jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
public static int MaxNum (int x, int y, int z)

This is not a mathematical formula. It is a declaration of intent to name some code that takes three ints and returns an int 'MaxNum'. It says nothing about what the code can, should or must do.

Now, if you've come up with some novel way to perform some computation on three integers and produce an integer:

- you might be able to patent that procedure.

- you might write some code that performs that procedure, and you would hold a copyright over that specific set of code

- you might, I suppose, name your algorithm 'MaxNum' and declare a trademark over it

But I don't think any of those could prevent someone from writing

public static int MaxNum (int x, int y, int z)

in another codebase.

- your patent protection might limit their ability to make a substantially similar implementation of such a function

- your copyright protection might prevent them from literally copying your implementation word for word

- your trademark protection might prevent them from passing off their implementation of MaxNum as if it were yours

But in no way does this have anything to do with the uncopyrightability of mathematics.
Yeah there definitely feels like having a "maximum compensation" for any individual involved with a non-profit should be considered. Lots of horror stories around about people abusing the system. That being said I'm pretty sure things are ironclad that you cannot sell stock in a non-profit.
I see it as more of providing a false signal of adoption or success: if people need the friction to be as little as clicking a single button to "sign up" then they're not very convinced or committed to trying something new and likely not willing to invest time actually engaging with the system; all major platforms today used tricks or first mover mechanics for engagement to keep enough people on the platform long enough to make it sticky, rather than adding or creating or providing a wide breadth of usefulness/function to a wide variety of demographics - providing candy to the 80% at very low cost of ingredients vs. creating something of quality (product and service); dumb inflammatory sugary candy vs. quality nutrients that is trying to milk clicks and time engaging on a platform attempting to control and retain a user every moment.
Figuring out my own way to make and play music has profoundly changed my life.

It gives me something infinity mutable for my mind to play around in, without having to be wired into the rest of the world.

I make electroacoustic music with instruments and playing methods of my own design. There is so much untapped sonic territory.
>we have an income sufficient to rely on instacart and delivery for food.

Aside from all the other self righteous defenses of authoritarian measures due to your personal, in my view health paranoid views on COVID, this section above was particularly self indulgent. Who delivers your food? Your lockdown notions don't apply to them because, "oh, but I need to have my meals"?

Also, very basic thing: a vanishingly small percentage of the world's population can afford to totally lock down at home for more than a few days. They literally need to be on the streets and among crowds nearly every single day just to barely scrape by. I live in a developing country and few things about privileged, middle class WFH-capable people's lockdown arguments gall more than this absurd accidental or willful ignorance of how 80% of the planet lives.

Finally, most of Canada's population is vaccinated. Those that aren't had every opportunity to be and simply chose not to. What credible reason is there for any continuing lockdown nonsense given this? Simple reflex? Emotional paranoia? Please explain.
Yes, obviously. Although admitting to casual drug use will pretty much ensure that you won’t get hired.

I think you know damn well that jobs requiring a security clearance are a special case. It really doesn’t make sense to bring this up in a general conversation about jobs.

> And lying to your employer about things like drug use will get you fired faster than just about anything else.

If your employer is the DoD, sure. If you work for a normal company, they’ll never find out unless you have a real problem (or are stupid enough to advertise it).
Ha, wrong assumption(sic) on my side. He's been part of the research side of things for so long. To my defense his publications are in the form of research papers.
When you buy a ticket, you're entering into a contract with the airline. See pg. 11 here for the relevant bits: http://www.united.com/web/format/pdf/Contract_of_Carriage.pd...
You are absolutely right when it comes to using ECMAScript 6 natively. It will officially become a standard in mid 2015. By then modern browsers should have implemented most of it, but it will be years until legacy browsers go away. It feels to me that (for most projects) we can just now rely on ECMAScript 5 being there everywhere.

On the other hand, there are already a few decent solutions for transpiling ECMAScript 6 to ES5 [1]:

* Traceur (there are Traceur-based plugins for Grunt, Gulp, browserify, webpack, etc.): https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler

* 6to5: https://6to5.org/

* es6-transpiler.js: https://github.com/termi/es6-transpiler

Using those tools results in a workflow that is much like using CoffeeScript.

[1] http://www.2ality.com/2014/08/es6-today.html
Sometimes it just sounds better. Why it does is an interesting question for linguists.

"To boldly go where no man has gone before"

"We are determined to completely and utterly eradicate the disease."

"She wants to gradually get rid of her teddy bears."

"Writers should learn to not split infinitives."

It's also not always possible to eliminate the split infinitive, or the infinitive, without changing the direct or implied meaning of the sentence. "She wants to get rid of her teddy bears gradually" works fairly well.

"Boldly going where no man has gone before" is close, but doesn't capture the same challenge, summons, call to action as the original. Nor does it sound as pleasing.
It seems like they use the higher fares to the middle destination to compensate for the higher costs per person of the less popular leg.

It's all a complicated algorithm but they have to provide reasonably reliable flights to all of the destinations that they serve in case someone gets bumped. (or they'll have to pay out huge fines to each passenger.)
Showing (L-R) of the Fourier magnitude is actually one of the settings I like to use when showing music in baudline[1]. I use it to see how some songs utilize the audio spectrum and stereo effects a lot easier to see when showing the difference between the channels instead of the usual side-by-side.

I wonder what it would look like to encode the phase as a hue rotation (HSV). Probably a mess of colors in most cases, I would guess.

[1] http://www.baudline.com/manual/channel_mapping.html#channel_...
I've tried making this point before, but you've made it in a way I've always failed to. When police approach a situation fulfilling the role of the individual ready to respond to an incident, it almost seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Remember that it's not always about comfort, sometimes it genuinely is about usability. Consider Skeuocard [0]: it's much easier to enter information when the place you're entering it looks like the place you're reading it from.

[0]: http://kenkeiter.com/skeuocard/
More discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813138
Agreed. I think she found something worth exploring, but went about it in the worst way possible.
Hmmm. What can I say?

Very beefy modular tabletop gantry; AC servos; Automatic Tool Changer; probably 3HP CAT 30 or 40 spindle; coolant; Rigid tapping; weight in the 500 to 1000 lbs range.

No, it's not your typical DIY 80-20 t-slot machine on eBay. This is intended as a serious step up from something like a Tormach without having to spend $100K+.

No ETA yet.
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/571104059861524480
Also, I don't care what my taxi looks like.
By the way, this isn't some theoretical situation. Box did exactly what I'm describing. Even in a frothy Fed-fueled stock market, they IPO'd at a lower valuation than their last private market round, which I'm sure was full of all sorts of balance sheet gimmicks, and the stock has been on a downward trajectory since.
Ho this is sad.
One of my favorite game was motherload (https://www.miniclip.com/games/motherload) before Minecraft was a thing.

And this is what really got me into programming, I created a clone (https://github.com/Sytten/MineDeeper) in C++ when I was in high school in 2012 (I even did fancy smart pointer stuff before it was cool).
See https://www.developpez.net/forums/d1276790-2/applications/de... for a screenshot in desktop mode.

I made friends on this French dev community that even became IRL friends and that I later visited when I visited France.

So many memories, farewell!
any idea if podman will support GPU? I couldn't get it to work.
Very interesting. First of all here's a youtube video associated with the paper -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2IebCN9Ht4 . Second some on here have posted about the Svegedy, Goodfellow, and Shlens paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6572 which discusses the opposite effect. The Svegedy research is mentioned in the Nguyen paper and specifies that given an image that is correctly classified in a DNN, you can alter that image in a way imperceptible to a human to create a new image that will be INCORRECTLY classified. The Nguyen, Yosinski, et al. work that's the subject of this post states that given a DNN that correctly classifies a particular image, you can construct a gibberish image that the DNN will classify as the same image.

Both results are interesting from the point of DNN construction, and there have been some papers suggesting ways to counter the effects specified in the Svegedy research. In practice (as others have mentioned) in order to construct an exploit similar to the one described in this post, you'd need to have a lot of knowledge about the DNN (e.g. weights) that an external attacker wouldn't have.

What this does leave open, though is a disturbing way for someone with internal access to a DNN doing important work (e.g. object recognition in a self-driving car) to cause significant damage.
No, no, no. He's half smugly trying to tell you to always use you because you is what you respond to when you read.

The most interesting topic everybody likes to hear about: theirself.
Haven't actually tried it but it looks like it doesn't allow for nebulous plans. Lots of plans start out only half formed at best. Say you want to go to the beach. Your only time constraint may be some weekend soon. However your friend might want to tag along and he's only available on a certain Sunday. Purchase plans can be even more nebulous. You could want to purchase a new laptop but you friend tells you that Apple has a big announcement coming up so you decide to wait until after that.
I made the mistake of skimming over the post.

1. I can't speak for everyone out there, but I'm guessing that most of the people out there have no interest in this drama. This is high-school theatrics played out by so-called grown-ups. I skimmed it because I had made the mistake of reading Arrington's post about it; I guess I was assuming two wrongs make a right... ;)

2. Most of the post is about the launch of his "LAUNCH" conference. The title of the post ("why I'm suing Arrington") has nothing to do with the meat of the post, LAUNCH. It becomes clear quickly that the title was deliberately inflammatory to garner attention.

Word of advice to Jason and Mike: enough with the drama. If you want to do something interesting, please make it interesting in its own right and stop this name-calling and theatrics. This is HN, not TMZ.
We have a great sysadmin at work, and I've learned 3 very important lessons:

Have redundant everything.
Backup everything.
Provide tools to talk to production systems, databases, but make them read only and make it hard to mess with production systems unless you're reallllllly sure you know what you're doing.
Modern GPUs do have a full set of integer instructions, they just don't run as fast as floating point instructions.

Depending on how well a problem maps to the massively parallel architecture of a GPU, this may not matter.
The 2 years are no strict requirement. If you apply for a job + I like your programming test, you are interviewed.

Regarding the CV: give us whatever you have. I personally won't read it, eventually somebody in HR might - but it's not used to filter applications.

The other day we even looked at a 20-year old highschool student, because he looked promising. Neither CV nor experience. We didn't take him for a bunch of reasons, but that's another story.
I used to feel this way for first 6 years of my career when I was working for other people and doing pretty well. But to myself I used to think - am I really good.

But ever since I became an entrpr I feel totally natural & confident in doing what I m doing. I guess its also about are you really you are totally passionate about. If yes - you are to absorbed in it that you dont have time for these things
Of course, just stop replying.
You're probably on the wrong team, can you change? The developers are probably pretty good, but talent and attitude are completely orthogonal. My guess is that there's one or two folks on the team that have this sort of negative mindset naturally, and they've infected the whole team with this style of interaction.

Maybe it's for political reasons, or maybe it's just their own personal insecurity. Bottom line is that you're not doing yourself any real favors being around them. They are not the gatekeepers for engineering expertise. There's plenty of other great developers to study, look up to, and emulate.
The only questions I've regretted are the ones I didn't ask. If you don't understand something, speak up and ask about. Maybe it will cause some of these "rockstars" to think less of you, but honestly I much prefer working with people who take the time to ask a question when they don't know something, rather than trying to figure it out themselves, getting it wrong, and creating twice as much work along the way.

For what it's worth, all the smartest people I've ever met are not the ones bragging about everything they know, but the ones who are constantly asking questions and trying to learn more about everything.
FYI everyone here, this is not even sync. It's a drag and drop to upload applet :)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...

"Note: The Cloud Drive Sync application (formerly, the "Cloud Drive desktop application") is no longer available for download. If you already have the application installed on your computer, you can continue to use it. However, if you uninstall the application, you won't be able to reinstall it from the website."
applied science?
I'm there too. I often measure myself against the fact that Einstein invented the theory of relativity in his early 20s. Meanwhile, I'm 30 now with a Masters degree in CS that I feel is worthless, writing what amounts to string concatenating programs all day at work.

The only thing that keeps me sane, really, is a combination of doing iphone development after hours and playing with arduino. It also helps that I have an amazing wife who is unrelenting in pointing out my accomplishments, however worthless I may think they are.
"We chose 50 based on the research of Oxford Professor of Evolutionary Psychology Robin Dunbar, who has long suggested that 150 is the maximum number of social relationships that the human brain can sustain at any given time. Dunbar’s research also shows that personal relationships tend to expand in factors of roughly 3. So while we may have 5 people whom we consider to be our closest friends, and 20 whom we maintain regular contact with, 50 is roughly the outer boundary of our personal networks. These are the people we trust, whom we are building trust with, and whom we consider to be the most important and valued people in our lives."
who is going to disrupt the restaurant business by offering both the web-based POS AND reservation system bundled into a single product/service?

solves the problem of having access to seating data and provides a compelling upgrade option compared to alternatives. hardware just needs to be a "dumb" Internet terminal (likely with a touch screen and print capabilities).
Microsoft is being foolish about Silverlight so you might be right but on the facts themselves you are just wrong.

HTML5 has gotten to the point where I think we can safely assume there won't be major new features added. Meaning HTML5 won't be able to...

- Record audio and video

- Support advanced video features like overlays

- Support pay media features like tracking, DRM, etc...

- Support out of browser experience (though I suppose each browser could implement this)

- Support multi-threading (though I suppose each browser could implement this)

- and others I can't think of off the top of my head

So either Flash or Silverlight will still have a future long after everyone's using HTML 5 based browsers. The question is whether Microsoft can capitalize on Flash's diminishing position and use successes like Netflix to supplant Adobe.

(Which is why I said Microsoft is being stupid by not giving Silverlight more support)
They have (or had) a service to ship them media (stack of harddrives) for data transference. Good if you'll be using the same data for a while.

AWS doesn't solve every computing infrastructure problem, it's still awesome.
1. People who cannot wait and honk even if they see that I am waiting for people to cross the crosswalk and not just blocking the intersection. For the record, I do NOT like to block the intersection. #MarylandUSADrivers
Do you hire mainly in Germany? I'm curious about working abroad for a while (Australian work holiday, mainly) and am interested in the the opinions on hiring a US citizen.
Nope it's just our own CSS/HTML
Location: Long Beach, CA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes (USA only)

Technologies: Python 3, Flask, HTML/CSS, Bash, Emacs Lisp ... Inform 7

Résumé/CV: www.maxwelljoslyn.com/static/mjoslyn-hackernews-resume.pdf

Email: maxwelljoslyn@gmail.com

Website: www.maxwelljoslyn.com

Experience: computational linguistics research, text adventure development & design, writing, Chinese translation (writing, not speech)

Looking for: junior backend engineering, research, technical writing, Chinese translation
> the commercial paper market has frozen

This is similar to when companies continually complain about a "talent shortage" from not able to hire people, when the real reason is that they just don't want to pay market rates. There is an easy answer to obtaining business credit - pay the current interest rates, which have gone up due to uncertainty. Instead, the Fed is telling everyone that interest rates are even lower because they want to perpetuate the stock market bubble.
> characterizing any anti-racist efforts as..

I know what a dog-whistle is, I'm asking why you think you know OP is referring to "anti-racist efforts".

> This sort of cherry picking..

What are you referring to as "this"? my comments? I don't see the words you quoted (""just asking some questions").
Not for most commercial planes, no. Slightly off topic, as the number of planes is very small, but I have seen Russian load masters of old Russian military cargo planes applying some, let's say creative, ways of loose loading them.

I still prefer the properly controlled and planned way, so.
This is anecdotal but the few documentaries I’ve seen on the early retirement people have mainly been about living really cheap, learning useful craftsmanship skills for fixing/improving homes and growing/making a lot of their foods from the basic ingredients.

I think those skills will actually be rather useful now. A lot of them seem to be living off the revenue that talking about and selling their books on F.I.R.E. rather than the actual investments.
My investment in 100 pallets of toilet paper isn't crashing
> There is no Moore's Law in optics & batteries.

Our optics are already quite good, I don't think we need higher resolution cameras, just higher-speed cameras. I don't think this is impossible, we just don't have the processing power to deal with them yet.

For batteries, we already have some hope with the solid-state batteries of Goodenough.

We would still need more compute than this I believe, but this should get us close.
How do you write an article on skeletal animation, and have zero examples of what that skeletal animation looks like?
I think it is basically inevitable that a cure/vaccine will be found. That's not to downplay it, obviously the teams involved will deserve huge congratulations and will have done something great and it is badly needed. But the real test is how we handle it until that cure/vaccine becomes available, which is certainly something that a lot of places are struggling with, particularly here in the UK where we spent weeks spectating on our neighbours struggling with it and racking up deaths (particularly in Italy) before realising that exponential growth also works here.
Technical analysis has validity - it is just patterns and data. It isn't perfect, because outcomes are still variable, and also consist of independent human decisions.

A pandemic is an edge case... However, markets react much more quickly than in the past (algorithms, global data, instant analysis of that data) - that technical analysis short term timelines have compressed.

If you want statistical breakdowns of each pattern, their movements, and outcomes - this book is a great reference. https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Chart-Patterns-Thomas-Bu...
I didn't say they aren't capable of it. I said the existing solutions are already good enough and will be lower cost. You need some kind of differentiator if you want to display streaming media on an airplane. The only differentiator they could have is lower cost, but it looks like their costs will be far higher given the cutthroat industry of the airlines.
Note that I was very much not talking about downtown (Manhattan has garages). I was talking about mixed residential/commercial immigrant neighborhoods far from downtown. The places where ordinary people would go to shop for their country's authentic groceries.
Through inflation from real estate into productive economy for example.
Thank you for this fantastic feedback. We will discuss all of these points as a team.

Really appreciate it!
(Apologies to anyone who's heard this before.)

The self-driving car (or "auto-auto") is a kind of sci-fi fetish.

What I want, and what could be built today I think, is a self-driving golf cart, covered in nerf and airbags, that doesn't go any faster than five or ten mph. It can do things like take seniors to and from the pharmacy or doctor appointments safely.
> However, you are not the king of open source

I am, however, the king of my own computer, and this software does not respect my sovereignty.
Aside from having an admin UI, would you be willing to talk a bit about how caprover is easier to use than dokku?

Feel free to hit up the `@dokku` twitter account, catch us on the gliderlabs slack (https://glider-slackin.herokuapp.com), or even provide feedback in the Discussions section of the primary Github repository (https://github.com/dokku/dokku/discussions).

(I am the dokku maintainer).
seems more like a bad copy and paste situation to me. it's sort of what you get when you pay for the lowest bid for contractors.
Handy guide, thx!

A bit overkill but, a gui to hand-hold old folks like me would handy. Perhaps an addin for blender could work - since it's video handling chops are growing bigger every day?

> I'm an engineering manager at Google Stadia

That's gotta be an interesting gig!
Hardly. My "access" bill is $20/mth, but my panels give $350/yr more to the grid than I use. PGE gives me like $30 of that back at the end of the year. So that $12 / $20 doesn't tell the whole story. They are also likely giving a lot more renewable energy to the grid that isn't compensated and is more like another $30/mth of cost.