jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Much better reading experience as PDF article:
http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1629192&ftid=693559&dwn=...
That's not a double blind experiment, but I'd agree it points to an intolerance. Actual experiments, I will reiterate, are hard to do. Have you tried feeding your wife food devoid of known triggers but told her they were in the food? I would hope not, because it's not an ethical thing to do, but you need that sort of thing to nail it down. Also, since she seems to accidentally eat food of unknown provenance, can you be sure the times she's gotten away with it without symptoms that the food in question was truly devoid of triggers? In others words, it is very very easy to confirm that things are bad for you, correctly or not.
I have fostered multiple dogs afflicted with heartworm and it's terrible to keep an active animal still for months to prevent them from having a pulmonary embolism. It's widespread, difficult to cure, and otherwise fatal.

You don't note if your dog was an indoor dog, but on that front, some of us do not like to have fleas and ticks in our houses.

edit: also, if you have dog and cats, you really need to have your animals on heartworm prevention. Heartworms are much more dangerous to cats than dogs.
...Or a hundred lines of decent Perl or Ruby.

Any language can be written badly.
> The first commit of a repo, as the first commit cannot be rebased later

Hey, can't I git rebase --root?
Someone was the lead designer for a one page website with a handful of words on the page?
That was what I was thinking as well.
> ...our platform can support sellers anywhere Stripe operates (18 countries, more coming this year).

Asking from New Zealand, any hints on the "more coming this year" countries?
Still, an appraiser brought in to do a 409a valuation wouldn't be doing their job if they completely ignored the valuation from the latest funding round. The value will be lower by a subjective amount determined by the appraiser, but is still likely to be somewhat inflated if the preferred rounds were also inflated.
Is "uz." a vaid domain? Why?
even when a loyal customer (10 years is a long time for anything) attempts to negotiate a reasonable outcome

I'm pretty sure "ten years loyal customer" goes out the window pretty fast when you're also the guy trying (in their view at least) to defraud the bank out of a hundred thousand dollars.
IIRC the property overloading in PHP is slow, especially compared to hardcoding the getters and setters, so you're better off hardcoding them. Property overloading in itself is a neat feature for syntactic sugar, for example an object with (semi-)dynamic properties like in an ORM. Other properties of classes, those nog generated on the fly, are better off with the getters and setters written out.
The university I went to for my undergrad very much drilled it into us that Getters and Setters are the thing to do. I got out into the working world after that and it seems everyone else was taught the same thing. When I actually came to change things it never seemed to help and I always had to rewrite mountains of cruddy things. It came to the point that I would automate so much of the code generation using python. If I can automate it with a tiny fraction of the code then there is certainly something wrong with the design and premise.

These and other similar things drove me to hate OOP and software engineering. It seems like people always missed the proper abstraction. Then I discovered Haskell and wandered more into the theoretical aspects of computer language theory. I now have an appreciation for OOP but not the way I was taught...
Ditch the animation and present the teaser clearly in a way people can control their consumption of. Most users want to quickly skim over new pages to determine if it interests them.

With your animation I spent 20 seconds staring and still have no idea what your product is even related to. Leaving me frustrated and completely uninterested.
A four part series

http://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-camps/
Shoot me an email at ari@koalah.co. I'll check it out
>EVIDENCE OF ATTACKS ON VPN, SSL, TLS, SSH, TOR. What do we do now?

This is why advocating for technical defenses alone is doomed to fail. It's great to employ as much technology as we can, but playing cat-and-mouse with our own government is a losing proposition. They are determined and have unlimited resources (read our money plus the printing press).

There needs to be much more pressing on the legal front, such that unwarranted breach of privacy is criminally punishable in very clear ways. If an individual is not the subject of an investigation, for which proper warrants have been obtained, then no records of any kind should be collected or maintained. Full-stop. And efforts to decrypt private communications, etc. should be considered criminal acts. All of this needs to be protected with very clear and robust whistle-blower laws.

Otherwise, thinking that we will deploy some tech to permanently stymie our government is fantasy. And over-focus on that aim tacitly cedes that our government is entitled to whatever it can crack.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8808024
Wouldn't that imply putting a network-accessible server in the kernel? That seems a fair bit more risky than non-root userspace...
Yes, this is legal. We fall under games of skill opposed to games of chance. More info on why this is legal: blog.koalah.co/post/86647837513/what-is-the-cash-based-skilled-gaming-industry
We are working on getting more players. Sorry about this.
> Only long distance trains are mandated to be self-financing. Competing with local trains means competing with subsidized trains, which doesn't make any economic sense

Hmm yes, you're right of course. I guess my main beef is how parts of the political word are always saying "Open access competition is great and everything will be super with rainbows and unicorns" and mostly ignoring the fact that most corridors where open-access might be sort of viable are also already mostly full and any serious increase in the number of open access operators would wreak havoc on the schedules of the currently existing services, especially those of regional trains.
This comment is factually wrong. The airlines did not pay compensation to victims families, Boeing did. Boeing accepted full responsibility for the crash, for providing an unsafe system. Ethiopian airlines did their "due diligence" by purchasing an FAA approved aircraft, by Boeing. They weren't to know that a serious case of regulatory capture was happening.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/bus...
The illustration of Life [1] actually looks like Rudy Rucker's ECOLIBRA, which is a combination of ANNEAL, BRIAN'S BRAIN, and LIFE. [2] It also looks like the image (but not the cellular automata itself) has been run through an error diffusion dither.

[1] http://www.furtherfield.org/sites/furtherfield.org/files/res...

[2] https://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/manual/rules.html

I've implemented a variation of that rule that actually does incorporate an error diffusion dithered heat diffusion with wrap-around (an elaboration of the rule that Rudy calls HEATWAVE) in the upper bits of the cell, with the critters running in the lower bits, injecting fractional heat pollution into the system running in the upper bits. [3]

[3] http://www.donhopkins.com/home/CAM6/

Use the mouse wheel to increase or decrease the entire heat of the system, to make it wrap around, and notice how the life and brain creatures subtly effect the heat diffusion -- think of it like the pollution layer in SimCity. Source: [4]

[4] https://github.com/SimHacker/CAM6/blob/master/javascript/CAM...
This a case of you seeing in the video what you want to see. Practically every advertisement ever created has happy people using a product. This is just a device meant to make life easier - stop overthinking it.
I started as a back-end developer (well, a software developer) and have made my way towards the client over the years. With my background in engineering (eg. learning how things work) I can confidently answer most of the questions. But I can see how modern "front-end developers" would have trouble with a LOT of them since today it's more about getting things to work than how or why.

That being said, I think it's a great list to work from. I would expect you can arrive at a fairly good understanding of a candidate's abilities based on how they answer the questions rather than if they can answer them all.
All I notice is that websites like Wired.com load faster with a ad-blocker.
Excellent insight. I wish this were articulated in blog form somewhere.

Personal anecdote. I moved to Santiago, Chile for 6 months in 2011 to participate in Startup Chile. The first week I was there I had an idea for a novel come to me like a lightning bolt. It sort of overcame me and I worked out the entire story in a few days time. More than anything I think it had to do with the sudden change of environment that sparked my creativity. (and yes, I later wrote that novel)
The trade-off proposed by the survey isn't even true.

People aren't trading their privacy for increased security because mass surveillance isn't effective, they're trading their right to privacy for peace of mind with no actual gain in security.
http://morganlinton.com/startup-domain-faq-should-i-use-a-do...
Scaling Python on multiple cores is easy: you just run multiple Python processes, each with its own per-core GIL.

You are correct, though, that ref-counting overhead is one of the main reasons Python is slow.
It's not hidden or secret at all, and I'm pretty sure they'll have complete control of the OS here. I'm not wondering if the military can figure out how to do that.
Its an old one but filing cabinet document index sheets would be a linked list. Those were lists of the contents in a cabinet/drawer, some of which were lists not in the order of the contents, but in an alternate order for finding documents.
So, it looks like @@ is how you send a message to an actor. But there are still a lot of questions I have about what the implementation of that actor is: a lightweight process, a unit of computation to be scheduled, or is it essentially the same as calling any other function?

It will be interesting to see how Fancy evolves its Actor features in comparison to other languages with built-in Actors.
That's like saying Scipio Africanus, Charles Martel, or Alexander the Great were nothing because their soldiers did the fighting. The leader manages and leads the troops, they follow his vision.

Take a modern example, Steve Jobs, the man is the creative visionary behind most products. He envisioned the wealth and then set the workers upon creating it. Without him it wouldn't have existed.
I think a large part of the motivation is to limit friendly fire. My father served in Vietnam. He said he was shot at by the US much more often than by the VC. Once he and a pal were sent to guard the perimeter. Just after they got into position, their base opened up on them.
urgh, why not make something useful.
I've done minor amounts of text analysis in Python. It is a memory pig. I was shocked.

Anything remotely like a non-trivial dataset should not be run in pure Python, based on my experience.
Wonderful project, it seems I'm not the only one who was reluctant to switch to Emacs just for org-mode.
I think you may be ignoring the drive to eat. Your reductionist view does little to account for how hard it is for people who want to lose weight to do it long-term. The reductionist view certainly can provide a comfortable feeling of superiority, though.

If you think the drive is inconsequential and easy to ignore then try and hold your breath until you pass out. Just breath less, right? These drives have ways of talking us into doing what they want--they are very persuasive.
Like most diet plans, this is one of those things which is very difficult to prove in the general case and quite easy to test for the individual. If you think it might work you can try it for a couple of weeks and see if it has any noticeable effects. If it does, that's well and good; if it doesn't, big deal.

Now, from my point of view the idea that something like this could work is quite plausible. Repeat something to yourself often enough and you'll start to believe it? Sure, that sounds like the kind of thing that the human brain is just dumb enough to fall for.

Personally I wouldn't do it in this precise form. Repeat that passage to yourself and you'll feel silly. For starters, it's written in pseudo-archaic English words which the author doesn't actually understand. "I will be liken to"? That isn't even a sensible grammatical construction.
Honestly I always considered Objective-C to be one of Apple's secret weapon. Both higher and lower level then Java. Objective-C stays closer to the spirit of Smalltalk yet presents no hoop jumping when you need the performance of C.

That, and Cocoa was not designed by morons - protocols and delegation, not inheritance, rightfully rule the day.
What's so evil about using the GPL for exactly what it was intended for?

And perhaps the reason Oracle lacks similar popularity with Google, is because Oracle is soul-crushing. Although some people might say the same about Google these days.
That's a good test for people who talk about software development and project management: ask for a summary of Royce's conclusion.

I also like to ask about the specific (and testable!) assertion Brooks made in his most famous essay.

Anyone who can answer those questions well demonstrates a working understanding of project management.
Some day back, I wanted to combine this (searching in ads and define your own selection algorithm) with the "real-time adsense" idea.

Then people could build the ad widgets, themself. Possibly in a plugable way, with a store/subscripton for them.

For example, a youtube ad widget that gets the relevancy from the transcribed text.
I've always thought that a diagnosis of ADD was mostly a diagnosis that a person wouldn't concentrate on what the person dispensing the drugs wanted them to concentrate on. Looking at the criteria for diagnosis, I could have been easily categorised as ADD when I was a child, yet I've never had a problem concentrating. I just wasn't interested in school or schoolwork. In college, when I suddenly had more control over my personal curriculum, I did great.
Yep -- I worked for a (crappy and hopefully defunct) company that used it.
I'm glad the Chrome team is doing this. Pointer events is a good spec , I hope Apple will do the same eventually.
Have you or anyone you know of done a feasibility study for TeX-quality layout being done in realtime on current mobile hardware? [La]TeX itself obviously isn't well suited to the task even if you make the obvious optimizations like rendering each chapter on-demand as a separate file, but since it is the gold standard for automated layout with good typography it would be interesting to know where the bottlenecks are.
I was never a vegan, but I was a pretty strict vegetarian for about ten years. I started to rethink it when my doctor told me I was seriously deficient in iron, B12 and folic acid.

The first time I ate meat again, a lamb shawarma, it was freaking delicious. I felt my body scream "YES!" Now I incorporate some non-industrial, locally sourced meat, cheese and eggs into a predominantly plant-based diet, and it seems to be working well for my overall health.

Unfortunately a bread bar (exactly what it sounds like) operated by a Slow Food chef recently opened near my house, and I find myself eating altogether too much fresh baked bread.
More likely, they will soon raise their free limits or make more levels free, hence the offer will slowly loose its value over time (but still a good deal if you use it in the next year or two, depending on how fast the above happens).
> I wonder if my way of solving this problem is correct

Nope, sorry :-). First, you missed a bunch of possibilities (e.g., you said that to get in after 2 days you need to choose 2,0, but you could choose 1,1,0 instead; you said that to get in after 3 days you need to choose 1,1,1,0, but you could also choose 1,2,0 or 2,1,0). Second, at best what you've got is an estimate. Third, the question wasn't "what's the most likely time it takes", which I think is what you've tried to work out, but "how long on average". (The most likely time is actually 0 days.)
Actually it's recommended for vegans to take suppliments of B12, you can read more about different aspects of vegan health at http://www.veganhealth.org/
I can confirm that Patrick knows more about SEO than 98% of SEO experts.

I know this because he is a member of our community and we chat often, I tell him stuff that is off the record & sometimes he evolves the model & pushes my model of thinking in new directions.

If I had his programming skills my goal would to be able to retire by the end of next year. :D

Probably the only thing that holds Patrick back in terms of aggressively using SEO to make a ton of money is that he isn't primarily driven by making a boatload of money. Some people are, but he isn't.
Perth only for now. World domination TBD.

ios: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/hipflask/id897329607?mt=8

android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hipflaskap...

blog: http://www.hipflaskapp.com/
grumble grumble

Nofollow was a solution to spam on forums and comment pages (which didn't solve any problem for forums or blogs, since people spam nofollow ones regardless, but it solves a problem for search engines trying to decide which links on a blog were hand-placed with a minimum of work). It isn't obvious to me that everybody on the Internet should necessarily be up on current best practices for solving Google's problems, because most people do not put links into their web pages for the purpose of improving your link graph.
My story:

In 1995 I had a technical idea underlying a product, and tried to do it at my current company. It was an uphill slog due to lots of resistance, and it just wasn't happening. Java 1.0 had just come out. My company was thinking about client-side Java (which is how Java was initially positioned). My idea made more sense server-side and I liked Java. I decided that my idea was potentially useful and decided to do it on my own. I gave myself eight months to build something and then figure out what to do with it. I had no idea how to sell it, market it, did zero market research. I have a very understanding wife.

Eight months later, prototype is done and working great, and I had been trying to find interested parties. A tech giant in Redmond was "interested", but only because they were hiring people in my area of expertise. They were going to buy the software to hire me. It was basically a signing bonus. But I visited and could not stand the place.

A friend of a friend put me in touch with a VC who put me in touch with a local startup who bought my software for a decent amount of equity. The startup went on to a good exit and I lived happily ever after.

Obviously, I was extremely lucky. The idea I just had to work on happened to actually have some value. But I just as easily could have been fooling myself. Things are very different now, due to open source, and I think that the path I took wouldn't work any longer. Certainly not for the technology I worked on, (there are now many open source products available), but obviously lots of software that used to be proprietary now isn't.

As for what you should do: Do you have a technical idea, requiring innovative software? (I'm assuming you are a software engineer.) Or do you have a business idea that requires only well-understood technology? If it's the latter, and if you are primarily a techie, the risk of fooling yourself is much higher.

No matter what you do, be very careful about IP issues with your current employer. They can lay claim to anything you do while you are employed. Review your employee agreement and think about whether your idea overlaps anything your company cares about. I suggest talking to a lawyer with some experience in IP and employee agreements if you decide to pursue your idea while employed. (As I was about to sell my software to the startup, my old employer accused me of stealing trade secrets, which nearly killed the deal. They had no basis for the charge -- they were on a fishing expedition. But it made my life miserable for several weeks.)
The article seems a bit vague, after reading it I still don't really get how schools `stigmatize gifted children`, besides of the perception that `gifted children schools` are elitist, a perception not from the schools but from the general population.
Completely offtopic, but this is the first time I've been to Garrett's blog in a long while, and the new layout is gorgeous.

His old layout was too, so that probably shouldn't be news, really, but it's always impressive to me how some people (Snook, Garrett, et al) always have the most beautiful pages.
Although, if google had an algorithm to account for the quality of reviews, not having a no follow, and having the ranking be a function of total number of reviews, and average feedback score, wouldn't be bad either.
Another + for tarsnap, although I only use it for server backups (git repos and databases). I should probably start using it to backup my laptop.
Thanks for the reply. Have you sold any of your investments so far? What process did you go through if you did?
Huh, learn something new everyday. Thanks!
Wanted to basically write the same thing. It is also the reason, why I (and many others) write less sophisticated one-liners and more really dumb code, than I did 5-10 years ago.
for accuracy
If the royals are gone the wahhabists would not take rule. That's not how it works. They are a key to power in SA but incapable of holding it themselves, which is why they legitimize Saud symbiotically. I loath the both of them but it's important to understand the actual structure going on.
The buyer does receive a share, but the seller didn't have it beforehand nor borrow it from anyone
I really love the terms and conditions (https://www.filaxis.pro/terms/), in particular, their solution for non-unique names.

"In the event of registration with Filaxis Insurance Company you are legally obligated to ensure that your given name as provided is unique, and not shared by any other user of our Services. In the event that your given name is found to not fulfill this requirement, we reserve the right to arrange for an altercation between you and any or all users with shared names in order to determine who will be allowed to retain the aforementioned given name. All vanquished users in this altercation will be required to take the legal name Filaxis Insurance Company."
Does anywhere else in the world sell electricity like this?
Regulations go against personal freedom by definition
On a tesla you set it in the UI and it is an integral part of charging. There's a charging "set limit" percentage from 60 to 100%. 60% (daily) up to 100% (marked trip) I think most people choose 70 or 80%

On busy superchargers the limit is moved down to 80% if it is set above it.

Now other cars treat their battery differently. They may indicate 100% but they reserve a buffer and it's really some lower percentage. I suspect tesla has a buffer too, even if it is just for temperature fluctuations, which seem to move the percentage around.
Why is it non-trivial? Each line shows a fixed amount of data, and you know the total amount of data. Sounds pretty trivial to me.