jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Same machine, investment was so big that my dad had to ask for a payroll advance from his boss, given I was struggling with Pascal (and my then computer was a Vic20). Turns out the boss had studied in the same college I was in, his answer was: "Whatever your kid need".

And that's how I got my hands on a 386sx. Around 1992 I installed Xenix and became a Unix nerd.

I love you, dad.
Looks like a shorthand for what they look like at first glance, not what they represent, in the same sentence the researcher hints to a far more probable "pregnant women" as the actual representation. Though I agree with you it might be a bit sensational and therefore probably included by the author.
The published one is significantly shorter which surprised me (6 pages vs 14 pages), but it does claim a different rate in the final paper "All these test results certify the randomness of our parallel random bits generated at a cumulative rate of 2 Tb/s × 127 = 254 Tb/s".
They are allowed to bargain, or negotiate what ever you want to call it, this is a fair tool. A major problem is that these agencies aren't paying what top talent requires. So people are underpaid and also, other people that could do really important work go else where and use their intelligence on advertising.
MathML support was removed eight years ago from Chrome, actually. See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152430...
hah. this must be some sort of joke. even to covid your immune system develops a response that is effective in most cases. from scratch. without seeing the virus before. that is bloody impressive.

i’m not trying to diminish the vaccine or anything that humans have achieved. it’s that we’re really really small and insignificant when it comes to the universe in general and earth in particular.
And if it's not gambling, it's investing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/technology/twitter-saudi-...
Wow this is quite a well organized tutorial. Seems self contained since it contains definitions, explanation and examples.

Thanks for sharing this!
I love it. It's often like figuring out a giant puzzle.
Smells fishy to me. I could figure out B7 in like, a minute, and I'm not a good guitarist at all.
I would disagree - the economy is anti-inductive[1] (in that it resists attempts to understand it). As soon as you implement the results of your sufficiently-sophisticated model, the economy will start to be influenced by that.

Any viable model of the economy would therefore have to recursively contain a model of the model of the economy and so on.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/yv/markets_are_antiinductive/
Weirdly I wrote a blog post on this last year (http://www.toenex.net/2014/04/08/information-super-highway/). I only say weird as I don't really write blog posts, preferring to keep my demons to myself.
The protocol asserts that you have control over the domain, and over a machine that can be accessed at the domain's A record. If you can make your machine appear to be at google.com from the perspective of LetsEncrypt for the duration of the request process, you can get a cert from them.

This is standard for all domain-validation-only certificate authorities, i.e. the cheapest cert you can get from any given company.
In the video (at 35:39), they show the future plans and the plan is to start using bits of Servo code in Gecko. So, they will replace small parts of C++ code with Rust. http://youtu.be/7q9vIMXSTzc?t=35m39s

One plan was to first replace easy parts, like image decoders (bmp/ico formats). https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Mozlandia-Rust-In-Gecko#...

It won't be a one big replacement, more like a gradual take over.
not impossible. build an interpreter for your language and run the compiler in it, to build itself. the result will likely not be "infected" since the compiler hook that reinserts itself misses its cue. (also: compilers with a different structure)
My grandfather was a math teacher. Raising several kids in India with that meager salary, he could only afford a Hercules bicycle which he rode what feels like several decades. He could not afford even a scooter or a moped.

When I came to USA, I bought a car and several after that. I thought at that time how awesome I was.

How wrong have I been at this one and so many others. He was a good man.
Good to hear you've installed Clicky, I use them over Google Analytics (and am very happy) as I'm admittedly paranoid but uncomfortable about giving Google precise traffic stats when they know how much you spend on Adwords.
"Woo" is slang within the online skeptic community, popularized I believe at James Randi's forums. It's short for "woo woo", referring to the theremin-like sound heard in old B movies when "otherworldly phenomena" took place. It refers to beliefs and purported phenomena which are "out there" and lacking in rational, scientific basis.
If you are indeed an ISP as your profile says, your job would be to reroute the wrongly banned traffic so that it does not get dropped by Turk Telekom. Advertise it here, and I would switch to your services. The law doesn't prevent you from laying the cable.
But the question is: is that really important to the majority of the users who download it? Or are they acting blindly?

Now, it could be that there is a contingent of bingo-loving teachers who absolutely prefer to have the software locally installed, but I'm suspecting (without any good evidence, I grant) that this is not really a key decision-factor for most of Patrick's customers who choose to download.
No one said NPR, so I am going to say NPR. The only bad side effect is that you will become very cynical about politic. But seriously, sometimes a 1.5hr hour commute seems like too short when I am listening to NPR. I commute 2 hours each way and NPR is how I roll.
In many places there are legal procedures available to expropriate by force land from owners that don't make use of their real estate.

Near where I live the local city council has run a campaign for years to get people to notify them about derelict and unoccupied buildings in order for them to be able to expropriate it and resell or lease it to companies or residents that actually wants to use the land.

This is exactly because it is recognized that buying and holding land in areas where land is a scarce resource is not in the public interest.
Ill create a GUI interface using visual basic - link for reference - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
From the article:
"The company [...] has licensed a suite of intellectual property from Harvard that, together with other intellectual property[..] enables the company's business model."
"Company's name[...]was chosen [...]because it is a term that is asociated with shareware in Linux."

Sic, I think there is a confusion here.
Other than Wonderlic everything you listed is directly related to athletic ability and are things athletes do on a regular basis. You're supporting my point. I'm saying testing should be directly related to the position.

If someone doesn't need to do binary math or write complex sorting algos from scratch you don't test those, just like how you wouldn't ask an athlete the mundane questions I posted above. You might ask high level questions to demonstrate knowledge of sorting, but not ask someone to implement that algo from scratch.

If someone is trying out for the NFL they're not going to have to demonstrate baseball skills, how their shoes are made, engineering questions about how the stadium is built, what software should be used for the ticketing system, or any other questions unrelated to the position. You have them to demonstrate skills directly related to the talents they need to fill their role, like standard field drills.
Reliable is the key word. That's subjective. Could mean anything from 1% to 99.99%. In some cases 99.99% is still unreliable ;)
They may not be saying that, but the US absolutely has sodomized people during the so-called “War on Terror”. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/cia-torture-...

Here’s one about the army that’s more graphic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...

No one has been prosecuted for the war crimes the CIA commited. Although some low-level army personnel were court martialed for the Abu-Gharib torture, none of the clearly complicit higher-ups were even indicted. In the case of the CIA’s torture program, it is clear that those at the highest levels of government sanctioned these war crimes. Bush, and those around him, should be in prison for their disgusting, shameful actions.
Wow that was a very interesting analogy and theory. Thanks for sharing! I've also never heard of SSC before. I saw the top 10 posts SSC lists in the about page, but do you have any other recommendations for articles relevant to the HN crowd?
Apple wants to force people to use APIs it controls like OpenCL then Metal. The availability of CUDA meant if Apple shipped Macs with nVidia devices, there would be an alternative.
I know you’d like to believe this. But I see a constant stream of challenging software problems at FAANG
Ha, touché. I was coming from the assumption that those things are a baseline that you'll get at most salaried programming jobs, but you're right for calling out that assumption.

The hilarity of maturing. At 19, pizza, soda and video games after work were sexy. At 31, a stable retirement plan is what gets me revved up.
Typetunes
This was seemingly discussed on HN 7.5+ years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=51451
It would be kind of a stretch to label Watson as AI, at least currently.
It seems quite correct to me.

The fact that you were born today means that you will be shielded, either fully or partially, from many of the factors that made the average lifespan 30 years shorter 2 centuries ago, infant mortality included. The lack of these factors would then lead to you "probably" having a 30 year longer lifespan ("probably" in the statistical sense).

You could argue that a more robust statistic like a median would provide a better representation of the expected lifespan less drastically affected by outliers, but calling the 30 year difference in average lifespan "meaningless" is disingenuous at best and could represent a fundamental denial of basic empirical evidence at worst (the latter of which seems more likely to me judging from some of your other replies so far on this subject).
So a library containing one book has just as much information as a library containing all books except for that one book? That doesn't seem right.
This may or may not be germane, but what the fuck have you seen that stupid Sony remote control?
There's no way you've contained 1/1000th of that amount otherwise you wouldn't be telling us about it on the internet (assuming you have Q/Top Secret clearance)

If he has one now, he won't have it for much longer at this rate.
No need to go with the big boys, just go with the unchained boys. RapidSSL / GeoTrust offer unchained certs that are teeny (< 2K) compared to GoDaddy (4K+, 2 chain certs) and others.
Interesting retrospective future-predicting-ish:

Playboy: More important, are you ignoring your potentially biggest rival, A.T.&T.?

Jobs: A.T.&T.. is absolutely going to be in the business. There is a major transformation in the company that's taking place right now. A.T.&T. is changing from a subsidized and regulated service-oriented company to a free-market, competitive-marketing technology company. A.T.&T.'s products per se have never been of the highest quality. All you have to do is go look at their telephones. They're somewhat of an embarrassment. But they do possess great technology in their research labs. Their challenge is to learn how to commercialize that technology. Also, they have to learn about consumer marketing. I think that they will do both of those things, but it's going to take them years.

---

and this:

Jobs: I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.
http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/10/hosting-backdoors-in-hardwar... is interesting
<i>You could very well say he's the raison d'être of Apple as we know it.</i>

No. That has to be Jobs. Even back in the days of Apple I and Apple II, it seems like Jobs made Apple the company, even if it was Woz spearheading Apple the computer. Did Woz even work on anything at Apple beyond the Apple II series? (I don't know, but I don't think so)

However, I don't know if this makes Woz any less qualified than anyone else on the planet to comment on cell phones. He certainly strikes me as more qualified than most.
It's a 501c3, I don't think you can buy those. In any case, it's open source, and there are several forks floating around (though Signal does typically dissuade people from using them, because it conflicts with their strategy around a cohesive experience, and rollout of new features).
Clearly the police were outnumbered to a degree that they couldn't prevent them from getting inside in the first place, so why would they have sufficient forces to search these individuals on exit?
Yep, tape of specific color/pattern used the day you plan your attack.
“I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be when people realize that this is a policy that they defend"

- Nancy Pelosi
try this video https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/video-shows-capitol-police-cop...
Why are you all surprised by this -- didn't you see the Tyler Durden quote? It was right there at the top of the page!

I guess everyone's an edgy-movie-quote-quoting-internet-hacker-bro until the man from Silicon Valley offers your $19Billion.

I wonder how many of those billions can we equate to Tyler Durden? Must of been worth at least 8 IMO.
Your office is intended to keep most people in the world out most of the time.

The Capitol is intended to allow most people most of the time.
Oh, I see. My bubble was well aware of how violent these people are and were going to be. I mean, they like guns. They talk about killing people all of the time. They look and sound crazy. These are the people whose ancestors (adults and children) had picnics while watching men being hanged in the early-to-mid 20th century.

And my bubble was well aware that they were going to storm the Capitol because protestors often try to get past the police barricade and the police were going to go easy on them.

Note: I wasn’t downplaying that visiting sites like the one you mentioned was helpful. I do that from time to time as well to troll them but also to get the full perspective.
What is darkscience?
You're a false dilemma. Raising a child bilingual in English and Mandarin, good. Raising a child bilingual in Gaelic and Navajo, not so good.
They're apples and oranges, and it completely depends what you're doing. RPi can be a personal computer, Arduino is most certainly not.

When you're asking yourself whether you should use a RPi or an Arduino:

RPi Cons: RPi has analogue in pins, limited PWM etc, an OS and file system you need to take into consideration when building a project.

RPi Pros: You can use pretty much whatever language (natively) you want. It's a computer. Much better support for Audio / Video built-in.
Well, they are two very different things. One is basically a computer, the other a microcontroller.
I don't know if I can agree with this. I've invested a significant amount of time in learning about monads (and functors, applicatives, monoids, and more from the bestiary of commonly used category theoretic structures in Haskell) and I find them quite challenging to grasp in their full generality. While specific use-cases are readily understood, getting to the heart of what a monad "is" has taken me time, and I honestly don't believe I've properly grasped it yet.

So I think there's a spectrum of understanding and effective use when it comes to monads and other algebraic structures like these, and I'm skeptical when people say, "oh yeah, a monad is just X, it's simple." I've said that myself in the past and I was wrong, and so were most of the people I've heard say that.

To put it another way: when I hear people who know what they're talking about say it's simple, they are talking about its structure, not about understanding what it is and how it is used. In that sense it is quite simple. But as Euclid said, there's no royal road to geometry (er, or monads...).
Exactly, considering that we still have textmate around, I am not sure if scripting in node.js with OSX API is the best way to pull it out.

As I mentioned AppleScript seems to be a better fit for an OSX-only editor.

Of course any new things are welcomed, just that I am not at the best positive about this.
This article[1] may help you to understand why you (rightly) have a justified fear of equity dilution as the company grows and (probably) raises additional capital through future funding rounds. The relevant quote: "When you are issued employee equity, be prepared for dilution. It is not a bad thing. It is a normal part of the value creation exercise that a startup is."

The article tries to explain how equity dilution (for both founders and employees) pans out. It is worth a read.

[1] http://avc.com/2010/10/employee-equity-dilution/
Intereseting read. As someone who grew up pestering my parents for Star Wars, GI Joe, Transformers, etc. it's hard for me to even envision an era where the predominant toys on the shelves everywhere were not movie/tv related.

A friend of mine said just yesterday, "Christmas was good; I now own one or two of every Frozen related product in existence" (he has three girls under the age of 10).

So I guess the trend continues...
Is that the case? I thought it was more of an issue of the SDK and the APIs not being ready at the time that they wanted to launch.

I can't imagine that Jobs hates the notion of apps.

On the other hand, I don't understand why anyone involved with the Mac platform, where uniform interfaces are a big deal and microcriticism of widgets is so common, would ever champion the Web as a platform.
He's also saying:

"If you're doing the sort of Hollywood shoot where you have 45 people on a call sheet like transportation captains [lots of titles] then you might have a focus puller, and you might want to consider a DSLR in place of your Panavision or ARRI to save on film costs."

and

"If something moves, you need a focus puller and a special rig with special Hollywood focusing hardware to shoot with a DSLR.

DSLR video is for serious professional production, which is why you'll see it promoted as being used on big productions."

I'd agree that manual focus is not the best choice for wedding shoots, but that doesn't mean that manual focus is unusable by all but Hollywood productions.
Tolerance? Remember when the left taught America it's okay to use violence if it is for the greater good?

> The elite media class of academics, influencers, celebrities, and journalists who make up the #resistence, spent all summer saying "riots are the language of the unheard," as a way of excusing and justifying violence, vandalism, and riots in the streets

This thread will help you remember: https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/134693785297048371...
Yeah, I have no idea what the narrative on that event will be, or what it should be, or whether those two will be the same. Facts will continue to come out and be amalgamated into various narratives to suit the various factions.

I guess what I really mean to say is that someone seeing that video and thinking, "some of those people were let inside by the Capitol Police" is not the most reckless interpretation of a video clip I've seen in the last twelve months, much less in my lifetime.

Now, "I saw that video and therefore it was staged by [Trump/Pelosi/etc.]," is where it becomes reckless and unjustifiable parroting of trending narratives. Let's wait for the investigation, and hope (however naively) that it is thorough and impartial, and that the public receives the full report.

Edited to add: I have never seen an American public so ready to be deceived and weaponized against each other as what we've seen with this last, long cycle of increasing tension (which appears to be far from over). And it's anyone's guess as to who will weaponize that more destructively.

So I think your ultimate point is both timely and important. Thank you for making it.
These platforms exist for the purpose of capturing content that has been “deplatformed”.

>Speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being “deplatformed” for your views. Engage with real people, not bots. Parler is people and privacy-focused, and gives you the tools you need to curate your Parler experience.

Parler frontpage.

They have no intention of creating a real alternative to Twitter.

Lets be honest here, It's not like you can't have a conversation on Twitter either if your views are alternative. It's their hateful, harmful and offensive comments that will get them "deplatformed".
I understand how Twitter says that these are relevant to the recent events, but it feels like they were just sitting around waiting for him to tweet something they could latch onto to use as a reason to remove him. Because these tweets seem innocent compared to so many of his others.

Really not sure how I feel about this though... weighing between the benefits of allowing open speech on “town square” Internet forums versus enforcing their right as a private entity and removing his violence-inciting self.

Either way, this is a huge deal
The retired two-port laptops were able to drive two external displays, and that is something that M1 two-port laptops cannot accomplish. The criticism is timeless, especially for M1 buyers.
And what are "forums" and "bulletin boards"?

They're online environments (aka media) for discussions (aka a form of social interactions).

"Social media" is just the mass market name for forums.

Edit:

I'm kind of flattered that someone created a new account just to nitpick a comment of mine :-))

Keep on keeping on, senormenor: https://xkcd.com/386/
Make me pay for it.

The ad industry's biggest accomplishment is making most users believe that they can have access to state of the art search engine, video streaming, messenging etc... for "free". It means that it's incredibly hard to compete with a different business model.
This is not productive to this conversation.

Please don't propose technical solutions for things that should be solved by law. Protection should be the default, and not up to your own cleverness vs. the cleverness of trillion dollar industries. If that is the fight you have to fight, you will lose either immediately or eventually (see also the next point).

Please don't propose technical solutions that are mostly ineffective due to the huge amount of brainpower spent on browser fingerprinting, super cookies and other means of persistence. Cookies were invented in the 90s, and the means of being more clever than those deleting cookies were invented soon after.

Please don't speak with such condescension about these topics. People might mistake your confidence to imply you are actually on to something, but if the solution to the problem was so simple it would have been solved already - and the industry behind this would be dead or pivoted away.
Sounds like a great opportunity for you to enter the market and capture one of these alternative revenue channels with your ad-free search engine.
It's a lot like the dodocase (dodocase.com) but a DIY version.
I’ve gone through this “diet” three times (see graphs). The first time I went from 83kg to 75.5kg over about 3 months. The second time, from 80kg to 71kg over 4 months. My latest iteration of this diet has me down from 75kg to 68.5kg in about 2 months.

Note how each time the starting weight is over the last ending weight? And this is the problem, right there. It is not hard to find an eating regime that will help you lose weight. That's the easy part. The hard part for many is not gaining weight when you are not "manning the store", so to speak.