jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think that if anything is going to happen, it'll be in the next month and a half. While people are traveling for the holidays, they just might get annoyed enough to precipitate some action. But if the jackbooted thugs can hold off any political action for that long, it'll fade away once the heavy travel days are past.
The transcript reads to me like it's been generated by speech-recognition software, or is a rough draft that has not been cleaned up. There are several other lines that make no sense or seem out of place. Disclaimer: I didn't watch the video, so I'm just speculating.
Have you seen the US defense budget?
What's with the downvotes, people? I agree that Karma points shouldn't be used as a reward, but I think most people here participated because guessing/estimating value of a lunch with pg was a challenging and fun thing to do. Now, is that against HN spirit? Does it deserve a punishment? Relax, geez.
Might as well just wear these for your flights: http://www.bigfeetpjs.com/pajama-sleepwear/201.html

Footy pajamas: no shoes or belt to take off. With the drop seat for easy TSA access.
So, I guess you could just pick up an illiterate guy with good people skills to run a large corporation or be the president?
Linking to a Gist seems evil to me since i make thorough (searchable) backups of my email (which would contain the code) whereas the Gist may or may not be available in a few years time.

As far as highlighting goes, i'm a neckbeard who uses mu4e, so i can load up paredit mode if i want nice editing features in my compose-email pane.

Having said that, i guess there are people for whom this is still a problem in 2014. On the other hand, i'd be unhappy if somebody sent me HTML email containing "highlighted" code.
This is interesting because the gas industry defends the fluid as harmless. A quick look at the ingredients and it doesn't seem that harmless.

- hydrochloric acid: Concentrated hydrochloric acid (fuming hydrochloric acid) forms acidic mists. Both the mist and the solution have a corrosive effect on human tissue, with the potential to damage respiratory organs, eyes, skin, and intestines irreversibly. Upon mixing hydrochloric acid with common oxidizing chemicals, such as sodium hypochlorite (bleach, NaClO) or potassium permanganate (KMnO4), the toxic gas chlorine is produced.

- polyacrylamide: Concerns have been raised that polyacrylamide used in agriculture may contaminate food with the nerve toxin acrylamide.

- Ethylene glycol (the stuff in antifreeze): Ethylene glycol is moderately toxic with an oral LDLO = 786 mg/kg for humans.[8] The major danger is due to its sweet taste. Because of that, children and animals are more inclined to consume large quantities of it than of other poisons. Upon ingestion, ethylene glycol is oxidized to glycolic acid which is, in turn, oxidized to oxalic acid, which is toxic. It and its toxic byproducts first affect the central nervous system, then the heart, and finally the kidneys. Ingestion of sufficient amounts can be fatal if untreated.

- glutaraldehyde: As a strong disinfectant, glutaraldehyde is toxic and a strong irritant

- Isopropyl alcohol (I think this stuff is in aerosol deodorant and hairspray): Isopropyl alcohol and its metabolite, acetone, act as central nervous system (CNS) depressants. Symptoms of isopropyl alcohol poisoning include flushing, headache, dizziness, CNS depression, nausea, vomiting, anesthesia, and coma.
For my part, I am rather disillusioned with data-oriented programming. I admit I haven't spent a lot of time using Clojure professionally, but, in a recent experience of having to learn a large pre-existing codebase, I found that the difference between, "everything is a map," and, "the application's entire data model is a big indistinguishable ball of mud," seems to be commenting discipline. And commenting discipline is always terrible.

Officially, by the book, you're supposed to use data access functions to give everything distinguishable names and keep it clean. What I ran into is that some nice language features for writing code quickly and tersely, such as map destructuring, actively discourage you from doing that. And without that, the difference between a map full of data and a class is that a class has a single file you can read to find out what's in it, while a map may have been built up in a completely ad-hoc manner.

I think the code maintenance story may have actually been a little bit better back when I was using lisp, because lists. It's actively painful to use raw functions like cdadr to unpack your data structures. Whereas assoc-in is a fun toy and encapsulating it so you don't get to use it as much would be a bummer.
So... Looks like the people on group #1 were right all the time. And you are posting this as an answer to somebody telling you that his pet idea will kill the platform and bring law enforcement all over the world into its users.

(What in my impression is the best case scenario, because when I've read about it I could only think about it bringing fraud and extortion into the users.)
Having integrated payments is an excellent way to enable the donations of which you speak.

Note that keybase's payment integration wasn't their own, but was presumably a (paid) advertising deal with the B-list cryptocurrency in question, Stellar.

A lot of organizations that raised a lot of money during the 2017 boom are now trying to turn that into marketshare. Most integrations are paid marketing.
It's been a long time since I have had a look at Android permissions; is there any legitimate usecase for the "BIND_NOTIFICATION_LISTENER_SERVICE" permission used in the app ?
It also feels very wrong that a non-system app would be able to interract with the inline reply field of the notification, is this ability tied to the permission itself ?

In any case, this obviously targets the less savvy users and it would probably be better labelled as "phishing" rather than "wormable".
No. They meant the fading of the sound and mixed it up.
One part of it is that the Japanese police won't arrest someone unless they think they can nail them. A lot of murders may be ruled suicide because there's no convenient scapegoat, he-said-she-said rape cases not pursued, etc.
First comment, forgive me.

"You can't be a storage company without having your own storage solution in backend."

I am not sure that is necessarily true. There are plenty of web hosting resellers who are successful without ever buying a single server or a single line. They've repackaged and re-sold a service. Dropbox can operate in a similar fashion, re-packaging and reselling Amazon's services.
We call it The Aura. Some people have it and some don't.
I think the fear of Android eroding Apple's dominating market position, the mid-term fate of Steve Jobs and the dependence on consumer hardware sales makes some investors hesitant.

Apple carries this aura that is amazing, and the stock is way undervalued IMO.

Apple disrespects and makes it difficult for big companies to do business with them in a way they are accustomed to -- yet probably 30% of the "enterprise" salespeople I run into are carrying iPhones and about 20% are ditching laptops for iPads. That's market power nobody on the market has right now.
I like how you build the tension towards the cliffhanger. ;-)
Yea, the first angle in the video doesn't do it justice. On his blog, he states the entire thing is around 12 feet long. Incredibly impressive stuff, especially the programming needed to get the arm pickup to be so accurate. If you want to see more pictures, descriptions, check out his blog post here: http://tinkernology.blogspot.com/2011/04/quad-flexpicker-nea...
Very well explained. Thanks. And its how I understand it. I see search as having to do with combinatorial exploration and optimization as having to do with exploring vector spaces. You switch to heuristics in search when the space is too big or complex. But I also think that for suitable generalizations of the term one can view search as optimization or vice versa for reasoning purposes. I think there is something philosophical to be said about the fact that metaheuristics work as well as they do.
Please do - I have been following electronic music for a few years now (DI.fm subscriber, head-fi) and never knew about this stuff.
not keeping a general ledger at all

To be fair, you don't need a general ledger if you are setting up a website to trade playing cards. Say an Online eXchange for Magic the Gathering.

Every time an Mt Gox story comes up, the most incredulous thing to me is, why was anyone even expecting these guys to act like a bank? Why did anyone even consider trusting them with actual money?
Just added my first changes through iD, I didn't expect something so simple, functional and ergonomic. Little details like contextual ~pie-menus, geometric operation suggestion for instance segment midpoint as a trigger for insertion, very pretty. Did you work on modeling tools prior to that ?
Hard to imagine it will not:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-apple-and-google-wh...

Google will use Glass to make money from advertisers, -that much is beyond question. PPG is about the least obtrusive (for the user) form of generating this revenue if it can be worked out. It places an emphasis on developing more compelling real world ads as opposed to injecting pop ups or more traditional HUD messaging.

The cool thing for advertisers is that you would only need a statistically significant amount of Glass users to give you localized feedback in order to iterate real world ads for far more people than are doing the measuring.
"Happiness writes white" has always been one of my favorite cliches.
I love the simplicity of the main function:

rewriteTypes(cfg, prog)
rewriteSyntax(cfg, prog)
rewriteLen(cfg, prog)
fixGoTypes(cfg, prog)
renameDecls(cfg, prog)
exportDecls(cfg, prog)
writeGoFiles(cfg, prog)

https://github.com/rsc/c2go/blob/f6c077dd7192b90f4a7ad0a4b8f...
It looks like they all have safety harnesses/ropes. I'd be glad to be wearing a helmet if my jacuzzi were to suddenly drop out from under me.
It's interesting to look at your comment, and look at the nasty comment that it provoked. This is the starting point of a cycle of nastiness.

You could've asked the person to elaborate or be specific, or even contradicted or questioned them- without saying "you lack <important skill>" and "try to <be useful> rather than <being unimportant>".

Why so mean? Was the meanness intentional, or...? Genuinely curious.
...but from a how they work, how to use them, how they interact with the language and what they enable you to do point of view, they aren't difficult at all.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here: I have found it challenging to grasp all of these things (even simply within the context of programming language usage). I guess that is, in the end, rather subjective.
> Entrepreneurs are just people who take a chance in order to make a real difference.

I'd go so far as to say- entrepreneurs are just people who are trying to solve problems. I get annoyed when I hear people ask things like "How do I become an entrepreneur?" in an aspirational way, as though it's some sort of cool club where all the cool kids are hanging out.

An entrepreneur is just a person who's so bothered by a particular problem, who's so dissatisfied with the status quo that she decided to get her hands dirty and make a dent in it.
What about hot air balloon jaccuzzi?
This isn't new

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_and_mental_illness
Oddly I happen to be in India right now. Can still access every site listed. Not sure if it has not rolled out or perhaps foreign internet has less restrictions.
> Where’s the logical fallacy?

This is terrific, thank you. So meta.

Other popular examples:

"Is this some kind or radical new therapy?" from What About Bob? https://youtu.be/0pKymngWgJw?t=50

McNaulty from The Wire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIvsTXnik7Q
That’s the view of people who have grown up during an ever rising market like the last 12 years and think that’s just the way it always is. The picture changes once there is a huge drop in the market like 2000 or 2008. Then the debt may come to haunt you. Especially if you have lost your job during that period.

This may be even fine if you have a well off dad that can support you during hard times. If you don’t have that yi7 will regret the debt for a long time.
So, basically this project is illegal and waiting to be removed from Github then?
Except the whole thing with market being anti-inductive is that you have a non-linear term that's a function of the state of the control system itself!

(I didn't want to suggest some derivative relation - just refer to the "perspectives" mentioned in the topmost comment.)
> Is ZLUDA a drop-in replacement for CUDA?
>
> Yes, but certain applications use CUDA in ways which make it incompatible with ZLUDA

I fail to see how that is a drop-down replacement.

Plus apparently it doesn't support the polyglot CUDA ecosystem.
Im a bit worried about the growing complexity of React. I have the same feeling about certain frameworks, like next.js. they seem to want to make a living and employ a small country constantly introducing new features to these frameworks. I've been using React since 2016 but with the constant intro of new stuff unless you are in the weeds of using this all the time you will quickly grow less adept at the framework over time.
If we're investors, and not gamblers, why do we get an explanation about negative value bets with only gambling examples? It feels like negative value bets don't exist in investment.

You can't say a bet is negative value when you don't know the odds, and the whole reason people are making so much money market making is that no one actually knows the odds, so no one knows the "real" value of any instrument.

If you're trying to say we should come up with an expected value of the bet before making it, why not give an example on how you'd try that?

The reminder of the Kelly Criterion is great, and I think the article would have been better with a little more practical example of how to apply it. The first half of the article feels like it could be condensed to "Gambling is when you pick bad investments" which is ridiculous..
I dont use Signal myself so I’m not inclined to put in the work for that but just wanted to point out that given what you said and the fact that Signal is open source [0] it should then be possible to figure out how they do transfers and adapt that code in order to sync data from Signal on iOS onto your computer. Unless it ties into some feature of iOS itself that provides data transfer between phones in which case it will be more difficult to work out.

[0]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS
Yes. No line/transmission loss; direct heating from combustion.
I didn’t say anything about pricing.
I thought that the point of this syntax was to make the compiler warn you when, what you think is a tail call, in fact isn't one, and demand that the compiler optimizes it; not introduce a completely new control flow construct.
Not quite, they’re insisting all all new vehicles will be electric.

Even at that point it’ll still be decades before electric vehicles make up the majority of road traffic.
I also use Signal but the thing that kills me about it is the lack of RCS support. I love everything on the Signal side but there just is not a realistic way to get people to migrate to it unless they can seamlessly transfer over from Google Messages or the other OEM message apps.
The whitepaper only likens Bitcoin to gold in regards to the emission rate, not to it's supposed usage as "digital gold".

In fact the whitepaper even opens with describing Bitcoin's usage for commerce. The very first paragraph in the introduction!

The narrative has indeed changed to "digital gold" after it's made abundantly clear that Bitcoin is no longer suitable for commerce.
Hybridization can be very good for a species since it introduces new beneficial genes and more diversity. The scientists' warnings are concerning though.
This has also happened at train stations in Melbourne. The music of choice is usually classical. Anecdotally I haven't noticed any specific change in behaviour around the music, but it did and still continues to sound like a good idea to me.
How long its this charity going on? I remember that message in vim for a long time (never made me donate because of it btw. I donated to thank Bram, he did what he want with it.)

My point being that any poor condition that needs external help, and last so long, is most probable being maintained by some other factor irrelevant for the charity results, or being helped in any way by the charity ...or maybe it's just an honest huge mess that indeed that a lot of time.

any word if the money goes to the pockets of the pharma industry, which is the main place to blame for high aids treatment prices?

Most countries ignore some medical patents when they can prove excessive profits, but said country must have means of producing it themselves.
Interesting that the author thought it would take too long to write about lambda functions
Prediction by partial match (PPM) is also very good. The "D" version, which comes within 7zip, gives very good compression.

The longer the text and the more "common", the better.
Matrix is distributed and listens to what users actually want.
Considering the competence of most politicians, I think it would easily solve a lot of problems if they did.
Many audio interfaces also work just fine with Linux OOTB despite there being no official support.

While for microphones (and other audio equipment) there's almost no limit to how expensive you can go, any halfway decent USB microphone should probably be good enough that you're bottlenecked by the application's codec/bitrate.

If you were willing to splurge a bit, you might look at the likes of the Blue Yeti, Rode NT-USB, AKG Lyra, Audio Technica AT2020 USB, or even Shure MV7 which range between $150 and $300.
Didn't Carter blanket-pardon Vietnam deserters without naming them?
I'm not sure why it doesn't mean anything, surely the simple point of the software being written is to automate the task?

Software like this can be used to amplify the productivity and creativity of 50 individuals, or indeed to replace 50 individuals each typing out their own report with 1 individual producing 1 computer program to produce the 50 reports.
From the FAQ:

"Well, it's true that Spine was inspired by Backbone, an excellent library, and its controller API is very similar. However, the similarities end there. Internally the library works very differently. For example, Spine has no need for Collections, which are required for pretty much every model in Backbone. Spine provides a class library, and has very different ideas when it comes to server sync. Lastly, Spine is much simpler and half the size, go and check out the source."

http://maccman.github.com/spine/#h-faq
Urgh, the site had some pretty NSFW ad images in the margins when I loaded it. It would have been nice to have a warning.
Hey folks, I am ajb, the creator of status panic. I had originally created it in a night and it hasn't been updated in a long time. The interest today surprises and shocks me! (Even though it's a fork which is linked..) I was never super happy with how the modules get loaded and the ability to provide dynamic data is, as several have pointed out, a bit lackluster. That said, I've got some ideas for improvement, and am open to pull requests - lets fix the flaws and make it usable! I would love nothing more then to get a screenshot of somebody using statuspanic in a real world environment.

Hacker News, you humble me.
Isn't it clear already that robots are disruptive to the human kind(regarding jobs)?

"Damn robots taking our jobs!" - That's what Jesse Jackson will say 10 years from now.
Actually, I'd say community management needs to be a top priority for any business product, it's just that for open source the community is a bit broader.
Banning online gambling is essentially protectionism of the state-level gambling industries. A number of countries and WTO denounced the US a number of years ago for this policy, but the US just ignores WTO when it's convenient and uses it as a hammer against other countries when it is convenient.
from the FAQ:

> Whoah - your API looks really similar to Backbone. Why should I use this instead?
> Well, it's true that Spine was inspired by Backbone, an excellent library, and its controller API is very similar. However, the similarities end there. Internally the library works very differently. For example, Spine has no need for Collections, which are required for pretty much every model in Backbone. Spine provides a class library, and has very different ideas when it comes to server sync. Lastly, Spine is much simpler and half the size, go and check out the source.
Another reason for keeping the commented-out-code, could be if reverting to a previous version of the code is more work, than checking in a new version. Or when the old commented-out-code is used as an explanation as to why the current code looks as it does.
Thanks! :)
Will use it!
Interesting, I have been hearing of this book for the past year or so and I appreciate this new information; I wonder if any female scholars have expressed interest in translating it?
In a similar vein, the alternative option for 7 was a cyclical dependency introduced since last restart
I'm currently working in the bay area but I got my master degree in China and never attended any colleges in the west.

I was born in a city ranked 45th in China by population (from wikipedia). K-12 is 100%. My grandpa lives in a very small village with annual income just a few thousand dollars, K-12 is also 100%. My close cousins come from the same small village, now bank staffs and doctors.

I have friends who's family so poor that the roof got torn away by a typhoon. And I have friends whose parents are simply peasants.

My friend group is definitely biased since I graduated from one of the top universities, but they are selected by exams, so many families are actually not wealthy. In China money usually cannot help you directly on exams, people need to study hard.

Hmm, another thing I'm curious is that what gives the original post the impression that "Chinese people are uneducated". That's a rare heard haha.
My most recent purchase was a Dell laptop with a 3rd gen i7, 16GB RAM, eMMC accelerated TB magnetic disc, IPS 1080p screen, fingerprint reader, backlit keyboard, blah blah. Weight and battery life fit my usage.

I believe it was somewhere around $800, and is a perfect device for my needs. Spent a few minutes after booting removing the various trials of junk on it.

Colour me clueless, I guess.
Usually it's lidar.
The enterprise revenue is steady and stable because Windows and Office is entrenched. It will be for years to come, but if other platforms gain a strong foothold in enterprise (like iOS and Android seem to be doing now), that stable revenue can quickly shring.

Remember, this is how Microsoft overtook Novell, DEC and the likes that were the kings of business computing in the 80s/90s.

And Apple isn't just one bad iPhone away from being beaten. They have consistently released good updates to their hardware and software for the past 10 years, and have built up a huge, satisfied customer base because of that.
wait. sourceforge is still around? i doubt those that use it read hacker news.
That's fascinating. What did you leave science to do?
> This could be handled with water

D'oh! Of course it can't.
Leave your electronics in the car?

(or some similar strategy if that still seems risky)

But then you have to start worrying about facial recognition.