jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Looks decent - I'll certainly try the demo. Though I'm no mathematician Mathematica is my favorite Maths playground software.

I'm curious about their implementation of NLP. This has enormous potential as a teaching tool - the biggest hurdle to getting more out of a package like this on first use is not knowing how to interact with it. However, I had had similar expectations of Alpha, and was greatly disappointed. though full of witty easter eggs and stocked with a rich variety of datasets, exploratory queries proved sadly frustrating.

Here's what I want to see in version 9 (laugh now, realize I'm right later): Kinect interaction. Perhaps unwittingly, Microsoft have just launched the next great peripheral and it seems intuitively popular with the public in a way I haven't seen for years and years. Now, imagine you've generated or imported a mathematically-specified 3d object in M., and imagine it inside a bounding box with handles on the vertices and local minima/maxima. Multi-point, multi-d interactivity would be both absorbing for students and potentially extremely productive for professionals, without requiring significant retooling of the core.
I haven't read the book, but the more I learn about the Stoics (far beyond the simplistic modern definition of the word), the more I concur with you. I'm still a weekend Epicurean though :)
Great idea. Congrats on the release!

A couple of suggestions:

- An API to generate shortened URLs automatically would be great.

- Some mechanism for supporting custom domain names.

Say, someone has a link shortener service with a decent amount of traffic. Both shrtn.co and the shortener owner would benefit greatly from an API/custom domain combo.
This was called Google Wave. Yes, every single point.
What revenue stream would he pay this person from?
Thanks for the tips! I see someone selling '11gen 200Hz' plasma, where does that stand?
You use it to block spam and malware, yes. But you've just shown that you use it for other purposes as well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there also an issue with The Pirate Bay on this too? That's neither spam nor malware (not that I'm defending what it is...), so it seems odd to act like this is just for protecting users.
I think it's more about how LinkedIn users are reactive to possible changes in workplace rather than general housekeeping. Just like most people only update their CV when they are looking for a new job.

When we started to hear rumours of layoffs at Nokia, my activity feed was buzzing with 'xxxx updated experience/profile/education' etc.

Interesting topic
I'm a Y-Gen'r and can't say enough about this. There are a lot of young minds out there that could make massive efforts in making business better but fail to reach it due to Ageism.

Which begs the question, will this change when my generation is older?
Apple updated their documentation: http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/navigation/index.h...
When I was 19 I thought I was the greatest programmer in the world and that everyone was ignoring my ability because of my age.

When I turned 21, left uni and got my first software dev job I realised how much I had to learn. I'm now in my late 20's and one of the most important things I have learnt in the last 10 years is that I still have a huge amount more to learn.

Your graph shows that 47% of under 18's think people are ageist against them. Of course they do. Young people are often unaware of the value that experience brings. I'm not saying all are - there are some great young developers. I know several who at 14/15 are several times better than I ever expect to be, and you clearly have talents and ability. (I try to keep in touch with them so that when they reach a point when they are looking for work I can interview them. I think there is huge value in young new talent)

What I would be really interested to read is a follow up to this article in 15 years when you have the experience of age and can write from both sides of the fence. Keep your notes from this article and compare it with how you feel when you are 35 looking back at cocky teenage coders who think they know everything.
Is this link dead- or is it just me?
This is irrelevant. It's PR. Short as well. I don't understand why it got to the feed. Unless some users are voting after an order.
There are worse things than putting your own life in jeopardy -- like putting others' lives in jeopardy.

This is not a rebuttal to the bulk of your post.
It's likely all the guns they have aimed at Seoul have a fail deadly fall back in the case of an attempted decapitation attack. In which case, we would be blowing off South Korea's head off.

Hell, the Soviet Union and the US during the cold war assumed it would be retard hard, if not impossible to wipe out each other's entire chain of command. And they had nukes. And they tried REALLY hard.
Shame, the demo app from the app store crashes on every start while 'calibrating' :/
If you build a better programming language, and the world does not beat a path to your door (even after 50 years), that's because the world is too stupid to appreciate the genius of your beautiful language? Right. Grow up, kid.

Lisp has its virtues, but the Lisp evangelists/cheerleaders/fanboys would be more effective at converting the rest of us if they quit assuming that anyone who disagreed with them was too stupid to see the obvious virtues of their wonderful language.

And don't say that you don't care whether others like your language. You care whether others like it enough for businesses like Symbolics to survive, so that you don't have to visit bitsavers to see this stuff that you love so much.
This sounds fine in the abstract, but I'm suspicious of it in practice because it's hard to make an honest evaluation of your willingness to pay for these goods when you have the easy option of getting them for free. I see many people using this argument while at the same time paying for other leisure goods that I suspect they actually value less than, say, music. The difference is that these other leisure goods really do have a pay-or-abstain dynamic imposed by reality. Reality keeps you honest about how much you're willing to pay for those goods, whereas with music you can consume the good without paying for it and never confront the decision of paying or abstaining from it.

That doesn't necessarily apply to you specifically, since it's dependent on your financial situation and how much you consume various media. Imagine yourself in a hypothetical world where it wasn't physically possible to pirate any music, TV shows, movies, software, etc. Would you really completely abstain from enjoying those goods, or would you simply reduce your consumption while actually paying for it? I think for many people, it's the latter.
There are no private beaches in CA by law. He owns the only road leading to it, which the previous owner allowed people to drive through for a small fee for many years.
why is everyone so hellbent of depriving people from the taste of fresh meat? setting aside the specific requirement for processed food in these countries, why would you only want them to be served frozen products, if they can afford to foot the shipping costs? animal welfare is tangential and mostly impact on costs. I'm talking about availability, which people seem very keen of just removing because of perceived (and unsubstantiated) issues with livestock shipment.
I am worried about screen sharing. Who knows what I could browse at work. I don’t want to mistakenly share my credit card number.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but you're assuming your conclusion by using a word like 'murdered' in any case.

In general, there's a lot of space on HN for arguing alternative or minority views, as long as you're actually using the site as intended, i.e. for curious, thoughtful, respectful conversation. Most accounts that I see complaining that they've been suppressed haven't been doing that to begin with.
Make a simple web app that sells for $15 a month. You'll only need to get roughly 150 customers to make $2000. Or change the price and recalculate.
Either I'm doing something wrong or barcode scanners and OLED screens don't get along. Can't get anything to scan the screen of my Nexus One.
Your landing page is extremely light on details. This fails to entice, and the requisite login will immediately turn-away X% of visitors. Add a simple preview.
I remember reading 20 years ago about Lotus developing fake engine noise using an Esprit mule vehicle containing a tiny compact engine.

The Esprit was historically a 4-pot, so never sounded that great. Until they added the V8 and it was a monster.
I think that kind of analysis wouldn't be possible with Go (http://golang.org/), since it is very strict/limited and uniform.
Property rights play a big part here. Why work to improve something when there is not much guarantee it will be yours once improved?

Many areas of the world where yields are low suffer not only form lack of money and technology but property rights are likely as significant.
Well, if its a pure bastion, the only services to compromise is SSH and the package management [e.g. apt].

If either of those get compromised, you are hosed anyway.
You are interviewing them as much as they were interviewing you.

Your response doesn't have to be any more detailed than the one they would give you had you not got through the technical interview.

Just a simple & straight forward couple of lines thanking them for their time and that it was good to get an insight into the role however it's not currently right for what you're looking for.

At the end of the day they gave you a decent look at what working there would be like, be glad that their interview process revealed what you needed to know.

It's MUCH more costly to hire you then have you leave after 4 weeks. They should be grateful you are upfront and not waste further time & money pursuing a role you are not interested in sticking with.
For 1/3rd of the cut, you'd find plenty of lawyers. The issue is DMCA is very pro web-host, they'd never win.
The people in that game were a lot smarter though; if the only path to a floor required switching elevators, they would do it.
Too bad there's no OS X build.
I think it's more something like posting on Facebook: "Hey guys here is my HN submission, please upvote!", ie: making people upvote your content for another reason than because they find it interesting
> Next step is the ContentID equivalent robot that runs as a service and just sends DMCA takedown notices to Google forcing them to remove the videos and get no ad revenue on them and piss off their users

You just described dozens (hundreds?) of scammy "infringement detection" companies that already exist :) e.g https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8867496
Please don't post unsubstantive defensive stuff about the community. I realize it's frustrating to hold a minority view (believe me, I understand) but all a comment like this does is add bile, which helps nothing.

Two productive choices are: (1) take up the cross of patiently and respectfully explaining what you believe to be the better information; or (2) chalk it up to people being wrong on the internet and just don't post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This reminds me of an essay by @pg about startup names: http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
Then I will get spam through my phone number then each time I register it for 'SMS authentication'. Then you'll later ask how did these services not only get my phone number, but also upload my entire address book for 'security reasons'.

A captcha is more than enough.
And it works on more than one OS.
CPython includes both reference counting and a stop-the-world tracing garbage collector. You can turn off the GC -- and openpilot appears to do so[1] -- but the tradeoff is that any objects that are part of reference cycles will be leaked, and will not be deallocated until the program exits.

Anybody want to place bets on how many of these dependencies[2] have been audited to determine whether they can create cyclic references?

[1]: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/master/common/real...
[2]: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/master/Pipfile
I would like to use F# but don't because of .NET. I've been impressed with Caml (but not the "O") since I discovered it years ago and was interested in F# as soon as I heard of it. The problem was that I had no interest in developing on Windows, and Mono didn't look appealing either. With the advent of .NET Core, it looked like F# was finally going to be convenient for cross-platform development. I spent a few days downloading various releases and trying to get them working on a few different Windows machines before giving up. I'm not a professional programmer but write code for research. I decided that if I was having that much trouble setting up a working environment before even starting on the substantial effort required to understand the ecosystem, it was unsuitable for sharing work with colleagues or introducing to students. My story may seem irrelevant, since discussion of F# seems to always assume that you are already a .NET developer, but just remember that .NET itself is a major hurdle.
Yeah it's definitely more sickening than fiat that allows endless wars and death all over the globe.
IIRC, Ink is for embedding into a larger game to handle the narrative, whereas Twine is for making standalone games.
It's really impossible to not view your house as an investment when you've been paying for it for 30 years and have hundreds of thousands of dollars tied up in it.

This goes double if your plan is to work till retirement, then sell the house and move to someplace more laid back.

So really the local government needs to be willing to tell people to pound sand when they hold up new construction. But since the local government is made up of those same people that's not going to happen.

It is interesting watching movies and TV just how often the "evil developer" trope appears. Always trying to buy the almost-failed gym/ski slope/TV station/etc... until the plucky underdogs win the contest to save their small business. Developers are never the good guys. They're always the evil gentrifiers who want to let hundreds of families invade the quaint little neighborhood with their high rise eyesore.
> Beware of what -isms you are repeating and supporting

> Overall, blockchain currency has the ability to help humanity. If that requires more power, well, so does everything.

You jump immediately into whataboutism: what about all the other things that require power.

Bitcoin is not beyond criticism. It is currently 99.99% used for speculation. Does it have potential? Absolutely. Do a number of competing non-PoW/non-blockchain based solutions also have potential? Yes. Do those competitors potentially use far less energy? Also yes.

In the best case, Bitcoin is using a metric shit-ton of energy before actually hitting critical mass for its social use-cases. In its worst case, its a Tether-backed ponzi that is siphoning a tremendous amount of energy from more productive uses.
But Orwell himself was a socialist and did not conflate socialism with communism, or either with authoritarianism or totalitarianism. If anything, Animal Farm was a critique of Leninism and Stalinism. So, what, Orwell was a näive idiot who just happened to write a good book?
Been using Kagi for the last week and the search results have been SURPRISINGLY good. Like, in the "I don't have to scroll to find it" category of good, and no having to deal with spam sites that just copy the actual answer but somehow rank higher than the original, like currently plagues Google.
I authored one of the 55 chapters/articles in "AI Game Programming Wisdom 4." Just like the "Game Programming Gems" series, each book 1-4 is a separate collection of articles by various authors on various topics in game AI. The books are much more practical than textbooks, contain a lot of great video game-specific material (including how the AI for some popular games was done), and the CDs include (2008-era) source code.

I'd recommend them -- most articles are still very relevant. Although they do vary in quality, there are some great reads.

EDIT: Steve Rabin (the editor) has a very high rated new book out called "Game AI Pro: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals" -- http://www.amazon.com/Game-AI-Pro-Collected-Professionals/dp...
https://googledrive.com is Google! It's hosted with Google drive (like dropbox can do). So this is one case where it would pay not to use the same domain, actually.

Edit: Also important because that way password autofill won't automatically fill in your details.
You can touch many of those surfaces per day thoughso perspective and stats is everything
The game simulates historic reality, and that reality was that marriage between nobles was mostly political and about consolidating land and power rather than about sex, love, or attraction although breeding was also intrinsic to marriage for the same reason. Marriage is a major game mechanic with much of the UI and playflow dedicated to finding the right spouse based on a wide range of conditions (family status, demesne extent, breeding traits). Doing same-sex marriage would require a massive overhaul to much of the game mechanic, not just a simple gender swap for the intended spouse.

Because the love/sex/reproduction angle was separate from the marriage angle, the game already has very deep support for all variants of human relationship when it comes to lovers, concubines, and uh, other special situations and it's very historically accurate. Homosexuality among nobles was not uncommon in the middle ages and the game supports this directly, but marriage had nothing to do with love or sex.

I went to Glitterhoof's chambers and gave him a good tumble. It is good to be the king.
I would add that many "deadlines" are actually just arbitrary project management bullshit that exist to create a sense of "urgency" because the people that make the promises to customers don't trust the people that do the work.

But on an individual level, procrastination and slipping deadlines has a deep seated psychological basis. The best way an individual can deal with this problem is by addressing internal motivations and their own emotional state-- that's definitely NOT in the PM-BOK. (see https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/smarter-living/why-you-pr...)
>While much of this praise is certainly well-deserved, the lack of meaningful dissent left me a bit bothered.

Had the same feeling when I was reading that thread. And has been for quite some time when the hype is over the top.

The problem is seemingly Tech is often a cult. On HN, mentioning MySQL is better at certain things and hoping Postgres improve will draw out the Oracle haters and Postgres apologist. Or they are titled in Silicon valley as evangelist.

And I am reading through all the blog post from the author and this [1] caught my attention. Part of this is relevant to the discussion because AWS RDS solves most of those shortcomings. What I didn't realise, were the 78% premium over EC2.

[1] RDS Pricing Has More Than Doubled

https://rbranson.medium.com/rds-pricing-has-more-than-double...
Upper middle class liberals love this kind of thing because it lets them live amongst themselves with plausible deniability.

Open borders for thee; selective high trust community for me!
It’s probably been a decade since I gave them my phone number, so I don’t remember the details. I believe they required it for the messenger app and did a 1 time SMS code for first time log in to messenger.
Yeah these companies that rely on user data will NEVER delete your data once you submit it to them (regardless if they say your data is deleted or account closed). For company like FB you are the product.
Radio signals to help blind people, replacing sound.

The learning period for "vehicles don't make noise at speeds that can kill you" has already begun. Priuses have been around for 10 years.
thanks... added that to my alias list
Personally I prefer a 15" Latitude or maybe Precision. It depends on your needs of course.
One of the meh reasons people love their bikes in DK is the high tax on cars. It is considered a luxury good. The taxation is approx 200% on market price, similar to Singapore.
Using Brave browser: I can't remove items or check them.
No, I mean, it's just a mechanical seal, not required for the pen to function; the cartridge friction-fits the same way on the stem of the feed whether the seal is there or not.

That said, I'd still say it's worth keeping track of the seals, just so that you're not out of luck if you do find a use case that requires a sealed cartridge - carrying a couple of spares in a work bag, for example, as I do. The best way I know to keep track of them is by reinstalling them in freshly filled cartridges, but I guess I'd do that anyway since I refill in batches rather than by the each. It is a fiddly task, so I could see skipping it if it wouldn't be needed.

Side note: If you're always going to be filling and using cartridges by the each, a Pilot CON-40 or Lamy Z28 converter will likely be more convenient; these offer an inexpensive alternative to cartridges, and use a screw-piston mechanism to let you fill the pen directly from a bottle of ink - see [1] for examples and details of use. I've found converters inconvenient and messy to use, hence the preference for cartridge refilling, but they might well serve you better than refilling with even less potential waste.

(Reviewing your prior comment, I note you have a Metropolitan, which should have shipped with a press plate converter. That's definitely one to try! The page linked at [1] has info on how to use it, including how to get past the pitfalls I ran into when I tried the one that came with my first pen. Goulet says it has a higher capacity than the CON-40, too, at 0.9ml vs. 0.6ml for the CON-40. [2] [3])

[1] https://www.jetpens.com/blog/how-to-use-a-fountain-pen-conve...

[2] https://blog.gouletpens.com/2013/08/pilot-converter-ink-capa...

[3] https://www.gouletpens.com/products/pilot-con-40-piston-conv...
I'll never forget the 'update' from 10.4 Tiger to 10.5 Leopard that completely dropped the previously perfectly working Bluetooth addressbook/SMS/taking phone calls integration with a slew of bluetooth capable feature phones of the time, because the iPhone that was released just before simply didn't have the required capabilities in its software.

I've not moved away as the Unix-underpinnings combined with a mass-market UI have only recently been replicated with WSL2, and having mass-market UI really helps with not having to bother with as much stuff as you generally had to when running Linux or other Unixen on the desktop, and I want to get stuff done dammit.
I ran my own personal GitLab EE on EC2 and it cost a fortune per year to use an instance type with enough memory. Then I realized GitLab.com private is... free and unlimited? How is that even possible?
I bet these people are running on a single server.
Hijacking my ability to get back in history of my browser by a swipe makes every argument about usability a straw man for me. Don't do that.
B.S. in CS, graduated 2006. My username is my name, but I doubt we ran into each other, I didn't really socialize a whole lot. But that's UTD for you. :0
That was really stupid of me.
Thanks for the clarification. I didn't realize that list comprehensions mapped so directly to nested loops, I was particularly confused by the variable name scoping rules.
set a screensaver after a min to lock the mbp. But its interesting to unlock/lock it via whatsapp.
This seems a lot of work in a world where most content, and most popular content, is disposable by design.

The books I read, the movies I watch, the music I listen to...I really can't think of how any of it could be described as "disposable by design".

I read a book written in 1966 the other day. That's young by the standards of literature, and yet it's older than I am.

Netflix's entire business model is built on movies not having an expiration date.

And to call music "disposable" is a statement that I don't even know how to respond to.