jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm actually quite interested in knowing what type of transparency you are looking for and how it will help you as a customer/user of etacts? Seriously - I realize we all have an innate selfish desire to hear the details of the deal (myself, more than most, I suspect) - but in terms of the etacts guys being transparent with their user base, so their users know what next steps to take - what else should they have done/what would you have liked them to do for you?
>telecoms form natural monopolies.

Perhaps, though the it's of little relevance given all the government-granted monopolies. It would be nice to see "net neutrality" legislation advocates first look at what extant legislation interferes with competitive forces before proposing further legislation.
That's an article by Taubes partially explaining how the consensus that fat makes you fat came about and why that was a departure from the mainstream up to that point, but, uh, you are aware that Taubes has been just about crucified for those opinions? The article you cite is itself a non-mainstream article, you can't cite it as an example that the mainstream scientists have "always known" this. No, in fact mainstream scientists all over the place have been insisting that Taubes and Atkins and everybody else claiming it's actually carbs are not just wrong but evil for saying so. If this shift is actually made (which is still not a done deal), it will in fact be a consensus shift, one where the evidence has been available for centuries that the consensus was wrong, but a consensus was manufactured anyhow.
It is really simple since the core of the project is just a catchall email account and a cron job to purge emails after 24 hours. The hard part I am still working on is decoding emails, 7bits or 8bits, UTF8, ISO-*, etc. and handling attachments.

All built using AppEngine, python, webapp and notepad2.
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Quite disappointed in the way Etacts handled this. here I was disappointed on their behalf not knowing they had sold. The best they could/should have done is to say we are selling and we are shutting down. That is the proper thing to do, period. We as customers/users deserve that much.

Why the secret? Especially if the news was still going to come out!
Even if your goal is to pursue knowledge for it's own sake, the manned moon missions were enormously wasteful.

Sending a robotic probe to collect moon rocks would have been worthwhile. But sending humans to do the same job was far more costly and provided very little additional scientific value.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28linear_algebra%29

If you have a linear transformation from one vector space to another, the kernel is the part of the domain that maps to the zero vector in the range. Intuitively, if you have a function that satisfies certain properties, the kernel is the part that it collapses to "zero".
You could start with a simple raytracer? They're considered small enough to be an intro undergrad project, but it's still a very substantial amount of work.
Congress can't make retroactive laws, this case is basically done and Google won't have to pay for their use of Java that occured/occurs prior to the passing of a new law. Oracle doesn't have a vested interest in ruining copyright for everyone in the future if they can't get past damages out of it. That would hurt themselves as much as it would hurt everyone else.

I'm pretty confident that Oracle rolls over on this issue permanently.
LG should've gone out years ago. Hindsight is 20/20 but it just wasn't worth it after G6 in my opinion. Obviously, G4 was when they should've really stopped but that's much harder to predict.
Fear of dogs is psychological, you can work it out through therapy.
Peanut allergies are physiological, words wouldn't really help you there.
until now when there is so little of it on my Newsfeed I forget there are apps

Recently I thought of trying out a few facebook games, just to see how things have progressed.

I literally could not figure out how to find the games. I have no "games" icon on the left toolbar as I deleted it a while back, and there is seemingly no way to navigate to a list of popular games from anywhere on the site.

I thought that was strange.
Jon Udell's narrated animation of the collaborative process behind Wikipedia Heavy Metal Umlaut article is hilarious and captivating in a similar way:

http://jonudell.net/udell/gems/umlaut/umlaut.html

He makes the case that a million tiny edits by different people over time really can construct something magnificent and structured.
Pretty simple: This article has nothing to do with what happened, only conjecture with hindsight. How many phone calls, or little decisions guided facebook through its early months? Many. Trying to pin down a reason why one site won out over another is just crazy. Things are not 3 variable functions, they are much more complex.
Ironically some input from Rudel was apparently used during the development of the A-10. At least this is mentioned on the Wikipedia page linked above.
There is only one list that RT and Al Jazeera belong in together; the "what two news organizations are polar opposites of each other?" list.

Anyway, the point is diversity, not supremacy. Don't watch BBC or Al Jazeera because it's supposedly "better" than US media; watch because its bias is in different areas. All it does is help you in evaluate a different point of view. Worst case, you hear the same thing twice.

Except RT. That's just trash.
I don't think your description of how humans recognize things is true. You can do object recognition of a silhouette, or a 2D image, or an impressionistic rendering. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429132231.ht...
All I know is that Russia, China, Iraq, Iran, Syria, etc. -- regularly experience "connectivity issues" <g>...

If a currency relies on a network to support it, that currency is only as good as the underlying network...

In other words, if the underlying network is useless -- so is the currency...

Here, watch this, a Rick and Morty cartoon segment that will explain it better than I can:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mweTc7tDO3I

(Disclaimer: I do not endorse any messages of violence that this Rick and Morty cartoon segment may imply.

There's a quote in the Bible (and I am not a particularly religious man or anything!), and that quote is

"Be ye as wise as serpents, yet as gentle as doves".

I am not a particularly religious man or anything -- but I take that particular quote to heart! <g>)
I see a distinct MAGA party arising. The republicans shot themselves in the foot. Every single republican who turned their back on Trump should not get reelected.
From what I see on my Nintendo switch they are interested in different types of games. PC and consoles games seem to be more action. Nintendo has a ton of more old school types of games like JRPGs and platformers. There are also some creepy Japanese games I see, not sure what’s the game play is like. I can’t even describe what they are other than having flirty Anime type girls.
“Crypto is way more than payments, it's an entirely new financial system outside the control of existing governments and corporations.”

And yet, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, are valued in US Dollars or other established currencies, and traded/exchanged for “real currencies” to spend as you’ve dismissed the importance of transactions.

Governments can regulate crypto, and corporations will form to control them.
Yesterday was the first time in four years I was tempted to call bottom. I hesitate to be sure, but I think it's more likely than not that we hit bottom yesterday and that the next two weeks and inauguration won't be worse.
If you're building, and paying people in stock, then people can't trade that stock, and they can't buy food with it. So they'll go elsewhere where they get compensation they can buy food with.
I think automation can reduce the dependency on humans but it can't completely eliminate it. People don't use maids because they lack washing machines, microwaves, and food delivery services. The usage of maid service has to do with social customs than it does with actual necessity.

> I think there’s also social progress

Speaking about the US, there's a general aversion to employing people for personal service jobs. Tech workers making 300k can certainly afford a maid who makes 60k, but actively go out of their way to instead employ a variety of people through 'gig' work and 'apps' to do simple tasks. They simply don't want to be seen as employing a maid, but still get all the benefits of having one (via the errand running service).
> Reminds me of the recent "One weird trick!" article [0] and lines like, "the simple solution dietitians don't want you to know!"

Computer scientists hate him!
What does have a foundation in science (or reality) is that the teaching of another language means a child won't have room in their daily schedule for other things.

There's only so much time in the day. If a child is learning math and science and their main language and other skills for seven hours, sleeps for eight hours, and eats for two hours, that only leaves seven hours in the day to fit in everything else, including play time and exercise.

That's the limit on learning languages. We're only good at our first language because we spend our entire lives practicing it. It takes hours and hours and hours of practice and studying to learn another, even as a child. Double that if it's not a commonly spoken language.

In Switzerland, it might be possible for everyone to speak English, German, French, Italian, and Romansh if you're around people who speak it for your entire life. But if a child is actually being taught these languages, let's say an hour each day... well what time is there left for anything else? Sure it might not push other knowledge out of their brain, but if it pushes other knowledge out of their reach due to not having time to learn other subjects, that's even worse. How much time will they put in learning a dying language, and what other, more useful knowledge could they have gained otherwise?

It's the opportunity cost.
Surely you can do a better job of cherry picking things out of context. In the former link, she was talking about how certain terminology ("defund") made people uncomfortable. In the latter, she denounces a sitting President who incited an insurrection that placed her life personally in grave danger.
I am a brown immigrant myself and I don't need you to save me. I have NEVER EVER seen Trump attacking black people nor asked to kidnap officials. You are living in an echo chamber built of lies.

And you putting all conservatives in the "solving illusive pedophile rings online" clearly shows you are living in an echo chamber.
The reason I used the word "real" is probably because of my environment (ex-communist european country). I was born after the fall of communism, but of course the environment has a big influence on the lens through which you see things (family, friends, stories, history classes, etc.)

So when I see what is called censorship in US, it seems a bit funny and strange to me. I immediately think how people in my country during communism would be happy if only that was called censorship and if they had a possibility to use alternative channels to exercise free speech. But of course, I accept that this might be my biased eurocentric view of things and that from a different cultural perspective "real" means something else. Perhaps it will be like that even in Europe in a few years, who knows. We don't have much problems for now because we all use US social media and they don't really react to foreign languages, except a few universal "trigger" words like antivax. At least for smaller languages and countries (central and eastern europe)
The proposition that free and open discussion creates civil war is frightening. If we are prepared to believe such a thing, then we have no democracy to protect.
> I hate how people on HN is praising this.

In most countries in the world, you can go to jail for saying the wrong thing. This includes countries which are, for all practical purposes, freer than the USA -- like Germany, which hasn't renazified since WWII in part because of its hate speech laws.

So no, not everybody recognizes that unfettered expression is a universal good. There are places which have already experienced the danger of free-speech absolutism.
What's also disturbing is that the Pentagon severely limited the DC National Guard days before the protests. Allowing things like surveillance and air assets wouldn't have caused any issues if the protests really were peaceful.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-prote...
> the left’s authoritarian communist regime

> you guys don’t realize you’re part of the echo

> we’re all trying to navigate this strange post truth world

I see what you did there, do you?
Infowars is still up.
The DC mayor didn't want any federal assistance https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/06/dc-mayor-told-federal-l...
Not by the government. At least not legally AFAIK. Communications satellites are privately owned.
OR skip my review and go straight to the site: http://devcheatsheet.com/
>> Here's why <<

And when we follow the link to Peter Cooper's comment...

"I decided to give it a go with MacRuby in its regular interpreted mode (which performed well against 1.9.1 in the fib test) and binary-trees gobbled up 3GB of RAM just in the first minute so I cancelled..

pidigits came in at 41.4 seconds on MacRuby (nightly) versus 30.1 seconds for 1.9.1.

On a reduced version of the fannkuck benchmark (using an input of 10 - otherwise it takes a lonnng time to run), MacRuby was 26.038 seconds, 1.9.1 was 24.277 seconds.

So it seems MacRuby being faster than 1.9.1 is hardly a wash at this point, though it shows great potential to eventually beat the 1.9 branch. "
Learn timeless stuff in computer science that never gets old:

1. Learn C and master pointer arithmetic. All modern computers are von Neumann machines and this is the only way to learn how a real computer works and how OS is implemented. This is the low-end of the power spectrum.
2. Learn Lisp (Common Lisp, Scheme or Clojure) and master closure and macro. This will help you understand lambda calculus. This is the high-end of the power spectrum. You will learn things you didn't think were possible.
3. Learn the good esoteric languages in between:
Python - great for prototyping, web dev
Perl - great for Unix system admin
Ruby - great for web dev
Erlang - for concurrency
Haskell - for purely functional programming perspective
<any other language that interests you>
This will give you different perspectives on how to solve your problems. No one language is suitable for all tasks.

4. Learn to run Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.). Start with an easy newbie distro then move on to advanced do-it-yourself distros like Arch, Gentoo, and FreeBSD to hone your skills.
5. Learn the Unix tools (grep, sed, awk, tr, etc.) and its editors (emacs, vi[m]).
6. Master sorting algorithms (quick sort, merge sort, heap sort, etc.) and their respective strengths/weaknesses.
7. Master data structures (heap, hash table, tree, list, vector, stack, [de]queue etc.) and their strengths/weaknesses.
8. Master graph theory and graph algorithms (shortest path, DFS, BFS, strongly connected components, etc.)
9. Understand TCP/IP (and other protocols), pipe, socket, IO file handling
10. Read source code written by top programmers. (FreeBSD/Plan 9 kernel and utilities, C Programming Language by K&R, PAIP by Peter Norvig, On Lisp by PG)
11. Work on interesting problems and challenge yourself.

Expect to spend the next 10 years developing your skills. You're only 20 so you'll be there by 30 ;-). Develop passion and curiosity for what you do.
Embrace a life-long learning attitude and help those who are less knowledgeable and be humble about what you know. And the most important of all: have good taste.
I wish you the best!

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
http://norvig.com/21-days.html
http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml
Boston/Cambridge, MA: Demiurge Studios, where I work, is a medium (30-40 person) game development studio and we're looking for software engineers. We often hire people who don't have much game dev experience, but we love the hacker mindset, and C++ experience is important. We have several console game projects going right now, from downloadable to AAA and across several different genres.
It is great to have a 15 year plan, but beware that as you plan for the distant future you might be missing opportunities that are right in front of you in the short term because of a focus mismatch.

Concentrate on the short term. The best way to get into IT is through internships. Can't find one? Get on an open-source project. Even if you can't contribute, keep reading other people's already reviewed code (open source tends to have better code than what you'll see in school). At least it will give you some experience in distinguishing good code from bad. IT is all about patterns, some of the newest coolest technologies you see around are based on the same ideas as the one that solved a similar problem 10 years ago. You will see patterns as you get more experience in reading/writing code. Once you feel comfortable and start making contributions to these projects, it will help with your resume as well.

In the mean time, keep doing what you do today. You have a gf, going to school, learning more. Take it one step at a time and keep a positive attitude. Also, talk to people from this first group that you mentioned. You will be surprised how much of a difference connections make in getting an internship, and maybe you'll get to work with a couple of them on good projects for school.

Good luck :)
Both “off” and “out” are translated to „aus“ in German. „Ausziehen” could be translated as “to pull off” (for clothes) or ”to pull out” (for houses and apartments). Hence the two meanings.

When you put your clothes on or move in you don‘t have the same problem. “On” and “in” are translated to „an“ and „ein“, respectively. That’s why there is „anziehen“ (“to pull on”, for clothes) and „einziehen“ (“to pull in”, for houses and apartments).

(To the grandparent: You really should try you luck creating compound words in German even when you are not sure whether the word exists. That’s a very German thing to do :)
Yeah, that was an interesting adaptation from the Spanish language academy to the use of computers.
At the time there was some public debate similar to the "pluto is no longer a planet".
It seems like a great idea.

What stopped you from doing it?
Looks kind of like the digg logo.
The thing about Crockford's book is that it's short and direct, and gives you the straight dope on how you program in JavaScript. It would be a terrible book for someone first learning to program, but if you know a few programming languages already -- especially something that supports lexically-scoped anonymous functions -- then JS:tGP is something you can read through in an hour or two, and then just start writing JavaScript.
There is still time. Don't be discouraged.

The early bird gets the worm; the second mouse gets the cheese.[1]

Edit: Guess I agree with Sukotto. :)

[1]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2009/05/first-mover-advant...
I overrode your ad with a HackCollege banner :)
Not according to Wikipedia:

"The U.S. government's fiscal year begins on October 1 of the previous calendar year and ends on September 30"

Or About.com:

"The Federal Fiscal Year runs from October 1 of the prior year through September 30 of the next year."
NB: NSFW as of this writing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_palin
I really hope there'll be a classic mode where one can just open a file with a file chooser because this is just really inefficient.
It is a fair question given the fact that Visual Studio 2013 doesn't even support basic C++11 features like constexpr. When doing multi-platform C++11 work the code usually must be dumbed down a lot if it needs to compile also in VStudio, e.g.:

- can't use many of the new initializer mechanisms in the class declaration (initializer lists, etc...)

- no constexpr

- std::chrono high resolution click isn't actually high resolution but only has millisecond accuracy

Complete list of missing C++11 features up to VS2013 is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh567368.aspx

Microsoft should first complete their C++11 support before moving on to C++14, otherwise it will probably never get fixed.

Visual Studio is a fine IDE, but the C++ compiler lags behind quite a bit.
Why is this being flagged?

The author is the associate editor of the BMJ, not just some rando on the internet.
Election fraud requires intent, because honest mistakes would have been caught during the recount process; areas that performed a recount this election fell within the normal margins for a recount. You have a video of ballot counters counting ballots. That's not incriminating in any way.

Anyone who is dissatisfied with this election should logically be dissatisfied with every election, so should pick their battles wisely and attempt to fix the system such that their concerns are possible to alleviate. Raising concerns with this election in particular makes it seem as if this election was in any way exceptional, which except for the candidates, it was not. It's equally concerning whether the 2016 election was legitimate. Or 2012. Or 2008. Or...

There is absolutely no tracability on ballots, by design, at this stage. There is no way to prove who voted for whom, due to abuses of this knowledge in the past. There is no proof that can be provided at this point that the election was "legitimate", whatever standard of proof that requires. To provide such proof would require a change to the entire electoral system, and absolutely cannot be done retroactively.
I don't think those are ActiveRecord queries, they look like calls to the Stripe api via the Stripe gem. It's possible those filters like 'deleted?' are not able to be applied when querying the API.
plus, the people that feel the need to give advice are ones that are the ones that value [their own] soft skills more highly.

technical mastery advice doesn’t really need to be given at all.

i’m not saying the advice isn’t good, but also you have to read it like a self help book. it is a point of information, don’t take it literally.
I don’t see a flag?
Edit restriction, s/upwards/corporates/
Looking at some stories online, it looks like the actual camera lens looks much more normal sized:

https://theasc.com/ac_magazine/August2012/DarkKnightRises/im...

https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/you-cant-afford-this-expens...

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/lens-100mm-mov...

Methinks the projection lens is so oddly shaped to function with the curved theater screen, etc. and is not what is used to take the images.
Taxes are not donations.

Your example of religions is also suspect. To be blunt we perceive it that way in places and times where established Churches are legally independent and separate from the government. It’s not always and often isn’t true, or at least isn’t the case by default in some places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya

Compare and contrast with Alms, the more charitable less compulsory concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alms

Just one more reason to love separation of Church and State and the prohibition on Congress on making laws respecting an establishment of religion.
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