jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
“There are two boats going to sea. In which shall we sail? There is the little boat of [s/science/technology]. Every [s/century/decade] a new little boat of [s/science/technology] starts and is shipwrecked; and yet again another puts forth, gaily laughing at its predecessors. Then there is the great galleon of tradition, and on board it travel the great poets and dreamers of the past.”

Apologies to Yeats.
What according to you is most important thing for a startup to get selected in YC? The idea, team or the market opportunity.
Plenty of non tech workers order food every night for dinner. Plenty of non tech workers have cleaning services. That has existed for 40+ years. Changing it from phone ordering to online ordering doesn't change it that much.

Grocery delivery and some of the other things are a bit newer, but they are also more niche.

What has changed is the employment relationship between the people doing the work and the companies. You used to hire a cleaning company and they had employees that came out, now you hire an independent contractor via Handy. To me it seems all supply side and not really demand side. This article is all about the demand side.
Adding some emphasis to a key sentence from the article kindly submitted here: "The wealth of data created in Iceland MAY enable scientists to BEGIN doing that [shed light on these diseases and point to potential treatments]." Or maybe not. As likely as not, many of those diseases will have different genetic background in any person anywhere in the world who is not mostly of Icelandic ancestry AND LIFESTYLE.

The open article from Nature Genetics is linked immediately below. It is of course conservative in its conclusions in the usual manner of a scientific journal article.

http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201511

I discuss current research papers and commentary articles on human genetics each week during the school year with the behavior genetics researchers at the University of Minnesota. Sometimes we read papers on medical genetics, and we all keep aware of the latest news from the Decode project in Iceland. (Iceland is interesting to genetics researchers because it hasn't had a large amount of immigration since initial settlement, and because the people of Iceland have kept detailed family genealogical records for a long time.) I can't fault the Decode researchers for trying to mine their data set for everything they can find there. That will have to be helpful for something, if only to exclude hypotheses that still seem plausible until they are tested against a large genomics dataset. But based on more than twenty years of following press reports and scientific journal articles about the next genetic discovery that is right around the corner, I rather doubt that we will have much by way of new understanding of disease causes or new approaches to disease treatment even from this impressive effort. We will still have to sample a lot of people from a lot of other ancestral populations, and crucially we will have to sample people of the SAME ancestry who live in different environments. (Food for thought: west African people have very different disease profiles from African-American people who are presumptively of mostly west African ancestry.) I wish the researchers the best, but "new clues to disease-causing genes" is probably wishful thinking on the part of the headline writer. (P.S. I think Carl Zimmer is a great science journalist, and I like most of his writings on most topics, but nearly all popular press articles on genome research related to human disease are much more optimistic than the facts warrant.)

AFTER EDIT: Other press accounts of this same breaking news story are interesting. They are linked below.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/536096/genome-study-pre...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/03/25/a-giant...

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/iceland-worlds-greatest-genetic...

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/25/8290303/father-humans-2390...
What's a plugin?

Is that one of those things that "nobody" willingly installs in their browser unless they absolutely have to because much of the market doesn't even understand what they are and the ones that do still want to avoid them because they decrease browser stability?
Meh, couldn't tell you as I never bothered to attend HS graduation.
It looks like there's a lot of bias in the data as well. Notice, of the 5 pizza places, that the top 3 are SF based when the test is suppose to be Chicago style pizza... (the other question to SF'ers... do you really know what snow is! =P ) I'm thinking the testers leaned towards a more SF style diet and the pizzas reflect that preference.
My only beef with his interesting post is that he uses graphics of completely understandable stuff like diagonalizing a matrix or the map of the phase space map of the logistic equation and then talks about current developments in math. Anything new is almost completely incomprehensible to me - a couple of years ago, I got a book about fractional calculus. I read about 5 pages away and gave it to a mathematician friend of mine...
Mine is very simple and very contentious:

It is completely unprofessional to implement a solution you've been asked for, if that solution is bad practice.

That is to say, if you're asked to make a hack that will cause pain and misery, has a security risk attached, won't be performant or other clear, obvious risks, it is unprofessional to not object and in some cases, refuse.
What you ought to be doing is making trade offs that make sense for your situation without following any particular religion.

Not OO (Object Oriented) is high praise in situations where the OO solution would be worse.

All heuristics should be ignored if it suits the situation to ignore them. OO is one of many a heuristics for software design.

Sometimes a deposit abstraction is simply a waste of conceptual budget and is best avoided.
I never do this, I prefer to recall the actual command to see if it is correct, especially for sudo.

The reason is that you might not execute the command you were thinking of. The HISTIGNORE variable contains a quasi-regex of commands that are not stored in history. If the previous command matched that regex, you will end up executing the previous command to that one, not what you wanted at all.

Why use HISTIGNORE?. So that things like 'exit' or common commands like 'ls' don't pollute your history file.
You shouldn't have any problem with porting (unless you're under contract) or using a prepaid plan. "Even More Plus" plans are still available though no longer advertised and may save you $10/mo.

Also consider the T-Mobile reseller Simple Mobile. $60/mo gets you "unlimited" service.
If you use a desktop client, all your stuff is stored on the client machine. So AFAIK you should have a full backup on every non-portable device.
This is certainly an amazing piece of work.
Would some kind soul please describe to me what this does, my corporate eager beaver network admins seem to consider this some kind of problem site and it's URL is blocked by our gateway proxy.
Major cultural event

And as for weddings about a million people lined the streets of London when Kate + William got married. Might not be your cup of tea, but horses for courses.
If you believe knowledge of this world can be gained from evidence, and that when evidence shows something, that should be believed over ideology or dogma, what should you then believe about race and intelligence, and about equality?

Intelligence appears to be mostly genetic (see the Wikipedia page “heritability of IQ”). There are many maps online showing average IQ in different countries, which hints at races having different intelligence.

This hints at ideas of equality of outcome between people of different ethnicity being a thing this world will not see.

In nature, I don’t believe there are any examples of equality between entities, except on the level of physics or maybe chemistry. No two entities are equal.

This would imply that to get equality, the only way is to push down the groups that most often reach top achievements - to design a society that is anti-white, anti-Asian, and anti-male. I once met a girl with a poignant tattoo: “free men are not equal - equal men are not free”.

I look forward to the intelligent HN community enlightening me on this subject
Relatively low power, compared to a modern desktop, even though multiples of power consumption of an RPi, but refurbished PCs from the previous decade do often have a good utility function for their price.
No, I believe you've misunderstood. Apologists for the CCP often claim that there are "differences in cultural values" when trying to explain what's happening in Xinjiang.
Snowplows don't remove all the snow usually because it would damage the road a lot, so you are left with packed snow which is fine to ride on.

You can also use studs tires if you worry.

I ride my bike in Sweden frequently even with a lot of snow without trouble. The only thing to worry about is when spring comes and the snow melts by day and freezes at night but on the main bicycle lanes the problem is solved by salting them once the weather gets mild.

I use a regular gravel bike (so not huge tires, 38mm) without stubs tires. Never fell.

I just don't ride during snowstorms directly of course but in those cases even buses and trains can be canceled until it calms down a bit.
The scale is a bit different, that's for sure. If you really want the full effect, drive the trans-canada highway from coast to coast, budget a week. Most canadians would shortcut through the US and save ~10 hours of driving (a lot of that with one lane per direction through the northern ontario wilderness.)
I've never understood how WSJ operate their paywall. They seem to allow it to be bypassed on any article by simply using Google as a referrer.

For any given paywalled article, if you Google the article headline and click on the WSJ link in the results, the full article is displayed.
I view a project as a whole: its face, its code, its features. If people can criticize elegance or efficiency of the code, why can't they criticize elegance or efficiency of its brand? Rails, for instance, is an example of a project where people did not just "do code", but also promoted best practices, designed a nice website, created a blog etc. That inspired Ruby & RubyGems to ultimately have nice websites and logos, contributed for free by professional designers.

Any open source project will help more people if it has a friendly face: well-documented code, nice logo, well-written articles explaining motivation behind technical decisions and so on. All of this contributes to the project's overall utility.
> It does, if you want it or not. A project that is not being marketed will not be successful.

The homepage of vim, the editor every hipster who wants to look like a Unix greybeard tries to learn as if it were the holy grail of programming knowledge, has a very 1990s look. It also has more users than a lot of startup-published tools that claim to revolutionize how you do X.

There's no bootstrap landing page shit, no ads and no pitches. It finds users by word of mouth but there's very little actual advocating and no intentional conversion effort so as to deserve the word "marketing". No one tries to sell you vim, or make you open an account with it or anything else.

Same with emacs, autogen and emms and whatever.
That as well, and the part immediately next to it quoted:

> but the release just felt like a blip in our planned schedule before jumping into more sprints and fires and thinking about the next iteration.

and this

> On the negative side, it has become increasingly hard for me to separate work from not work. I found myself “contributing” (read - working) at all hours of the day. Replying to issues, emails, and public chats when I was in bed at midnight, when I just woke up at 7am, in the car on the way to go hiking on the weekend, and then while ON the hike.
@nogc is growing, and memory safety will also be improving, just that we've basically reached end of what we can do before reaching the hard problems - we're definitely not stopping we just need to get any changes to the language right.

Also remember that the GC is entirely written in D, it is possible.
I'd be interested in a tool like that. I try not to look at the names of applicants and drop anyone who supplies a headshot but it would be nice to have that information filtered out.

Yes, several applicants supplied a headshot for the last engineering role I hired for.
I'm becoming more and more of the opinion that the web is dead and Google has won.
hence my question, what does btc change?
I only came here to comment that the domain name was fantastic for this usage.
You can be certain that an investment opportunity is a scam when it promises above-market returns with no additional risk.
The fact that the above still remains true 3 years later is pretty damning.
Eigen was my baseline. As far as I remember, my best AVX version (which unrolls 24x4 blocks, running 6 iterations of the loop) was about 50% faster.

Eigen is designed in the assumption these vectors/matrices are large. 24 is not large, fits in 3 vector registers out of the 16 available. Eliminating data access latency of the accumulators is what caused the speedup.
From now on I will always try to avoid TI components in my new designs. I hope other companies will use this to embrace open source more.
> You’d be surprised how under powered the consoles are in this regard

As another commenter mentioned, these games shipped with compressed audio for consoles. Also that generation of consoles have pretty good hardware codecs for audio (320 channels in the Xbox).

And MP3 was just an example of what I had here at my disposal. But as an exercise I converted my 4 minute MP3 to Vorbis. Decoding it converting to WAV took the same amount of time as before: about half a second on a very old and underpowered MacBook Air. Most of this time is spent writing 50mb to disk.
That is what happens when you build a timeless experience that people enjoy.
Yeah, but they still generated a billion in profit last year all by themselves. Not exactly a “we need a cash injection” situation, which is why I was a bit puzzled.
I'm pretty certain I've saved more than $86 in my first year of using YNAB for what it's worth. Ymmv of course.
> Is Google paying them?

Isn't that the whole point of Android TV? It's another revenue stream for Sony, right? If you read through the privacy statement it's clear that Sony is monetizing everything they possibly can.

You can opt-out and lose nothing, as far as I can tell. But IIRC, you do have to accept the privacy policy to apply updates, but then you can opt-out again after.
It probably wouldn't, when the rotor has incredible suction and the tangle wire is very thin. I would certainly expect an attacker using monofilament and a defender using several-mm mesh to go the way of the attacker. Too much protection and you lose the airflow.

I must immediately tape speaker mesh to my AR drone! FOR SCIENCE!
The Steam line was more like ` rm -rf $VAR/* `, eg, they didn't want to delete the $VAR directory. Still, ` rm -rf /* ` is no fun.
Not sure if people know about Apache CloudStack or not, it has all those IaaS feature and it just works with various basic to advance networking models.
Beautiful maybe, but in my opinion, multiple columns for continuous text makes for a bad UX.

I've seen this starting to popup in a few websites recently and it always annoys me.
>"So for those of you with inflated senses of self-worth complaining about people like me, why don't you go cry to your mommy about how you should have taken a Wall Street job instead, so that you could have earned a lot more money while fucking over the world economy. Because fuck the rest of the world, right?"

You're more than welcome to cut your upcoming now-1st-world salary that you boast about and give most of it to a third-world charity or something. Because otherwise, you're also saying "fuck the rest of the world". When you understand why you won't do that, then you'll understand why others won't as well. No, seriously, you can't just ask others to do good, you have to do good yourself as well. Until then, all you're saying is that you expect others to take a hit in their advantage so that your opinions on what matters are satisfied. Without even considering that maybe they're doing what they think matters already, and all you're really complaining about is that it's not the same as yours.

Edit. I'd like to add something about your "birth-lottery" comment.

>"I lost the lottery of birth, and was born to lower middle class parents in a third world country."

I don't agree at all. If anything, you WON the "lottery" over probably billions of other people, ones that are born into families that do not support their offspring as much as it sounds like yours did to you. You may not be lucky enough to be born in a fancy 1st world country, but that's just entirely besides the point because you're succeeding, despite your claim that you lost some imaginary lottery.
The organized group known as "protestors"
I guess that's up to Twitter, but I doubt random no-name user is on their radar as a person of authority spreading misinformation.
No. Weigh the risk and reward. If you take harsh action now, you risk provoking the situation for what? He's gone in two weeks.

Just maintain order and wait it out.
IMHO we need government regulation around social media. They’re publishers, in some new and novel form.

Right now no social media company will get serious about targeted propaganda because it would cut into their profits.

But regulation can create a level playing field - the rules apply to everyone, so, more-or-less, everyone’s profits take a hit and now you’re not putting yourself in a weaker position vis-a-vis your competitors by addressing all these issues we are seeing.

Regulation can create a level playing field and solve the collective action problem by making all companies do the same thing at the same time, more-or-less.
I don't know, but I one practice along my journey has had a surprising impact upon my skill development. That one thing is: I started coding in VIM. For some reason, making that change has improved my thinking, and that's been a big part of my growth.

So, maybe you'll find that to be a helpful practice as well. It's worth a try.
I'm just glad there's a way to turn them off on macOS because I hate them.
The same reason it doesn't make sense to make Denver or Seattle a state; stripped of the important Federal buildings DC has literally nothing remarkable going on about it. States need actual land and resources and all that other stuff such that you could vaguely see them operating as an actual nation. As it is it'll just end up being bullied by all the other states

Just avoid the border gore and force Maryland to take the extra land, tax income, and voting population; it'll probably be enough to knock them up a House representative or two anyway.
> Do you also take exception to braile translations replacing "red button" with "third button down"?

This is a different case for two significant reasons:

1. Utilising purely sensory references in web materials is a violation of WCAG success criterion 1.3.3, Sensory Characteristics (level A)[1]. Naturally, if you're physically brailling something, it's probably not web content but the point still stands: if your web page tells people to press the red button on the left it's not accessible to some.

2. By including alternative instructions in some form/format (or just making them inclusive from the start), you're not asking anybody to out themselves as having a permanent or circumstantial disability. You're just preparing for the case that they do. This is assuming the alternative option is available to everyone (e.g. on a web page or as a physical braille sign), rather than as something that is locked away and must be explicitly requested.

[1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/sensory-characte...
> Somehow I’ve blown it off and life still works.

If you're not in one of those countries, then I don't think you can speak for what a social life there is.

If I tell people they can only contact me via snail mail or in person (i.e. not have a phone at all), would you find it surprising that I will have a lot less of a social life?

Even 15 years ago I knew people in countries who had a difficult social life because they refused to use SMS - this was before the era of smart phones.

> HTTPs works with email, email works over data networks.

A lot of younger folks do not use email except for signing up for stuff and official work. When I left university a decade ago, many incoming freshmen were quite upset at the requirement to use email.

You can always have some social life, but in certain locales and circles, whether you use these apps or not will affect what type of social life you'll have.

> Acquiesce and nothing changes.

Sorry, but these types of statements are usually of little value, and only sound good. I could easily write:

Resist and nothing changes.

And it will likely be as true (and similarly lacking in entropy) as yours.
So if something cannot be observed by you, within your 15-100 years of life (assuming you fit within that range), that simply means it's impossible for it to have occurred? And that any claims otherwise are misinformation?

No one claims that someone is resurrected every day. The claims of Christianity are that it occurred once, and that it was a miracle.

The thought that it's impossible for something to have occurred unless it's commonly overserved isn't sound. There is no such requirement. There are plenty of rare events that occur, with and without scientific explanation.

Update: Perhaps here's what we're missing. There is information, misinformation, and then there's claims that cannot be proven or disproved. I do not believe that all things are false until proven true. I believe that Christianity, and many other religions, can be neither proven or disproven using modern science. It is neither misinformation or information. It is a belief.
I had not thought of that. Ha!

I would go for UTC, since that is what 99.99% of the people think of (and so few even know about TAI, except for the smart ones like @jameshart! :-) )
I just had an incredible moment reading this and I have to share:

I started flipping through the pages looking at the ads. I came across "Hi-Res Soccer" and "Hi-Res Football" by On-line Systems on page 59. Looks like you can order by sending a check to the address in Coarsegold, CA! I laugh because I know where that is...it's a super tiny, backwater town in the Sierra Nevada where some of my family live. I'm amazed someone was using a computer there in 1981.

I decide I am going to send payment in an envelope to that address for one of these games from 1981-- a gag. Maybe if I'm lucky the old guy still lives there and they'll get a kick out of it.

Out of curiosity I decide to see if I can Google street view the address to make sure it's still there and see what it looks like. Google Street view isn't available for that address.

Instead, I Google 'On-line Systems' and the street address just to see what ended up happening to the company before I send my gag letter.

Turns out 'On-line Systems' in Coarsegold, CA was started by Ken and Roberta Williams. They later turned it into Sierra On-Line and moved.

Holy shit. The goofy ad on page 59 eventually grew into Sierra Entertainment.
And JavaScript is milliseconds as well. I think either would be fine, as long as it is an agreed standard. Personally, I use ms, because most programming langs can instantly convert with any additional math. But it probably is wasteful. Then again, 1000 is just a few bits on each...
Totally agree that it is worth it to get a PO box, and I did have one when I was in NYC, but now that I'm backpacking for many months it is hard to keep a PO box renewed. I'm half considering getting a PO box in the town I grew up, simply because I know I will always have people able to check it / keep it active.