jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Speaking of chairs, it reminds me of Richard Feynman, who happened to make the same comment using the example of a chair. https://fs.blog/2012/01/richard-feynman-on-why-questions/

> Interviewer: If you get hold of two magnets, and you push them, you can feel this pushing between them. Turn them around the other way, and they slam together. Now, what is it, the feeling between those two magnets?

> [...]

> I can say is the magnetic force makes them repel, and that you’re feeling that force.

> You say, “That’s very strange, because I don’t feel a kind of force like that in other circumstances.” When you turn them the other way, they attract. There’s a very analogous force, electrical force, which is the same kind of a question, that’s also very weird. But you’re not at all disturbed by the fact that when you put your hand on a chair, it pushes you back. But we found out by looking at it that that’s the same force, as a matter of fact (an electrical force, not magnetic exactly, in that case). But it’s the same electric repulsions that are involved in keeping your finger away from the chair because it’s electrical forces in minor and microscopic details. There are other forces involved, connected to electrical forces. It turns out that the magnetic and electrical force with which I wish to explain this repulsion in the first place is what ultimately is the deeper thing that we have to start with to explain many other things that everybody would just accept. You know you can’t put your hand through the chair; that’s taken for granted. But that you can’t put your hand through the chair, when looked at more closely, why, involves the same repulsive forces that appear in magnets. The situation you then have to explain is why, in magnets, it goes over a bigger distance than ordinarily. There it has to do with the fact that in iron all the electrons are spinning in the same direction, they all get lined up, and they magnify the effect of the force ’til it’s large enough, at a distance, that you can feel it. But it’s a force which is present all the time and very common and is a basic force of almost – I mean, I could go a little further back if I went more technical – but on an early level I’ve just got to tell you that’s going to be one of the things you’ll just have to take as an element of the world: the existence of magnetic repulsion, or electrical attraction, magnetic attraction.
Here’s where I think you’d get real buy in. Build an integration with something like Robinhood that automatically uses the selected portfolio and allow the user to configure a max amount so they can get a feel for it without completely revamping their entire portfolio.
Those doors would need a ton of space between the vehicle and the door though.
Why is the EU so lenient with Sweden in that case?
https://twitter.com/AntDesignUI/status/1361150625505927168
One thing I've learned by being a "smart person" is that intelligence is not everything. I do not believe that high intelligence or even super-intelligence would automatically yield power, wealth, influence, or anything else that we might fear, especially if it has a high chance of coming with various forms of baggage and trade-offs.

We can't assume that the apparent correlation between intelligence and mental illness would hold in non-humans -- or that it wouldn't. That's because we don't understand why that correlation exists. But there is one trade-off that I think is likely to be universal: the smarter you are, the more effort you seem to have to put into "meta" thinking like philosophy to keep yourself on track.

Think of it this way: it's easy to drive a Honda Civic, but a supercar can actually require performance driving classes to learn to drive it safely. Otherwise you can do things like accelerate into the car in front of you very easily, lose control, etc. because it does not drive like a commodity car.

Many people with very high IQs use their high intelligence to create elaborate delusions and rationalizations that land them in a ditch. That's a "meta" problem, a philosophical problem, not a problem with engine size, but it's one that probably gets worse as the motor gets bigger.

It's another factor that I think might place rate limits on the rate at which an AI could self-improve. Technically it's just a special case of the combinatorial search problem associated with improving intelligence beyond known local maxima.

An AI just thinking "hey I can just double my processing power and storage and get twice as smart!" might very easily end in some novel form of madness, not super-intelligence.
Don't look at individuals, looking at founding teams. You don't need to be the jerk to succeed.
Is this only media sharing like images, gifs and videos or can I share links and text content too?
So it's like a commune?
Exclusivity. Facebook feels a lot like eating a burger at McDonald's. It's just not that great.
Do not do this. This goes in the bucket of ideas-that-sound-good-but-aren't. If screen diffing is how you want to test your program, you should use / write an independent program to do so.

That said, there are some serious problems to using screen diffing. First, it requires manual testing. You will need a pair of human eyes to determine if a change is breaking or not. Second, there are a lot of false positives that make testing slow. When a few pixels are moved on the page, is it okay? Third, there's a _LOT_ of data you will need to look at before you can be confident about the diffs. You will need to do a screen shot for each page for each resolution for each git commit.

The signal to noise ratio is very low for screen diffing. You would be MUCH better served by using (in the case of web apps) Selenium web driver tests to make sure your page works. As a bonus, with automated tests you can use git bisect to quickly find the offending commit!
It sounds to me as though the founder might know more about it than you think he does. I can't be sure, of course, but in his position wouldn't you react just a bit differently? He could have asked you for more details whilst being sensitive to the fact that you mightn't want to provide them yet.
Check out http://hadoopscreencasts.com/ and contact Rohit Menon (the creator of the site). He told me he did a lot of research before starting his site, and also got some very good tips from Ryan Bates of Railscasts.
Yes, that's the reason. Without massive amounts of water for cooling it's not possible to use current technologies.
if hackers wants to hack your server it doesn't matter what OS your using.
What does it actually do?

When a part is recorded to a single stereo track only, it can sound pretty unnatural (sometimes even annoying - makes me feel like I'm half deaf...) on headphones. The only thing I'd really want to do to avoid this is mix the mono signal with the stereo, so that 100% right becomes e.g. 75% right and 25% left. (Fully mono would be 50/50 on all sounds, obviously).
i didn't submit it yet because the article wasn't 100% ready .. but in any case:

Feel free to ask me about it :)
Neither fget*() or read() from stdin would work because stdin is buffered.

It's possible to change the mode, but it would require calling the terminal control functions, and that'd requiring calling out to C anyway, so might as well use ncurses.
By leaving off the semicolon, you can make a block (which is anything in braces) evaluate to the value of its final expression. It's one of those rules that seems perfectly terrible at first blush, but actually seems to work really well in practice thanks to Rust's strong static typing.
And then it all became too popular, they sold out, made it proprietary, and became what they were running away from.

EDIT: Sorry, thought I'm in the iPhone is too closed thread.
If you have an iPhone or Android device with GPS, I'd suggest Runkeeper (http://www.runkeeper.com). The app and site is top-notch.
I generally agree (and hate domain spam), but I've also wondered if it's not the same as speculation of any kind. The original domainers found this resource the rest of us were underpricing hugely. Same as property - it doesn't go to the person who has the best use of it, it stays with whoever's (great, great) grandfather found it first, or bought it cheap.

I wish it weren't true - many times I've wanted a perfect domain to find it taken up by some loathesome spam page.
As long as the developers really have the ability to make changes based on the support requests they are receiving.

I've been in the situation where each developer would take a day of the week handling support. But the support requests could be for any of the software built by the entire development team, not just the things that the individual developer worked on.

So then in many cases the developer was acting as an extremely expensive email/call filter. And the only lesson being learned was that some of the other developers weren't very good at their jobs.
Are you watching the same thing I'm watching?

"So I have a friend who teaches math at a different university, not at Stanford, and when you talk to him about his work and what he's really out to do, this friend of mine will — he's a math professor, right? — this friend of mine will sort of get the look of wonder in his eyes, and he'll tell you about how in his mathematical work, he feels like he's discovering truth and beauty in the universe. And he says it in sort of a really touching, sincere way, and then he has this — you can see it in his eyes — he has this deep appreciation of the truth and beauty in the universe as revealed to him by the math he does.

"In this class, I'm not gonna do any truth and beauty. In this class, I'm gonna talk about learning theory to try to convey to you an understanding of how and why learning algorithms work so that we can apply these learning algorithms as effectively as possible."
I've dealt with a lot of medical professionals. They're biased by their own experience as well, plus they're biased by the latest medical fads (don't think they don't exist), and they're biased by the ads they see in JAMA. They're not selected for being clear thinkers - they're selected for being good at rote memorization and kissing authority ass, Gregory House notwithstanding.

Some doctors are fantastic. A lot are not - and a non-fantastic doctor plus a well-educated patient is a sure recipe for disaster, take it from me. Add an uncommon disease into the mix (and as our nephrologist says, there are categories of disease, like kidney disease, where every case is a new book) and the inescapable conclusion is that if you've got a chronic illness you are on your own. If you're lucky you'll find doctors that can give you good advice. But it's not likely to be the first guy down the road, either.

Your larger point, that Yahoo Answers is filled with garbage, is very accurate. Most forums on any topic are filled with garbage, but health garbage has centuries of history and its promulgators are untiring. You learn to filter that crap out.

What would be better - way better - is some combination of crowd sourcing and solid lay-medical journalism, investigating some of the extraordinary claims in search of extraordinary evidence (or usually lack thereof).
Not every MBA is lousy and incapable of seeing the forest for the trees, even though lots of startup techs think so.

Not every tech is lousy and incapable of understanding that IT needs to serve business needs, even though lots of MBAs think so.

Broad brush hatred of all MBAs is moronic.
But in either case, you're not saying "I look down on the artist."
You should see the shit us Perl programmers take from the Ruby guys.
You should read Cadlini's book Persuasion. I am sure it discussed what to watch out for in general life at the end of each chapter.
Ah, okay. While skimming, I mistook that to mean that this video on quantum computing was the second in their series exploring diverse topics.
I don't trust Bill Gates. He believes that "if we do a really good job, with vaccines and healthcare ... we can reduce the worlds human population by 10 or 15 percent." OK, did you really just say you want to kill 15% of the worlds population with vaccines? 2:17 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQtRI7A064
More technology to further isolate you from people who might have different lives and experiences. Good.
Wouldn't the livery on that helicopter in the photo just be a form of corporate advertising. Couldn't you paint your aircraft however you want so long as the correct registration / licensing marks are visible?
I've built an entire house in weeks using concrete blocks (Florida) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygiPeFoPWO0). Not only is it more sturdy, its termite and hurricane resistant.
I don't really see why this should be especially remarkable or subject to some "law" (especially one framed back when evolution was still being characterized). It's not like evolution has a "direction" -- humans are not "more evolved" than chimps. It's simply that each generation the genes that provide the most "fitness" for the environment that an individual finds itself increase the probability that said individual will reproduce. The same individual in different environment (say a bird in a flood) may be less fit than another.

Given that, even if a gene stops expressing itself most of the time, that doesn't mean it vanishes (it may, as their may be no selection to keep it); it may stochastically express from time to time and give some advantage in a new environment. Hell, most macro phenomena are the result of several gene expressions; a gene isn't just a single use subroutine.

What a dumb article about an interesting aspect of birds.
A few key things: It seems like the cab companies are not happy about this move by the commission.

Second, this portion of the proposal:

> Replace the current taxi medallion system with a registration process that would require all drivers to register with the city clerk's office and provide proof of commercial insurance.

This article does not make it clear if the insurance Uber provides by default for UberX drivers would count here, or if drivers would need their own commercial insurance policy.

If UberX's insurance does not count, then this move would not introduce significant ridesharing, and the only benefit to the policy change would be the elimination of the medallion system.

Do not read me wrong, that is a wonderfully good thing, as regulated limits to supply legally enforce monopoly pricing. I read the primary benefit of UberX and similar services in the massive increase in marginal transactions facilitated, rather than the relatively simple task of acting as a modern taxi dispatcher.

Again, this is all conditional on the proposal passing, and the commercial insurance requirement excluding UberX insurance for casual ride-sharers.
If you have a look at protocol.go as well as the "Wire format" section of README.md, you'll find that the Gotalk protocol is decoupled from the Sock type, handlers and other parts of the Go package. The JavaScript implementation similarly provides protocol functions in js/gotalk/protocol.js — I hope I didn't misunderstand your question :)
Thanks! That's a great idea, and would be good to build out in the medium term.

Right now, content is the main bottleneck, and I'd love some help. If anyone is interested in talking, shoot me an email (vik@dataquest.io).
For what it's worth, I don't think of people who eat diets supposedly free of animal products as "vegan". I think of them as "fundamentalist". To me, veganism is about creating a culture where we don't abuse animals. It happens that part of that work for me involves mostly not eating meat. But sometimes eating meat is exactly what I need to do.

Eating meat, in specific ways, can be a way to connect with people, a way to nourish myself... there are lots of ways in which eating meat can lead directly or indirectly to my helping to lessen animal abuse.

And I think that's profoundly vegan. I think the OP feels the same way, but she's apparently not as comfortable hijacking the word "vegan" as I am.

The way she uses the word, and the way most people use the word, makes it useful only to marginalize people. What a waste of a word. I'd use it to inspire people.

Like the mormon who might occasionally share a beer with their sister, in the spirit of love and family and togetherness (important mormon values)... a vegan can eat meat. These labels do not have to be so cut and dry.
Because the customer has no freaking idea what the requirements are at the start of the project. That's always been the failure of Waterfall. You've never been writing code and suddenly thought of something that needed to be added to (or removed from) the system? Seriously?
Following your link: "This website is presently being redesigned. We expect to be back soon."

But I knew already that "rubyspec" wasn't a spec in the ordinary sense but a test-suit built with MSpec.

The thing is that real spec actually fully specifies a language - at least up to syntax. There are real specs for Python and Java for instance. The only real spec for Ruby is still crufty Yacc code for MRI.

A test suit doesn't do that and the whole Rubyspec thing is a testimony to people drinking too much of the Test Driven Development Cool Aid. TDD may be fine for some things but some formal design is needed for things like the creation of interpreters.

Part of the challenge is that MRI has such a fluid syntax that specifying it conventionally would be quite hard. But I suspect that's what will have to happen if Ruby's going to go forward.
this is one of those stories that is re-submitted every 6 months or so and everybody goes 'oooooooohhhhhhhh' and sends it to the top.
I attempted to upgrade my old MacBook White (Core 2 Duo) to Mavericks, but apparently it only supports Snow Leopard.
If you haven't tried sitting with a group, I highly suggest it. I find it much easier to focus, and there is more accountability so you can't get pulled away inside your own thoughts, then suddenly open your eyes and say, "I've got too much to do!" No, it's easier to refocus and sit until the end.

Also, I find guided meditation groups really nice. I'm a beginner, so it's great to have someone helping me along.
https://github.com/kanzure/streak
we all have far less time than it would require to learn all of the interesting things. Once you get good with an editor your time is much better spent learning a new data structure, algorithm, language paradigm, etc than learning a new editor.
The fraudster loses more than zero, that the whole point. If you're buying a $200 iPod, both you and counterparty make a $400 deposit. If seller takes your money but never sends you the iPod, you punish him for $400, so he is $200 in the hole.

If the honest people outnumber fraudster, fraudster a lose.
Permalink: http://www.sparkfun.com/news/599
Well that's true for any field I guess... "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants" said Newton. Interestingly enough, he himself took inspiration from various sources all the way from John of Salisbury for that particular quote, somehow making that famous quote self-referencing.
Video should be up here later:

http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/features/special/environment_pla...
I was thinking setting archive_timeout to a low number would limit the temporal data loss.
http://agilewebsolutions.com/onepassword

There are other similar apps around. This is the one I use. It's hard to go back. I have different passwords on every site made up of random characters.
Squarespace is a pretty good bet for a modestly computer literate restaurant owner.
> The sooner we start talking about laws to govern this tech, the lower the chance of it ending up in the wrong hands.

You can make your own open-sourced DIY micro version of Boston Dynamics' Robot Spot for a few hundred dollars. The design is actually very refined and the documentation is impressive. This is extremely scalable and could get out of hand quickly.

Documentation: https://spotmicroai.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Source code: https://gitlab.com/custom_robots/spotmicroai

Official SpotMicroAI Slack Chat (1046 Registered Users): https://spotmicroai-inviter.herokuapp.com/

This example uses cheap, easily obtainable parts and has excellent movement characteristics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqLittumdvQ

Here is an example of recent inverse kinematics benchmarks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqUjJDkn_ZA
goyo and limelight can provide (less dramatic) distraction-free experience on vim, and even without searching I'm sure there's something for previewing Markdown from vim.
Hi
Congrats for the launch!
Will be happy to learn more about how it compares to other key-value stores (e.g DynamoDB, Redis)
Property owners are also artificially inflating their own home values by blocking any and all attempts to build more houses.
True, but it has been ported to other platforms, including ARM, which makes it interesting as graphical OS for embedded systems. I mean control panels showing data, graphs etc. rather than desktop applications.
To me it would make sense to experiment with AROS on small boards where a full fledged Linux GUI would require too much beer to be usable, or simply to get the most performance from the available CPU/RAM/storage.
We’re currently migrating to Spanner for a variety of reasons - but the mandatory downtime on their Postgres CloudSQL offering will be the part I miss the least.

It’s insane that even with all of their HA and failover turned on they take the whole cluster down for as long as they like every few months!
https://soquoted.blogspot.com/2006/03/memo-from-fedland.html
Have not been there in a while but seems everything online is sold out. Kinda weird.
Yeah, I recognise this.
This reminds me the story that my deceased father told me. Once upon a time when the c64's reigned in Turkey, He asks me to write down some of the programs distributed with Commodore magazines. Yes, these magazines consisting of 5-6 pages full of GW-Basic code and which are mostly incorrect or incomplete :) And he adds, "Than you who never stands up from the desk did not touched the computer at least a month" :)
I don't think anyone is saying using tables at all is a bad thing, just using them inappropriately.

gmail is a table - columns are email properties, rows are documents.

HN is a list.
Not really. The people you are de-anonymising are those who are not using gravatar, so whilst they all have different MD5's for their email addresses at the moment, they all have the same placeholder image.
WithoutFriction,

At one stage or another, you will disappoint people. Find a way to get over it.

If you need to go over what you've accomplished, struggled with, etc, try doing a stream of consciousness. Open Word and just start typing. Don't stop until 30 minutes is up. Even if you're literally typing, "I'm writing this stupid sentence" over and over again, it doesn't matter. The words will come.

A stream of consciousness will help clarify your thoughts and help you realize what motivates you.
FreeBSD has procfs, although it's not mounted by default.

mount -t procfs proc /proc
ls -alR /proc
I was learning C when I was six years old. Definitely helped that my older brother (then 11) was the one teaching me— I wonder if having young children learn from older children might be good advice in general?
I would take another step: Your colleagues don´t even have to be working in one space at all. My current startup involves 10 people - none of them working next door to me. Still, we could all meet in person within a day. We communicate via Mail and IM.

Sure, it lacks some of the old school all-night hacking in a small office. But now we are more flexible on work patterns and everyone is more productive.

I got the idea from the (highly successfull) startup Automattic. Have a look at their office: http://automattic.com/map/