jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And also, afaik, the only browser that doesn't allow copying in HTML. So if you want to copy information from Opera and paste it in, say, Evernote or Onenote, you lose all formatting. I know some people prefer it that way, but since Opera is highly configurable I don't understand why they don't even make it optional to copy the HTML.
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#1 should not be procrastination. It should be "Bad Prioritization" instead. This is because, procrastination in itself is not a bad thing; not only that, it's necessary and impossible to get around. We all procrastinate, because at any given moment we have a ton of tasks that we want/need to do and that we could do, but since we can't do them all at once, we have to prioritize. If we are bad at that, then we could become ineffective.
I've been attending the Papers We Love SF for a few months and it has been consistently awesome.

If you are in the Bay Area consider stopping by the next meetup.

http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-too/
You were correct on the references issue (which was not as you present it here, which is typical), but mistaken over the cause of length of this thread, which comes from an unbroken series of faulty arguments you presented in an attempt to support the notion that using C++ was the only option in explaining the issue. The last one was a risible claim about the literally exponential complexity of the alternatives.

So here's a difference between us: I freely acknowledge correct arguments, while you silently slink away from your mistakes, and try to pretend you never made them. I am happy to have third parties figure out who is being immature here.

Top O' the morning to you!
TRAMP mode in emacs let's you edit remote files, do dired etc through ssh, so that mitigates the dotfile syncing problem.

edit: also sshfs, tho that isn't always a smooth experience
Have to agree here! We're working on a server I'd love to run and optimise for PyPy, just need to wait 'til 3.4 and asyncio ships.

Also great work on the project in general, PyPy has made Python work as a platform for a few previous projects where standard Python wouldn't have been usable.
Thanks! (I'm actually in the middle of a major update to the page — I hope to have it published in a few weeks)

I used d3.js for this page (and most of the pages on my site).

For a given shape of map (rectangular, triangular, hexagonal, parallelogram, etc.) I generate a set of cube hex coordinates. I then use d3 to instantiate an SVG shape for each coordinate. D3 will maintain the mapping from the cube coordinate to the SVG shape, so I can set element classes on mouse events, and then I style those with CSS.

For example, in the line drawing example, I have a generic function that creates a hexagonal shaped grid (of hexagons)[1]. On mouseover, I figure out which hex it is, then run the line drawing algorithm to create a set of coordinates from the start point to the hex you're pointing to. I then tell d3 to iterate over all the SVG dom nodes and set the "selected" class if it's in the set returned by the line drawing routine[2]. The color changes with the CSS rule #diagram-line .selected polygon {fill: hsl(200, 50%, 80%); }

I've used canvas for some of the pages but I find svg much easier to work with. I can attach mouse events to the elements, and I can set properties (such as color) easily without redrawing everything. D3 is great for maintaining a mapping from data (such as a set of hex coordinates) to dom nodes (such as a set of svg <polygon>s). D3 also has transitions, but I think most of my needs could be handled with CSS transitions instead of D3's JS transitions.

[1] See http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/Grid.hx : hexagonalShape()
[2] See http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/ui.js : makeLineDrawer()
>"if the colts prepared their balls outdoors..."
>"they may have over-inflated them..."

You are certainly speculating quite a bit here, no? As opposed to assuming the Pats under inflated their balls, intentionally or unintentionally, you are speculating that the Colts over inflated theirs and/or inflated them in a different environment?
There are reviews, you can see seller history, you don’t have to interact with someone in a dark alley and bring wads of cash with you, the package arrives discreetly, etc.
I agree. Every anti-moronic default adds friction. I love that I can play with ES quickly via simple URL without any auth.
I think you might be mixing up “reveling” with “revealing”
When doing business is a prison sentence, don't be surprised if the ones willing to do business are those who belong in prison.
There was only a temporary suspension in 2013 (wiki says two years) with the full ban only going into effect around the end of 2018, however two countries have issued emergency authorisation allowing the use of those pesticides regardless of the ban, I can't figure out which countries those are. https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-co...

I found a page mentioning pictures and statistics from Eurostat going up to 2016 but unless I'm blind there's no links and I don't see any pictures: https://www.bee-safe.eu/articles/bee-series/pesticide-use-in...

It could take years to fully undo the damage or for it to become evident in statistics, and even when/if the bee population does rise you need to account for the non-bee pollinating insect population that might be more affected by weaker pesticides that aren't going to be banned.
That's a nice population density map.
Thanks, very interesting! OT: Great to see FoxPro as an example application. I used to work with it and liked it quite a bit. As far as as I know it isn't really supported anymore. Does any one use it still or know if there are similar environments available today?
This is too bad. I had not had time to stop by there for about a month but it's a really great place and if you live in or near SF you should check it out. I've signed up for a monthly donation. Hopefully others will follow and Noisebridge will do a better job of keeping the community informed of their financial situation. (Put you monthly intake on the homepage or the intranet that unlocks the door) No one likes to ask for money but there is a generous community of people out there and I hope we can do what it takes to keep the lights on.
The best layout of times and time zones is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2010_lunar_eclipse

Also, if you're using unix, look for the UTC flag (typically '-u') for the date(1) command.
Haha at first, I would have agreed with you. The recent spate of related HN articles drove me to make an account, though, and I'm pleasantly surprised: the attention to detail and smooth user experience stand in stark contrast (for better or for worse) to the "move fast, break things" mantra that has become popular. I'm not saying that this level of quality could not be achieved in much less than a year, but these guys clearly took their time and put some thought into their product. It seems to have worked for them!
Too bad Gnash doesn't work with it... :(
According to Quora, just over a year.

http://www.quora.com/About-me/How-quickly-was-About-me-acqui...
Your question is answered in the link itself. Did you read it?
I disagree. Browser side user-css files are the solution to this 'problem' (honestly, my main gripe is low contrast, mainly the gray on white that is the last fashion these days)

opera is the only one that got it right. easy to write the css in a way it works for most sites, and a very convenient way to turn it on/off. too bad opera is ridden with bugs since 8.5 and so i gave up.
Wow... I haven't even noticed TSA posts here. And I thought I checked a lot!
Please use www.davidvanleeuwen.nl and not just davidvanleeuwen.nl - it's a little bug
In an ideal community people would up-vote arguments for adding
value to the conversation and down-vote only for detracting.

I agree in general with this point--I'd much rather have comment ranking based on comment value than how many people agree with it. However, I think a big part of the problem is that there's really no other way to 'agree' with a comment. Commenting "I agree" or something similar is (rightly) frowned upon, but the only real replacement right now is an upvote (or, if they disagree, a downvote), and people like being able to indicate their support of things.

The obvious (although maybe not best) solution would be to add another axis for comment voting that doesn't affect post ranking (or, at least, affects it much less than the current one) that tracks agreement/disagreement. I can see a couple of downsides to this, the biggest of which is that it adds a large new element to a very simple commenting system.
Also noticed the change to my invoice this morning when I went to evangelize this deal with my boss and co-workers. Not such a great deal IMO now that it's only 100k. Also the mention here that if I ever go over that number (now 100k down from 500k), my lifetime account is forfeit* ? Who do I need to contact to get a few questions answered?

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1932120
Yes, and a Vice Grips is not a very good wrench, unless you are stuck on the side of the road and have nothing else. Is this nuance or unnecessary idealism? :)
Even better, if you don't like the default behavior, it's highly configurable based on how the tab is opened, and from where (although I don't believe site specific options are available).
What if we could tag posts? Identify which ones were political, programming, etc.
Flagging is also for things that are off-topic. If he's sick of 20 TSA stories every day, I don't think the flag is the wrong option. I personally flag things I see that are merely political.
For a car site I run I get the following IE usage over the last couple of years (monthly visits in the 5K range):

apr 2007 71.8%
oct 2007 74.5%
apr 2008 72.0%
oct 2008 67.1%
apr 2009 67.6%
oct 2009 65.6%
apr 2010 58.5%
oct 2010 61.2%

That's still a considerable majority of IE users.
I liked where the article started out, but the only advice they offered was keep your chin up and go to mint.com. The line between news and advertisement is thinning.

Of course, maybe good financial planning is helpful if students are graduating with $4000 of credit card debt... That is the nu
mber I will never understand.
I would love it to be an all you can eat music service ala Spotify.
This must either be syncing devices over the air or a music subscription service. I think the "never forget" part is important. You will "never forget" to sync your device, ever again. Your computer will "never forget" your music, because it's stored in the cloud.
Pretty weird. Apple doesn't usually just announce stuff on a web page. And the announcement is early Pacific Time.
No. Based on current exchange rates, the most optimized GPU-based system consumes in electricity more than 10 times more than it makes in completed bitcoins.

There is currently massive oversupply of computing power driving the profit of generating them down. I find this quite silly -- even if you were certain that bitcoins are going to massively appreciate in value, the best way to invest in them right now is not setting up computing clusters but heading for the nearest exchange and buying them.
<pedantic>
It's an amazing project but that's a kayak, not a canoe.
</pedantic>
This is just urban myth, according to Werner Vogels.
Either I have a dirty mind or that baboon picture is incredibly NSFW.
Given the makeup and general behavior of the Seattle population you describe, I’m quite confident deterring them from visiting was absolutely intentional by Amazon
> We have been conditioned to believe we need to live in high priced boxes.

The housing market in the US (and the UK) always surprises me. People here just rent medium-priced parts of boxes, often far after they found a family and only move into their own homes in their thirties/fourties, if at all.

In the US/UK, on the other hand, it appears to be much more common to buy and sell houses like commodities whenever you feel like moving.
The biggest thing the Model S has against it for tire wear (both the 21' and the 19') is the 2° negative camber on the rear wheels when in standard suspension. While that is very useful for improved handling and preventing possible oversteer (especially likely given the huge amount of instant torque), it is hell on the tires.

P.S. While I'm an owner, I'm not that much of a car nut, and I am simply regurgitating the information shared by other owners who are car nuts. :)
If you are interested in the Columbia events, check out Wayne Hale's blog[1]. He was a flight director/space shuttle program manager and offers a very detailed recollection of the events from inside mission control.

[1] https://waynehale.wordpress.com/
Anyone able to view an image can share it with other people if they really want to - maybe they need to save it and host it themselves, or take a screenshot, or even use their phone to take a picture of the screen. Facebook has simply opted not to put any effort beyond the trivial into this.
React is defined by its declarative nature (for ease of coding) and virtual DOM (for performance). Not sure if SpacePen does the same, but at a first glance of the documentation I'm not seeing anything along those lines…
Comment ignored due to incorrect use of "there" vs "their".

;)
Don't extra submissions result in more points?
I wonder of less "famous" states get similar support, and if NASA support could be a useful less corruptible for of development aid, compared to other aid programs.
Not really. You own (and paid for) that tap water free and clear.
>Rich New York bankers don't drive cars.

But do they take public transportation? Or do they use a car service?

They're paying to avoid public transportation exactly like the OP said.
Only short-term. Once you factor in gas, ownership of multiple cars, etc it's cheaper to live in the city. Doubly so if your time isn't worthless (time sitting in traffic is working for free)
No, they're not. Most people in power like businessmen, big corporations, neo-liberal funded think tanks, the E.U. etc, are against those restrictions and pro immigration (that doesn't mean they want immigrants in their gates communities and country clubs -- but they do like them working for cheap in their industry).

The "imposing resctrictions" serves a two-fold purpose:

1) Politicians have to balance being re-elected by going what their voters want, which in most cases is less immigration or more tight control on it, and the interests of businesses that fund them who want immigrant workers.

So, at least they have to put on a show of being against immigration.

2) For businesses it makes sense to want immigration ALONG with strict rules against immigration and a general anti-immigrant sentiment.

That's so they can exploit cheap immigrant labor without having to pay the same amounts as they would do to locals. It's not just about increasing job supply to lower wages, it's also about using the immigrant (and illegal immigrant) status of some workers to pay them even less than they would a native citizen.

Kind of like the strawberry picking jobs in California, where they bring in Mexicans from Mexico, with semi-legal status, in order to pay them as little as they can, and use force and special laws to ensure they don't get paid as much.

E.g.:

At a time of high unemployment, many Americans are convinced that these aliens take American jobs. As a test, this summer the United Farm Workers (UFW), the main agricultural union, launched a campaign called “Take Our Jobs”, inviting willing Americans to work in the fields. In the following three months 3m people visited takeourjobs.com, but 40% of the responses were hate mail, says Maria Machuca, UFW's spokesman. This included e-mails such as one reading: “We're becoming more aggressive in our methods. Soon it may come to hands on, taping bitches to light posts.”

Only 8,600 people expressed an interest in working in the fields, says Ms Machuca. But they made demands that seem bizarre to farmworkers, such as high pay, health and pension benefits, relocation allowances and other things associated with normal American jobs. In late September only seven American applicants in the “Take our jobs” campaign were actually picking crops.

That was the point, says Arturo Rodriguez, the UFW's president. America's farm jobs, which are excluded from almost all federal and state labour regulations, are not normal jobs. Americans refuse to do them. The argument about stolen jobs is “just a façade” for a coarser scapegoating, says Mr Rodriguez, and “we demonstrate the hypocrisy.”

http://www.economist.com/node/17722932
how does lower contrast reduce strain on eyes?
If you had a low-resolution display with visible scan lines, as most text terminals did, then you had a stripy light background, which was pretty bad. But a high-resolution gapless display on a reasonably adjusted CRT was great.
Agreed, hopefully Windows will be easier though. Getting mac done well gets harder with every macOS update...
Oh god, I'm hardly describing all forms of currency, quite the opposite actually. All currency is fiat and artificially inflated which is actually the root of the problem entirely.

And yes by buying and hoarding bitcoin you can make yourself very rich - that's the point.
This answer on Quora may be relevant:

https://www.quora.com/Uber-1/How-can-Uber-survive-driverless...
Achmed is a variant of Ahmad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad#Other_spellings
I think it's supposed to be, but every time I've looked at using Zend, I always get the impression that you can't just give or take individual pieces of Zend like you can with CI. Certain bits of the framework are interdependent on other bits, and before you know it you're pulling in about 50 of its core components just to make a basic MVC application. But then again, I haven't looked at Zend in the last year or so; perhaps its gotten better in the mean time.
> Chrome and Firefox are the only ones that don't support H.264 natively.

Chrome and Firefox are the browsers that supports html5 video with the biggest market share though.
Here's a Python shortcut:

Instead of...

from base64 import b64decode
b64decode(foo)

You can do...

foo.decode('base64')

Encoding works too. As well as zip (foo.encode('zip')).
Happy to have saved you some time
Yeah, it all comes down to what you consider "status." Independence and high economic/societal position are not the same thing.

"If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."
Lisp has a big historical advantage coming from it being the 2nd oldest surviving computer language after FORTRAN, it got started in 1957 on a vacuum tube computer.

While seldom as fast as e.g. FORTRAN let alone assembly (there was a period when MACLISP was faster at numerical code than DEC's PDP-10 FORTRAN, but that was at least as much due to DEC), to be fast enough on the old, slow hardware of its founding first couple of decades hackers had to figure out how to make it pretty fast on an absolute scale. E.g. they've been working on garbage collection for 55 years (!).

So compared to languages like Python and its various implimentations, you shouldn't be surprised if there are Lisps out there that are faster.

All that said, it's easy to quickly write a slow Lisp; a fast Lisp requires on the order of as much work as making a fast implementation of anything else. So caveat emptor ^_^.

As for languages like Rust, I think they're complimentary, and that a programmer ideally should at minimum be fluent in one systems programming language like C or Rust and one high level GCed language like Lisp, Python, Go, Ruby, Julia, Lua, etc. etc. etc. (Modern JITed Java kinda splits the difference; a contrarian would say it combines the productivity of C++ and the speed of a GCed language.)
Umm. Obviously the web client is supposed to be used on the desktop, not on a phone. They have apps for phones.

Doesn't excuse the Chrome-only-ness, though.
React components written in JavaScript with embedded "JSX".

Riot components are HTML (mixed with expressions) + JavaScript.

Perhaps the HTML root element makes it look like "HTML-side only".
I've been using Riot 1.0 for a number of simple things (including a few dashboards) and it's a lot less hassle than most other JS frameworks.

This looks like a very nice upgrade, in the sense that the previous templating was a bit ugly. I hope the virtual DOM let me handle SVG as well...
... and street cleaning is on the 2nd and 4th monday of each month (got towed on that premise once)
Sure, I'm daily OpenStreetMapper myself. The other map options can be added in project basis, as the geodata from any other sources tends to be extremely expensive for average end-user app developers. Of course it has to be attributed properly in each app.
Jings. In what world does anything being fun become 'literally pornography'...
It's funny to think that if you reversed the genders the comment would at the bottom of the page rather than the top.
Notice the problem with OpenSSL. As a side note, I think Android is the only major browser using OpenSSL, but given how long older Android versions last, this is probably an important warning.
Indeed, its a byproduct of rapid growth. For whatever reason people seem to need to find a specific population to demonize.
Yes, it triggered the flamewar detector.
Well the nuances lie in what "we" and "common good" are. In fact, the fact that these ads have already not been restricted probably implies the thresholds for "we" and "common good" have not been met. Notably America holds a high standard here for "we" (hyper majorities) and "common good" (severe public threat) when it comes to free speech.

I don't share you confidence that this is very obviously worth another exemption at a federal level, but I do share your concern with misinformation through these sorts of ads.
Or they generate dollars by trading and speculating but not actually creating anything. How much power is used worldwide by stock trading, HFT, etc?
On the contrary, it is still an open problem to rigorously derive the Born rule probabilities in MWI just from this perspective. Either way, the response will be equivalent to the Born rule: instead of positing that a measurement'outcome is proportional to the amplitude of the state, we posit that the number of branches in which an outcome happens is proportional to the amplitude of that outcome. Not sure why these are fundamentally different.

Also, the MWI idea of branching is no more satisfying or intuitive than the wave function collapse, which at least doesn't require an infinity of universes out of which some are much more probable than others.

Note also that there is only 1 of you in MWI, you just exist with different amplitudes in different states, but when interacting with another object, you become entangled with a single outcome and thus can no longer perceive the other states that other versions of you perceive. This is important, as otherwise physical quantities would not be properly conserved.
In Denmark it's 100% a supply issue.

There's vaccination centers set up all around the country which are being utilized at 1-5% capacity, just waiting for vaccines to arrive.

They are upgrading the infrastructure even more despite that, anticipating being able to vaccinate 10% of the population per day.
One would have to be pretty out of the loop to think that GPU memory was in the terabyte range, though.
The claim I replied to came in response to a chain where this is what I initially reacted to:

> Fruit and nudity are not the same. Fruit doesn’t trigger hormonal responses, nudity does.

Nothing about hardcore sex. That your intent with the comment further above that was about sex is irrelevant to what I replied to.