jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I will omit other comments you made as I might agree on them or not really care that much.

Here is an important (to me!) point that you made:

>I'm not American, so I can't comment on that part. But in general, I agree with you, people need to be more outraged about everything in general. Whether it's something horrible in Russia, or mildly horrible in America, it should spark outrage/action.

You say people need to be more outraged. I say they need to look into things in a balanced way. If you watch Russia TV only and nothing else, there is a very good chance you will be outraged about a few dozen Guantanamo prisoners being tortured not even knowing at all that they media outlet trying to make you angry about it, is at the same time sponsored by organization (KGB, Russian Government) that took part in a genocide of over 1 milion people. If you listen just to Geobbels and never turn on BBC, you are outraged about wrong stuff (you said that), or your opinions are out of balance (that's what I would say).
For me QML/C++ (or other C++ UIs) and Xamarin make much more sense for native mobile coders.

- Better native integration

- Integration with the SDK tooling

- Support of all three major mobile platforms

- Performance

As soon as I saw what React Native offers, it was meh for me.
> Most of us use it because we have to, even though there are much better languages available.

Node's popularity is a pretty dramatic counterexample to that assertion.
...and while we talk about blown minds and algorithms, be sure to watch the beautofully executed Quick-sort with Hungarian (Küküllőmenti legényes) https://www.youtube.com/user/AlgoRythmics/videos
There's nothing objective about that statement, since it depends on what you value. If you value having a language that is supported natively by every browser, I would argue JavaScript is - subjectively - quite fantastic!
Has anyone compared React Native to Appcelerator Titanium?
Your framework seems like a great idea, but I think it should also take into account if a study was done on animals or humans. Even reproducible studies in animals don't seem to translate well to humans in some cases:

http://www.dcn.ed.ac.uk/camarades
This is great, I've always loathed writing lots of messy printf statements to debug my code.

Can it do multi-dimensional arrays?
The article probably should have removed any ambiguity on the way it could have been interpreted. An explanation as to why javascript isn't a good language choice would have been even better.
...with the sub-text being: develop on FF (best tools)... all other browsers are roughly compliant... except for IE, which needs additional testing. Ouch.
I thought they seemed negative, until I remembered that the poster said they couldn't do consulting. It takes the discussion from "I am a skilled programmer looking for work" to "what kind of product should I create and market that will sell immediately," which just isn't a realistic discussion to have. As Bob Frances said in that thread (paraphrasing), if it were that easy, a great deal more people would be doing it.

I think people get this idea that striking it rich with a popular app is easy after reading a bunch of rags-to-riches app developer stories.
So what was the effect/cause??

I've had a continuous problem with sinus infections which always turn into bronchitis if untreated, which means I'm constantly on antibiotics, surgery barely helped, and last summer I tried to "heal myself" without antibiotics -- just for once -- and was doing fine for 1 month while exercising daily and sinus rinsing etc, etc, and after I took a 2-day break from exercise, I got so sick I thought I had pnuemonia, had to go to the emergency room.

I haven't been well since. I am always tired, wheezing, etc., that yes, doctors keep trying to treat as surface issues, with steroid inhalers and nose sprays (that I can't take because I'm extremely sensitive to steroids).

Haven't found a doctor yet who will really look at the whole history and figure out why I am like this now, as opposed to just treating the individual symptoms.

I'm at the end of my rope, too…
I work in the US and have never had a job where there wasn't some kind of signed contract. I'd feel that a company that didn't put its expectations of its employees in writing was somewhat shady.
Note: this means that with the new version of Chromium, none of the web applications using Web Sockets will work. The connection will fail with an error about a protocol mismatch.
I'm nowhere near an experience C coder, but doesn't the in place part mean that you don't create any additional variables or strings and just modify z_terminated? Is that even possible? This is an honest question, because the solution is obvious this way, but a bit harder if you can't create additional variables.
check out your local city and college library resources: e.g. Oreilly safari service in the San Francisco public libraries:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1327953
Time to make myself a nice big cup of illusion!
Depending on who you believe, the scale on the Niger Delta might be slightly out. Not that it changes the overall validity of your argument.

One estimate from Google said 1.5 million tons of oil in Nigeria over 50 years. So that's something like 1.7 billion litres in 50 years, 34 million litres a year. PBS's estimate for BP's Spill, on the OP site, seems to cover the gamut of legitimate estimates put forward to date. It comes out at a range of 79-704 million litres in the Gulf so far.

Of course comparing them in this way is ultimately absurd, which is why I think your original point is still a really valid one.
Aside from the Principality of Sealand, is there a country whose laws reflect your ideology? Genuinely curious.

But to answer your question, apple is first and foremost a US company.
No problem. I felt the same way and just happened to have a little extra time to look into it.
My understanding of "virtue signalling" is that it contains the notion that the proclaimed position isn't sincerely held and that it is professed solely as a performance for others. "Grandstanding" is being loud and performative about your beliefs, but carries no connotation that the beliefs are not sincere.
Lucky 10000: Go look up the etymology of "brainwashing".
I feel your motivation is misdirected.

A Masters/PhD thesis should be in something you're interested in and deeply care about. More than getting a job, it should be about advancing the frontiers of available knowledge in a given field.

If you do really well employers would line up to hire you.
How does NSO and/or it's customers steer clear of CFAA violations? Are they given some kind of perpetual amnesty?

Edit: Oh, they ran up against this just a few weeks ago according to their Wikipedia article. How about that.
It's not, ignore nationalist defending a fascist state.
You appear to be deeply misinformed about what the term McCarthyism means.
Ignoring or tolerating a violent ethno-nationalist ideology isn't going to make things better either.
Emacs 24, released in 2012.
You have implicitly answered the question...and demonstrated the attitude that is the wrong answer.

When experienced people see something that doesn't fit, they often don't immediately know what subconscious cue let them know that something was wrong, and it is often someone else who can supply the critical piece of information. If you want good outcomes, you DO NOT push them to suppress their thought process. Instead you encourage them to speak up, everyone tries to figure it out, and then the final result helps train people's intuition of, "This is OK" and "This wasn't, you were right to wonder what about this situation reminded you of that case we saw last year where someone died."

If you are serious about finding problems, you need to not prematurely shut off feedback. Requiring people who think something doesn't look right to have backed that opinion up before they speak up is a problem.
PS5, XBox Series X, and NVidia have a "GPU Direct I/O" feature.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-io-gpu-acceler...

https://www.amd.com/en/products/professional-graphics/radeon...

The GPU itself can send PCIe 4.0 messages out. So why not have the GPU make I/O requests on behalf of itself? Its a bit obscure, but this feature has been around for a number of years now. The idea is to remove the CPU and DDR4 from the loop entirely, because those just bottleneck / slowdown the GPU.

--------

From an absolute performance perspective, it seems good. But CPUs are really good and standardized at accessing I/O in very efficient ways. I'm personally of the opinion that blocking and/or event driven I/O from the CPU (with the full benefit of threads / OS-level concepts) would be easier to think about than high-performance GPU-code.

But still, its a neat concept, and it seems like there's a big demand for it (see PS5 / XBox Series X).
What a strange metaphor. Why Zeus?

Zeus is known for using violence to get whatever he wanted, and screwing anything that moved (despite being married)
Interesting. Tried it in Pharo. With floats it derails at the same point the Python version derailed in the article. But if you change 4.25 to 17/4, Pharo uses rational numbers and it gives a correct result as far as I bothered to try (it bocomes slow after around 35), iteration 38:

x := [ :n |
n = 0
ifTrue: [ 4 ]
ifFalse: [ n = 1
ifTrue: [ 17/4 ]
ifFalse: [ (1500 negated
/ (x value: n - 2) + 815)
/ (x value: n - 1) negated
+ 108 ] ] ].
Transcript clear.
1 to: 38 do: [ :n |
Transcript show: n;
show:' | ';
show: (x value: n) asFloat;
cr ].

Results:

1 | 4.25
2 | 4.470588235294118
3 | 4.644736842105263
4 | 4.770538243626063
5 | 4.855700712589074
6 | 4.910847499082793
7 | 4.945537404123916
8 | 4.966962581762701
9 | 4.980045701355631
10 | 4.987979448478392
11 | 4.992770288062068
12 | 4.995655891506634
13 | 4.997391268381344
14 | 4.998433943944817
15 | 4.999060071970894
16 | 4.999435937146839
17 | 4.999661524103767
18 | 4.9997969007134175
19 | 4.999878135477931
20 | 4.9999268795046
21 | 4.999956127061158
22 | 4.9999736760057125
23 | 4.999984205520272
24 | 4.999990523282228
25 | 4.99999431395856
26 | 4.999996588371256
27 | 4.9999979530213565
28 | 4.999998771812312
29 | 4.999999263087206
30 | 4.9999995578522585
31 | 4.999999734711332
32 | 4.99999984082679
33 | 4.999999904496072
34 | 4.999999942697642
35 | 4.999999965618585
36 | 4.99999997937115
37 | 4.99999998762269
38 | 4.999999992573614
As long as they are up front about the commute requirements (once a week, once a month, once a quarter, whatever), that's fine. Employees can decide how far away they are willing to live.

I might be willing to do a 90 minute commute once a month, but not once a week. If once a quarter, then I'd even be willing to fly in at my own expense.
If you look at film video projects on Kickstarter, it's mostly documentaries - for which this model works OK because documentaries are often about something that has an interest group already attached, as well as much lower production costs and quality expectations - short films, which are raising small amounts and generally just using Kickstarter to funnel donations from friends & family, or instructionals, which aim to produce educational content. It's not at all good for feature films. There are some crowdfunding sites that are a bit better but the more friendly they are to features the more likely they are to be targeted within the industry. I laid out some reasons in another post above, I should have mentioned that those are all narrative feature-specific things.
I don't know about that. If you accept an ontological argument as valid, what it gives you is a god who's maximally perfect in every way. So then if you want to show (e.g.) that he answers prayers, all you have to do is to argue that answering prayers is more perfect than ignoring them.

Descartes gives a kinda-ontological argument for the existence of God, and then he does indeed very rapidly move to deducing useful properties of God from it -- e.g., that he wouldn't allow us to be systematically deceived about everything. It's the basis of his whole epistemology, at least ostensibly.

Whereas, say, a first-cause argument tells you there's something that's in some sense the cause or origin of the universe, but you've got a whole lot of work to do to get from there to anything relevant to actual religious belief. (Though, e.g., William Lane Craig does somehow manage to keep a straight face when transitioning at lightning speed from "something caused the universe to begin to exist" to "and that something must be personal, enormously powerful, etc.)

(Lest I be misunderstood, I'll add that I think both ontological and cosmological arguments fail badly, and that neither of them either manages to give much reason to believe in a maximally perfect being / first cause / whatever, or to believe that such a being if it existed would have anything much to do with the gods of traditional religions. But it's not my purpose to litigate any of those claims here -- Goedel's argument is much more interesting than any I'd make.)
Slight tingling in the fingers could mean RSI too. Most people get RSI and not carpel tunnel.

http://www.amazon.com/Its-Carpal-Tunnel-Syndrome-Professiona...
Just out of curiosity, have you tried StumpWM? It was also created by Shawn Betts; the idea was essentially to rewrite ratpoison in lisp.
This is apparently not available in my country (Brazil) ...

Whatsapp
version 2.11.476
updated on 16 jan 2015

I guess it's only limited to US and other regions.
Most people just read Piketty to page 26 anyway. So anyone claiming they read it, probably not.

The Summer's Most Unread Book Is…
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-summers-most-unread-book-is-...

""Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas Piketty: 2.4%
Yes, it came out just three months ago. But the contest isn't even close. Mr. Piketty's book is almost 700 pages long, and the last of the top five popular highlights appears on page 26. Stephen Hawking is off the hook; from now on, this measure should be known as the Piketty Index."
I don't see that as a negative suggestion: that's a fantastic idea, and for all we know, a Slack employee will read your post, and make their hashing even better. :-)
I believe there is some confusion in the article about whether non-halting Turing machines are properly called "Turing machines"; that is, the author seems to use the phrase "Turing machine" to refer only to halting machines.

> Not each of these ways end up being Turing machines since a Turing machine, by definition, must have a finite number of operations that end with a halting state.

By contrast, a more accepted definition of a Turing machine is given:

> An n-card Turing machine is a machine that has a control unit (as seen above) that transitions between n discrete states until it reaches the halting-state.

Note that this definition states that the Turing machine no longer transitions once it has reached the "halting state" [1] but it should not be read to imply that a machine must actually reach the halting state after finitely many operations.

The article could be corrected by replacing "Turing machine" in the problematic statement with "Turing machine which halts"; or by making explicit the notion of a candidate BBTM as a TM which must halt.

As for the current reading of the statement, it is incorrect given that there are in fact [4(n+1)]^2n possible binary n-state TMs given the formalization used in the article, although there are many symmetries which could reduce that number.

[1] The distinction between "a" halting state and "the" halting state is immaterial, since you can view states which specify "HALT" either as many distinct halting states or all leading to a singular state, halting.
If you start in Swift, at some point you're going to need to understand Objective-C whether you're using Cocoapods or reading questions on Stack Overflow.

Objective-C is a lot more verbose and Swift is a lot friendlier from a programming standpoint but Obj-C isn't going anywhere anytime soon so if you choose Swift, plan to get used to reading Obj-C.

That being said, I would choose Swift.
If someone was able to get access to the user table I would believe it is trivial for them to download the chatlogs/ mine other information from database.

May be slack wants us to believe only a small part of the data is hacked , I dont know .

We have been using Slack for many projects over last year and it helps improve productivity
Adding nutmeg to taste to savory foods is actually very early modern of you, as it happens! It was the last of the medieval spices to retain a prominent place in 18th century cuisine (besides pepper of course). For instance it shows up over one hundred times in "The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy" (1784):

https://books.google.com/books?id=dYIEAAAAYAAJ&dq=nutmeg&q=n...
172.16.1.199:22
This seems like classic Hixie.
If github spent their time so that their site raised absolutely no basic questions, then they'd still be in beta by now.
This article is several months old. Are people happy with the 2.8 release? Is now a good time to adopt Scala and to start using Scala in production?
Why do VCs refuse? Aren't VC's subject to the same equity equation rationale? Is there a difference between the answer they would give and the real answer?
when I read the title I thought it was talking about http://pulseapp.com/ which I could see raising $800k ... but a news reader? I don't find pulse to be THAT amazing.
They probably briefly overlooked a problem while busy drinking whiskey and opening doors for ladies. As soon as the issue came to light, someone kicked the server with their hard shoe and brought it back online.
OpenTable is 24/7 and from the customer's perspective, instantaneous. A phone-based backend would not be able to compete.
It'd be nifty if these were hyperlinked to the actual Google Maps location, so we could then explore around them.
No, the solution is either for consumers to purchase from trusted stores only, or for a company to take over the role of arbitrageur between buyer and seller -- for a fee, of course.

Basically splitting the functionality of PayPal into two: 1) payment processing and 2) dispute resolution.
Re: the out-of-the-box auth solution, I actually open sourced this based on another thread similar to this from a few weeks ago:

https://github.com/secretkeysio/jelly-actix-web-starter

I built it because I was _also_ frustrated with the same level of abstraction you mention. Granted, I do agree that that Django/etc are more feature-rich, and that's definitely not getting replaced overnight.
I feel the same way. If I need performance, I'm going to use something like C, C++ or Rust. If I don't care about performance, I'm going to use something as high level as possible, like Haskell (and probably still end up getting performance better than Python, and probably only one order of magnitude away from C).

Python seems to be in this weird middle area where it's not performant, but it's still more low level[0] than languages like Haskell and OCaml. If you don't need performance, you should go as high level as practically possible!

[0] - By low level, I mean things like having to manually write loops, deal with state, etc. More succinctly: "A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."
I dont think the person you responded to was thinking about driving vs busses.

Basically, you are 16 and want to spend whole weekend out of house including during the night. Not doing it without parental permission seems normal to me.

Nor it seems new. My gradma or grandpa definitely could not just spend whole night and weekend away just by own decision. They would expect my parents to ask them for permission. I was expected the same.
What about the Acadian peoples? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Acadians

EDIT: You can downvote all you want, it won't change what happened.
> I believe that the overwhelming factor of why something does or does not become popular is simply chaotic luck.

This seems to me a bit like saying, "That color isn't cerulean, it's blue." Describing the specific instances of serendipity that have led to Python's continuing success doesn't imply that it wasn't dumb luck. It's just a way of saying, "Here's an interesting bit of dumb luck."
Agreed. Well put.
I wonder if anyone has any theories as to why? Assuming it's true that technological innovation peaked in the mid 40s/50s, it begs the question why it has ground to such a halt now.

Recognizing that is a big assumption of truth, would anyone here be willing to posit an explanation?
This will almost certainly be bad for most everyone but company shareholders, unfortunately.
Reminds me of the "great filter" hypothesis that all highly intelligent species develop technologies that destroy them before they find a way to spread on a galactic scale.
Because of this article I discovered "Mind Forever Voyaging" which I started playing on my lunch break. I'm pretty floored that a text adventure like this was around in 1985.
For one, minimizing disability-adjusted life years lost. Of course it's not perfect and making this the the only criterium would be morally wrong, but it's definitely more fair than going by bank accounts.

Quote (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_year):

>The methodology is not an economic measure. It measures how much healthy life is lost. It does not assign a monetary value to any person or condition, and it does not measure how much productive work or money is lost as a result of death and disease. However, HALYs, including DALYs and QALYs, are especially useful in guiding the allocation of health resources as they provide a common numerator, allowing for the expression of utility in terms of dollar/DALY, or dollar/QALY.

This is already widely in use btw, it's not exactly a new idea.
Really impressive. Do you plan to implement an API like Amazon, Google that lets you generate TTS for price?
Isn't this true of any coronavirus, not just COVID-19?
Eh it's debatable but I don't think this is entirely accurate.

WiFi is very good at maintaining maximum transmission rates. High power is needed when doing stuff like QAM64 over the air.

If wifi was louder than it needed to be, you wouldn't have to be mere feet away from the router to get maximum speed.

Wifi bands are saturated because there's so little spectrum for a widely used service. Everyone has multiple wifi transmitter in their house yet there's only enough spectrum for three non-overlapping channels.

Imagine there was enough spectrum for 30-40 wifi channels. There would be hardly any overlap and everybody would have better range. Maybe 500-1000 feet line of sight.
Most federal CFAA penalties have been far lower than 5 years.
I like those words. Execution, decision making, etc. But can you explain a bit more? What about those concepts, eg. setbacks, are you saying?
> It’s also not the case in 99% of US claims.

So is it just sampling bias that we hear constant stories outside the US of everything from broken legs to cancer patients being denied coverage or being covered but having life destroying out of pocket costs? Because it really is constant.
> (ie any actor is worse off by deviating)

I don't think you quite understood what I was saying: that decreasing your transmit power can actually lead to better overall network performance for you (and your neighbors) without requiring any corresponding change in strategy from your neighbors. Therefore it is not always an equilibrium (this may depend on the severity of local congestion).
> genetic imperative of reproduction and self-preservation.

As we can see with 7+ billions people on earth (or lemmings) too much reproduction threatens self-preservation, hence my previous comment.

If we take out any emotion and go by pure logic, a virus culling the herd doesn't seem to be a bad thing.

Now I'm like anyone else, I'd rather not be culled but I understand that if we don't find solutions, nature will.