jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To be fair, I think what he is specifically saying is that a lot of the blogosphere/tech buzz/flame wars etc. is not influencing anything because by the time the early adopters get their hands on the gear, the next product is already in the production pipeline, so there's no real net effect in being able to influence product development. (The "influencing" effect is more of a marketing effect).

But I agree with you that I have not encountered a computer user, no matter how naive, who didn't take specs into consideration when they buy their next computer. They know they need "more" if nothing else.
EmailOracle appears to be the same guys as ETacts. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2028555
Please fix the 'must set alarm' thing! I got one of these for my wife for Christmas. For some reason I assumed it had a vibration alarm, but that's no big deal since she'll mainly be interested in the analytics. But we definitely can't have any chance of an audio alarm going off around her wake time.
There's absolutely nothing illegal about downloading the SSH source code, finding a buffer overflow, and releasing code that demonstrates that that buffer overflow gets you root. The downside is that a lot of kiddies will use this information to cause mayhem.

When you do the same to the phone, there is much less mayhem. But there's absolutely nothing illegal about the first scenario.
It's interesting that you think that

is an annoying rhetorical tactic. Instead of explicitly suggesting P, which might require you to support the proposition P, you instead sneer at the possibility that someone might think not-P.

Actually in this case my main reason for believing not P is that they haven't been successfully trolled yet. If an intelligence agency did attempt this trick then they'd almost certainly succeed, because the Wikileaks crew are mere mortals and quite capable of being fooled by a clever fake.

If any intelligence agencies are reading this, though, and feel like offering me a job in the wikileaks-trolling department I'd be happy to accept it.
The ultimate music search tool, searchale

Took about half a dozen refreshes to see it. Appears to be an ad served through doubleclick.
If by 'user-friendly linux' you mean 'linux without any of the linux showing' then yes. I can't stand linux, but android is great.
Dropbox would have been my next closest to the bottom on that list, and while I think a $200B valuation on its own for Dropbox is a bit outlandish, it's conceivable.

I thought about it like this...

Would I bet that every company on this list will do worse than doubling their valuation over the next 5 years?
repeat of my last comment:

"Who's the real terrorists in 2013?"
Comfort-maximizing system-lickers.
I don't think this is critical of Japanese culture so much as it's inherently concerning that it (appears) such a problem there.
If it were true that Oxford was uniquely better at teaching than anyone else, they would be expanding to educate as many people as possible. But the higher education game is one of exclusivity and elitism, it's like Roll-royce - if everyone has it, its worthless.

Its a self reinforcing system, top universities pick top students, arguably these people are so bright you will get noble prise lauriates even if you educate them in rural mongolia.

My parents were always clear that this is a game in pursuit of a paper certificate that open doors to the next stage, and your wellbeing depends on it.

They were never under impression that your wages are fairly adjusted for your knowledge.
The copyright holder is not bound by the license granted to others, so in general is legally permitted to add any additional restrictions. However, as this particular additional restriction is not one of the additional restrictions that GPL3 section 7 permits, section 10 applies to anyone other than the copyright holder, which states "You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License." This is a problem for e.g. F-Droid's package, which is neither distributed by the author nor distributed in accordance with the terms of the GPL.
Location-based pay is remarkably offensive, and for the exact reason you state:

> you have basically handed your wallet to the "wallet inspector"

By accepting location-based pay, you concede that your employer has the right to treat you like a child receiving an allowance; that your remuneration is based on the lifestyle that they think is appropriate for you, and not on the market value of your work. But your choice of lifestyle, your needs, etc, are strictly none of their business and it's exceptionally inappropriate for employers to act like your parents. Once you let these people "inspect your wallet," you are establishing an abusive relationship and will get hustled around the clock.
Depends on what area. Depending on where you're focusing in the blockchain industry any of the following can be important: cryptography, large scale distributed systems, economics / game theory and designing incentive systems, programming language design, pure functional programming (because smart contracts can't have side effects), frontend development, UI/UX design, and on and on.

Ultimately dapp (I hate that term but have long since grudgingly accepted that it's become ubiquitous in the industry) development is just normal web app development except that you might also be making AJAX requests to a blockachin and possibly also writing your own smart contracts. Writing your own smart contracts is a somewhat distinct skillset, but the rest of it is just normal web app development.
> The "holistic application" is not what activists wanted.

In the absence of objective criteria holistic evaluation (and worse) is what you’ll get. Not necessarily at TJ, but at the next steps, and if these ideas are applied generally.

> This eliminates the need to "distinguish themselves" among everybody with increasingly ridiculous prep processes.

I have never understood this demonization of the prep process. Yes, kids start prepping for TJ admissions in middle school. So what? Asians do the same thing to prepare for high stakes testing in their home countries too. Test prep isn’t free, but the average family income in Fairfax County is over six figures for every racial group. (Asians actually have significantly lower average income than whites in the county.) Test prep is not an unaffordable expense for most families in the county.

Given that test prep is mostly affordable for the families in question (and given that studies show it doesn’t help much) it seems to me that people are really complaining about cultural changes brought about by an immigrant group. They don’t like asian culture where childhood is single-mindedly dedicated to education (ideally an education in a narrow range of acceptable fields like STEM). Now I don’t consider that “racist” or “xenophobic” (I think natives have a right to protect their culture) but that’s what it is.

> I remember doing this crap. Weekend test prep. Signing up for science magazines just so you could stick it on your resume for why you loved science.

So?

> My parents were informed in preschool of decisions they should make to make magnet schools a feasible outcome.

This is a conversation my wife and I have about our kids. (Though we decided private rather than magnet school.) They’re 8, 2, and the third is due in June.

> My family has some personal experience with this as we were pretty deeply involved in local activism to change the way that letters of recommendation were used to send people to GT programs (many decades ago) after it became clear that the letters were introducing all sorts of bias.

That’s a good change.

> Yet Asra has personally called several of my old friends racists for seeking the lottery option. We must just hate south and east asian people. We must be brainwashed by leftist colleges (despite graduating a decade or longer ago).

In Kendi’s formulation of “racism,” the lottery approach is racist against Asians. It will exclude half to two thirds or so of the Asians who would otherwise have gotten in under a test-based model.

I think Asra is too quick to cry racism. I think the activists are just idealistic and misguided. That said, it’s not like the sentiment of white people not wanting to have to “compete with super study Asians” doesn’t exist. E.g. back in the day Wall Street would hire white guys from Ivy League crew teams, and today classes are overwhelmed by Asians with STEM degrees. As to colleges, they’ve been leftist since long before decades ago...
I can recommend K-9 fork p≡p [1] which has material design.

[1] https://pep.security
"We need to re-engineer the alphabet so that it will be clear at extremely small sizes."

No. We don't.
yeah but in working for his groceries, it doesn't seem as though he created any value to anyone in the process.

I guess he was brand loyal, but it seems like the work didn't benifit anyone else in society, which is in contrast with actual work.
Ok, this may explain why women want to talk on the phone before going out with the guy. Good thing we have SMS.
I was going to post this for you, I recognized you from previous threads.
Sorry house... I meant to upvote your 0 comment but my finger slipped :-(
Philosophy is not my favorite subject.

Here's the thing: in all of your examples, you're giving me a choice that I have no right to make. If I were offered the chance to trade the existence of an entire species in order to end world hunger, I would have to decline. I might forever regret the decision, but I have no natural right to make that decision. (Unless we're talking about mosquitoes. I would happily contribute to their extinction.)

If philosophy isn't the proper arena for this crowd, then perhaps game theory is more applicable: if I decline that offer, then we're no worse off than before; however, if I accept, we may be better off -- if the gambit works -- unless there are consequences, in which case we may end up worse off. This is a classic high-risk/high-payoff situation, and I do not gamble.

A loaf of bread is $4 not because it has anything to do with what I'm "willing" to pay for, but because someone has calculated that they can produce that product and sell it for that price and continue doing business. You might counter-argue that they only charge that because enough people are willing to pay for it, but the reality is macroeconomics is much different -- as is the reality of supermarket pricing.

It is simply arrogant beyond belief to argue that any of us could make decisions that would trade something valuable to so many people, for something that might be valuable to other people.

I mean, to bring this point home, how about if someone asks me if I'm willing to trade the lives of your family for the sake of feeding the homeless in my county? Based on your argument so far, that should be an easy choice for me to make ...
Standing up for a bit before an hour or 10 in a cramped airline seat isn't so bad imho.
I'm not super familiar with gitweb so I'll be the one to ask: what can you do with gitweb as a logged-in user? What's the impact of an XSS on gitweb?
While I am sure that there is a use as an aide, and I have known blind people who are both patient and very independent, I doubt they would stand on street corner waving a phone around hoping to catch some text.

That doesn't rule out that text to speech with translation wouldn't be beneficial - just not in this context imho.
I'm starting to use MyGengo quite a bit for translations. It's more expensive than MT but the quality is great and service is super-fast.
But in Google's case it can be especially toxic, it's then difficult for others to enter those markets as suddenly there's a free competitor. That's not healthy and on that I agree with the author.

But isn't this the grave we've dug for ourselves (as software developers)? We've pivoted the whole market so that software has no intrinsic value on its own?

Look at WordLens for example. Mindblowing technology. If you could only get it in a standalone piece of HW the markup would purely be a function of the HW cost. As it is, they started pricing at $5. And as ridiculously cheap that is I can see people saying, "Why isn't it 99 cents?"

At this point the horse is out of the barn. The value of your product is no longer the utility of the product, but rather how well advertisers can leverage your audience.

Although that makes me think, there's great advertising angles with WordLens since you know what words/signs people are looking at. I freaking went to sleep thinking about that product... sorry for the tanget. :-)
I'd argue that Netflix is slowly moving towards such a concept.
You cannot discuss innovation without discussing Christensen's Innovators Dilemma and disruptive innovation.

The market incumbent strives upmarket and creates a performance oversupply (a surplus of features in excess of customer demand) which opens space below for a downmarket competitor to disrupt upmarket.
While ISPs can stiff their customers, they have the option of switching. There is no escaping from legislation, however.

If there is a doctrine of "no regulation/no legislation", corporations would have less of an incentive to mess with the political process (less rent-seeking behavior).

Net neutrality, while ostensibly a pro-consumer piece of legislation, nonetheless opens the door for future regulation (and yes, of censorship) of this space.
It still might. Chip music and Demoscene/Trackerscene music is an unusually vibrant and prolific music scene that has almost no commercial ties to the music industry. It's sort of the most "indie" kind of music you can find, with people doing whatever they feel like for the most part, yet still has some recognizable cultural threads.
Yep. Web workers, child processes, whatever works. My preference is to use microservices to keep things isolated. It comes with an overhead of a millisecond or two but for most purposes that's fine.
Perhaps... it's just a very low res screenshot... (or was that your joke anyway? ;) )
>I'm just not sure how you're supposed to declare ill-gotten gains without 5th amendment worthy self-incrimination.

curiously, i think similar situation, yet different outcome - "bad guys" aren't required to register their machine guns :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act#Exceptio...

"The United States Supreme Court has ruled in Haynes v. United States that the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution exempts felons—and, by extrapolation, all other prohibited possessors—from the registration requirements of the Act. "
"...Deep Learning (DL) models have been widely used to support code
completion. These models, once properly trained, can take as input an incomplete code component (e.g., an incomplete function)
and predict the missing tokens to finalize it. GitHub Copilot is
an example of code recommender built by training a DL model
on millions of open source repositories...

...As of Today, it is unclear whether the code generated by DL models trained on open source code should be considered as “new” or as “derivative” work, with possible implications on license infringements. In this work, we run a large-scale study investigating the extent to which DL models tend to clone code from their training set when recommending code completions...

... If these models tend to generate new code that is unseen in the training set, then licensing issues are unlikely
to occur. Otherwise, a revision of these licenses urges to regulate how the code generated by these models should be treated when used, for example, in a commercial setting. Highlights from our results show that ∼10% to ∼0.1% of the predictions generated by a state-of-the-art DL-based code completion tool are Type-1 clones of instances in the training set, depending on the size of the predicted
code. Long predictions are unlikely to be cloned..."

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.06894.pdf
The non-binding guidelines in (1) were proposed, but did they go through? I don't know the answer to this and am curious.

As far as (2), you can read the equitablemath.org worksheet here: https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...

It appears that you cut-off a quote. The full quote is: There is a greater focus on getting the "right" answer than understanding concepts and reasoning.

You may still disagree with that! But just for the sake of addressing arguments fairly, worth not butchering what people are trying to communicate. It's a fair thing to argue that what matters is students understanding WHY something is right rather than just getting the answer correct.
I doubt they have to hide anything? Kids aren't much known for watching the news. I'm not sure why it would need to be hidden though. That kind of sheltering doesn't strike me as productive.
thanks for replying.

to clarify, the statement isn't that it is straightforward -- simply that it's easier to analyze something that doesn't change shape unpredictably than something that does (fewer variables to consider).

whether predictions based on evolutionary related sequences are 100% accurate in human cells is another matter, especially when it comes to viruses.
> he was behind every clerc or doctor that asked for a bribe?

Yes he was, he purposely allowed corruption to flourish, communism 101.
I know people who are poor and therefore were too poor to have their learning disabilities addressed early on with unsupportive families inflicting childhood trauma which results in them smoking weed as a teenager because there are no structures to support them towards health, but fuck them right? It’s so easy to judge people making seemingly bad decisions. Teenagers are still children whose behaviors are caused by their environments.
The stonings would have been illegal under Roman law and would have resulted in severe punishment by the authorities.

That’s exactly why in any case they would have had to obtain approval from/remand the case to Pilate.

We have many other documented such incidents resulting in dire consequences. Pilate himself would have been averse to allow mob violence not just because it was illegal but because allowing such to take place as the Roman in charge would have likely merited punishment for him as well especially if it got more out of hand.

Josephus is a great source on the historical situation of the time period, if you have the time to read the Antiquities and the Wars.
Would it still be unethical if your client was supportive of the larger strategy?

If your client were unaware of the strategy, would it be unethical to tell them?
Fixed here https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr/releases/tag/v0.3.3
They have a team member in charge of marketing. Surely that counts as spending a dime (or two).
GNU Taler would have been far _more_ relevant because it is a generic payment processing service and not tied to any specific coin.
Wasm does at runtime what Wuffs does at the compile time for a typical slowdown of 2-3 times. As with Wuffs there is no allocation in the basic Wasm, the program works on pre-allocated buffers.
I’ve had a similar thought recently regarding music and programming (I studied music but now work in tech) but from a different perspective. The truly great work is imprecise. It’s not perfectly structured. It breaks the rules. You have to feel it instead of think about it directly. In fact trying to quantify it and make it perfect reduces the quality of the end result. You have to learn all the rules and then throw them away. The more and more I age the more I’m convinced we already have all the answers built in for anything we could wish to explore in this universe but our conscious is mostly incapable of accessing it.

So yes programming can be easy, even the hard stuff, but we can only fleetingly tap into the subconscious which allows it to be easy.
You're right, it doesn't. The study posted by the parent is not trying to make claims about absolute risk to young people -- it's focused on the conditional risk, given that a young person is hospitalized in the first place.
What advances in computer science were necessary for HipHop? It's a bog-standard JIT system of the kind we'd been building for years. Sure, it's well-executed, but it's hardly a "revolutionary project" to those who weren't born yesterday.
Ok, so who's going to start doing the WWDC's ?
I don't think that what YC provides and does well really "fits" what a fledgling video game developer needs. I can think of scenarios where it could fit. Just not in the general case.
And the fact that some of our most secret communications support that we are not out to destroy Ahmadinejad could be the most powerful weapon we have to actually undermine him.

I expect in the future, there will be calculated "secret leaks" to Wikileaks - who knows - these may be just that.
They're missing the real story of what's going on right now. Because of a variety of circumstances, like...

* recession

* weak job market

* convergence of mobile/web/social technologies

* cloud computing reducing startup costs

... we are experiencing one of the biggest technological entrepreneurial boom times in history. That's why Google can't hold onto their brightest developers... but it's probably also happening to every big company in the computing industry.
It seems to me that Wikileaks is disruptive to Governments in the way that Napster was disruptive to the Music Industry.

While Wikileaks may not survive in the mid term, I believe what it represents may have far reaching, long term consequences. The internet has democratised information to the point that an unhappy individual with mid level trust in an organisation can expose the organisation's "sensitive" information globally with very little effort and thought.

Before the internet an individual could expose this information, but the barriers were much higher. To be a whistle blower you could only influence people immediately near you socially. To reach higher you had to filter your information through news organisations. While there are cases of this happening, the information was still continually at risk of being censored. Would this cable information have been released if a whistle blower took it directly to the NYT, or even a collection of newspapers?

With our current online structure of Twitter, Blogs and peer file sharing it makes sensitive information immediately accessible to millions with no chance of it being censored. To me Wikileaks represents the start of something hugely disruptive to our way of life. It's not possible to scale an organisation beyond several people while maintaining complete trust in each of them. When every piece of information is at risk of being exposed, what position does this place governments in? Is it possible for the current structure of the us government with its extensive lobby groups, international secrets and security through obscurity to continue?

I think its still too hard to see how the bits will fall here, but I do think we're in for an interesting decade :)
Well generally I agree except for this:

Trade barriers

WTF?! Trade barriers are very, very bad for industrial economies.

Also, I think the case for subsidies is arguable at best. Subsidies may be useful in emerging market sectors, but are usually better structured as public spending on research etc. (Obviously argument this doesn't apply to health care any more than it does to other areas of public good such as roads, police, defense etc)
If you mean gathering data from mobile devices my answer is:
Any cloud-based app or any mobile app that has a cloud component can leverage the RESTful API.
Also see, http://www.localytics.com/ for a vanilla mobile analytics solution.

If your question is 'is the dashboard mobile device viewable' then:
Not really. Most of the javascript that powers the dashboard isn't touch-screen compatible, sadly.