jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"They gave him an intelligence test. The first question on the math part had to do with boats on a river: Port Smith is 100 miles upstream of Port Jones. The river flows at 5 miles per hour. The boat goes through water at 10 miles per hour. How long does it take to go from Port Smith to Port Jones? How long to come back?

Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat. Clearly, 5 miles per hour was nothing more than the average speed. The current would be faster in the middle of the river and slower at the banks. More complicated variations could be expected at bends in the river. Basically it was a question of hydrodynamics, which could be tackled using certain well-known systems of differential equations. Lawrence dove into the problem, rapidly (or so he thought) covering both sides of ten sheets of paper with calculations. Along the way, he realized that one of his assumptions, in combination with the simplified Navier-Stokes equations, had led him into an exploration of a particularly interesting family of partial differential equations. Before he knew it, he had proved a new theorem. If that didn't prove his intelligence, what would?

Then the time bell rang and the papers were collected. Lawrence managed to hang onto his scratch paper. He took it back to his dorm, typed it up, and mailed it to one of the more approachable math professors at Princeton, who promptly arranged for it to be published in a Parisian mathematics journal.

Lawrence received two free, freshly printed copies of the journal a few months later, in San Diego, California, during mail call on board a large ship called the U.S.S. Nevada. The ship had a band, and the Navy had given Lawrence the job of playing the glockenspiel in it, because their testing procedures had proven that he was not intelligent enough to do anything else."
I don't know it sounds like a legitimate complain where you buried the lead - that the dishwasher wasn't being emptied when you ran it during the day.
Yeah I'm wondering if the team is going to remake all expansions eventually. I myself would like to dab into modding for BM if given the time.
> Markets fail or succeed because of improper or proper governance.

I have yet to see proper governance last long enough to be of any note and worse governance tends to quickly flip to favor the powerful.
Also, SCOTUS has had a conservative majority (except during a vacancy) since 1989.
Hi! Thanks for feedback.

- I deliberately de-emphasize the Play Online option. This game is much, much more fun to play on a smartphone. I even thought about not having web version at all. If you have a smartphone, try downloading the game.

- Generally people are happy about "no instructions at all" design, and that again is deliberate. I'll think about improving tutorial ramp a bit, there are some things to improve.

- This design choice comes from mobile. There I want to show the completed design so you could screenshot it and share it, or just use as wallpaper.
I know that they want to change that, too, but I really hope they don't. Otherwise, the people who didn't think a thing was even worth patenting (or who couldn't afford to patent it) will have their inventions stolen from them.

I will justify the use of "stolen" here by saying it's because they're no longer legally able to use their own idea. Restricting an idea via IP laws is one of the few ways an idea can actually be stolen.
Línea blanca in Spanish
I'm moving from California out to Austin, Texas, and the one thing that I am dismayed over is the lack of FIOS in a tech community like Austin.

It comes as little surprise that Austin is pretty much smack dab in the center of the biggest "responses" circle on Google Fiber's response map: http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/static/images/map.pn...
I found the "bragging" interesting, because I scored higher than him on the SATs with zero test prep, and made All-State orchestra despite having quit violin lessons three years before and barely practiced in the last year.

We all have things that we're good at. Mine just happened to be the stuff that looks great on a college app at age 19.

Luck has a way of balancing itself out, though. I struggled mightily at fitting in with peers when I was in school, and I've struggled hard to do high-quality original creative work since. Haven't quite gotten the hang of either, while meanwhile there're people who create world-changing products like FaceBook and GMail and Google Maps within a couple years of getting out of college.
> Self driving cars will have begun to become common.

This is, unfortunately, not true. It it were true, its (massively positive) effects would dwarf everything else mentioned in the essay.
Can a person join an existing Posterous Group using only email?
i guess it's a bit confusing .. cause those are our Studio's clients whom we've done other projects for...and not Clients who we converted...just yet anyway.

The idea was to show the caliber of our clientele.
but perhaps i should take it off if it creates more confusion.

thanks for your comment.
Presumably, many other users have made the same observations (the neutral form of "insult") and believe them to be relevant.

For the record: I didn't upvote.
"And the second kind tests something that some other part of the system already knows. Let’s ban the second kind…"

Can you give an example?
On the other hand, what if you refuse to do an NDA, and so the project goes to someone else, and it turns out to be really valuable, and they become the Microsoft of your field, and you become the Digital Research? That would suck.

A lot of times the company requesting the NDA isn't worried that you might steal their app idea, but rather are trying to keep other aspects of the project secret.

For instance, suppose Microsoft decided they wanted to make iPad versions of Word and Excel. If it became general knowledge that they were doing this, it could undermine their own phone platform, and also Windows tablet PCs. Such products would have to be introduced carefully. Accordingly their NDA would be aimed at prohibiting you to tell of the existence of their project or their involvement in word processing or spreadsheets on the iPhone. They would not be worried that you might decide to write your own word processor or spreadsheet.
Why shouldn't a community of students be able to cache and reuse responses to cached and reused questions?

Laziness begets laziness. I don't see how you can claim it's ethical for teachers to forfeit 1/2 of their job to a question cache. Cheating in this definition is using someone else's work to benefit yourself and by definition the teacher cheated too by using someone else's questions to form "his" alleged test. IE benefiting himself by not having to do the actual legwork to write his own test.

I don't think HNers are pro-cheating, I think we're pro-effort. We all work our fucking assess off at things we love, it's a little disrespectful for some shit-ass professor to claim his students are cheating by using HIS method to save time and effort. I call that his students learning a little too much from him.
One of the main cause for "re-mirroring storm," is node not backing off from finding a replica.

Here's Twitter Back off decider implementation (Java)

https://github.com/twitter/commons/blob/master/src/java/com/...

When last time i looked i was little clueless on this. Now I find its usage.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14977061 and marked it off-topic.
A lot of tasks can be parallelized if you think hard enough. Your CPU is busy reordering instructions so they keep as many execution ports busy as it can so that it can retire as many instructions per core cycle as possible. SMT was invented to keep those execution units busy by running more than one instruction stream at a time.

The incentive to do it when most computers have two SMT2 cores is small, but as the average device starts getting 4 or 8 SMT2 cores, or 8 asymmetric cores, the incentives to make things run faster in parallel get better and better.
I find typing speed by itself not something you explicitly need to `learn`. Any coder worth his salt would definitely have spent years typing in code which _should_ result in the coder having fast typing speed.

To say that you need fast typing to be a good programmer feels like a reversal of cause and effect to me. IMO People should be taught to love coding, then they'll naturally pick up touch typing by themselves.
How would you be interested in something you don't even know what it is for? Good descriptions is what generates interest.
You're right, they are redeemable. But even so, to make it worth repaying the 4% bond, they would need to believe that their interest rates would remain below that. If the rate at which the government borrows is higher, then it would be better to do something else with the money.

But that's a rather odd belief, isn't it? It's unlikely to happen except in the case that the BoE fails to relax the monetary policy that has been too tight for quite a while now (as evidenced by the current low rates). Isn't it a bit like betting on your own failure? I suspect there is more than economics to this.
While both the BBC and Channel Four are public broadcasters with a public service remit, Channel Four receives no money from the licence fee and is solely dependent on advertising and similar income.[1]

It's better to say not that failure is an option, but rather than making a season of programmes as they are being produced and axing the show if it is failing, the UK system allows shows to be produced well ahead of transmission but in small chunks so that if it does do badly it doesn't need to be recomissioned.

[1] http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/faq/name/does-channel-4-get...
I'm a bit sad that only few people come from a JavaScript background. My interest in Clojure arises directly from being spoiled by how hackable JavaScript is. I wanted that same level hackability but with performance and concurrency and an extra dose sanity. While I still live and breath JavaScript at work and play, JavaScript is a very crippled language by the very nature of its design (intended to run single threaded in the browser, subsequent snail's pace evolution because of this browser dependency). Clojure is a dynamic language hackers dream on so many levels - the FP stuff is often just icing!

I thoroughly recommend intermediate and advanced JavaScripters to give Clojure a good long look. You'll be blown away.
this is pretty much what Mediatemple.net already offers with Containers for their GS (shared hosting). They don't have PHP Containers but they do have MySql Containers that are automatically instantiated if traffic spikes.
I think you could really make a difference by offering killer features on demand, like isolated memcached instances, redis, cassandra/mongoDB and RabbitMQ.

edit: email submited
Any news on how much progress this is getting? Or a more top-level page, with more than (private-view-only) mailing list links? I'd love a decent competitor to GDB.
Yeah, it could use some prettification but it's interesting, I had never heard of it before.
Sometimes trademarks don't matter much and everyone can happily and informally settle the question. But it quite possible for a given trademark to be the main asset of a small business and thus when a larger business can happily use "informal" methods to take possession of that trademark, it would qualify as bullying - if you can get away without lawyers, it's actually worse bullying in this cases since you don't need any legal standing.

I don't know the exact story here - I'm just reacting to a claim that Apple informally deciding everything is inherently fair.
Yes, it is. It seems logical that 3x the funding isn't going to produce 3x the outcome, especially at this stage.
5. Pulse mysteriously appears again in App store, without explanation.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/08/pulse-ipad-2/
Almost all the suggestions on hiring in this article are pretty good. The one where I would differ is:

We're happy to skip over the perfect catch
if we don't have the perfect job for the person to do.

If you already know the person is 'perfect' for your organization, and have the financial capacity to hire him/her, you should go for it (IMO). I would think of it as an investment that would help my business in the longer run.

Right now, a company might be content with their current suite of products, but constant innovation is required in our industry to stay ahead. It could be in the existing products or coming up with completely new solutions.

If people working on existing products have their plates full most of the times, they 'might' not be able to devote as much time as they would like on coming up with newer things, that could further improve the bottom line.
It's worth noting that Pixelapse is YC W12, and has only raised a little seed money since then. (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pixelapse)

Seems like a little bit of Y Combinator vertical integration.
I don't think anyone considers multidispatch to be an anti-pattern. Here's Guido himself emulating multimethods in Python via decorators: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101605

They're certainly a bit obscure though. Julia is the only new language that I'm aware of that prominently features multiple dispatch as a first-class language feature: http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/methods/
If its a technology I'm not great with (most things these days), I usually need to learn as I code. And since I do my best learning in silence, thats what I go for. But programming with a familiar framework, I'm fine with whenever and whatever except silence; need some background white noise. I usually DON'T use music for white noise (I get distracted because I know the songs), preferring instead a lounge, cafe or a 7/10 movie playing in the background.

I've been working on an iOS contract job for the past two weeks. I wrote at home in silence as I knew very little of the features they asked me to implement (using vDSP, MapKit, GameKit, Remote I/O Audio in conjunction). I went to client location only to put finishing touches/last minute addons/testing. (Client Location wasn't exactly geared for a productive developer environment - too much noise, too many distractions)

Turned out to be great app - they loved it and it taught me a lot about iOS, DSP, and my working preferences.
Worse than shops that are still using boring technology, are those that are in some wasteland of inbetween an old technology and a new one.
I'm not sure if it's a bad thing on a global scale either. But it's certainly a bad thing for certain individuals.

What's super interesting in whether banks will be able to successfully incorporate new data sources to better segment the market to charge different rates for different customers. Will my Facebook posts really tell them if I'm more or less likely to pay back that auto loan on time? Some people certainly seem to think so.
> That’s true only in a very narrow sense.

I love his complete willingness to mislead. What an asshole.

If a bank can borrow from the Fed at a lower rate, they refinance their existing debt almost immediately. This trickles down to smaller institutions without the ability to borrow directly from the Fed. It's not true that the Fed sets the interest rate in a narrow sense, it's true in a very strict and immediate sense.
It's funny that we are still doing the same thing. Chemotherapy is hoping that we kill the cancer before we kill the body.

It's like high-tech bloodletting with more research and a better track record.
The search strategy is described in the docs [1]. I wonder if they could capitalize on the algorithm NIST uses in their ACTS software [2]? It's great for maximizing time spent testing parameters in N different dimensions.

[1] http://hypothesis.readthedocs.org/en/latest/details.html#sea...
[2] http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/acts/
And if you follow them on Twitter there are some good conversations back and forth. ;)
Natalie merchant has a wonderful song using the second poem as the lyrics. Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrJHrc-ABp4
> iterative exploration of the design/implementation space before committing to a path

This is something worth fighting for, but by God, it's a hard fight, both in big corps and smaller "more agile" companies.

Great comment, anyway.
Crypto currencies don’t really solve the problems with a lack of banking infrastructure. Usually people need some way to get actual physical cash (remember, we’re talking about places where people don’t really have access to modern banking systems, not places where most people have bank accounts and credit cards) in and out of the system. It’s a nice idea if everything magically happens in your digital system but I don’t think that can happen without a credible way to bootstrap it involving lots of moving physical cash first. I don’t think it’s credible to hope for third party exchanges or tiny local businesses to provide these services, and I also don’t think it is credible to expect people living in these underdeveloped places to take on the risk of price volatility in some random cryptocurrency.
With the timing and everything, it looks a lot like SEC got a wake-up call, looked at it, and saw a bunch of clearly illegal things it should be acting on. So they are acting on them.

If that's the case, good.
> But in general, I think there’s good evidence that non-box office releases depress overall revenue (Mulan). Big studios want to be in theaters.

I do buy this.

> It’s not in the movie industry’s interest to let AMC fall.

But, I don't buy this. AMC going bankrupt doesn't mean theaters go away. In all likelihood, AMC would live on as a new corporation after paying out creditors in the bankruptcy process.

An AMC bankruptcy actually seems like a best case scenario for the movie industry. After relieving itself of debt, AMC can afford to lower prices (due to a lower cost structure). And, lower prices means more ticket sales and more studio revenue.

> In the above article AMC said they didn’t want to run ads (non-trailer) before the movie. There’s a lot they can do.

Definitely agree here, but all these opportunities existed prior to the pandemic. So, I'm wondering how you can justify the appreciation in valuation over this period. Was AMC just severely underpriced prior to COVID?
Your average anime does not profit as much as these games from established game studios. At least when I last looked at the numbers for anime.
Not being able to sideload apps really is feckin' idiotic, though. One ought to be able to install whatever they please on a handset they've purchased -- especially when they've spent that much.

Just bury a toggle deep in settings somewhere.
I’m not an expert but my understanding of it is that our brains aren’t like computers. So, rather than storing precise memories, we probably have multiple memories sharing the same neural connections. Like, the memory of grandpa’s beard is probably mixed up with the memory of all sorts of beards.

In that way, the artificial neural net seems similar (while at the same time vastly different).
I would love to hear some perspective on this, but from my recollection one of the most significant early datasets ever released was about 20 years ago when I was in grad school -- I heard about this "Shuttle Radar Topography Mission" that was going to scan the entire Earth.

I remember it had a long extendible gantry (?) that was deployed out of the shuttle bay to give it more scanning baseline. I think it was done for the intelligence community (this being just post 9-11) but some part of it became public? I remember reading that the data was collected on tapes (!) that they had to swap hot to ensure continuity of the data.

Shortly after that, I noticed that Earth simulation flyby animations became almost common, planes started being equipped with simulated terrain maps for collision warning, etc. I imagine it was a revolution for a lot of industries.
MB never consistently meant MiB.
TY so much for reminding me to play Tengen Super Sprint! Was searching for the next NES racing game to conquer after racking up some ridiculous personal highs in R.C. Pro AM. Just endless fun ;)
yes, for me too (same version of Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04)
The women probably didn't have the money, and really wasn't trying to scam the guy, she probably genuinely made a mistake.

Yes, she made a mistake. But it was her mistake. And that mistake would have cost the seller ~$700, because the item she agreed to buy had a shelf-life. And her mistake prevents any other bidders, who presumably would have paid had they won the auction, from attending the event.
In the US that is true, but in Europe it's first to file
The number of new motherboards that still include PS/2 connectors while also offering a piddling 4 USB ports is quite surprising.
Exhibit A: Trump's attempted coercion of the GA secretary of state to overturn a certified and triple-counted election.

Exhibit B: Rudy going around and encouraging Republican state legislatures to throw out the vote of the people and instead appoint Donald Trump.

Exhibit C: Trump continuing to tell his supporters that they're right to be angry and this whole election was an undemocratic coup against him even when ostensibly telling them to go home hours after they've breached the Capitol building.

Exhibit D: Literally everything else Trump and his cronies have said over the past 2 months and the past 5.5 years.
My Kindergarten class in the late 80's had a phone system between play areas for the kids to use. The system was built using some old phones and lantern batteries for power. As a small child it was really neat to pick up the phone and talk to someone on the other side of the classroom.
I appreciate folks who do this, and they're not wrong that it works for them and their use cases.

But all the other complexity that comes along with the web and web development don't exist just because of those use cases.

Nothing wrong here, although the litany of "look i'm just using html and css" gets to be a bit much sometimes and it sort of irks me to see yet another and another posted on HN and up voted with nothing new to say about it.
Yes with an asterisk. I put punching a police officer or grabbing for their gun into a very different category than running away. In my worldview, the first two, standing alone, subject you to lawful use of force, including deadly force if necessary. The last subjects you to being chased but not to the lawful use of deadly force merely as a result of running away.
You can't be serious. Their product still looks like Bootstrap after 6 years. It's complicated and ugly.
My point was that at least they are lobbying those who have been elected. That is democracy ticking along as planned. If they were instead lobbying non-elected people such as former presidents or family patriarchs, that would be undemocratic.

Seeing companies cozy up to elected officials reassures me that those elected officials still wield power. When companies abandon elected officials, ignore them as irrelevant, then we know that our elected representatives are not in charge and democracy no longer matters.
If he sorted the bills by serial number he could find out if he won the contest by binary search in around 17 cuts. His wife probably still would have stolen his money though.
> This is the case in more or less any similar country.
reply

That’s true in the sense that Twitter’s rules change specifically motivated by Trump’s violation of their pre-existing rules applied globally, not just in the US, and enabled and was seized on by similarly-oriented leaders elsewhere, as well.
Did you miss the part where the mob violently overtook the Capitol Building?
Could they not simply purchase existing technology?