jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I rarely post on reddit, thus i only browse it through teddit now which is also much friendlier to mobile.

https://teddit.net/about
That's when you market out your skills to satisfying niche fetishes on the Japanese equivalent of Patreon.

On a serious note, there's a slew of skills an animator has on their Talent Stack (https://personalexcellence.co/blog/talent-stack/). Mere fluency of Photoshop, Illustrator, being able to DRAW period, work ethic, are no mere skills at all.
he seems like a full blown textbook psychopath
>or comparing the cost of servicing the debt per year to GDP (so debt servicing cost climb to x percent of gdp).

Yeah, or yearly debt servicing cost vs yearly tax revenue, or delta debt servicing cost vs delta tax revenue.

The GDP component only hints at the underlying issues - what it costs us to service the debt, and what it would cost us to stop adding to it, and what it would cost us to pay it down the hard way.
I think "mediocrity" is too negative. It demonizes the nature of the content, without reflecting on audience tastes. I read Tyler Cowen's "Create Your Own Economy" recently and it drove this message home: in a world where there is plentiful, immediate access to information, people want to graze and construct their own meanings and experiences from it - make it into building blocks.

This demand is what is pushing us towards a vast accumulation of bite-sized delicacies - 2-minute video clips, 5-minute video games, <500 word blog posts, etc. A lot of classical inefficiencies are cleared out of the way by this - if it's all merit-driven, the work has to be as good as possible for as many people as possible - which means small budgets, a minimum of franchising and lock-in, a minimum of editorializing. It's gotta be tiny and focused, so that it can be reused. Sort of like Unix. There's plenty of room for quality, but it has to stand alone, be very accessible, and not get buried inside a sprawling monolithic work.

This doesn't mean that the long form is dead, just that it's more likely to exist in the future as a patchwork composite of generics. That is our natural tendency; it facilitates language to do so.
I'm inclined to think this bubble will be limited to expensive private colleges that lack significant clout. State schools and community colleges will remain attractive options for students due to cost factors, and private universities with excellent reputations will continue to attract bright students. But any school that isn't affordable or famous will may see a decline in applications when this bubble bursts.
I think light has correctly been identified as the biggest reasons for insomnia(if you look at plants and animals, light plays a big part in their daily cycles). I have seen following changes really helpful:

1. The biggest change that needs to be made, is to have genuine respect for nature's cycles. That is the mindset needs to change from "We can sleep/wake whenever we want" to "Aligning oneself with natures rhythms". All animals and plants do it, except human beings.

2. When looking for apartment, look for apartment which lets more of sunlight in. So bedroom should have window/s which lets lot of light in on to the bed (of course it can be controlled with a blind).
2. Even during day time, instead of artificial lights, see if sunlight from windows can be used.
3. Minimize use of monitor(meaning staring at monitor) past 9PM and ideally best to sleep by 10PM. Consistently. Once the pattern is established, your body automatically falls sleep easily around these times.And, with this patten, early morning hours (6AM to 9AM) provide freshest of mind. It is about quality of wakeful hours and not quantity.

I've found this to not only provide the best quality of sleep but great clarity of mind and improvement in health.
I started an internship 3 weeks back and this created a requirement for me to change from being a night owl.

I didn't spend the $520.99 but I did install F.Lux on my computers and this works REALLY well.

I have been sleeping around 11pm every night and wake up around 7am. I also work out around 6 and eat dinner after which probably aids in the wearing down of my body.

This is mostly due to F.Lux cause I am on the computer till about 5 minutes before I fall asleep.
see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408813
It's freeware with a very broad audience but their book is targeting school kids and teachers.
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> I'm having a hard time thinking of a simple task that is easier on Linux.

Installing any program, compiling a c file, opening non-zip archives, writing an iso to a usb, counting the lines that contain a certain word in a file, removing the preinstalled spyware, etc.

> install a piece of software to a different disk than the OS resides on

Windows is certainly much better than this than most distros (although it is not perfect, many programs such as the sims 2 expansion packs for example had issues with being installed in another disk). That being said, I am pretty sure that Nix does not have this issue.
I doubt the economics around the battery pack allow for a 25k price point.
"University of Michigan law professor Samuel Gross led a team of experts in the law and in statistics that estimated the likely number of unjust convictions. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences determined that at least 4% of people on death row were and are likely innocent. Gross has no doubt that some innocent people have been executed.[18][19]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution

It seems small unless you are one of the 4%, that's just direct affect to the individual and their family. The indirect effect to you and me is lawlessness.

"It is of more importance to the community that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world, that all of them cannot be punished....when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, 'it is immaterial to me whether I behave well or ill, for virtue itself is no security.' And if such a sentiment as this were to take hold in the mind of the subject that would be the end of all security whatsoever"

- John Adams, Defending British soldiers charged with murder for their role in the Boston Massacre

For the record, I think it's a travesty that people get thrown in jail for petty crimes, or that petty crimes in general have become felonies, sold by politicians who want to appear "tough on crime." I don't think it serves either purpose to try to rank them.
I'd like the Unicode Consortium to add a surprised (but not really surprised) emoji that we only use when Google kills a product. I think this will be okay since we will be using it constantly.
Deep learning still at least doubles every two years, it can be estimated by https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kukA0LcAAAAJ .
From what I could see the data returned on me was all derived from publicly available sources (eg: my "public" LinkedIn page, my public github page etc). Perhaps others have more but this looks more like an aggregator of public information than a breach of non-public information.

Having said that, I find these companies unspeakably evil - their intent is to make money by harming people (eroding their privacy by making otherwise private personal information easier to get, obviously a gold mine for identity thieves etc).
It was coined by Werner Sombart, who was not a Marxist but rather a classical economics professor in Germany.
I'm not sure of the historical context, but it would have required either for the syntax to declare the return type of closures to be different from functions or for type ascription to have a different syntax.

To be honest, type ascription being : was a (small) mistake that affects the comprehensibility of errors because it is distance 1 from multiple common typos and is valid almost everywhere in the grammar, so it is very easy for the parser to go down the wrong route. Even worse, the feature is nightly only so we're not even getting the benefits of the simple syntax.
Advice for language designers: make your grammar redundant, with lots of sign posts for the compiler to recover when things are wrong. Things like mandatory semicolons are good for both humans when reading code and for the compiler when parsing it. You can also make your compiler perform semicolon autoinsertion, but still have an error, that way the type checker can still run.
Looks like some formatting issues in the "Super Easy Integration" sample code. JS/Java and .NET have some weird tab spaces. Chrome Mac OSX Yosemite.
For the end user it is more or less cosmetic change. But for developers the change is huge and very important. KDE didn't plan to radically change design with 5.x.
Is that malware? If so how evil - they make it almost look like an innocent site (although the big download now button looks a bit dodgy!)
I'm sorry I can't give any useful advice, only a nitpick.

Please change the "pls" in the title to "please" while you can edit it. If you are asking people for help, at least show that you value their time and write "please" and "thank you" with all the letters. (I think that "CS" and "PhD" are fine.)
> JS implement numbers as strings (has bitten me once).

No it doesn't. JS numbers are IEEE754-2008 64-bit double-precision floating point.

> Last time I looked at, there was no blocking IO at all

Huh? It's everywhere. XMLHttpRequests, prompt(), localStorage...

> By easy integration I mean the hability of using capabilities available at the system, but not exported into the language runtime.

Not doable for a sandbox. Sorry.
I agree that if you didn't know what the product was, the minimalist designs would not work, but I get the impression the designers chose these brands because they were already widely known (in some places, anyway) - once you've established that you make X, and people associate X with you, there's no longer a need for a serving suggestion.
After reading the 7 comments (till now) here I feel dumb to have missed out on two obvious points:

1) Not every idea is supposed to be the next google or facebook. There are some ideas which are just inherently supposed to be small and not make much money on a regular basis. Thus selling them and having a big payday is a better option financially.

2) As the company grows you get separated from your hacking roots, thus you just sell it to someone else and do something which is more close to your hacking roots.
Didn't Piketty give this a pretty good treatment?
> ...so by implication you're saying it's immoral to enforce laws against all lesser offenses...

After reading and re-reading the rest of this subthread, I think there's an error here. I don't see that shit_parade was saying that; they were just expressing frustration at what appears to be disproportionate resources dedicated to prosecuting the likes of Barrett Brown vs. resources dedicated to prosecuting state-sponsored torturers.

(For the record, I recognize that all moral issues aside, prosecuting state-sponsored torturers is a lot harder than prosecuting someone like Barrett Brown.)

I don't see anything in their comment that implied the morality of enforcing laws against lesser offenses.

Or maybe more clearly: "I wish those in power guilty of torture would be punished" is not quite the same as, "Those in power guilty of torture should be punished before anyone else is".
There's nothing in a "slippery slope argument" that makes it technically invalid. Improper use may make it fallacious, but there are also real slippery slopes and ways to deal with them (e.g. Schelling fences).
Indeed, the first time someone hits a goalie-mounted one of these with a slapshot from the blue line it's going to make people jump out of their seats.
For anyone interested I'd suggest to also look at FuzzyFinder. It does the same thing but is a little more advanced (real fuzzy search, also works on buffers, etc.):

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1984
There are things on the Internet that, once seen, cannot be unseen. This is the programmer's equivalent of that.
Someone needs to make a dedicated hardware key-value store which would use way less power than even this dense atom box.

If you have $10M spare, contact me ;)
Here's an example of 2 LOLOC:

LOC

LOC
To the people who downvoted: learn to distinguish expressing a fact from expressing an opinion. Don't be gratuitously negative.

To HN moderators: make it possible to understand why someone downvoted. This is an example of what makes HN off-putting.
Buzzfeed broke this with satellites months ago.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-inter...
These arguments are great in theory, but they miss what I think is the most important reason for the current tax system: capitalism survives by spending NOT saving.

If you deincentivize consumer spending by enacting larger taxes on consumables/services, that's inheritly bad for the overall economic system.
> and it's not even mentioned that you can optimize an ML model without using the gradient.

Can you, though? How does the outcomes compare to gradient based methods?
Were the students selected for the advanced program selected based on the color of their skin, or their academic ability?
That information, if it's there at all, is usually buried in some awful Flash animation.
But facebook is an independent entity - it's not quite the same comparison. Regardless, Microsoft's online strategy from day one hasn't been on par with the rest of the 600 pound gorillas.

If anything, I wish they had the same force behind online services as they have with the Xbox division. They really got Xbox Live right!
I'm surprised cadr, caddr, cddr, etc. were not mentioned when comparing car/cdr with first/rest.

See http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/8.2/ansicl/dicten...
Warning: I'm an Apple fanboy, so take my opinion for what it's worth...

I wasn't always a fanboy. In fact, prior to my iPhone 3G purchase last year, I'd never owned an Apple product. At present, my family has 2 3G's, a 4 (probably another in a week), an iPad, a Mac Mini, and an iMac.

Why do I say this? Apple converted me into an Apple buyer for life because of the experience they provide from purchase to use. It's more expensive, but I willingly pay it because I know what I'm getting, each and every time.

The iPhone works because you can't see it without being impressed. The Android is good, possibly really good (at the higher price range), but it's not great, and with the fragmentation, bloatware, and lack of controlled user experience, I don't think it can ever be great. This is why the iPhone won't go away.

Should Apple be worried? Probably...I think they'll need a few tricks up their sleeves in order to a) keep their casual users and b) keep some semblance of their current market share.

Google isn't in this for apps in the same way that Apple is, they're in it for search, which is what makes the game a bit lopsided. However, I think that's the same reason that Apple will prevail.

I can't say how it will shake out, but there's got to be something said for devotion, both from a producer and consumer side of things.
"Info Page" setting he talks about is:

Administration tab > Management sub-tab > Web Access section > "Enable Info Site"
Somewhat related -- I have always thought it would be cool to build a capability system like this into a language with a strong H-M type system. I think it would be an interesting study to have the bare minimum privileges passed via type dependences. Done well this would have any given bit of code only have the bare minimum to do its job.

Also: some types of automatic security checks at compile time too!
But no one can possibly catch all the errors in all articles (esp since many of the worst ones are not factual errors, but context issues)
I wouldn't be so quick to discount the idea of doing everything on your own. (Besides, they aren't exactly making all of the components on their own...just ones they believe they can improve upon)

Judging by Apple's rapid increase in portable computer sales in the last decade, I think many would say "picking a battle against the entire industry" hasn't worked out too terribly for them. Apple's one-model approach for mobile devices (with a small set of possible hardware configurations) has and will continue to pay off big for development purposes and will allow for more advanced features to be integrated thoroughly and simply across the platform more quickly (examples - GPS & gyro now & touch sensitive back & NFC technologies in the future).

The bottom line is that I would expect Android to continue to push the industry forward on many specification style features like high quality cameras, speedy hardware, and storage space while the iPhone will have more "leapfrogging" features like the examples listed above. Android software implementations will probably continue to be piecemeal while the iPhone implementations will be more thoughtful yet limited. (example - push notifications & UI)

There's a great article about Apple and vertical integration (specifically the PA Semi acquisition) here: http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/24/mitra-apple-pasemi-tech-ent...
Am I the only person who doesn't mind chain and corporate eateries?
Prolog is my favorite example language I use to convey the concept of how different programming paradigms lend themselves to different types of problems. After learning the syntax and mechanics prolog seems like a ridiculous language that was written to win a drunken bet with a philosopher. but given the right problem it feels like using black magic.

Solving Einstein's riddle[1] is trivial in prolog for example. But perhaps only because we know that the answer can be determined from the premises.

1) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Puzzle
Writing new album?
Sanitizers only help find bugs that are actually triggered. Security vulnerabilties usually come from code paths that are not commonly exercised.
A large part of your blog post seems to be premised on the difference between incoming cash and outgoing cash. That only works as long as the people you're paying will accept net-30 (or have it imposed on them) -- Amazon was a great example of this but their suppliers also got wise to it.

In the current scenario, all those instacarts, eat24s, etc are also looking to get paid first, so this advantage should evaporate (leaving only those which are systemic -- ie banks, processors, etc).
I've had a lot of these problems where everything is correct but nothing works as intended. Turns out, numerical mathematics excels at making programming more about validation than verification.

Breaking the continuum into pieces breaks your symmetries. For example on a finite rectangular grid, a sphere is not rotationally invariant. Even if your maths is valid in the continuum, for the implementation, you still need to prove that it is valid (i.e. fulfills all desired properties) on a discrete grid.

I have zero experience with video compression, however, the author states that the issues get less severe when the video is rotated by 90˚. I guess the compression algorithm is designed to work irrespective of orientation. Therefore, my humble guess is that they failed to implement the desired symmetry of the continuum in the compression algorithm that acts upon discrete spatial coordinates. Unfortunately, there's no way to recover all symmetries from the continuum on a discrete grid. You always get some kind of artifacts and you can only work to reduce them for the case you are considering.
Making the not unrealistic assumption that the data is _not_ normally distributed, mean is a useless average here. You should be looking at median, which will be much less distorted by the long tail.
Yup. It just comes down to value, and it depends on the app. Underpricing something that has a lot of value is generally not a great business move. Especially when you intend on adding features later.

But if it's just a simple web app, presumably one that has some similar competition, then $5 may be a better idea.
Investments (like all deals) often dangle on the edge until the ink is dry. Anything relatively trivial thing you can do to increase the odds of it working out is probably worth it. If raising money is just a few months out then I'd definitely go for the Delaware C Corp.
Cybersquatting is bad, but publishing this about not only the person who did it, but also his father and his business isn't much better.
As someone who has about 100 tabs open in Firefox at any given moment, I firmly believe that the description of page content must appear before the title of the website or any other SEO junk in the title. This is what I see in my Firefox tab bar right now: http://imagebin.org/128865

What does "Hacker..." tell me? Or "Timoth..."? On the other hand, "SQL Co..." at least lets me know the page is about SQL. Same goes for "n-gram...", "Sylistic..." and "HTML5".
I don't know about your house, but I only have one choice of cable internet provider, and one choice of DSL internet provider (at least I believe that to be true in SE Portland, OR). I do, however, have several choices of wireless ISP (Clear and all the major mobile providers), but these are ridiculously expensive.

All of that is to say, are you sure internet is different that TV? Seems that, for the most part, they're both already state sponsored monopolies.
Yeah - but we're talking about a high-capex industry. Basically what net-neutrality is asking is that the infrastructure tier should subsidise profits at the content and interface tiers of internet services provision - keeping the barrier to entry low on the latter, and increasing the barrier to entry on the former.

Why does it increase the barrier to entry to the former? Because expected lower profit returns increase the risk on capex.

So your reply - while a necessary consideration to think through - sort of misses the whole point of the argument against net-neutrality. Net neutrality - according to this argument - will only serve to contribute to the lack of competition at the infrastructure level.

The real response to this argument is not to fight it on economic grounds - but to assert that the 'public good' which transcends merely economic considerations is put under threat. The primary way infrastructure providers will seek to increase profit margins is by bundling content and service delivery options. However, content - in this context - includes the entire political information flow of all the political structures in the world. Generally speaking, we don't believe it to be in the public good for this to be under the control of corporations. Since the 'public good' is frequently the sort of thing that can't be monetized - it's the natural place for government to step in to protect it.

I remain torn because it's never really clear if the actual aim of preserving the 'public_good' is best protected by intervention or otherwise. I say that ultimately we have to try both and then compare. Get empirical on the issue. A priori debate can only take us so far.
How do you accomplish this? Something like greasemonkey? Or a chrome plugin?