jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While there may not be a reduction in traffic, there’s a massive improvement in quality of life.
ah whoops- completely misread it
In other words, corporate bureaucracy getting in the way. Not surprising when it's one of the most secretive companies too.
That was a beautiful response.
SARS-CoV-2 is a spheroid with a diameter of about 120 nm.

There's a lot of variation in influenza viruses, but most are spheroids or ellipsoids with a diameter from 80-120 mm.

For simple mechanical filtering, such as with a mask, they are going to behave pretty similar.
Not quite yet. There’s also The Mechs Hack which I’m reading right now which has a similar roll-under system as Into the Odd. If it turns out that scratches the itch I may do a bunch of Gamma World playbooks for PBtA.
> This current situation isn't too far off from a state where just those who can work from home do so, and the rest drive to work.

it seems pretty very far off to me. I'm having a nice time working from home, but all my friends that don't work at a grocery store (restaurant workers, tutors, social workers, theater techs) are sitting at home not getting paid.

I'm not sure how to estimate what fraction of the workforce actually needs to commute to work, but it seems like they make up a pretty significant amount of the people that are not driving right now.
One super minor thing you may want to change that may help clarify things for both companies and employees (mostly companies) :

> Jobs are tailored to your location and skills

I live near a metro area and have been asked dozens of times if I'd be cool 'coming in 1-2 days a week' even though the job listing says 'remote'.

I think, for a 100% remote job board, you may consider revising it to something less specific, but specific enough for taxes/residency/cost of living purposes.

> Jobs are tailored to your country and skills

If nothing else it's a pain point for job sites that I rarely see talked about so hopefully you find my reply somewhat useful
Very true. But it doesn't stop there. One of my pet peeves is that people who believe they understand exponential growth will extrapolate too far in the future. More often than not, processes working against the exponential growth, negligible small in the beginning, will grow even faster and will reduce the grow rate, even without external intervention.
In the example of COVID, it's the chance of interaction of an infected with an uninfected, even without social distancing, just because so many people will be infected, or dead. This effect is completely negligible in the beginning, but dominates in the end. (Of course, all the people modelling the epidemic have this effect in.)
You misspelled Adderall.

I hear it helps with IF too.
GF already bowed out ... only really Samsung and Intel left now, no?
I highly recommend going obsessive with cooking. It pays dividends when you can cook at home and eat like a king.
I found playing with Heston Blumenthal recipes and then diving into as many cook books as possible to be the best way to start.
...assuming the side income doesn’t affect main job performance because of fatigue.

But as a rough guide, if you multiply your salary by 4.5, that’s what you could earn by working 24/7/365.
Any definition of "editorializing" I've ever heard involved injection of opinion - none of the above did that (and in a couple of cases, the title reversions went from a statement of objective fact to a subjective statement of opinion, in direct contravention of the guideline).

Isn't that exactly the opposite of how it's supposed to be done? "Editorializing" is a meaningless term if it means adding neutral, factual clarifying statements (example: "small share" -> 2.5%)

Further examples:

PIA (PrivateInternetAccess) VPN bought by company known for distributing malware

↓

PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns

Useful -> Non-useful. Who is PIA and why should I care that they're merging? Expanding the acronym was useful in this case. Not doing so is a form of clickbait all on its own.

The difference between an expert’s brain and a novice’s

↓

Differences between expert and novice brains in mice: study

Note that the original headline is the one used by the source. Okay, so clarifying statements and general rewording can be added to non-clickbait, non-editorialized headlines in some cases, but not others?

Seriously, I'd like to not have to make work for the mods, but I see this lack of consistency combined with unintuitive, seemingly against-rules changes here that I actually do not know what is expected of me when submitting an article given that a plain reading of the guidelines doesn't match the application in the real world.

When you have a rule that's actively making things worse, and is this confusing even for the people who enforce it (I'm seeing a lot of headlines that have multiple changes, hours apart) it's not a bad idea to consider revising the rule.
I also don't follow your explanation

Talking about Australia and cats, they have a major issue https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/26/asia/feral-cats-australia..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_in_Australia
Except it basically only runs on MacOS, which means that it doesn't have strong datacenter support, which means that it won't be used in any serious applications.

It's also not dynamic, which is almost a must-have for exploratory data analysis.

I will avoid a point-by-point rebuttal, mostly to avoid seeming too antagonistic, but Julia supports many of the other features on the list you provided, and (more importantly, for the case at hand) already has proven it's capability in the differentiable programming paradigm with Zygote.
Can you do it 20 times in a row like I did?
All those things could be done with redo with varying degrees of effort.
Some DNNs compute posterior probabilities for classification. You could feed those inputs into a Bayesian network for decision making too but you could also train a NN to make those decisions. Still there may be times when a human derived controller is better with AI as sensory input than an AI controller itself.
I would introduce him to coding by starting with the basics of HTML and progress through the following:

(install MAMP or WAMP for him to get him started, then get him a domain name and hosting for his own simple website)

HTML
CSS
javascript
jQuery
PHP
MySQL

I recommend Head First HTML and CSS to get started. The other books in the series are good as well all the way up to Head First PHP and MySQL.

TeamTreehouse.com is a good place to start as well or pick up with once you make it through a few of these books.

Once he gets through those I would point him to learning Rails and/or Laravel frameworks creating a few web applications.

Apps are fun too if he has an iPad and/or iPhone go through the iOS App tutorials on TeamTreehouse.

Good luck in 2015.
The Nazis would say the same of the Gestapo to dissenters, albeit with a tinge less arrogance.
I get it, you start ignoring alerts when theres so many of them. That's also the moment you go back to whatever manufacturer and tell them that you can't work with a safety critical software that will emit spurius alerts to no end.

What you can not do responsibly is to simply ignore all of them and then claim that somehow it's the fault of the software. Yes, as it turns out, you actually take on responsibility when you work in these kind of areas. I personally would never agree to code for systems that end up radiating humans or other safety critical systems.
Ghostery blocks most analytics trackers: https://www.ghostery.com/en/

Google Analytics is blocked with that, I'd imagine Baidu Analytics would be blocked too. You can configure it to block / not block individual pieces.
This is what the "trusted environments" on chips can be used for, which are currently at least used for DRM (but who knows what else). This is something people like Richard Stallman and Cory Doctorow have warned for years - that allowing them to DRM your machine at the hardware level, inevitably means the machines will eventually be used against you for different purposes, including surveillance or censorship.

This is exactly what the NSA is implying when they say they want to be the "anti-virus of the Internet". TPM will allow Microsoft and/or NSA to remotely disable viruses from every computer - and course anything else they want - anywhere in the world, and that's how they will promote it to normal people: "It will make you safe".
I'm a OS-X user since Leopard. I did the switch from FreeBSD because of the need for professional photo editing software.
I can tell in the bast 12 months my OS-X has frozen 6-7 times (Yes I called the customer service, did hardware tests). Before Yosemite and Mavericks, the years before the last one my MAC freeze on me maybe twice.
I agree wholly with you. My argument (which I unclearly expressed) was that in my opinion, most consumers find the apple logo desirable while they will shun the PC stickers.
I see the "actual ability and self-assessment are negatively correlated" version of the meme a majority of the time. Maybe I just hang out on the wrong parts of the internet?
The titles aren't, but the actual articles are, as the other one said that being happy makes you creative, while being sad makes you less creative but more focused.

On the other hand, this article seems to agree with the focused part, so I think the difference is probably how they defined creativity, as in this one they asked artists to do it while in the other article I believe they looked at brain patterns.
Thank you, and good luck with those edits.
For those of you curious how to do the shortcuts mentioned in his edit, long press on a shortcut spot (empty space on the home screen, shortcut, or even one of the icons at the dock in the bottom), go to shortcuts, and then Activities. It's a pretty awesome feature, and I now have a nice link to my Google Reader account in my dock.
"Do you have similar doubts as to the ownership of Israel?"

Israel is open to all, it has freedom of religion, a constitution, and elected officials. Compare that to the other countries in the Middle East.

"I think it's pretty clear that the West Bank belongs to the people who live there, the people commonly referred to as the Palestinians."

- One quarter of the people living in the West Bank are Jewish.

- The majority of all people living in the West Bank have lived there for less than three generations.

- We can't even agree on the definition of what a 'palestinian' is.
All the people I know who travel the most and I feel have the most exciting and interesting lives make less than $60k a year.

Wealth is relative.
Since my http://eloquentjavascript.net recommends always terminating statements with semicolons, I guess I'm being directly addressed by this.

The suggestion that 'I don't understand semicolon insertion' doesn't really hit the mark. I wrote a JavaScript implementation.

Yet still I recommend everyone to use explicit semicolons. Going over the proposed style on this page, it all sounds pretty good, and semicolon insertion is starting to look okay. Until you realize that he wants you to start every line that starts with [(+/-,.* with a semicolon. This is needed to prevent semicolon insertion from failing you.

I'm sure one can get used to such a style, but it is completely 'out there', radically disconnected from JavaScript's C parentage, and, though that's a question of taste, ugly and irregular. This solution is worse than the problem, I think.
Looks great. Does this do encoding of streaming video or only files?
Considering the last three parent comments are using an iPhone 4, the diversity of performance reports astounds me.
In addition to git diff, I suggest git add -p and git diff --cached to enhance visibility of changes. I alias them to short mnemonics in my bash configs.
You're taking a stimulant to get through the day

Come again? This is news to me.

when one form of it is taken away, you supplement with another form.

Again, what? I decided to try caffeine in a pill form and found that I mostly prefer it to the coffee form. Nothing was taken away.

How is that different than a junkie getting their fix to stave off withdrawl

For starters, because I don't experience any withdrawl.

You don't need to get defensive about it.

I'm not the least bit defensive about it. Rather, I find it bizarre that you make so many assumptions, and view taking a legal, safe stimulant as an inherent addiction.

if you're taking a concentrated form of a drug to get through your day

Again, where did I say anything about 'getting through the day'? Where did I imply that I 'need' caffeine? I should not benefit from a chemical, which seems to have no downside for my body, simply because it offends your arbitrary principles? How is it a "concentrated form of a drug" when a single cup of coffee contains 150mg of caffeine, in what seems to be a more rapidly absorbed liquid form? (Incidentally, a Starbucks Tall drip has 240mg, while a Grande has 320mg)

I hope you see that you're projecting a lot onto my statements.

and you notice when you don't take it... that's the definition of an addiction.

That is neither what I said, nor is it the definition of addiction.
http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+addiction
I agree that I've not presented the best argument. And to be honest that was not my intention. I was just stating what I felt (as you acknowledge).

But I stand by what I said earlier: he will lose some very good customers. I didn't mean he will lose all, but some. He knows that, and is willing to accept it and is betting on the fact that the number is very low.

From the article:
"If I don’t have a free app for a long time, I’m certainly going to miss out on some potential long-term conversions. But how many, really, and what would it cost to chase them?"
"And most of all, Haskell makes programming fun!" - If you're doing a startup make sure you choose a language you enjoy. You're going to be spending a lot of time using it.

(Also applies to cofounders and the application itself.)
This is the way a normal ethernet network works. Consumers expect it. For instance, I have a printer that connects to my WPA2 network, how else would I print stuff?
If you're assuming that it was already killed, why are you posting this again?
Hm, so what if Flattr charged you a $5 fee instead? They just want you to use it yourself, I can see nothing wrong with that.
www.dotomator.com/web20.html
Maybe so, but those of us who try to restore or emulate old stuff from those long ago times actually have to rely on contemporary information from Usenet because the old documentation no longer exists.
thanks for your work!
no, i don't want auto ordering I wat ordering when i say so a button that i can push is perfect
I'd love to hear about your experiences, too. Hope you can change your mind.
Is there a one-click IoT purchase/event/signal patent? There must be many open, generic BLE buttons which can trigger users events, sending recurring orders directly to a vendor, without needing to go through a middleman API.
Geez I cannot stand april fools anymore.
I can't speak to Netbeans, but I think Visual Studio would run pretty well as long as you have enough RAM and assuming the SSD in the Surface 3 is not pitiful.
Even un-obfuscated it's pretty gross.
I'd probably start them out with C# .NET in Visual Studio, and this is coming from a Mac guy.

This is solely based on the sense of joy and excitement I felt when I first started working in .NET as it was my first experience with quality auto-complete. Good times.
You sure MTBF is still the appropriate term? Perhaps it's time to coin a new one. How about MTBE- MTB Evolution.
I wish I could do something like this for my mother. She came to a strange country as a 14 year old girl in the 60s. Just happened upon some young men that spoke her language.

She had missed her connecting train so they took her home, 3-4 young men. They fed her, gave her a couch to sleep on without taking advantage of her. She wanted to give them a bottle of alcohol she had brought as thanks but they refused.

The next day they put her on the right train.

Only 2 years later she was married to my father, yes at 16. Times were different.

Ever since she had hoped to find these guys who helped her to thank them. She has facebook connections in both countries but it's not helping. I think she needs it to show up on the news somewhere, in both countries most likely.
> Hopefully this doesn't change, because it's really a pain to put things on the tablet without using their app.

Have you tried Syncthing[0, 1]? I'm actually considering buying a ReMarkable 2 right now and the fact that Syncthing seems to be working on it is playing a major role in my decision process.

[0]: https://syncthing.net

[1]: https://github.com/evidlo/remarkable_syncthing
capitalization conventions exist for a reason..
No specific knowledge of this area yet, but in a similar situation elsewhere I/we just grabbed a hotel room in the city for a night or two.
Order overseas, no taxes no matter which state you are in

This is not entirely true, I ordered a good deal of hand carved furniture from India one time and a hand carved bed from China another, both times I received a letter from the State of Florida letting me know exactly what I owed the state in taxes.
An unnamed source, describes a scenario which, from what is understood, never actually happened.

Thanks cnet my day is now more complete.
I am simply pointing out that Manhattan is kind of boring, I don't really care if it was boring or not in the early 80s either. New York has changed drastically since I was a child and I can see that clearly. I was born at NYU Medical Center and I've been in New York for my whole life, so I'd like to think I can formulate an opinion about how the city has changed. I remember squeegee men, how Giuliani seemingly eradicated homelessness in one fell swoop, and New York before it's intense Disneyfication. My first home at Stuyvensant Town was bought by MetLife and is now being marketed as luxury condos. I have plenty to be nostalgic about. Lastly, I'm not certain what "scene" you are referring to. This article is not about tech in NYC and I never claimed to be commenting about tech. You should take your really aggressive vibe "and stuff it".
Funny, I'd just been assuming that Nicholas Negroponte was still in charge there. Turns out he stepped down 10 years ago[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte#Later_caree...
Sure, it would cost something like 50$ a tweet and nobody would read em, but the protocol allows it.
> "inevitable murder in outer space"

Well that's depressing.
If you seriously think that was why Partition happened (elite Hindu messages about Hinduness) I have a bridge to sell you in London. Gandhi who undertook to criticize all sorts of things about Hinduness didn’t deserve assassination for it nor did he cause Partition. How about separate drinking glasses all over the country for separate religions in railway stations, how about Hindus handing out water in Lahore supposedly to Brahmins but keeping a dirty nasty cup aside for any Muslims who happen to ask, how about my 8 year old grandfather in Karnataka being treated as if his touch defiled neighbor’s tin and brass pots like untouchable because he was Muslim. Those are very much issues with Hinduness and I suspect you need to have a little powwow with your parents.
This is relevant right now because Sen Durbin is planning on reintroducing the Domestic Terrorism Bill in light of recent events.[1]

I agree with those who say that there is no need for another bill that grants sweeping new powers to law enforcement. They need only use the laws already on the books. There is plenty more that law enforcement could have done the other day, and plenty more they can still do. Passing another bill has no bearing on that.

1. https://abc7chicago.com/senator-durbin-plans-to-reintroduce-...
Its primary goal is to follow the Go spec correctly, including simulating overflow/underflow on int64 type. Implementing that in JavaScript will have overhead.

So if you don't care about that, you can use int type instead, it will be faster.

But if you do care, I agree, using Go types is much much more pleasant and GopherJS takes care of that for you!
> the biggest issue for most people will be the unminified file size

I wanted to write my validation logic in Go and use that at the client side too, in a React app. Size was indeed my biggest problem. Gzipped size was around 60KB, and that's after the closure compiler advanced level minification. It would make sense if the whole app was being written in Go but having a JS channels implementation transferred through the wire, only never to be used is a bit too much for sharing simple code. I hope that this project becomes very successful and the output gets further optimized.
Regarding first class functions, I've never heard of the requirement that they be compilable at runtime. Compilation is orthogonal to the definition of a language.
For what I've read, Google is becoming too big and some people complain that things aren't moving as fast as they once did.

Facebook is still younger, the teams are smaller, they still have to take shots at new ideas that will generate the revenue stream they need.

But I'm sure that money is also a big part of it, with crazy valuation numbers, being paid in stocks could turn some of the new recruits into millionaires.
Oh, the stuff you can do on the iPhone.

Just the other day I implemented a hidden webview in an iPhone app. The webview subscribes users to third-party affiliation programs (e.g. Groupon) automatically ... basically the thirdparty service is chosen based on how much money it gives to affiliates / if it's available at the user's location (that's why it needs to be automatic).

Behind the scenes a Javascript is loaded in the webview that does plain requests to these services. Because many do not provide an API, I have to fake it ... XmlHttpRequest is not enough because of all the restrictions. So I implemented my own XmlHttpRequest-type functionality by using webview-delegates, but without the restrictions.

The logic behind using a WebView is that you can load / update the subscription logic on the server-side, without updating the application in the iTunes Store. Best thing of all, this works even with Apple's earlier restrictions related to dynamic languages.

Also, the logic behind doing this client-side is that many services complain when requests come from the same IP. You cannot be caught when moving this client-side.

Just to be clear: users are properly informed they are going to get subscribed for spams from their city.
I like appcelerator but they really need to step up things on the Android side of the house
Good question.. I am also eager to find out..
effectgames.com has a pretty strong library with good examples and documentation. I've been using it on-and-off to play around with and it does a good job of generating cross-platform games. One important feature is that it offers similar functionality to Impact (eg. a level editor) but it's all web-based.
If it's raining it's possible to get hypothermia at 50 degrees F.
Isn't the fact that nacl is written by such highly reputable guy(in the crypto community) and that it sees relatively lots of review by experts important here ?
> I understand that the students who have done this so far are there,

That's it exactly. They've done the groundwork, laid out a template, recruited some students to request their records, and discussed a bit what they found or might found. So it's going to be Stanford-specific until similar meat is thrown out about other places.
Does that include or exclude "maintenance windows".

AWS tells you when your maintenance window for an RDS instance will be and you can delay/reschedule as needed.

I wouldn't consider a maintenance window as "downtime". That 99.95 applies to all the time outside the window.