jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
UNRELATED: I've been taking a look at Review HN posts lately and realized that there are increasingly few. Are they getting buried under all this bubble news? or are fewer and fewer people pushing new startups?
Isn’t Stallman’s reply just an ad hominem? I presume “what I stand for” in Stallman’s response refers to the concept of all software being free. But even if Alexey disagrees with that premise, it’s still possible for his advice to be sound.

It certainly didn’t look like Alexey was trying to sabotage the free software movement by giving bad advice – many people in the HN discussion of the open letter agreed with the advice.
That was then. Now, he finds this kind of practice criminal. I know: I once asked him a similar question after one of his talks (the kind where he plays the flute).

He just finds the concept of charging for software repugnant.
I look in on the Cygwin users' mailing list every now and again and I have a lot of respect for the devs and how they run their project, finding a usable middle ground between Windows and Linux (Cygwin at its core is a DLL that emulates POSIX and Linux-specific system calls).

The installer being the package manager threw me when I first started using Cygwin. However, when I researched the issue, I can see how the choice made sense. Unlike a Linux system, you can't upgrade the Cygwin DLL in-place while it's running.

apt-cyg [1] is a nice simple bash script for managing Cygwin packages. I find very useful for avoiding the GUI installer when I just need to add or remove a few packages. For software that doesn't require an upgrade of the Cygwin DLL, they can be installed / removed from inside Cygwin itself.

[1] https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg
Would you agree to call Grunt a configuration tool?

I have found the fact that Grunt lets you write full-featured JavaScript quite useful. In 95% of cases, of course, you want to write your configuration in a declarative, JSON-like form, but I welcome the possibility of having full JS power in the few situations where non-trivial logic is needed. Another advantage, of course, is familiarity: I already know JavaScript.

However, what I really don't like is a declarative data language or some sort of DSL that starts adding some basic variable and control flow features. That's the best way to end up with a tool that's complicated, hard to reason about, and still unexpressive.

So to me, a good configuration language should be either a simple data language (such JSON), OR a simple, powerful, well-known programming language with good data structure literals to encourage a declarative style.
Samsung and Software ... let's just say that it is not the best association ever.
They wanted to launch a Tizen phone 'Samsung Z' before the end of 2014. Even by their own standards it was not good enough so it has been delayed.
The decreasing sales of the Galaxy line has also prompted a (long overdue) shake up.

I don't know if Tizen will continue to play a role in the upcoming lineup or if Samsung will realize that creating a new mobile OS is not that easy.

They are still pushing Tizen as their smartwatches OS (except for the ones that run Anrdroid). I have been able to test the Galaxy Watch 3 a couple of months before its release and I have to admit that I have been favorably impressed.
It does not transform smartwatches into must-own gadgets (but to be fair, IMO neither do Apple or Google), but it i nice, has cool features (always on hear-monitor) and is almost exempt of the samsung mega feature creep.
Rust can do some of this.
So what would be an "actual attempt to address abuse" with tor that isn't equivalent to shutting down the network?

Last I heard, they're happy for any volunteer to contribute and in a case like this, just having an "ideas guy" explain it to them might already be more than helpful, since this is no simple problem.
Great question. Think of it as "Hi, I'm an individual who has an oauth access token for President Obama's userinfo.me scope. The only person who can authorise this is President Obama".

Hope that helps.
Thank you jayess, let's keep in touch.
I know this sub-thread started in half-jest, but your response got me thinking:

1. Month of birth directly determines a child's age compared to their classmates.

2. An older child among younger peers performs better academically.

3. Academic aptitude is correlated with income.

4. Income is correlated with longevity.

Admittedly, hypothesis #2 is iffy. And the good old "correlation is not causation" adage applies for #3 and #4.
Also, the reason it is 50 moves <em>without a pawn move or capture</em> is because both pawn moves and captures are irreversible.

In fact, the only irreversible move that doesn't reset the 50 move rule is castling (or losing the right to castle), as having the ability to castle technically changes the position.
It was a joke. I was agreeing with the OP.
$50 is a small investment if you think about how much time it would take to get back to HTML circa 2015. I downloaded but haven't started the trial version of Pinegrow, so I can't speak from experience how easy it is to actually use it. But their videos show that the web editor lets you manipulate themes before you even buy them, giving you a good idea if it'll work for what you want even before purchasing. (I did try that feature out and it works well!) It'll give you the ability to modify the theme as you validate your business until you get to the level of success that a custom design by a designer may make sense.

EDIT: Link to Pinegrow

http://pinegrow.com
The human mind is a behavior copy algorithm, IBM's Watson is effectively an expert system with a search algorithm.

The way they answer questions is very, very different. Watson effectively translates the question into something equivalent to an SQL query, then executes it, and answers the top result.

What a human mind does is very, very different. It could perhaps be described like this : "put the electrical impulses on the outgoing nerves that seem like past successful Jeopardy players would have put on theirs in this situation". Your mind doesn't "answer" any question for starters. It simply reacts to the situation, the difference is in that your mind doesn't know or care about the difference between a question and a rocket falling out of the sky. Same prediction happens.

This reaction contains far more data than Watson will ever output. It contains the actual answer, encoded in had movements necessary to write them down. It contains instructions to pick up the pen, hold the board, crouch over the board so your hand would be in reach of the board, hide the answer from your competitors, ... You could easily write a 1000-page book about the response of your mind to simple situations (I've read a near-2000 page book that talks exclusively about the 3d math needed to control two fingers). This answer was produced by your cortex, which contains more computing elements than the internet. More data was transferred in your mind to weak computing elements than gets transferred on the internet in an entire US state for the same time frame. Granted, those computing elements are somewhat (a LOT) slower than a CPU, but there's 100 neurons in your cortex for every CPU ever sold, which is estimated to be a billion. (and I'm cheating with those numbers, for example the total data transfer that occurs in a single CPU easily outstrips internet traffic for a medium city. So your mind looks at the same amount of data as about a dozen cpus in the same time, much less impressive)

Fundamentally it's the "best" reaction your mind knows how to have. Best being defined something along the lines of "if you did this in front of me, you'd get maximum attention from my mind" (in this case hopefully because you'd win Jeopardy. But it's the attention that matters, not the win. E.g. if your girl/boyfriend plays, you'll play more like him/her, regardless of who wins).
There is something magic in the mind when you work until late, it seems that the lack of distractions really help, but if your body is not prepared, the next day you loose al the time that you have saved triying just to be wake up.
There's a cynical proverb in Brazil, used to pretend to justify conformism: "If the rape is unavoidable, just relax and enjoy".

This post seems to get too close to it.
This is why I read this site everyday. Because I can find out what I need... Thank you!
Black Mirror comes to life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

> Martha Powell (Hayley Atwell) and Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson) are a young couple who have moved to Ash's remote family house in the countryside. The day after moving in, Ash is killed while returning the hire van. At the funeral, Martha's friend Sarah (Sinead Matthews) talks about a new online service which helped her in a similar situation. Martha yells at her, but Sarah signs Martha up anyway. After discovering she is pregnant, Martha reluctantly tries it out. Using all of Ash's past online communications and social media profiles, the service creates a new virtual "Ash". Starting out with instant messaging, Martha uploads more videos and photos and begins to talk with the artificial Ash over the phone. Martha takes it on countryside walks, talking to it constantly while neglecting her sister's messages and calls.
> Chinese is easy, according to a survey in 2006, 8128 different characters appeared in newspapers (we're talking about traditional characters here), but 80% of the 700 million words which appeared in all medias are combinations of 581 characters, 90% of it use only 934 characters, and if you know 2314 characters, you can already read 99% of the articles. For simplified, surprisingly you need slightly more characters, 591 for 80%, 958 for 90% and 2377 for 99%.

Good luck reading sentences where the most important and meaningful word is the one you don't know.

And what's with the interest in characters? Didn't you just get done praising how most words are formed out of a bunch of characters? So now we need to memorize a few thousand characters and memorize how multiple characters form a word/concept. The alphabet looks better all the time...
All this means is that they are going to need a lot more investment than a software company.
I wrote some high energy physics data analysis software in FORTRAN for my UCSC senior thesis in 1993. I even got to spend the summer at CERN. :-D

I required seven weeks to come to grips with CERNLIB and its associated tools such as Patchy, a cross between IBM's JCL and Steve Martin's Cruel Shoes, four days to write my code, then three days to run my simulation long enough to write my thesis.

I had dropped out of school to work as a coder for six years, but decided to complete my degree so I'd stop having to explain to why I never graduated in job interviewers. So I knew quite a lot more about software development than even the postdocs.

The grad students and postdocs were all stunned at the simple, pristine readibility of my source. I scolded them all with "The reason that physics software is so hard to write, is that YOU PHYSICISTS MAKE IT HARD!"

Every law of physics other than general relativity - gravity, loosely speaking - is in CERNLIB somewhere, yet despite spending decades wandering its Gordian labyrinth, I have yet to actually find any.
Nope. There's no "overwhelming" proof. Only sad stories, and a blue book (THE TREATMENT OF ARMENIANS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1915-1916) made up by Toynbee et al. as a war propaganda, yet even the victors of 1st world war did not even respect the propaganda book, so no claims about genocide were made after the war ended(1918). Isn't it interesting that, imperialists trying to conquer a middle eastern country, does not even try to support genocide claims on that country, to get more public support world wide?
While the veracity of the claim is untested, it doesn't seem so out there that many hotels that were at least partially forward-thinking may have not predicted the need for a better / faster network in the future...
Yep, that'd be an alternative.
And also that it's intended for conference exhibitors, where exorbitant rates for every little additional thing in a booth is part of the deal. A $100 wastepaper basket, for example.

Now, if it were up to me they would just price the booths at a fair price per square foot rather than try to make a profit on "extras."
Thankfully some enterprise equipment (I can only speak of Meraki access points) can detect such attacks. So, you could localize (to a degree) where such an attack was coming from based on the AP locations.
You are correct positive may not be the best term, but I think we are in agreement otherwise
> Bitcoins are worthless.

So is the US dollar.
Not that I've ever managed or ever will manage to get more than about 20 minutes of contiguous sleep on a plane (I'm tall, and have a hard time falling asleep in ideal conditions, which planes are not) but having a hoodie with a very large hood can be helpful. Ideally, one made of a thin material, so you don't cook yourself a la barbacoa. You then pull the hood over your head and face, and pull the drawstrings. People leave me alone when I do. For this reason, I call hoodies "portable privacy".
It seems tailored for specific use cases and the various scenarios it handles seem to me to have been addressed well. Is it the particular scenarios that you feel aren't sufficiently well handled or is it that there are scenarios that aren't handled at all? (I'm sure there are some scenarios that aren't handled at all, but I haven't thought of any that would be glaringly missing in the vast majority of people's usage.)

Also, I'm curious what about the app switching is more poorly implemented than Android's version of the same?
They are explicitely denying applicants the chance to present their work history. They only look at a largely irrelevant single bit of information: you don't have a job now.
"— “Tony’s social experiments,” they called it…" I think I understand what they mean by this.
Of course cash on hand has value. Question is how much of it is needed to optimize profit. And of course credit lines cost money. That's where the 'risk management' part comes into play. My point is that there are hundreds of people running models and doing calculations on what the optimal way to finance operations in a company of that size is. Contrary to popular opinion these people aren't stupid. It's unreasonable to, a priori, rule out financing inventories with credit, just because there is risk involved. It's about balancing pros and cons, and whoever balances it the best, wins (i.e., makes most profit, or can lower prices to gain customers and grab more market share, or buy competitors, or...)

(about Ahold, without knowing the details, the liquidity problem was at the time when details of shady accounting in a US subsidiary came to light. You can't issue more stock in a few days to cover immediate liquidity problems. plus investors aren't going to be too happy when you're diluting their stock just to cover an operating loss. It's a different thing when you're doing it to raise money to expand the business.)
Hmm.

If you're going to sell your work for free... Well, imo, you're making the market of web design worse for every player of that market, which would, consequently, lower the general bar among web design in the long run

But that's a bit far fetched.

The first comment has a point, if you haven't read that article... Well, you should.

Cheers
Bignums or other constructs are good answers sometimes, and not others. They can help you avoid various bits of piddling about, but at the expense of having an entirely different structure that subsequent maintainers might not be familiar with.

On the other hand, the standard floating point system has been in sue for a long time, has well-developed libraries, and a large body of material devoted to understanding when you need to be careful, and when you don't.

In short, calculations of this type need understanding, either of the floating point domain or of an alternative domain, but certainly of the existence of the issues and problems.
Thanks a lot. Fixed the typo in the heading.

For the curious: It read 'anf' instead of 'and' :)
Sounds more like a people problem than a tech problem.
Even accepting that, just put her name in the headline too. It's not the first article I've seen about someone who hasn't gotten the recognition they deserve that also fails to put their name in the title.
Is there a different benchmark that demonstrates a scenario where synchronous syscalls are better suited?
I don’t know if these videos will still be on his Facebook page, but sometime in the last year or so he did a series of livestream events where he would practice or teach. I knew I loved his playing, but I had no idea what a kind and gentle mentor type he was until then.

If you like his music, go look for those videos (COVID era).

As for his music, it’s hard to pick a favorite; his duo album with Bobby McFerrin is my favorite.
Nice history rewrite going on there.
German companies used m/w or m/f. They use m/w/d or m/f/d now. Simple.
> "oh for that, just use beta/nightly version!"

Like for accessing abou:config sigh
Kubernetes was not initially designed with persistence in mind. If it was then the etcd of the master nodes would also be in containers.

There are (good) attempts at shoving it in, but the general advice I would give is that if you care about your data you should give it every possible chance for to not be corrupted or disrupted; and that means keeping the number of abstractions and indirections low.
I've been using GlimmerBlock for quite sometime without running into issues
I was agreeing with you while simultaneously pointing out that you, like the folks you're criticizing, are conflating a constructivist model of learning with a handful of specific approach to teaching derived (mistakenly, IMO) from that model.

Just don't throw the constructivist baby out with the bathwater. :)

As a counterpoint, the Logo programming language[1] is an example of a well-executed pedagogical approach informed by constructivist thinking.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29
"It's what the article is about. Did you read it?"

Arranging a course so that your students never struggle with the material is one thing. Never bending to your students' needs, as a teacher, is another. A teacher can provide a lot of opportunities for the students to struggle with the material. But I think it's ridiculous (and lazy) to teach without any regard for pedagogy, especially with high school students.

I know exactly what the point of the article is. Thanks for asking.

By the way, "cautiously [guiding them] through every problem in life, or in education" communicates a very different thing from "[putting in] more effort to make classes "fit" a student's preferences".
link to the english version without dubbing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub5G_t-gUBc
The other sibling comments touch on it, but I think the key takeaway is that they're still working with their intended hardware, with their intended hardware supplier. With a GearVR today, or the 1.0 consumer edition Rift in the future.
I'm pretty sure I've slightly damaged my hearing from long-term headphone use during the years I was stuck in noisy, distracting work environments. Now that I work for myself from home, I mostly don't listen to music at all.
In Copenhagen, Denmark where bike riding and bike theft is very common, the police does little about it. In fact it came out recently that the police have an unofficial policy of not investigating thefts of value less than 13.000 euros due to "lack of resources".

There is seldom story of say an angry man in a van running down two kids on a stolen scooter otherwise vigilante justice is very rare.

I think for most bike thiefs are just having field day (year or decade) and probably quite a bit more organized than in Seattle due to massive market for bikes and bike parts here in Copenhagen.
> ... leads me to propose that maybe pouring all of that engineering effort into ZFS and dtrace (while both are amazing technologies, I will be the first to acknowledge) --- perhaps wasn't a good product/market fit ...

My understanding is that neither ZFS nor DTrace were the products of large engineering teams.

And the market is enthusiastically receptive to these products. If they didn't drive adequate additional hardware sales for Sun, it might be important to remember that Sun didn't charge for them...

Regardless, I think you'd be seriously misunderstanding things to believe that engineering over-commitment contributed in any way to Sun's death.
They are neither red nor blue, disproving your statement.
Same. What a fantastic book.
I wonder if Google will continue to move away from Java even after winning this ruling.

What will Java look like at Google in 2030?
The ideal justice system would not help you get revenge on someone who killed your family, but dissuade anyone from killing your family in the first place?
It is their job to design their own email templates as they see fit

The customer doesn't get a say in the matter
What method of sleep training did you use?

This article lists 6! https://www.todaysparent.com/baby/baby-sleep/most-popular-sl...
That was more an example of the SIZE of some of these correlations, rather than how bad diarrhea is. The effect is huge. Breastfeeding is more effective than a lot of medicines.
Your points about climate change and other recent political developments are not relevant to understanding this situation at all. Your comment was an expression of irrelevant emotion, driven by partisan enmity. It detracts from this forum and from public dialogue.

It seems like you still don't get it. We will see if you will have the integrity to acknowledge how utterly mistaken your original reply was.
No bud, after how you chose to speak to TheOtherHobbes, I'm not interested in continuing this. I have no interest in trying to educate you because with all due respect, you're far too unkind for me to devote more time to.

You've made up your mind and all you're doing is hurting people. This is pointless and I'm not going to be fodder for more of your bullying.
Mad Men

Ginsberg: I feel bad for you.

Draper: I don’t think about you at all.
Not enough. It is generally known that we are using helium faster than the planet can naturally produce it. We currently get helium from natural gas deposits. In the future we might end up puling it from the air, but that would be very expensive. For many use cases it might be easier to switch to hydrogen.

For those interested in SETI, excessive atmospheric helium might be a detectable techno-signature, a sign that someone is digging into deep crust presumably for hydrocarbons.
I might choose a Tesla for you to buy were I given $10. That's the difference. The person receiving the money is not the same one who actually has to pay for the product.
The intro to the study I cited above, as well as literally any other research you might care to look up on the subject. The phenomenon of breastfeeding pain is well documented. Feel free to cite a study showing breastfeeding pain is rare if you disagree.