jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm so tired of seeing pictures like this: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/11/airpor...

Classic red herring. You couldn't sneak a pistol through security before 9/11, you couldn't do it after 9/11, and the NakedTron 5000 doesn't do a damn thing to change that.
It's just a normal pat-down, the kind that might be given by an officer of the law to someone reasonably suspected to be armed and dangerous. It's not like the pat-downs themselves are unusual, it's that the TSA doesn't have cause (or maybe even authority) to do these pat-downs.

Also, it's not sexual, so it can't possibly be sexual assault. Assault or battery is about the most you could claim.
The old backend was written with quartz, and hopelessly integrated into the OSX internals. It's part of the reason why Apple had to ship their own java.

The new backend will only depend on OpenGL, which is much better for anyone who isn't looking to lock you into their format. Which, oddly enough, appears to be Apple's goal with it's handling of java.
This was in the release notes.
Samples were collected upstream of any treatment
systems and as close to the water well as possible

I guess my question would be: does it matter? If you read the article you'll see that out of the 118 homes that tested positive for methane, only 12 were above the threshold for immediate remediation.

However, if they sampled the water before it was treated, it doesn't tell you what the level of the treated water is. Even if the water is simply pumped into a holding reservoir, that can cause a lot of the methane to outgas from the water.
Sigh... Reporting like this is why traditional media is dying a not-so-slow death. It's big on policy because it's a policy panel. The engineering panel was formed separately and includes several high-profile scientists / engineers, including:

Jonathan Katz - astrophysics professor at Washington University

Richard Garwin - IBM Fellow Emeritus, helped develop the original hydrogen bomb

George Cooper - civil engineering emeritus prof at UC Berkeley

Alexander Slocum - mechanical engineering prof at MIT

Tom Hunter - president of Sandia Laboratories

These are some freaking smart people. Let them work on solving the problem without having to deal with all of the politics.

EDIT: the article detailing the scientific team's roster: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-14/obama-sends-bomb-in...
Cool. The reason I asked was because it says "- frontpage" in red for me even though I haven't logged in. That only happens to me in reddit when I'm logged in and go to a subreddit page.
Since "Finance/Trading/Stock Market" is a bit of a wide net to cast, I will offer my opinion on a small chunk. To understanding modern automated US equity trading, it pays off to understand the basic mechanics underpinning the market, and get a feel for the opportunities this structure presents.

I would suggest reading up on the national market structure, and reading "Inside the Black Box" by Narang for a good overview of how automated trading is structured.
There was another thread going on in a different post and I came to the conclusion that the problem is not that there are not enough good freelance gigs but rather there is not a good way for the communication to be communicated among managers looking to find a top caliber guy and top of the line freelancers. No manager wants to wade through elance or one of the other sites looking for that diamond in the rough. So I started thinking that there has to be a better way and I started thinking what about an invitation only site where members invite new members and there reputation is tied to there recommendation. For example they may be a good developer to hire but they may not be good at recommending other people. Their recommendation score would then suffer and if it got low enough, they would not be allowed to invite other to the site. Conversely those that where good at spoting talent would get more invites that they could send. As well maybe a minimum rate that participants would have to adhere to would keep the site from becoming a race to the bottom like the others. I registered igi.gs the other night and am thinking about building up a MVP. The part that I am struggling with is how do you do the initial seed with quality people in a host of locations?
I can't tell if you are being serious or not. A lot of people who lift hurt themselves at some point, especially as they get older. It happens, it is usually because of not focusing on form and pushing too hard.

Form is important, and not always intuitive.
Nope, it's self hosted using the reddit open source.
First, you should take the whole post with more than a grain of salt. ;)

Re JavaScript, I'm referring to the lowlevel nature of many of its constructs:

- its impoverished way to pass parameters (i.e. there are no keyword parameters; you don't get an error if you pass too many or too few arguments)

- its impoverished exception handling (i.e. you can't catch exceptions of a specified type)

- its impoverished standard library and built-in data structures

- its lowlevel and complicated OOP system

There's more, see http://pwpwp.blogspot.com/2009/08/awesome-helma-and-lacking-...

Re Python and Ruby, I'm mostly referring to the fact that both languages started out with broken lexical scoping, and had to change their scoping rules repeatedly, which is a huge red warning sign. Additionally, it seems very hard to implement both languages so that they run fast, another factor. Ruby also has an array of different kinds of first-class functions (blocks, procs, lambdas, I lost track), with different capabilities and restrictions, which is a design failure to me. That said, I think they're acceptable languages, even if they force you to memorize a lot of irrelevant stuff.
"28 (21%) of these books were "not included on the adopted list because they incorporate prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including CRT," the statement said."

So, the books contained something they didn't like. One of the things they don't like is CRT.

It's not clear that any of the math books even do contain CRT based on what was said.
Free Software will never be palatable to the mainstream, because the mainstream rejects socialist ideas. I think the popularity of Linux has somehow obscured the ideological origins of the movement, which seemed much more overt in the late 90s/early 00's when I first got into it.
I use https://speedof.me/ and https://testmy.net/. They match my QoS limits when QoS is enabled in my router, and match what I'm paying for when QoS is disabled.
>The way you phrased your opposition made it sound like you think that shareholders care if a company has positive net income.

Technically that's true, in the sense that at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is what their shares are worth, not how well the company is doing. However, the value that someone else is willing to pay for the shares can be expected to be based on how well the company is expected to do. There are exceptions to this, of course (eg. GME), but for uber it's at least somewhat plausible that their valuations can be justified by the expectation of future earnings. You don't have to agree with this, but a risky investment isn't evidence for "system in which the success or failure of a company is of no relevance to its "value"".

>However, the whole point of this discussion is that shareholders have no vested interest in the financials of the company in cases like Uber. There is really no correlation in these companies being more profitable and shareholder wealth. Generally the only money that goes to shareholders from a companies financial performance is dividends anyways, which obviously Uber would never do yet it made people rich.

The companies are being valued for their future profits.
Absolutely. I actually compiled my own version of Godot in order to enable a speech-to-text module (https://github.com/menip/godot_speech_to_text) for a project. While some might see that an overly arcane technical annoyance, the fact I was able to do so just shows the promise of a powerful open-source libre engine. Hope to contribute a patch to Godot proper someday. I also find it so cool that it's bootstrapped - that is to say, Godot is created using Godot!
What a great project. I find it interesting how closely it resembles my memory of playing the original half life for the time. The reimagined Xen portion is beautiful too.

I do have to say sadly I lost interest during the "Interloper" chapter as it was very drawn out and felt endlessly repetitive
so never finished.
> Coincidentally you won't find many nannies from the wealthy western countries

Probably because they can find other work which pays more while non western nannies do the job because they cant find other work due to their English language issues.
The obvious fake news makes me nervous because it's so widely believed. I expect the selectively partial truths to be hard to deal with, but if people can't even reject the obviously fake stuff, they don't stand a chance on the hard cases.
A human driver would also follow the same heuristic. That is why it was programmed that way. People don't assume people are going to randomly walk in front of their cars except at cross walks.
The big difference between docker and static linking is that a docker container can:

* "Link" against commandline utilities.

* "Link" against daemons.

* Contain state.

* Has (insecure) isolation.
Well, if epyc could with 64 cores...?

https://youtu.be/HuLsrr79-Pw?t=12m10s
There's a possibility we may seek other options in the future but for now we both feel doing our own bootstrapping (we already have a successful app that pays the bills) is where we need to be.
As is tradition in certain parts of the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHDbu4G3_oE
You should use Bisq, it's slow but quite nice.
I can certainly appreciate and understand Leo's point not only philosophically but also through personal experience. I work at an investment bank and have about $200k in student loans. I want to start a company. My time is extremely constricted due to the nature of my job, and I can't quit because I have loan obligations each month. I've backed myself into a corner at a young age. I still have found time to begin putting into place some of the pieces necessary to launch a startup. At the same time, I have been training for a marathon, acting as a member on the board of director for a grade school and catching a few drinks with friends on the weekend. It is not easy and not always fun, but if something is important, we can always find more time. Sometimes you just sleep less...

Taking this a step further, there is something left out of Leo's discussion. Efficiency. Not sure where I read it, but the was a book by a CEO. He discussed how he used to work on his plane trips across the country because he didn't want to "lose" that time. After a while, he found that he was jet lagged and would be tired while on the ground for his meetings. It would take him days to recover. Now instead of working on the flights, he sleeps or gets enough sleep so that he will be rested and more efficient when he has landed.

The question that arises is simple. By jamming another 30 minutes or an hour of blogging or whatever into your day, do you jeopardize your efficiency throughout the day? It is the economic question of not only diminishing returns, but negative returns. The common example given in economic textbooks is that of an additional farmhand not only not adding value, but detracting from the value of the current farmhands.

I think we should be asking how can we prioritize more effectively.
What a fucking joke.

>I've reviewed some of the best projects to come out of todays CS programs as assignments, and I can tell you that they are rote, unimaginative, and lack real-world application value.

What is with the sampling bias? learn statistic much?

>I agree completely. Why so defensive? Huge loan payments due?

>Some of us are natural problem solvers, who absorb and process volumes of information quickly.

I am sure you are.

>killed billion dollar deals because they weren't technically feasible within time and budget constraints,

Yup.

> my educational background is not germane to this discussion.

Your education is important to the discussion.

>Crawl back into your hole, troll, and mind your own business.

Haha fuck off.

Care to comment on this?
* Get into a hot startup and listen and learn. The first six months will provide you with more experience than you'd get in a PhD program at any university (short of MIT or Stanford).
I'm flying from LHR T5 this week. Will try the BA Android app, which worked great flying from ARN earlier this year. The app displays a barcode they scan, so it's pretty much equivalent to using a PDF.
I see, thanks for correcting me!
Not at all. It's a nice way to support the project, and Slackware was always available that way.
It really depends on what you are buying and the nature of the 'market'. It's not only bulk buying either; if you buy in a different way, you can save money depending on the market.

An example I am involved in is with wine. It is cheapest to buy wine by the case, en primeur (basically buying in advance). Yet many wine lovers don't want a whole case. So consortia are set up on wine forums to buy several cases and split them across tens of people. They are often setup when one member of the forum spies a 'parcel' of wine going for a good price at a reputable retailer. This can typically save around 40-50% and given these wines are generally £15/bottle, and in some cases a LOT more, the savings are pretty good. Normally delivery is arranged to go to one person in a given area, who then distributes to others or waits for the others to pick-up.
Slackware was my first Linux distro circa 1992.

I have fond memories of the empowerment from having a Unix machine in my dorm room.
Awesome idea! I was hoping somebody came up with a newsletter for HN.
I get mine at the green beanery in Toronto. They do online orders but I'm betting if you're in the US there are better options :)
It was cool when Uber financed all those bad car leases (because they had a certain level of new car) and made a bunch drivers indentured servants. Making them drive more and more while they cut the driver pay rate.
duck.com works well with lynx.
Just need to create a buzz for his new business ideas.
FB is bad, but Telegram has managed to be even worse, which is quite the accomplishment. Their crypto is fundamentally unsound, and their business practices dubious and unethical. See the links I posted.
> it’s useful as a reference, but you can’t distribute CP/M images with, e.g., emulators.

I'm curious why it's not fully Open Source. What's the point to holding back?
Any DIY software/options for this?

Seems like a good place for some semantic web techology. I wonder if any music systems actually try to export in any kind of standard/neutral format, rather than their own proprietary jazz.
I remember Udacity was doing some 'get 1 month free' deal about a year ago. Most of the online learning platforms had that deal (in different forms - weekend, week, month). And even though most of their courses say 4-5 months to complete, if you really want to study, you can easily complete them in a month. And so I did.

Few months after that users got a lovely popup saying they can't complete the last unit (or last few units) that were required to get the certificate because they were on a free subscription. Why offer it to users, ask them to invest their time and then do something like that...
I've found this site very helpful, and it actually runs and validates your code: http://oj.leetcode.com/
Just accepting the chores doesn't cut it. As engineers, we can also think about possible solutions. For example, I think washing machines have been one of the truly great advancements of civilization. In former times it was probably impossible to manage one household alone (hence also a higher importance put on marriage).

Banking doesn't seem that much of an issue anymore, with online banking. Maybe shopping could be replaced by ordering online, too. Cleaning is tricky - I still don't have a cleaning lady/gent, also because I worry about giving up some privacy.

Another way to ease the cleaning problem is to get a smaller flat and less stuff. (I don't think Roombas help that much yet, or do they?).
How does it compare to Web API?
By that logic, it's not morally objectionable to pirate.

Free from the library, free from The PirateBay, who cares, right? Either way you're not eating into anyone's profits.
http://jsfiddle.net/vKZLn/1/

Fun to make. I'm also curious about the overall benefits. I find myself distracted by other thoughts if I don't have subvocalization happening.

If you want the ability to move backwards, I feel like that's possible with a good NLP library. If you skip back two sentences, or enough sentences to match some word or syllable threshold, it may be useful. In that case, you can play a few words, pause for a second or so to let the user decide if they've found the right spot (and context switch into reading) or if they should continue going back. I tried hacking in a quick back button that went back X words, but it was very disorienting. But in any case, it isn't as interaction free as doing so when reading a block of text is. But to counter your argument: you still have to keep your position even with text or seek for your position again, so there's a downside to those benefits.

I'm not sure how Spritz handles things like this, but I felt like making my own based on what I saw on the demo really quick to get a better understanding. It's a curious thing, maybe I'll check out the application sometime.
I'm not sure what you're doing exactly but I'm a member of hcoop and highly recommend joining. It kind of depends on what your use case is though. I'm not vary familiar with heroku so not sure what a dyno is.

http://hcoop.net/
The iOS version is also great!
Of course I shared private parenting habits - parents often discuss various approaches to problems or daily life. I didn't share without being prompted, though. I keep most private things to myself in person.

If sleeping came up and I mentioned co-sleeping, people were often critical. They think it's bad for the kid, dangerous, unnecessary, what have you.

I don't mind the criticism; I think it's helpful to know how people feel and reflect on my own decisions. People are remarkably harsh with their criticisms when it comes to parenting sometimes, but I think this reflects how uncertain, even insecure and anxious people feel about the decisions we need to make as parents. It's fine.
Web development without garbage collector sounds like a bad idea.

Rust wasn't designed for this.
> Rust code isn't much harder to write than JavaScript

As someone that's coded in both... eeeehhhhhhh

Memory management in Rust can be a real bear. Just, for example, creating a closure that references a variable outside of its scope is not simple. You can make your life a lot easier by wrapping everything you reuse in Rc<> to make it reference counted, but then you're eating into the performance gains that are the initial selling point, and after a certain point you're just manually implementing the things that JavaScript does for you.

Don't get me wrong, I love Rust. But I wouldn't want to use it everywhere I use JS/TS today.
But at the time, it was claimed that it was a systems language! No less than C. A. R. Hoare claimed in 1977 that it was "the best language in the public domain for purposes of system programming and software implementation."

Source: Reference 18 of "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language" (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pasc...).

Having had to use a "Pascal as defined by Wirth", by the way, everything in that criticism is dead on. Almost every one was an actual pain point for me when trying to write actual programs. (Not xor, but just about everything else.)
Not to dismiss your point, but I'd like to add that simply adding an "acceptance criteria" section to all tasks also isn't a solution.

I've just recently encountered a ticket from a certain person that does this all the time. The problem is that their criteria still only describe the solutions they imagined themselves, which are often… very suboptimal.

In the end, what you want is someone who is capable and willing to properly root cause a problem and weigh multiple possible solutions against each other. If nobody does this, no amount of superficial process will help you.
Bezier curves in computer graphics.
So they didn’t generate that money... whatever they allocated it to did.
NICE no longer specifies target cholesterol levels for people with diabetes. Your doctors will use a calculator, called QRISK2, to work out your risk of heart disease using a number of factors such as age, BMI, gender, blood pressure levels, cholesterol levels and which type of diabetes you have.

If you want a general guide of how healthy your cholesterol levels are, find out your total cholesterol-to-HDL ratio

To find this, take your total cholesterol figure and divide it by your HDL figure. A result of less than four is healthy

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/Diabetes-and-cholesterol.html
A lot of sounds words without anything concrete. What is wisdom? How do you quantify it? Why "short far" engineer can have it and why T-shaped or "skinny" engineer can't have it? What makes someone "short and fat" valuable compared to other types?
It is decentralized, as anyone who owns dolts can sell them. I'm just the only source of new dolts. If I die or stop selling dolts the supply will be even further constrained, making every dolt you bought an even more incredible value!

> What are the chances that you won't create another IdiotCoin out of air tomorrow, thereby inflating its value and decreasing the value of my dolts?

By the time the last dolt is sold, I will have made more money than actually exists in the world many times over. I'm not that greedy.
This is solid gold. The entry for V-Day is delicious. Unfortunate Valentine's. R U Sirius starts a political party. Why Gnutella doesn't scale. Could spend hours browsing ;)

And I really like the minimal style and chronological format for historical timeline data. There are a lot of archival resources coming online. And getting the presentation right is key to engaging new generations. Great stuff!

https://archive.org/details/computerworld
Two things:

I was mostly addressing the post I was replying to that claimed that nobody was opposed to direct cash payments - which I think is not true at all.

Also, I’m not trying to sweep it under the rug, and I’m not saying that many homeless people don’t have poor money management or addiction issues. However, there is a theory that giving homeless folks direct cash is a waste of time/money due to these issues and will produce no positive outcomes - which the experiment linked seems to contradict. In other words, while these issues do exist, direct cash payments do still seem to be at least somewhat effective.

(Also, thank you for spending your time and effort volunteering at a very non-glamorous but very important service!)
There was a specific mention of Linux support in one of the spec tables toward the top of the article.
This is just a shallow summary of Marco Arment's original article, which was on the front page yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8836734
This is what I have been asking for - the Elon Musk biography.

However, the one thing that I'm after, and the only thing I would be willing to buy it for, is answer to the question - "How did surmount his challenges?" He must have faced a thousand naysayers, both at the business level and at the technical level. People who he had to convince to make his successes happen. What is it that he has that enables him to overcome these challenges and succeed? It's probably not any one thing, but whatever it is, he has it in spades.

I would like to know if/how this book addresses that. Thanks.