jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The fact that you have a separate office desktop and office laptop suggests that this isn't going to happen. What is preventing you from using a docking station with your laptop today and junking the desktop?
I guess the QA infrastructure isn't up to the task for rolling OS releases. But it would make a lot of sense to separate the release cycles of the actual OS and applications it supplies. With Maemo this has worked pretty well:

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/application_quality_assurance_in_l...

(hmm, something wrong with the server. Here's the Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...)
The short answer is: the diatonic scale in a given key consists of notes whose frequencies are those of the keynote times certain simple rational numbers; the white notes on the piano are those that belong to the diatonic scale based on C.

What's special about those simple rational-number ratios? Answer: on most musical instruments, notes whose frequencies are in simple rational ratios sound nice together. This turns out (surprisingly, at least to me) to be a fact about the instrument and not merely about the notes; when you play a given note on a given instrument, you get (kinda) sine waves whose frequencies are those of the given note, plus some higher frequencies; exactly what the higher frequencies are and how much of each you get depends on the instrument. For most instruments, the higher frequencies are integer multiples of the fundamental frequency, and that turns out to mean that the good-sounding combinations of notes are ones with simple rational frequency ratios; but there are instruments that behave differently (e.g., a tuned circular drum; or you can make a synthesized instrument that does anything you like) and different chords will sound good on them.

For much more on this, see William Sethares's book "Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale" and his web pages at http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/ttss.html where you can find, e.g., some music in unorthodox scales performed on (synthetic) instruments designed to make the harmony sound good.

For instance: listen to http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/mp3s/tenfingersX.mp3 and hear how out-of-tune it sounds. Now try http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/mp3s/Ten_Fingers.mp3 which has exactly the same notes but played on a synthetic instrument designed to make the harmonies work.
According to the link you posted, that's over four times slower than C++ virtual method dispatch (and note that most method calls in ordinary C++ code are not virtual). Also, IMP caching is hardly easy and is quite fiddly: see for example the benchmark code in that link as well as [1].

I highly recommend reading the tour of objc_msgSend [2]. It's very eye opening: for example, there's a cache scanning loop even in the fast case.

[1]: http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/artikel/Optimization/opti-3-...
[2]: http://www.friday.com/bbum/2009/12/18/objc_msgsend-part-1-th...
That's just arguing about semantics. It's like the age old "it's not you, it's me" break-up line. Non-Acceptance is Rejection and everyone knows it.

While in general I'd agree that it doesn't add value to add "YC Reject" to the title, in this case the article talks about their YC rejection (sorry "non-acceptance") so including it makes sense.
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High-speed internet, large garden plots right down the street, and a few blocks from a (20,000 enrolled) state university
But part of the problem in the UK is that the highest tax rates paid are those by the working poor : As more money is earned, benefits are subtracted at an alarming rate. That means there's a huge disincentive for getting off the couch.

The idea of this 'flat payout' is that it provides a baseline - and any money earned thereafter is a pure win (even after you pay taxes on the money earned).
I use both and love both browsers but as a developer I still find it frustratingly hard to use chrome without having firebug or an exact clone of firebug. (I am hoping someone says there is a firebug equivalent for Chrome)
If anyone knows the company he wrote about I'd be curious to know (whether it was the author's intention or not).
Isn't that essentially the same thing as the taskbar? I think people appreciate tabs because they can still get to their separate programs easily from the taskbar, but inside the application itself we can also easily switch between contexts (spreadsheets, web pages, etc.)

Windows 7's new taskbar has some features that go in the direction of exposing those application-level contexts to the system-wide taskbar. Try Fx4 on Win7 and each tab acts like a new Firefox window, and Win7's new stacking mechanism makes it so you can easily switch to other apps even if you have 100 tabs open.
So I wasn't acting alone when I bought capitalistcommune.org a few months back?

I have a 'giant' mansion...in Iowa...with open rooms for hackers. Hit me up, libertarian-capitalist-economical living can be a real ideal. See pic here: http://organicgrant.posterous.com/winter-home-0
AKA, No representation without taxation
Actually, percentiles are not such a great way to measure progress, it's just relative. What we should measure is something more like earned value- did he progress more or less than one year of material forward? That way, kids who are two years behind and two years ahead all get measured on how fast they are moving, not where they started.
Downvoting? This is actually the quote I heard, though I know regexp'es are older than XML (and a good deal more useful, if you ask me).
I second that. It's not the "rewrite" that is bad, but the "rewrite from scratch". You might end up with a completely different codebase if you do it incrementally.
Me three. I'm not as high-achieving as you guys, but I have an okay sheaf of academic qualifications (up to PhD) which to this day I'm absolutely convinced I don't deserve.

It's not rare at all among people I know, too, most of whom are way smarter than me.
If you're running a large chinese business with billions of dollars of dealings I bet they sort you out a decent pipe.
SMS and email are different. SMS costs $ per message. Email does not. In the Facebook UI, if you add a SMS user to an email thread, he will receive numerous SMSes from email users who don't realize that they're racking up his bill.

Wait a minute, is that true? Do you pay for receiving text messages in the US? That does seem a little crazy from a European perspective.
KFC vs McDonalds - that's a surprise, as KFC is basically the same price in China as McDonalds.

I though KFC won partly because of the localized products, but mostly because Chinese like fried chicken. There's plenty of other chicken places (Dicos is the notable one), but no-where else you can get a beef burger (unless you count the a-half-a-dozen Burger Kings). McDonalds flagship product seems to be the spicy chicken burger these days. And they sell spicy chicken wings.
Using actual words isn't such a bad thing if what you want to optimize is password entropy at a given level of memorability for naive users.
The idea is that when you're working with D primarily, the C++ code you get to work with is legacy code you have to interface with.
I thought dogma was that drivers are not employees, but Independent Contractors? Meaning Uber/Lyft are not employers (of drivers), but more akin to a fancy home improvement parking lot?
I cannot think of a company that works with Android and not with Windows. Again, agree that Android has to support a lot of hardware, but Windows needs to support even more.
IMHO, he doesn't have the technique to handle 80 lbs.
My understanding is that Docker's lack of an open specification was advertised as a primary motivation for rocket. So it seemed relevant to point out efforts by Docker to provide such a specification.

The reason the specification document isn't moving very fast is simply that it's stable and already deployed at large scale, via Docker's implementation.
This price war between uber and lyft seems foolish and unsustainable, but as a consumer, I'm down.
True in a political sense I suppose. But Lyft and Uber are far more accountable to actual users. And I'm nor sure I would equate accountability with offering arbitrary discounts to select groups.
This sounds like a great approach to the problem but how would one go about finding those people? Were you thinking SME level or street vendor level?
I think the real problem is the word "Programming" is such a poorly defined and generic term. Until you pin down exactly which definition of programming you are talking about saying "Programming is hard" is no more meaningful than saying "Mathematics is hard" or "Writing is hard".

What frustrates me is the reputation programming has, it has somehow cultivated this image that computer code is some kind of magical and esoteric thing which you need to be some kind of genius or wizard to understand. It's reputation is such that otherwise sensible people will balk, hesitate and just completely shutdown when confronted with code. I am an engineer (the non-software type) I see this behavior in my coworkers and it frustrates me to no end there is this prevalent attitude 'I'm not a programmer, computer code is too hard to understand...'

It reminds me of the reputation Mathematics (the subject) had when I was in high school. Math had a reputation as being a 'hard' subject so a lot of people seemed to come into it with preconceived notions that it was difficult to learn and therefore they weren't smart enough to understand it so they weren't going to engage with it. I see exactly the same attitudes with 'programming' today.
If I posted it as a comment, it would be tied to my identity.
I started programming in 1974 :-)
What he actually said is here:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20579870/order-li...

Short, and worth the read.
I write programs for myself that is also for other people can use too.

One such collection of programs is Farbfeld Utilities, which I now use for dealing with picture files. It also includes encoders/decoders for some uncommon formats, and some options of them which are not widely implemented in other programs (e.g. XPM2, including symbolic colours; it can also encode/decode NES/Famicom tile sets, the Golly Macrocell format, and others), and also to display pictures and to make screenshots (both X windows and Linux text screens). There are also some filters that I have not seen in other programs, such as the possibility to make the tensor product of two pictures. Unfortunately a lot of documentation is missing, though.
? Commenting on the reasons someone made a decision doesn't mean that they have an axe to grind, any more than "anonymous aide familiar with Biden's decisionmaking says X" means that this anonymous aide has it out for Biden.
Thanks, the multipattering choice was an interesting thing to take home regarding why X is ahead of Y.
This is Samy Bengio, not a random google engineer. He's a founding member of Google Brain.
I've read the first one and it's fantastic. Really should pick up the other two.
I believe it can speed it up by using index only scans along with the visibility_map which effectively tells it which entries are “current” in more broad strokes.
I do have a firewall in front of it. And running on the box itself.
Yes that's true, I was thinking about rifles only, but indeed for handguns it would be different.
I think it's obvious why thy did this. They don't want Google's open source WebM codec to become the norm so they're going to push even harder for h.264.

The whole Internet is better off in the end if it's built only on open source and free stuff.
that's what happens when you let developers do design. definitely plan to bring on a designer for the next version of the site.
Not a student, but I do appreciate the hints! In my case I need it to work for positive real values of x and values of n=y/2 where y is a positive integer.

As for why this comes up: I'm working on a statistical estimation problem and this is part of the normalization term in my log-posterior.

Again, thanks for the hints. I'll try my hand at solving it.
Same goes for Email Oracle: https://emailoracle.com/

Edit: yes, they were both made by the same team...
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We are closing in or have hit peak renewable in several states and countries around the world. Unless we figure out a massive improvement to battery technology renewables are not going to help us in the same way they been.
I know a guy in Belgium that makes a very nice living of his collection of unusable boxes. And a couple here in NL as well.
This technique is deeply flawed.

You can't do this effectively without outside knowledge they should not have. They are in fact using outside knowledge, specifically that the encrypted data is in the form of images. Without that knowledge, you wouldn't know which ML techniques to use! Additionally, remember that feature engineering is a big part of what makes ML effective at all, and that certainly cannot be done on encrypted data (the feature engineering you need to do depends on what the data looks like).
It's incredibly slow (backing up 1.5TB took more than a day), but the built-in support for PAR2 makes it worth it (for me).

Sadly, it seems like borg has no built-in support for any kind of redundancy [1]

[1] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/225
I'm not sure that's alcohol acting as a stimulant so much as alcohol removing mental barriers that prevent people from acting in a certain way. The depressant effect in fact helps to moderate the worst impulses for most people. Which is why drinks like Four Loco that combine a stimulant with alcohol end up being more dangerous than expected. Not only do you lose your "that's a dumb idea, I shouldn't do it" part of your brain, but you also have the energy to act on the impulse.
I think the main reason someone would use Scanwell over an AZO test strip would be two-fold:

1. No guessing when reading the strip. Knowing the technology is FDA-cleared, and considering that the phone relays the result, lends more confidence to the end result.

2. Connecting to a provider/treatment––and here's why: in 2013, less than half of US adults reported being able to get a same or next-day appointment with their PCP, and over 60% said their only option was going to the emergency room.

Even with an AZO result in hand, the patient will still need to coordinate getting treatment. Scanwell gives them the option of getting treatment for a consultation fee of $25, and a guaranteed wait time of 2hr during business hours (which includes weekends).
I'm not sure anyone really disputes the negative impact on individual productivity. The argument (other than reduced costs of course) is that open plans improve collaboration and therefore overall productivity. Personally I'm skeptical in most cases but measuring aggregate productivity is difficult given that it's really hard to make comparisons given all the other factors that come into play. (And the fact that "productivity" is a pretty squishy measure for a lot of activities anyway.)
I believe I interned for the same said company :)

A fun-fact(tm) proudly shared on a tour still haunts me to this day:

"Behold the largest office space (er...cubical farm) in the US... 5,000 or so seats."
I'm not a Javascript developer, but I sort of disagree with the point about forEach and thisArg. Using a closure like that is clearer than relying on some custom magic done by a certain function.

Function.prototype.bind() makes sense, though.
The article boils down to: "I don't like Javascript".

Although it's not a great language by design, I think there's a reason why it has reached wide adoption. And don't tell me it's because there are no alternatives.
Oh hey, I am/have all 3. Thank god I share a medium sized office with 2 other similar devs, one of whom is only in the office half the week instead of in the insane bullpen with everyone else or I may have quit.
UA doesn't fly DTW-PHL. Do you mean US or DL?

The airline can claw back miles, ban you from flying or, if you're a repeat abuser, go after you for the fare difference.
Neat. I did not know that. Do they post that information anywhere on the public, you-haven't-paid-for-this-yet site? I've been trying to figure out what I'll need for hosting for the last few months. Linode looked best, but I worried about having to get beefing systems just to get more HD.
Not sure how I feel about them asking for donations to their legal fund. They're a private business, not a charity.
And there is also some evidence that open offices don't necessarily foster closer relationship among employees. [1]

[1] https://hbr.org/2011/07/who-moved-my-cube
Power of any government starts with popular support. If you could convince just one fellow countryman that more freedom would make his live better, would make him better, that will be one less pillar for the oppression, and one more for the freedom. It's a daunting task, but it's the only reliable way - persuasion. I wouldn't fault you for giving up and moving elsewhere, just know that there is an option before you do.
I am very sorry, but that is just wrong.

Votes are not a reliable indication of whether or not a post is correct.

They are a reliable indication of whether or not a post is popular.

It does sometimes happen that a post is both correct and popular, but that is not something it is ever safe to rely on.

'Social Proof' is a fantasy that does not exist.
The anti-immigration crowd are the conservative working class. Like it or not, immigrants are actually coming and displacing them. Where I disagree with them is their solution to the issue. The correct solution I think would be to level the playing field by making illegal immigrants citizens who pay taxes.

The same conservative masterminds which influence the working class to be upset about immigration, are the ones who are outsourcing jobs. It's nuts, when you think about it. It's nothing more than a bunch of rich old guys trying to protect their bottom line. Whatever works for their profits is what they do.
Germany, Japan, the UK and the US (among others) all did things in WWII that count as terrorism, and no, the term isn't useless. The textbook definition, "the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims" is exactly what was happening in the war, although I would add the caveat that it's violence and intimidation against civilians. Using violence and intimidation against enemy troops is just regular warfare.
> lower transaction costs. The cheapest and most liquid exchanges still charge .2% per transaction + spread. Most (all?) of them charge you for getting cash in our out of their platform. Buying shares of an ETF would cost just spread + transaction cost charged by your broker which should be much lower (.0035 per share on Interactive Brokers for example)

The ETF has an associated Sponsor's Fee, to be paid in Bitcoin, that is not yet known. Also, a few relevant sections from the prospectus:

> Extraordinary expenses resulting from unanticipated events may become payable by the Trust, adversely affecting an investment in the Shares.

> In consideration for the Sponsor’s Fee, the Sponsor has contractually assumed certain operational and periodic expenses of the Trust. See “Business of the Trust—Trust Expenses.” Extraordinary expenses of the Trust (e.g., expenses relating to litigation) and any other expenses that are not assumed by the Sponsor under the terms of the Trust Agreement are borne by the Trust and paid through the sale of the Trust’s bitcoins. Any incurring of extraordinary expenses by the Trust could adversely affect an investment in the Shares.

And:

> The Trust’s transfer or sale of bitcoins to pay expenses or other operations of the Trust could result in Shareholders incurring tax liability without an associated distribution from the Trust.

> Each delivery or transfer of bitcoins by the Trust to pay the Sponsor’s Fee or other expenses will be a taxable event to Shareholders. This or other operations of the Trust could result in Shareholders incurring tax liability without an associated distribution or dividend payment from the Trust. Any tax liability could adversely impact an investment in the Shares and may cause Shareholders to prepare and file additional tax documents. See “United States Federal Income Tax Consequences—Taxation of US Shareholders.”

I don't see how anybody actually taking the time to read the prospectus could come to the conclusion that this ETF will provide a lower cost vehicle for investing in Bitcoin.
> "the stethoscope is being misused, all the time"

If I understand correctly, which is not likely at all, this is about the stethoscope being misused in scientific research, not in the practice of medicine, right?

Then the claim quoted above would be utterly false, since I am pretty sure that most of the times someone uses a stethoscope, that person is a doctor, and is:

a) listening to another person's heart and lungs; and

b) not publishing dubious research findings.

Please enlighten me here, I feel like I am plenty wrong.
Wonderful! Thanks!

I am curious about those recent O(L) attention transformers (see slide 106 of http://gabrielilharco.com/publications/EMNLP_2020_Tutorial__...). If these methods are converging towards a new self-attention mechanism, I'd love to try illustrating that.

What other attention modes are you referring to? Did something in particular catch your attention?
As has been so often quoted on HN, "The 'Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." I see no reason for things to be different this time.
It depends. Cow meat is better when rare, pork is better well roasted.
Good point. Here is the full text

>All chats use the same Signal protocol outlined in this whitepaper, regardless
of their end-to-end encryption status. The WhatsApp server has no access to
the client’s private keys, though if a business user delegates operation of their
Business API client to a vendor, that vendor will have access to their private
keys - including if that vendor is Facebook.

Not sure if the facebook exception was there in the previous version.
WOW, I love the design/UI of theDonald.win

It is clear, simple and harmonic.

Kudos for the design. I wished reddit would like that way.
Oh I see, they might come back to NY for holidays.
> words have power

Words start out with power - until they're overused to the point of banality and lose it.
yep, in an era where there are tens of thousands of apps flooding the App Store, and millions of people competing with you in SEO
(By the way, I would bet these people were using Tor and this subpoena is useless.)

Based on how poor the opsec of previous darknet admins has been, I see no reason to assume theirs was any better.
Well,it sounds like you've already made up your mind, so at what number did you reach the breaking point and made the decision that the entirety of our law enforcement system was spoiled?