jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If you’re smart enough, you’ve probably also noticed that the American one makes no sense and is just awful

That's simply not true. The American format is designed to reflect how we normally pronounce dates or write them out in long form (eg "September 11th, 2001").

The European format is also flawed. It's similarly divided into three tokens (day, month, year) but they are ordered so that the tokens represent greater magnitudes of time moving from left to right, big-endian-style. The problem is each token is a decimal number which is traditionally written in little-endian-style. So like the American format, you still need special understanding of the format to read dates and they cannot be trivially sorted.

The ISO 8601 format is little-endian all the way through so it is trivially sorted. UNIX time is even easier to sort and compresses much better, but it's rather difficult for humans to read.
The funny thing is kibi is short for kilobinary which still has kilo in it!
In most of the orgs the process is handled by the devs even though managers believe they use SCRUM or Kanban. Often it is actually XP.
I'm probably missing something obvious as I'm tired, but why does the Uber app need stuff like specific airport rules stored in it rather than pulled from their servers when needed?

Map apps let you look at any city in the world without needing all of that data inside the core app, and if you have enough data to use the Uber app wouldn't you almost certainly also be fine to have it download in the background the required info (coordinates of where pickup is or isn't allowed, specific instructions message to display, etc.) the same as it receives information about local pricing, location of available cars nearby and so on?
touche.

The only way to test it is to not put it into action, then see if you learned it, but then ... that process of testing it is an action, so... ???

I applaud your meta-inquiry.
If the HUD covers part of the view of the road, I don't like it. If it covers part of the view of the hood (i.e., it is lower), then is it really different then having the dash designed so it sits higher up and you don't see your hood?
75% of Ubers in Egypt didn't have seat belts. It's just tucked away and not culturally the norm
Great resources, I remember Flipcode fondly (if fuzzily) from 3D game engine dabbling in the past.

I think it would be really interesting to see a reappraisal of these articles from a '10 years later' perspective, to see how the state of the art has (or hasn't) progressed.
I'm gonna start a company selling two rebranded generic drugs: a sleeping pill called Zzz and a remedy for erectile dysfunction called, obviously, Xxx.
Experience and good instincts/personal qualities go hand in hand, in my opinion. Experience comes from observing what works and what not - it's not necessarily a matter of age. If you keep your eyes and mind open, you'll raise experience faster. Don't do the same mistake twice.

And - don't forget to have fun.

In an investment gathering in November I was congratulated for helping others. That felt good. Experience is making note of such things and letting it affect our behaviour (in the same gathering, I made a not-so good pitch. learning from that, too. :)
26, just for the record
"So much for the bigoted notions that Americans are dumb and Europeans are smart."

Yes, let's move to other bigoted notions...
Valid point.

In this case the results were nearly linear, this is addressed in the article: "While we haven’t included the buy rate in the chart above due to client confidentiality, the results were similarly impressive."
When you email me, that means that you update one of the only two applications on my Dock that's programmed to show a number — and the other one is a To Do application. Is your email as important as my to-do list telling me what I've got due today? If not, don't send it. When you email me, that means you update one of the only three applications on my Phone that are enabled to show me a number — and the other two are my phone app and my texting app. Would you TEXT me this announcement? Or would you CALL MY PHONE about this announcement? If not, don't send it.

When I get emails, I expect them to be from either friends or from clients. I like my friends enough to want to see the things they send to me ASAP; I want to hear immediately from clients so that I can respond to them at four in the morning (if I'm up anyway, that is). Know who I don't want interrupting my workflow? You.

If you're looking to get my attention because you've got a new feature or you generally just want me to come back to you, then come up with a way to make me want your reminder. Have me become a fan of you on Facebook, so that you can push to my feed. Have me follow you on Twitter. Publish your story to Hacker News, and make sure it's good enough that I'll notice it and check it out again. Get a blog and push your updates to me through RSS. But when you email me, you're being a jackass.
So does that kind of confirm that the founders are already cashed out?
Darn, missed out - looks like they're all dead.
I'd rephrase those as follows:

1) The system only trains PhDs for academic research.

2) A PhD does not guarantee an academic job.

PhD skills, particularly in technical fields, can be quite valuable in non-academic careers. To make that transition, though, students need to do the legwork themselves to gain relevant experience and contacts. (e.g., want to move into a programming gig? Do some open-source work and put it on github to build credibility.) Peter Fiske's "Put Your Science to Work" book is a good resource for navigating the culture shift.
>How does that make sense? If the supply is decreasing and competition for it simultaneously increasing, how does that make it less valuable (even in the cynical view of the PhD as a commodity)?

A degree is a commodity. The education behind it might be less so. I don't see it as cynical. The funding system requires a PhD, which confers a type of value on the degree. As you describe, yes, funding is currently very valuable, the degree has become less so.

>As I mentioned in my earlier comment, unless the PhD in question scammed the system (it happens), it at least proves that they have the focus to go deep. It's not a double implication though, which is what people seem to forget and then go on hyperbolic rants.

It doesn't necessarily require a scam. For example, sometimes the candidate of an advisor that is not very involved, but brings a lot of money and/or reputation, can slip through without proper scrutiny. Sometimes the committee is dysfunctional. There are many reasons why it happens.
I assume they wanted to beat the suit to discourage patent trolls from going after Linux and Android in the future. That plan backfired. I'm guessing it backfired due to the jurisdiction...Google's team may have underestimated the ignorance of the court and overestimated their ability to educate.

This particular suit is a tiny chink in a big dam. But, enough of these little patent trolls, as well as a few heavy hitters like Oracle, going after Google could cause them (and other Linux distributors, as well) significant pain. Fighting every patent claim is the only sensible choice. If patent trolls know Google never rolls over, and they're going to have to litigate every single time (and lose a lot of the time), they may be more hesitant to go after Google, and may instead choose more compliant targets.

If I were in Google's shoes, I'd do the same thing.

It may be that acquisition would now be a reasonable response, though the price of the company just went way up because of this win...unfortunately, now their patent troll business model has been validated.
When I first saw the site I assumed it was just a place to beg. But, I'm starting to think it is like group buying where the buyers name the price and there aren't any sellers. So, if a seller comes and wants to sell, how do they "grab" it?

You could actually turn it into a business if you can bring both parties together and charge a fee.
> Um, no. I am building this. I am not just sitting around thinking up some idea and wishing it were true.

Well, now we're talking! :)

You are under the wrong impression. It's not that hackers don't want to see idea people succeed, it's that we don't have much respect for people who are on the sidelines and all talk with no action. I'm a developer, but first and foremost I'm an entrepreneur. If a person is willing to put their neck on the line while facing risk and uncertainty, they have my respect. I don't care if they can't even set up a Wordpress blog.

I wish you best of luck with your venture! It's not about arrogance; it's about action. You're in the club as far as I'm concerned.
One thing that stands out for me:

> I've gone back to a desktop system running Linux (for now) and while I consider it markedly inferior to OS X in terms of usability, it feels like a personal computer again.

I like that Woz recognizes that usability (interface design, etc.) is (a) not the most important thing, but (b) it is still important. The idea that usability is the only thing that matters are the reason why people are moving away from OS X; the idea that usability is just useless bells and whistles is why Linux has never gained a major desktop foothold. There needs to be a balance.
I disagree regarding the "tablet" point - while the major DEs take some UI inspiration from tablets, in general they're still very much desktop-oriented. People often complain about Unity for being "too much like a tablet", but actually try using it on a tablet and it's not well-suited at all in its current form.

You might want to look at KDE and XFCE though - both are sticking more to traditional Linux desktop ideas than Gnome and Unity.
Okay, first, on the intense versus extreme thing: you're just wrong.

If a minority "intensely" prefers something, it means they value it a lot.

If a value is "extreme," it means that it has a lot of opponents.

Of course, a minority might "intensely" prefer an "extreme" position, but they aren't the same, and just like in regular voting, "extreme" causes a problem -- in fact, maybe more of a problem, because here's how it goes:

Say the 5% wealthy minority intensely prefers a non-extreme position -- that is, the other 95% are against it, but don't care. So the 5% have to buy 18 votes each -- let's say that the first bought vote costs $50, so they need to pay $16,200 each.

Now say that the 5% wealthy minority intensely prefers an extreme position -- so extreme that of the other 95%, 20% of them will buy one extra vote, and 10% will buy 5 extra votes. The 95% now equal the 165%, and the 5% have to buy 32 extra votes each, now costing them $51,200 each (their opponents, meanwhile, have spent $50 each for the 20% and $1,250 for the 10%).

How turning votes into a commodity is an improvement: well, I don't totally buy this argument, but the argument itself is pretty straightforward. You say, "If something would massively improve the lives of 40% of the population, but would be kind of vaguely disconcerting to 60% of the population, a better society would do that thing, but democracy as it stands tends to not do it."

It's not particularly difficult to design a function like this that is arbitrarily resistant to small minorities taking over the system. If you make it 2^n, then buying 20 votes costs you a million times buying one vote. There is no definition of "the wealthy" that creates a group that can buy a majority that way. But it's still pretty cheap for a population of 30 or 40% to buy 1 or 2 extra votes each and do what the system is designed to do: allow them to triumph over a majority population with only a MILD preference.
He should try windows 7. I have experience doing many different computery tasks (cad, photoshop, making music, programming,making games + the usual) on linux, windows and osx (+ messing with android and iOS (and DOS and the c64's os back in the day))
Windows 7 is in my opinion the best modern OS for personal productivity ie. getting stuff done without much fuss. I also feel in control of it. I have it set up exactly the way I want (for best performance) and updates are very unintrusive and tend to mainly be security updates.
I participated in the eastern orthodox church (Christian) for a few years and was introduced to their fasting (no meat or dairy products, and eating small amounts). First timers are advised to start slowly (omit one thing) and gradually get to full fasting. The typical fasting schedule is to fast on Wednesday and Friday (with a couple of exceptions) of each week. There are also long fasting periods before Easter and Christmas (and 2 or 3 shorter fasting periods).

Initially, it was quite difficult but over time became much easier. Over time I lost some weight (although that was not an objective) and generally began feeling healthier and more energetic.
Apple removed the DRM from new music sales. All existing music sold before then is still DRM locked. When Apple discontinued DRM, they made user spend $0.30 per song to unlock them (seriously). Now, it appears you can spend $25 for iTunes Match, ensure the affected songs are available, delete the local DRM-infected ones, and it will download proper ones to replace them.
Thanks for the suggestion. We updated the title to remove the ambiguity.
While technically you're right the worst I have to do is pay attention when a kernel upgrade is part of apt-get dist-upgrade and then run a single script then reboot.
The 13% that doesn't use it is what amaze me. Mostly sick people and seniors I would guess... ?
It's a named seminar sponsored by the Nixon Foundation: https://nixonseminar.com/about/
And yet, almost no one knows of them. What will be interesting, is if/when the average person is aware of them. As it is a border-less currency, that's a lot of average people.

IMO, the great thing is, we will get to find out what happens. This is an interesting experiment.
Even when I'm working in a language that doesn't have first class functions, I find it easier to lay out my code by writing functional pseudocode and then "unrolling" maps into loops, closures into structs/objects, compositions into a sequence of calls, etc. It probably leads to idiomatically awful Java, but I find it easier to read and write, and nobody else needs to deal with my code. So...
Or, that's been on their website for a long time and someone found and posted it here.
> Franz Allegro CL is a further development of Maclisp

You are completely wrong. "Franz Lisp" was written to be compatible with Maclisp so that it could run Vaxima. "Allegro Common Lisp" was written from scratch with no relation to Franz Lisp or Maclisp.
It's not quite that simple. If you're holding dollar denominated assets and you want to 'suddenly' switch to Euros you'd better be happy to sell/exchange those assets for pennies on the dollar. Flight from an asset causes prices to crater. Sudden flight and causes crises and panic.
Twitch is not their employer. Twitch collects money from them.
Local government.
Must have extremely high tolerance for absolute idiocy, your expectations will need some mad limbo dancing skills.
Well, we know that childhood is extremely important to the development of humans, but we don't know what kids turn out to be if all they watch for years is just a bunch of colors that trigger dopamine and serotonin release constantly. Almost all adults in the U.S. today grew up with some form of media as T.V.s have always been pretty cheap one-time purchases (until recently with cable TV), so if you replace TV content (which at least always had a plotline or other educational content) with YT Kids they might turn out to be worse at problem-solving or other daily tasks that you need to perform for most jobs. It's definitely a subject that should be studied.
Since your point is that "Twitch is basically their employer", whether they're basically employees is relevant.
If the goal is to prevent misconceptions about the project’s goals from becoming mainstream, then partially withholding access and information about the project seems like a poor way to achieve that goal.

People will just make assumptions about what the project is based on the photos/videos they see, but won’t absorb the deeper meaning because they won’t get to actually use it.
Upvote this.

These events are so rare that it is hard to prove causal relationship and find the mechanism by which it happens.

The rarity also means that in any case they are not very significant.
I gave Bret the same feedback. My point was that if he could package up a smaller version of it (say with a pico projector and a simple webcam) then you could have a ton of creative efforts happen in parallel. There are a ton of use cases for the home and for schools and I'm sad that the potential there is not fully realized..
So much brain power and work wasted on this ad bullshit
It might help to give some concrete examples of Machiavelli not meeting your standards.
Wow, that's a ton of companies compared to "back in the day".

It'd be interesting to have a nice summary of recent batches and where they are to see what kinds of ideas have gotten traction. There are some there that, from the one sentence blurb, don't sound that interesting, but I think the YC folks and the people they invest in are smart, so there's got to be something there.

I'm personally interested in seeing what BookTrope is doing, as it's in a similar space to my own LiberWriter.

Good luck to all of them!
Possibly it's a chaotic deterministic system, which means it can't be precisely predicted by any means short of a full simulation.
> bellman Ford

Funny you mention that one, as the quote you replied to came from Bellman.

I do agree with your point though.
> Ruby uses green threads (meaning only one CPU will get
> used) and they are no easy equivalent to Go channels.

Restriction to a single core is a consequence of the GIL. Also Ruby uses native threads, not green threads, since 1.9.

The author's `execute` method is dangerous because it doesn't escape its arguments.
Swift.

The money is in mobile right now, and for the foreseeable future. Try Java for android too. In a couple of years he'll be making good money without leaving home.

Or anywhere in the world for that matter.
Yeah, I'm saying that.

Believe it or not "It's my money, I do whatever I want with them" is not seen by everybody as some divine-being-given right.

Nor it was always available in all societies.

And it's quite hypocritical to be called from a society that supposedly believes in the advantages of capitalism and the free market as motivating forces for progress and hard work, etc. Inherited money are against all that. In fact they take us to feudal times, taken in extreme.
I live in Sweden where -C is very common at winters. -25-30 is considered very cold even by us though. Nasal mucus freezes and skin "bites".
The release is happening today, so I posted a bit early. Some parts, like the binaries, are not online yet.

There are tutorials for newcomers: http://nim-lang.org/tut1.html
https://nim-by-example.github.io/

Edit: Fixed tutorial link
You don't have to memorize them, though. If your master key is "bananas" and it didn't work, try "bananas2", "bananas3", etc. But you don't need to remember them all—because they're all essentially the same.

Hopefully this happens infrequently enough that it's a non-issue anyway.
It doesn't. Even link you provided says about that. In fact, according to many historians, the only reason which made Mongolian expansion possible, was high degree of infighting and corruption within seized territories. This concerns not only Rus, but Bulgars, Khwarezm, etc. By establishing strong "fair" law they stopped long lasted inner-conflicts and "made life better".
That's one of the factors that damaged Haiti after its independence. In order to normalize trade relations, they had to accept debt at the market rate for the slaves who had been emancipated. This was many, many times their annual income and is probably a major reason why the country became a failed state.
I've always wondered how homeless people deal with cold when I saw them during winter. It's amazing what our bodies can do.
Happy to contradict but I can witness as a pirate kid with no money that I saved over months to buy both dungeon master and its sequel, the only two games I ever bought for my atari st. I bought them because they were incredibly good games and due to them being unavailable in fully cracked version at the time.

Also when you bought the game, it included a way to get a backup disk as a mail-in offer:

[Al] A.HORTON I hope my question is not redundant. Three people in my home play CSB. I would love to back it up, but can't. Is there a way that key disks, doc copy protection, or code wheels could be used as copy protection?

FTL Actually, we think our current protection is less hassle than a code wheel or manual based protection. Also, we do offer a backup disk as a mail-in offer. (see the front of the Manual.)
http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/94
That was fun. I'm going to read all the rest of his stuff now. Thats dangerous linking, username223.
> and that no other species has developed superior intelligence

Another possibility is that other species are constrained by us, and we have manipulated our environment to reduce the survival advantage of increased intelligence for humans as a whole.
what do you mean? transmission of actual information from quantum entanglement based results are still bounded by classical channels.
It's trivial to change the DNS servers on the gateways currently provided with Verizon FiOS, too. I've done it myself.
I can read it partly and I find it very useful for instance for French, where è, ê, ai and sometimes e are all pronounced [ɛ]. I have not learned it, however, and don't understand the meaning of all characters.
If you are regularly drinking 12 beers in one night, killing your creativity is the least of your problems.
I was not trying to propose a "better" way - my understanding of tarsnap's security is deeply limited. Yet, I love how it is exposed as a scriptable command.

In my (very) limited knowledge - I am able to do retrieve backups on my machine using my key, which I supply to the command line. I was thinking of how it would work in a web based environment. Perhaps I could copy paste my key into a textbox, and I could retrieve my backups from a webpage. This would only last for the session (tarsnap would not store the key).

I know that you can think of a million ways that this can be exploited, but that is MY cross to bear. If I am prepared to do this, because I need immediate access to my backups from another machine - then please let me do this (basically, give me a way to access and create my backups in less than two steps).

I personally do believe that this would be a killer feature.
Or at least would represent a drastic shift in how we produce electronics. One step closer to a diamond age like future.