jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sort of. While it's not universal, many "native advertising" platforms that integrate with content sites will specify that the content is promoted, sponsored, or something similar. As an example, see nativo.net (disclaimer: I worked there briefly in 2013, and all ads/content served had those qualifiers).
And when you allow for private working areas it is going to be very difficult for developers et al to argue against this trend. Everything has seemingly been thought of e.g. if you are sick give free flu shots and health checks to employees.

I am working in a company that is redesigning the building to be more open plan. It is clear that HR is driving the decision not architects or interior designers.
Meerkat's Hourly Rankings in the last two weeks

https://sensortower.com/ios/us/life-on-air-inc/app/meerkat-t...

Versus Periscope's

https://sensortower.com/ios/us/twitter-inc/app/periscope/972...
Clippy is back!
Thats a tough question to answer. Between bukowsky , Edgar Alan Poe, Shakespeare, a few of miltons work, Gulzar, Tolkien, you can imagine the choice to be tough!
But here is an unlikely candidate I find particularly interesting because of his simplicity and yet intricacy of expression. Vikram Seth.
His work "golden gate" is just a masterpiece with so many hidden gems. To have a story spannig a good 700pages in verse itself is astounding.
Here are some of his smaller beauties

Awake

*Awake for hours and staring at the ceiling
Through the unsettled stillness of the night
He grows possessed of the obsessive feeling
That dawn has come and gone and brought no light.*

And this, which happens to be the name of the small book of his selected short poems

*All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right
And emptiness above -

Know that you aren't alone
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.*

PS: pardon the bad formatting. Long form text entry via a tiny screen is still a pain point :)
I wish they would commit to the name "Spartan." I don't think the full "Project Spartan" is a good name for a browser. And replacing it at this point with something completely different would squander the goodwill from all the prerelease buzz.
Olive oil is still often used to clean out ear wax (which does cause intense ear aches). Are you sure it was the garlic and not the oil?

See eg http://www.uhs.nhs.uk/ourservices/ear,noseandthroat/audiolog... (for a non-woo, non-commercial reference).

In fact this used to be pretty much the only use for olive oil in the UK - before the mid-1950s, 'continental' cookery was unusual and olive oil was generally unavailable except through a pharmacist as an ear cleaner. http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Food-in-Britain-in-the-...
Excellent and practical tips and a few highly-recommended book recommendations/study materials from the HN community:

"Ask HN: Jumping into Android Development"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1347170

The general consensus from my extended network of mobile developer friends and acquaintances:

Android is harder to develop for than iOS - you will spend more time and effort on building something nice than you would in iOS. Windows Phone 7 is not an easy transition for .Net and C# developers because it is basically Silverlight framework programming. No one I know is doing WebOS (Palm) development.

Also, the money in mobile development is almost always from making apps for companies and organizations that want to have their own app (e.g. consulting). This is from my knowledge of how my friends are making a living. Yes, they have their own apps but to succeed in the direct to consumer device marketplace is really is more about being a better marketer, designer than a mobile developer.

The consumer who downloads your program only sees the tip of the iceberg (the UI, the functionality, the user experience). Does it make them feel cool (or appear cooler to their peer group) and/or add some bit of value to their life workflow? They don't care how it was made. Note: This is why HTML5 apps are at a disadvantage - there is only so much you can do with Canvas.
I became a full time android developer about 45 days ago and had been dabbling before that for about 2 months. A few points and comments about the article.

- If you are going to pick up a phone to do android development, my recommendation would be a used original Droid or the HTC Desire. And its not because these are good phones but because these are the phones that I see a lot of people using. I have a Nexus One and I find that it is too powerful and does things other android phones can't. (read on)

- Understand what device fragmentation means for your development. Are you creating a form based native application? Different handsets generally handle native layouts, text and buttons very similarly so fragmentation may not be a huge issue. Are you creating a game or an application that uses video/audio? Prepare to be buried in a multi-dimensional matrix of hell :) As an example, take for example streaming raw AAC audio from the internet. Android as a base platform does not support this in hardware or kernel, but some sprint phones do support this.

- Keep in mind the relative power of the different devices. As with most emulators, the Android emulator has slow draw times and fast network times (though network can be adjusted). Just keep in mind that, if you have a device, where does it rank in the spectrum of devices. Developing an android app that runs 'smoothly' on a Nexus One can leave a lot of customers having a 'jerky' experience. Some of this, in my experience, is also cause by poor design decisions.

How hard is it? Doing something trivial is, by design, trivial. A todo list app would take you, with knowledge of any other programming language, less then 8 hours. I find that the expensive part of the process is knowledge of the fringe, as with all things. Things like knowing how button requests cascade, how a view hierarchy should be organized or how to stream media (can you tell I'm hung up?) are the sorts of things that aren't extremely well documented and take more time to understand than similar concepts for web programing (IMO).

Like kreci, I'm open to questions.
It'd also be more compelling if this Facebook service was released yet and if anyone commenting on it actually had a chance to use it.
I've always managed to not enable Verified by Visa on any of my credit cards, but another huge problem with it is that doing so is nearly impossible. Once you get redirected to that popup, it's very hard to not signup without canceling your transaction with the original merchant. Or getting dumped back to your shopping cart, trying to check out again only to get dumped straight back into Verified by Visa's signup process.

There doesn't ever seem to be a permanent opt-out, so anytime I want to buy something from a merchant that uses it, I have to hunt for the magic button to get around it again.
Surely not these but the next batch of Fusion chips with "grown-up" CPU parts (Phenom/Athlon). Even the 11" Macbook Air's 1.4GHz Core2Duo ULV blows all of these chips out of the water.
From a systemantic perspective, the "purpose of a system is what it does" not what it says it does.

A large number of people are chasing a small (and decreasing) number of good opportunities so a major function of education is to weed people out and make them blame their failures on themselves, not to maximize the development of human talent.

We have a "meritocracy" that occasionally allows an exceptionally talented person to rise, generally allows the mediocre to inherit the status of their parents, and sometimes puts the kibosh on non-housebroken children of the elite.

Athletic coaching tends to be a lot more honest. Few of us expect to be judged on how we do in PE classes and extracurricular sports, we do it for fun, and hopefully give it our best. Good coaches work in that spirit.

Now, if you're one of the lucky people who'll go far in sports, performance is open ended (the top score isn't 100%) and, unlike schoolwork, you need unique training to develop your potential.
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That's odd, the XBox SDK had a speech recognition library build in to it. I presumed that shipped as part of the XBox 360 SDK?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems the bayesian_optimization.py optimizer in this library assumes that the sampled points are exact, ie their variance is zero. It doesn't seem to re-sample existing points.

This will cause the algorithm to "chase random noise", as morelandjs wrote below
That certainly has not been my experience. My windows install (minus user folder and my own dev/game/application folders) has not grown appreciably since I initially set up the box.

Obviously user folders can grow quickly, but I wouldn't put the blame on Windows for that.
Sure, but that's hardly getting away from the problems of working at the NSA.
This is really really sad. It removed all my trust in Signal.
Is this free (as in freedom) software like Anki is? I glanced at the site, but couldn't tell.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10212-011-0099-9

Personality traits are much more strongly correlated with academic aptitude than IQ is. If you disagree, you should provide a source.
Since you're on a throwaway, forgive my curiosity- how on earth did you get to that level of success at a young age? Family money?
The biggest problem here is that in Android, Java "owns" the app, so you will have to invert a lot of lines to make "develop a whole app in Rust" feel awesome.

But, TBH, I think Kotlin and Java are _indeed_ fine application languages.

What Rust is already quite often used for is for libraries that work on both iOS and Android. For a public example, see the Glean SDK: https://mozilla.github.io/glean/book/index.html
There's more to quantum chemistry (and hydrogen atoms) than what you're saying. If you define chemistry tautologically as what we know, then sure I guess.
Exactly. And in this guy's case, he also has a wife who is not a US citizen, so they can additionally threaten him with messing with her immigration status.

Leverage takes many forms, and need not have anything to do with being guilty of a crime.
With the implementation of Change Detection + Sparse sets, does that mean that using components to handle entity state (e.g. flags like is_hungry) is recommended? And then a system querying for Changed<is_hungry>

With archetypes alone, I believe this would have been highly undesirable (causing the entity moving back and forth between archetype tables)
>Generally speaking ANYONE can violate someone's constitution rights. It's what happens (if anything) as a result that is important.

I disagree. "What happens as a result" is a process that takes... 8 to 10 years before it reaches the supreme court.

For all practical purposes it's the degree by which those representing the government hold themselves to the laws of their country that matters.

The fact that in 8 years the injustice will be corrected for one or two people that invest an extraordinary amount of time and suffering to make that happen doesn't mean much.

This article in itself is also in the best interest of the FBI. "You've been warned. Decline our offer and the same will happen to you." And it wouldn't surprise me if that was an expected benefit when they engaged knowingly in this illegal activity.

Government agencies holding themselves to the law is what is important. And that's not what happened in this case. That means my constitutional rights are theoretical, as is my freedom to be left alone from government interference. I won't engage in a 8 year struggle for justice if they knock on the door trying to coerce me. I'll just fuck off to another country instead, where they won't do that. Way easier and a better use of my time.
I think he's relating to the "book of five rings" / "art of war" way of writing books.

Theres many big long books that are merely churned out, or are written before an author has reached a point of completeness about the subject he's writing on. Worse, they could be written as "wines of fear" where they are written not to directly offend anyone.

On the other hand, there are a few beautiful books that are short, yet establish mental frameworks that cover all the other books. The book of five rings is touted as one.

Personal example: There's volumes of business books that all harken back to people being some mixture of evangelist, maven, or relater. Books like "the human fabric" or religious books like the "bhagavad gita" establish the same framework.
> Enterprise dba shops have deep expertise with oracle (and sometimes sql server).

IME, that “deep experience” often means “a very expensive support contract and internal technical staff who walk through decade+ out of date cargo cult rituals by rote without understanding the rationale and why it has been gone longer than they've been employed”.
Ok it's clear the chopper left.
Ah thanks for letting me know. I had opened an issue to change my implementation but I guess I will leave it now. Thanks once again.
Well, that was on the "ordered to stay home for two weeks" part which should have prevented them from meeting multiple coworkers.
Another counter-point to the inhumane position you're rebuking - one which speaks to people's self-interest - is that as the healthcare systems become overwhelmed they will eventually stop treating conditions and accidents which afflict everyone including young people.
Wayback Machine managed to get it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200322203012/https://www.isinn...
Isn’t the South Korean government known for massive amounts of corruption between itself and entities like Samsung? The good does not wash away the bad, nor the bad the good...
I've observed significant changes. Can't say much about parks (haven't been in one during the last days, for obvious reasons) but at stores and supermarkets people were trying to keep their distance. My regular supermarket has painted lines on the floor in all places that typically get crowded to help with keeping the 1.5m minimum distance while waiting. Multiple hardware stores have limited the number of customers admitted to the store at once, surplus customers have to wait in line outside (at appropriate distance).

Home office has changed from being the exception to being the norm for a week now at my workplace (an IT company), and I've heard the same from members of my family working elsewhere (in non-IT businesses).
> We're even preparing for a complete lockdown, I (this weekend) received an official document that allows me to travel between my home address and work.

Interesting, are you in Switzerland? After the press conference on Friday I thought the federal council does not want to go to the direction of complete lockdown because it would not be useful because it would not respected.
I use a combination of paper maps and an overview map on paper. For trails like Annapurna circuit or Everest Base Camp, the paper leaflets are quite helpful as they help you plan the hike by days. However, I prefer the digital maps, specially OSM because the sheer amount of information they contain, and I can contribute too. Not every shelter has running water, hot water, electricity, etc. Not many maps indicate them either. But OSM is full of these small yet helpful information.
This response is not productive in moving discourse forward. If you have something constructive to add then do so without ignoring the bulk of my arguments while only focusing on one element and interpreting it in the weakest possible way. To that point of course dividends affect stock price to some extent. So does almost everything, paying off debt would, buying new equipment. But for the sake of simplicity and conciseness I made a generalization. I look forward to a reasoned debate. These are important issues for leaders of companies and society at large.
Taiwan is ethnically Han, has lots of ties to mainland China, and is an island just if the Chinese coast. Korea is a peninsula attached to mainland China. They both had to deal with and care about SARS in a way that the west did not.
> Wonder what degree of revisionism the 'it is just a flu' crowd will engage in where they are on the record

Just check Elon Musk's twitter apparently
People are incredibly mean and nasty to each other on nextdoor in my neighborhood, and they literally live down the street from one another.

You're completely right, it's not anonymity that causes people to act like this, it's the fact that we as humans can't perceive text on a screen as another human being that activates the empathy center in our brains. Coronavirus has made this 100X worse as people are losing their humanity being locked away from everyone else.

I've had some of my best social interaction recently on VRChat of all places as it gets the closest of anything I've found so far of making it feel like there's actually a human being in front of you.
Thanks! And sure, I wrote the initial simulation code in Matlab, which is very simple, just adding 2D arrays which Matlab is fairly quick at.

I then saw the traction the blog post was getting, so wanted to capitalise on that quickly. I had an Android phone, so for simplicity (and ease of monetisation) decided to write an app for that. From zero knowledge of Java it took probably 30 hours over a weekend to get the app out, then perhaps another 10 hours over the next week on a few updates and bug fixes.

Getting the app up and running was relatively simple, most of the time was spent looking up API functions in Google's SDK documentation (and SO!). The only complication was making sure the CPU-intensive parts ran in a separate thread to avoid locking up the UI, and dealing with different device display sizes and resolutions. Everything else (dealing with input, generating images etc.) wasn't particularly difficult, but did take time to implement.
> I'm curious as to why people choose to live in a place like that.

Different people value different things.

> Did you have friends to play with?

Usually one or two. The school had like 55 kids k-12 when I was there.

> What's teenage life like?

I left when I was 13, happily.
In the beginning, JungleDisk allowed users to manage their own keys from the client-side without ever sharing the key with JungleDisk. I think they dropped this feature subsequently, and there must have been a reason... too many problems with users losing their keys?

Encryption is always a trade-off, since it introduces the possibility of total data loss if the key is mismanaged.
Using Amazon's S3 is a good idea while your company is still acquiring a lot of users, but at some point in future if you are a storage company and you are in it for a long haul, you have to build your own storage solution.

I think Dropbox is approaching to the point when they have to build their own storage. You can't be a storage company without having your own storage solution in backend. It would be similar to Yahoo not having their own search engine while being a search company.
I used his cheat solution and went with π, π, and π.
Then it would be much more expensive at the bottom tiers, meaning I wouldn't be able to play with it on a whim without thinking about the money. That would suck.
Thanks for posting the instructions. After doing this, it's easy to see that the tracking data is way off base quite a lot. And interestingly, places I visit a lot but never use my location for it has very few data points for. In fact, there's only one even near my office, which I visit nearly 5 days a week. Every week.
There have been times that I personally have seen a less-than-elegant comment from a new (to me) username. So, I check out the persons profile, look at their karma, other comments, submissions, etc., and then reply/vote/whatever.

Not very frequently, but one or two times a month maybe.

Could be just me...
Happy sixth anniversary, Devuan, going where Debian would not trod! Choice is always better than none:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4117
Even legit vbendors screw up, or go bankrupt, or any number of other things.

Chargeback and other consumer credit-card protections are very useful. Regulations don't prohibit irreversible transaction mechanisms, basically nobody wants them.
I use it every day! It's a great language, and plays well with C#, and even C++.
I don't keep in touch with anyone I went to school with, no. I also don't keep in touch with many past colleagues beyond a yearly checkup, if at all.

Sorry, but your assumption about how the world works / should work isn't applicable to everyone. Some people don't have the capacity to do so.
Hence, “pseudo-array”
Seems a lot like a deliberate lie in order to gain funding. While Microsoft backing this means they have solid financials, they are also pulling in serious amounts of funding from state actors. To the point where in for instance Denmark they where described as one year “draining the entire state innovation fund”. Doing fund raising based on articles that where knowingly manipulated to support untruthful claims really’s should be treated like financial fraud. Though likely this will come out with just a reprimanded and no real consequences.
I would recommend signal simply because Element’s UX/UI and branding (which is more important than tech people usually admit) is bad.

I’ve had the element app on my iPhone sitting unused for a long time, and sometimes I scroll by it and forget what it is. When I launch it, the first thing I see is a loading spinner thing on top of my chat rooms and contacts. What is it loading? I don’t know, and I probably don’t care enough to want to wait for it.

Element is superior to Signal in technical aspects, but crappy in the parts that matter most for a social/chat application. Luckily, Signal is a decent alternative.
I think thats all it ever was...
Signal is the most similar to Whatsapp and easily the best alternative if you mostly just care about not replacing Facebook by a more trustworthy party.

Element provides better privacy in theory but to get most out of it you'll need to set up your own server, which isn't for everyone. Otherwise it's really more of a question whether you trust the Signal foundation or any of the public Matrix instances.
> You can't recycle greasy cardboard.

You can compost it, though. It's a slow process, but you can grow trees in that compost. I'd argue that this is an adequate form of recycling, if we have enough managed forest land.

OTOH... you're not wrong, corps gotta lead the way. I lived in Seattle when we made it illegal to throw away recyclables. Great start, right? No, corps got a carveout. Starbucks made a big show of letting customers sort their recycling, compost and garbage with fancy new lids on their bins. But ultimately, there's a single bag under there, and it all goes to landfill. Ridiculous.
> "I've been CTO of two startups"

Congrats on being a developer!

Joking aside, I'm in a similar situation as you but my experiences have been much different. Here's what I've experienced:

I moved from California to Calgary, Canada in April of this year. In California I called myself a consultant and everything was cool. Moving to Calgary, where Oil and Gas dominates the marketplace and so do the scummy Entperise Consultants it seems the title of consultant rubbed people the wrong way, given I'm trying to do work in Ruby.

I recently went back from referring to myself as a Consultant to Freelancer in my conversations and I've had much better conversations with people. I also can speak more confidently in myself calling myself a freelancer. Consultant has always felt really cheesy and if I don't feel comfortable saying it, then I won't sell it very well.

Long story shory: Go with what you truly believe in and your ideal clients are receptive to. In my experience, small to medium sized clients are far more receptive to "Freelancer" than "Consultant." YMMV.