jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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You can't smear virology because of HIV. Then again, NIH speaks directly to Koch's. See here:
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/HIVAIDS/Understanding/howHIV...

You can't smear protein folding because of a modern method of study. Are you arguing that you think it's possible that proteins don't fold or that some specific example of a protein might be folded differently than certain simulation experiments postulate?

You can't smear the fossil record because people put feathers on different species all the time. Fossils exist and organisms existed which created them.

There is science in each area. testable, repeatable, falsifiable. In theoretical physics, the argument is far more salient. There is a wack wing doing something that's not science (per the 3 tests definition) and that wing is trying to argue that the 3 tests shouldn't apply so they can continue to get funding.

Most physics in and/or past high school will gladly tell you that the Bohr model for atoms is a klunky model that gets the uninitiated into grasping a modestly functional model.

Stringnuts seem to be raising their klunky model up and trying to say it gets to be a theory in a way which makes science and scientists (3 tests style) seem no better than charlatans and preachers. Part of me thinks this is because most of what seemed should be evident from ST is not panning out and they know that they are too far down a path. If ST gets funding cuts, their CVs atomize and blow away with the wind. They get to teach basic physics for kids meeting core requirements and polish mirrors in someone else's lab.

When they are getting to close to the corner they backed themselves into, they try to argue that Bayesian analysis says it is highly unlikely that the corner exists.
>The West has a “broadcast” view of IP and ownership... China has a “network” view of IP and ownership

Probably the best way I’ve heard it described.

>You do have to read or speak Chinese to get it

This statement kind of bothers me. Mandarin is great- loads of fun to learn and speak. My problem is that I meet a lot of highly skilled professionals who don’t do more in China because knowledge of Chinese is often held up as an “obvious” prerequisite. I have met countless people who move here and waste a year with flashcards instead of making things because they are convinced that being bilingual will make them successful in China (hint: it won’t). Investing your time in doing things the Chinese can’t do very well will make you successful in China- and there is no shortage of bilingual Chinese.

You can get the Mediatek MT6260 (or just about anything else) without speaking Chinese, by using Google/Baidu/Bing Translate and relying on the spectacular patience of Chinese people for these things. Will it be a little embarrassing? Sure. Should you learn Chinese? Of course- but should you give up on doing things in the amazing development environment of China just because you don’t have a gift for languages? Certainly not.

That being said- Bunnie is the Man
Glad to see that others were "signed out." I was reluctant to retry.
Sometimes dysfunctional state politics plays a major role in US highway fatalities. E.g. I-5 [1] in Oregon. It has had numerous head-on crashes over the years because there are no barriers on large stretches of the road.

This isn't a "farm to market" road which some local hicks use to bring their vegetables in to the city to sell. This is the primary Interstate highway that goes North-South from the state of Washington thru the state of Oregon to the state of California. It's heavily used by both local commuters and long distance travelers.

BTW it rains a lot in Oregon!

[1] http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2014/11/odot_s...
I really don't understand what you're saying? How does the IRA come into this (as far as I can tell, they don't)? And I don't see how PSN or Xbox Live being down will "change everything about OpSec"...as far as I know, it's a fairly standard DDoS attack.
In fact, it is the same party, but different people.

I was responding to the idea that minorities were using history to choose their roommates, and how if that were the case, it would not be so clear cut.
...and the Rolls Royce technical people must have had a log of some kind to know that the alarm had sounded 38 times. I suppose it could be a tachograph type mechanical log...
If MRI fails RubySpec specs, and the MRI developers didn't write those specs, is that a bug in RubySpec or MRI?

It's egotistical because he's saying they should make their project conform to his third party specification.
Had I been in the class perhaps I'd have understood what the requirements of the quiz were and understood what a "subtraction story" is. Looks like the kid who flunked that quiz did sort that one out.

You might not like the idea of a "subtraction story," "math story," "counter," etc. I am not really a huge fan off the bat, though I'd need to research to understand the principles behind it before I made any strong judgment.

If you want to vent righteous fury somewhere, then attack Pearson, who wrote the quiz and introduced these terms. I'm all in for criticizing textbook companies - they are completely horrible leeches who produce minimum quality work to leech capital out of education funding in a totally parasitic and damaging relationship. They constantly release minor needless updates to books and end publication of past editions so districts can't replace books but regularly have to buy new full sets they don't really need.

However, you'd be misdirecting vitriol if associate this with Common Core, since both the inept greedy textbook publishers, and the math ideas in the ideas that bother you aren't actually a part of the standard, but have been around since before that standard ever existed.
Removing such suspicious actions from public /events API and other APIs would probably have minimal effect but have the bots that feed from those not see it. Just one of the possibilities :)
Very likely many isps whitelist speedtest.net to show amazing speeds.
Let's hope that half half doses works too
Yes, Flutter does this as well and they’re both very popular. When done properly, UI is a pure function of state and you have some simple mechanism for notifying the UI that state has changed.
While the work at your previous employer sounds really cutting edge, how profitable were they?

There also seem to be some areas where highly skilled workers will take a pay cut to work on something they love. This of course leads to lower pay in that field. A common example is the video game industry.

Your previous job sounds like it might have been affected by both lack of a money printer and lots of folks who take lower salary because they love the work
I'm not a Kotlin expert, but I expect that it enables easily interpreted DSLs. Racket enables easy compiled DSLs through its macro system. So, no interpretative overhead.

Also you can really, really change both syntax and semantics:
https://docs.racket-lang.org/2d/

Although not similar technically speaking, Graal/Truffle is a better comparison in spirit, IMO. But Graal/Truffle is hugely complex, with many many man-hours in it.

Classic example and discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/i1slm/comment/...
https://www.hashcollision.org/brainfudge/index.html
this is not out of the norm in NYC, especially at the low income level.

Take exhibit A - success academies chain. There are about 47 in total , most around NYC. They are an independent school which only the poor can get into. So it is private but paid with tax dollars. Because it is taxpayer-funded, once you apply, they can't discriminate - the only requirement to acceptance is that you are poor.

Yet the best students go there, and the school is so good that if it were a separate education system, it would be the best performing education system in the entire United States.

How do they do it ? Simple - they screen parents. They make the bar really high so only the most motivated parents will jump all the hoops to get their kids in.

And there is the problem - it is not the profit, but rather the fact that we refuse to accept that some kids are in a better situation to be educated than others. Whether due to better home environment, raw talent, good base, not sure. However, refusing to deal with this fact, only hurts kids.

How ? Well, the alternative to Success Academies is no 10,000 poor kids receiving elite education. Let us dump those kids back to the system of mediocrity where they were condemned until 15 or so years ago.

That's what equality really means unfortunately - everyone getting equally mediocre government-sanctioned education
It’s pretty easy to say in hindsight that Scott should have predicted from the earliest days that journalism in general and NYT in particular would have shifted sharply toward capriciousness and sensationalism and that his blog would have been so successful as to piss off the newspaper of record. Whatever, you can have that point if you want it—Scott should have been more careful.

> NYT didnt doxx him, because he is the one who chose to publicized himself. You can't eat the cake and have it too.

To be clear, you are arguing that “blogging under a pseudonym” is exactly the same thing as one of the most popular papers in the world publishing your real name in a hit piece?

> They protect sources exposing things that won't be exposed without anonimity, how does Scott Siskind fit this description?

I’m having a hard time parsing this. Can you rephrase?
I so wish we could get the momentum for a catenary or third-rail system.

Aside from solving the efficiency and range-anxiety problems, it would offer some amazing system-control power.

We have problems with people driving into flooded riverbeds every year, but if we could cut the external power on a block by block level, that could isolate the dangerous areas. You could also block off temporary pedestrianized zones or areas around VIP movements for security purposes.

It could also improve overall road safety, by limiting the opportunity to make unpredictable turns or go wrong-way-- you can only change lanes at specific points where the third-rail or cantenary splits.
Average temperature on Mars is -60C. You won't need water for liquid cooling. Standard metal heat sinks would work fine at temps that low.
That's interesting. Do you have anything from Israel?
The chance that multiple operators in a collective are actively abusing their control (and try to crash the plane) is decreasing in probability. History shows that such actions are usually performed by individuals. Even high latencies would not have prevented a successful intervention in this case (they've had a window of about 8 minutes for an intervention). Jamming is a possibility and an issue with the current communication systems the pilots already rely on.
What would be the result of having it overturned. It's unlikely any other companies will provide service, due to the expense of building out and the need to compete with an incumbent reducing the profitability of the build. Much better for a Comcast style company to wait and buy the company than to compete.
> Then you allow the override to be overridden by a majority (recursively).

Thus rendering the doors essentially useless, as hijackers threaten to kill passengers one-by-one until the crew (who will generally outnumber the 1-2 people in the cockpit) open the door.
Source? Never heard of a US, Canadian or Israelian troll factory.
I suspect being jailed without trial is only going to confirm Manning's suspicion that he was calling bullshit on some seriously lawless people.

Kid's got stones the size of Texas.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess? - Joshua (WarGames)
I strongly believe that this should be done too.
I can see this as a great feature for a car windshield. Why bother even wearing glasses when the LCD windshield can block out the sun while it gives you a HUD.
Do you remember the story that Kevin Rose started digg with 500 bucks (or some such amount)? It wasn't until I watched the mixergy interview with Owen that I found out that was false. While that wasn't betrayal, it did leave a bad taste in my mouth. The motivations for making a PR fabrication like that are pretty obvious, but it just didn't sit well with me.
Two things you will learn:

- How not to do stuff.

- That you need to get out ASAP to protect your brain from rotting
What I ask myself when I see such comparative slogans is why they often say the likes of "the safer and easier" instead of "the safest and easiest". I guess this is basic stuff for advertising pros.

Plausible reasons that come to mind: "safest and easiest"...

- sounds more open to challenge; it invites the reader to challenge such a bold claim.

- might put you in a mood to maximize. "Safer and easier", on the other hand, puts in a positive light any improvement over some other alternative, or over what you have currently. Thus it invites you to satisfice and act.

- sounds more like bragging, like a phrase said from the advertiser's perspective. "Safer and easier" sounds more like an observation from the user's perspective. I'm not sure how to argue this, but it sounds that way to me.
Reminds me of my parents' Sony Trinitron TV. The thing is 20 years old. From time to time TV starts misbehaving, they call up some local guy, who refreshes soldering on TV's internal components and the TV just works after that. Twenty years old - still can't believe this!
I hear people complaining, but why has every distro picked it up then? If it's so insane, why are these people all converging on it?
For what it's worth:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Optional...
I'll retract my sentence at the beginning of question 1.

What I meant was, greenhouse gas concentrations have been increasing since the beginning of the industrial revolution in 1750. I can cite this here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Changes_since_th...
and here:
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/pdfs/CI-greenhouse-gases-20...

But I don't think your response answers my question. The middle 18th century seems to be the beginning of a natural shift in CO2 concentrations, according to figure 1 here:

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/pdfs/CI-greenhouse-gases-20...

In that figure, we see that CO2 levels naturally move between 200ppm and 300ppm over hundreds of thousands of years. Which now leads me to another question:

Have human beings exacerbated what was a naturally occurring rise in CO2 concentrations? If so, will the natural causes that reduced CO2 concentrations from 300ppm overcome that exacerbation?
A couple of questions:

* If I have a Maven-based project with heavy reliance on pre-built jars from Maven Central, what's the recipe to port it to Bazel?

* Related, if I have multiple github repos, say a couple open source libraries and a couple private repos, what's a good recipe in conjunction to Bazel?
Ah, SUSY rather than QM. I think it's a bit much to say the universe appears to follow SUSY; it's been... not great at generating experimental predictions, and to the extent that there are results they are negative.
Agreed. I get 240 + 9 bonus points on Firefox 4.0 on Ubuntu.
You're wrong, but unfortunately I'm not at liberty to describe how bk does merges... it's part of the "secret sauce". i am truley sorry for your lots...
People might complain that this is unimportant, but look at it this way:

Node.js is increasingly being used for infrastructure-type services, often involving custom protocols. It would be useful if these services were cross platform (for integration with legacy Windows programs if nothing else). Having a good Windows deployment story (ie, non Cygwin) is vital for this.
He is working to build a long term project and as much I dislike Windows there are developers that use it. In the long run it will promote growth in the platform, creating new libraries and new perspectives.
This is pretty awesome. There are not too many pieces of high-performance networking code which do the right thing on *nix (epoll/kqueue/etc) and IOCPs on Windows.
It's not at all about how intelligent the cracking tools are; it's about how unimaginative users tend to be.

Let's say the suggestion "use an easy to remember sentence, rather than a short password" gets around.

The actual set of easy-to-remember sentences for a large set of users will include some very good ones, but mostly a small set of simple ones, like "To be or not to be", "Seize the day" and so on.

The cracking programs don't need to figure out what those are -- they just need ONE password dump from a site with poor security (easy to find, unfortunately), and the analysis is trivial.

The other downside of sentences, though, is that even when the average person picks an easy-to-remember sentence, it's still hard to remember exactly how they wrote it last time (upper-case, all lower, what punctuation?), and for poor typists, think about the chances of making a typo (or just forgetting where they were) while typing out all those little stars....
I think this is misleading. What the article describes is that 45% of Americans don't have to write Uncle Sam a check come April 15th, and may expect a check from Uncle Sam, due to tax withholding by their employers.

What I want to know is the percentage of Americans that receive a check from Uncle Sam that exceeds their tax liability.
The problem with "ecosystems" is that they're usually trojan horses for vendor lock-in. It's fine to provide a comprehensive user-space, but when you start preventing people from running other stuff in their devices for dubious reasons, that's when you cross the line.

This can be done bluntly (via privileges) or sneakily (by making sure compatibility is not easy). But yeah usually ecosystems => lock-in and walled gardens.
I still claim he doesn't understand scalability for multi processor platforms. I don't claim he didn't made fast processing by writing his custom code, but he writes, his code is fastest on a single core, and as far as I see, he doesn't know why. So I conclude he knows to code but only non-parallel.
I'd be curious to see what legislative bodies full of trolls look like. Assuming the US Congress isn't an example.
Nothing. I'm sure he probably would have if forced to. I know from my own (bad) habits I often waste bandwidth just because I can. Common example of this is having a file downloaded to my laptop sitting in my backpack but instead of taking it out, waking it up, mounting the share and copying it I'll just re-download it from the Internet instead because I'm lazy and there's really no downside for me.
well there are loads of lectures on videolectures.net
definitely worth a view, in particular those from machine learning summer school(primarily because audio quality tends to be pretty sucky in some of the other ones)...
You could solve this easily by only activating it after a period of inactivity. Stop typing for a second, and the suggestion box pops up.

Xcode has a preference (well, two) that help out with autocorrection. I heard about it at last WWDC, and can definitely see the tip being mentioned again at the next one (that is, if you're going to WWDC and go to the Xcode presentation). I believe the key I changed/added after the presentation is:

<key>XCCodeSenseAutoSuggestion</key>
<string>Immediate</string>

And possibly:

<key>XCCodeSenseAutoSuggestionDelay</key>
<real>0.5</real>

that may be related. Basically, it lets me hit enter to autocomplete methods/functions/classes/etc right away and only showing whats actually available to the class.

If those aren't it -- and someone wants -- I'll skim/rewatch the Xcode presentation from last year and look it up.

And built into every Cocoa app: Hit escape while typing and it will show you a list of available completions. In Xcode, this ends up being potential classes and methods available from the framework.
Re: "embedded malware for Mac": let's count the number of malware waiting to trick you to come to your PC with Windows OS. Than do the same for Mac. For Windows it's certainly hundreds of thousands, if not millions, every kid writes them, there are even enough "no-need-to-know-programming" kits. From Macs the number is, I'm guessing now, tens at most?

It does matter, an it matters a lot, what platform you use.
That is really interesting. Might I suggest building that with the API? https://www.dropbox.com/developers
Any other incubators types?

Any specific company taking the reigns on the startup community? (like Sprouter in Toronto)

I am asking as I am planning on moving to Vancouver and want to see how the ecosystems is out there.
I'm sure if ARM based netbooks ever became actually popular Dropbox would take the time to compile an ARM version of the client.
It's a transpiler/compiler, yes.

But it's not a Clojure->WASM transpiler/compiler, but Clojure-like->WASM transpiler/compiler, as only a subset of Clojure has been implemented and it's not compiling the standard library of Clojure into WASM.
Do you think there's something interesting about the fact that he was the youngest?
An interesting illustration of the interplay between science and technology.
I'm using a lot of them in production right now, thanks to transpilers. Unfortunately not everything can work without the aid of a run-time, which is how Traceur works. At the moment i'm limiting myself to the features that don't require such a run-time.
The process of going through my house, finding all the objects that my iPhone has replaced and putting them all on eBay, is actually getting to be a little tragic.

It starts with the phone, the iPod, the watch, the point-and-shoot camera, the Flip video camera, the GPS unit, the compass, the pocket LED flashlight, the universal remote, an entire drawer full of city maps, the deluxe HP scientific calculator that I've had since grad school, the wireless communications unit for my laptop, the pedometer, the metronome, the tuner, and the pitchpipe. To say nothing of the pocket paper notebook.

Now, thanks to the Kindle app, my library is shrinking.

My portable audio recorder's days are numbered. (The stumbling block: when you're recording audio you really want to be able to do it for an hour or two at a time, without stopping for anything, so you don't really want to do it with your smartphone. What if you have to take a call, or tune an instrument, or do a calcuation on your H-P calculator simulator in the middle of recording? But these things are getting so cheap that soon I'll just be able to buy a dedicated one for audio recording. Or maybe it'll just multitask well enough to record audio in the background, with the mics attached by a cord.)

The cost of the smartphone is still too high, and the durability too low, for it to quite replace every single one of my paper field guides for birds and animals -- you want to be able to use the thing in the rain, while standing in the mud, with one hand, without flinching -- but that's almost there too.
Since it's a Google document, I'd assume a Google Form.
Do not do that, he might retire... 1/2 :-)
In Finland Galaxy S was free with 16,90€ 24mo contract with 384kbit/s non-capped data.

We probably have the smallest operator margins (and/or most network overcapacity) in the EU.
The US mobile communication prices seem unbelievable, esp. when everything related to tech is usually considerably more expensive here.