jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The Unity Editor is moving towards being the container for extensible packages. There is source code provided for rendering pipelines, input handling, UI, and code compiling. This is a lot better than the Unity 4 days where everything would be bundled into the monolith.

But, Unity is not an IDE and neither is Unreal.
I used to have a gym membership that I only discovered later on could be canceled by mailing a letter to their HQ four states away.

Not an email. Not a phone call to some retention agent in a call center. A signed letter via postage.

From the tales I've read in my local city sub, I got lucky in that the billings did in fact stop quickly; others have had resort to threats of legal action after numerous letters, some even sent via certified mail to get the charges to stop.
The book really impresses upon the reader the difficulties of beating the market, and indeed talks a lot about random walks, but mostly it's about the efficient market hypothesis.

I should say that I also don't think this is the best description of how prices actually move, and over the years since I've read the book, I have come to no longer believe in the EMH. That being said, I do still think pointing people in this direction in general is the best thing I can do: even though these ideas will only take you so far, they remain academically productive, interesting, and useful... And most people would do better to approach the markets with more humility and less confidence. Those who are nerd enough to go beyond the EMH will undoubtedly do so on their own and at their own peril. :)

The book is very much in the tradition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor, Warren Buffett's value investing style, etc.
as i recall pennsylvania already has some protections against gyms. they're probably just not doubling up.

edit: Pennsylvania Health Club Act
Unfortunately in most of the Bay Area, even just the floor space to have anything remotely usable as a home gym would cost many hundreds of dollars per month.
it was announced the other day that Curb is integrating their fleet with Uber's, so calling an Uber can get you a cab
I think it's referring to the sudoku TDD blog series that happened a few years back. Essentially, someone tried to implement a sudoku solver using TDD - and after several posts, never managed to finish. Peter Norvig then came along and wrote a short elegant implementation.

Some use this to say TDD - which has ties to agile - doesn't work. But most people conclude that TDD isn't a silver bullet and you have to know about your problem domain before diving in.

Here's someone elses' blog post which includes links to both sets of posts: http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s...
I'm pleased by the attitude/tone of this author; this doesn't read like a polemic or even opinion piece, but rather a well thought out and well reasoned argument.
Adobe is clearly a company in conflict. What they need is to hear from their customers, and more importantly, the development community at large, is that we are happy to see them increase their level of support for HTML5.
I bought my first Linode on the morning of the first power outage. Does this kind of thing happen regularly there? I'm having regrets...
I don't understand this. Clearly a search may be necessary to detect smuggled contraband, but that is the job of Customs. What grounds are there for the TSA to search someone not boarding a flight?

If there is a worry about carrying concealed weapons out of the airport then surely the appropriate agency is the police. Why do the TSA have to do anything with someone who has disembarked and is entering US soil?
How about the worlds most populat OSes, Windows, Linux, BSD.

Mozilla, Chrome browsers.

Android, iOS, and WinCE.

Word, Excel, Quicken, TurboTax, Photoshop, iLife.
It does look polished, and having not tried the new Opera i would not argue about usability.

As a general consideration, having nice window previews sure looks cool(except if they are too small, in which case they look really messy), but i dont think this is an usability improvement. Mostly because a consice title would tell you just as much - in a tenth of the space. Coolness gets confused with usability a bit too often imho.
It's been ages since i can recall problems in their New Jersey data center.
If this is supposed to be a real-world benchmark, wouldn't it make more sense to be running F# on the CLR?

How many sites doing F# development would actually be deploying on Mono?
It's sad that the U.S. has sunk so low. Security researchers are being harassed at the border. Now that the cloud is here what is the next step? Are we going to be required to provide Facebook, gmail, and Dropbox login information? It's as if the government doesn't understand how the internet works.
considering it's a viral or bacterial infection, probably not.
Maybe he meant that coloring them red means that something went wrong or that there's something that you should pay attention to.

Of course I'm just speculating here.
I'd say that it's also very much a matter of whether you have a shower near your place of work.

I would have to ride eight miles, about 45 minutes - which is pretty close to my current commute - but I'd arrive sweaty and in need of a change of clothes at minimum.

Gonna have to join a nearby gym this spring.
2600 and its back catalog,
Hacker's Manifesto,
Anarchist's Cookbook,
The old philosophers (Marx, Nietzsche, etc.),
The Federalist Papers,
History Books,
The C Programming Language by K&R,
Absolute FreeBSD.

Really, a blank slate and a promise to help them with whatever they want to learn.
How long will it be until most app functions can just run in the browser or something like it (i.e. HTML 7).
Kind of not the point though.
> Craig moved the organization onto a sprint system, where we would develop new features for 2 weeks and then spend a week fixing bugs. After 10 or 12 or 16 of these cycles, we would deem it ready and ship it out.
I felt this produced more stable but more conservative software. It seemed like giant rewrites and massive features would be very difficult to introduce and if they did get done, wouldn't happen until two thirds or so into the release cycle.

I've noticed this problem too in Agile shops. Small iterations happen fast on well scheduled. But big new efforts tend to be like swimming up-river. Whatever comes after Agile is probably going to formalize a long-track parallel cadence for a dedicated team to grind away on. Then once that's released it goes into the normal sprint cadence.

It seems to usually be "solved" right now by lots of weeping, halting production and blowing up of anybody else's schedule.
Not aging implies that you won't age beyond a certain point, or do you mean something different?
Also, the question you ask is relevant even today with regular aging, and it's already hotly debated looking at euthanasia. I'm guessing euthanasia will have to be legalized if we ever do find a "cure" for aging.
I'm not so sure those are the only two. I'm fairly certain high dietary intake of various vegetables, fruits, and legumes over processed foods would probably greatly add to the life expectancy of regular people. Don't have a lot of hard evidence but I have relatives who outlived their brothers and sisters by 10-20 years because they just ate significantly healthier and moved around more.
Then, can we dramatically slow down the body's natural degradation mechanisms, or even better, start reversing a few of them? That'd be a very good question to answer.
Do you want to live forever? In a world where everyone lives forever? I'm pretty sure most people will have had enough after the first million or so years.

Someone must have written sci-fi of this.
> Basically, calorie restriction works, and nothing else does

We don't even know that for sure. There were two big studies in rhesus monkeys which disagreed on that.[1] Evidence from mice, where this idea originated, is dubious at best considering the mice most studies use.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/science/a-new-salvo-in-deb...
You bring up some interesting concepts on how to "search a video". Great ideas. My initial thought was to have segments tagged, with phrases / keywords.
Here's what I have learned personally, mostly by accident.

For intellectual tasks:
1) What seemed hard last night always seems easier the next morning. (Sleep learning? Not sure.)
2) Verbalizing a problem, even to someone that has no chance of helping you, can often prompt a solution. Isolation is bad.
3)Distractions are bad, breaks are good.
> And don't forget that our current "solution" ... AmTrak ... is probably the worst public train system in the developed world.

In absolute, that's true. When you take in account their limitations, mandates and everything however, they're really doing pretty good. Amtrak has pretty been much treated as an enemy (of everybody) from the start, doesn't help.
The title of the article is a bit misleading. This guy doesn't seem to be saying that intrinsic motivation doesn't exist, just that it isn't quite as simple as an intrinsic/extrinsic dichotomy would make it seem, which seems fair enough. However, to make the claim that there are 16 basic desires that motivate people (as this researcher does) is a simplification as well.

Any sort of quantization of the motivating factors in a person's life obviously cannot completely convey the true reality of the situation whether the number of factors is 2 or 16. This sort of quantization is certainly useful in talking about what motivates an individual, but given that it is a model and not reality itself, it's tough to say that one is more right than the other (or any other for that matter).
Links please? I have not read these studies and would like to.
I think large scale makes it impossible to be good. Small scale doesn't guarantee good.

Reddit, slashdot, and a whole slew of others went through an HN-like phase of high-quality discussions and content before turning into cesspools.

I think what makes HN unique is benevolent sponsorship. There isn't pressure to grow. It's recruiting for Y-Combinator, which eliminates most of the normal pressures.
I have 2 contacts on Signal and 4 on Telegram, and don't even have WhatsApp installed.

I'm puzzled where Denmark went "wrong". I see other EU users say that WhatsApp is absolutely dominant in their countries, and yet everybody i know uses iMessage, which may not be surprising if you look at graphs like this https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/denmark

For "social circles", coordinating sports activites and more, people use Facebook or Facebook Messenger, which is just as bad as WhatsApp.

Schools here use Microsoft Teams for remote teaching classes, and Office365 for schoolwork, and there's not a single Google account to be found anywhere. O365 may be just as bad, but the contract is negotiated on a government level, and bound by the GDPR and other local laws, so i assume my kids personal data are relatively secure.
I think the keyword here is "fun". You're "bored to death". You don't want a programming career that will too bore you to death.

If you don't enjoy web development, do something else. The tablet could be one way to go, but there are many many others, I don't want to give any specific advise, as different people are attracted to different things.

Find something you really enjoy (which in itself could take a long time - if you're not sure now, you could dive into one field for a while, see if it's for you. If not, move on).

It might sound odd (and people might disagree) but I say don't focus on what's business wise. Focus on finding something you love doing.

Best of luck!
Learn what you are most interested in. If this is gonna be the next 30 years, it really matters little if right now you learn language X or language Y, you'll have to keep learning anyway.
I would advise you not to go looking for what others think you should do but to start looking at this from a 'problem oriented perspective'.

Find something that you would like to have but that is not currently available and then build that, that in turn will decide for the platform and associated toolchain.

It is much better that way because you can't really make the case for what is 'better' for an aspiring programmer, web programming, tablet programming or any other 'kind' of programming per se. It all depends on what you want to achieve and programming is just a means to an end.

Also, under the hood all 'kinds' of programming are essentially equal (in spite of many religious arguments to the contrary), it's in the end just a way to very specifically tell a computer what you want it to do and in that respect any programming will serve as a way to get better at every other kind of programming.

The more you do it, the better you get, just like with every other skill.

Good luck!
Nicely written up but superficial analysis and trite conclusions. It would be nice if someone took this comparative analysis of programming languages a little more seriously and go beyond the tiresome "should a semicolon be a separator or a terminator" or the naive imperative-functional distinctions.

Take for example ML (prototypical high-level functional) vs C (prototypical low-level imperative). What makes them essentially different? In ML you have the common imperative features (assignment, references) and in C you can write functions including higher-order (via pointers). The answer you are looking for is "memory management", automatic in ML versus manual in C. Everything comes out of this distinction, down to the fact that in C you don't have lambdas and currying (because no garbage collection means no closures).

What makes ML and Algol 60 different? Both have a strikingly similar set of primitives, imperative and functional. The difference is call-by-value in ML vs. call-by-name in Algol 60, which leads to global effects in ML vs. local effects in Algol 60.

What makes Lisp different from Scheme, the misunderstanding of alpha conversion in Lisp versus its correct implementation in Scheme.

And so on. It would be fun if someone who actually know programming languages beyond the naive and the trivial took time to write a proper potted history and/or comparative analysis.
Other than Google, what are good alternatives to Delicious?
So basically it just does two things: carefully chunking HTTP header packets and encrypted DNS?

Not sure this will work for very long.
Assuming that HCoV-OC43 caused the 1889 pandemic, it killed about 0.06% of the world population. By comparison COVID-19 has so far killed about 0.02% of the world population.
So he's saying that instead of working on reducing pollution, we should rather enable people to survive it, even if it means making them live underwater, because that'll increase wealth? Considering how incredibly unequal that wealth is bound to be, this just reads like a Big Coal backed piece to try and justify the destruction of the planet in the pursuit of profit.
I'm going to borrow a term from architecture. It's brutal. It's a brutalist truck.
AGW may refer to:

* Anthropogenic global warming, overall warming of Earth's climate caused or produced by humans
That was basically my initial reaction... looks like low poly game art. Not interested.
while i dont believe this to be the case with vaccines:

they can be non-complicit with it and still unknowingly participate in the fraud.

ultimately, the doctors have to trust their data as well, which can - theoretically! - be manufactured in order to sell snake oil equivalent.

its a vanishingly small chance with vaccinations, but nonetheless a possibility which cant be outright denied.

the sad thing about this is that we're almost guaranteed to have a situation like that at some point. it will likely be a significantly less widespread topic than vaccines, but there is too much money to be made with this for nobody to make an attempt. to be honest, i expect that there is already at least some medication like that in circulation and we just don't know about it (nor the doctors which prescribe them).
Do you have a source showing he is a climate change denier? I think you should provide one given that you posted this trying to attack his credibility.
Maybe 15 years ago I bought an old Mazda Protege, having downsized from a Dodge Dakota. I still needed to haul stuff occasionally, so I outfitted the Protege with a trailer hitch and bought a cheap 4x8 trailer. Best of both worlds.

I've been toying with the idea of getting a hitch installed on my Prius.
Would this work offline, by <script> referring to your local copy of texme.min.js https://github.com/susam/texme/blob/master/texme.min.js ?

Or is there much more to it?
Look, Americans would question the fuck out of the real origin of the virus if the official story was it came from a Wendys in Manhattan. That’s pretty much what CCP is saying, ‘uh, our local Wendy’s had like a virus’.

Yeah ok.

How about this China, find out what cave the market was getting their bats from. Go in there, confirm the bats have it, and release some data.
Actually that's a common myth! https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/where-the-word...
It would be 10x more interesting to me when the lion mimic cute animal behaviors instead of jumping on poles. Things like scratching ears, walking/running/jumping (legs movements), showing emotions (ears, eyes, tail), etc.

All of the lion dances I have seen in the past are all trying to impress viewers by doing dangerous stuff: climb, jumping on high poles, split fire,... I mean that is a lot of work, but not that impressive, as I can clearly see 2 grown ass man under the cape most of the time.

If anyone have a good lion dance video as per the description above, please send me, I really appreciate it.
Hence the old joke, "At what point does graverobbing become archaeology?"
Copy/paste can be really weird. Take these three scenarios:

1) Copy some cells. Type something into another cell before pasting it. Your copy buffer is gone, you can't paste what you copied.

2) You copied some cells, pasted them. You arrow over a few cells to inspect a formula and then hit enter: You just pasted over the surrounding area with whatever you've copied previously.

3) You copied some cells, you pasted them somewhere. Now you want to insert a new column, but when you right click the option is missing, replaced with "insert copied cells". The clear the copy buffer you go to random empty cell, type a space to clear the buffer (see #1 above) and now you can insert a new column.

On the plus side though, copy/pasting formatting is pretty useful, so is transpose.
Scott Aaronson also has an analysis of the NYT piece:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5310
What? Of course it matters. If it was accidentally released from a lab, those responsible should be held accountable so it’s less likely to happen again.

If it was intentionally released, it’s even more important to know by who and why.
Why would you want to be naked in front of a bunch of strangers? What is the special thing we are missing because of this?
SharePoint / Office is overlooked by the developers you write about here.

Office/Excel clientside => SharePoint "Office Server" serverside => then write apps integrating with SharePoint.

SharePoint is an application platform with Excel services on top of .Net. (so that multiple people at the same time can work on an Excel sheet via a web front-end)

It is ment to make the step from local application to server application.

It has auto import / workflows / api / taxonomy / search / etc ...
This is blatantly false. Service catalogs are the worst functions of gateways.
I thought you made a modest proposal.
Post-capitalism skills conspicuously absent.
The other interesting thing about the numbers is that biweekly becomes much more prevalent relative to semimonthly as the businesses get larger.

I assume this is because small businesses (and many employees) prefer a pay schedule that's aligned with their (often monthly ) bills for cash flow reasons. Whereas larger businesses prefer to keep payroll expenses from fluctuating a bit depending upon how many days are in a given month.
If anything, that would enforce it more.

Where the point of inflation is to force people to spend or invest their money today over keeping it as a store of value.
The anti-trust hammer won't fix the problems in tech, but it will definitely fix the problems with tech: too much power over us. If they're busy competing with each-other for customers, maybe they won't abuse so much...
How condescending is it to write someone a letter saying that they don't understand people, and they should try falling in love?

Under ordinary circumstances, pretty condescending. However remember that:

a) Wolfram was a 26-year-old at the start of his career and Feynman was 68 years old and easily one of the most respected scientists in the world.

b) Wolfram wrote to Feynman for advice. To get any response from someone that many levels above you is doing pretty well.

c) Wolfram started it -- he was the one who talked about ordinary people being "stupid fools" whom he couldn't tolerate.
If your dBm readings are correct, your signal strength increased by 10^((-63-(-70))/10) = 5 , which is not so bad.
I've been an O2 iPhone customer since the iPhone 3G launch. I'll happily switch to another network to not have to care about my data usage.
“What if WikiLeaks was a sort of Wiki-BitTorrent, served
by thousands of people around the world running a
background process on their computers,” mused Edward
Benson, a Ph.D. student at the MIT Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

This has been done. Ten years ago, in fact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

Anonymous, encrypted, person to person, fault resistant, it's got it all. The price for all this is that it's slow, of course. Really, really slow.
You could start by putting some contact info and a portfolio link in your profile.

How much time do you have for freelance work? What are your rates like?
Use a good social bookmarking service. I use Diigo, there are a few key things it does for me:
- Keeps a copy of a page (if it goes off the web, i've still got it)
- Lets you tag and keyword search all the content of my bookmarks (Useful when you have a few thousand built up over years)
- Lets you highlight/annotate text on a page

I actually don't really use the "social" aspects of social bookmarking at all.
Wow, I'm glad somebody thinks alike. My living room has no furniture whatsoever except for the ping-pong table and a refrigerator.

And this was a joint decision post finding my life partner!

Advantages:

1. Loads (and loads!) of fun, along with all the accompanying benefits of learning/improving at a sport

2. The lack of furniture ensures random hangers-on who visit don't stay for too long, and only good friends who can appreciate our lifestyle stick around for eats and drinks and such.

Disadvantages:

1. Hard to get work done at home

2. Nothing else that I can think of!

edit: formatting
If a specific critical piece of the OS relies on defaults to select the only environment it can run on, then it's very poorly designed.

Somehow, this doesn't surprise me one bit.
Hey, no problem! May be I had a long day here and read too much in to it.

Love your stuff.
Agreed, whining is perhaps too strong.

I don't know where the ends of the censorship/P2P continum are however. I was wondering the other day if a crowd of people wanting to legalize pot started protesting in the streets of Washington and demanding that the government give in to the will of the people, and then Mexican drug lords sent some tanks up to support their efforts, is that freedom? It sounds when I read it like a red herring but I'm trying to get my head around any positive aspects to network anarchy. It seems anarchy in virtual space would have the same downside as anarchy in meat space. (cue jokes about the Libertarian Paradise of Somalia)

So for articles like the EFF one to be compelling they have to move the conversation forward. This one, for me at least, didn't rise to that standard. It seemed to get stuck in the complaint about how people who pay for online access have an easier time getting online than people who don't.