jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is already pretty much possible. A jailbroken iPhone gives you the best of both worlds - and you don't even need to go through the hassle of dual booting. And it's actually ridiculously easy to get up and running.

I would argue that a jailbroken iPhone is currently the best device available. You get Apple's slick UI and ease of use alongside Android's restriction-free environment.

Interesting anecdote: I actually turned off multitasking with my jailbroken iPhone. Except for some very specific cases I think most people are going to find multitasking not a big deal at all.
The Python community’s (and Guido’s) approach to evolving language features and backwards compatibility is really a model for software projects. The focus when comparing programming languages or other types of software is often on feature specifics, but those are driven by process and community. It’s the process of smart high-level mailing list debate, followed by PEPs, more debate, and executive decisions by a careful (even skeptical) but dedicated and competent BDFL that makes Python what it is.

There’s a brilliant book about teams, projects, and workflows hiding somewhere in a detailed historical review and comparison of popular programming languages.
There is a _long_ discussion about how much exercise helps weight loss, what kind of exercise is better (aerobic vs anaerobic, burning calories vs building muscle, priming the metabolism vs getting hungry), how much is enough etc. It's much safer to skip it altogether.
Obvious solution: Stop using SVN. Versions is a great app, but it’s long since time to move on.

That said, Kaleidoscope is pretty neat! :D
He says, as I've heard, that those body fat scales are wildly inaccurate. But it looks like the variance is less than a percentage point, which seems really good to me. I guess it's more of an issue of a constant error?

EDIT: Yea, I guess it is probably a constant (person-specific) error. The first google result said

>Use [the scales] to measure your progress only. Don't compare your body fat percentage to tables or to your friends score. It is probably inaccurate no matter what the manufacturers say.

I guess if you calibrated this with a one-time, accurate body-fat measurement, it would be pretty good set-up.

EDIT2: Well, maybe not. Some people apparently report that the (cheap?) scales vary several percentage points during a single day. My calibration method also seems vulnerable to the fact that people store their fat in different places on their body depending on their genetics. Maybe this can be fixed with two calibration measurements...
No, just because it's what you know it doesn't mean that's a good place to try. If there's no opportunity then it doesn't matter how much expertise you have, it's like drawing blood from a stone. You might well be better off starting in something which you have less expertise but there's a bigger opportunity.
25% * 25% * 25% * 25% != 100%

You're doing it wrong...
It seems to me that making research more open and searchable would mitigate some of these problems. The system-gaming and badly calibrated incentives smell like the kind of distortions closed social systems tend to introduce.
On the plus side (for the NSA), this effect may filter out some of the people whose moral/ethical orientation would prove to be a liability in that organization.
a) Not true. As I said: worse comes to worse we can always make our own. Alpha decay can be induced with particle beams, etc. Now, it's horridly inefficient, etc, etc. But it's possible.

b) What don't we have access to? The rest of the universe? True, for now. However, we don't "even" need to go interstellar for it.

c) No, we won't be able to forever. However, the thing is: with helium at least, the sources known now are sufficient, in raw quantity at least, until so far in the future that good luck predicting what our needs will be. It makes someone before the rise of automobiles calculating what the horse manure removal would have to be in 2100 look shortsighted.
“Oakland has a unique opportunity. It has an opportunity that no other region has anywhere in the world, so if Oakland can’t do it, no one else can,” Selassie said.

I don't see any reason to believe that. I mean if Oakland pulls it off -- diversifying tech and becoming an important hub in that regard -- awesome. But I see no reason to believe that it has to be something in the SF Bay Area. Part of what made Silicon Valley a growth opportunity is that that area was relatively undeveloped and it was, thus, cheap. Historically, a lot of our biggest companies were founded during a recession or depression and a lot of stuff was founded someplace cheap. In order to go live someplace expensive, you need to already be making good money. By definition, brand spanking new businesses and industries are not doing that.

So I don't see any real reason to believe that any place in the SFBA is The Spot to bet on for becoming "the next Silicon Valley -- only for X thing or with X twist."
Microsoft isn't as good at collecting and reselling all of your personal information, so have to charge the actual cost of the hardware.
> If you look at Common Lisp the Language, the book which provided the initial definition of the language

CLtL (1984) provided the initial definition of Common Lisp; Lisp had already been around for nearly 30 years, though, and there are lots of Lisps around whose only influence (if any) from Common Lisp is indirect.
What is the purpose of using water rather than just some metal projectile? The US army brings so much equipment, I can't imagine it's the fact that water is particularly easier to come by than (say) a metal disk.
See here: http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/recipe-part2/

I suspect that one could get through the entire thing, handily grasp all of it, and be ready to apply what was learned in practice without ever realizing this had anything to do with the dreaded M-word.

On a somewhat related note, I'm impressed by how Microsoft has their entire developer community comfortably using a few basic monads without even realizing it. I've even had some success with hijacking it. The terms they chose are explicitly coupled to the idea of querying, but I've been able to produce some implementations of .NET's version of the pattern that still produce good and readable results when you use the LINQ query syntax with them. I wouldn't say it's a perfect renaming of all the concepts, but if the goal is to make the concept intuitive enough for most users to tackle without fears then damn if it isn't an impressive 90% solution.
There already exist such tools, and especially now with go-generate in 1.4 it's become easier to do that. But we need deeper integration for them, like gocode completion being able to work on the generic files, linters that can lint a template based source file, etc. If a holistic approach like that would exist I'd personally use a preprocessor.
Yeah, JavaScript on both - front-end and back-end.
I've successfully used sellyourmac.com[1] to both buy and sell used macs.

[1] http://sellyourmac.com
I'm surprised you needed just one off-duty officer at the 3rd and Pine location. I've eaten there a couple of times and it's quite the experience.

Was it still known as Crackdonalds back then? I can't imagine meth was a big enough thing 20+ years ago that you'd also hear it called Methdonalds?
Might have a few scars to carry around.
Keyboard input language switching between apps has been broken for 10 years now. Yosemite broke it further.
We could call it go++!

More seriously, this would make sense as a prototyping step (I think the Java equivalent was called Pizza?), but ultimately this would be a fork of the language, with all that implies.
As we demand corporations pay their fair share, the government needs to also show us that they can make effective use of the money. Will the Biden admin address the obscenely bloated discretionary military spending? https://imgur.com/a/Z0uiOcu
That was exactly it, thanks for posting the link!
And here I clicked this thinking I was going to get an informative, insightful read out of it.
I posted the link because I'd guess the international readership of HN know about Branson/Virgin from the airline and music operations - which are clearly successful - whereas his domestic UK initiatives have a rather more mixed track record, but probably aren't as well known.

If the originally posted piece had been about Bill Gates giving advice to entrepreneurs, referring back to his billion-dollar successes with DOS, Windows and Office, then everyone here would be able to put that in context against the likes of MS Bob, Kin, antitrust investigations, etc. I'm not so sure that as many people will have endured the dubious pleasures of Virgin Rail.
IMHO, targeted advertising is completely ok, as long as you know you're being targeted. I think most people can deduce that their actions on Facebook change their ads on Facebook.

The problem is when you walk into an auto parts store, have to wait in line, so you play whatever the newest game is on your phone. The game figures out where you are via gps, reports that to facebook, and suddenly you're getting car part ads on facebook. This is not clear to most people. And I'd even say this behavior is just fine if you opt-in to it.

And it gets worse. You have a friend in your contacts list (which you shared with Facebook for some reason). Facebook thinks that they probably share the same interests as you, so now THEY are getting auto parts ads.

At least for me, as long as this is all clear and accepted, I'm fine with it. As of now, consumers either don't have a choice, or the choice they do have is so hidden that they don't know they have it.
As you said that sample was older people, and we know the age is a very sensitive factor in the outcome.

The estimates I have seen so far for the mortality is 0.1-1%, and the estimates I have seen for the % of population to be infected is in the region of 40-60%. If these numbers are in any way reliable, that gives an expected death toll for Italy of around 20k to 400k. It's a big bid-offer, but is unlikely to add up to millions, unless the healthcare system completely collapses.
And the commonality between elisp and scheme: a lack of a module/namespacing system.
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> Well, if you're under attack, the 1-click link will reveal your identity to the first person to click on the link.

That's true, but much easier to defend against. Since you can talk in a semi-synchronous manner and we can have a high _probability_ that the correct person will be be the one clicking on the link.

So if it works:

Godelski: Hey, let's chat on Signal, my link is signal.me/#one-time-code/jdjkerfe2r3rfwseffre5ge5g

Thaumasiotes: Great!

If it doesn't work:

Godelski: Hey, let's chat on Signal, my link is signal.me/#one-time-code/jdjkerfe2r3rfwseffre5ge5g

Thaumasiotes: Hey, link seems bad

While you're right that there are no guarantees, I don't think that's true for any system. There's only probabilities. Obviously there are other ways to do this along the same lines. I can have a global link that has infinite links (e.g. one I could place under my HN profile) that I can only have there. These strings are much easier to generate than usernames given that with higher entropy you don't have the same likelihood of a birthday clash.

I'm not saying that communicating without revealing your identity isn't a challenging problem. But there are clearly some versions that reveal _more_ than others. Maybe there's no perfect system (I'm not smart enough to know) but there's clearly better ones than others. Standard usernames seems to just be throwing your hands up and giving up.

> you're on the much simpler problem of communicating in a way that is resistant to eavesdroppers

We already have that. It's called E2EE.
Nobody is stopping you from doing that for yourself.
> If Dart hasn't the chance to become a natively supported language, why would anyone pick it as a compile-to-JavaScript language, given there are so many superior options?

I don't think that the premise ("given there are so many superior options") is a non-controversial assertion. Which is probably why people who reject it would (and have been) picking it as a compile-to-JS language for web-facing projects.

The focus on compile-to-JS and JS interop for the web announced in the blog post makes Dart a more, rather than less, attractive language for web development, because it eases fears that taking full advantage of Dart might, in the near future, mean "works better on Chrome" rather than "targets the whole web", and because it means that Dart will work better with the universe of browser-targeted tools that aren't all written in Dart.
However, normal people don't care, need those boxes checked or they will be unable to run the software again

All I can think of now is "our website was at the very tip of the penis" and "my salesforce.com was on the right testicle". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU
Derek's post is one of the best to date about hiring programmers for short projects or outsourcing purposes.
I still believe the best way to hire tech talent is to develop relationships as you'll have to trust the guy with your product and IP. Meet people at ruby-python-whatever user groups, find people you could comfortably live with and then try to work together on something.
> Tell me how to vote for change, and I'll gladly do it.

Turn off your TV, get off your couch and get outside and protest like any good citizen of a democracy is required to do.

Look what happens in France when the government tries to take away a single public holiday, or make changes to maternity leave.

What your government is currently offering for health care is completely and utterly unacceptable beyond belief. It's your job to make them change it.
I think maybe the target audience for this is people with old trucks not people who know about Teslas
>This thing has a ground clearance of 16 inches.
up to 16 inches, which may (or may not) indicate dynamic suspension
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American citizen, but no need for visa sponsorship.
But http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_%28film%29 differs
I have found some useful information in the "dup" questions. It's a bit weird to discover that a useful answer is "closed as duplicate" but whatever, as long as I keep finding solutions to my problems, I'll keep going back.
Ask justplay: why do you think Jimmy deserves a Nobel Prize? It seems like you forgot to share your opinion.
I know Android devs have a internal bugtracker, so there are two bugtrackers at least (internal and external). This horrible external bugtracker on Google Code is maybe not as relevant as you might think. I can imagine it is a pain in the *ss to sync them.
Not sure about him, but pretty sure he already did more for humanity than Obama when he received the award. (disclaimer: south american here)
That I agree with :) It's a business concern, not a technical concern. I've just been told the opposite, so I thought it was a good thing to clarify it!
Upper sideband (like AM radio but with the carrier and lower sideband signals suppressed).
We went through the Paypal Approval process and were approved.
We will be adding more games soon. There are only three games currently on the platform: Snake, Asteroids, Flappy Koalah. We required sign-in to encourage a more social experience. We shall be updating soon to allow people to check out the site without signing in.
rest of quote: "And it is true, wow, that company really was in that business! Now they (the company) belong to Verizon."

What the company did is surprising, not who worked there.
Yes, it is much faster, I will be updating the benchmark and reposting
I’ll spare you the click. It’s yet another article about intermittent fasting, but with a historical perspective.
> intensive purposes

I love that eggcorn. It's "intents and purposes", btw.
I just saw a 10-week software engineering class project use Neo4j. I'm not convinced that deployment is as hard as you might believe.
Any other HNers who are Causal Determinists? I don't think that makes me think the world is "just." It just "is."
Bad for Apple how? AT&T is paying quite a bit for this privilege. As high as $18 / mo / iPhone according to http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9803657-37.html
So does IE: Ctrl + Shift + T
It is a mistake in logic, specifically the part where people see someone in an unfortunate situation and think "They must have done something to deserve that".

The fallacy isn't the idea that the world is just (it may or may not be), it's making the assumption that the just-world idea is actually true.
Google has one of the best workspace conditions out there though
> No one is going to go to jail because you purchased a small amount of drugs.

What world are you living in? Drug possession is one of the most common reasons for being arrested.

https://www.bjs.gov/content/dcf/enforce.cfm
> Such is life in the npm world, unfortunately.

I don't really think npm is to blame in this specific case. It's merely acting as an index to a set of tarballs, e.g. the same way PyPI or crates.io do.

It would be fairer to point the blame at the ecosystem and mindset of developers of popular JavaScript libraries.
CPUs are the latency-optimized machines of today.

If a CPU sees a line of 10 people, it will brew 10-cups of coffee, speculating that most want coffee. If only 9-cups were needed, it will throw away the extra coffee.

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In practice, this truly happens. CPUs perform branch-prediction over a for-loop.

for(int i=0; i<32; i++){
doA();
}
doB()

The value "i" hasn't been calculated yet, but the CPU performs branch prediction. Modern CPUs can accurately loops of size ~32 or less. Modern CPUs will literally fill their pipelines with 32x "doA()" statements, and even the doB() statement BEFORE the i<32 check was even tested.

Now the branch-predictor might be wrong! Lets say that doA() is:

if(random() == 1% chance){
i++; // Increments the loop counter
}

The CPU will likely fail to predict this, and then will be forced to throw away the work. Nonetheless, its overall beneficial for the CPU to speculatively try to do all the loops anyway (the alternative is leaving the CPU-pipeline empty, which has roughly the same costs as a failed speculation anyway).

CPU-wins if it is correct, and it ties if it is wrong. So might as well speculate.
If that tool linked libc statically, it would have worked. Linux does provide a very stable binary ABI in form of syscalls, so long as you bundle all your dependencies. The problem is that nobody does it that way in practice, at least not with the commonly used tools.
I'm using borg and I honestly like it. Not ready to only rely on it. I try to use the 3-2-1 principle of backup strategy and borg is really a space and bandwidth saver! My collection grew from few Gb to some Tb. It's already more than a year old and I was wondering whether it's better to start a fresh new repo every year or to let grow the original one until it reaches a certain size? Any recommendations from ppl that used it for +2 years?
Here's an idea: Stop trying force the backwards notion that using tools is cheating. There is 0 reason that any high-stakes test needs a calculator.

This simple change will improve the quality of education and reduce the cost of calculators.
American Affairs Journal was actually founded by a conservative nationalist as a pro-Trump journal, designed to "to give the Trump movement some intellectual heft." The editor changed his mind (and his political position) 6 months after the election, after Charlottesville.

I think that what you see here may be some amount of bitterness after watching how events play out and what actually changes. The working class he decries as powerless were his people (he grew up in a small town in South Dakota); it's just that now that we've had 3 years of Trump he sees just how ineffective it's been.
It's not a big deal now that embedded machines with a half a gig of RAM/multicore processors and open-source postscript rendering software is common, but postscript traditionally came with a heavy price in compute resources and software licensing fees. For a long time the RIP in the printer was a more capable system than the PC driving it, and printers that handled it were correspondingly premium products.
Functions are the basic abstraction in C. They are good for describing intent. Likewise, structs are good for giving pointers and bytes meaning.

Pointers and bytes and arrays are the least of all my problems in dealing with old C code.
This is the right move though because moving towards "Driverless printing" will solve the overall problem in a simpler way:

https://openprinting.github.io/driverless/

Google is pro-adapting to change. And it is painful but it is usually the right thing.
This more or less should work with Opera extensions too.
I did the same thing when I first got Vibrams - ran about 4 miles with no prior barefoot running. Felt great during, then I could barely walk the next couple days (my calves were totally dead...).

A year later, I'm still running with them, though mainly for my shorter runs. They've helped develop leg muscles I didn't know I had, which I think is helping keep my knee injury at bay. Highly recommended.
I know of at least one YC game company:
http://ycombinator.posterous.com/koduco-is-bringing-old-scho...
The title does the contents a disservice - his views on global culture are far more interesting and make up a much larger bulk of the article than why he loves twitter.
Tested on chrome. works fine. tested on htc desire. didn't work. Browser version webkit 3.1 . I swiped.. tapped.. swiped.. several times. Then it suddenly started changing and all the taps and swipes happened with a really delayed reaction.

Oh but i like the site a lot! :) cheers
Weren't the problems with the American economy foretold before the financial crisis? We haven't even hit the big problems. You can only borrow for so long and kick the can down the road.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963807
Not every input to a query can be bound as a parameter.

Simplest example: User.find_by_sql("SELECT * from users where name = ? LIMIT #{ limit }", name)

Other examples: sort order (ASC/DESC), table selection, join columns, GROUP BY argument.

If you think I'm arguing against parameterized queries: of course not. Use them. But know their limitations.
thanks! I hadn't seen that before
Hmmm, I haven't run into any lag issues yet. It may because I try to be fancy and do transition effects when I may just need to switch out the text. Thanks for the bug report.
I doubt that was the author's intended definition. His article does not seem to be an attempt to distance himself from the sort of behavior your definition of a jester would commit.
Totally ridiculous and not justifiable. Just install jammers at the jails.

The real reason for a ban must be elsewhere.