jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The first problem is a society that doesn't, inherently, teach happiness to its newest members - we are reared with the idea that hard work and submission are the rules of this game. That in turn produces a large population of generally crabby, unhappy, and dependent people (dependent in the sense that everyone looks to everyone else for their happiness - people blame governments, people blame their spouses, for doing something that makes them unhappy).

Junk food, drugs, sitcoms, and strip malls are all the result of people discovering that a number of substances and emotional states can be cheaply produced (a result of industrialization/modernization) that excite the nervous system. Many often excite dopamine release in the brain which makes a lot of it addictive.

This is also a product of population growth - substances that are cheap and easy to produce make feeding and keeping alive a larger population much easier. You therefore, will always, have a large cross section of any given modern population that can only stay alive by consuming cheap sustenance that excites their nervous system to mask how nutritionally poor it is. Only sad thing is, it usually keeps them there.

I consider MSG and Wheat (the grain, yes) to be far worse that narcotics.

Obesity isn't the government's fault. It isn't the corporation's fault even, they are simply the result of a condition. The fault is in the people. People need to start taking responsibility for their own happiness - as they do that, the conditions will improve. But it is the individual's journey, not the group's.
Repeated so soon?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007504
This one is a guaranteed way to get infected by malware. It even has an active proof-of-concept exploit that will launch arbitrary executables:

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15746/

Don't let family and friends surf with IE!
https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer

Vims answer...
There's already work under way on tools to visualize such massive amounts of data in a comfortable and interactive way. See http://www.taodyne.com/shop/en/blog/76-visualize-one-billion... for an example.
"To all of the people who say that the best thing to do is get a good job, buy a nice house, and to put the max into a 401k that the company will match: Fuck you. It’s not what I want. Mediocrity is worse than failure."

Hey, man, if that's not what you want, that's cool and all, but I'm just going to defend myself and my buddies with good jobs and stuffed 401(k)s: There are other things besides Business that matter to people. For instance, I'd rather be a middling-to-decent family-man than a wildly successful entrepreneur, any day of the week.

There's a lot to give up in pursuit of your dreams, whether that dream is family or success or artistic fulfillment or travel... Sometimes you can choose to have some of column A and some of column B at the expense of being "mediocre" (or at least not-99.999th-percentile) at both - but maybe sometimes that leaves you a better person overall.

Anyway. Whatever floats your boat; just don't be too down on the rest of the world's strategies or anything
You wrote all that at 23? You should be writing for a living! Forget code, write in English.
Agreed, I am a fan of Linux (and Ubuntu), and I think the whole project worked out well PR-wise for Canonical, Bloomberg and Indiegogo. (Not being sarcastic, I actually think its good for them.)
You don't need to patch the problem and anyone trying is probably out to sell you $50 million system.

In my state an inmate was broken out with a helicopter. The Dept of Corrections had an interesting solution. Anyone caught looking up at the sky goes into solitary confinement. No one has tried it since.

You don't patch the cause of the problem, you break the part of the will that would even make you think about the solution. It is much cheaper and it creates a more malleable population.

Not that I approve of the approach but the voters wanting anything that can't be painted as 3 hots and a cot.
That's the main issue I'm trying to wrap my head around. Did he release the equivalent of 500 pounds of information and a few grams of it turned out to be bad? Or was it a larger percentage?
No one else claims they had the 'vision' for the iPod/iPad/iPhone while at the same time everyone credits Steve so he must have been more than a quality checker.
When you come from the country club life (first paragraph) it is indeed mediocre.

I'll toss in the counterpoint that having kids that are thrilled to see you, even if you live in a tiny apartment, is anything but mediocre.

The OP seems to have a lot of priorities out of whack.
I, too, would love to know where you're getting those colo costs. That seems too good to be true.

A reputable provider near me offers 1U with 100Mbps for $75/mo. That's with one power outlet, a second one costs another $35/mo. :(
Suffice to say a redraft which means that you'll have to go to court to determine what types of content you are and aren't allowed to moderate without the side effect of becoming responsible for everything people say on your web property is not an improvement.
Sure, here is one that has been going for 175 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell
I wonder, would they have been able to arrest him if he was shooting video within the security area? Is it legal to record the audio of a cop if you inform them about it first?

I need to read up on this before I need to travel again. Someone should create a know your rights quick reference guide for air travel.

Side note: I flew from HK to SF yesterday.. No backscatter machines on re-entry of the US border. When I flew from SFO to HK a couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to have made it into a line that was only a metal detector. They did have some backscatter machines in place.

Second side note: On my flight home from HK to SFO they had roped off the waiting area at my gate. There were about 6 Muslim men (hats, bears, speaking arabic gave me this impression) waiting in line with the rest of the passengers to get all of our carry on items physically searched before our flight. I'm sure the extra screening was not due to their being on the flight /sarcasm. I over heard some of the men speaking about how they can fly anywhere in the world and don't have a problem. But as soon as they fly to the US, they get harassed up and down. I truly felt sorry for them.
Non-programmer here playing. It gamifies coding for sure. Intended purpose unknown.

If the makers read this, firstly this is brilliant. Second my feature request would be to have some record of history to watch how I improve (or not) each simulation.
I really want to use React in my next application, but I'm lost on how to do visual things like animation (like a carousel), drag-drop, typeahead.

Do you have any suggestion on the best practice on doing those heavy DOM stuff in React?

I know I can use jQuery for that, but it feels wrong to me.

Also how do you handle integrating React with command based JS library, where your only interface to it is to call mutating functions, such that you cannot blindly rerender the whole things.

Suggestions on these two issues would help me greatly.
Out of curiosity can you point me to where that's stated in plain English by the parties involved (if there is such a place)? I must have bad info/assumptions
Here's another Tai Le (aka Dehong Dai, Nɯa, Chinese Shan) resource w/images. [0] Many links, and a long list of related languages.
[0]https://www.omniglot.com/writing/tainua.htm

Majority of speakers (>440k) in Yunnan province. "It is also spoken in northern Vietnam, France, Laos, Myanmar, Switzerland, Thailand."

That distinctive long, vertical u-shape is used in 5 vowels. (Reminds me of Voynich)
I predict this will backfire against lady gaga. A lot of people out there are going to hear this story and ask themselves if they wouldn't shoot someone just for being able to offer a half million dollars for dogs. there's a lot of jealousy out there. all i'm saying is, #doglivesmatter.
now that the dogs have been returned , gaga may constantly be in fear of people kidnapping her prescious ones, now that they know how much they can fetch.

i wonder if the original dognappers aren't a bit frustrated . humorous but so so sad really. America is two steps from being a 'developing' country, but whose fault is this really? blame the dogs.
Can someone explain in layman's (or a 5-year-old's) terms what "wholesale electricity" is?
Another example of government regulation crushing the little guys and then blaming them for it
Current mitigations are still largely software based, and frankly, aren't fundamentally any different than the ones proposed just a couple days after 1/3/2018. Additionally, current academic literature still hasn't addressed proper silicon mitigations in an all too performant manner-- around 7-15% penalty from what I've seen. While in my opinion, some of these mitigations are provably future-proof (and very genius!), those penalties are still quite heavy. Furthermore, if software yields similar penalties, then why not just stick with software mitigations?

Just look at the mitigations list of i9 10900k or Ryzen 9 5950X as used in the article, both released in latter half of 2020.

>> itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Full AMD retpoline IBPB: conditional IBRS_FW STIBP: always-on RSB filling + srbds: Not affected + tsx_async_abort: Not affected

Many of these are still by and large "disable this optimization" and "barriers", all done in software, with the potential exception of EIBRS which just essentially tags the branch predictors (which, in my opinion, they don't do in a particularly effective way, but stay tuned for Research tm). Also Meltdown, which I think is a pretty easy fix, and even Intel agreed [1].

Given typical design --> market time might be ~2 years, designers only had a few months to 1) finish currently pipelined work and 2) work on mitigations. On top of that, given that this is a pretty hard problem, a few months (not even > 1 year IMO) is definitely not enough time.

I'd guess that this problem won't be "solved" in a sense for many many more years, much in the same way that the rich history of buffer overflows has been a cat and mouse game for decades, with each mitigation coming with its own tradeoffs and potential performance penalties. On the "Hardware Mitigations" side, think of ARM's pointer authentication-- it's only just now that some pretty nice hardware support has been spawned, decades after buffer overflows were "known".

Still though, I personally think some more silicon mitigations will come in the next 2 years. Part of the reason "Pointer Auth" came "decades after buffer overflows" is due to the rise of cloud compute, and security matters much much more to the general public these days. I just mentioned current research generally has penalties on the order of 10%-- While pretty distasteful, it can definitely be (and has been) gradually improved on and is a far step from initial estimates of ~33-50%.

[1] https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/01/29/intel-cannon-lak...
More than 200 BLM protests turned violent.

https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-vi...
Donald Trump was the one saying the 2016 election had massive voter fraud. He was saying it before, after, and during that election. His words in 2016 and 2017 we're much worse in spreading distrust in the electoral system than any democrat since the Civil War. [0]

https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/27/politics/donald-trump-voter-f...
I hope everyone else walks away before then.
Exactly. Now is not the time to be quibbling about constitutional rights or the influence of big tech on political discourse. We'll deal with all that petty stuff when the crisis is over.
//Rioting aside?

Aside? isn't that the whole point?
I agree and they should have articulated the clear and present danger of this much better. E.g. the inauguration as one very clear example

They are already planning for the 20th on different platforms. It just takes one more tweet from DJT to light another fire.

And the problem is these people don't care what the content is, they read what they want to read because the Q conspiracy is insane. Even if he tweeted "mmm my mcdonalds burger tonight is extra good" they would read something insane into it
Personally I’d try by enforcing an exchange - limited liability status for speech restrictions - that way people can still “organize in corporations” - unlimited liability ones - but if they want extra privileges, they have to give up some of their rights.

If that won’t work, yeah, constitutional amendment.

Although there definitely exist a number of regulations that effectively restrict corporate speech - e.g. anti-terrorist funding legislation - so probably there’s other ways to do it as well.
Considering the sheer number of protests and protesters involved, BLM protests were mostly peaceful.

https://today.uconn.edu/2020/10/study-2020-protests-shows-di...

"While the summer of 2020 experienced 100 days of violence and destruction in cities, according to the the U.S Department of Homeland Security, the most recent CCC study of 7,305 separate events in May and June suggests that 96.3% of events involved no property damage or police injuries and 97.7% of events had no injuries reported. Pressman spoke with UConn Today about the new report."

In contrast, the attack on the capital building was a deliberately violent attack on the seat of our national government. Rioters brought zip ties to potentially hold lawmakers hostage, blunt force weapons, and firearms. It was inherently a violent undertaking with revolutionary aims.
Are they actual nazis? No one is robbing anyone of anything. They're completely able to create their own domain and host their facistgarbage.html
As with most things, there are tradeoffs. If the expressive code was written with a good level of abstraction, it should be pretty straightforward to figure out what it does. Of course, it means that you need to understand those abstractions before you understand the code, and you might have to do more jumping around to figure them out. But in the long run, it makes it much easier to remind yourself how certain features work.

On the other hand, you can write obtuse and difficult to understand code in expressive and non-expressive languages. I suppose a point could be made that bad code in say Haskell or Lisp might be worse than bad code in Java.
Thanks everyone for the comments. It is interesting to see how widely "currying" is conflated with "partial application". I have to say, I still find the name to be a stumbling block. Perhaps this discussion can help to reverse that trend.

I have also learned a good deal more from these comments and further research. It seems my idea of "currying" was not entirely complete. Per the comment herein: "Currying turns polyadic function into a sequence of unary functions". Practically speaking, this means a curried function is a single-input function that will return a function which is still awaiting an argument, so that other functions can be added to the "currying chain".

I would call this "function sequencing". This term could be equally intuitive for functional languages (ML / Haskell) and non-functional languages alike. However, I think that non-functional language users will still appreciate an explanation that references "argument deferral", since this is one of the practical benefits, and is also the key part of the "functional" context-switch needed to understand the concept (i.e., you can compose functions without providing the arguments/inputs).

Is there an equivalent to "uncurrying"? (un-what-ing??) This verbiage sounds like we're trying to unpluck a chicken. On Wikipedia (the world's collective brain dump), we understand uncurrying to be "the dual transformation to currying, and can be seen as a form of defunctionalization." Crystal. I'll losely interpret this as flattening the unary (single-input) function sequence into one polyadic (multi-input) function. So can we refer to this as "function bundling"?

To summarize, I'm submitting "sequencing" and "bundling" as the two simple verbs that better describe "currying" and "uncurrying".
http://blog.delicious.com/

The blog has since only hosted two single web pages (http://blog.delicious.com/index.htm and http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/whats-next-for-delici...)

I was already not very impressed that they were bought by yahoo years ago, as I thought that yahoo! is not the right place to host (I used http://del.icio.us, with the dots, since 2005). I was and am also a pro user of http://flickr.com and wonder if my huge collection there would be wiped clean in 2011.

Panic spreading.

Just a side note, I hate the "from yahoo!" part of the logo (on both sites). Well, they should have done that much earlier, and I hope that some companies with big muscles could save them. I really don't want to switch boat.
Sure, but those are not usually the decisive abilities.

I would say that now, at 31, I may not be able to think as fast as when I was 20, but I also don't need to, because my thought processes converge on useful/correct solutions much faster.

I may not be able to quickly analytically evaluate five different solutions like I used to, but I don't need to, because I know from wisdom/experience what the best solution is.
I'm always looking for interesting and practical uses for game theory.
F# could do this with type providers. Or, something like Google Protocol Buffers could be used.
Bitcoin may suit your needs.
DNT is the product of "technology by committee". It was a disaster out the gate from the start.
2 24" monitors running Arch Linux with xmonad as my window manager on a custom built PC with a Haswell i5, 16GB ram and a 750Ti.
They didn't exactly steal it. They failed to provide attribution. The photo was free for commercial use. Certainly it violates the condition of the licence but it's not theft by any definition of the word.
I never experienced intrinsic motivation, the only thing that works for me is externally imposed fear.
I don't remember using a payphone ever, and I'm not that young (born in 1982). Got my first cellphone at age of fifteen (1997). Before that I lived in rural area where payphones didn't exist. Nowadays, when abroad, I prefer Skype over wifi or SMS.
I like github too. It's very understandable - I find it better than the app shown here - and the help is great.
Very interesting - the cold shower effect might be, but not the swimming. Call me a wuss but there's no way I'm swimming in water with less than 21°C voluntarily. :-)
So you need those things, an ongoing deflation is only a factor in your evaluation. It doesn't mean you'll never buy them. You will think "is it worth for me to hold out a little longer before buying" and there will be a threshold where you think "no" and you buy.

You could just as well argue that inflation leads to a spiral of death because people won't be able to afford things. Therefore they won't buy things, nobody will produce things, and there will be no things. Sounds just as logical.
> I don't think of something as React-like just because it puts HTML and JS in the same file or combines HTML tags with blocks of JS code.

Totally agree. While I do (most of the time) appreciate JSX, it is IMO the least interesting and relevant feature of React. It mostly just lets our company's designers continue to edit view templates that would otherwise be far beyond their training/experience. So that's nice, but it's not what makes React tick.
My perception is that the FDA's on the hook if they promote a drug that turns out not so safe/effective, and CDC's on the hook proportional to how much damage the flu wreaks. In which case I'd expect the FDA to be extremely conservative about promoting it, and the CDC to push anything with even a marginal effect, no matter other costs.
That's a great solution if your not blind. Or navigating somewhere with poor sight lines like a parking garage.
I guess. Versus comparing it to alcohol, anyway. However, in my experience, psilocybin is closer to THC than to LSD.

But they're really very different experiences.

Alcohol does accentuate psilocybin, acceptably.

But combining marijuana with either, especially LSD, can be frightening. Your short term memory drops to a few seconds, so you can forget who (or even what) you are, where you are, etc. Some people panic, and fear that they'll never be sober again.
That's 500ug, or about 5x the standard "introductory" dose.
Why is it a controversial view? I thought it was a general view that this was exactly why monotheism of this sort got enthusiastically adopted and enforced by monarchies -- one true god, one true king, sheeple and all that.
Maybe I should have explained better.
I am not looking for some original ideas to copy.
More like some common service where there is a lot of competition anyway.
Besides, you can bring a service to a local market or provide a better experience more features and so on. Just looking for a base. I see your point of view well but considering that you see duplicates of the same thing all over the place is real there is no shame in starting as a copy and becoming better.
People tend to think brilliance and money is the end goal and often neglect that having a good amount of social capital is also useful.
I usually have vegetable soup: finely chop up a cup (or more) of whatever veggies we have, cook them in a covered pan, cool (still covered) for 5 minutes, then add fresh Miso paste. Almost no prep time and very tasty.
I tried backing a kick starter once (the oculus one actually) but Amazon gave me a bunch of problems. I ended up giving up. I'm glad they're changing, I might actually try backing something again in the future.
Never participated in a bootcamp, but I participated in a RailsGirls event, and I learned a ton. At least, it motivated me that much to keep learning on my own. I commited myself to get something up and running in a server in 2 months, and I did it (http://petithacks.com)

Best ways of learning have been: 1.the study groups done almost twice per month during 3 months after that RailsGirls event, 2. Learn how to get answers in StackOverflow, 3. Ask around to devs in the internet and even my colleagues (I do marketing in a software company).

I don't know how good are these bootcamps, and I'm not sure if all the comments here included are real or just bootcamps trying to defend their business. I'm pretty sure there are good teachers out there, but dont know necessarily if they are in bootcamps. Seeing that many of these bootcamps either they implied to commit full-time, either they were USA-based, either their curriculums were super-easy, I tried to look for specific help in places like Codementor (https://www.codementor.io/r/5HXQM64N3R referral link!), much flexible and I don't feel 'scammed' paying for really basic stuff that you can learn with time + internet.

In http://petithacks.com/posts/how-i-learned-to-build-a-rails-a... I gave more explanations about my learning.
> "If you can read and understand documentation, understand fundamental concepts like OO or functional paradigm, and understand what a stack is, a closure, recursion, the difference between an integer and a float, or a character and a string, methods/functions, etcetera, you are more or less hireable."

I'm sure this is true for many positions, but I'd resist the temptation to cast this across the broader job market. All of my recent interviews went significantly deeper than what you listed (though I'm not sure "functional paradigm" is a fundamental concept), so in my experience the minimum to be hireable, at least in their opinion, was higher than what you indicated.
There is a heat map. I had to wait ~5mins for it to appear.
<tongue-in-cheek>In a parallel effort, the airline industry is modifying its manuals and training to not refer to the pilot bay as "cockpit".</tongue-in-cheek>
Impressive, it's already much much faster than AdBlock.