jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was never forced. I was given the opportunity. I can give no reasoning for this but I would say it taught me to conentrate but still to let it flow from my fingers at the same time. Performing in a relaxed state of mind. Also playing live (very rare). It made me more creative and that's not limited to music. I dealt differently with making mistakes. They happen. Part of the game. How does success feel? Try to bring on some very hard Bach piece and you know it. And also humbleness that someone like Bach could compose such fine music. Finely tuned attention to details. Finding pleasure in how a single note is struck and then fades into silence. You can struck it in ten different ways. Still being part of a team / band despite performing on your own. Discovering more and more music and admiring the effort that went into making the music. This list is endless...
Liked this one! Can't wait to see it getting filled with awesome ideas from which I can pick one to become a billionaire ;)
Why does it matter if someone is murdered by a gun vs. cut into cubes by a cartel or brained with a hammer or anything else? If you don't limit it to murders and suicides by guns, your claim is flatly untrue. Japan's suicide rate is greater than the US's murders and suicides combined. Russia has far more murders despite having fairly restrictive gun laws.

In any case, the US is inherently more violent and criminal than other nations in general independent of guns. It also has extremely violent subpopulations centered in major urban centers that tilt the numbers significantly. Outside of a few specific cities like Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, etc. the US is extremely peaceful and low in crime.
For Mac/iOS types, anything by Aaron Hillegass is an entertaining/insightful page turner.
I agree that they've tried too hard, for my taste anyway, to attract non-business customers. However, from RIM's point of view, I'm not convinced they made a bad decision. I now have friends who don't need a phone for business reasons, yet they chose Blackberries. In addition, you see people like Justin Bieber using blackberries - while I haven't seen anything on this subject, I'm confident that there are thousands of teenagers out there who'd happilly chose a phone based on what he uses.

As to it no longer being a business staple, I disagree. Personally I think the Bold was their best phone ever, and the Bold 2 repeated that feat. It could and should be better, and there are many improvements I would make, but mostly in areas that the older models (such as the 7520) hadn't even imagined offering.
Project Oberon by Niklaus Wirth & Jorg Gutknecht:
http://www-old.oberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/ProjectOberon.pdf

From the preface:
"This book presents the results of Project Oberon, namely an entire software environment for a modern workstation. The project was undertaken by the authors in the years 1986-89, and its primary goal was to design and implement an entire system from scratch, and to structure it in such a way that it can be described, explained, and understood as a whole. In order to become confronted with all aspects, problems, design decisions and details, the authors not only conceived but also programmed the entire system described in this book, and more."
Effective C++ and More Effective C++ are both extremely well-written and technically informative. Importantly, they are also pretty approachable to non-whizes, but they teach important lessons (patterns and antipatterns, but very practical.)
No, I said what I meant. The ethics of the situation may indeed be driven by the conditionals, but the isomorphism is valid across all conditionals that you might apply. Thus, you can imagine some situations in which linking (or telling a friend) is unethical, just as you can imagine others in which it's not.
"Hacking", which has led me to start learning more about C, Assembly, and Networks.
Learning.

I have some ambitious goals, including learning management skills and data science, and I thought it wise to bootstrap this by learning about learning.

I'm going through Coursera for this: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/outline.
I used cabal install ihaskell --reorder-goals, and it built without any errors. However when I try to run it, IPython does not detect the IHaskell kernel. I get this error:

/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/IPython/kernel/manager.py:95: UserWarning: Setting kernel_cmd is deprecated, use kernel_spec to start different kernels. warnings.warn("Setting kernel_cmd is deprecated, use kernel_spec to "
It sounds like how I'd raise a pokemon...
That's why I don't listen to anyone when it comes to assessing the viability of any product. Ask two random people (experts included!) and the odds of you getting diametrically opposite answers are pretty high.

Belief and perseverance is everything.
London, UK. News Corporation.

Best project in the country at the moment, especially if you care about the future of Publishing. I need Java Developers, Interface Developers, App Developers of any flavours and an XSLT Guru. And I'm not making this up. It really is the best project in the country. Ping @McBoof if this tickles your fancy.
The essential question I ask is whether Mahalo is gettingthe same treat ment as any other site. So, if you and I launch a site that uses the same "thin affiliate" sites for crosslinking and disregards the other Google rules that Mahalo disregards, will we get a pass or will we get blacklisted?

If Cutts ignore our site, then he's being consistent. However, the author of the post contends that Mahalo is getting away with stuff that is getting other sites penalized. That's a very different thing to the question of how well Mahalo ranks.
Isn't it easy to send an email and put whatever email we want as the sender? I was just wondering, does it means anyone could post on the post of someone else?
I think Posterous mostly succeeded because of its clean design and cool name, not because one can post by email.
There is value to listening to what people say, but more important is watching what they do.
1/3) Auto repair / servicing. The internet has helped consumers in all kinds of markets - retail and travel, perhaps most obviously - compare equivalent goods to ensure they are getting a fair price and good service. I would love for this to be applied to car repair and servicing. I confess that I know next to nothing about cars - I just want my car to run, and when it need repairs or services, I want to know that I'm getting a fair price. As it stands I have no idea really.

There are two aspects to this problem: (i) the garage is both doctor and pharmacist - there is an incentive to take advantage of my lack of knowledge and propose unnecessary work; and (ii) I don't know whether, for the services and goods proposed as necessary (including labour), the price is fair.

I know this is stuff that I should probably know, but I feel like there is an opportunity for this all to be made better.
- execution is everything.
Should the number be a collection of binary digits, decimal...
>Outside of programming, you will find drastically less information online for free.

Here are 5 freely available introductory calculus books.

http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/03/04/028253.shtml
As has been noted, the 13th amendment prohibit's involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime.

Involuntary servitude means you have no choice, not that you aren't fed in the process. Indeed, even slaves are usually fed and housed since they constitute an investment on their owners' part (usually not well fed or housed, of course). The camps where you were forced to work without eating were known as death camps, which fortunately would fall under the cruel and unusual punishment clause here.
I think you are being a little melodramatic. This is to vet an idea, not a sustainable way to build a business. I even said that it could/should be more of a thought experiment. And besides, I'm not recommending that you maliciously and deleteriously deceive people.

pg on naughtiness:
"Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not goody-two-shoes good. Morally they care about getting the big questions right but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word "naughty" rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules--but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant, though; it may be implied by imagination."
I am really impressed by the level of activity in the Guile source tree. A lot has happened over the last few years. I came back to Guile 1.9 from Guile 1.6 and the difference in speed was significant.
I think it's mostly because you can blame wikipedia for wanting your money, as opposed to the innocent "free" website that puts ads... at least they aren't getting your actual money LOL

it's just psychology
Flying is one of the safest things you can ever do, safer than showering, safer than walking down a busy sidewalk, safer than going to McDonalds to eat a burger.

We don't need anal probes and full body cat scans to make extremely safe things even more safe.

If you want to decrease your risk of dying from various causes, spending your entire life aboard public aircraft would be a wise thing to do.
Damn I was going to do this, I had the plan on paper around 2 years ago but with a few more features to engage users. Such as competitions worth $ and speed runs using the camera for live competitions
How is their web UI compared to Gmail, for example? Do you feel like you're missing out on any features, or do you access mail exclusively via a desktop client?
The mascot is cool, but am I the only one to think it looks a little close to Toucan Sam (Fruit Loops)?
Things like this are why programmers can't have nice things. Cultural historical oddities make for fun facts and an enormous amount of added complexity.

When I propose wacky, implausible ideas to friends like "a single world-wide time zone" or "replacing all writing with the international phonetic alphabet", the idea is to reduce things that make the technical debt for supporting the whole world enormous.

As it is, English programmers are frankly, most likely to make things that only work for English speakers. And then the technical debt of supporting Latin alphabets and US time zones and all the like multiply together. We should be thankful as much of the world adopted UTF8 and UTC as early as it did, but I don't envy anyone who has to work with systems that don't have good support for internationalization. Those people are in a terrible position, and with legacy systems, they might have to implement a terribly complex set of rules that are taken for granted by most people, and sometimes not even explicitly written down anywhere outside obscure papers on the topics.

Someone mentioned the current year in the Nepali calendar is 2071. So now you know, if you want to appropriately support customers in Nepal, you might want to support their calendar. But I don't know enough about Nepal to say whether or not anyone does. The Wikipedia page List of calendars is, frankly, a bit terrifying[1].

The fundamental problems of these fun cultural artifacts is the technical debt for old systems and the barrier to entry for new systems.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_calendars#In_use
I think that quite contrary - when language without literature is lost then everything about this language - traditions, knowledge, history, is lost forever (unless anthropologists manage to save some bits of it).
> OO is wonderful; try writing some programs in a language that forces you to do proper OO (e.g. Smalltalk).

Have you tried implementing a numeric tower with proper OO in Smalltalk? Would you describe the experience as wonderful and the program as beautiful? Rinse and repeat for any other problem that requires simultaneous pattern matching on several values.

I do think Smalltalk's style of single-receiver message passing is a sweet spot for structuring many kinds of programs.
Big mistake. People who mess with Brian Krebs tend to end up fully doxed and arrested shortly afterwards. You'd think the blackhat world would understand this by now. Krebs is not a guy want to be investigated by.
In a debate you'd be right, but journalism is in principle half truthseeking, half storytelling, and in practice more the latter. The author's motivations are a critical piece of evidence.
I see, personally I would prefer using the latest release available for each language as this more likely mirrors 'real world' scenarios.

But that's preferences for you, everyone has them :)
1) iMac 27"

2) Yoga + Meditation (everyday)

3) MixCloud (for fresh + awesome source of music playlist)
Yes, by his logic they could. Yes, it's worrying that he doesn't understand security. Clearly he doesn't know he doesn't understand, or doesn't have advisors that do.

It won't get better unless technically capable people write to the media, creating the story that the media want to run, that the minister in question is incompetant. If the media smell blood they will run the story. If it's based on dispassionate facts about how it really works, incompetents like him will be left to wreak havoc unimpeded.

Unfortunately, most technically capable people would rather display their superior knowledge by bitching in blogs and wittering on twitter. That won't change things.
He missed "get a funky haircut".
I believe this is what you're thinking of.

“No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.” -- Aristotle

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.” -- Seneca
If only they'd left it up, so that moot could have been voted overwhelmingly better than all the other options...
We have quite a few customers in production. Most well-known one is Mochi Media, who have multiple clusters backing their online games APIs.
This happens to me all the time. For a while I stopped visiting HN to make myself feel better. Reading all the comments on this page, I feel people are just proposing hacks that stop you from visiting sites like HN or reddit. I think best hack is to start your own project. Do anything, it could even be reading a book and typing code from the book into your computer. Doing _anything_ will make you feel better about yourself. Remember, it does NOT have to be a product that magically changes the world and brings unicorns to life
You may not like the idea of the book or the approach, but the site is executed with amazing detail. From the design to the animations, to the use of local storage to work offline, remembering which pages you have visited, window.history, the graphical search auto-complete and all the other little details.
He was involved with Apple for a short period? He co-founded the company and was there for 12 years.
I'm afraid I'm misunderstanding something. I read the whole press release, and see nothing in there about any Swedish legal "quirks" regarding the definition of rape. In fact, it takes the position that Assange's actions have not met any possible definition of rape: "the allegations...do not constitute what any advanced legal system considers to be rape".
Farmville and its Mobster equivalent have been on iOS for months.

There has been almost no major technology to emerge since the debut of iOS that is really dependent on Flash. Zynga and Hulu were the last major players to emerge with prominent Flash utilization, and they've heavily invested in iOS since. To the contrary, iOS exclusive (at least to begin) apps like Angry Birds and Instagram have captivated the tech press and public imagination.

Really, as an iOS user since the first gen, I don't feel left out of anything. To the contrary, iOS continues to get the best stuff first - Kindle, Netflix, the latest iD and Epic games, the best social networking clients, the best new games that people on other platforms clamor for (Angry Birds, Cut The Rope, etc.).
If the number active (alive) Facebook users grows at a sufficient exponential rate, e.g. each new generation has at least 2× the users of the last generation, then the answer would be “never”

Edit: Um, humans do grow in population in an exponential pattern… how long do you think the population has been at 6.8 billion?
Well the funny thing is that he's not being charged yet. He's wanted to be interrogated as a suspect. This article from the ECHR does not even guarantee that one needs be told what one is suspected of until charges are being brought against them. Someone can be held for investigation or for reasons of public safety for quite a while without this article being any resort, and after that time another article (on speedy trial, don't know by heart which one it is) will constitute a violation of the Convention. In a case against Russia somewhere in the 1990's this period was set at a few years (i.e., several years was too long). Several cases have held that being detained for a few months did not yet constitute a breach. Apart from this, the ECHR does not mention (as far as I remember - it's been a few years since I last studied this) that charges need to be kept confidential.

Anyway, I'm going on a tangent here. Your original post implied that the Pentagon somehow convinced or coerced the NYT and the Swedish newspapers to run a smear campaign against Assange. Maybe the reporting isn't great, it's hard to say; it's quite common for breaking news to be posted in raw form and then to be updated later.

Your claims that the NYT has an 'agenda' because they don't run items that you think are important is rather paranoid too imo. It's the exact same argument that Teapartiers use to 'prove' that the NYT, WaPo etc. have a 'liberal bias' - they take some minor event that they feel is important and say 'look, the mainstream media are burying the truth!' If they'd have to report on every news item that comes on the wire every day, they'd need to put out a phone book size newspaper every day.

Now, that there is incompetence somewhere, that I'm willing to believe. Actually I'm pretty sure there's plenty of incompetence, it's everywhere, no matter where you look. But incompetence and a government conspiracy that extends to newspapers and tv stations across the world, those are not even remotely in the same league.
My question from this was, if you shouldn't be in Silicon Valley or NYC and choose a different city, how does that affect your ability to raise money? And what does it cost to give up some of the community/cross-pollination effect that goes on in those major areas?
This is a little misleading.

The T2 firmware needs to be restored after modifying the SSD amount.

This upgrade is typically reserved for an Apple Authorized Service Provider, but sure, if you have another Mac, you can do it all alone yourself.
Ops, I meant to say s/APIs/software projects/ are copyrightable, as the question of copyrightable APIs within software projects was sidestepped by the court.

It's a lot easier to say what Google did was fair use than decide where to draw the line on where an API is in a software project and whether it is copyrightable or not.
Skype -> Whatsapp, Zoom
I actually moved off guanfacine and onto Strattera because it has so many side effects - for instance, it makes you very weak to alcohol and it affects your heart rate. It's also physiologically addictive and you have to ramp off it for a week or two, which is a problem if you've forgotten to get a refill since, you know, you have ADHD.

Ironically these are all things people think Adderall does which it doesn't do.
I have seen the effects of not saying 'a'. People even asked to leave the company because of simply agreeing to finish as asked. When we agree to it, our head will roll unless the company never cares about missing deadlines.

Another approach which I follow nowadays is, agree but tell them that most probably I will miss the deadline.
That's the theory.

In practice, respect is a spectrum that includes people sensitivity, education, social context, legality, and is not an absolute.

Drawing a picture of God may be worship for some, and disrespectful for others. For more daily simple things, it's the same.

If you want an autistic person to behave like you, with empathy, you are not asking for respect. The person may not be disrespecting you.

I had an asperger in my class last year, always interrupting me during my explanations. You can enrage that it was disrespect. Or you can understand he just didn't see he was disturbing the flow of the course.

Many on twitter would have accused him on mansplaining. I just asked him directly to keep interruptions limited to the time break. He complied, happy to have a clear instruction on how to deal with the situation.
France and Spain, obviously. And for freight.

As a famous soccer player once put it:

Madrid or Mailand doesn't matter as long as it's Italy.

The gauge actually changes on the Spanish side at dedicated transit terminals. One line coming down from the north, one meeting it, and running parallel, from the south.
Caffeine puts my behaviours into overdrive. Not in a good way.
So he's really missing the power over other people, which those officials have, at least in their small respective domains.

It's always the same struggle for power.
I am looking forward to testing this out.

I wish they would have a colorblind test at the start and adjust the settings for me based on what kind of colorblindness I have.
Sorry, but I'm not giving my credit card information to any website that allows me to authenticate through facebook.
Yep, it's all flash. Pretty easy to tell when scrolling suddenly jitters and barely works :\

A remarkably nice flash site, and pretty quick to load at that, but I would love to see it w/o flash.
Is all of it there? Thought it was only a portion...
Low-level neurological concepts like synapses do not translate well into (low-level) computer terms if you do it by force instead of by reasonable consideration. A synapse is not a switch. A neuron is neither a simple weighted node nor is it an 800 MHz signal processing device with gigabytes per second of throughput. By going arbitrarily deep into the biochemistry, people could (and probably do) come up with ridiculous numbers. For example, maybe somebody wants to count and represent all the macromolecules in a neuron that modulate its function. It's easy to come up with an arbitrarily large number and land a nice gig on CNet for it.
Let's not be too hasty in concluding women's attention to their appearance and their children is completely genetic when all throughout history these were duties pushed onto them.

Darwin got to say "I'll be in my study" and "you take care of the kids and dinner and everything else" was just automatically implied.
Exploring an API?
If you mean with Skynet an army of limited chatbots, then yes. We are all scared
I didn't say Utah coal specifically. I said the leading sources were coal and natural gas from Arizona and Utah. I based this on theEIA. [1]

>In 2019, California’s net electricity imports were the largest in the country at 70.8 million megawatthours (MWh), or 25% of the state’s total electricity supply ... California utilities partly own and import power from several power plants in Arizona and Utah.

Arizona is ~75% coal and natural gas [2]
Utah is ~80% and natural gas [3]

Looking at your link [4], 70% of California imports are "non-renewable and unspecified" and 75% of "non-renewable and unspecified" comes from the southwest (e.g. Arizona and Utah)

I think this brings us to the same conclusion that the number 1 source for imported electricity is coal and natural gas in Arizona and Utah. You are saying that a worst case for CA power is being 3-10% coal. I am talking about the worst case for CA imported power (which happens to be up to 37% coal)

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46156#:~:tex....

[2] https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=AZ#tabs-4

[3] https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=UT#tabs-4

[4] https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...