jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
He's been doing that for 18 years, it's natural to try something different.

The likelihood of him not having found the right doctor vastly exceeds the notion that he can get a diagnosis on HN. Of course I certainly don't blame him for trying - but, really?

I am actually rather shocked that here is a person who basically says "I have this horrible disease and have trouble thinking straight" and people think the appropriate response is to suggest diet modifications.

From reading his account, I can see two conclusions: (a) he has not found the right doctor or (b) he is incurable. There is no point contemplating the latter, so the only recourse I see is helping him somehow get to the former. He needs a doctor who will take ownership of his issues, he needs a teaching hospital, he needs House MD - I don't know - but he needs help to keep trying doctors, not guesses at a diagnosis.

I'd be delighted to be proven wrong.
what is your big differentiator between your project and maplib ?
You should name your app Barney.
What kind of job description could those different profiles have answered to find themselves in the same waiting room ?
This has been submitted many, many times, most recently about three weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8801608

I think this submission of it has the most comments, though some of them are about the relative merit of pointing out how many times it had previously been submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2275657
I've never heard anyone describe a monopoly and say it had inherent quality before. Interesting.

(Note that I'm not saying you're accurate in your assessment as to reasons why PHP became popular, just that your reasoning as to why it has inherent quality is interesting)
After running Linux on MacBooks for the past 5 years I would strongly recommend against it. The basics usually work fine but you are constantly dealing with issues. Each MacBook revision introduces some new issue. For example the webcam recently switched from being usb attached to being attached to the PCI bus and Linux doesn't have drivers yet. Other things like GPU switching, multi monitor, display brightness, all have quirks.

Just recently I gave up getting MacBooks to work with Linux and went back to ThinkPads and I couldn't be more happy. Granted you can still buy ThinkPads that have similar issues as the MacBooks. The difference is that you can find a ThinkPad (or some other brand) that works practically flawlessly. With the current line of MacBooks, not a single one doesn't have huge issues (like the webcam).
No then he would be writing code for something he doesn't like.
> The law leans on the word "reasonable" all the time

Far too often in my estimation, and in the wrong places.

> If you're neighbourly, you may want to let them know their door is open.

Agreed. But failing to be neighbourly is not a reasonable criminal offence.

> but I don't see why you should feel like you can do whatever you want just because there's a 200.

To turn things around: Why not hold AT&T liable? Why not issue a 403?

I agree that weez was "un-neighbourly," but at the end of the day, the protocol was the only contractual arrangement in place at that moment. It's just maddening to me to imagine that this can be regarded as criminal conduct.
Are you talking about versions of Displayport or something else?

Because people want to use 4k@120hz+ or 5k+ displays. Which require more bandwidth
The universe isnt going to turn itself into paperclips.
Many women died giving birth.
+ XMPP
+ IRC

Please also mention if there are any client/servers FLOSS
What discussion are you responding to?

How does your comment relate to whether "if the mob were leftists or had any significant amount of minorities mixed in, there would have been rivers of blood outside the Capitol."?
Signal can't be bought. They're a non-profit org
Frankly, I don't even care if it uses end-to-end encryption at all if it's encrypted to my own server.

Of course, email goes between servers and then you definitely want to ensure the encryption is solid (it often isn't, so PGP is definitely good). I'm just saying that Wire/Signal/Threema/etc. having better encryption is in my opinion only important when you use Wire's/Signal's/Threema's servers. If you can and do host your own, especially if you host it at home, then in practice there is no difference.

Since most people don't do that, Signal/Wire/Threema/Matrix are of course the better options than PGP+email, but PGP+email is still an improvement over the status quo.
how? I thought they where the first ones to implement e2e encryption?
There is no mention of "P1" in the entire article. What did you mean?
I find the weasel word insurrection is being inserted quite a lot. It was suspiciously absent when other federal buildings were breached and vandalized earlier in the year. Calling it an armed insurrection is stretching it pretty far considering none of the videos show any armed conflict between the protesters and capital security... except for the unarmed woman who was shot in the neck and killed by security. It reeks of narrative building.
> As to how it is worth the investment to me, I think most of the gains come from the fact that it is a keyboard-oriented editor

I don't use much mouse when I code in Sublime or PyCharm.

> As 'blackcats' pointed out elsewhere in this thread, vim lets you move around the file quickly.

All the commands he/she mentioned have classic counterparts with Home/End/etc keys, available pretty much everywhere. I use them a lot even now, writing this comment.
Is anyone aware of an authoritative source detailing specific instances of where "general warrants" have been misused, and how?

I know in general about what came out after Snowden of course, I'm just interested to learn more about specifics relating to these warrants.
I think we should all congratulate these guys. They have been knocking it out of the park for years andI hope this brings them financial security, hopefully life changing reward.
I think you ascribe far to much skill and control to a company that clearly has little to no coordination.
Thank you! Seems super cool! I'll be checking it out
Yeah that is curious if consoles shipped with compressed audio but not PC. The prevailing wisdom on PC is codecs are easier to deal with due to dedicated audio thread. Decisions like that are not made lightly so now I’m curious what the reason was

Edit: reasoning is here: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/12/respawn-actually...
Minspec is 2-core PC, probably to support large player base and as noted before there can be 20-40 audio files all streaming from disk and decoding, so sure one file might be fast but no way that’s happening on a 2-core PC. Sure one file might decode fast, but 40 of them, all also streaming from disk while keeping frame rate playable, just impossible
For bitcoin protocol discussion there is the Development & Technical Discussion [1] on bitcointalk.

Some general cryptocurrency technical discussion can be found on r/CryptoTechnology [2]

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=6.0

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoTechnology
If your metaballs are mostly the same size, the blurring step can happen ahead of time with a commutative convolution, stored in the texture.

Then, rather than applying a threshold to the resulting pixel/voxel contribution, you can apply a sigmoid function (or something cheaper approximating it) and get smooth edges.

You can cheat normals like you can with any other sort of height map, by measuring the differences between neighboring fragments.

like so:

https://rezmason.net/scourge/quick_metaballs.mp4
> I'm not sure piggybacking on email is a good idea, considering the amount of metadata exposed by email headers

Yes, and also size of the messages. It's really easy to tell if you sent a suspect file at a specific time to somebody by only looking at the message size, which in addition to being archived somewhere, can probably be isolated from other outgoing traffic and matched against.

I wouldn't use it for top class comms, but it's worlds apart from WhatsApp, and by leveraging AutoCrypt it is so easy for non-geeks.

> Not to mention attachments which are likely not encrypted but just encoded in base64

PGP messages attached to emails where possible.
Very interesting. Essentially the opposite of the narrative that I got.
It takes a lot more than just that to really isolate. I use Remote Audio HN-7506: physical mass plays a part. Those are heavy, have gel earcups that are physically solid and bulky, and clamp really hard on your head. Earbuds aren't physically big enough and can't produce a rigid enough seal to compare… at least not AirPod style ones.

I've not worked with rigid, custom-molded in-ears. Something like that might be enough of a barrier, but remember if sound waves can physically move the earphone against the seal, that's going to be sound leakage. The Remote Audio cans aren't designed for comfort, they're designed to control sound pressures that'd instantly wreck your eardrums, like high-caliber nearby gunfire for extended periods. The headphone drivers are literally an afterthought, added by a separate company if I remember correctly.
I’ve heard about the bowl-less design pattern a few weeks ago, excited to hear that it pans out in real world scenarios!
I was thinking that this would've been really cool if they'd scanned the grooves with a laser to get the exact sound without the analog needle noise/imprecision. But I guess it's basically what I thought -- output from a record player in digital form. Which, I mean, is fine.
>retrieving that sort of material may simply be impossible.

Bull, it may be difficult and expensive, but calling it impossible is just excuse-making; if it is not worth it to recover the data is really a different matter than whether it is possible. When the data has actually been lost, then it's impossible.
Should be titled:

Scott Adams: FaceBook Complementer
(First, apologies for use of "opaque" which was needlessly inflammatory.) I've read "A critique of pure reason" some years ago, but honestly I found much of it to be rather dodgy. Take this:

>We don't perceive natural numbers with the senses. A number is not a physical thing in the world-- it is an abstraction. We've also invented a series of manipulations we can perform on these abstractions, much like we have invented the rules of chess. And, there are a lot of extremely interesting things that come out of our manipulating the abstractions according the the rules we've set up.

I see this as new words describing the situation, but very little progress. Are these abstractions "real"? How do we perceive them? I agree it's not with our eyes and ears.

> However: asking why the number 17 is prime, is like asking why a bishop can only move diagonally. The bishop moves diagonally because that's what a bishop does.

"That's just the way it is" isn't an explanation of anything, though. How do we know, once we've proven 17 prime, using these rules, that we will never discover a factorization of 17? How do we know that our reasoning about these abstractions is sound?
Having found several restaurants with no OT availability to have reservations available upon calling, I think this is the case.

I'm pretty sure a lot of restaurants set aside a certain amount of tables/times as OT inventory.
too nascent i imagine
Are all banks in your country that crazy? Have you considered switching?
It's the huge "Available on the App Store" button.
If we both care about solving the same problems, I'm definitely happy to extend a hand.
Did not know that. Thanks for the tip.
The elephant in the corner of the room is that all degrees are not equal. I remember the teachers at my secondary school saying that it didn't matter what you study at university because you are "learning to learn". But even my 17-year-old self could see that that was obviously nonsense.

The brutal truth is that you are either studying for a career or you are pursuing a hobby full time for 3 years.
It's this simple if you had come across Tornado:

class WebSocketHandler(tornado.websocket.WebSocketHandler):
def on_message(self, message):
self.write_message("Echo: %s" % message)

I think the problem is that you chose a pretty heavyweight / complicated library.
As an otherwise very happy Samsung Galaxy S user, personally I wish it looked a lot less like an iPhone.
It sure isn't happy about `rm-rf /`
# date

Fri Oct 10 12:33:34 EDT 1975
Don't buy it if your only reason for doing so is 'buzz.'

Have you considered trying out a "Hackintosh"-type setup first? If that doesn't work for you, you could still sell the PC easily and then buy a Mac. I make very good money in the US, and I still took several weeks to talk myself into buying a new Macbook Pro to replace an '05 Powerbook (in part because I already have a 27" iMac as my main computer.) Apples are expensive. To me, it is the software that makes them a great value, though. If you bought the MBP, would you still have the funds to spend on software and to complete your freelance/startup work without major sacrifices? I think it is ridiculous to ask a question like this on HN since we don't really know your financial circumstances. Are you really just wanting us to help rationalize a decision you've already made? ;-)

[And now...my first HN cross-post ever:]

RE: Fusion vs. Parallels

I just bought a new MB Pro and am getting ready to install Parallels on it for the first time. I've always used Fusion on my Macs (to triple-boot with Win and Linux) in the past. I thought Parallels was currently the leader in the shootouts regarding speed/features? Anyone keep up to date with their VM horse race or have a good reason to use one over the other? I already have licenses for both. Thanks.
Apple's designs aren't all that impressive to me. They aren't the epitome of design.

Google Profiles (https://profiles.google.com/) has better usability and a cleaner design than Apple's homepage (http://www.apple.com/).
It sounds like a study of nothing. It sounds like a question nobody cares about, but that could easily be misused in the service of racism. I take very strong exception to the idea that there’s nothing wrong with this kind of passive-aggressive hate speech, and that I only think there is something wrong with it because (you think) I grew up in America instead of that part of the world. I’ll give you a clue: in the USA, I’ve actually heard the phrase "I ain’t Iranian" from a redneck, who was trying in his inarticulate bigoted way to convey to me that he wasn’t going to cheat me. Reading this bug report was like having to listen to an embarrassing and pathetic fool of a racist relative going on and on. I would think this racist fool was pathetic and embarrassing for saying things like that no matter where I grew up.

There are lots of reasons why someone might call himself or herself a hyphenated American. I called myself an Arab-American to establish bona fides for my confident statement that Achmed is not a name, nothing more. You don’t actually know anything about me because I said I’m an Arab-American. That might mean I’m culturally American, culturally Arab, some mix of varying degrees of the two, or even fully both. I may simultaneously consider myself fully Arab and better at being American than most 10th-generation Americans. Who are you to say different?

What is the point, anyway? So what if my opinion of this speech is determined by where I grew up? The tasteless racist caricature I’m criticizing is what it is and would be that whether I even existed or not.
I could be wrong about the inefficiency, maybe arrays in PHP are implemented as "copy on write". But seeing how PHP is such a mess of a language, I somehow doubt it...
> "Since I know that you are all racist/sexist/homophobes and think that Straight White American Males are superior to all other beings, I am going to use one as the person in this narrative who commits a negative act in order to avoid further reinforcing your beliefs!"

The dumb thing is, if you point out how racist this is you're the evil racist one.
Interestingly enough, if you read The Beatles Anthology they make the case that they were so good _because_ they had little else to do.

When we talk great composers, you might argue about Beethoven vs. Mozart vs. Bach... but would you throw anyone from the last 100 years into the mix?
I adore my coworkers, I agree with the post you're replying to. An environment that encourages random "walk up" interruptions is a terrible environment in many ways. With an office with a door it's easy enough to shut the door to indicate "I need to be left alone now" and open the door when you're in an "it's OK to interrupt me" frame.
They still have effectively no RAM, though. I clicked through for the first one I saw with as much as 256kB of RAM, and it was US$35, the same price as my 1.5GHz quad-core ODroid C1, which has 1GB of RAM. I don't understand this. Is it purely a power efficiency thing?

The NUCLEO-F411RE has a product page but doesn't seem to be for sale on that site. Where can you get it?
To make sure we're talking about the same thing; the pink line in the second graph on the techcrunch article is what you're talking about when "the bubble goes parabolic".

That pink line represents the number of seed deals completed, not the amount of money in the system.

Unfortunately, I cannot download the original dataset that Mattermark is using, but using a dataset from Pricewaterhouse Coopers[1], and data from FRED[2], I have run some statistical analysis using R.

My results are here: http://imgur.com/a/eFzs1

In short, the only statistical correlation I can find between QE and Seed capital is a negative one, which would contradict your original hypothesis.

[0]https://medium.com/mattermark-daily/why-is-the-number-of-see...

[1]http://www.pwcmoneytree.com/HistoricTrends/CustomQueryHistor...

[2]http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=MBST#
> Immigration also seems to put huge economic pressure on the welfare state.

One of the ironies of income-redistribution schemes. People are happy to soak the 1% to pay for benefits for our lower/middle-classes, but if poorer people come along it's a strain, never mind that they almost certainly need it more.

As for helping people in their own country -- it is unfortunate but (barring conquest) there's only so much you can do in places ruled by kleptocrats, rife with corruption, and with only weak protections of the rule of law.
Like a smartwatch + keypad.

2G connectivity is slow... but I would love super-lite webpages. Like m.mobile; maybe w.watch? This could also use them. Needs less bandwidth, data, CPU, RAM, battery - and clearer because just the text.

If it has an x86 CPU (specs don't say), it could be the world's smallest DOSbox. 8MB RAM is plenty for DOS.
Fantastic! Give the man a fag packet to write on the back of and we'll see what he comes up with next!!
A 2G phone touted as "our most affordable Internet-ready entry-level phone yet". Has Microsoft's "Nokia"/Windows Phone division lost it's mind completely?

I know it's a cheap phone, but then don't market it as an internet device. It's 2015. 3G even in a cheap phone should be standard if you call it an internet-ready device.
I missed the message that the nose isn't used anymore. I've just been smiling away as if it was still the 90ies.
In most of the US it's pretty easy to entitle the construction of a new dwelling. The difficulty tends to be proportional to demand - i.e. regulatory requirements reflect market forces as the result of political action by the citizens of a representative democracy.

In practice building with steel and elevators is more expensive than using traditional American methods involving stick framing and low rise construction. The more expensive methods only make sense when demand is high enough to justify the additional costs.

A primary constraint on development density in the US is parking. By the time resources are committed to accommodating residents' vehicles, only higher housing prices associated with 'luxury' class housing make development of a site with dense housing feasible. Again, it's a market dealing with the parking regulations. Parking regulations reflect the body politic's interest in protecting the commons that is our roadways.

There's cheap housing in Detroit. There isn't in Mountain View. That's just the nature of markets.
As someone who doesn't follow the NFL I am surprised that they allow the teams to supply their own balls. Seems it would be less complicated and achieve an even playing field if everyone had to use the same balls supplied by the league.

Does this happen in baseball/ basketball as well? From an Australian perspective it seems unusual.
While true, Mac OS X is not a classical UNIX system in terms of culture.
Mr. Garneau,

My name's Roger, and I'm a constituent of your riding. I've had the pleasure of meeting Margaret, and I want to thank you both and your team for the great work you do for the riding.

I'm writing because with each passing day, revelations are getting worse and worse about the surveillance capabilities of security agencies. Just today the Guardian revealed that the GCHQ, our British allies, collect webcam recordings en masse, including sexually explicit material shared between two consenting individuals.

We know the Harper administration is stuck as being part and parcel of Five Eyes, and that the CESC has conducted spying for the NSA, using Canada's good name for nefarious purposes.

I write this in the hope that you are aware of this issue, and to inquire as to what you and your party are doing with this regards, and what active efforts you will be making in the future to shed awareness about this creeping invasion on our privacy. As Canadians, we should be protected under Section 8 of the Charter with regards to reasonable expectation of privacy, but I do not want this to constantly shift because security agencies continually push us down the slippery slope Senator Church so eloquently warned Americans about during the Church Committee:

"If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return."

Let me know how I can contribute to any efforts with this regards. I hope you are well, and eagerly await any response you have on this topic.
I've been a proponent of Hanlon's Razor a number of times, so guilty as charged.

As technically minded people we intrinsically understand that it could be the work of someone malicious, but we should also understand from personal experiences that fuck ups happen significantly more often than brown envelopes full of cash.
Awesome, now we only need the freakin island!!!
We have huge, naïve ambitions to change the world. Like most start-ups, we'll probably be an abject failure.
Is it really so bad? 18k is a lot of money, but it isn't that large a run for a good university graduate, and it is very little compared to what US graduates can expect to pay; yet they start plenty of companies.

Might the reason not be that the difference lies with the people and not the environment?
Also while I'm sure it's the first something it's certainly not the first imaging of an individual hydrogen atom; we were "imaging" single hydrogen atoms on various surfaces with scanning tunneling microscopy at least a decade ago. Possibly this is the first time it's been done with SEM though.