jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think they impose enough "rules" as it is. Maybe a $3 app with adds means it doesn't have to cost $5. That's just an example. There could be all sorts of different reasons that developers will have for both, and I like the idea of letting them worry about their business model on their own. If users hate the ads if they are already paying for the app, I think that will work itself out naturally.
' "With Farmville on the iPhone, you'll be able to farm anytime, anywhere." '
...or hard candy, as Americans call them. ;)
I want one quite a bit. Yet, the upgrade path from the 3GS seems unclear (if at all existant).

Unfortunately it seems that you have to skip every other iPhone if you want to keep with AT&T's discounts since they come out with one every year. I'm not eligible to upgrade until 3/2011.
Yeah, I know a few folks who got their TS investigations opened and shut in about 2 months. It takes longer the older you are anyway especially if you've moved around a lot or have foreign relatives. I've seen it take as long as 3 years.

I think minors aren't really investigated because they simply don't have much of a paper trail to look into. Their security profile matches their parent's more than their own. But who knows.
Coincidentally, I was just reading about the fake press release made by The Yes Men on this subject ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men#Dow_Chemical )

Five years ago they pretended to be actual spokesman admitting the company's fault and saying they would sell the place and use the $ 12 billion to pay everyone and fix the whole mess left behind.

The hoax made the company lose $ 2 billion and served to raised awareness.
It worked on my 6-7 years old sony ericcson with 3, back in Europe. Plus, it was free for any 3 users and didn't require WIFI but 3G. I never used it. Maybe jobs will manage to change people habits, though, and times are different. When I had that (bulky) phone skype was not offering video conferencing yet.
A bit like cracked.com. Not as funny.
Both me and my fiancee uses skype video calls to our parents all the time, and they are not exactly "the most savvy early adopters".

ichat's firewall sensitivity and mac requirement means that i have yet to complete a single ichat video call. Skype just works, including video.
Is there an open-source replacement for Dreamweaver that's any good? There have been many attempts, but few have both a good WYSIWYG editor and site-maintenance capability. Many have some strong bias towards some template system, not raw HTML5.
err... yeah, but not on a scooter!
This way of thinking assumes that all life is evolved for maximum reproductive fitness. This is false. It is bedrock evolutionary biology, but it is also false. It turns out that the way evolution works is much more subtle than the postulates of R. A. Fisher's system, which dominated evolutionary thinking during the 20th century. Here is a good read on the subject: http://aeon.co/magazine/science/why-its-time-to-lay-the-self...
This is important for having a better environment in the future.
As someone who repeatedly and often rails against political articles here, I would say this is on-topic because it's simply interesting. It's easily ignored if you don't find it interesting, and it doesn't seem to be generating boring discussion of rehashed political debates or something else untoward.

I upvoted you though because I am glad I'm not the only one keeping an eye on what's posted, and it looks like you already got plenty of downvotes.
Marginal effect on INDIVIDUAL fitness, but a huge effect on THE FITNESS OF ECOSYSTEMS. Without aging, ecosystems would be unstable dynamic systems, and would not last more than a single generation. Without aging, everyone would die at once, in famines and natural disasters. Aging is necessary to spread out the death rate, so that populations don't swing wildly up and down.
-- His mistake being that he was putting himself at grave risk of a big fat lawsuit.
This is pretty much related to the concept of flow [1]. Simply put, we are most satisfied (in the long term) when in flow, which could be characterized as the blurring of awareness and action, the feeling of control, a distortion of time perception, and some other stuff outlined in the link.

Simply its a more formal definition of 'the zone'. Yeah, the same zone as in sports, music, or coding sessions. Basically, the idea is that almost any activity can be experienced in the flow, and the further away from flow characteristics we move, the less satisfied we are. Thinking about something else while doing the current task is about as far from flow as you can get (unless the other thing you are thinking about is an flow experience thing).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29
You are incorrect.

The markets would trade at more "fair" prices (representing a a larger group of people) at slightly less frequency.

Vast sizes of stock ("block trades") already trade off-exchange in half-hourly crossings on posit, etc.
It depends on where you go. Jon Kleinberg's class on algorithms (and classes based on his book) is great. I don't think every CS student gets access to that quality of construction

As for database design, OO-design or concurrency, my experience is that you've got to spend two years or so building that kind of system before you're an asset instead of a liability. Some students might really get that much work in during their educations, but they won't all entirely.

In 1992 I took the only CS course that I've actually taken, and it was a course in comparative programming languages that introduced OO programming through Ada (a thoroughly obsolete form) and spent a lot of time on logic programming with Prolog. Now, I think Prolog is beautiful and my recent work has led me to believe that (20 years later) we're going to have to go more in that direction, the fact is that for practical purposes, Prolog is a dead end.

And then at the graduate level it's all about fads. At one top CS school there's nobody interested in the semantic web and description logics because that's all "dead stuff from ten years ago." In the engineering library at that school, I can find five units of modular shelves filled up with conference proceedings that plod endlessly about IP QoS, despite the fact that none of that has ever seen the light of day. Anybody with a pulse can think of ten or twenty other research areas that ought to be vastly more productive, but, somehow, resources never get allocated for them.

In terms of the actual needs of the workplace, what it takes to be productive ~is~ detailed knowledge of the details that are relevant now. Why are Facebook and Google having a crazy bidding war for employees (other than the fact that they've got too much capital?) -- it's because they're building stuff on a scale that nobody else is and you can't get experience building at that scale elsewhere.
The downside is that if this app is terrible it makes him look bad. If he buys this guy's app then it's yet another thing he has to support.
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Is you do incorporate you will need to pay corporate taxes, in addition the corporation will need to pay the employer portion of the SE tax. (So you don't pay it, the corporation does, and since they need to pay it they reduce your salary by that much, i.e. it's a wash.)

Becoming a corporation will not reduce your taxes, but it will significantly increase the complexity. The main benefit it liability, not financial.
Your post is only 113 words long. I give you a "D".

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
> I sort of assumed that uniforms were the primary mechanism, but obviously they can be spoofed, and with "tacticool" fashion as prevalent as it is they can be trivially spoofed.

This has been a plot point in various movies. See also dressing up as troopers in Star Wars.

There's a 'what to do if you're an evil genius' guide floating around, and one of the recommendations is to make sure that helmets had clear masks so people's faces could be seen—at least in the Evil HQ.
I'm not so certain; with the possibility of installed loyalists and/or 'regulatory capture' we may have intentional malfeasance to make a troubling situation worse.
So, mostly worthless to the overwhelming majority of people who don't donate, and even more who donate less than the equivalent of $1/user/month? I'm aware that Wikipedia is supported by donations, that doesn't change the fact that Wikipedia is immensely valuable to many people even though they apparently can't manage to charge $1 per user per month for their service. In many ways, Wikipedia is so valuable because they don't charge their users.
That teletype is beautiful, you can completely understand the decoding logic with the selector arms just by watching it move.
Not trying to nitpick but they were specifically told to keep the doors unlocked, by security.
True, but the photos don't seem to show the depth that hook-and-loop would add. That, and even the milimetre that hook-and-loop would add could impede draw and reholstering.

I was in a non-US military and we used electrical tape - two or three strips around rifle magazines.
I did a fun thing with Sympy for Advent of Code 2017 December 3rd, here's a Jupyter notebook if anyone's interested: https://osdn.net/projects/joypy/scm/hg/Joypy/blobs/tip/docs/...

The puzzle involves a weird "spiral" RAM:

> You come across an experimental new kind of memory stored on an
infinite two-dimensional grid.

> Each square on the grid is allocated in a spiral pattern starting at a
location marked 1 and then counting up while spiraling outward.

The problem is to compute "the Manhattan Distance between the location of
the data and square 1" for any given square.

While working on this I came up with the following equation:

from sympy import floor, lambdify, solve, symbols

k = symbols('k')

E = 2 + 8 * k * (k + 1) / 2

Sympy figures out that this reduces to E = 4k(k + 1) + 2

I needed a function to solve for k given some n... Sympy can do that. Take a new symbol `n`, subtract it from the equation `E`, 0 = 4k(k + 1) + 2 - n and solve for `k`. There are two solutions because the equation is quadratic so it has two roots.

n = symbols('n')

g, f = solve(E - n, k)

In the context of the puzzle we only care about the larger root:

(sqrt(n - 1) / 2 - 0.5) + 1

For reasons, I need to take the floor and add 1. Then Sympy can lambdify it and create a fast Python function to compute `k`, given `n`:

F = lambdify(n, floor(f) + 1)

for n in (9, 10, 25, 26, 49, 50):
print(n, int(F(n)))

9 1
10 2
25 2
26 3
49 3
50 4

I'm sorry that it's hard to follow, I'm just excited to share how cool it
was to let the computer do the symbolic math for me.
I agree that the article is poorly written, and doesn't more than tangentially make the point I was making. I think I can understand why you would want criticism a poorly written article in the supposedly high quality BBC.
My curiosity is peeked about the inclusive society point. Nothing in the article ran afoul of my speech norms. I don't think my speech norms are particularly well developed though. What part of the way the article makes its point is something you would not accept?
Dalia I want to wish you the best of luck. I am an Israeli and I loved reading this. I really hope to see more and more engineers from Gaza getting opportunities like the one you have.

In a previous role of mine I had the privilege of meeting and working with some Palestinian Engineers from the West Bank. It was only for a few days as it was an internal company hackathon, but it was still great and we are still in contact today.

Sure there were some differences and some interesting conversations but it also allowed us to hear each other’s perspective and to solve engineering problems together.

I hope to see more Palestinian Engineers succeeding like you are and also more Israeli and Palestinian engineers working on projects together.

Good luck and all the best!
> in the United States we are living in a white supremacist society

Is this the kind of company training you would expect in a white supremacist society? Would a white supremacist society have an immigration policy that will soon make whites a minority?
Sort of... There's two main architectures in the VideoCore. The QPUs are different than the main VideoCore, and the main videocore (which is also what runs the boot code) isn't really the GPU.

For a long time neither were documented so people just sort of assumed they were the same thing.
I cannot find any other sources on this topic.
I got caught shoplifting at Fry's once upon a time when I was on new medication acting crazy impulsively. The loss prevention guy tackled me in the parking lot and the rest is history. He said he was an ex-marine. Luckily the thing I stole was on sale that day and did not exceed $500, so it was a misdemeanor but I would end up spending way more than that in attorney, court and probation fees.
Not going on either side here but for what it's worth, Cuba is viewed differently in Canada vs the US
What's interesting is that beyond that "record coldest" spot in the Northern Atlantic, there are still "record warmest" places in the Arctic Ocean, north of Europe. If the temperature in those places was supposed to be dependent on the warm current from Caribbean, how come they were warmer than usual after the current slowed down?
What did you love? I was checking it and the text seems strangely positioned on OSX.
If you're willing to post on HN about leaving your job, you are ready to leave your job.

The trust is clearly gone. You hold no obligations to your company outside of serving a two week notice period. I wouldn't raise the fact that you're looking for a new employer because that will put your current position in jeopardy. The best thing to do is to land a new job, hand in your notice, and leave. Never burn bridges, because you never know if you'll either end up working with that person again, or working with someone they know.
Guido is not opposed to recursion per-se, just on basing programming around it. As he says,

> TRE only addresses recursion that can easily be replaced by a loop

and Python already has a very nice tool for that purpose.

I have no doubt that he's fine with many other uses of recursion.
Thanks for that -- just out of curiousity, what is "instrument currency training"? My Dad was an instrument rated pilot (among others) and trained on the original MS Flight Simulator. It was obviously missing far more than probably any of the flight simulators released after 2000.

Also curious -- what is meant by your third bullet point? Where is the physics most obviously screwy? As a non-pilot, I was blown away by how the plane felt. Obviously, I don't have the sense for what the plane is actually doing like my pilot father would have, but while playing, it was the dynamics of how the plane moved that really impressed me.
>> Perhaps reddit can even transition into being a reader (a la google reader) for people that don't want to set up their own node.

>The issue of "abuse" which is harmful to people other than users of the forum should also be considered carefully.

If you think of always accessing the information through a "reader" rather than in raw form, than effectively the reader mods can delete and remove spam - users could subscribe to a reader, or several readers that can give different views of the same information - but also would have the choice not to do so.
That's not what I see from searching Intel's ARK:

http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced

Here's a list of Intel's latest CPU series, and how many have VT-d support:

* 5th gen i7: 5/5

* 5th gen i5: 6/6

* 5th gen i3: 5/5

* 4th gen i7 extreme: 2/2

* 4th gen i7: 42/49

* 4th gen i5: 46/55

* 4th gen i3: 5/37

So the summary: all but the slowest gen 4 i5 and i7 chips have it, and all gen 5 chips currently released have it.

edit: formatting
Yes, although prior to Haswell it was still possible to do a moderate amount of overclocking on the non-K models that do have VT-d; the multiplier could be increased by about the same margin as the Turbo Boost feature uses, and you still got Turbo on top of that. Haswell marked a shift from a limited-unlocked multiplier to a fully-locked multiplier for the non-K parts.
It is maddening, but I also understand where some Polk merchants are coming from. They're being asked to stake their livelihood on a relatively radical proposal, at least by American standards.

I would like to see the City create some sort of financial incentive (like a tax credit) to bring them on board when it comes to safety improvements. In the long run, it would pay for itself.

I've worked with Gary in the past but thanks for the bringing him up, I'm going to reach to him and have a beer!
"Computer Science students, however, don't go to college to become computer scientists. They go to learn 'programming'."

When I finished my CS degree in 1988 I remember considering what it was that I had been educated to do (I think this is really only apparent at the end a course) - it was pretty obvious: we had been educated to a level where the "natural" thing to do was continue on to do postgraduate research. The vocational element of our course was (thankfully) very low, there was a distinct (and times alarming) theoretical component but you also had to do a lot of development work. But developing stuff was a means to an end of demonstrating an understanding of the course material, rather than an end in itself.

So I went to university to learn about the academic field called computer science - not to learn to program (which frankly, isn't that difficult).

20+ years on I'm rather pleased with the course I did and the subsequent six years I did in academic research - I've used a lot of maths in various jobs (industrial simulation, investment banking, even more industrial modeling), it was a good course, with a good class and excellent teachers in a great location. I even met the chap who became the first investor in our startup through the course - he had graduated from it about 20 years earlier.

So yes, don't do a CS course to help you become a "standard" developer - it is almost completely irrelevant and will probably frustrate and confuse.
"what I assume are the main navigation categories stretch leftward"

That's about right. Another slightly better example is this site:
http://www.stc.com.sa/cws/portal/en/?favouritLang=en

If you click the text in Arabic at the top right, it shifts to the Arabic view, and all the text and navigation bars move to a position that's more appropriate for right to left reading.
agreed. i dont know why one would pay 40 bucks for an app that already exists for free.
" Some believed that good jobs were just inaccessible for 'the likes of us', so there's no point getting you hopes up. Some were so uncertain of their employability that they took the first job offered to them and never dared do anything to jeopardise it. "

This chimes with my personal experience. I suppose the demographic I'm from in the UK gave me certain blind spots and self imposed ceilings. I'm now 25 and only just starting to figure out and balance against them.
That's more or less to my course-layout at the University of Central Arkansas 12 years ago.
I'd define a design as the information sufficient to produce a copy that is to some degree recognizable as the original (in terms of visuals, aesthetic effect, etc). An ornamental cup is separable in a sense, you can make a matching saucer with the same pattern of ornamentation, and you can also make a cup without the ornament on it. In one case it is a copy of the function, in the other a copy of the design. There has been some degree of discussion about this in relation to the 3d printing revolution that is currently happening (which I'm very happy to be part of, my printers are happily replicating). Here's some links if you're interested in the sense in which "design" is used in relation to physical objects:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1689527 (Focused on UK and European laws)
http://www.publicknowledge.org/it-will-be-awesome-if-they-do... (Focused on US IP laws)

I do not believe there is a counter-argument to the "treating data as large numbers makes it ridiculous to assert control over it". I agree with you on this point. Unfortunately, the law will need to be modernized to take that into account, and that has not yet happened.
so is that better than gitx?
I'm studying CS in Berlin and we have 4 mathematical courses in the first 4 semesters: linear algebra, analysis I + II and stochastic.
Besides stochastic, all of those courses are designded for engineers.
In the first 4 semesters (basic study) we have 4 modules theoretical cs: basics of algebraic structures, automata and complexity, logic and specification and semantics.

The other 2 main modules are: technical cs and practical cs (methodical and practical basics of cs)
in "practical cs" we learnt a functional pl (1st semester) and java (2nd). In technical cs: MIPS assembler (2nd), C and ARM assembler were a requirement in the 3rd semester.

So, although if you just look at the modules, the practical part takes up the biggest chunk (ECTS), it's only about 1/4th of the study.
Noise pollution is a form of torture. I don't understand why our society doesn't fight it more. I've tried earplugs but they are very uncomfortable to sleep with, and usually give me dizziness the next day.
That's normal by now. Pretty much all software/service sites would do better by just using Wikipedia's description of themselves as the landing page. At least, better for the user. Probably because Wikipedia actually needs to explain the thing's meaning, and a standard marketing page would be slapped with plaques about non-encyclopedic content, in no time.
Maybe, but it isn't easy. Often the code is written around the performance of the hardware in question. Thus you still have to rewrite all the software before any new hardware can be used. Or write an emulator that is cycle perfect to hard real time standards. Neither is cheap or easy.

I know of companies (I can't talk about which) that spent a few billion dollars trying to replace old hardware, only to abandon the track taken and have to start over. All the while the stores of the obsolete and no longer made CPU are getting smaller and smaller. All this for a controller that marketing doesn't see any reason to add more features so they can't even justify some off the cost as new features.
I am from Pakistan and my view of Gaza and Palestine is very narrow because all we see on TV is Israel mass murdering everyone in Palestine.

What is the tech scene in Gaza? Any software houses, companies and startups there? If there are, what are they mostly about?
Agreed, font icons are almost always associated with actions (buttons etc.) or status (e.g. on/off/paused) which need their own appropriate roles and attributes. I lead a team that made a large website fully AODA[1] compliant and we used font icons EVERYWHERE.

[1] Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act,
IBM has some nice ones in Carbon as well: https://www.carbondesignsystem.com/guidelines/icons/library/
> integrate with nature

That's false though. There are a lot of animals that do not want to be anywhere near humans, roads, houses or anything else. The presence of people wrecks it for them. Not to mention the jacked up carbon emissions if everyone had to drive around for everything because everyone is spread out.
I would assume that the employer has to take the statements of these experienced engineers on faith until interviewed where as the student may be a more easily known quantity in advance.

Hard(er) to fudge your knowledge when your standing (even virtually) in front of someone.
And yet California has a buoyant real estate market.

It’s not an inequitable wealth transfer. Only people who own property pay these taxes, and all property owners benefit from Prop 13.
Not really. Architecture-wise it is very different.
Disney content is still mostly movies right? Netflix is producing many series because it keeps people hooked, not many movies.

But yes, Disney+ is definitely a strong contender, specially with Marvel and Lucasfilms in their possession.