jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I had a quick demo and as a substitute word processor I was underwhelmed. There are little things that bugged me like the clunky spell check, the lame privacy details that don't let you remove your documents (even if you leave) the monitoring of your documents. If you upload a file (in my case a OpenOffice doc) it misses grabbing the title from the document itself. They also missed the print functionality. I don't want to download a doc to have to print it. [0]

If you've created a document and want to edit with others it looks ok. I did like the way the worked with the screen (lots of whitespace), revised documents, the input parser for various documents, the atom feed. The fact you could export the data in various formats and support for UTF-8. I missed the point of it being a collaborative blog tool. That certainly is a useful feature but not a killer.

Then I took into account the fact it's a new product. Bare minimum to get launched. It's not going to be used for corporates for security & privacy reasons. But if you have to create something with someone else in a different location it will get usage.

That's from a user perspective. From an application perspective it's slick & I wonder how they got such a service up and running so fast. [1] It does not take the radical steps of say Rael's stickit, [2] making little affordances as the user enters data, remembering it and getting the application to help you. [3] I also miss an API. But it's early days.

I wonder how they intend to make money off it? Expanded functionality, number of documents you can create, edit. Guess there is plenty of scope for this.

Reference

[0] This little step is something found in Word if you don't supply a title, word uses the document title.

[1] Now I remember reading the writenow story, 'Writewith: who, what, why, when, where and how?'

http://blog.writewith.com/2007/04/11/writewith-who-what-why-when-where-and-how/

[2] Rael DornfestÂ’s stikkit, "values of n, stikkit which is exploring new ways of 'organization and collaboration.'"

http://www.valuesofn.com/blog

[3] values of n, "A presciently-timed vote of confidence"

http://www.valuesofn.com/blog/2007/03/presciently-timed-vote-of-confidence.html
I use it on some old Sun machines where it was easier to install.
More than 35,000 startups are enrolled in Microsoft BizSpark (http://www.bizspark.com/About/Pages/Overview.aspx). Some of them are likely to be interested in web-hosting with simplified deployment. Also, Microsoft is building a PaaS (Windows Azure: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/) which suggests that they think there is a market.

Disclaimer, I'm an AppHarbor co-founder.
I get far worse treatment for such views elsewhere, so I'm not terribly concerned. I was basically posting in the middle of the night, unable to sleep. I felt it was a bad time to try to make such comments. Short version (fwiw): I think a lot of this has to do with body chemistry and (unrecognized) infection rather than calories per se.

I'm probably the stereotypical "woman driver" and was happy to let my husband drive when I was married. I currently live without a car and am happy to not have to deal with the issue of driving. Though, honestly, I have difficulty imagining how this particular navigation technique could contribute to such prejudices concerning women. Still, it was interesting that men were (apparently) literally better equipped for this than women.
Actually my parents are using a Debian box with Chromium. I found it is a lot easier to manage remotely than a Windows box; it's really low maintenance; they won't grab malware and the Gnome desktop can be really dumbed down - I only left the window switcher, shortcuts for chromium and skype on the panel and on the desktop, time and date, volume control.
One of my users' games got put on the market by someone else too. I hope google comes down heavy on the fuckwits doing it.
I find it interesting that it's a git-enabled asp.net hosting service. I figured that git wasn't popular among the windows users.
When I was 12, I was a regular reader of bit magazine.

No, not a joke. It was a Japanese magazine similar to BYTE in spirit, but more of CS taste. I remember articles about concurrent Prolog, machine translation using pivot representations, distributed systems etc.

I stopped reading it when I got to the university, where I was able to be up-to-date with such kind of information without it.

And then, its publishing ceased in 2001.
Our goal is to make people c# developers use the cloud. I do agree that a lot of c# developers doesn't use the cloud yet, but I don't see how that should keep Appharbor from becoming popular.

A more likely cause for the lack of cloud-hosted c# apps would probably be, that there aren't really any viable options for c# developers who wants their app hosted in the cloud (Azure isn't really the bee's knees, right?)
Spivak? It's an excellent calculus book. Apostol or Courant are good as well.
> That's part of the point of the question - which part you go into detail on is a pretty good indication where your strengths lie. Someone who spends a lot of time on DNS and SYN/ACK is probably a low-level networking guru, and the rest of the interview should be structured accordingly.

Hmm, interesting, I had not thought of it that way. I'd probably start talking about the debouncing logic in the keyboard microcontroller, but I'd not want to be pegged as an embedded systems guy, because I could talk about all the other layers as well. If I run into this question I think I'd just ask what level of detail and which areas the interviewer would like to focus on.
That's the "patented solution" referred to in the article.
Being the valedictorian of a class of 12 brings less information than a class of 1K. Its the same story for the rigor of the classes themselves between different schools/states/countries and the actual classes taken by any given student. Getting As in all AP classes carries more information than all As in easy courses. Its really nice to have an aptitude test to select the students you think have the best shot of succeeding or the brightest kids. An aptitude test is also an avenue to select bright kids who went to really bad schools or didn't do well in school for some reason.

You can't throw away information and expect a better outcome.
It does though. If your allergy is so severe that you can’t accept a dog, then you can sue Uber too.
Another day, another cryptocurrency...
The target market for this part is not that kind of datacenter.

Based on the article they're targeting high performance compute, i.e. "application codes used in earth system modeling, financial services, manufacturing, as well as life and material science."
Surgery is very specialized knowledge.

I'm sure he's using the fundamentals he learned in med school more than he thinks, but yeah everything in psychiatry, pediatrics and obstetrics most likely not.
Jakub Konka wrote the M1 linker without any spec in the last half year while having a dayjob at Microsoft.
Prosecution: The defendent is being un-american for refusing to cooperate with the FBI.

Defense: The man is suing. This is as American as it gets.

Verdict: Not guilty.

(sorry, couldn't resist, sorry, sorry)
Reminds me of this, but worse outcome:

"The Man Who Refused to Spy

The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/21/the-man-who-re...
While I can understand not wanting a diversity of clients for the support headache that could rapidly become, I don't fully agree that a diversity of clients forces them to be stuck at a lowest common denominator. What prevents them from making the breaking changes necessary for security and features, and letting the devs of 3rd party clients successfully conform or not?

I see it as something like mandating minimum version of TLS or cipher suite. The security flaws of TLS version <1.2 have been documented for some time now. I've had to tell customers more than once we are disallowing use of older insecure protocols to access my employer's services.

Or am I misunderstanding you and actually happen to be agreeing?
Maybe if they took the time to train people and create a sustainable talent pipeline then they wouldn't be in this position. They only want experts and nobody want to train.
I assume it helps trim off the branches of research that become unviable with the new evidence.
It’s immoral to not live life to its fullest or do anything that is not your passions. It’s immoral because you are betraying yourself, when literally you owe no one but yourself anything.
I'm one of these workers. We decided to pack up and move from the bay area to a "tier 2" city pretty early in the pandemic and there's no way I'm going back. My only regret is not moving earlier.

We sold our home we purchased in 2017 and were able to buy a very nice home here in cash, nearly 40% of the total cost coming from equity in that sale. Without a mortgage the budget calculus changes significantly.
Just for my interest: Would you use Waywo if it would work with WakaTime (as that came up as Feature Request more often)
Interesting life lesson for those who are not familiar is the concept I think it's called 'don't spit into the wind'.

By this I mean all of the politicians who constantly gave Trump a hard time at each and every turn. I don't mean any in particular investigation and I don't mean they needed to agree and not criticize him at all at any time. But maybe they should have thought that this person 'The President' has the ability to give their region (or their state) what they need 'greenlight' and yes he should do it because 'it's the right thing to do' but human decision making and interaction is more than that. And people are people. This is no different for any political process or politician. Sometimes you have to simply (to use the phrase) 'not be a dick' if there is a person in power who can give you things you need to play the game. Doesn't mean you should like the game and doesn't mean it shouldn't be that way but in the end it is the way life often is.
I would like to see Jordan getting out there and making stuff again. From this outsider's perspective, he's been in a largely quiescent state for 15+ years. I'm sure he's got more good stuff inside his brain and I want him to set it free.
Had to create a throwaway for that!?
Every country is supposed to regulate space debris, and in the US, that happens to have been assigned to the FCC. BTW, many people in the industry thinks that the international standard of 25 years needs to be strengthened.
Good, refreshing perspective! How do you think we will get out of the lock downs? That’s my biggest concern right now. The restrictions are getting worse and worse and we are suffocating many businesses. I fear the repercussions are greater than the effect on the curve flattness.
Thanks for the questions. Indeed many animation libraries store the quaternion and translation as separate components. There are a few reasons I use dual-quaternions in my own code. First, because I can "slerp" them, this means that when I compress keyframes, and can perform better quality fits (potentially less error and fewer keyframes needed). The dual-quaternion has uses in skinning which I'm sure you're aware of, but if the base transformation is a dual quaternion, I can more efficiently morph neighboring vertices as well (I've ported the dual-quaternion application to shader code as well). One optimization that GA makes clear is the ability to factor out terms when applying a dual quaternion to a number of entities all at once which makes it almost as efficient as a quat-translation while conserving energy as well.

Finally, the dual-quat representation is beneficial when modeling kinematic motion specifically (not necessarily artist-authored) which can be useful in contexts beyond games (e.g. robotics, deep-learning, computer vision), but also inverse kinematics (which unfortunately I haven't had time to write about yet)
Netlify uses a CDN by default ;-)
I've worked with a few of them. This song sums it up pretty well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLIfkiF8NeQ
A kinda interesting way to make money is to go to flea markets and buy Lego bricks at a discount, then sell them at the likes of this site. Normally I see bricks go for about 60USD per kilo I think if not more, but in flea markets you can make some good deals.
PagerDuty lost over $12 million last quarter. And if you bought the stock in June, you'd have lost more than half your money.
I think you are caught up in the fact that a company MUST be profitable to IPO. That is simply not true. Just because these companies are not profitable does not mean they are not stable self sufficient businesses. Amazon pioneered the idea that you do not need to be profitable, in fact you can lose money every single day, month, year, for the sake of growth. We do not know if these "companies have the ability to turn profitable if they want to, but my bet is they probably can. Not to rant, but this is prime example why people like Bezos and Buffet want to get away from the quarterly reporting, it just doesn't do a good job of letting companies lose money in the sake of growth it is WAY to focused on profit over growth.
A few years ago, I did a bit of research into how social programs in Scandinavia were able to take root. My initial hypothesis was - they must be more selfless than a traditional American, so let me find what makes that so.

However, after doing my anecdotal reading, I came away with the belief they are just as, if not more, selfish than Americans, but Swedes for example, are able to support programs because they understand they might need them at some point.

That took me back to another common quote, that Americans see themselves not as poor but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Again, all anecdotal.
Did they actually do a twin study on finger count, or are you making things up? Otherwise you can't know for sure. For example, I'd bet that propensity to lose limbs correlate strongly with willingness to engage in risky activities, and risk taking has a significant genetic component according to other studies.
I’ve been to jail for a small amount of MJ. The chain of custody and the purity/contamination of a plant is much easier to track, then something like a powder a pill or liquid. There is literally no circumstance where I would trust something that wasn’t a plant on the black market
That's an awesome Eagle Scout project. Addresses a real community need, leverages volunteer people-power, scales well, low risk. What an excellent choice.

That can be readily-combined with fundraising canvassing, too. The Girl Scouts could pick that up with a drop-box at every cookie table...
The world doesn’t need fucking Bitcoin.

This is merely switching one “elite” for a different, equally arbitrary, but likely less qualified “elite”.
Disk manufacturers use a hybrid system, don't they, since the sectors are powers-of-two but they use decimal multipliers to inflate the size beyond that? So that a "marketing gigabyte" might actually be a megakibibyte.
100-200€ plus the printed parts (~50€).
But most people diy some or even all parts for even less
I think that a lot of the reflexive systemd bashing is unwarranted. The Linux kernel provides many not-necessarily-portable-or-directly-comparable features (cgroups & namespaces come to mind, but also things like netlink & sysfs) and I am glad that the creators of systemd chose to explore the design space of an unabashedly Linux-specific "system" layer that straddles the kernel and userland.

That being said, I am somewhat disappointed that the general exploration of that solution space, and the creative use of those kernel features, seems to have ended as systemd matured, expanded its' scope and saw widespread adoption. I also think that the extent of systemd's authoritative dominance over the ecosystem has had a negative impact on user freedom in the broader world of open source. The fact that Snap has actively made a policy choice to _not_ give users the ability to completely disable automatic updates[0] and instead force at least weekly updates is I believe an example of the kind of "we know better than you" mentality that systemd has helped to foster and normalize.

I'd encourage everyone to sometime try booting a Linux machine with boot argument `init=/bin/sh` and see what it actually takes to get a system up to a running state with working networking.

[0] https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...
Thank you for making HexFiend, that’s the top hex editor!

One thing that I really really like about HexFiend is that scrolling is very fast, yet precise and smooth, no matter the size of the file. Is it based on custom classes? Scrolling in macOS used to be quite ok up to several releases ago. Then it became crappy, especially in some apps (AppleScript Editor comes to my mind).
Deep nostalgia audio from the early twentieth century would all sound tinny like it came from a Victrola.
Lol it would be kinda funny to have this:

let input: Option<usize> = Some(1);
if let Some(value) != input {
return 0;
}
// use value; such that value: usize = 1
I've used Stadia off and on for about a year now, both in a big city with fiber connection and out in the rural midwest with a decent cable connection. When it works well, it feels like magic. The latency is so small, you can't tell the difference between it and a game running on a local device. When you get a connection hick-up, it's bad, lots of artifacting, losing control, huge input lag.

The tech is amazing IMHO, thinking back to type of gaming I was doing back in the 80s. Gaming has come a long way.

I think its biggest problem is being associated with Google. They have built up a bad rep and I think gamers like sticking to platforms they trust and see being around for the long-term. Why invest in building a library that might not be around in a few years? I personally don't think they'll shut down the service but I'm not surprised that a lot of people have those worries.
You are reaching.

re: fracking: When asked soon after the comment, he clarified that he was referring to fracking on federal property. The original context of his comments that he would ban fracking were usually centered around the controversy of Trump having opened up lots of federal land to fracking. Fracking on federal land is a small fraction of total output.

re: 2k stimulus checks. Not sure what the actual intent was, but I immediately understood it to mean that they would send out $1400 checks because $2k was the initial amount that Dems wanted and GOP negotiated it down to $600. As for "everyone" well, do we really think -everyone- should get money? Very few people are in favor of high earners getting a check.

re: covid plan. Not sure where you got that. He was working on covid and spending more time pre-Jan 20 meeting with covid experts and task forces than the president at the time. Who was preoccupied with his tv and phone.

re: MPP. Looks like it is already underway. https://www.metro.us/biden-to-bring-in/ You have to unwind programs like this to avoid causing even more harm.

re: immigration facility reopened. Biden admin provided extensive explanation of why they needed to re-open it. Unaccompanied children arriving at the border. They need some stop gap at the moment.
You could say the same thing about Los Angeles (massive water requirements over and above what native supply provides) but I don't see us abandoning that particular location anytime soon either.

(Edit: clarified LA to Los Angeles)
What I saw was even worse... Nook just doesn't even try to rotate most of the time.

In iOS the default seems to be that any and every app will rotate in a meaningful way when I turn the device. Not so in my 5 minute demo of the Nook. It's not that it can't smoothly rotate the screen when it wants to, it's that it doesn't attempt to rotate the screen to match my position as often as iOS apps do.
http://codr.posterous.com
The crazy idea that files are obsolete reminds me of how Skype thought that the old multiwindow communicator paradigm needed replacing and forced Skype 5 on disgruntled users.

Skype insists they see the future while users keep downgrading to 2.8
Have you tried Kickstarter to help you to fund it?
Their lead in casual gaming isn't so massive if you consider that their competitors in the "casual gaming" space include not just Xbox and PlayStation but also iOS, Android, and Facebook games.

That's just in the American market, too. In equally important Japanese market, you have to throw Gree and DeNA in there too.
hey rms, thanks for thinking of me - I appreciate it!

I have a comparative analysis matrix - including veotag.

From it, Here are some ways IMHO juwo is better:

1) veotag can annotate only text even though they claim otherwise on the front page. see http://www.veotag.com/whatis/?page=5

juwo can annotate with Text, voice, audio, video, links and documents.

Other reasons:
2) Veotag has a subset of juwo’s functionality.
3) Veotag is tied to a single AV clip.
4) It cannot be used outside of broadcasts.
5) Not a standalone productivity tool.
6) Limited privacy.

7) Can veotag Share and edit indexes
and annotations in a community? Limited. Share link to index. No concept of overlay.

8) Can veotag have Multiple uses for application? Not now. (skip to important parts of a single clip and see titles and notes)
Promoting US interests rarely means promoting interests of the US middle class.
You can make it even faster by using fgrep since you're not searching for a regex.
People need to check their speling.
Maybe they just realized they should make the cookie look different
You aren't really at the center of the problem though, because a PhD in computers can still get a non-academic job as long as they have been even a bit careful not to overspecialize themselves, as you mention. It isn't automatic, but you're not in a hopeless situation, either.

In sciences, the real problem is things like the biology PhD whose training ends up being "working in this lab on this piece of equipment with this species for these tasks", or so I have heard from the other articles on this topic. And then there's the humanities, where a PhD is all but useless for anything that isn't teaching. There's varying levels of truth for this with other disciplines as well.
I'm not interested in semantics but I always thought that a requirement of charisma is that people like you. That doesn't mean you're friendly, but enough so that people like you. We're probably hitting some grey area here as people are obviously devoted to what Jobs has created, but it's nothing like a "cult of personality" ala Porfirio Díaz.
Then you get uniform distribution problems. If I know the first few digits are 980 I can make a leap well to the back of the book. It really does become an interesting problem.

You can force it by not letting the person see the key, only the results of the comparison, but that is a little silly.

Maybe some of the mismatch comes from the human heuristic being so much faster than the physical turnpage-readname-compare operation. In a computer the compares are so fast that there isn't really a point to building a heuristic to optimize away the first few.

If the comparison finding were slow on a computer you would not use binary search, so in a sense you are forcing the human to use the wrong algorithm.
If reddit became NSFW with ads you'd see a huge drop in traffic from people at work (that don't have access to Adblock on their computers) and a lot more people not disabling it for reddit.com at home.
As pointed out very correctly in a comment above: "I believe the problem lies in funding. Currently, we base funding largely off of publication success."

I don't think this is that big a problem. Publications are what science is made of. If you do research and don't publish it so that other people know about it, you're just engaging in a colossal waste of time.
A direct link to the blog post rather than the home page: http://stevenatkinson.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/software-engi...