jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I never realised this problem despite having to work with some datetime problems before. But as you said the solution is not full proof. The biggest problem with your (what I believe is theoretically foolproof solution) is that it will for practical consideration. Most users will be unable to understand the complexity of the issue to properly choose whether to set the absolute/localized time or even which offset to apply in a lot cases. In case of some events one might not even know or find it hard to decide which timezone should be the primary timezone for the event or it might even change.

I think in terms of user understanding is to use one timezone (also shown to the user) to generate the UTC time and later if any changes happen to the timezone of the event or the corresponding user's timezone warn the user and ask for each event (maybe even in bulk) whether to

1. Keep the original walltime in the timezone (in case this is the deciding timezone) this will imply changes for users in other timezone.

And at this point some calculation figures out how to adjust the UTC.

2. Ignore the timezone change and keep the original offset.

3. Manually update.
My sister used to be a FourSquare addict.

They took away mayors and badges, all the fun stuff.

Now she doesn't use it.
I've used two amp/cab modelers, GuitarRig, and whatever used to come with the Line6 USB interfaces. I never got sound I liked from GuitarRig and got sounds that were not unreasonable for demo/tinkering purposes from Line6, but I would never put those guitar sounds on an actual release.

GuitarRig's modeling of the recording of an AC30, an amp I'm very familiar with, does not come anywhere close to the sounds I can get sticking a microphone in front of my actual AC30.
Thanks for the kind words! And, yes, we are definitely working on the feature.
In my (albeit limited) experience with Angular the level of complexity is much greater than say using something like Knockout for data binding only. Not everyone wants to build an SPA and make use of $http. Also not everyone is currently hacking together jQuery. There never seems to be community chat, or posts, from people who have migrated from another framework/library to Angular, it's always people mashing together jQuery who are held up as the target audience. That should really tell you something...
The sdk offers gapless playback but the OS still can't actually do it. Poweramp is one of the few apps that can do gapless, but it uses ffmpg instead of native.
GA has some features I don't, and vice versa, which will come in time, hoping to get your feedback on the first round.
Honestly, if it was 9.99 a monitor, i'd try and make do with one / fine a way around paying for more. Just the hacker in me I guess ;)
But why couldn't they get funding?
Pain, yes. Fear, debatable.

Fear plays a role in helping people to assess danger, and in making decisions related to your survival and well being. Neither of these things require a fear response though. The article mentions that the woman might have found herself in dangerous situations more often due to her inability to fear, but at best this means that fear might be a useful addition to our ability to assess danger.

It seems to me that the vast majority of situations that are dangerous are either a) obviously so, or b) the opposite. In obviously dangerous situations, you should be able to pick up on the danger by common sense and act accordingly (I don't feel fear every time I cross the street, but I also don't step out in front of cars). In situations where the danger element is very hidden away, it's unlikely you'd get a fear response anyway, since your intuition is only as good as its input.

That leaves a third category, that for which the danger is non-obvious, but fear gives us an evolved intuitive-response to be wary. My argument would be that this is a small and constantly shrinking class of situations, because the environment most of us find ourselves in is so strikingly different than the one in which we evolved. You might have an evolved, intuitive fear response to the sound of a lion's roar, but this does no good whatsoever for most people in the world. So most of the dangerous situations we actually encounter, we deal with using reason and learned behavior rather than fear instinct.

That's my stance anyway. The only area in which I can see a concrete use for fear is its ability to stimulate a very quick flight reaction in certain dangerous situations. That is, things that you need to react to before you have time to think them through. Again, less common in the modern western world, but it does put at least one point in the pro-fear column.
I can only think of using 80legs as a crawler, since its distributed enough to make sure that you don't run into any IP address based rate limitation. But it's just a guess.
Correction: IS slow in releasing Froyo. Still don't have it for my Mesmerize.
I'll say it -

This guy is a fucking jerk.

When confronted with something that conflicts with his worldview that the rich are bad, he cooks up a bunch of caveats and concerns so he can keep his current worldview.

Many of his arguments aren't even right -

> Wealthy donors don't tend to prioritize lower-income communities, communities of color or other marginalized groups as beneficiaries of their giving.

You mean, like, eradicating Malaria in Africa [1] or funding the USA's worst performing school districts [2]?

Jerks like this have been beating the "the rich are evil and don't care about poor people drum" for so long that they can't adapt now. What's this? In addition to building world changing companies, they're also giving the wealth they got personally to charity? Well, it's still not so good, because you know the rich are evil and don't care about poor people.

I'll say it - he's a jerk. When confronted with effective pragmatic people moving into his backwards-poorly-managed idealistic space, he complains and slings mud and adds doubt.

Screw him. We need less people doing stuff that he's doing, and more people doing entrepreneurship, taking strong pragmatic action to fix problems, and giving voluntarily.

[1] http://www.gatesfoundation.org/topics/Pages/malaria.aspx

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/24/techcrunch-interview-with-m...
I believe you just inadvertently proved the author's point. The cash cow products allow the insanity to continue, which wastes the potential of the employees and resources. The "cognitive decline" that the author mentions is the rationalization that allows this wasteful process to continue.

Poor, short-sighted leadership is the root cause of cash cow disease, not the profit itself.
We were mainly torn between choosing a name that was completely meaningless and one that was mostly meaningless, but which had some connotations to programming. We opted to do the latter. All the meaningful, descriptive names we could come up with -- like "Programming Retreat" -- are too generic and/or have the same problems as "Hacker School." (We also wanted to make sure we could get the .com, and we wanted to avoid making up completely new words.)

That is to say: We expect that for almost everyone hearing it for the first time, "the Recurse Center" will be meaningless. That sounds like a bad place to be in, however, it's a much better than where we were before. Almost everyone who heard "Hacker School" for the first time had to be convinced that one or both of the words didn't mean what they thought it did in this context.

Today is day 0. Our job now is to take these largely empty words (Recurse Center) and imbue them with our values and purpose.

Glad to hear you like who we are/what we do, regardless :)
Sounds like they're trying to stick to a name with more lasting weight and a sense of authority. A name like Recursity may be trendy (a portmanteau ending in the letter 'y'), but I suspect ten years from now it will look very tacky.
If C is 1960, C++ is 1961. It'd be nice to join the 21st century, or even 1980.
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Measles/Pages/Complications.asp...

1 in 5000 people who get measles will die.

The "uncommon" (for medication side effects "uncommon" means between 1 in 100 and 1 in 1000 people get the side effect; "rare" means that between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 10,000 people are affected and "very rare" means that fewer than one in 10,000 people are affected -- I don't know if this is the same for disease complications).

Uncommon:

liver infection (hepatitis)

misalignment of the eyes (squint), if the virus affects the nerves and muscles of the eye

*infection of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord (meningitis) and infection of the brain itself (encephalitis)

These seem pretty severe, especially since they're mostly avoidable.

EDIT:

> possible that some of the guests could be people from countries which don't vaccinate for measles?

Which countries would they be? Measles immunisation covers 80% of children under 1 year old.

http://www.who.int/immunization/programmes_systems/en/

> assuming that the strain of the current measles outbreak is the same one prevented by the vaccine

Are you saying the Edmonson strain doesn't protect against current strains? Or are you making shit up?
This won't prevent you from being manipulated by vanity metrics. All of the metrics have already been crunched -- the 20 posts at the top of /r/all are there because they've been validated by everyone else using the site (in the form of likes, activity, and other metrics). Hiding some divs and spans won't change the posts you see at the top of /r/all.
Where exactly are you drawing the distinction between the social and market value?

The local news is just another type of information, and if you don’t spend your money on it, you’re at least spending your time. Near as I can tell, the people who are concerned about the loss of local news are concerning themselves with how people are choosing to not spend their time. The people most concerned with this are the people whose jobs are on the line or lost because of how people weren’t spending their time and/or money, and due to the nature of their jobs, are or have been in the position to complain in a very vocal and visible manner.
That’s the point of PDFs and EPUBs. If you want resizable PDFs, use EPUB which is an organized and compressed version of HTML.

Edit.

I think the reason you lose quality during conversion is because without the original LaTeX code, you’re just importing copied images of math. If you have access to the original content, then you can maintain quality regardless of window size. One example is arxivvanity which uses the original TeX files on arxiv to rerender in HTML.
What do you do without the source code? You can either try vectorizing the images to get scalable SVGs, which depends on heuristics and doesn’t recover typeset perfectly. Or perhaps reverse engineer the formulas with OpenCV or another ML method; this one is pretty hard to do and I’ve only seen mathpix, a paid service, which does this.

Either case it’s a strong argument that content should be separate from content rendering which is why I like TeXMe as a concept and why people should avoid PDFs.
I think you could even go and apply the same algorithms to AR projections though. This would have massive applications in parks. Guests wearing AR projection goggles while touring the park allowing for a hugely immersive experience
This could be cool at techno parties.
I think it’s just not a priority. Unscrupulous sellers review-bomb competitors and even run “false flag” efforts to have other sellers banned already.
As cool as this is, I just don't really see the use for this, when static site generators like Hugo and Jekyll exist, and produce pages that will load measurably faster...
The iPhone is a PDA is a toaster. Splitting the software from the hardware is like splitting the coils from the chrome.

The consumer just wants perfectly consistently browned toast, while not dying from electrical shock or setting her house on fire. She’s not really buying a toaster, she’s buying no-hassle toast.

If you allow that’s what an iPhone is, rather than a general personal computing device, Apple’s stance makes more sense.
interesting, thanks for the insight. I haven't touched DB setup in many years, and even then was novice. The best person I knew told me to index if a column wasn't unique, but also wasn't something with only two or three choices. Sounds like I have more reading to do...
Running late, a little amateur hour. When is the last time you saw an Apple event start late?
I live in australia and I have 4kwh of solar panels on my unoccluded WNW facing roof. My electricity grid connection charge is around $300 AUD per year (around USD 250 per year at current rates - which is about the same as my annual electricity bill since I currently feed into the grid at the wholesale rate). Given a 10 year payback time, how long will it take until a battery array with say two days headroom and a small generator is cost effective for me? Say I'm prepared to pay double that in order to mitigate market risk?
The thinkpad X-series are made of carbon fiber[1] and you get the legendary keyboard. The Thinkpad keyboards are IMHO the next best alternative to mechanical keyboards.

[1] http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca...
You specified checking out a branch which is completely different than checking out a file by commit-hash.
Hence my question: they could also just be snarky, and hence a waste of time to give a more detailed answer.
Occupying the washington monument is symbolic.

Invading the capitol building to stop the electoral count and intimidate congress into overturning the election results is not symbolic.
Right now, FB are getting to have their cake and eat it - Section 230 gives them almost complete immunity from how they use their "voice" on the supposed basis that it's supposedly their users' speech and not theirs, including getting to decide which political violence to support, but they also get full freedom to decide which not-their-speech gets heard and by whom based on their own whims. Ordinary humans who aren't multi-billion-dollar corporations controlling one of the main methods of communication do not have this level of free speech rights.
It is surprising how short sighted some people are. This pendulum will swing, and so will the reaction.
I tend to agree, had a 2017 MBP prior, but the laptop certainly got hot and things had to throttle a little. Had I not tried an M1, I doubt I would have noticed.
Many were waiting for this moment, and being on the way out I guess it's the most appropriate to take such decision instead of the past 4 years where they may have been hit back. I wonder, though, were will they (as in social platforms, hosting services, any site providing people "speech") draw the line in the future? There's been a lot of foul words online in the past few days. I don't like the ever so increasing extremization of Internet circles, slowly turning into the so called "echo chambers" most fit and aligned for one's beliefs no matter their actual truth, falling down spirals of disinformation. It'll be disastrous if all of us don't realize things displayed on a screen are not a reflection of reality.
I don't get it. Where is the spec? What's the aperture size, focal length of this beast? What about abberations? How does it work in extreme conditions that a normal lens can't take a good image?

So many questions, but the author decided to use it to take portraits in day light ...
I would much rather have liked to see a list of kernel versions with customized options for each.

I mean, imagine coming upon a system where you want to add some other kernel option. You see that the system has all those options already added to the default kernel options. Are you going to research and clean up those options and remove the irrelevant ones? Or are you going to punt, add your own option to the end, thereby adding to the chaos?
I feel ambivalent about unions, but here's what I see.

Lots of people are criticising unions, because sometimes they are inefficient or corrupt.

Equally, I could write a rant about how employers are inefficient and corrupt.

So, my question is, what's the alternative to unionisation? Because currently, these arguments seem to say "let's get rid of the unions, and just let people be powerless and exploited."

Criticism is easy. Constructive criticism is something different.

[edit: typo]
Emacs isn't just a worse-is-better Lisp machine, it's a worst-is-better one.
They're translucent lenses. They presumably use the mounted cameras to map the world, but they don't use them to actually display the world to you.
Every rational actor has that preference, but not that expectation. I'm well aware that my ISP can eavesdrop on everything that happens over their network, and can extend that ability to any party they choose.

I agree that there is no moral distinction between a title 3 wiretap and Tor infiltration, however a title 3 wiretap is a passive listener while this Tor infiltration is not. The nature of the Tor infiltration caused anonymity to be stripped and readable by anyone aware of the flaw. They used resources unavailable to others to expose that information not only for themselves but to everyone.

The equivalent would be streaming a title 3 wiretap sans filter to everyone on the internet.
There is a part of the most recent episode of Black Mirror which deals with this (sort of, at least), totally worth checking out if this is an idea that interests you.

EDIT: In a comment below, the team mentioned this was their inspiration. Life imitate art imitates life. Cool!
> fuzzy definition of consciousness by some in the philosophy camp

When discussing consciousness I like to focus on the feeling of pain, which is much more clearly understood by people. So the question is, why do I feel pain when my brain is in a certain physical state?
Have you tried term/ansi-term mode in Emacs 24? I thought it (and eshell) weren't that usable in 23 but just this past week I decided to give them another go in 24. It's a huge improvement, I went from a standalone iTerm/st and occasional shell mode to eshell and ansi-term for everything. So much better.
Hell if we know.

Build the thing, scratch your itch, move on. You don't need our permission.
Interesting idea I guess, but the design looks horribly outdated... could really use a designer's touch.

"Watch web videos like TV" and "try it now" are the two things that people really need to see. Your "try it now" button should attract more attention.. you can try repositioning it, or increasing the size, or changing the color.

Add a header above the channels at the bottom saying "our channels" or something. I didn't realize what those links did until I clicked them.
First of all, I'll wager a supermajority of iPhone users do not understand any distinction between iMessage and SMS. Apple designs away the distinction. Secondly, when an ex-iPhone user ports away their number and is able to send SMS's without issue and receive SMS's from most of the world except for iMessage senders, how are they supposed to 1) discover they have lost messages before they lose something critical, and 2) discern that the cause of their inexplicably lost messages, is that they need to "disable iMessage", when they are not even an Apple user anymore?

I'm not an Apple hater, I use Apple products, but this is a huge fuckup and the OTT fragmentation is a real issue vis-a-vis SMS.

And SMS is not IM so your premise from the start is a nonsequitor. It's telephony, it's wildly and widely overpriced and non-open.
This post contains a comparison : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9267578
The http://www.diceware.com passphrase-generation algorithm is more straightforward to implement and analyze. It uses only whole words, so the result is easier to memorize.
While depression is a real issue, I think people suffer from all the Skinner box reward cycles built into games / apps now days. Cook dinner takes time and some effort, clicking delver now and soon food just shows up. Things that lack that level of reinforcement just seem less interesting.

Sure, I could physically travel to interesting places or just click around on Google maps. The joy might not be as great as actually seeing the same thing in person, but places are so much easier to get to online.

A physical firing range is seriously intense, but messing around in a FPS does not involve leaving the house and it takes so much less skill. Not to mention something like guitar hero vs. an actual guitar.
Unfortunately if you have too stringent of standards, the curriculum to teach it becomes implicitly standardized as well. If you mandate too many things, then there is no room for the teachers to make any decisions based on their knowledge of the class itself, and you may as well use a robot instead. This problem is looming right now as common core has been mandating more and more things from teachers.
Across millions of deliveries, I'm sure there are some failures from time to time. I'm guessing Domino's has at-most-once semantics.
I don't see it. I get what you're saying, but how does latency not swallow that difference? Or load balancing, or routing through the internal network behind the router.

It's really hard for me to buy that an attacker can determine the execution characteristics of your crypographic functions via ping over the internet.
> You could make the same counter-argument about Facebook and Twitter. If you really think they're interchangeable, that just tells me that you don't value the things that many of their users do.

I don't think you could. Facebook doesn't offer an inferior product to Twitter, it offers products that are effectively the same, and come packaged with other products.

I really don't think many people value the 140-character limit, which is the only core difference between Twitter and Facebook feeds.

I can totally identify with the criticism that I don't value the same things as Twitter/Facebook users (I don't have accounts on either service). But I think I'm capable of empathizing with them and extrapolating what they value from each product.
Another thing I have noticed is that Japanese Anime tends to be more willing to end a show once it is over. American cartoons seem to keep a show going for as long as it is popular. Of course there are exceptions to both.
7k fps on 4k resolution is an absurd amount of bandwidth. For 8 bit pixels that is 619 Gbps. Very interesting. Thanks.
Cool idea. I checked it out and thought it was a nice site.

Yeah, I'm not really going for emails, just thought it was funny to have a talking owl try to coax someone to sign up for something they had no clue about. I think I may enjoy it more than anyone.

Thanks for the help and I'll make sure to pass your link along next time I see someone considering building an "under-construction" page.
Chicago style pizza (both kinds) is overrated. You want to impress us, find an italian beef in San Francisco that stacks up to Johnnie's or Mr. Beef.

Meanwhile: so much of pizza quality is in how it's cooked --- you absolutely need ridiculous heat to turn out a decent crust --- I can't imagine how anything shipped cross-country could ever hope to rate.