jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes! Maybe centered on an up quark in a proton of a carbon atom in the DNA in the nucleus of a brain cell.
I'd take cheap/fast/(won't go down 99.99% of the time) vs expensive/slow/can't go down
It is fascinating to watch and so shortly after Yellen's tone-deaf speech about how btc is inefficient compared to traditional banking system. I almost spat out my coffee. Has she tried sending a wire outside of US lately?

edit: Almost makes you wonder if it was a targeted attack.
I wouldn't put Willis in the category as particularly muscular. He's usually cast at the every man. What he does is exude man in his on screen confidence.
I do not get it- why is exponential powerful tech, such a serious matter if somebody wants a nuke (Iran, North-Korea) or even just proliferate per-existing ones, considered a serious issue. But once a entity with clear interests in venturing outside the sphere of law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Breakup) and the monetary/organizational power to acquire such tech, ventures towards something similar classifiable, such a threat is a joking matter?

Also if you stream a movie tonight, like millions others, who just have a roof, food and a flickering screen that sand in the dessert might be very fine integrated - and already have gotten everywhere. So nobody is asking you or me, might as well discuss the scenarios.
323bn spent.

There are 331 million Americans.

= every American paid around $1000 for this failure.

These funds could have gone into schools, roads, social programmes, ... Instead they served to enrich the small crowd owning the defense industry, with little to show for it all.
There's getting to be a whole industry of this stuff. There's "virtual land on a blockchain". That's Decentraland, Sominium Space, and Upland. Decentraland and Sominium Space have 3D worlds you can visit on line, and you can build stuff on your virtual land. Upland didn't bother. They just have trading cards.

Non-fungible tokens look a lot like initial coin offerings 2.0. There are going to be a lot of sucker bets.

"If you've been in the game for half an hour and you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy."
I agree with this. Here's some truths:

* Experienced engineers will perform better than graduates in general

* The distribution of experienced engineers who are poor performers won't over represent application to one particular company unless they are an outlier (Repl.it is not Google)

This makes me wonder what Repl.it's hiring process is and why it is not doing well at attracting good people.
It's definitely tapping into current retro-futurism that is super focused on vaporwave/80s stuff. It's a phase that I wouldn't personally bet on, because at the time they were simply projecting what they thought the future would look like, and were just wrong.
In that price range?

ASUS P7H55D-M EVO (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131...)

Intel Core i3-550 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115...)

OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227...)

Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EARS 1TB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136...)
na.rm is a argument name, na.omit a function, na.action an attribute. They are not the same thing.

Anyway, you're right with respect to the lack of standard way. One thing I personally find most annoying is function naming. Some functions use the dot convention (do.this), some use camel case (doThis), some use underscores (do_this) etc. And what is most annyoing: this is even true for novel functions that were just introduced in recent releases.
Musk strikes me a bit as the Howard Hughes of our age. Except without the urine collection. (I think.)
Well we had some provocation for those bad things that we did. And then when the war ended, we put a lot of energy out to rebuild Japan and make life there massively better than it had ever been before.

The last bit is kind of important.
I maintain a blacklist of recruiters who annoy me. Mostly it's the ones who call me up repeatedly, or who call me about ridiculously bad fits. However, I also keep a special section in that black list for any recruiter that uses the term "Rock Star" or "Ninja", and I openly mock the companies who use the term. I also find smugness later on when they fail, because they clearly were prima donnas trying to attract other prima donnas.
The Roadster model has shipped. I saw one parked in downtown Boulder last week.
FreeBSD switched to clang, OpenBSD afaik maintains forks of the last GPL2 versions. NetBSD and Dragonfly use GPLv3 gcc versions.
Those re-selling student-based bonds have been reselling education for a while now... and when one becomes unable to re-sell those, there will be a problem.
This article explains a lot of Corporate America. Banks and investors make money by doing nothing; they write a check, they get a check back for more than the original. Therefore, they don't care if the employees or customers are happy, they only care about maximizing the chance that they get their check tomorrow.

This is obviously shortsighted in the case of Zappos. You can buy shoes online from anywhere. The user selects the shoes he wants, you put them in a box, you ship the box. Take away the "expensive" features of Zappos, like good customer service and free shipping, and your customers will just go somewhere else, leaving you with nothing.

Amazon has a clue about dealing with customers, so I think Zappos will be OK. But if the banks and VCs took over, Zappos would have become another data point in the portfolio of "being nice fucks you over". (But really, it's the banks that are fucking you over. Or perhaps, the people that default on their loans are fucking everyone else over.)
One possible answer is that yes, that would be a good way to design a brain, but no we can't because evolution isn't smart. So we have brains that overwhelmingly lock on to whatever behaviors we remember being rewarded in the past, and only go exploring when we don't find food other places we remember (which may be too late)

It may be 'easy for evolution' to limit memory, but 'hard' (more unlikely mutations on a more delicate structure) to make a planner that revisits known food sources only a limited amount.
It appears Adobe isn't interested in making software anymore. Flash is slow, Acrobat is slow and Photoshop will refuse to work for completely arbitrary reasons (like having a case sensitive filesystem).

Guys, looks like Adobe could use some competition :p
Student loans for trade school are actually the dicest commodity out there.

The problem isn't that college is over-rated compared to trade school. The problem is that both mechanics and college graduates can't look forward to jobs that will pay off their education.
Three major differences: Crunchy requires Python to be installed on your computer; nothing is sent to a remote server; Crunchy is currently only guaranteed to work on Firefox. On this last point, it is likely to stay that way for a while as I have little time these days to work on it. ;-)
You have to understand that your reaction is typical of 99% of people JWs meet at the door. If they gave up when someone said "I'm not interested in changing my religion", then they would never talk to anyone.

Universal evangelism in JW congregations will never disappear. The shared experience helps separate them from the rest of the world and bind them together, much like hazing at a fraternity or combat experiences in the military.

As an unbeliever growing up in a JW household, going door to door every weekend was certainly one of the most horrific parts of my early life. I am so, so glad that is over.
My christmas Gift
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038971
Yes, it's great for impressing the others in the boss so they know you are in fact technical (apart from building all the stuff).
Self driving cars offer, perhaps, a counter example:

It was a fundamental problem. In the mid-'90s, microchips weren't fast enough to process all the potential options, especially not at 55 miles per hour. In 1996, Dickmanns proclaimed that real-world autonomous driving could "only be realized with the increase in computer performance … With Moore's law still valid, this means a time period of more than one decade." He was right, and everyone knew it. Research funding dried up, programs shut down, and autonomous driving receded back to the future.

from:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/stanley.html?pg=2&#...
>"I want to ask you a question, why do you feel the need to go into someone's house with the goal of converting them to your religion?"

JWs believe that all other religions are tools of the devil designed to distract people from the one true religion - theirs. This is true of "false Christianity", other Christian religions, as well as "pagan" religions. Being a good JW is the only sure way of staying on the right side of the JW version of the blessed and the damned; belong to any other religion and your chances aren't so good (though God may give some people a second chance after he destroys our world as it exists today).

On a more practical level, there is immense peer pressure within the church to go door-to-door. Hours spent evangelizing are reported to the local elders by each member of the church and detailed records of evangelism activity are kept. Families and individuals that don't spend sufficient time evangelizing are pressured by the church elders to do more.
about the last point- hiding personal opinions about world politics, economics, etc to avoid negative career consequences... can you give any examples of how these opinions, especially un-orthodox ones, could hurt a researcher working in an entirely unrelated field? curious....
I came across this trying to learn more about CUDA and OpenCL. Specifically I was trying to find information on bending GPUs to be useful for actor model... zombies were an awesome bonus!
Nice try but no sale. This is the problem: talking about this issue will get you labeled as being anti-<insert emotive issue here> (health care for veterans in your case).

The budget is blowing out for three reasons: Social Security, health care and the military. Of the three only the last is largely discretionary (being the ongoing cost for campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan).

When FDR introduced Social Security there was something like 50 working people for every retired person and the average life expectancy was probably only 60 or so. It's a straight money goes in money goes out system with no saving or planning for future spending. Everyone knows this is unsustainable. It's merely a question of when something will change and what. The smart money is on raising the retirement age.

Health care costs are spiraling. This is a much more complicated and multi-faceted problem. Personally I think part of the problem is the blank chewue mentality we have to health care. Basically it doesn't matter how much it costs to research and develop pharmaceuticals and medicine, we expect to be provided it. So companies largely ignore the costs.

It's a bit like saying to a subcontractor: you can choose to spend as much as you like and I'll pay you a 20% margin on top of that. What is the motivation of that subcontractor and the inevitable outcome?

Also I think you need to look at the structure of the health care system. I suspect the US has the most expensive health care in the developed world. I think systemic inefficiencies and overprotective IP laws play a bigpart in this.
> Apple's incentives appear aligned with their customers.

... which is really no mystery, because Apple users are customers, and Facebook users are product.
That's not what market efficiency means. Market efficiency is specifically a function of liquidity and price discovery. A market is more efficient when the price of assets is derived from some measure of intrinsic value. Technical factors emergent in trading mechanics (such as what causes a short squeeze) do not have intrinsic value. Obviously you can can extract value from them in the short term, but that is not the same thing as market efficiency. When you trade on technical factors like a short squeeze, your orders do not enhance a directional view of the asset or the liquidity of the asset.

This is to say that not everything which is profitable is enhancing market efficiency. Generally speaking: long/short strategies are preoccupied with price discovery and valuation, systematic momentum, trend and volatility strategies are concerned with arbitrage, and market makers are concerned with liquidity. These three exist on a spectrum between enhancing price discovery and enhancing liquidity. There isn't really anything inefficient about shorting too much - if that happens, it means there's widespread consensus the asset is overvalued, which is likewise a statement that there should be less of the asset at that value. The valuation and liquidity have a feedback cycle here.

In the case of GME, a directional view that could contribute to price discovery would be that GME should actually be valued on future revenues which are mispriced by the market due to a variety of factors (e.g. Ryan Cohen, digital-first transformation, etc). It would still be generous and optimistic, but it would at least be a coherent directional thesis. The process of market efficiency would be to incorporate this view when you stake with an open position, and theoretically if you're right your view will be vindicated.

There is nothing efficient about GME at $100, let alone $400.
Sadly no because I need stateful RAM. A single VM might work but I'm scared
> Your link [1] is actually the answer to/against moxie by Daniel Gultsch.

True, I meant to move the reference at the end of the sentence rather than linking the two as initially planned, ended-up doing half of that.

> There is also a live talk by Moxie at 36C3

IIRC, that's the one he didn't like to be ridiculed over and asked the organizers to take down.
What type of user who would you say gets the most value out of building Insight extensions?
It won’t cause Facebook to go bankrupt (less well-targeted ads can still be sold but aren’t worth as much), but it will meaningfully impact them. Most high level Facebook employees have significant amounts of Facebook stock. Even the implication that Facebook’s ad revenue will decrease is going to lower their stock price. So of course they are going to try to prevent this change- if it becomes permanent they are taking a hit to their retirement savings.

If Android follows suit (not guaranteed but iOS and Android often converge on features within a few versions of each other), then they are going to take another hit. Executives want to prevent this change in the interest of their personal wealth.

While I welcome the change as an iOS user (for privacy with my other apps, I don’t even have a Facebook account) I can understand why Facebook is coming out hard against the change.
I don't see why we need to compromise our privacy to support advertising for small business. If I want to opt-in in order to get ads for services that would likely be relevant to me then sure, let me do that. But to be forced to opt-in and then create a moral hazard claiming I "don't support small business" - yeah, screw that! I don't see why Zuckerberg et. al.'s failed business model should be my problem.
Thanks!

I was wondering due to the recent changes of Reddit T&Cs
I won’t debate your analogy because I think it is flawed for reasons such as you can’t change the fundamental definitions of a car as easily as we can change web standards, as we have done over the past 30+ years.

I will point out that I routinely use Reddit on mobile Safari and it is most certainly a web app. Things like Twitter, Facebook, etc. are also apps, and while you can download a native version, for privacy reasons I prefer their web app counterparts as they are less able to spy on what the rest of my phone is doing.

I will also again point out that Google Maps is a better experience than downloading OpenStreetMaps and setting it up yourself. Even something like Slack and Discord and Google Docs are perfectly good experiences on desktop browsers and require no installation whatsoever. You aren’t really addressing the zero installation point at all and that’s at the crux of why web apps are a thing and their main draw. You quoted my conclusion and called it nonsense without any basis since you provided a straw man argument and didn’t address the main point at all.
Apart from Apple's tos... That sounds like it would be a pretty explicit, in your face, and eat to prosecute gdpr violation in Europe.
The portuguese "Terça" means both Tuesday and third, must be quite tricky to catch
Yeah, I've been waiting for that to leak out.

$20bn seems like a lot for PR, why wouldn't you fight that? Unless there is some sort of cap or some reason. What about the folks taking the pay outs too? I'm sure there is some paperwork to sign before you get a cheque.

Looking at like the Iraq reconstruction funds, I expect that $20bn to be spent in about a month, a lot of folks won't be paid, we won't know where the money goes and it's just going to be gone.
… without voiding the guarantee ?
I'd rather keep my legs working - those look very prone to ankle/knee levering injuries.
unpossible.

DO 100 I=1,10
100 SUM = SUM + X(I)

No longer supported ? hWhat ?
And don't get me started about COMMON and EQUIVALENCE.

To be blunt, FORTRAN 77 was probably the most practical language ever devised. What is this monster ?

I predict more code written in FORTRAN 77 is being used today that all of the code written in later dialects. And this will be the same for the next 20 years.
No I think you are wrong to want to include those metrics.

You are including people who are probably in the bottom 80%. And they may be fine in the long run. Certainly a large mortgage is not a terrible thing if you can pay for it. And they may make it to CEO but statistically they won't.

This article is about the top 0.1% and the fact that the slice of the pie owned by the 0.1% is increasing faster than the size of the pie. People aren't unhappy with other being wealthy (on average) but a system that means the gap is widening implies that something in the system needs to change.

Sorry to be negative but I think it's important to focus on the problem raised by the article.
The only way this turns Facebook into robber barons is if they're able to drive developer's salaries down as a result. But the only way to do that would be to build many thousands of units. The housing situation in SF isn't just a little bit short, it's a lot short on supply. And even that would probably just bring developers salaries down from the heavens to more normal levels rather than somehow magically making them all indentured servants.
Wonderful! When will you do the same for the "Code Général des Impots" ? :)
The allocation of money is about the same as the allocation of the economy's output. Someone's getting more out of it than others. If "him" disappearing from the economy would damage the economy more in dollars than he earns, then he's not taking your money. Otherwise he is. My guess is that the filthy rich add orders of magnitude less to the economy than they take out. Warren Buffet and Steve Jobs are probably exceptions, but I don't complain about them. Most CEOs are probably fine. It's inheritors that are the real problem.
I'm kinda surprised that we haven't seen a price decrease, since AWS keeps reducing prices. I can understand they wanting to decrease the 'freeloaders', but it seems shortsighted, those people are their future paying customers.
Their new pricing makes it more economical to just get a small droplet from digitalocean, i'm surprised they chose to be above that point.
While it doesn't seem certain any price change has happened. A drop in pricing has been way overdue, the cost of computing power and memory has been dropping but not Heroku pricing. I get that Heroku is meant to be a "premium" cloud product, but it often doesn't feel like one.

This also may not be much of a drop for people with minimal production requirements. Under the free hours system, 2x1X was $35 now it may be $50 unless the Hobby pricing is factored in for the first 1X and it's $25 + $7 = $32. For 2x2X the price drop will only be $6.50. Still it's good that the cost to scale has gone down.

The paid hobby tier is actually welcome change, the limitations of the free tier (often used for staging and demo environments) were (are?) annoying. The ability to run 1 dyno per Procfile entry (instead of per app) is a welcome change, as allows you to fully mimic production without dyno scaling more easily at a lower cost. People were likely using while allowing them to pay a reasonable price for these low-traffic systems.

I have been saying for a while 1X dyno is underpowered and unnecessarily memory limited considering it's price (particularly for Rails apps) even before 2X was announced. If I had my way the 1X would be dropped in favour of the 2X at the same price and the 1X only used for hobby and things like a worker role handling infrequent job queue processing. These price changes come pretty close to doing that, while adding a paid, but low-cost, hobby tier for applications with very limited needs.

Let's hope this is actually serious.
It feels like the Surface 3 is coming out a few months too early in some respects, as the disk space improvements in Windows 10 are going to make it a lot more palatable on the $499 model:

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/16/how-wind...
Try making your own mask:
https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-...
It’s been fascinating to see this kind of soft aggression being deployed amongst parties that otherwise have strong economic relationships. This really strikes me as evidence that countries are more scared of the potential collapse of the healthcare system than anything they’ve dealt with in a while, including terrorism.

It’s not another international example, but DOJ allegedly asked Congress to temporarily suspend habeas corpus in the US[0], citing the need to detain people indefinitely during a crisis. Really interesting times we’re in.

0: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/doj-susp...
That only happens if there is a meaningful separation between government and private owners or oligarchs. When one is actively involved in lobbying and introducing candidates whose agenda is favourable to them into government, the lines are blurred. Your definition is reductive.
I always worry about the objectives and goals behind the people in the shadows injecting money into projects like this. Twitter started off as an open forum, but look at it now.
Missed that, thanks. That could indeed work. It could even nicely dovetail into the Typescript (or Reason, or Elm) compilation process.
It's entirely possible they wouldn't be interested. The successful youtube channels can easily pull in more than they would be paid on the BBC, and they would have less control over what they are creating. (For an example who have explicitly talked about this: the people behind the Corridor Digital channel recently got very close to signing a deal to produce a film with a traditional hollywood source, but decided against it to go their own way independently)