jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hi - I am the creator SproutCore. Thought it might help to provide some context around this.

It's not that you can't make a fast UI with a template-oriented system. The problem HTML makes it very easy for you to do a lot of things - some are very fast, others are very slow. There is no clear line which is which since it has more to do with how you use the DOM than anything else. To make matters worse, the fast paths are different on different browsers.

What this means is that if you want to build really fast UI in the browser using a DOM-centric, template-based system, you are basically taking on all the responsibility to do everything in a fast way yourself. (Which means you also need to know all the little tricks to doing this - many of which are not obvious.) The framework won't be able to really help you.

This is why a JS-based API that takes ownership over the DOM instead of exposing most of it directly to you can be much faster. We can take this crazy world and turn it right side up again with a cogent API that makes it easy to do fast things and harder to do slow things.

hth.
My brother applied for jobs at Theranos several times--he was in the biomedical engineering area--but somehow it never worked out (once they apparently lost his application, another time they cancelled an interview at the last minute, etc.).

Dodged a bullet there.
yeah, when I read this headline, my first reaction was "uh-oh" -- for years, Bricklink has been the only reasonable way to get specific [i.e., not subject to pick-a-brick selection]
bulk parts / bricks -- the stuff my kid and I build wouldn't be possible without Bricklink -- I sure hope they don't functionally torpedo it, or just kill it outright
> ~1.5M that could be conscripted. That's not huge, but it's enough to give an enemy a bad time, especially with the Swiss terrain and strategic defenses.

Switzerland is filthy rich, too. Private fortunes thought to rival or surpass the biggest public billionaires, money pipes throughout the world beyond measure — the result of centuries of diligently building a discrete but very real financial empire... all of that has to count for something in the age of PMC's and acts of surgical retaliation projecting force accross the globe.

Taking on a too-rich enemy in modern times is choosing an all-out, extremely mobile, stupidly costly, and above all likely painful war. You'll lose a lot at the hand of the best weapons and talents money can buy.
Most collectors are just interested in the figures and have not interest in the sets themselves. I have a hard believing a lot of what goes on in bricklink and elsewhere is the result of harvesting minifigs out of boxes and boxes of minifigure sets.

I surely dont know something about how all this works both officially and unofficially
Yep.

Get the Broccoli Sprout Extract in capsules from a vitamin provider you trust: It has the max percentage of the desirable compounds.

Anecdotally, if you open the bottle and it smells like slightly rotten eggs, you know it's good (this is a sulfur compound after all).
The above exact post was written by user "deepglacier" and then deleted. Account for user "bluetreeroot" was created 5 hours ago and posts the same.

What sort of a pathetic simpleton are you?

Clearly you are ignorant of the subject matter and are merely trying to get a rise out of people by selectively quoting from selected texts. Have you even understood what i posted? Stop this nonsense and go study some books on the subject matter starting with the same book that you quote from which incidentally is a translation by the same Prof. Patrick Olivelle that i mention above.
Tables = Use to show tabular data and forms

Tables != Layout
Boilerpipe has been amazing for me as a Java library: http://code.google.com/p/boilerpipe/
Enterprise routers and switches are still Cisco's bread and butter; sales in software and consumer products can hardly be enough to compensate for a downward trend that may only exist because people aren't buying as many CRS boxes.
Let's make small, incremental changes within our current tax structure to fix our problems in a reasonable manner.

What would you propose that would eliminate most of our debt in a reasonable manner that congress and the people would back?
By and large most of those devices don't require you to hand over tons of personal (and potentially sensitive) information just to use them.

Edit: My point being that advocating on behalf of mom and dad when it comes to technology shouldn't be frowned upon if it really does make their lives easier and better.
Yeah. That's way not me. Not really interested in playing, anyway. Would rather ensure that I work someplace that's run well so I can go home and play with a clear conscience.
The best way is to see the transcribed credits on MobyGames:

http://www.mobygames.com/

IGN is generally good but not totally reliable if you just want to identify the studio that developed the game. As a bonus, their pages for a particular studio will contain news about upcoming games, which is often the hardest to come by.
Not sure about this, but I could definitely see "export restrictions" on the service... though what's to stop a foreign company from building the same type of service.
Home edition (hobbiest, non-commercial): $295
Professional edition: $1095 (Windows, MAC, Linux)
An amazing product, IMHO.
At least for me, there's a "body { font-weight: 300; }" in https://www.joyent.com/assets/css/style.css that makes the text difficult to read.

Removing that using chrome's inspector made this text legible again.
It's not like people become fat on a whim or have no regrets about it happening. Likewise, you can plan suicide for years.
I do not believe there's evidence or reason to say that suicidal tendencies convey evolutionary advantage to the species. Many things seem to be accidents. Does the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex convey advantage? Very likely no; it's an accidental mutation that doesn't cause enough damage to be selected against.

Evolution isn't directed, and there is no end state. Attributing positive effect to every mutation verges on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleology.
I use digicert for my own company, and I had some old certificates in the key chain. Deleting those solved the problem.
I was being a smartass, which was uncalled for. Sorry, Angersock!

Also, I do have a mac, so maybe I'll check out vimtutor.

My point is that I'm very new to programming, and it's so much easier for me to load up Sublime Text and start getting work done. At least for now, learning vim would be something that get's in the way of learning/making. It also doesn't seem like the benefits would outweigh the cost.
+1 for notepad++
VRML is one of the various standards I got into for a short time, as it was going to be the next big thing, only to watch it fade into obscurity. This list includes, but not limited to, SMIL for multimedia, XSL transforms for documents, Semantic Web XML name spaces including DublinCore, OPML/RSS/Atom for blogging, XMPP for chat, SOAP for web services. I could go on.

All that knowledge is just sitting there waiting for the day when its needed again. Any day now.
I used to work on a hardware compiler written in SML, which compiled a language called Handel to logic circuits for FPGAs.

Mostly I worked on fancy optimisation passes, and a fast gate-level simulator.

Similar to languages like Haskell which emphasise first-class algebraic datatypes (tagged unions) and pattern-matching in a concise but clear syntax, it's good for writing things that manipulate tree-like and symbol-heavy data structures like program syntax trees and circuit graphs, and quickly trying out new ideas with those.
Yeah but will they in 5-10 years?

https://towardsdatascience.com/microsofts-bright-future-8c75...
I have a hairy/furry limb, and I hated when my HMO (temporarily) switched to using this tape. Always took some fur with it.
Reuse requires reading. I always figured Meta for a wheel reinventor. I always ignore their reach outs.
If I can do all my things with one handed keyboard while sipping coffee, doodling, writing, eating…
High school graduation results are definitely not standardized nationwide and could potentially be easier to rig.

Of course, the effect of eliminating SAT/ACT could mean that other factors (like social connections, reported grades like your high school graduation test, etc) will end up being more heavily relied upon, and these could possibly be easier to rig or be more dependent on a wealthy family. Hard to tell, but the play dough squishes out somewhere, right?
I think it's 2 factors.

First, indeed the sentiment changed radically between now and then. For some reason, this subject has always attracted irrationality on HN. Back then any comment vaguely positive about cryptocurrencies would accumulate downvotes, now threads are full of clearly invested shills (you can see it in this very thread).

Secondly and more specifically, Stellar, being a simple Ripple fork with an equally dubious token distribution, was a weird fit for Keybase.

MobileCoin, while having some of the same downsides (federated, centralized token holders distribution) has a more interesting design, and is closer to the actual cryptocurrency/cypherpunk spirit thanks to its fully private transactions and balances.
This will make voices radically more correlatable, most likely. It's a more effective model for voice, it has run endless regressions & found better patterns to model human sounds upon. That could well make processing & comparing pieces of speech data less computationally expensive.

I don't see much relation to surveillance & transcription issues. This technology does not, would not change the field of battle significantly, if such a battle were about. Which it probably is, in some countries, perhaps even applying to Google-touched, -relayed, or Google-held data.
Not really (for a couple of often-used commands like cd and ls there are aliases in powershell), but I also wouldn't now how that would work. You mean to convert the complete syntax?
Wasn't Apple's iMessage protocol supposed to be an open implementation too? Whatever happened to that?
I have a question about the "Mixing up Data with Markup"-Problem. If you don't have markup in your database - how do you structure your content? What is a header, what is a paragraph?
Surely, DM `nooot.co/keyphrase` is much easier than texting ‘Go to http://nooot.co, then type “keyphrase”.’ So what are the objections against a shareable url? Persistence, security? (Just curious.)
> I just had a conversation about this last friday with a coworker. We both basically came to the conclusion that the only e-books that work are prose-oriented, not learning-oriented.

To me, this is precisely backwards.

I would LOVE to have all my technical library in e-book form where I could easily reference it on a tablet instead of the 4 bookshelves and 42 boxes that it sits in.

I never need my entertainment book on a tablet.

In addition, e-readers are still too slow for me. I can flip a page faster than anything renders. This is STUPID given the vast amounts of processing power we have but continues to hold true.
The common, typical use of "Intelligent Design" is a thin veil over a deity of some sort being behind it, but your use is not. Is this intentional?
Thanks for reading! I would love to go into more detail about what we talked about, but it varies so much from session to session. I could write an entire book on our conversations.
This is pure ignorance. No one who falls into the trap of thinking like this will ever contribute anything useful to society.
Tell them you earn $300k and have a $3M mortgage, and another offer.

Edit: Seriously though tell them it is none of their business and they should make an offer. If pushed then give them an amount that is at the very top end of your expectation. So if you are happy with $100k and wow for $120k then say you earning $140k and this just about covers your cost of living. If they ask how on earth you need $140k to live tell them that it is "for family reasons" and leave it at that.

If you already have given the number, just tell them you are finishing up an interview this week with another company. Then tell them you had an offer for $X. Then see if they increase their offer.
I'd add one of the LaCie key-like USB flash drives to this list -- <$30 from Amazon: http://amzn.com/B004D2AZ0Q.
The media did go "gaga" over those, even despite the fact that 99.99% of people will never see a Surface.
Glasses. Contacts are OK for walking around and not really painful at all, I was surprised how quickly I got used to them (and that was a long time ago). But if you're spending long periods focused on the same distance for reading or coding then they wear one's eyes out much faster.
I have my doubts about the premise that if people are awakened when they move their arms, they will wake up more refreshed.

The reviewer stated as fact that any arm movement during the 20-minute wakeup-window would trigger the alarm. I'm still holding out some hope, based on what I've read about it, that the device is not quite that easily convinced. Mine arrives tomorrow.
I wear my glasses at work and my contacts when I'm going out or cycling/running/golfing/sporting.

I haven't found a pair of contacts I can wear for 8-12 hours in front of a monitor.
I missed this. Had my head in the sand. It's not clear from what I wrote which direction the manipulation was going when the epiphany occurred.

Here was this small, completely helpless animal that would have died if I hadn't cared for it. As he got older, he began to exhibit a behavior that is commonly referred to as 'flirting' -- starts with smiling. The response in the mother's body is a release of oxytocin. Children don't just flirt with their parents; they also do it with strangers. To be short, the more people a small, helpless human can charm into caring for it, the more likely it is to survive. It's hard to believe that a child's first smile at around one month of age is a learned behavior. This leads me to believe that we're naturally wired to try to control each other to our advantage.

Sure, there's a line where that stops being moral, but those borders are cultural.
OP: this could be a vote, maybe?

I use glasses. Higher-n glass for them would be really nice, and light, but it's above my budget, and apparently too fragile for clumsy people. I don't like them, but given the alternative, there isn't really a choice :) I wear them almost all the time when I'm awake (anything between 14-20 hours a day), and my eyes usually don't get irritated from just wearing them. Sitting in front of badly configured monitors, though, is a different matter.

I'm scared of the initial starting pain with contacts, else I'd consider using them.
Readability does a really really good job of cleaning it up.

Is there a way to link to a readability version of a document? Like http://readability.org/?url=example.com
Works great, thanks a lot!
But Kurzweil is banking on the exponential growth of technology. According to his reasoning (and using Moore's Law of 2x performance every 18 months, as a guideline) we are less than 1% of the way towards the goal (assuming 100% is passing the Turing test).

Now I don't have any idea if he will be correct, or even what a machine that will pass the Turing test will be like. But if you accept the premise that technological advancement is on an exponential curve, half way in terms of progress will be much closer to 2029 than half way in time.

(Note I am not saying that technology is exponential or that it is following Moore's law or that it will be exponential forever or that 2x every 18 months is fact, its simply an extension of Kurzweil reasoning to its logical conclusion.)
Thank you for pointing this out. It always bugs me to no end when people talk about 'passing the Turing Test', it just shows a huge lack of understanding on what Turning was getting at.

The important part of the Turing Test isn't whether or not we can build a computer to 'pass it', it's what is it that differentiates us from just being complex computers that can spit-out the right answer when asked, and if there actually is any difference. The question really is "If a computer can act exactly like a human, to the point where people can't tell the two apart, what exactly is the difference between that computer and a real human?". Most people would say that the computer can't "think" and a human can, but if the computer can shift bits around in such a way that it comes to the 'right' response, what's the difference between that and 'thinking'?
Please oh please make one for Rust.
Thanks. This is totally consistent with my experience, and it's good to know that it's not just me :)
On graphs, I was really hoping to see provisions in the spec to support the property graph model, specifically for properties on relationships. We are building APIs that access data in a graph DB, and all the data in the graph has had an obvious representation in the JSON API model except for attributes on edges.

As an example, let's say that my graph DB has People nodes and a MARRIED_TO relationship between two people to indicate they are married. A MARRIED_TO edge could have a "married_on" property containing the date of the marriage.

Where would the "married_on" attribute be represented in JSON API? I could stuff it in the "meta" member of the link object, but that feels loose and hacky. Maybe it could live in the "linkage object" along with the "type" and "id" members. But the linkage object appears to currently be a closed set of only those two members.

Is this requirement to present a full property graph model not as common as I would imagine? I'm a bit behind on my sync with the current state of the spec. This is the first time I've tried to elaborate this need.
Ethernet uses differential signaling, a pair of wires transmits the positive and negative sides of the signal. When interference hits the twisted pair, it affects both signals the same way, and the effect is cancelled out.

If you try to use two wires from different pairs for one signal, you lose this property because now the wires are further apart, and possibly worse, twisted with another signal.
Atmel ought to come out with an Arduino form factor board. They make the CPU, and they make lots of eval and demo boards. Just cut out the middleman.
Google is an advertising business. Their software is ad-ware. I'm baffled that people are still surprised when Google acts maliciously.
someone should start an online petition that prevents any bailouts to Boeing. Is there any official government online portal similar to change.org? hopefully, the politicians may limit the bailout amount if lots of people raise their voice.
First, crash emacs 10 or 12 times...
The problem with country by country analysis is that people turn it into an excuse not to do anything. "Why should the US/EU do anything if China is just going to keep polluting." Countries should be focusing on what they can do themselves, as well as globally, and be leaders, not laggards.
Even assuming you're not a die hard capitalist, why champion an outdated energy technology when there are superior options. We aren't costing CO2 properly, but then we're also not costing decommissioning of nuclear generators or the waste disposal either.
In the days of streaming over the Internet I don't see the need for pirate radio stations.
Then you can use `useHistory` (or `withRouter` if you're not hooks-ready).

I somewhat agree that the <Redirect /> component is not actually that useful, it's only useful in very simple cases like "based on one route plus conditional redirect to another", e.g.:

<Route path="/">
{usersPreviousShoppingGender === "women" ? (
<Redirect to="/women" />
) : (
...
)}
...
</Route>
<Route path="/women">
France is a shining counter-example to your claim.
Flippa seems to work out ok. I've sold a few things on it and have generally been happy.
I heard something about them working from CRT emissions, making them useless for LCDs, if they actually worked at all.

Edit: More broadly, you could say that just from the deterrent effect of their PR, they "work".
I think you're half joking, but you're 100% right. I think it's really important to maintain a balance between hacking and a healthy social life, but not just because going out for drinks and laughs is fun.

It's important to spend time with people who aren't hackers because, a lot of times, you're building stuff for people who aren't hackers.

Gabriel Weinberg (Duck Duck Go founder, cool freaking guy IMHO) posted a list here a while ago of projects that he had started that he considered failures. One of these things was a photo-sharing service wherein users simply emailed pictures to an address if they wanted to share them.

This is brilliant, I don't know why it never caught on. This is also the type of thing that my hacker friends and I would never have come up with. If I want to share a photo, I'll just scp it to a webserver and send you a link. Email it? That seems awfully cumbersome!

Not to my mom it wouldn't.

Obviously the big reason to keep a social life is because it's fun, friends are friends. I guess what I mean is that it's important to not think like a hacker sometimes.
Apple decided to shut down Facebook.
also, some arcane shell script written by a retired engineer somewhere in the early start of the company.
How about the ability to perform consequence-based thinking?
The only possibility is to allow the user to assign custom keys, which is pretty common.

It’s impossible to know the physical layout for absolute certainty. For all you know, my “Enter” could be a pedal under the desk.
I did my PhD in this field, I love that Neuralink is doing what they’re doing, but I also agree with this article. Your hands on a keyboard is a fantastic brain computer interface and represent a high bar that an implanted BCI must clear to add value for non-paralyzed people.
The idempotency I’ve seen is usually an unnecessary extra complexity.
> Competitors should take a page from Apple's playbook here and be open about stuff that will give you a competitive advantage and shut the hell up about everything else. Open is not always better.

That's pretty horrible. Life isn't all about profit, you know?
I got bored and wrote one for Ubuntu: http://pastie.org/1837350

I didn't try it, but probably pretty close to working. It does more than some people might want, but I didn't write it for the pedants in the crowd. ;-)
I'm still a bit of the opinion that Yahoo isn't too far away from a yard sale across the board. I think they might be significantly more valuable in pieces.
How is it pragmatic to turn down a tool that yields better productivity?

Because individual productivity is not the most important thing when you have dozens or hundreds of people contributing to a project... or want to have dozens or hundreds of people contributing to your project. It may not be important at all, frankly.

Clever, compact code and extendable, maintainable code are often at odds, and lisps allow you to write very clever, very compact code in comparison to, say, Java and PHP. Or, probably, C, but I haven't written much C, so I won't opine on it. :)
I remember a financial advisor (a woman) once said that when the male spouse dies its at least an 80% chance the female spouse didn't know anything about their finances. I asked her was that due to their age set and she said no, she finds about the same split with the younger couples she advises as well.
That was a c-c-c-combo breaker. Bravo at articulating that.
Which primarily runs on Linux.
I thought Yahoo had always been a FreeBSD shop. Have they moved to Linux servers?
I hate this country.
The default was Ask Jeeves, so not like it's a huge step down :)