Any Book on C or C++" in the big list of C Books and C++ Books You Don't Want[2].

[1] http://ma.rtij.nl/acllc-c++.FAQ.html#q6.4

[2] http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/yechiel/CS/BadBooksC+C++....
Did I really get a downvote for saying thank you?

edit: heh, wasn't trying to suggest I deserve anything, just found that very...shallow.
As a graphic designer/artist: this question strikes me as funny because the frequent "how do I start programming" threads are always so matter-of-fact. 3-4 biblical texts get recommended, a handful of vetted resources bandied about, and then a minimal amount of hemming and hawing over which language to use.

As daunting and foreign as those threads seem to me, programming has a lot of known knowns - I can see where "how do I design" would be more daunting because it's such an unqualified expanse consisting almost completely of grey area. Stand before it, naked, putting yourself in the shoes of the designer, and imagine the horror of the client's most unspeakable words: "I can't explain it to you, but I'll know it when I see it."

All that aside, I think the advice that I've received from this community re: learning to program/hack is still sound as it applies to graphic design:

1) Have a project and work toward it. If you don't have one, make one. Be specific in your end goal.

This focus enables you to do the most important thing:

2) Steal like an artist. (via http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-a...)

All the other advice in this thread is pretty legit. You probably don't even know what looks good, so don't start on your own. Do your research. Look at competitors in the space (or the closest you can find to it). Use open source/CC art. Follow the crumbs back to the artist's portfolios and see the other work they've done. Web and app design follows patterns and there are many pattern resources that you should use. Form follows function and usability should inform design: copy good patterns and make them great later. Copy copy copy.

And at the end of the day: hire a designer! It's a big ecosystem and we all need to eat.
It's more than $ 200. It's more around $ 300 per computer and in a laptop it's an incredible amount of money ($800+ if I'm correct) if you have a Sony or an Apple one.

Additionally the performance increase is important, but doesn't matter for everything network related.

In other words I'd say it's almost worth what you pay for it.
More people starting out for themselves can have several causes, and one of those strongly correlates with unemployment. Not everybody that starts for themselves does so because they think that 'working for the man' is no longer for them, as often as not it is that the man has decided that he has surplus employees and kicks them to the curb. That those people then need income and that many of them are then forced to start their own business or perish is a direct effect of this. If you throw that many people into the meatgrinder some of them will succeed but let's not pretend that those choices were made of free will.
Github... Narendra Modi is a total fucking idiot. There goes billions of $$$s of lost income for indian developers with out of date skills.
My plan for the deficit http://t.co/FZkXRuz (0% from tax increases, 100% from Spending Cuts)
Only if you're logged into Facebook. Perhaps a Firefox extension to segment cookie stores based on your IP is in order?
That sounds about right. It was called 'management through walking around', and he got up in people's faces and demanded they perform better and compete with each other. He was the arbiter, and fickle, but he wasn't trying to get people to be subservient.

Guy Kawasaki described it as, Jobs was so confident he brought a guy into Apple who took the company away from him. He was so full of himself it was impossible for him to be in any way threatened by capable subordinates no matter HOW good they were: he'd just bully them and be mercurial and try to get their maximum performance out of them.

So in a sense, it was all the other people. Not him.

And in another sense, it took a very unusual person to be able to do that, and be constantly outclassed, and not begin to act defensively. There's a cost to it: Apple was doing the Newton way way before there were cellphones and such. Jobs wasn't that wise, just impossibly audacious, and as such he did manage to operate a team of exceptional people. He wasn't the team, but as far as a leader being the leader, he was about as intense as Gordon Ramsay, and absolutely he let the people around him shine: to him, that WAS him looking good.

And it wouldn't make you safe from criticism for even five minutes, but he did love it when people around him were great. Jobs was the 'A players hire A players. B players hire C players. You hired THAT GUY?' manager. He not only expected people around him to excel, he literally demanded it.
I think their distinction is that they’re selling the hardware, which is capable of controlling the car just fine. So the thing you’re paying for is delivering as promised. The software is a separate project, and you could theoretically load whatever software on the hardware you wanted. So the fact that the software is glitchy is not (in the view of the company) something you can hold them responsible for. You paid for hardware, you got hardware. What you do with it is up to you.

This is at least what I remember from a years old Wired article when the comma one was being developed.

Whether that will actually hold up in court is TBD, considering how closely coupled the software is to the company and hardware.
At what point does this stop being AI's fault and start being an accurate observation of things that are society's fault?

Let's say you have a racially-neutral observation of lower income, maybe disability status or a criminal rap in the past. That looks like a bad bet for a loan regardless of color, it just so happens that our society's created a statistical imbalance in those metrics.
"It may not hold up in court but it can't hurt"

If you sell someone something with a nudge-nudge, wink-wink, and they get killed using it, it absolutely hurts. You may be able to weasel out of being held accountable for it, in which case it won't hurt you, but the larger issue here is that this kind of misleading copy can lead to people making poor decisions.

You may have put it in the fine print that it's not a real product, but the whole point of nudge-nudge wink-wink is to strongly imply that it's a real product worth real money, and thus you are going out of your way to encourage people to try it and take chances with real lives.
I have read this sentence several times and I still don't understand what you are saying. Can you either expand or convey your thoughts in plainer English?

> it wanted more radical change, was a central source of ideas

You could say the same thing about Fascism
Here you go: new housing units per 1000s of new population for Houston MSA, 2000-present.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=B6Yd

I exist to serve.
> Is it that you literally can't fully make the thing, i.e. only get 99% of the way there and you're fine?

Lawyer-no-longer-practicing-patent-law here: You have to look at each individual, numbered claim (at the end of the printed patent). Treat each claim as its own infringement checklist, with each term in that claim as a checklist item. IF: Every checklist item in that claim is present in what you're doing, either literally or, as an edge case, by a "substantial equivalent," a term of art; THEN: That claim is infringed. (It only takes one infringed claim for liability.)

A canonical hypothetical claim is this: "1. A seating structure comprising: (a) a generally-horizontal seating platform; and (b) at least four legs, of substantially-equal length, each affixed, substantially orthogonally, to the same side of the seating platform to extend in the same general direction relative to the seating platform."

For that hypothetical claim, a tripod-style three-legged stool with angled legs wouldn't infringe because four legs are required for infringement. (There'd probably be an argument over whether the angled legs satisfied the "substantially orthogonally" element.)

For the same claim, suppose that you had a conventional four-legged chair with a back. That chair would infringe claim 1 because the checklist elements are all present; the addition of the back is irrelevant to the infringement analysis.

(In chemical- and biological fields, extra elements can be relevant to infringement analysis, for reasons we won't go into here.)

Another edge case: If you "induce" someone to infringe the claim, you're liable as an infringer. Still another is "contributory infringement," which I won't go into here.

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> Or is it infringement to have an on-the-record chat with a buddy that you're thinking of working on X when the patent for X expires?

No infringement there — for infringement to exist, someone has to actually make, use, sell, offer to sell, or import the subject matter of at least one issued claim of the patent.

(Usual disclaimer: I'm not your lawyer, don't rely on this as legal advice about your specific situation, small changes in facts can sometimes make a big difference in outcome, etc.)
> higher density increases the value of the land.

That's a very short curve that quickly inverts. Density of commercial land is what converts the sprawl to an unprecedented explosion of high-rises in an epicenter. The residential density decreases the value of the land after it's been fully developed, which is then purchased for commercial use and "redeveloped". This happens in most cities at some point, where downtown is converted to the new "hip" redevelopment of the previous slums.
Practicing religion freely is OK. Forcing members of the community to practice religion is not OK. Children are denied access to education beyond religious. They are forbidden to study math, English, Hebrew, they don't have access to internet. They are denied access to justice system and law enforcement. Sometimes they are denied necessary medical attention because of religious beliefs of the adults (for example, relative of my colleague got his shoulders dislocated at age of 5, his uncle didn't allow to call for MADA until Shabbat is over, so he screamed for hours until evening).
If he'd _needed_ to test payment (arguable), he could have created a 'real' account, deleted it, squatted his own deleted account, and sent payments to it himself.
By merely bruteforcing chess positions? A 300 page novel is vastly more complex than a chess game
> Yep, the amount of incompetence in Parler's case is just mind-boggling.

Parler's case has zero to do with incompetence, and it boggles the mind of how suddenly putting together web apps with bare metal servers is somehow depicted as normal or usual or basic competency skills. It isn't. At all.

The majority of the world's web apps are hosted by one of the four major cloud providers. AWS alone hosts about 1/3 of the world's websites. The only reason anyone ever had to move away from AWS ever was due to their high prices, and even then the decision was always to move to another major player.

Hell, whenever I point out that there are bare ones cloud service providers which are far cheaper.than AWS, such as Hetzner, I'm faced with at best an industrial dose of skepticism.

Let's face it: up until now there wasn't any reason at all to even consider hosting your startup app on a non-major cloud provider. At all. In fact, it's tremendously hard to argue using anything beyond them. You need scale on-demand, high-availability, and reliability. You do not get any of that by even picking most of the non-major cloud providers, let alone running bare metal servers.

Post-facto accusations of incompetence are not justifiable, specially when criticising the undisputed go-to rule that driver over half of the world's websites.
> When systems reach sufficient enough complexity it is impossible to understand them by merely analyzing the individual components and understanding the rules that govern them.

Instead of "impossible" I'd rather use "unhelpful" or "pointless". In case of OS (or wind for a simpler example) we are focusing on the observable results of many small interactions. Most of the time looking at these "phenomena" from the higher level is sufficient for us - there's no point in analysing single atoms or 0's and 1's. To some extent it maight be similar in case of consciousness. One day we will be able to precisely monitor all chemical and electrical activity in neural network but it won't be necessary to make suffciently accurate predictions etc.
VRML is still used today. Some 3d printers take in VRML as file format, because unlike STL you can specify different colors and materials.[0][1] It's the only open multimaterial format said machines accept.

[0]https://www.smg3d.co.uk/design_series/objet260_connex1
[1]https://prostir3d.com/en/equipment/43-photopolymers/multi-ph...
You can guess WARMS, which will either give you the answer (to input on the next try) or eliminate 4 of the possibilities, leaving only 2 to guess.

That's a best case of 2 additional guesses and worst case of 3 (expectation of 2 1/3) which is better than your strategy, which has a best case of 1, worst case 6, expectation 3 1/2.
> The Futurist

> He comments on the latest breathless press releases from tech companies. This will change everything! say the press releases. “No it won’t”, he comments. This is the greatest invention ever to exist! say the press releases. “It’s a scam,” he says.

He's got the name backwards on this one. What he's describing is more of an anti-futurist. IMHO, futurists and the ones that make implausibly grand predictions about the future that almost always end up not being true.
For social calls, I’m usually on my iPad or phone.
Appears to build on
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234780918_Compiling...
No, Kelly is about what fraction of your bankroll you should bet if you want to maximize your rate of return for a bet with variable odds.

It's essential if you want to:

* make money by counting cards at Blackjack (the odds are a function of how many 10 cards are left in the deck)

* make money at the racetrack with a system like this https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Beat-Racetrack-William-Ziemba/dp/0...

* turn a predictive model for financial prices into a profitable trading system

In the case where the bet loses money you can interpret Kelly as either "the only way to win is not to play" or "bet it all on Red exactly once and walk away " depending on how you take the limit.
> the mere act of doing it more often dramatically changes the risk.

Kind of. However, you already know that the first N outings didn't have a disaster. So those should be discarded from your analysis.

Doing it N times more has a lot of risk, doing it the N+1th time has barely any.
We will via Monaco. Using the desktop app, you’ll even be able to load your VS Code config into Dynaboard, or use your own $EDITOR.
To be clear: these images came from the US Marshals Service scanning people entering a courthouse in Florida, not from the TSA. The TSA maintains that their machines are unable to store images: http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/08/tsa-response-to-feds-admit-stori...

These images were not leaked or snuck out by an employee or anything, they were acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request.

I think the TSA's scanners are an unjustifiable invasion of privacy, but I think that people should make their arguments with the facts. This article is shamelessly caching in on people's outrage without really adding much to the discussion.

The US Marshals' statement on the subject: http://www.usmarshals.gov/news/chron/2010/080510a.htm
Python's approach has always been highly pragmatic. Go's is as well, but with somewhat different goals. The Go team's goal seems to involve putting together a clean-enough syntax with fast-enough for systems programming performance combined with powerful-enough high-level concurrency model. They don't want to win the gold in any one category. They're going for the decathalon!

In any case, language syntax should always take into account the expectation of programmer communities. If you push syntax too far, you lose too many people.
I've been toying with the idea of doing massive rewrites of Python libraries to Go using syntax directed translation. Getting to somewhere like 98% fidelity is a very practical goal (I've done it and been paid for it!) and gives a tremendous boost to programmer productivity.
Also traffic in the digitalmars.D forum (the main hangout of D developers and users) is roughly twice the traffic on go's mailing list.
I have programmed in python for almost 5 years, with medium-large (several 100kloc) projects, this has never ever been an issue. If you mix tabs/space, you can have issue, but that's nothing that any decent text editor cannot fix/highlight.
> "Equation X doesn't help us understand phenomena Y"

How does that even remotely suggest non-determinism?

> If, however, as the parent mentions, hidden variables do exist behind quantum mechanics,

Isn't it obvious that we're not even remotely close to knowing everything?

The uncertainty principles simply suggests that we perhaps can never grasp or understand all the details; it doesn't in any way imply that these unknown details don't exist. It'd be foolish to think that "because we can't predict it therefore it's non-deterministic".
Assuming you have ruled out Chrome and Opera, what exactly do you mean by "lightest"?