jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Your whole stance is basically a "fuck those people, I don't have that problem" stance

In this part of the thread it has gone that way, although I wouldn't word it as "fuck those people", but that they're people capable of making choices, and they're choosing to eat too much. "Fuck those people" is more emotive than I feel about it. It's their choice. What problem? There's no problem. If they want to eat less, they can. Barring brain damage or serious psychological disturbance, they're human and humans are more than capable of deciding what to eat. It's not "fuck those people", it's "they're making a choice and it's none of my business".

I do genuinely believe that. I wouldn't even call it willpower. I'm not convinced any such thing really exists; people make choices. That's all there is. I feel hungry, but I know I don't actually need to eat this. Make a choice and in doing so pick how I'm going to feel; I can keep feeling hungry, or I can not keep feeling hungry, weighed up with factors and knowledge I possess.

My stance in the bigger thread is that the idea of deliberately removing nutritional content from food is grotesque. Sure, we in the rich world have never known hunger (not the kind you feel when you haven't had anything with sugar in it for a few hours, but the kind that grinds people into dust over years and ends up with people selecting which of their family should die first), but it's still a real thing and yes, sure, it's just about free market economics and if the rich world can afford to deliberately destroy nutritional value to make life a little bit more convenient for themselves that's just how international trade goes, but nonetheless it makes me sick. That's what I feel is fucking grotesque; so much of humanity's history has been a struggle to get enough food and famine was a perpetual real issue, and sure, this is modern times in the first world and now we can just destroy the calorie content of food for our own convenience, but still, what the fuck.

Addendum: I have no idea why you would think people aren't hungry just because they're overweight. Is that from what I said about some people not able to tell when they're not hungry? I understand that's a real medical issue some people have. Their body/brain doesn't work right in that sense and when they've eaten enough, the hunger doesn't fade as it should.
I don't have a lot to say about the OP, but I can say that this thread is 100% more enjoyable to read after installing the Cloud to Butt extension.
I highly doubt that Dropbox has a 10 year head-start (over Google and Amazon) in the area of "distributed storage and sync" - unless you meant it in the narrow case of building desktop sync clients.
Direct reclaim is the precise name for what the linux kernel is doing in the case called out by the article.

http://lwn.net/Articles/396561/

But thanks for the snark anyway!
Are there actually cases where Z3 will say sat, but not output a model when you ask for it?

I haven't run into that issue myself, but I've mostly written toy code for it.
> "Lots of great software happens to be difficult for a lot of people to intuitively understand."

For real. Maybe it is just me, but I find programs like Photoshop and nearly every CAD program I've ever encountered to be bewilderingly complicated. I don't use any of those sorts of software professionally, but have found myself needing them numerous times for hobby reasons. Every time I try to learn them I become frustrated with just how steep and tall the learning curves are.

Git though? I felt pretty confident with how it worked and basic command line operation after just a weekend.

Maybe git's command line is more inconsistent than hg's or subversions', but in the grand scheme of software difficulty? I just don't get the complaints. "Incomprehensible"? Give me a break. It does not hold a candle to most commercial professional software.
>> Joe Developer should be free to tinker, and if he wants to tinker with crypto, crypto experts should let him. Currently they don't, and that's why we don't have any good crypto software.

He can tinker.

He can learn.

He can do any of the many excellent free courses, tutorials and challenges on the net.

He can implement attacks against toy problems, and real problems.

And eventually, he can get deeper into implementing it.

What he will absolutely and rightly be shot down for is making unverifiable claims about the security or what he's tinkering with, and try to profit from his claims.

I'm sorry if you have a problem with that.
These simulations are very sensitive to the parameters, some of which we don't even have control over (e.g. population size or what method to select the next generation.) And especially the way the genome is represented.

It doesn't really say how it works, but it doesn't seem like a very natural way to do walking. E.g. here is are evolved walkers in a more complicated 3d simulation: http://vimeo.com/79098420 They seem to get very good after just a few generations compared to this.
Why does anything have to be abrupt? Perhaps Sars was a test run to get everything in place re the data, policy, and propaganda required to make it work? How exactly do you personally verify the veracity of the data and methods used?

Why do you think things are so much different today than they were just a few decades ago when the science in regard to sugar was corrupted? The corruption was successful then, and things aren't that much different today. Do you honestly believe that in 50 years time we wont look back and see at least one thing that was purported to be scientifically proven true, subsequently falsified?
You could also say that it's IT externalising their costs. They don't want to be responsible for another system, so all the work and maintenance gets pushed on to end users.
How about actually measuring them by the citation count on their papers (note this is already a minor factor in tenure decisions, after monies brought in :P )
It has to be available for some period of time after posting. Where would you draw the line? Hide them after a few weeks? Months? Years?
Yes, and I've started buying grass meats fed from local farms. It does mean that meat is more of a luxury, but I think food should be quality over quantity.
It just occurred to me that the situation is isomorphic to any runtime environment. I cannot imagine transplanting a shell script, C program, Java program (OK, maybe except for a Java program), Win32 app (OK, maybe that also), or a web-app from 20 years ago onto a modern version of the runtime and expect it to work without any major changes or fixes to account for the inevitable cases where the outside world simply decided that "we do not do things this way" any more. Cross-site scripting, password strength, political and timezone changes, many of those trip up applications too.
Nowadays if the answer to my problem isn't in the first stack exchange answer in the first google result I just give up! Imagine having to post on usenet!
But you can still check the syntax of that statement without evaluating it all. You might even be able to check if things like std.os exist.
And yet Eric Schmidt says (2010)* we should change our name... Because everything is always kept

https://m.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/google-ceo-eric-schmid...

* It's ironic I'm referring to a 10yr old piece to refer to the danger of continuous archives.
I'm wondering whose doubleclick account those ad dollars are ending up in.
Thanks, that should have been the first line after the introductory paragraph..
There's some lienience to be given with the newer versions of Thunderbolt. On many Windows machines, and given that it's configured correctly, a TB device has to be explicitly allowed to access anything other than USB and Display modes.
If WhatsApp had no users, they wouldn't have been worth much. They didn't sell ads, they sold all their users.
Wait, are you seriously claiming Trump won because of Russia? Or do you agree that the ridiculous Russia narrative pushed by Dems was total BS?

Here is a nice article on the whole situation:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-is-wmd-times-a-mill...

>Totally different than something like "the election was rigged", which was tested and failed in court, but still gets shouted from the rooftops, leading to dangerous outcomes like what we saw in DC.

Yes, that was untrue, ridiculous, and in the end became dangerous. I'm pointing out the usual hypocrisy on both the left and the right when it comes to their own pet causes.
I imagine it would offer protection for nomadic hunter-gatherers.
Based on the rate of commenting, I guess HN just really really wants to speculate on all the ways they'd have secured things differently in the capital building with retrospect and with absolutely no idea what the circumstances are that went in to the decisions made. So much so that one hour-and-change old thread on the subject just wasn't good enough. It's still on the front page ffs.

Threads like this make it very difficult not to get all ranty about how awful and arrogant tech people are.
Summarizing - Building a business on someone else's platform is very risky, because they will cut you off to promote their own competing product instead.

AWS doesn't do this, because the second they cut off a customer based on their type of business (even if it competes with Amazon), they'll lose their marketplace credibility. Facebook, Twitter, and Apple have near monopolies, but AWS still has lots of competitors.
This feels, apologies, slightly uninformed. JS obviously has a bright near-term future with so many engineers working on the runtime side, from Google, Mozilla, etc.

But the speed at which Go has been picked up - especially by high-traffic, massively-concurrent systems and companies like Google (obviously), Cloudflare, 6Wunderkinder, BBC, bitbucket, Digital Ocean, Disqus, Dropbox, ngmoco:), Heroku, Shopify, Tumblr, Zynga...

I realize a list doesn't a language make, (and these are just off the top of my head) but for each of these companies Go sits at the heart of the most mission-critical systems, often for extremely fast injection and analysis of huge data streams. (Funny enough, many come from a Python core, like Disqus and Dropbox, among others).

I don't think Go's splash was as big as node's, but it's found its way in to more organizations than not.
A more recent paper that's related to this, "Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite Effectiveness": http://www.linozemtseva.com/research/2014/icse/coverage/cove...

I wouldn't want people to conclude that coverage was a useless metric based on this, but it does seem to support the idea that chasing code coverage dogmatically is not necessarily the best use of your time.
It seems that the term "sociopath" isn't clearly defined: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy#Sociopathy

There are various contemporary usages of the term. Robert Hare claimed in a 1999 popular science book that sociopathy and psychopathy are often used interchangeably, but in some cases the term sociopathy is preferred because it is less likely than is psychopathy to be confused with psychosis, whereas in other cases which term is used may "reflect the user's views on the origins and determinates of the disorder". Hare contended that the term sociopathy is preferred by those that see the causes as due to social factors and early environment, and the term psychopathy preferred by those who believe that there are psychological, biological, and genetic factors involved in addition to environmental factors.[81] Hare also provides his own definitions: he describes psychopathy as not having a sense of empathy or morality, but sociopathy as only differing in sense of right and wrong from the average person.

The common denominator in most definitions of sociopath seems to be a lack of guilt or remorse. Contrast that with:

A sociopath, at best, will be able to put food on the table, but they will never be able to show genuine affection.

I don't understand how this follows from a lack of guilt.

Can it be true that a lack of ability to feel guilt makes someone an unfit parent, and that they should therefore lose their children?

Where does it stop? For example, if we can detect but not treat sociopaths, then should we abort children who we know will become sociopaths?

There are all kinds of issues that arise if people hold the view that sociopathy is a disease which should be treated. At some point, it's impossible to avoid the question of whether people should be treated against their will for the good of society. Doesn't it seem like "people should be able to live freely until they harm others" is somewhat more preferable to letting others define whether your personality should be modified before you've done anything wrong?
They haven't gotten to the good part yet. Linux uses all available free memory for disk caching. Pages which are read cache can be freed when memory is needed. The problem is that there are cases when something needs memory, and the cache space can't be freed due to some transient locking situation. This results in a kernel panic.

This has never really been fixed, just mitigated by trying to keep enough memory free that the kernel doesn't get itself into that corner case.
Not _entirely_ true. AJAX will work, it just cannot access the 'file:' protocol by default. Requesting HTTP content will work fine.
Yes, but if we are talking about the law, then it is confusing at best to use the word.
There is another limitation. If you zoom in too much, you reach the limit of the accuracy of a double, and you have to switch to a bignum library.
I've certainly seen code that made me cry. :)

I don't think computer art is a complicated problem.

Firstly "hand+brain+physical media" has infinitely more degrees of expressive freedom than "pixel robot."

Most pixel robots are really, really dumb.

At worst they draw simple filled shapes. At best they run some minimal - probably recursive, but still trivial - algo thing that makes nice pictures.

But art is not about making pretty pictures. It's about abstracting and intensifying human experience - which is a completely different problem.

Canvas and pigment can be a convenient way to do that, sometimes.

Code is never a convenient way to do it, because it's a very rigid and primitive medium explicitly designed to eliminate the subjectivity and intensity art specialises in.

So even the most interesting computer art is usually just shapes arranged in some semi-random way.

If it has texture at all - often it doesn't - there's absolutely nothing happening under the surface.

You can maybe say the same thing about some more abstract work.

But you certainly can't say it about art as a whole.
I upvoted your post, but I wanted to reply because this is so on-point. So very many people who talk about free markets fail to understand that imperfect markets and free markets are at odds. The veneration of free markets sounds so very good...and then the people who cheer for them happily go along with unregulated, imperfect markets which hurt them.
Yes. I've been following each of these for a few years (except for the big & threatening thing, I'm pretty short) and no client has ever completely escaped payment on me.

Everything stated here is the gospel. If you run a consulting business, follow this to the letter. You will always get paid, eventually.

My policy is that when it comes to getting paid, I am aggressive as hell. I treat every invoice as if the client will be delinquent. You can be the nicest person to work with, but be the most vicious asshole on the planet when it comes to billing. Establish that up front, and they will always pay.
I was thinking of his course at Udacity not Edx.
> "Time is the fourth dimension" is the single most damaging sentence for your understanding of time and space.

The video didn't expand on the person living in a 2D space example ... if such of thing would be possible, he would be able to explain the presence of a third dimension using time (going so far as to consider time as being the third dimension).
I don't know about that song, but other one says that "all your money won't another minute buy". And you can't take it with you either.
A truly great difference if your iPhone was the size of an iPad.

Put them both on the screen and stand far enough back to equalize them with the size of an iPhone held up at a reasonable reading distance. They will both be equally unreadable.
Presumably the problem they have is with the RSS feed being preloaded in the app and used to market it, not the fact that commercial products can consume the feed.
While there is a great point in the presentation itself - the connection between our actions and rewards makes fun, it's something we can't see in the "real life", - there is an odd summary: "The core fun in games is learning under optimal conditions".

Okay, I can see why almost all fun from games is fun from learning (it seems like Ralph Koster haven't tried to eat anything tasteful, but OK, fun from games is fun from learning). But it's just =>, not <=>. Why every kind of learning (under "optimal conditions") is fun? What's new or great in learning (except for the thing you're learning - something not very real in case of games)? What's so useful in learning meaningless things, like moving Pacman, so the evolution would make us to get fun from it? And why would this strange connection last when we add learning to Microsof Excel?
What I dislike about Google's current algorithm is that when I search for a common term such as "javadoc simpledateformat", the API documentation for Java 1.4.2 (as opposed to 1.6) comes up as apparently, that is what most documents on the web link to. I hope this new index will allow more recent and more up-to-date documents to get to the top of the results list.
You will, otherwise you won't have any more fun because you ran out of money.
sorry, if it was not clear the problem is not with untrusted code. It is the ease with which code can be accessed and modified.
Hue is the angular dimension in the cylindrical color geometry. It starts with the primary color red at 0deg, moving through the primary color green at 120deg, and through the blue primary at 240deg before finally wrapping back to red at 360deg. The cylindrical color geometry is easy to visualize in one's mind. For more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSV_color_space
Indeed, in the situations like this that I've been around, seriously diluting founder shares was clearly the reason, not the health of the enterprise.

A lot of investors prefer more of a share even if it's of a smaller enterprise and in one extreme case all of nothing.
IE 5.5 and 6.0. Neither of which are modern browsers.
I say Americans appoint Calacanis and Arrington as their King and Queen. And if you downvote this you will be named the Queen's jester.
And just how long did the Corps of Engineers take to approve one 2 mile long barrier island test?

"Obama pocket veto" is my term for his sitting on the direct request from Republican governor Jindal for weeks (more than a month as I recall) before even approving that one "test".

You may dislike the truth as presented by "hyper-partisan republican blog[s]", but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist or that half or more of the nation isn't listening to those sorts of sources. Or do you expect the NYT et. al. to honestly and quickly report on Team Obama's failings?

You might want to listen to the Ragin' Cajun James Carville on this general subject (full disclosure, I'm half Cajun myself and my mom grew up pretty close to the coast) for another partisan view.
I wonder if there's a cross-platform solution for all of this

I think it's called a "web browser".
On the playlist description you write "All links to YouTube available from going through HN page by page on 12.06.2010.", but in this title you write "top 1024 HN stories". I'm a bit confused. I recall posting a youtube video here some months ago of a 3D version of the Game of Life ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1242750 ), but it's not in the playlist. I guess it's "top 1024" after all, or maybe your script only checks for youtube links inside the discussion thread?
I think your best bet is to break it down into small (very small) problems, to try to tackle each one, and to ask questions about specific problems on http://stackoverflow.com when you get stumped.
This is where I think Paul Graham gets it wrong:

> Exceptional programmers have an aptitude for and interest in programming that is not merely the product of training.

This is the old "you're either an exceptional programmer or you're not" myth. This is one reason why diversity in tech has regressed since the 80s.

I agree that geopolitical boundaries should matter less in the software business. However, I strongly disagree that this is the solution to programmer scarcity. Expanding your source of resumes to the entire world only delays the inevitable. Why focus on removing the dependency on the passport variable, when we still have such a strong dependency on gender and race?
Gold would be silver-colored if it weren't for special relativity. http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/golden_glow/
From what I saw, it returned the alert only when the request had a trailing slash.
I have been wanting to book a flight to Colorado.
Supervised learning still falls under the AI umbrella.
In Germany the small beverage company "Premium" does not offer discounts on larger orders. Instead they offer "Antimengenrabatt" for smaller customers, in order to give them a chance to enter the market.

They operate on a couple of those principles which they call the "Premium Operatoing System for companies". http://www.premium-cola.de/betriebssystem (Sorry, german only).

So while I like the idea of the algramo vending machine, I think it makes the world a little bit more inhumane for the poor, while Premium makes the business world a little bit more humane.
> an increase of 10db SPL is perceived to be approximately twice as loud

From http://trace.wisc.edu/docs/2004-About-dB/

So it's really 2^6 = 64x as loud, perceptually.
according to Time Magazine, the person of the year title goes to the person "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year."
In the opening moments of the video, Knuth announces that he had recently sent off to the printers (on the same day) the final volume of his Selected Papers series ("Selected Papers on Fun & Games") and Volume 4A of "The Art of Computer Programming."
I'd love to go to Granada. Hopefully next time. :-)
"This is not prime time to me at all. This is a very unusual situation that has little practical application for a simple reason. This donor not only had to be a good compatible match, but the donor had to have a genetic defect of cells that do not express the receptor that the HIV virus needs to enter the cell."

"This patient is trading one poison for another. He may not have to be on antiretroviral drugs anymore, but he has to take immunosuppressant drugs now to prevent the rejection of his transplant cells. Again, what this is, is an interesting proof of concept, but it's absolutely impractical."

- Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/12/14/doctors-claim-hiv-p...
I found this graph a while ago. It illustrates the segregation in Chicago:

http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?chicagodots

I moved from Arizona to Chicago a few years ago. While Arizona was far from perfect, I still find the segregation here shocking. While standing on a platform waiting for an El train, it is possible to determine which people will get on which train line based on the color of their skin.

Edit:

Another anecdote, but interesting to me. My wife and mother teach at two different "urban" schools on the south side. There are no white students at either school. My mom's school is 99% black and my wife's school is 95% Hispanic. I know it's a common situation but it still just blows my mind.