jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wilson's critics appear to engage in a great deal of uncalled for ad hominem attacks. I hate those kinds of personal insults. As far as kinship not being essential to group cooperation, this seems plausible (though unproven) to me. Dogs are not particularly close genetic relatives to human beings, but they will clearly raise alarm and even risk their lives to protect their human companions. Dogs don't appear to understand that this might not represent an appropriately greedy strategy for propagating their genes. I'm not even sure dogs know what genes are. Dogs and humans appear to be able to socially bond without particular genetic affinity.

Functional systems may be formed from dissimilar parts. Some theorize that eukaryotic cells originated through a fusion of ancient viruses and prokaryotes. Chocolate and peanut butter. Certainly this could be created within a mathematical model. Whether it occurs in nature is a different story. Group selection strikes me as an inadequate label, since particular tribes, kingdoms, nations, corporations, religions, movements emerge and vanish all the time. Human beings are masters of jumping on bandwagons and abandoning sinking ships. The real survival talent is joining and leaving groups when called for, and being valued as group participants. Being esteemed within a group may permit an individual to more readily leverage group powers. Something along the lines of "free riders earn no karma."

This gives rise to a significant individual motive: raising an alarm to warn the herd may simply be a calculated risk, which if successful might raise the actor's standing within the group (or the standing of his kind or lineage, essentially a kinship argument).

As far as the free rider argument goes, it's kind of hard to love a parasite. Being a jerk is somewhat anti-social behavior, and most groups tend to cast out or marginalize people who aren't team players. Ironically, this seems to be what's happening to Wilson. He's not being a team player, so the group is attempting to expel him (from his place within the rarified academic elite).

Selfishness is generally viewed as unattractive, while kindness, loyalty to others and generosity are often cited as desirable traits in a potential mate. That alone would be sufficient to promote specific altruistic traits. Why does sex selection in modern day humans appear to support furtherance of altruistic tendencies, in opposition to the more clear cut, selfish motivations of the individual? Saying, "I'm the most self-centered, greediest, oppportunistic prick out there, how bout a date?" ought to be a more successful pick up line than it is.
This looks like a very popular new business model for the startups. Take any existing or upcoming langugage/framework like php, RoR, django, node.js etc. etc. and start creating a dedicated hosted platform for that a la Heroku. And start counting the money flowing in.
55.7% of a statistically-unrepresentative group answered the question "What might make you buy the iPhone instead [of an Android handset]?" with "Nothing: I hate Apple". The other options given for that question were "A very cheap iPhone option", "An iPhone that works better with non-Apple apps and products" and "An iPhone that had better apps and typing". There was no "other" option in the survey.

The demographic captured by the survey were far more likely to own a smartphone than the general population and far more likely to own an Android handset over an iPhone. 16% of respondents came to the survey via an Android fan site, versus 3% who came from an iPhone fan site.
Cannot remember sorry. The numbers were published as 6 donations of $25,000 to different organisations. I got the link from twitter. I think of the groups was a women's interest group if that helps.
As an example for high-CRI LED lighting components, I'll mention Yuji.

https://www.yujiintl.com/
A small point: Congress, the House, and the Senate, are not courts or form a court. The Members of Congress are not necessarily lawyers. Strictly and literally, then, lawyers are not needed for the arguments when Congress does an impeachment. Again, Congress is just not a court of law. So, if an impeached person wants help in their defense, they don't have to hire lawyers.

My point: If a person helping with a defense is not a lawyer, then the legal profession can't disbar them.
Thoughts regarding generalized pattern matching.

https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UPM-Design

Includes "Prior Art" links section.
Same in the Netherlands; in most cases, filling in taxes only involves adding any extra possessions and income you may have had (e.g. crypto). But there's actually incentive to do your taxes, because you often still have to fill in your deductibles, like (iirc) rent on the mortgage.
I had to look this one up:

ESG means using Environmental, Social and Governance.
> But FOSS is also about cooperation and Rust in particular is marketing themselves as open and inclusive.

I dont see your point. Both Rust and LLVM are open for anyone that wants to implement and support new platforms. Espressif is submitting a new Xtensa backend for their architecture to LLVM, and the community has been using this to port Rust to the ESP32.
If anyone wanted to step in and write a backend for Alpha or whatever, nobody would be there to stop them.

The real issue is that people expect everything to stay the same and don't change so to avoid them any extra work. If you care so much about a dead architecture you should be aware that things may break or stop working, or that someone could stop supporting it, especially if you got everything for free.

> users running Haiku, Hurd, NetBSD
These platforms are run by determined people that often are ready to shoulder on themselves the task of porting stuff to their OS. I don't think they expect anyone to work and do stuff in their place. These also mostly run on platforms supported by LLVM (except netbsd, which has billions of ports), thus only requiring to adapt the OS part of the compiler (which is arguably simpler than writing an LLVM backend)
The scientific consensus is so that the guy who doesn't want to know the details can see what most experts believe. That's a perfectly reasonable way to develop knowledge if you weight it correctly. It's like when I want a TV, I want it to be big enough and show a nice enough picture. I just go to Wirecutter. I don't go buy and return a bunch of TVs till I'm content. That's because I've only got 80 years on this Earth.

No one who uses first principles experiments for anything is capable of forming higher-level hypotheses. Heck, I've never even really formally tested if rain causes the roads to be wet.
Does anybody think this might be a permanent shift?

Even if WFH provably works well for a company it's likely that many will never admit that it's permanent. Companies will want their staff to believe WFH is a benefit, because that makes staff work harder and stay in their job longer.
“Nobody forced you to breath, man. Just grow some gills or something”
No. Do you forget that the White House has its own website? Trump is 'dependent' on Twitter only because he won't take the effort to write a memo.
Signature checking is stupid and pointless. Disenfranchising someone because their signature doesn’t match some record on file is ridiculous. The signature verification itself has many many issues on its own.

The problem is stating without evidence that the signatures are absolutely fraudulent. The claims made by Trump and the GOP over the last decade about voter fraud are to blame.
How would you start a chat with someone on the central server if the central server refuses any communication with the federation you're on?
Way, way back in university, I wrote “the most copy-pasted code of all time” —-according to the author. But, I’m not actually much of an expert in the subject beyond that :p So, whenever people ask about implementing Marching Cubes, I suggest they check out this article instead.
Conference organizers will put it up and hopefully post it here: https://twitter.com/trewebdev
Thanks for sharing this. I hadn't previously stumbled across JNA, but it seems to support Android, so maybe it would be a good way to use general-purpose Rust libraries within Android apps without writing a lot of new JNI shim code.
As a rule of thumb never take a thing to be repaired by someone who's main business is selling new versions of that thing.
The US saw a huge advertising effort trying to convince people that pedestrian fatalities were not an issue with either cars or drivers. Realistically, while it costs more and be less convenient for drivers a better separation between cars and people is going to save plenty of lives.

However, only 14% of traffic fatalities ~(4,743/year) are pedestrains in the US. ed:(+ 726 bike/year) So there is a limit to how far that can take you. http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/data/factsheet_crash.cfm
Thanks! I hadn't head of either book yet. Looks like there's at least some content from RWFP on MSDN here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh314518(v=v...
They make you disappear if you try anything funny with their tricks?
Would be interested to see the actual prices for the examples
Chime has been pretty good to me! I had a Simple account but Chime beat them to the punch by a couple weeks to become my main bank.
They don't need to provide a benefit. They only need to not reduce fertility.
"properly sequestered" is the key word. There is no such thing.

Here in Germany, we still have not found where to put nuclear waste long-term, and there is no solution in sight.

Even if one day we find one, how do we communicate the potential dangers of nuclear waste to a civilization that is supposed to understand what we're communicating in 30000, 50000 years? With a fancy unicode symbol, like U+2622?

We have no idea what people 3000 years ago were trying to tell us with their fancy symbols.

Nuclear energy is the analogy of tech debt that can never be paid back, ever.
Why not collaboratively write an essay about an interesting problem?
That’s an interesting take, but I was making a different point. Corporations will always do what’s necessary to thrive, and what they need to thrive is largely a function of what society demands. If the corporations are taking down their nationalist trappings, then it’s because we no longer demand them. As far as my globalist politics is concerned, that’s good and well.
Is it really that hard to parse generics without a 'turbofish'? Coming from Scala and Haskell something like:

Into::<String>::into()

Just really irks me. It is much less elegant than I am used to. Do experienced Rust developers actually like the style, or is it just complex to parse?
Hey J2EE had a lot of believers for a long time too.

Don't feel too bad about it. The industry does this stuff every decade or so...
Same here. When the mail-a-check feature went away I switched back to the credit union. I still had that open because I couldn't set up a feature with simple.
Market returns are not guaranteed, unlike a fixed mortgage rate.
Yeah, well try and find an 8 inch floppy drive and USB controller... ;)
As I said "I can't accurately recount the facts", but Hungary was definitely not a country of privilege at really any time in it's history, much less the late 1800s and the early 1900s. The facts of Neumann's own life may have been much more fortunate than his country of birth. That is something I don't know much about. But I would imagine, no matter how privileged his life was, the fact that he was born in a country that was oppressed by a foreign superpower, lived through a holocaust of his ethnic group, and spoke Hungarian as his first language in a world dominated by German and English, shaped who he was.
> I chose the name because I like the idea of having the freedom to write software without restrictions that transcends traditional boundaries.

Actmallu pdrtable execmtable
I remember Wacom bragging about corporate secret quantitative measurement methodologies in Surface 3-4 era, but what completely solved pen computing stagnation was Microsoft dropping them completely and Apple Pencil casually stepping in, so,
So your argument to dismiss this blogpost is guilt by association, am I understanding you correctly?
Nope much slower. And never worked for me.
Nothing wrong with using forums. At some point, the sheer number of support requests can become inundating. Using forums and having the developers keep track of support requests and interfering/interjecting when necessary, poking around, asking questions while the support staff do the majority of the right-out-of-the-FAQ support can work, too. The key is that forums, unlike support tickets, are open sources of feedback. The developers is in the loop, even if not the primary "mover" of the loop.
Most of the author's complaints are completely valid. That said, a jailbroken iPhone can install software to mitigate a number of these issues. Not a sure-fire solution, of course - it's such a pain chasing after jailbreaks, and you never know if-and-when the magic update happens that'll stop jailbreaking forever.

You've just pointed out that the general purpose CPU in the iPhone can run other software. This isn't what is at issue, what's at issue is the default/sanctioned install that comes with the iPhone. Of course you can get other android-like features on your iPhone if you replace or supplement the core iPhone software with something else. But then, your jailbroken iPhone isn't really an iPhone anymore, is it?

"Inspell" gives you red squiggly misspelling highlighting and intuitive spelling correction. It's a fantastic addition. Honest question - does the Android have something like this?

The default Android keyboard, and other keyboards, corrects as you type and/or gives you spelling suggestions and word completions. This has been a much better experience than having to go back and try to correct misspellings after the fact.
I'm considering starting a jungle resort where people can come and hack for a few weeks and build a house with their own hands. Unlike the reddit people, I actually already own the place. In october or so, I'll start some preliminary work, perhaps to be fulfilled a couple of years later.
They really open themselves up to mockery with this. Even here, in this community of people who know what's going on with W3 standards, people are finding the site confusing. Imagine the message this site is sending to the average user by putting up these cool demos that don't work on his browser:

HTML5: The standard that only works on Safari

I don't think that's the message they're trying to get across, but it's the one they're sending.
One of the reasons for Shopify's initial popularity was their plan that only charged a transaction fee. No setup or monthly fees. They quickly abandoned that and now all programs have a monthly fee.
You can't copy and paste instructions over the phone.
I stopped reading after it appeared he was advocating collapse theory. About the only non-confusing quantum mechanics I've read so far that's been light on math has been Feynman's stuff like QED and this series: http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/

On a meta-note, I don't really think this is anything but noise. If you want to really, really understand the physics, you have to do the math, and if you just want a high-level concept I don't see how in the space of a single reddit post you could take away loads of confusion or adequately explain a concept without cheating the person. Here's Feynman's take on magnets (really, on answering 'why' questions): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
I think that's the point that the OP is making, though. No matter how great of a customer support agent she was, she wasn't the founder of the company. She can't know how he feels on all matters, his attitude towards things, the perspective with which to treat these incoming phone calls. But he does.
I hate Skype for Linux, but SkypeOut has been far more reliable for me so far than Google's Call Phone feature.
Smart move on Facebook's part. It's competitive monetarially with other grad school fellowships, and access to FB's resources could be helpful. However, there's potential for the fellow to not be able to publish results, due to

Q. What are the intellectual property implications of a Facebook Fellowship?

A. Facebook intellectual property rules are industry standard but we strive to work with each partcipant to create a workable arrangement on a case-by-case basis that is consistent with the educational mission and Facebook's need to protect its confidential information and other intellectual property rights.

I think it's a great way for Facebook to get access to some smart people for pretty cheap. And if you want to work at FB, it'd probably help to have been a Fellow.
Add to your footer of your rss feed "This article was written by me at mysite.com 'the best site in the world'"

and add links in your content linking previews your own articles. After all.. free links for you
Maybe, if we keep bringing it up on here, startups will finally start putting a couple of lines of boilerplate at the top of their blog pages so we will know what on earth it is that they do when we end up there from HN.

A guy can dream, can't he?

At least this time the logo at the top links back to the main product page. Oh, and I see that the title text of the logo has just such a description! You're almost there guys!
If you don't own apple products (iPhone, iPad, an Apple computer), this list will be pretty much useless to you unless you haven't heard of dropbox.
One would imagine buyers get influenced by reviews and those tend to favor the more consumer friendly choices. Also there was an incident with Vodafone where people complained about their bloatware on twitter and they soon pushed an update to remove it.
> ChromeOS is zero maintenance. As a technical person with a few gadgets, that's one less thing to worry about. For non-technical people I can only imagine it as revolutionary.

For many this has been a key selling point with the iPad. But this one also has keyboard and Google Docs...
Ah. I think I got confused. The UI does need some rework as others have mentioned.
Also ignores the constantly fluctuating percentage of paid apps to free apps. It's 15% today but was it 30% 2 years ago? 50%?
Sounds like they're doing it with court-issued warrants with probable cause, so it's not as horrifying as the title makes it sound. It's "secret" to the suspect but it's not like the police department has taken it onto themselves to start a new cellphone tracking program.
> I tried using Gimp a number of times but it always rubbed me the wrong way

Same here. For a while, I thought it was just my over-familiarity and reliance on Photoshop and mspaint. And to some extent, it certainly was, and is.

But over time, I eventually tried out Affinity, Krita, Pixelmator, photopea, and a few others. And they just worked; the UI just felt "right". The icons, shortcuts and menu and window layouts made sense and were intuitive even for the tools I hadn't used before.

So I've wrapped back around to thinking, nah, maybe GIMP's UX direction is just plain bad. Or bad for me, at least. It could be the case of some things having become a de facto standard that GIMP willfully eschews, but I have tried to go pure GIMP for long stretches and always walk away with a unique sense of pure frustration.
Simple improvement: ban carriers from charging for this surveillance. Could even introduce it as a pro-cop anti-corporate measure, which should take care of the political fringes. That removes the incentive to make it easy.

Next, some manner of heightened threshold for more than N consecutive tracking requests or M requests in a twelve-month period. Maybe probable cause? This will be harder, politically, particularly in a law & order cycle. (Maybe it could be accomplished through rulemaking at the FCC.)
From what I understood, he implied that the more people work a piece of land, the more fertile they can make it.
How about: "ES7 will most likely have async/await when it's finished."

Sorry, using the present tense for things that will be in browsers years later (hopefully) is a common practice that's an issue with me. Let's stick with what people can actually use today.

Also, pointing to features people can use in different dialects of JavaScript is not really fair. Just about everything you can think of has been experimented with and probably deployed somewhere. It doesn't count unless it's all available in the same toolchain and can be used in a unified way while writing a single app.
That's not for businesses running websites, that's for using the internet in a business. http://business.comcast.com/internet/business-internet/web-h... is relevant, although it doesn't give speeds. But presumably anyone who buys that is sending more data out of comcast than they are receiving.

And as I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I'd like to see a chart of data in and out excluding Netflix and large companies. If the problem only affects them or other large companies (like Youtube, Apple, Microsoft, etc, which all pay for direct connections), but not small websites, then I think that would support my argument.
> Again, who eats their rice ice-cold unless they got take out the previous evening?

According to many, the best fried rice is made with cooked refrigerated rice. Also, there's this excerpt in the article "Chilling the rice then helps foster the conversion of starches. The result is a healthier serving, even when you heat it back up."
Plumpy'nut is one of them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy%27nut

In 2010, it was $60 for a 2 month supply for a child (~1 course of treatment).
> Should anyone be able to connect to an ISP for free?

Yes if they are willing to interconnect with that ISP at every exchange point. In practice that's expensive and what transit providers are for. Here's my proposal for a simple set of rules that would solve all these disputes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7644339

>Why can't I host my website for free, just paying an upfront cost for a server, and get it hosted in an ISP's facility?

You should be able to do something similar to that to provide service for only that ISP's users. In fact Netflix does exactly that with some ISPs:

https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/

This doesn't allow you to host your website for free because it only adds connectivity to the users of that specific ISP, not the whole internet. For that you have to buy transit.
Using the article's example, maybe if you break the abstraction of the iterator, you realize that moving students to classrooms might just be a single pointer assignment, which can be done in a few instructions. In other words, maybe the classes blind you to the fact that the students don't need to be iterated.

I feel like this is one of my bigger gripes with OOP code bases: overemphasis on abstraction sometimes makes simple and efficient solutions harder to come by.
>why would or should Facebook give a shit?

Because, as ars points out, the system is ripe for abuse. I could make an auto complaining bot that aims to take down every page with a copyright complaint. Eventually facebook would be a waste land with large groups of alienated folks bad mouthing facebook and seeking an alternative.

Ultimately, facebook needs to resolve this issue, even if they need to charge a fee.
That's a very interesting idea. If you could get a reasonable number of domain holders who have somewhat valuable names that aren't being used to buy in then I think you have a good chance of some success.

Naturally the biggest concern would be that one of the parties will break the terms of the agreement at the most inopportune moment, and protecting from this is going to be the biggest concern IMO. I'm sure there are other issues as well, and I look forward to hearing what others say.

I hope that you'll give it a go though, it really does sound like an interesting idea.
Anyone know how they managed to make an youtube video look so... seamless without the usual youtube chrome?