jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What does economies of scale have to do with creating great software? Are you surprised IBM didn't create the Apple II as well?
some of the more expensive specialty beers can cost upwards of $8/pint and taste like sewage

Ah, but it requires special effort to produce a drinkable sort of sewage-tasting-beer and a particular period of training to learn to enjoy the unique sewage taste... of Orval, Flemish Sour Ale or lambic "natural" beer. And don't even mention the engine-oil taste of the great imperial stouts...

Well, at least my training myself to like $8 beer was less costly than someone else training themselves to like $50 wine...
Pinboard is a service I've been wanting to purchase for years, but I never have because of how I've seen pvg (one of the founders) act on HN. The anti-hive mind attitude is desperately needed, but it's not a blanket license to disagree with everything without so much as a critical thought. I'm still trying to decide whether this is petty of me because it seems to be a really well done service.
I guess, but that isn't how investing works. You would have to average that with all the failed and underperforming investments that you typically have.

If you are a passive investor what you would do is invest in all the crowdfunded investments available or a large number at least and then hope to beat the S&P 500. It might make sense to apply some basic fitness criteria for inclusion, but what those criteria should be is a good question.

Having more things to invest in is good, but I am going to hold off for five years or so until the mechanics for how to successfully participate have been figured out. Then I have to figure out how I am going to get access from retirement accounts. Hopefully this gets turned into an ETF or a mutual fund, but then the question would be how this differs from publicly traded securities.

Even then... how much of your investment money would you want to put into an asset class that doesn't have a decades of history. When things go south will you have the fortitude to stay the course or will you realize your losses and pull out because you don't know what to expect?
Yes. Most importantly it uses WebGL, which isn't available on any versions of IE before IE11: http://caniuse.com/#feat=webgl

List of officially-supported browsers: http://developer.playcanvas.com/en/user-manual/introduction/...
If you customize your runtime behavior based on any metadata about the value on which you operate, you have multiple types. Attempting to change the syntax will not change the fact that you need to differentiate behavior for numbers and strings.
Your house down payment is usually mostly the value of the land underneath the structure, not the structure itself.
This is the big problem in Portland OR and San Francisco -- they can't build housing fast enough in the inner city, and it's pricing out everyone but the rich.
If you looked at the actual laws the liberty dollar is cited as allegedly violating - http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/514.html and http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/486.html - you'll find it's quite specific about what is a problem; the former law makes illegal attempts to fraudulently pass off your currency a official US currency, and the latter makes it illegal to mint _metallic coins_ for use as current money. Gift cards/visa cards etc aren't easily mistaken for official US currency, and they're not metallic coins, nor is the physical object exchanged as money would be. So, they're not related to the liberty dollar case.
I think this essay is bull. As someone points out, it is yet another I-am-so-good-that-no-one-wants-me things that LISP people love to throw out. Maybe THIS attitude ("Lisp is Olympia and I, the proud user, is Zeus") is why.

Let's be frank, there are many many excellent languages that do not even attract enough people to have a "community." Icon always comes to mind as example: brilliant language, excellent libraries, but the only believers are myself and a professor. Other than that, Haskell, SML, OCaml have never attracted a significant number of users. They all are brilliant, right? BASH may have more serious products than those great things.

Let's face it, the true Lisp curse has not been discovered, and Lispers' attitude has helped it hide even better. I have my theories; you have yours. And mine are always more correct than yours. It's Lisp land, man. You can't argue against that.
Try http://www.MigrationBox.com if you want to save the messy.
Same from Canada. Also, would seizing the domain name actually stop the clients from working? I would imagine that the devs, seeing the rash of increasingly ridiculous seizures, would have pushed an update to the client that bypasses DNS. That's what I would have done, anyway.
Google should stop caring about 'social' so much. It's not in their DNA. They should focus on the types of problems more suited to the company DNA.
Why do you think he did the right thing?
Close. The Lisp Curse is "Lisp is so powerful that problems which are technical issues in other programming languages are social issues in Lisp." Lisp is so powerful that an individual programmer can do a lot more than he could if he were using another programming language. This seems to encourage fragmentation and provide less encouragement for cooperation.
So you think hundreds of thousands of ballots were out of view and somehow swapped with fake ballots giving Biden the win during the counting process. And that this coordinated fraud got past everybody because an election official was watching from too far away, say 20 feet instead of 6 feet. And no hard evidence of this conspiracy anywhere exists, but it totally happened. Is this your position?
I know! It was just an ad-buffet. I kept scrolling looking for any kind of visual enticement and kept being served ads. What a poor website / magazine / journalism.
Read the Turner Diaries.
Anyone can start a social media network. Twitter has competition in the form of the relatively-new Parler, which has welcomed controversial voices - and has gained significant traction among them.

You can feel free to create your own too. Social media platforms existed before Twitter and Facebook, and eventually other platforms will succeed Twitter and Facebook.

Can it be expensive to start a company from scratch? Yes, it can. But that has always been the case.
Sure, people technically have free speech. But not in any meaningful sense. It's like trying to have a debate when the other side has a megaphone.
> But for the single threaded version I still seen spikes across all cores is this some CPU magic and if so what techniques are involved?

The kernel must be moving the Ruby process around if you're looking at the single-threaded case. That doesn't sound right though - moving a process to a different core damages its cache. But Ruby doesn't influence that it's down to the OS. Maybe the kernel has some subtle good reason to do it if you're running other services in the background?

> What do you mean by this?

Ractors acquire locks and CAS to do things to update the VM on what they're doing. They don't run entirely purely in parallel. GC is the big example. This benchmark shouldn't really need to use the GC... but maybe it does. Does your system malloc have a global lock too?
I think the solution is to simply break the network effect by mandating a right to transfer your account and a guarantee of interoperability. This would reinvigorate the competition
Every movement claims it's advocating for justice and every class considers itself oppressed and they can all cherry pick the instances where they are.

I'm not so convinced of a supposed difference.
The Bayeux Tapestry Museum is hands down the best museum experience I’ve ever had. It’s really something else.
Hmm, would the playing of music by the police constitute a "public performance" (per copyright law)?
Right. If I can run Ubuntu on Docker without Canonical knowing, I should be able to run Ubuntu on Azure without Canonical knowing.

This is a big misstep for Microsoft, from my point of view. I think it's less a reflection on Canonical, because once they have the information, it's ultimately going to be used. Microsoft just should not have agreed to the arrangement at all.
This. Typical Marketing and Sales tactics involve using the lowest level employee both because they're naive and because they have nothing to lose because they're already lowest on the pecking order.
D's templates has always been very strong and useful compared to C++'s.

The following example is similar to C macros because it generates code as string and mixes it in as code but you can combine templates as well. This example generates a struct definition.

(Edit: formatting)

import std; // Entire package for brevity

auto memberDef(string type, string name) {
return format!" %s %s;"(type, name);
}

auto memberDefs(string[] members...) {
return (members
.chunks(2)
.map!(pair => memberDef(pair[0], pair[1])));
}

auto structDef(string name, string[] members...) {
return format!q{
struct %s {
%-(%s%)
}
}(name, memberDefs(members));
}

unittest {
mixin (structDef("Foo", "int", "i", "double", "d"));
auto f = Foo(42, 1.5);
assert((f.i == 42) && (f.d == 1.5));
}

void main() {
}
For the purposes of the original question, namely how the perceived race of the victim might lead someone to support torture, these questions are moot.

However, they are useful questions more broadly. Ultimately the issue is that people motivated by empathy are going to be inconsistent and biased. While this probably won't lead them to change their opinion, the example use case they first think of may drive their original opinion.
Thanks for this clarification. The fact that these are widely confounded is evidence that many people are comfortable with the term "currying" only because they think it's the same as "partial application", so they appreciate the connotation that you're "adding spice".

So in this case, not only CAN these people stop calling it "currying", but in fact they should, because it's the wrong word.

In my other comment I'm suggesting calling currying "sequencing", and partial application "presetting".
Imagination Technologies makes the PowerVR graphic accelerator used in some of the ARM-based SoCs like OMAP (and allegedly the Apple A4).
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20005015-265.html

I don't think the article mentions when it's being closed. And considering you can typically get any GSM/HSPA phone unlocked somewhere, I'm sure the Nexus One will still be available. Most 'unlocked phone stores' have gruesome markups though, and it was something of an anomoly that you could get such an advanced phone as the Nexus One unlocked for just $530. Just looking at a couple of online merchants, both Plemix.com and exoticphone.com both have the audacity to sell the Nexus One itself for a hefty markup!

$629
http://www.plemix.com/phone-htc-nexus_one-phone

$749
http://exoticphone.com/htc-google-nexus-one-unlocked-p-2065....

The Plemix.com one is especially amusing - it claims that $629 is a mark-down, and that the original price was $854! Keep in mind that Google has always and still is selling the Nexus One for $529 in their web store.
The best quote:

Such hyperbole reveals more about western fantasies for new media than the reality in Iran
I use a variant of this when running Windows: Ubuntu in VirtualBox is always running.
I'm pretty sure it's one of these one-day pranks google loves to do, like the pacman "logo", just a bit more intrusive and annoying then usual. Well, I hope so at least...
SEO: In the search results you can see which site put up two pages this morning, each targeting a specific keyphrase, to capitalize on the trend.
After you change the background image, the words change to 'Remove background image' which seems unintuitive since it puts the first background image back up.
I don't understand why Google is so into background image? Having feature is a good thing but imposing it on people is going to make them angry. I generally keep my browser homepage as Google, but this morning because of this background I had to change my homepage for today.
I'm interested in this device mostly for the Pixel Qi screen. Luckily some other tablets are coming out that will be using that as well (supposedly), but the Notion had the most interesting feature-set of the bunch. The amount of hype followed by absolute silence is getting to be annoying, though.
there are higher level HDL's , that are c-like.
i know of impulse c.
it gives you more power , and you suffer some loss of speed/efficency(as usuall) .

might make it simple enough to develop a lisp machine.
"All of a sudden I was frustrated that she was stuck wasting her time in high school taking yet another history class, when she could be doing what she wanted to do with her life and spending all day learning skills that will help her in her chosen career."

Wasting her time taking a history class? Oh, I don't know, maybe something about being a well-rounded citizen who understands how society works from a non-programming stand-point. Also, learning is so much more than just the facts and what's going to land you a job. And formal education, more than anything, is about the informal education you get while not in the classroom -- like learning to interact with others, learning other perspectives, meeting and getting along with people who are different than you, and the list goes on, and on, and on.
Oh, yep, you're right. I could have sworn I tried that, but apparently I did not.
True, an extension could handle a lot of it. I do hope encryption becomes less of a nerd thing and much more of a "do your civic duty" type thing.
it's an analogy for life

i'm not saying everyone should stop eating at Chipotle :P

just posing the question
Their coverage map shows solid 100% 4G coverage for me. I live in one of the most populous cities in the US.

I'm lucky if I get two bars of 3G.

Looking to move to T-Mo soon.
Interestingly, some folks built a Hypercard like environment with Python called PythonCard. The intention was to give easy access to Python programming in the same way that Hypercard gave developers a start. It hasn't been updated in years until someone recently forked it and began work to update it here https://code.google.com/p/gui2py/

If you are a Python coder, it is worth a look, especially if you have kids or do something were you can mentor young people.
not buying their products or working with them is the most effective way to let them know they are doing wrong
> And services (data, power, food, support, healthcare, education) are often far below standards typical on the coasts / near major metros.

I think you're combining the worst of opposite ends of the spectrum here. When services are lacking, the prices are cheap too. You can live in a disconnected shack in a depressed rural area for practically nothing today too, just like (many more people did) in the past.
space-alien technology speculation aside, i've been aware of openssh's less-than-reassuring default selection order for Ciphers, HostKeyAlgorithms, KexAlgorithms and MACs for a few years. for most modern computers and cpus, using these stronger algos amounts to, at most, a 10% speed loss when scp'ing and a 10% increase in cpu usage. even machines with weaker cpus will barely show any signs of fatigue with these stronger algos. despite this, at least 2 of the openssh devs have rebuked my suggestion to change the default algorithm selection order.

it's not exactly clear (to me) why anyone who runs a project that so many ppl depend on for security would stick to such old and crufty algos. since openssh and openbsd are intertwined, it does make me wonder if this is being done so that openssh can run on the latest vax, etc (omg! but it will take a week for it to generate the right sized keys!).

EDIT: openssh in 2nd paragraph changed from openbsd, a typo.
I have been contacted by several (!) recruiters of Google after answering some very specific questions about a distributed consensus protocol (Paxos). I can imagine they rather search for specific topics / keywords than reputation, using the logic "if he can get the accepted answer on these topics, he might be worth checking out".
You're right, the graph looks ok for a few split seconds and then have a weird offset to the right.
Yes, there are objective mathematical truths, but you cannot be sure there exists a physical reality or anything that corresponds to our experiences. You just know that there are subjective experiences right now. That's the only thing you can be absolutely certain about. So I see no sense in talking about "reality".
It will happen across such a long and large gradient that no one will know or ever understand it.

Does a single ant “know” what the whole colony wants? Yet one can describe the colony as a whole in many ways: finding food, reacting to threats, etc.

Does a single neuron “know” it is part of a brain? Yet the brain acts as a system, responding to stimuli in a coordinated fashion.

Hypothesis: we are already “one”, we just don’t know it, and can never truly know it, at an individual level.
These are problems that aren't fixed in traditional money either. Money still gets to terrorists and still gets laundered through our biggest banks.
> Regions that are flat color, for example (which occupy a nontrivial fraction of total area) can be rendered with no memory traffic at all, save the final output stage.

GPU rendering and compositing amount to the exact same thing most of the time. A "region of flat color", at least in principle, is just a 1x1 pixel texture that's "mapped" onto some sort of GPU-implemented surface that in turn is rendered onto the screen.

Hardware overlays merely accelerate the final rendering step; one can implement the exact same process either in hardware, or as a software-based "blitting" step.
I don't dispute any of that. I'm saying that, as a YouTube premium subscriber, I'm not clear exactly what I'm paying for. I mean, I guess fewer ads is better than more ads but I think a paid service should be able to provide me with stronger guarantees.
It's not just the time interruption though, it's the mental interruption of thinking about other parts of the project, business, etc, etc, that a stand up creates.

If I'm in the zone and go to lunch, I'll keep churning on the problem in my head, and might even have a solution when I'm back at keyboard.

If I have a meeting before or after lunch, that context is gone
> That is the absurdity here though, that people are being forced to build a bridge with no support. With more funding, we could provide an engineer for every bridge (and a lawyer for every case). Nobody should be forced to go through the legal system without an lawyer. Period.

That's fair, but then you're also talking about a foundational change to the legal system. Just providing a real public defender to criminal defendants would dramatically reduce the number who take a plea, and then you're not just funding public defenders, you now need more prosecutors and police officers and judges because there are so many more cases where the defendant would have their day in court. That would explode the budget so much that the proposal would be politically impossible without some significant changes to the laws (e.g. end the war on drugs and do something more meaningful than we ever have before about poverty) to dramatically reduce the number of criminal defendants to begin with. Which is what we need -- but that's hardly just a matter of funding. It requires a huge political change.

And it gets even worse for civil cases, because then you're going to want to fund the plaintiffs as well, otherwise you're back to the little guy being unrepresented. But then you're creating an incentive for plaintiffs to file thousands of frivolous lawsuits at taxpayer expense to try to find one that sticks, because who benefits is no longer aligned with who pays. Spending money reduces barriers which multiplies the amount of money you would have to spend.

The only way to reduce the cost is to actually reduce the cost, i.e. reduce the number of man-hours it takes for a given legal process, not just change who is paying for it.

> The number of lawyers has been growing in recent years. It's hard to claim standards are too high when more people are becoming lawyers than ever before.

The claim isn't that the standards are preventing people from becoming attorneys, it's that they're raising costs on clients. If you over-regulate nuclear power, the problem isn't that then nobody wants to be a construction worker and build nuclear plants, it's that it makes nuclear cost more than fossil fuels like coal. And that, even when it does get used, it still costs more than it should because you're imposing rules whose cost exceeds their value.
It seems to me like a combination of the current crowdsourcing infrastructure (i.e. those in the title, with the addition of Patreon) can fill that gap.

I would recommend experimenting with those first, and see if you can get an open source app funded through that. You can blog about the process, then compile your findings into a book (and perhaps a course). That research may help much more, and be much more likely to succeed as a project, than Yet Another Site.

I've run a Kickstarter before, in case you have specific questions about that platform. :)
I have to juggle between installing softwares using a dmg or using brew because I am unsure if I am able to install a particular software using brew whereas in the case of Linux, I am very sure that I can install any software using apt-get
You seem to be extremely confused about how HTTPS works. If the site I'm visiting chooses to give a certificate to cloudflare for their service, that is their choice. What they choose to do server side is completely out of a customer's hands no matter how secure the protocol.

Even with CDN terminating SSL, it protects you from injected malware and ADs between you and the CDN by your ISP.
One important reason for the success of C was the library. One of the reasons for the success of Python is the big library and the plenty of add-on modules.

But on the UI side, Python has its weak point. The other problem today is the trouble with the migration from Py2->Py3. But on the long run, the UI problem can be even more trouble. Python is still a good language on the server side, even when PHP was faster and still has a bigger market share.
I've never heard anybody at all lionize JEH