jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I fully agree. We're probably pretty close to having a lot of essentially convenience autopilot functions--however we decide to allow those to be phased in. (And however they're actually used.) But the "significant effects" require something more along the lines of robo-Uber and that's multiple decades out. It's worth noting that we already have "self-driving" cars. They just have organic computers as drivers. And you see quite a few of them--especially in Asian cities where there's a large wage gap.
"They don't even use it anymore" is a bit of an exaggeration. "They made a fork of WebKit and renamed their fork Blink" is more accurate. It's still pretty close to the same thing.
N = 1 sample size:

I'm almost 30, been carrying a cell phone since I was 16. The mother of my child, same thing. At the time of conception (we were both mid-late 20's), we were drinking like fish, smoking a half pack a day, eating horribly, for whatever reason we were both in great shape (I exercise a lot, she was very into dancing), using protection (not as well as we thought apparently) and bam, shes pregnant.

There was a list on thebump.com or some such website, listing all the do's and don'ts for getting pregnant, we pretty much broke every rule both ways, weren't trying, and now we have a child.

I think the bigger problem with fertility will be overweight/obese people more than anything else. I have friends who have been trying to months/years, no luck. There seems to be a strong correlation between weight and fertility, at least in my anecdotal experience.
For Chornobyl, I found estimate at Wikipedia:
«An early estimate for total nuclear fuel material released to the environment was 3±1.5%; this was later revised to 3.5±0.5%. This corresponds to the atmospheric emission of 6 tonnes (5.9 long tons; 6.6 short tons) of fragmented fuel.[127]»

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Relative_is...
The idea was that the phone OS could detect the usage of those APIs and prompt the user wthout Apple having to be directly involved in the process.
What’s the well-known privacy-conscious Android store that’s been running for a long time?
You are right. The degree and sophistication of media manipulation is profoundly greater in the west. While the Chinese block a lot of media, the manipulation is minimal. Most Chinese are very cynical and know exactly what is going on. The west, or at least the US, traps people in a matrix of sorts where they don't even see the manipulation. The narrative is exquisitely framed and guided to leave people with a sense of moral superiority and basic faith in the system despite perceived flaws, as is ironically exhibited by your comment.

edit: some good resources on the history and nature of western media manipulation are the BBC documentary "The Century of Self" and Noam Chomsky's book "Manufacturing Consent".
It could probably afford to be aired in the "is college a waste of time and money?" threads which crop up here every day too.
You have a valid point.

I am sorry.

The second question even respectable strangers tend to ask me after "where you are from ?" is "you must be really into drinking vodka ?", so the effect of stereotypes on me is mostly amusement. Another example is my wife who is an entrepreneur, and tells plenty of stories of how it is to be a blond woman - because the other party a-priori tends to think of usual "blonde" stereotypes. She also says this lasts for approximately 5 first minutes into the conversation and then she gains more respect than if she'd be a man in a suite, we speculated.

This "positive" view of stereotypes made me skewed, I think, so again - excuse me.

The people who seriously and blindly apply the stereotypes deserve more education than they were able to get. And those who feel the impact of those people taking the stereotypes seriously, do deserve to be in a more intelligent company too - it's unfortunate if they can not rectify that by changing the circle of acquaintances.
Clever use. But do you think it would scale? Doesn't it rely on bit.ly and/or hashify.me being able to convert the URL into a readable page?
Following on from the Alan Kay quote, it seems fitting that he also said this:

It is unfortunate that much of what is called “object-oriented programming” today is simply old style programming with fancier constructs

Sadly, I don't remember offhand where I saw him say that.
Sales, sales, sales. Always be selling. Lots of people claim they can; few actually can.
I comment the code out and leave a dated comment telling myself to delete it if commenting it out has caused no issues... I think that's a lot nicer than having to fetch code from a revision control system if you've taken something out that's important...

And besides if in a couple of weeks there has been no issues as a result of the refactor it's then very simple to see what to delete.
Ugh, that's some disgraceful link breaking by a company that should know better.

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!search/%22larry$20page%2...
Combine more projects into the same codebase. With games this is easy - make a "multicart" game that has more than one game in the same program.

Once that is done, you always have the whole portfolio of unfinished-yet-related things sitting there. If you can't work on any of them, you start a new one, but eventually you hit the point where you can see that you're just redoing an old one. You don't get stuck on overengineering it because the context of it is already as a small part of a whole. If one of them proves to be a really good idea and more deserving of attention, you chop it out of the original context.
Ugh, can we please stop with the "X for Y" convention?
For starters, I dislike the title of the post. The thread language design and community/eco-system creation around the language.

I am not aware of how if at all Steve is qualified to make a well judged statement on either language design or the communities that develop around languages since afaik he has not done either.

I have been following the thread from the beginning since I am on the list, Steve Yegge comes of as delusional with his claims on how he influenced the Python community with one of his blog posts.

On the couple of instances where Steve was requested about what he contributed in tangible fashion, he mentions months of effort an JSwat command line support, everyone interested should check out the project and his contributions on code.google.com

On the second occasion he refuses to publish anything that the community can see or use or enhance.

I hope he proves me wrong, but at this time, he is blowing a lot of hot air, off the wrong end, and should stay away from the blog post he intends to write, his facade of being a real voice for a developer community is crumbling fast
doesn't work, still looks 3D to me
Side question, could you explain your ethics in helping the cops bust someone by using a tracking device they did not know they were carrying? Personally I find it repugnant and would not participate, the right to privacy is more important than a single crime.
BitCoin has been criticized for its built-in deflation, but that does give a reason to use it as a store of value.
Motorola Atrix, Android 2.2
It's as if I've been transported to 2007!
I too read this many years ago. I find its impact no less that when I first read it.

It is an excellent example of a science fiction short story pithy, well written with a fantastic premise and a great ending. The details of which religion it is don't matter, the impact would be the same if it was the Catholic Church or a some Hindus.

The facts may not quite fit but they don't change the story's point.

Also the reason Clark put the the discussion of religious doctrine in there is to shift the reader's view point IMO. Make the Lama and his monastery seem a bit silly, especially in the light of the modern world. This makes the impact of the end of the story all that more poignant.
So ... Val Kilmer in "Real Genius" was right that freezing a liquid laser increases the efficiency, and 30 years ago at that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Genius
margaret hamilton and ladyada of the x0xb0x are some notables.
I bought the first edition of it years ago and I realized I was in over my head too :(
Probably missing the feature that requires users of external networks to register with Facebook or Google in order to send messages on the Facebook or Google network.
That's why they're called unit tests. They are supposed to test precisely one unit of functionality, while assuming everything else works as specified (using mocks if necessary).
Taking into account the effects of microcode execution on the test result is in fact a kind of integration testing.
I actually use it.

I'm not serious about web development though, I just do it for my job.

I also use Python Tools for Visual Studio, but that is a different story.
The part where when you're using XMPP you're not on their website looking at their ads.
Technically...

- connect is for filing bugs

- uservoice is for "ideas and suggestions"

How people use it, of course, is a completely different story...

And then some teams (like us) have public issue trackers, which are the best approach if available because everything goes directly to the team: https://nodejstools.codeplex.com/workitem/list/basic
Optical types are when they shave the bushy hair off of the type system, and it looks an inch longer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbXwzqlqsU
The brain shuts down within seconds, not minutes.

It takes a few minutes for it to die, but it's totally unconscious for that time.

And I prefer to look at actual usage, not perfect usage.

For example: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2008.07.016 for this type of animal 53% of the time the stunning did not work properly.

And according to http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/slaughter/std4.htm 5-10% of captive bolt stunning does not work properly. There are plenty of other sources that say the same thing.
You forgot (c) law enforcement gone mad in the US.
Breaking down why you're wrong about why I'm wrong :-)

A) 3 to 5 years to MVP? You're doing it wrong.

B) No solution is perfect for every situation, I'll concede that. It doesn't make me wrong. In fact it assures that what I said will be right, at least some of the time. I'm being snarky, but the point is, of course MTurk isn't going to work for every application. Use some judgment. Maybe the coffee shop thing would work better for you, I just think other alternatives are more worthy of investigation.

C) Once again, you're doing it wrong. You got it there at the end though. Ask businesses or real potential customers to commit, not you're closest friends. In what scenario would that route work?
If you don't like heroes, you could not like the guy!
Spanish had the second largest number[1] of native and secondary speakers in 1999[2] (417 million) behind Mandarin with 1052 million. It's also still the second most spoken language when counting only native speakers. However, English is currently the second most spoken language, with 900 million native and secondary speakers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_...

[2] The numbers the parent points to are estimates from 1997.
I'm going to assume you're not trolling, based on your long account history, and point out that this site is evolving, much like everything else on the internet. It's certainly not the "Startup News" it was when I signed up, and at this point this site is popular enough to a point where even the definition of "Hacker News" will probably shift slightly.

But that's Ok. The important thing is, we're evolving together. (Ok, it's technically a benevolent dictatorship, but you get the idea.)

If you want to see this board have different sorts of content, poke around and submit interesting content for us to read. I assure you, Hacker News does not have a monopoly on interesting technical content. The reason it does get the quality of content that it does is that people like you are free to submit stuff that's cool. And if this week is a little slow, forgive us a bit - it's the holidays, and people are distracted from reading technical papers for a bit.

If next week you still find we're not the droids you're looking for, there's plenty of other great tech sites on the internet - but I sincerely hope you don't leave because you felt you couldn't make a difference here. Try to think positive - I think it'll help both your enjoyment here and people's reactions to your comments - and have a great holiday.
Emphasis on almost. As would be expected, their memory isn't actually perfect.

Thermodynamics/information theory put a limit on how much information you can pack into a certain area/mass, and with our knowledge of biology we already know that the vast majority of the grey matter in our skulls isn't used for information storage.

In other words, this is interesting from a medical perspective, but not a computer science/mathematics/physics perspective.
Accusing me of having a financial interest in the book other than an affiliate link is called "Playing the man and not the ball." The relationship between the speaker and the statement has no bearing on the truth of the statement.

Having "proven themselves through the decades" is an appeal to popularity. What, specifically, about them makes them good? What about "Making Software" makes it bad?

Thinking of things as being good strictly because people keep recommending them or because you trust the person recommending them without examining the statements critically is fine. Go your own way.

But interestingly, it is exactly the behaviour that the post calls out. It's like saying that Java is good and Haskell is bad because Java has "proven itself" in industry through the decades. Or complaining that a Haskell user praising Haskell can't be trusted because it's in his interest for the language to become more popular.

p.s. The OP says the following: "There are at least three decent books on the subject." Is the word "decent" synonymous with "essential?"
"But people like Meg Whitman and Mitt Romney have tried to buy elections with their personal fortunes and it didn't work (and self-funded candidates do worse, on average, than other candidates)."

Seeking office is probably the least effective way for wealth to exercise its power. They do a lot better from behind the scenes, giving smaller sums to many politicians (or threatening to withhold it) to buy influence.

Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan is more powerful than either Romney or Whitman, and he hasn't quit his day job or squandered a bunch of his personal fortune.
You're absolutely right, the reason why people earning $10K/year aren't millionaires is because they just aren't saving properly.

{shakes head sadly}
Agreed. I would think that most of those same people have no wealth; only income.
Name aside, this is generally cool. Instant Domain Search however is not reliable. Example: successblogger.com shows up as available, when it's not.
This is an important point. There was even a discussion here a few months back (I remembered it being more recent, but it was 4 months ago) on an article titled "Discipline Doesn't Scale" [0]. Discipline works up to a point, but the more your system relies on discipline, the more fragile it becomes as you scale (in people, in size of the system). At some point you'll hit a wall where your system is too big or you have too many people and discipline falters as a consequence, or you get slowed down maintaining discipline beyond what's reasonable for your field and customers.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24834965
It does seem like an odd choice of behavior. Does Windows or MacOS do anything like this?
A log immediately stored on a "physically" write-once device, or printed, may be more difficult to dispose of (w/o physical access to the premises).
"This discouragement, this is going to have a real impact on the Internet as we know it, which is increasingly going to move to a paid experience, which again, benefits Apple's bottom line," Satterfield said.

The hypocrisy and dishonesty of this statement! Nothing comes from the new consent requirements that directly stop you from keeping your app free. Can't do it because commercially not viable? Well then, how much are users paying you right now?
Not at all; I do think some people imagine "life without parole" is somehow safer or lower-risk than the death penalty.
Is my income tax a price the government charges for providing roads, schools, and protection? Just because there are services rendered doesn't mean it's not a tax.

There is no opt out, and price is a function of earnings rather than value added.
> There are ZERO cases where a desktop program was made better by using anything from the mobile world. ZERO.

Fully agree with the sentiment, but I think I'm actually a little on the fence or maybe even in disagreement w.r.t. VLC specifically.

I don't know how most people use the VLC UI, but personally I spend most of the time in the OS file manager and largely what I see of VLC is the player view (usually fullscreened so not even that).

If I am navigating the UI / playlists / etc. it's largely after plugging my laptop into a projector or other casting setup and am looking at VLC on a distant large screen; this is not quite a "mobile UI", but it's similar. I know VLC has a separate, different UI for Android TV, but I don't run Android TV, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If I am ever using the full VLC UI directly on my computer screen in a traditional way, I'm in the menu bar submenus or in a dedicated settings panel: these haven't really changed in 4.0, so no big deal there.

One could argue, given my use-cases above, that a change to the UI is not necessary (if I use it fully so infrequently), but I still think a larger-click-target-focused change is going to be positive for infrequent use in odd places where you might be playing video media.

In contrast, the only way I see the 4.0 UI being a negative user-experience is for users who spend a lot of time "working" in the main VLC UI without watching video. Even if you only use VLC for playing audio, surely you're not spending a lot of time browsing the library?

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All the above said, keeping the File menu would be better. I mostly use macOS, and a bit of Linux, so I suspect this will be less of a problem for me in practice.
Couldn't agree with you more.

The decision to take on risk for the purpose of marketing is not at all palatable to decision makers. Why would you want to accept an increase in risk for an unknown-unknown?
> They could charge the same amount.

Go tell apple this, they would be very happy to be able to be able to charge even more for what they produce from China, they would be quite pissed to know that someone along the production chain is making too much money where it could be them instead

The only difference between let's say Xiaomi or US located electronics is that the US ones are very, very happy to pricegauge the hell out of their customers, that's why so many are happy to buy in alibaba rather than let's say Amazon or eBay
Mirror here http://meidell.dk/archives/2010/11/25/what-i-learned-from-fa...
Wow Hacker News... I did not expect this to be the most upvoted comment when I opened this thread. Underhandedness, deception, head-fakes a necessity, because that's just how things are?

Really?

Talk about throwing your ideology out of the window. Attitudes like this are never gonna change the world.
How do you play a DVD on a modern TV? HDMI. Same exact type of "copy".

If you "rent" the player from them as well as the movie, then it is the same fair use that allows you to play a DVD on your tv.

HDMI, or whatever--even via analog makes up to 5+ copies just to get out of a modern TV (D->A from your player, A->D to your TV, several copies and augmented copies into a buffer handling picture processing, scaling, and motion smoothing, and then pixel elements in an active matrix LCD store their values in embedded transitors, and the physical twist of the liquid crystals is another copy, not to mention the light travelling through the air, the copy your retina makes as it scans the TV, the persisted gradually degrading copy that makes it into your mind)).
I don't think the feedback/approval program is necessary at all, but I like the idea of an official, curated, consistently updated top apps list that is available directly on the device, much like the App Store app.

The App Store featured apps rotate every week and it gives developers a lot more visibility that they would otherwise not be able to achieve, and if you write a high quality app you have a reasonable chance at getting featured.

But the fact of the matter is, simply due to the economics of the App Store, any developer spending the time writing a high quality app is going to want to ship on iOS first (generally on both the iPhone and iPad), and then port to Android later.

The only way I see this changing is if the app purchasing patterns of Android owners reaches the same levels as iOS.

Otherwise, why would you start with the platform that generates half the revenue of the other?
I went looking and couldn't find one, instead I found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_anti-invasion_preparati...

which seems to have an awful lot of sensitive information for something that's supposedly still secret: "... the King would go to Chelmsford if the French landed in Essex, or to Dartford if they landed in Kent, along with the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary."
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</a>.

That's amazing. Every browser I use still has an incompetently maintained parser, even thirteen years after http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40-971218/appendix/notes.html#h...
was first written to explain this detail of SGML in smaller words.

And yeah, one tag per line with no indentation has always been a common style in SGML, and doing that cleanly is why newlines are specified that way.
Your quote chopped off an important qualifier present in the original comment.
Despite many attempts, exactly zero accusations of voter fraud have been proven, or even considered vaguely probable.
Absolutely. E.g., looking at porn with a verified account. Just about everything has a database table of everything that an account has viewed which allows someone the opportunity to be judgey.

Fortunately, I am not a public figure.
I find Alex’s comments pretty openly inflammatory and sensationalist. It’s a pretty far throw from a system that predicts a face from a voice to transphobia.
Oh I didn't mean to insinuate that! (which would be against the site guidelines btw: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

I was just curious about a $35B company, arguably the most successful European tech investment of all time, never having been discussed on HN before. There have been comments though: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> Some days I feel like I've never have built something as useful again since then

Oh I am so familiar with this feeling. I recently found a program I wrote at my last job on a flash drive. It came from a chance conversation with one of the scientists I worked with.

After listening to her lament the many hours of manually parsing log files it took for her team to generate reports, I wrote a short program one day (with a few updates over the following weeks) to do it for them. Some days I feel that the code I wrote that one slow afternoon was the most useful thing I've done in terms of ROI. A couple hours of fun text manipulation and voila: a bunch of Very Happy People (tm) and untold hundreds of hours of time saved.
> At artificial-intelligence conferences, researchers are increasingly alarmed by what they see.

This is because there is an increasing proportion of people that is not going to the conferences for the science and instead to try to hijack the conferences with their own agenda. It's of course their right to make a fuss, but it would be nice to still have venues that are focused on the science and not the other political stuff.
I'm envious of your laymen speak.

Exactly right.

RSU means they gave you the stock at price X. Options mean, they gave you the right to buy the stock at price X sometime in the future.